Back to Lingdou City, the Snow Empress and Ice Empress Meet

Inside Lingdou City, the Dou Ling Empire's Imperial Palace, which had once been destroyed, had already been rebuilt. Though it was nowhere near as vast as before, and its furnishings were somewhat inferior, most of the Royal Family's core members were now all but dead. On top of that, Xue Lingxun intended to turn the Dou Ling Empire into a special federal nation, so spending on the Imperial Palace was not high. In a way, it also showed the empire's people the Royal Family's current stance.

Within a clean, imposing main hall, all the civil and military officials of the Dou Ling Empire had gathered. Beside the dragon throne above, Xu San Shi sat upright, while not far from him was his mother, Xue Lingxun.

At this moment, Xu San Shi and Xue Lingxun both wore somewhat unnatural expressions. Still, they hid them well enough that no outsider noticed.

"Your Highness Regent, Your Highness Elder Princess, this subject suggests immediately assembling the soul engineer army to guard the cities around the imperial capital, while also taking control of the major passes leading to the capital. Otherwise, once the rebel army launches its attack, everything will be too late," the Prime Minister of the Dou Ling Empire said with a dark expression.

Although the Dou Ling Empire was the weakest country on the Douluo Continent, it still had what it was supposed to have, such as an intelligence network. Among the empire's twelve provinces, officials loyal to the Royal Family had been killed in seven of them. At the same time, there were also cases of provincial lords refusing to obey the Royal Family's orders. This was already very obvious. Among these provinces, several probably already harbored thoughts of rebellion.

It was only because there was no concrete evidence that, even