Chapter 1110: Exchange: Heavenly Que Demonic Remains
The winds and clouds changed without warning, leaving outsiders dazzled and unable to keep up.
The negotiations originally planned between the two sides had abruptly turned into a regicide incident. Peace was no longer possible, and an endless war was about to erupt.
After learning that the Sealed Lord had been assassinated, four of the Eight Direct Prefectures, which had originally wavered with ambiguous attitudes, suddenly defected and directly sided with the Royal Family, joining the campaign against the Eighteen Primordial Noble Families that had committed regicide.
Of the Eight Direct Prefectures, aside from the late Governor of Maijing Prefecture, four of the remaining seven had defected. The remaining three were hard to predict as well.
It could be said that most of the area surrounding the capital had already fallen within the Royal Family's sphere of influence.
The excellent situation had taken a sharp turn for the worse. Drawing forces from other prefectures now was like distant water unable to put out a nearby fire.
Moreover, the capital lay within the Royal Family's sphere of influence. Many small and middling noble families had quietly been won over and cultivated, becoming the foundational forces supporting the Sealed Lord.
Originally, with the Sealed Lord having lost virtue, those noble families could not openly step forward. But once the regicide incident broke out, they had finally seized the moral high ground.
One battle after another immediately erupted across the left and right prefectures of the capital, as conflicts continued without end between the Royal Family and the Lineages under the Primordial Noble Families.
"Whew!"
Zhou You let out a breath. When news first spread that he had lost the Half-Sage Yin Dao, quite a few noble families from the opposing side had begun stirring restlessly.