"We had to find a way to turn the situation around. Otherwise, everything we had done before would have been for nothing!"
The bald elder quickly stabilized the situation, preventing it from continuing to deteriorate.
If Lin Bai had been here... he would surely have cried out in surprise. This bald elder clearly had far-reaching foresight.
The bald elder clearly knew that they had few opportunities to carry out their plan in the imperial capital. If they missed this chance, it would be extremely difficult for several hundred martial artists from the Northern Region at the Great Purity Dao Fruit Realm to enter the imperial capital all at once again.
Even if such an opportunity arose, once they entered the imperial capital, they would be monitored by the Zhao Xing Office.
Therefore, they had to seize this opportunity.
The bald elder drew a deep breath and gazed northward. "Before setting out, we had already formulated a plan."
"The South Mountain Clan martial artists would set out first and approach the border of the Eastern Region. Once the time was ripe, they would start a war with the Eastern Region."
"After we entered the imperial capital, we would begin stirring up turmoil there, creating chaos and pressure."
"But we never expected that the plan would suffer such a devastating blow right after it began."
According to the South Mountain Clan's plan... after they challenged the disciples of the Five Great Families and Seven Sects and defeated them all, they would use their intelligence network in the imperial capital to spread word that the martial artists of the Eastern Region were inferior to those of the Northern Region.
This news would enrage the imperial capital's martial artists. But if it spread to the frontier... it would become a sharp blade thrust into