Gu Yi and the others left Broken Blade City, but they were not returning to Snow Moon Kingdom.
Instead, they crossed Broken Blade Horizon, covered in broken blades and spearheads, and headed toward Moyue Kingdom.
Moyue Kingdom was a vast nation with territory comparable to Snow Moon Kingdom's.
However, unlike Snow Moon Kingdom, Moyue Kingdom's imperial family reigned supreme, unifying the land and keeping most cultivation resources firmly in its hands.
Thus, there were no sects within Moyue Kingdom. There were only martial arts families and martial arts academies.
The latter were directly controlled by the imperial family, while the former had also submitted to it.
Any genius of Moyue Kingdom would join a martial arts academy to cultivate, ultimately falling under the imperial family's control.
This was why Moyue Kingdom's overall national strength surpassed Snow Moon Kingdom's.
However, when it came to Heavenly Martial Realm experts, Moyue Kingdom was roughly equal to Snow Moon Kingdom, possessing only one or two such experts.
Therefore, Moyue Kingdom had never been able to annex Snow Moon Kingdom, and the two nations could only wage war around Broken Blade Horizon.
The reason Snow Moon Kingdom had established Snow Moon Sacred Academy was actually to imitate the Moyue imperial family's methods.
Through this, it sought to gradually weaken the major sects until they were destroyed, truly unifying Snow Moon Kingdom.
...On Nine Heavens Continent, martial arts reigned supreme. The major sects were like feudal lords, each governing a region with a high degree of autonomy.
For example, taxes collected from cities within a sect's territory were handed over to that sect.
Thus, after the many Profound Martial Realm experts of Bright Moon Sect and Ice Snow Villa had fallen and their sects' strength had plummeted,
the Snow Moon Monarch immediately dispatched troops to destroy