Before the decisive battle, wind and rain were on their way.
Zhou You's true form cultivated in stealth, but elsewhere, things were far livelier.
As mentioned before, in order to clear himself of suspicion, after Zhou You left the Imperial Capital, he left the Heart Demon Ring persona behind in the city. It appeared every few days to cause trouble, throwing the Imperial Capital and the Eight Direct Prefectures into chaos, until even chickens and dogs knew no peace.
The Demon Weapon Slaves under his command rode the wind upward, each one thriving spectacularly.
Wu Linbei was far away on the western frontier, serving as the lord of a city. His authority grew by the day. Aside from nurturing his own forces, he won over sects and formed alliances of shared interests with local aristocratic clans and wealthy houses through marriage ties.
Moreover, he had not neglected his own fist martial cultivation. He had steadily entered the Mid-stage Strong Martial realm, only a single step away from the Seventh Heaven.
The defining trait of Demon Weapons was their astonishingly rapid advancement. So long as they did not hesitate to damage themselves, they could improve at a pace of a thousand miles a day.
With an entire city as his foundation, gathering resources was even more convenient. The results of those two advantages stacked together were extremely impressive.
Though others found his change from the past strange, they merely assumed that when Wu Linbei had been in Maijing Prefecture, he had been a concubine-born son forced to keep his light hidden and bide his time for self-preservation.
Now that a fish had entered the sea, he finally revealed his fierce contours.
And then there was...
The Demon Weapon Slaves scattered across the north and south remained dispersed, maintaining a pattern in