As the explosive attack hit the defences put up by the light blue robed man from the Azure Sky Kingdoms side, the Nascent Soul of the soldier quickly dissipated into the air as all the qi left to keep his Nascent Soul functioning outside a physical body was used up in the attack.
This however did not stop the attack that was already launched as the attack kept ravaging through the defences of the light blue robed man.
Even if he were far above the realm of the soldier, an all-out attack from someone who even used the qi that kept their Nascent Soul alive after the loss of the physical body, was something that could be deadly for him if he showed even the slightest carelessness in how he dealt with the attack.
A large gust of cold wind appeared out of nowhere as the light blue robed man waved his hand to manifest a new barrier around himself, by now he had focused all his attention on the attack used by the soldier who had died to deliver this attack.
"Hmph!" Feeling the attack weaken, the light blue robed man found a weak point in the attack and moved one of his hands over as a runic symbol formed in the air before flying over to the weak spot in the attack. Following this, the runic symbol suddenly began to rapidly expand.
The sudden expansion of the runic symbol thrown out by the light blue robed man caused the violent suicide attack of the soldier to weaken at a speed visible to the naked eye and before long the light blue robed man forcefully broke apart the attack.
"Where did they go… You lot failed to hold them in place for even a few seconds?" Trying had to contain his anger upon thinking about how the commander from the enemy side and all the Nascent Soul Realm Experts had gotten away, the light blue robed man ignored the devastated surroundings and focused his attention on the four shivering figures looking over at him from the side.
This was the four Nascent Soul Realm Experts from the Azure Sky Kingdom, but their current appearance was nothing like what it had been before when they were fighting with the Wang brothers and two flowers from the Spring Flower Sect.
Instead, they all looked extremely fearful when looking at the light blue robed man glancing over at them.
"Did you lot not here me?!" repeating himself upon seeing no reaction from the four, the light blue robed man frowned as he walked over.
"W-we did not expect for them to have so many Nascent Soul Realm Experts at the commander's side… They left in the direction of the South Mountain pass…" Stepping forward, one of the four Nascent Soul Experts informed the light blue robed man before quickly retreating.
"Hmph, indeed… It is quite weird for there to be so many Nascent Soul Experts here, did they perhaps give up on their frontline?" Thinking this, the light blue robed man felt a little better.
At the very least he had an excuse as to why he couldn't kill the commander outside of the fact that the commander was at the sixth stage of the Nascent Soul Realm, way stronger than being at the third or fourth stage of the Nascent Soul Realm that they had expected for him to be.
"We will go back and see if the commander wants us to help the frontline or anything now that we are free." Referring to the commander of the Azure Sky Kingdom, the light blue robed man looked a bit reluctantly in the direction that the army camp of the Azure Sky Kingdom was located before he made his way back in that same direction.
The four Nascent Soul Realm Experts felt like they had just escaped from a life-threatening situation as they obediently followed after the light blue robed man back to the army camp.
As the Azure Sky Kingdom launched an attack on the unprepared Heavenly Sky Kingdom, a large part of the army stationed at the border ended up injured or dying during the first few minutes before they finally managed to stabilize the situation.
But this did not last for long as a large part of the Nascent Soul Realm Experts on the Heavenly Sky Kingdoms side on the frontline was ambushed and outnumbered by the Azure Sky Kingdom and before long, the first Nascent Soul Realm Expert on the side of the Heavenly Sky Kingdom fell in combat.
This caused a wave of panic to spread through the soldiers of the Heavenly Sky Kingdom as many of them knew that the Nascent Soul Realm Expert would have free reign to attack them without someone to stop them.
"The commander has ordered a full retreat to the South Mountain Pass!" Just as the soldiers were about to start running away, the order to retreat came like a heaven-sent message, causing the soldiers from the Heavenly Sky Kingdom to almost shed tears of joy at the fact that they would not be forced to face a Nascent Soul Realm Expert without one of their own.
The Nascent Soul Realm Experts from the Heavenly Sky Kingdoms side and the people from the Seven Fates Sect also got the order to retreat and immediately followed the rest of the army as they began retreating in the direction of the South Mountain Pass.
The Seven Fates Sects Experts did not even bother staying with the rest of the army that was retreating and instead just directly made their way towards the South Mountain Pass. Ignoring the Heavenly Sky Kingdoms army.
The Azure Sky Kingdom's army did not le go of this opportunity as they followed the retreating army of the Heavenly Sky Kingdom. Not forgetting to attack whenever they saw the opportunity to do so.
This however did not continue for long as the Nascent Soul Realm Experts from the sects of the Azure Sky Kingdom had already retreated along with their people the moment their opponent decided to run away
The army of the Azure Sky Kingdom also stopped their pursuit of the fleeing Heavenly Sky Kingdom army after chasing them for a few hours. When they returned back to the army camp, most of them were full of happiness at their easy victory. Not forgetting to praise the commander for his brilliant idea to launch such a decisive attack on the Heavenly Sky Kingdoms border.