The Blazing Flame Lands, whose full name should have been the Flying Flame Thirteen-Nation Alliance, were broadly divided into two alliances led respectively by the Nemarsas Bloodline and the Absalom Bloodline. By ancient custom, the seat of a Fifth Energy Level powerhouse was called a royal court.
The six lands ruled by the Nemarsas Bloodline—Light Rider, Greenwood, Tengsha, Kongyu, Brilliant Hill, and Ashen Ridge—were the Upper Flying Flame Land. The seven lands ruled by the Absalom Bloodline—Wild Sea, Skyflood, Clear Thunder, Yan'ao, Cleansing Wind, Flame Abyss, and Sacrificial Crag—were the Lower Blazing Flame Land. Separated by the Shalsa River, the two had jointly ruled this nation for a long time.
This generation's Fifth Energy Level powerhouses of the Blazing Flame Lands were Chrysalis Savaga Nemassas, born in Tengsha, and King of Embers Dostiel Abasalom, born in Flame Abyss.
It could not be said that their relationship was bad. They had merely beaten each other senseless when they were young, with a few minor frictions between them.
Yet these two people, who had some minor friction between them, had recently been troubled by the same matter.
That was the "public opinion offensive" from the Silverpeak Domain.
The term public opinion offensive had emerged long ago. Its most important original purpose had been to leave the four great orthodox churches no chance to intervene, while also boosting local morale so governance would not become troublesome.
If there were no need to pass down inheritances, care for descendants, or consider one's family, then ascenders would have almost no need for ordinary people. But ascender families were, after all, the norm in this world. Thus, social forms such as nations still existed, and controlling public opinion remained a matter neither too great nor too small, one that rulers needed to pay attention to.
But