The news spread throughout the world: the Seven Prefectures' army had breached Martial God Pass, and Wu Man'er of Qingxiao Sect had slain the Yao General Changwu in three moves and smashed through the city gates. The people of all Nine Provinces saw a glimmer of hope.
Yet after breaching Martial God Pass, the Seven Prefectures' army did not charge straight into the heart of the land. They were continually obstructed by the Imperial Court's forces and drawn into one bitter battle after another. Still, they never stopped advancing, drawing closer to Zhenyang Imperial City with every passing day.
Meanwhile, the martial world was in an uproar. The Three Dynastic Sects had joined forces with the Imperial Court's Forbidden Martial Guard to attack Qingxiao Sect. The incident shocked the various martial sects. Many felt the Three Dynastic Sects had fallen into corruption, and it also signaled that the Imperial Court intended to take control of the martial world. The uproar had yet to die down when news soon swept through the martial world like an earthquake: Taiwu Sect and Li Yin Sect had been annihilated by a force led by Xu Ning of Qingxiao Sect.
The tides of the world were shifting, and the martial world was facing unprecedented upheaval.
Taiwu Sect and Li Yin Sect were unquestionably among the five greatest sects in the world. Apart from the lands of the North-South Twin Sages, the Three Dynastic Sects had the Imperial Court behind them, and their might cowed the entire martial world.
Thirty-one people alone had wiped out two of the Three Dynastic Sects. The martial world couldn't help wondering: just how powerful was Qingxiao Sect?
Before Xu Ning and the others returned, news of Taiwu Sect and Li Yin Sect's destruction had already reached Qingxiao Mountain, rousing the