The royal families of the Nine Nations formed the Dragon-Slaying Army, while King Chenghai of the Great Zhou Kingdom, Cai Mingshun, was chosen as the coalition army's commander-in-chief.
The Xifeng Empire had used dragon slaying as a pretext. In truth, it wanted to gather the strength of the Nine Nations to exterminate the Lu Lineage and reclaim Wind City while they were at it.
The Great Wu Kingdom was on friendly terms with the Xifeng Empire. Thus, when General Shangguan Tianjun of the Xifeng Empire proposed taking advantage of the black dragon's unpreparedness to launch an attack and catch it off guard, Wu Zhao of the Great Wu Kingdom immediately echoed his support.
The two hit it off at once, then summoned the best fighters from both sides to go slay the dragon.
As a result, they had accidentally been slain by the dragon instead.
General Shangguan Tianjun was the Xifeng Empire's great general. When Lu Xingkong was still alive, the Lu Lineage had kept him pinned beneath them, unable to stir. Now that Lu Xingkong had fallen in battle and the Lu Lineage had nearly been uprooted, the Shangguan Lineage had risen with the tide and become the Xifeng Empire's foremost military family.
Though they were nominally under the coalition commander's authority, every nation had its own degrees of closeness and distance, as well as different interests. It was impossible to make everyone obey King Chenghai completely.
King Chenghai stormed into the Xifeng camp and shouted angrily, "General Shangguan, why did you act on your own?"
"I wonder what King Chenghai means by that?" Shangguan Tianjun had observed every courtesy. Though King Chenghai was not the Xifeng Monarch, he still treated him with the etiquette due a minister.
"The armies of the Nine Nations are one body and should