The Capital City of Great Yue Kingdom was under a state of high alert. One True King Celestial Venerable after another patrolled in all directions. Throughout the enormous city, all the martial artists wore solemn expressions, ready at any moment to face the great battle that might arrive.
Within the Capital City, there was an aura that seemed to merge with Heaven and Earth, as though its master controlled the stretch of Heaven and Earth where the city stood. Any enemy attempting to invade the Capital City could not escape that aura's master.
To invade the Capital City, one first had to defeat the expert who controlled this stretch of Heaven and Earth.
Although the aura of the expert controlling the Capital City's stretch of Heaven and Earth seemed somewhat weak, he was still an Immortal Celestial Venerable. No matter how weak he was, he was not someone any martial artist beneath the Immortal Celestial Venerable realm could offend.
On the Capital City's walls, a group of battle-armored soldiers with murderous expressions stared intently at the four great mountains clustered together a hundred li outside the city.
Originally, each mountain had been guarded by an Immortal Celestial Venerable. However, when one of them fought a Blood Son from the Heavenly Cave, he was ambushed by the Blood Shadow Tower Master and suffered serious injuries, forcing him to retreat to the Capital City.
He was the Immortal Celestial Venerable who now controlled the Capital City's stretch of Heaven and Earth.
Sui Hongwu, the Inner Guard Commander who had originally guarded the Capital City, had gone after the Blood Shadow Tower Master.
This left one of the four mountains without an Immortal Celestial Venerable. The Heavenly Cave's massive invasion had also forced the Great Yue Emperor, the strongest expert in Great Yue,