Zhong Shan's return seemed to raise the Great Canopy army's strength by several levels at once!
Moreover, something exceedingly bizarre soon happened. The enemy generals were suddenly assassinated for no apparent reason! One or two would have been nothing, but ten, a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand?
Their deaths took all sorts of forms, but they shared one thing in common: every assassination had been utterly silent!
The terrifying assassinations immediately threw the senior generals of the Six Great Heavenly Dynasties into panic.
Inside the commander's grand camp of one of the Heavenly Dynasties.
"Marshal, another hundred and three generals died today, including twenty-eight city lords. The camps whose senior generals were assassinated immediately fell into complete disarray, and those Great Canopy troops we'd subdued suddenly rebelled!" a general reported anxiously.
"Assassinations? A decapitation operation?" The commander at the Commander's Desk furrowed his brow.
"It's Great Canopy. It's Zhong Shan! Marshal, we learned from the Great Canopy citizens that Zhong Shan has returned! Were these assassinations ordered by Zhong Shan?" another general asked worriedly.
"It must be him!" the marshal said heavily.
"How does Great Canopy have so many assassins? They move without a sound—are they all Celestial Immortals?"
"With so many generals dying every day, our army that invaded Great Canopy has been completely trapped!"
"Who will be assassinated next?"
...The marshal sighed faintly. "We were the ones who broke the rules first. Great Canopy is merely imitating us!"
All the officials fell silent.
Assassination. Back then, when the Six Great Heavenly Dynasties sent experts to carry out decapitation operations, they had done it openly and aboveboard. After all, experts had an expert's pride. But Great Canopy's experts had become assassins in every sense of the word! They had even thrown away their pride?
An expert without shame was