Evernight Sky, the tenth day of the fifth month, Xiao Yu.
The entire city had been under martial law for three days. No one could enter or leave except the army.
From high-ranking officials and noble clans down to commoners, everyone had holed up at home. The city was so quiet that it seemed the only sounds were armor clashing and horses' hooves trampling the blue bricks.
No one in Qi was a fool. Ying Le's ten-year reign had long since caused the dull-witted, the clueless, and the disbelieving species to go extinct by artificial selection. The three Great Heavens of Qi, who had been hidden from the world for nearly a century, had appeared in the City of Evernight. The Bai Bao Guard had slaughtered the surrounding counties like madmen. Even the beggars of the City of Evernight knew that the heavens were about to change.
But what could knowing that accomplish? They had never bothered to hide it. They had openly sealed off the city, turning a major city inhabited by a million people into her prison.
What did you want to do?
What could you do?
Perhaps some people wondered: Since Ying Le was so wicked, why not leave the City of Evernight? Because things were no better elsewhere. No matter how wicked Ying Le usually was, she targeted only the noble clans. In the City of Evernight, commoners at least had all the gods and buddhas in heaven protecting them from harm. Outside, even a street thug, yamen runner, or soldier could take both an ordinary person's money and life.
But the peace granted on a whim could also be withdrawn on a whim.
At some point, a foul wind began blowing above the City of Evernight, gathering a bloody aura. The city's residents looked up