World-Destroying Demonic Qi Tempered the Body! True Essence Realm 5 Was Within Reach! (Bonus Chapter for Monthly Tickets 23)

The farther they traveled toward Shenwu Kingdom, the colder the climate became.

Beneath the bleak moonlight obscured by dark clouds, snow like a tidal crest surged rapidly across the plains from the distant horizon.

The gale following close behind was like countless invisible hands, brutally lifting thick snow from the plains, grinding it into powder, and scattering it through the air to blanket this powerful Vassal State that had risen after Qin's decline.

However, after the Shenwu Kingdom Human Emperor had been severely wounded in his great battle against the Fire Qilin at its peak, the nation's fortune seemed to have undergone subtle changes as well. Many of the systems it had once modeled after the Sacred Dynasty to control the martial world gradually came under the impact of martial forces, and the majesty of imperial authority faced grave challenges.

This situation was completely reversed after the rise of the Heavenly Alliance led by Xiong Ba. The Shenwu Kingdom court had once lost its ability to suppress the martial world and found it even harder to restrain the Heavenly Alliance's development. This seemed to indirectly confirm that the Human Emperor had suffered extremely grave injuries in that battle with the Fire Qilin and might not have recovered even now.

Originally, this situation might have continued as the Heavenly Alliance grew stronger, until the Shenwu Kingdom Emperor recovered from his injuries and was still unable to deal with the Heavenly Alliance led by Xiong Ba. He would have had no choice but to watch this colossal force, which crowned kings and emperors within the martial world and set its own underground rules, share power with him.

Such a situation would inevitably have been a helpless compromise.

Yet no matter how weakened the Shenwu Kingdom royal family became, constrained by the Sacred