Jialing Pass Standoff, Becoming the Allied Forces' Leader

The most shocking news on the Douluo Continent at this time was that Spirit Hall had established the Spirit Hall Empire!

Even more astonishingly, Xue Qinghe, the Heaven Dou Empire Emperor, had publicly declared his submission to the Spirit Hall Empire in Spirit City.

This sudden "defection" immediately plunged the entire continent into unprecedented chaos.

Just as Xue Qinghe loudly announced his surrender, Spirit Hall's butcher's blade had quietly swung toward the great nobles and subordinate kingdoms within the Heaven Dou Empire.

Large numbers of Spirit Hall experts infiltrated various regions like Gui Mei, launching ambushes against completely unprepared noble estates and kingdom strongholds.

For a time, screams filled every corner of the Heaven Dou Empire. Blood stained the streets of towns red, and countless noble heirs and key kingdom officials fell beneath Spirit Hall's Soul Skills. The casualties were too horrific to bear looking at.

With Xue Qinghe's compromise, vast territories of the Heaven Dou Empire were directly incorporated into the Spirit Hall Empire's domain.

But everyone knew that the Heaven Dou Empire had never been a centralized state. The emperor's orders had never fully reached every inch of its land.

Therefore, even though the Heaven Dou Empire nominally belonged to the Spirit Hall Empire now, blazing flames of resistance still rose across the former Heaven Dou Empire's territory.

The nobles who had survived by chance, the sects that held fast to their positions, and the academies unwilling to submit all began gathering forces, forming regional resistance armies one after another.

They scattered across every corner of the Heaven Dou Empire, relying on their familiarity with the terrain and support from local connections to contend with Spirit Hall Empire garrisons.

From prosperous towns to remote villages, traces of clashes between the resistance armies and Spirit Hall Empire forces could