The war arrived with extreme suddenness.
It was a war launched without declaration.
The strangest part was that both sides had tacitly agreed to this undeclared war!
Led by the Crimson Moon Dynasty, the Shi Family, the Zhen Family, and the Jialan Immortal Sect, fourteen hegemonic forces had used the damaged Lin Family as bait. They established their strongest defenses in areas that could effectively curb the Nine-tailed Fox Clan's counterattacks, while keeping the other defensive lines loose on the outside but tight within, ensuring that the Nine-tailed Fox Clan army led by Lu Yuan would not grow suspicious.
As for Lu Yuan—or, more precisely, the Nine-tailed Fox Clan—they had also spread the false news that more than a dozen major forces were joining hands to attack them to every subordinate family that had submitted to them. They declared that they would keep the enemy beyond their borders and prepare to strike first, hoping that these subordinate families would contribute the forces and resources they had long prepared.
Objectively speaking.
This was not an unreasonable demand.
The Nine-tailed Fox Clan had not been mobilizing its forces for just a day or two.
These subordinate families had gradually learned whom the Nine-tailed Fox Clan intended to deal with.
The Eastern Continent Lin Family.
A colossal force with an Earth Supreme and more than forty Supremes.
The pressure had already been immense.
After all, more than forty Supremes exceeded what they could bear. Even at its peak period, the Giant Spirit Eagle Clan had possessed only eight Supremes, yet that alone had left all their families struggling to breathe under the pressure. The Lin Family, with more than forty Supremes, was at least five times the size of the Giant Spirit Eagle Clan by simple arithmetic. After all, the exact number of