Time flew like a shuttle, never pausing day or night.
After Lin Changqing wiped out the Great Zhou Dynasty's imperial clan, he swept away their accumulations of countless years before returning directly to the Hundred Thousand Mountains. He had originally intended to settle scores with the Demon Suppression Division, but after thinking it over, he ultimately gave up on the idea.
The Demon Suppression Division and the Great Zhou Dynasty's imperial clan were not one and the same; they were two independent entities.
When they had plotted against him before, the Demon Suppression Division had not taken part. Although, when the major top-tier powers later fought for power, the Demon Suppression Division had not stepped forward to support him, that was merely a matter of its own stance. Lin Changqing would not move against the Demon Suppression Division over that.
Of course, from that day onward, even that last trace of goodwill was gone.
After Lin Changqing returned to the Hundred Thousand Mountains, turmoil finally erupted throughout the Great Zhou Dynasty due to the imperial clan's destruction. Countless ambitious figures wanted to seize the opportunity to rise up and replace the imperial clan.
Yet, to everyone's surprise, just as these people were rubbing their fists and preparing for a grand struggle, the Demon Suppression Division stepped forward. Several Half-Saint experts appeared and directly suppressed every last one who sought to stir up trouble.
Then, joining forces with the Great Zhou Dynasty's various departments and institutions, they selected a virtuous prince of a different surname to take control of the Great Zhou Dynasty anew, intending to establish a new emperor and stabilize the situation.
This day, in the Hundred Thousand Mountains.
Half a year had passed since Lin Changqing destroyed the Great Zhou Dynasty's imperial clan. Yet more than a hundred