Love, Hate, Mercy

Just as heavy metal pollution tended to accumulate at the end of the food chain.

Over centuries of gradual decline, those at the bottom had merely lost hope. After becoming completely numb, they had undergone varying degrees of materialization. But the distinguished figures at the top had truly, utterly deformed, alienating from head to toe on the spot.

When the Embers struck back, the vast majority exploded on the spot, wiping out the Seven Cities Council completely. The remaining beneficiaries were all grotesquely transformed, no longer even countable as people. How could they possibly organize command or mount a counterattack?

All that could be said was that Fernan had earned MVP!

That wave of his had directly sent off every last person currently capable of obstructing Ji Jue.

As for the remaining insects, a few still tried to kick up a fuss and counterattack, but Ji Jue did not even need to lift a hand. Two Riot Cats simply kicked down their doors and hauled them away, then changed clothes and waited to take the stage to swing from the gallows...

And so, with authorization from the Taiyi Ring in one hand, he openly purged traitors and evil-doers; with the laws and legitimacy of the Seven Cities in the other, he rightfully seized it all for himself.

Without expending the slightest effort, the Seven Cities changed hands!

After the trials concluded that morning, representatives from every city gathered that afternoon at the former site of the Pu City Council. Everyone unanimously agreed that the Seven Cities could not go a day without a ruler, nor a household a day without a master. Right there amid the ruins, they held a vote. United as one, they passed it unanimously and draped the yellow robe over... Minkler, who had just woken up