Universal Emperor

There were immortals in Lingyou Prefecture. Like a massive boulder dropped into still water, this news sent the Yu Dynasty—whose rule over the southeast had stood firm for eighty-seven thousand five hundred years, stagnant as a dead pool—into a complete boil.

Even if the Yu court had wished to conceal the news, it had been utterly unable to hide the fact that Jiang Sheng had appeared in several prefectures in succession and drained their spirit veins.

The places where Jiang Sheng had appeared were chosen with considerable finesse: Blessed River Prefecture, Peaceful Thoroughfare Prefecture, Lianyang Prefecture.

These were famed lands of plenty within the Yu Dynasty, and likewise the prefectures with the most ghosts, gods, and Rogue Cultivators. Though scattered across the east, west, south, and north of the Yu Dynasty, with none connected to another, Jiang Sheng had precisely selected these places, announcing his existence through concrete action.

Clearly, Jiang Sheng was probing—probing the Yu Dynasty's reaction, probing the Netherworld's reaction.

And the result of Jiang Sheng's probing was this: the Yu Dynasty had no reaction at all.

The Yu court seemed to be ignoring Jiang Sheng. Even as Jiang Sheng openly drained spirit veins in broad daylight one after another, the Yu court played deaf and dumb.

For a time, the great clans of the Yu Dynasty could no longer sit still.

These ghost and god clans keenly sensed that the flourishing age of ghosts and gods, this Age of Dharma's End that had lasted a hundred thousand years, seemed about to undergo some changes.

Yu Capital, the royal city of the Yu Dynasty.

Just as the Yu Dynasty occupied the southeast of the Mountain Sea Realm, Yu Capital too lay in the Yu Dynasty's southeastern region. It stood upon the largest plain within the dynasty, occupying the