Hu Yang's act of destroying a nation thoroughly intimidated the surrounding vassal kingdoms that had originally planned to support the War Dynasty.
After successfully slaughtering everyone in Battle City, Hu Yang took Ling Yao's arm and flew back to the royal palace in Xing City.
The War Dynasty's original seventy cities became reeking cesspools of decay because no one disposed of the corpses. Plagues emerged and spread rapidly toward the neighboring kingdoms.
In the fifth year of the Xing King Era, the world fell into chaos. The chaos was not caused by war, but by plague. Hu Yang's slaughter of a nation brought a catastrophic calamity upon the world.
Within just one year, countless Dead Cities appeared across the world, while Heaven and Earth were shrouded in Dark Green Poison Mist.
The world that had once been filled with kingdoms saw more than half of them vanish. Only the frigid nations of the western region remained.
One day, the plague spread through the cities of the Xing Dynasty, and officials repeatedly reported the matter to the Hall of Heavenly Hearing.
When Hu Yang learned of it, his face filled with surprise. He asked about the cause, completely unaware that this was directly connected to his slaughter of the War Dynasty.
Regarding the plague, everyone in the Hall of Heavenly Hearing discussed it together. With no solution at the time, they could only entrust physicians to try treating it.
In the sixth year of the Xing King Era, the Xing Dynasty, once a mid-sized nation with more than thirty cities, had no medicine to cure the plague. Corpses covered the land, and its population plummeted.
In the seventh year of the Xing King Era, the plague spread to Xing City. Hu Yang hovered in the air and looked down, letting out