Over the next ten days.
Lu Jinyun and the other three personally led three hundred thousand Tiger Guard Army soldiers, sweeping through Treasure Appearance Temple and Clear Yang Temple with the force of withered branches collapsing before a storm.
All three thousand martial monks of Treasure Appearance Temple were put to death, and the ancient temple, which had stood for a thousand years, was reduced to ashes.
The seventy-two Taoist temples of Clear Yang Temple crumbled, and its inheritance of several thousand years was severed.
The scriptures, Cultivation Techniques, secret treasures, and stored riches of both sects were all taken into the Lu Estate's secret treasury.
Within Qianning City, the hundred officials trembled.
Those ministers who had once been on friendly terms with the two sects now shut their doors and dared not emerge.
The imperial palace even deployed another three thousand Imperial Guards overnight. Even the corner towers had been fitted with Gang-Shattering Crossbows, as though they were guarding against some formidable enemy.
Yet what truly sent chills down everyone's spines was the terrifying combat power displayed by the Tiger Guard Army during the extermination of the two sects.
There were more than ten Grandmaster-level commanders.
At the same time, the army was equipped with a great number of Tiger Might Iron Armor Bows designed to restrain martial artists.
With the destruction of the two sects, the balance of power within the Great Qian Dynasty changed completely.
The candlelight swayed within the Lu Estate's cultivation chamber, stretching the shadows of Lu Jinyun and the other three into long, thin silhouettes.
Lu Jinyun's hands trembled faintly as he gently placed the supreme treasures seized from the two sects upon the stone platform.
The bronze rings of the Nine Ringed Staff struck one another, producing a crisp chime like clashing gold