After the Battle of Chaoge,
the eight hundred feudal lords of the realm were filled with panic.
The dragon that was Cheng Tang was clearly drawing its last breath, and an era was coming to a complete close, yet it had woken up once more.
An old centenarian sat up in bed, shocked from his illness, and ruthlessly pummeled an eighteen-year-old youth with zero martial virtue.
He forcefully shattered the momentum that Martial King Ji Fa had accumulated.
For a time,
whether they were lords who had participated in the rebellion or those watching the fire from across the river, all of them panicked.
They were terrified that the King of Shang would dispatch troops to attack them.
Their panic was not merely a case of frightening themselves.
Xiqi Royal City.
Ji Fa looked at the civil and military officials in the hall below without saying a word, feeling quite furious.
The defeat at the Chaoge battle dealt a heavy blow to his prestige among the lords, and he had now lost his status as the leader of the alliance.
Wanting to spark a major war once again would not be as easy as before.
At the same time,
because Wind and Cloud had slaughtered a massive number of Chan Sect immortals in Chaoge City.
This left the entire Xiqi with only four figures of the immortal path: Jiang Ziya, Nezha, Li Jing, and Yang Jian.
However,
Ji Fa, who had watched the entire battle of Chaoge, understood very well that these four were no match for the Storm Riders Duo.
Ji Fa was now also worried that Chaoge's army would immediately launch a counterattack, so he gathered Xiqi's civil and military officials to discuss countermeasures.
"Do my lords have any memorials to present?"
Ji Fa looked at the