Ying Yu, the ancestor of the Ying family of the Shengyuan Dynasty, was one of the few Fusion Heaven Realm powerhouses in the southwestern region to have lived for eight hundred years.
"Ancestor!"
Ying Zhong’s expression was grim. He was, after all, the ruler of the Shengyuan Dynasty, yet here, in front of his entire court, the ancestor of the Ying family was causing trouble.
This was a major flaw of the Shengyuan Dynasty. Although the Imperial Clan Court normally stayed out of court affairs, it became the true master of the dynasty at critical junctures.
"To this point, I bear unavoidable responsibility, but everything I have done is for the prosperity of our Shengyuan!"
"The collapse of Dayun was the first step in my plan, a pity!"
"Hmph!"
"You admit it’s a pity?"
Ying Yu immediately cut off Ying Zhong’s words, his face dark. The loss of four Fusion Heaven Realm powerhouses was a price any dynasty would find unbearable.
"Ancestor!"
Ying Zhong's face was anxious. "Now is not the time for accusations! The three major armies of the Great Han are advancing towards the west gate of our Shengyuan capital. We should be meticulously planning to intercept them outside the west gate!"
"Intercept?"
"How do we intercept?"
Ying Yu’s eyes fixed on Ying Zhong. This Ying Zhong was quite capable, having instigated a war between dynasties using the residual influence of the Great Han. If the Great Han Dynasty hadn't intervened so suddenly, perhaps the Shengyuan Dynasty might have actually swallowed the Dayun Dynasty.
"Exert pressure on the Human Emperor Hall!" Ying Zhong said with a sinister smile. The Human Emperor Hall was currently controlled by the Great Yan Dynasty, which was among the top ten dynasties in terms of comprehensive national strength.
"Human Emperor Hall!"
"That is indeed a viable path!" Ying Yu’s gloomy expression began to soften. Among the ten great dynasties, Weiyang and Great Yan were the most powerful.
The Human Emperor Hall was initially established jointly by the Great Yan and Weiyang Dynasties, though other dynasties joined later.
If the Weiyang Dynasty hadn’t had three consecutive Human Emperors who were dedicated to the development of the human race in the southwestern region, their dynasty alone would have been able to dominate the southwestern region. Unfortunately, the ten great dynasties of the southwestern region were prone to infighting, constantly weakening each other. The Weiyang Dynasty was always the first to charge forward in the millennia-long holy wars, shedding blood and sacrificing lives for the southwestern region. In a thousand years, their national strength rapidly declined. Even with their weakened state, they could still rival the Great Yan Dynasty.
One could only imagine their national strength!
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Just as Ying Yu of the Shengyuan Dynasty was questioning Ying Zhong, tens of miles outside the capital of the Xueyang Dynasty, at a defensive fortress, the Great Han's Vermillion Bird Legion was dominating the battlefield.
Cold spears thrust through the void, lifting corpses into the air, and streams of hot, fresh blood flowed.
The old Human Emperor could no longer hold back. He immediately refined the Human Emperor Seal in his hand and attacked Zhang Liao.
Ever since he appeared, he had been firmly locked onto by Zhang Liao. He felt the powerful pressure and surging blood qi emanating from Zhang Liao.
The death of the Duke of Zhenguo had struck him harder than the loss of hundreds of thousands of soldiers on the battlefield below. The Duke of Zhenguo had fought alongside him, serving as his right-hand man during his reign as Human Emperor, and had followed him closely after his abdication.
Having reached the third layer of the Grandmaster realm in a hundred years, he had become a pillar of the Xueyang Dynasty's nobility!
Seeing the Duke of Zhenguo fall to Xu Chu’s blade, his face turned ashen, and he let out a thunderous roar. The Xueyang Dynasty was in peril; to take one more step forward would be utter devastation.
"Xueyang Dynasty, we will fight to the end!"
His roar echoed, and the Human Emperor's Seal in his hand radiated golden light. Nine dragon qi soared through the void as the seal descended with a single strike!
"Boom!!"
The void rumbled, and a colossal golden mountain, like a divine peak, hundreds of feet wide, condensed in the air. Nine dragon qi coiled atop the golden divine mountain, emitting brilliant golden light!
This strike was enough to suppress rivers for dozens of miles!
Zhang Liao stepped forward, his scythe-hook blade grasped firmly in his hand. Since the beginning of this war, he had been tracking three Fusion Heaven Realm auras deep within the fortress. It was only with the appearance of the old Human Emperor and the Duke of Zhenguo of the Xueyang Dynasty that Zhang Liao truly understood the Xueyang Dynasty's hidden strength.
After the Kui Niu Legion, led by Qi Jiguang, conquered the Dayun Dynasty, the Great Han began to systematically refine its understanding of the various dynasties.
With a flick of his wrist, a blue blade light instantly tore through the void. Amidst the dense miasma of blood and qi, on the ground, Lu Kang wielded his long sword, controlling the entire battlefield. With the addition of Gan Ning and Xu Chu, the casualties of the Xueyang Dynasty's soldiers rapidly escalated. Su Dan Novels.
In the void, blade light soared. Zhang Liao’s hands, gripping the scythe-hook blade, cracked as his bone joints groaned. His blade intent condensed to its peak, and he unleashed a single strike!
The scythe-hook blade sliced through the void, instantly drawing a blue blade aura. These blue blade auras were like thunder dragons, rumbling with thunder. The intense blue blade light enveloped the entire battlefield’s void, the blade light piercing the heavens, with threads of lightning crackling and flowing along the blade’s edge, causing the agitated void to explode!
"Die by my hand!"
The old Human Emperor's weakened body erupted with powerful blood qi. His face turned a furious red. In the ten thousand years of the Xueyang Dynasty, it had never been so powerless as it was today. Even during the holy wars, the Xueyang Dynasty had never suffered such a defeat. In every holy war, they had produced marquises who could suppress the world, but today, someone as powerful as the Duke of Zhenguo was merely a laughingstock before the mighty armies of the Great Han.
He refused to believe his dynasty was on the verge of collapse. He unleashed all his strength, his body exploding forward, his soles cracking the void, sparks of lightning shooting out. He forcefully lifted the Human Emperor's Seal in his right hand. Nine golden dragons coiled above the golden divine mountain, roaring towards the sky.
Golden ripples erupted like an ocean, layer upon layer. The golden divine mountain seemed like the dwelling of a god from the nine heavens, radiating immense golden light and soaring killing intent, as if a single strike could suppress ten thousand miles of territory.
The old Human Emperor suddenly pressed down the Human Emperor's Seal in his hand!
"Roar!!"
"Roar!!"
The nine golden dragon qi roared repeatedly, exuding an supreme pressure like that of a divine being that pressed down. The might of the Human Emperor was vast and magnificent. The golden divine mountain instantly rumbled, like an eternal divine mountain, striking down with heavenly lightning, shattering the nine heavens.
"Boom!!"
The air exploded, and the entire land began to tremble faintly. Even the blood flowing through the soil stirred like waves.
"Boom boom boom!!"
The thunder was incessant, the rumbling thunderous!
The blue blade light instantly struck the divine mountain. The extreme blade intent instantly carved three inches into the divine mountain, leaving cracks all over!
With a deafening roar, ripples vibrated in the void. The blue blade light instantly pierced through the divine mountain, and countless earth-shattering booms echoed, as if the heavens and earth were collapsing.
"Crack!!"