Once one side finished singing, another took the stage. The attention of every power fixed on Song Kingdom swiftly shifted to within Zhao Kingdom's borders.
With the Yan army's long-term delaying assistance, the Zhao army had been unable to spare effective forces to suppress the rebellion. Tian and Ma's rebel armies finally seized the time to reorganize their troops, while Dawn Moon Pavilion also gathered a large number of independent cultivators.
Dawn Moon Pavilion's numbers alone could not support an invasion of Zhao Kingdom, but Dawn Moon Pavilion had plotted painstakingly for many years, constantly investigating the cultivation world. They had long known exactly who could be recruited and who could not. Taking advantage of the time the Yan army had bought for them, their years of preparations came into use. Following the clues on the map, they absorbed a great number of independent cultivators into Dawn Moon Pavilion.
Dawn Moon Pavilion had never been a sect passed down through generations of masters and disciples. It had always been an organization.
Now that it had discarded its identity as an assassin organization and openly surfaced, calling upon people of ambition to build a great enterprise together, it was quite appealing.
The current situation was plain for all to see. Many independent cultivators saw hope and came to join them one after another.
With everything ready, Tian and Ma's rebel armies brazenly launched an attack on Zhao Kingdom.
The reason for the attack was actually that the Imperial Court owed military pay. During this period, Tian and Ma had continuously withheld the pay of their subordinates, while the lower-ranking officers cooperated by tightly sealing off information and spreading rumors through the army that Zhao Kingdom's Imperial Court owed them their pay and refused to issue it.
Once the soldiers below had