Ni Huang and the other Semi-Progenitors spread out to search for any evidence that would prove that Aeternus had been collaborating with Sky Creation Academy. While most of them worked on this, Xia De kept an eye on the New Corridor.

Everyone had assumed that dealing with the horde of corpse kings would grant them a reprieve during which they could find a way to deal with the droplets scattered across the Fifth Mainland, but great changes had also struck the Starfall Sea. Corpse God, one of the Seven Skygods, had appeared there, and instead of sending one of his Semi-Progenitor incarnations, he had appeared with his true body, just like Blackless God had done before. Corpse God demonstrated the full power of a Progenitor here. He used his enormous body to forcibly enlarge the passage connecting the Starfall Sea to the Fifth Mainland, basically opening the floodgates as Aeternus’s forces swarmed through the passage in full force and slaughtered their way across the Fifth Mainland.

The Fifth and Sixth Mainlands’ forces stationed in the Starfall Sea were forced to bear the brunt of the corpse king invasion. 

An endless tide of corpse kings flooded through, leaving a trail of death and despair in their wake.

In addition to the ordinary corpse kings, there were no fewer than five that had the strength of a Semi-Progenitor. One had a human form while another had the shape of an astral beast.

The appearance of these five Semi-Progenitor corpse kings immediately turned the tide of the battle. Aeternus’s momentum seemed unstoppable...