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Soul Fighting City's faction had secured its victory in Huagai District, Huading District, and Huaguang District, and it was like a boulder dropped into a deep pool; the ripples had long since spread into the even more shadowed Underground World of Heaven Dou City.
That enormous "cake," seemingly there for the taking, made countless factions drool, greedy eyes gleaming in the dark.
At the very least, the Magic Plant Masters of the Plant Guild's Heaven Dou branch had quietly gathered, while Mystic Night Pavilion's Heaven Dou branch had sharpened the blades of its war division and assassin division. Undercurrents surged beneath the seemingly calm surface.
Heaven Dou City.
The northeast and northwest districts, aboveground, were where government offices, noble dignitaries, aristocratic clans, and the residences, manors, or business premises of top factions gathered.
The southeast and southwest districts, however, were just like Chang'an City, with eastern and western markets packed with all sorts of people. They were a paradise for the lower trades, and the true core of the Underground City—especially the Southeast Greater District, where spiderweb-like passages connected countless nests of shadow.
Counting the unknown first day.
Four days!
Qinghuang Sword Monarch of the Qinghuang Lin Family had been missing for a suffocating four full days!
For the past three days, the monstrous Great Wave stirred up by official forces had poured into the underground through the major large entrances at East City Old Temple, Abandoned Waterway, and Black Market Tunnel.
Iron hooves and flashing blades had awakened ancient nightmares sleeping in the deeper earth.
To search for the Sword Monarch, and even more to suppress the chaos that had erupted in its wake, the various forces—including the official City Garrison, Three Sentinels elites, and private soldiers of noble families and sects—had already thrown