With Zuo Min's army completely wiped out, Great Li City could no longer muster any effective military force to deal with Ghost Ridge Palace's invasion.
The defeat of the loyal minister Zuo Min plunged the Great Li Imperial Family into even greater despair.
Inside the imperial palace of Great Li City, the members of the imperial clan, including Wei Sheng, felt as if the sky had collapsed. The army they had painstakingly built up through countless hardships had been buried in an instant.
With its effective forces depleted, the Great Li Dynasty could only watch helplessly as Ghost Ridge Palace captured cities and seized territory. All they could do was hope that Ghost Ridge Palace's tyrannical conduct would provoke fierce resistance from the Aristocratic Clans and sects throughout the dynasty.
This had also been Zuo Min's plan: to gather the forces from every corner of the world and overthrow Ghost Ridge Palace, this great enemy that threatened life and death.
Little did they know that Ghost Ridge Palace's assault was not limited to Jingzhou alone.
Just as Jingzhou fell, another Ghost Ridge Palace army arrived in the western lands of the Great Li Dynasty.
Four flying dharma boats led the way, while a mighty army of cultivators charged across the ground, racing all the way to Lanzhou in the west.
The four western prefectures were Qizhou, Xunzhou, Lanzhou, and Fanzhou. Among them, Lanzhou was the strongest.
Its strength did not lie in how much power the Great Li Dynasty possessed there, but in the presence of the Song Family. The Lanzhou Song Family was one of the Three Sects and Five Surnames, and the power of Aristocratic Clans flourished there.
Thus, when facing the advance of Ghost Ridge Palace's cultivators, the Great Li Dynasty's army there was no different from