In the meantime, the Mysterious Beasts' rampaging hordes pressed on, marching through states, trampling provinces and causing the decline of entire nations. Billions marched in perfect synch, heading towards the Xuanyuan Mountain from which Daji's song spread out.
Never had the Eastern Continent, or any continent for that matter, seen such an assembly of Mysterious Beasts. Even the wars of the Western Continent's Beast clans failed to gather such numbers. But to answer the emperor's, mortal beasts ascended to join the mysterious beast clans, bolstering their ranks with colonies of troops.
Now, the Eastern Continent didn't have a single mortal beast left, not even the horses that drove carriages, or the mules that pulled carts. Wealthy mortals and nobles now walked like slaves and commoners, but as the fear of getting crushed by a random stampede dominated their hearts, they had no time to care for these abrupt changes.
