Four Clouds Province.
Four Corners City, once the capital of the Four Clouds Kingdom, had now become the main city of the Four Clouds Province.
With a permanent population exceeding fifty million, it was an extremely large and prosperous city.
Beneath the cover of night.
A figure appeared out of thin air, hovering above Four Corners City.
Looking down at the brightly lit Four Corners City, still bustling with traffic, his lips curled into a cruel cold smile, "Blame Xiao Yi if you must! If he hadn't brought your Four Clouds Kingdom under the Daqian Dynasty's flag, you wouldn't have become our target for attack..."
At the tip of his finger,
a speck of cold light began to coalesce, growing larger and larger.
In the end, it ballooned to the size of a full moon, suspended in mid-air.
The city of Four Corners lit up as if it were daylight, and one by one, the powerful beings in the city were shocked and looked up at the silver orb floating in the sky: "What is that?"
"It looks like the sun, doesn't it?"
"Where would the sun come from at night? Wait... look below that orb, there seems to be someone..."
"There really is someone, that is..."
The entire Four Corners City fell silent, the aura of death shrouded the great Four Corners City,
"No good, that, that is a powerhouse from the Longevity Secret Realm..."
"He's going to attack our Four Corners City, run for it!"
At that moment, the entire Four Corners City descended into complete chaos as countless powerhouses fled towards the outskirts.
The man in black, looking down at some of the powerhouses who had already fled Four Corners City, slightly raised the corners of his mouth, revealing a cruel smile, and declared loudly, "People of Four Corners City, listen. I am an elder of the Changsheng Sect, and your Xiao Yi, the Grand Marshal of Daqian, dared to harm my Sect members. I will annihilate your Four Corners City as punishment!"
The orb of light crashed down explosively, instantly expanding to the size of a mountain.
It enveloped the entire Four Corners City.
Under the crushing force of the orb, the entire Four Corners City trembled violently as the ground split and the heavens crumbled.
Millions of innocent people within Four Corners City, caught in their sleep, were buried alive beneath the earth, and countless powerhouses perished in this terrible storm of energy.
The entire explosion lasted for half an hour.
When all had dissipated...
The massive city with a permanent population of fifty million had been completely razed to the ground!
Only a gigantic crater a hundred miles in diameter remained on the ground.
Apart from a few powerhouses who had escaped the city, the grand Four Corners City had entirely turned to dust and disappeared.
Similar tragic events of the Longevity Secret Realm's powerhouses slaughtering cities occurred in several other provinces of the Daqian Dynasty.
Massacres, annihilation!
Apart from an extremely small number of powerhouses who narrowly escaped, those destroyed cities did not even leave a single tile behind, and the news of the avengers punishing Xiao Yi by slaughtering and annihilating cities spread widely. With the helping hand of those with ulterior motives, a wave of anti-Xiao Yi sentiment surged throughout the Daqian Dynasty.
Especially in places like Four Clouds Province and Sword King Province, where civilians and powerhouses alike formed rebel forces.
The people of the Daqian Dynasty lived in fear.
Inside the Imperial Palace.
Yang Ling, looking at the mountainous piles of memorials and emergency documents before him, suddenly felt a headache as big as a fight, and said to Xiao Yi with a wry smile, "The current situation is . Just last night, within one night, the Changsheng Sect eliminated thirteen cities. The number of casualties among the common people exceeds a billion..."
The destructive power of the experts from the Longevity Secret Realm is extremely terrifying!
With a wave of their sleeves.
A city of a million people could be turned to ashes.
If they take action seriously, even a large city with tens of millions of people is just a matter of a snap of the fingers.
Just like Four Corners City.
The expert, with just a tap of his finger, flattened the entire city to the ground.
Yang Zun held the emergency report in his hands and showed a contemplative look, speaking in a deep voice, "Strange, this incident is truly very strange. The massacre of cities that occurred last night, and today rebellion broke out everywhere, as if a black hand was pushing everything behind the scenes."
"There's nothing strange about it. It's very likely that all this is the doing of the Nantian Dynasty!" Bai Fa Sword Emperor said with a sneer.
Yang Ling shook his head, "The matter of the rebels might be related to the Nantian Dynasty, but those heretics from the Changsheng Sect... Surely the Nantian Dynasty doesn't have the guts, do they? After all, the Nantian Holy Land has issued an order that during the period of the Nantian chase-to-kill order, no conflicts are allowed to break out between the two countries. Would Nantian Wen really dare to do such a thing? Isn't he afraid of the punishment from the Nantian Holy Land?"
Yang Zun nodded in agreement, "After all, it is an order from the Nantian Holy Land, so presumably Nantian Wen shouldn't take this risk. The most likely possibility is that the ones who are slaughtering the cities are indeed the heretics, and the Nantian Dynasty is just covertly inciting the rebels to create disturbance..."
"Even so, those heretics are too insane, destroying thirteen cities, massacring a billion people…" Bai Fa Sword Emperor clenched his fists tightly, and his eyes shone with ice-cold sharpness.
He is now the Grand Marshal Tianbao of the Daqian Dynasty.
Defending the nation's gates, maintaining stability.
And yet such a horrendous disaster happened, how could he not be furious?
Xiao Yi waved his hand, and seeing everyone looking at him, continued to speak, "Bai Fa, haven't we already located over a dozen gathering points for the heretics? Let the Shadow Demon and them take action, eliminate all these points for me... Whether it's them or not, after we wipe out these points, they will surely be unable to resist showing themselves!"
Bai Fa Sword Emperor rubbed his hands together eagerly, "I've been impatient for a while now!"
Xiao Yi squinted his eyes, with a cold light flickering within, "I hope it wasn't your doing. Otherwise... Xiao Yi and your Changsheng Sect will be at irreconcilable odds!"
Intense conflicts broke out all over the Daqian Dynasty.
Grand Marshal Tianbao Bai Fa Sword Emperor, Supreme Elder Yang Zun, and King Xiao Yi all took action, eliminating eighteen gathering points of the Changsheng Sect in one night.
Captured thirty-six heretics from the Changsheng Sect.
Under Xiao Yi's orders, the captured heretics of the Changsheng Sect were escorted to the capital overnight and proclaimed to the world that at noon tomorrow, outside of the Wumen Gate of the capital, they would be beheaded for all to see!
This news made the heretics hiding in the shadows unable to bear it any longer, unable to watch their comrades from the Changsheng Sect die miserably, and invariably revealed their tracks, converging towards the capital of the Daqian Dynasty.
The next day at noon.
In the capital, outside the Wumen Gate...
Dozens of bound heretics from the Changsheng Sect knelt in the execution ground as executioners sharpened their knives, ready to slay the group of heretics.
Seeing that the appointed time had come.
Xiao Yi, sitting on the execution platform, took out the command arrow and threw it forward, "Behead!"
But just as the command arrow was about to hit the ground.
An invisible palm appeared out of thin air, capturing the command arrow into the sky.
"At last, you've come!"
A slight smile curled the corners of Xiao Yi's mouth as he looked upwards towards the sky above Wumen Gate, his pupils shrinking slightly, "Is it you?"
The newcomer bore a bitter smile with a hint of helplessness, "Brother Xiao, long time no see, are you well?"