"Marshal, the Zhenhai Army is coming! The Zhenhai Army suddenly appeared a hundred li outside our main camp and is forming up its ranks."
Once he confirmed it was the Zhenhai Army, Ji Jiong not only felt no fear but laughed instead. His steel teeth ground together with a crunch as he let out an exceedingly chilling laugh.
"Who is leading them?" Ji Jiong demanded sharply.
"Reporting to Marshal, the commander is unknown, but Grand General of Cavalry Ye Zhen's banner is there."
"If the banner is there, the man is there! That bastard Ye Zhen has come. Good!" Ji Jiong laughed through gritted teeth.
Back then, a single Nine Nether Yin Thunder Pearl from Ye Zhen had severely wounded him and stripped him of his guards. Then, beneath layer upon layer of thunderbolts, his physical body had been forcibly destroyed. Had a life-saving divine talisman from the Creation Realm not been embedded within him, he would have died long ago.
Though he had escaped with his life, Ye Zhen had completely rewritten it.
Originally, he had been of the imperial clan's direct bloodline, the heir of Prince Li. No matter what happened, there would have been a lofty place for him beneath heaven and earth.
But after possessing another body and seizing it, everything had changed completely.
Neither man nor ghost!
His father, Ji Yuan, knew he was his legitimate son. Yet after possessing another body and seizing it, his bloodline was gone. Ji Yuan acknowledged him in his heart, but dared not acknowledge him publicly.
The imperial clan's inner workings were incomparably complex.
As a result, even his position within his father's separatist power had become exceedingly awkward.
The capable ministers and fine generals who had once surrounded him had all defected to the households of his other