On the afternoon of October 21, the Hua Nation government announced that the nation had entered a state of emergency.
The evacuation of civilians from the Western Frontier region, which had already continued for more than thirty days, also shifted from the shadows into the open, with both the speed and intensity of the operation greatly increased.
An hour later, the Hua Nation military, together with the Martial Arts Alliance, issued wartime regulations.
The regulations contained only two clauses, yet every word cut like a blade.
First, all martial artists within the Western Frontier Defense Army ranks were forbidden from abandoning their posts under any pretext or for any reason within thirty days.
Second, they were forbidden to fear battle or shirk from it.
Violators, regardless of identity or status, would be charged with treason.
Their relatives would also be stripped of all privileges and disqualified from taking the entrance examinations for martial universities for three generations of direct descendants.
After this series of combined blows, ordinary civilians merely felt that rain was brewing and the wind was filling the tower.
It seemed a great war was about to begin.
But the Hua Nation's aristocratic families—especially those with deep foundations who had seized the gilded slots—were instantly dumbfounded.
Many of the sharper-minded ones more or less realized they had been tricked.
They immediately burned with rage and cursed Yun Heng as the "Disgrace of the Martial Immortal."
Some even relied on their status as founding members of the Martial Arts Alliance, intending to make a scene and demand justice from the council.
But they soon received an accurate reply.
This order had been personally issued by Yun Sheng, chairman of the Martial Arts Alliance!
As for the fact that the order had been signed a month earlier, there was naturally