When Yun Che emerged from the Eternal Heaven Divine Realm, what greeted him wasn’t the cool and calming aura of the Deep Sea Realm. He was assaulted by the thick stench of blood and smoke.

Yun Che calmly surveyed the area around him as the trembling Shui Meiyin gasped in shock.

When he saw Yun Che’s figure appear in front of him, Long Bai’s eyes immediately widened to their greatest extent. Hatred, restlessness, excitement, and agitation raced in his heart… along with several other complex emotions he could not quite put a name to.

He had even dreamed of ripping Yun Che to shreds in his sleep and his dearest wish had been to inflict the most cruel tortures imaginable on Yun Che’s body in the most painful way possible. Everything that he had done today was motivated far more by his desire to vent his hatred on Yun Che than it had been to destroy the devil race.

However, he didn’t immediately launch a wrathful strike now that Yun Che was in front of him. Instead, he took a few steps backward and roared in a thunderous voice, “Stop!”

The bloody and terrible battlefield instantly stilled as the Dragon Monarch’s voice boomed through the air. This was the Dragon Monarch’s command and every word he uttered was reverberating throughout every corner of their souls. No one even thought of defying that command.

All of the western region profound practitioners immediately withdrew their energies and the most terrible battle in history, a battle exclusively between those who stood at the very top of the universe, came to a forced stop in just a few minutes of time.

Before everyone could even puzzle out the meaning behind the Dragon Monarch’s words, he was already barking out another order. This order was also a single-word command. “Retreat.”

The state of the northern region profound practitioners was so miserable that even the western Divine Masters had started to feel pity for them. As more and more of the northern devils collapsed to injury or death, the already-huge advantage that the Western Divine Region possessed quickly became overwhelming. Given the current situation, they would have been able to exterminate all of the enemy forces before too long.

So this order to retreat was undoubtedly giving their enemy a free chance to rest and catch their breath.

However, no one would...