Jingzhou!
Jingzhou was one of the four southern provinces. By now, Qingzhou, Qingzhou, and Chongzhou had all fallen within Ghost Ridge Palace's sphere of influence.
Because Jingzhou bordered Great Li City, however, it had avoided invasion by Ghost Ridge Palace and still remained in the hands of the Great Li Dynasty.
But on this day, that stalemate was broken.
On this day, the common people living along Jingzhou's borders all saw Ghost Ridge Palace's army of cultivators.
The boundless swarm of insects, the towering war machine known as the Spider Main Battle Mech, and the flying magic arks that tore through the sea of clouds and rose majestically into the sky made everyone who witnessed the scene tremble violently.
The Great Li Dynasty also had troops stationed in Jingzhou, but before an army of Ghost Ridge Palace's caliber, those soldiers practically surrendered at the first sign of trouble. The cultivators of Ghost Ridge Palace encountered almost no resistance along the way.
The Great Li Dynasty had long since decayed. It was no longer the domineering power that had just founded the nation, established the martial order, and shaken the world.
The Great Li Dynasty of today had lax and neglected military preparations. The stipends for its martial armies had been cut again and again, the number of cultivators was severely inadequate, and it could not even maintain order throughout its own territory. Refugees' resistance and uprisings erupted one after another, let alone asking it to face Ghost Ridge Palace's army of cultivators.
Moreover, even the cultivators of the Sky Patrol Division, the Great Li Dynasty's high-end force, tacitly chose to stand by and watch, allowing Ghost Ridge Palace's cultivators to advance.
Ghost Ridge Palace also tacitly refrained from attacking the cultivators of the Sky Patrol Division. The two sides maintained