The Sha Yuan and the Pyramid Descend upon the Holy City!

If they were going to wage war on the Holy City, they couldn't simply storm its gates.

They also had to impose a comprehensive economic blockade on the Holy City.

Though the Holy City stood apart from the world, it wasn't entirely untouched by it.

It still needed an economy to keep the city running, as well as all kinds of supplies.

But the Holy City held itself above everyone else. The Sacred Judgment Mages, who thought themselves superior, would never deign to do the work of producing goods. So all the Holy City's supplies and economic resources came from the various forces under its jurisdiction and the European nobility.

Before storming its gates, Dongfang Chen's first move was to blockade the Holy City's economy and cut off those supplies.

The Dongfang Family and Chenxue Pavilion had been developing for so long that they had already secured most of the global trade market.

The Dongfang Family in particular had opened up markets across the continents with its pills, then continued to expand into other commercial fields. By now, its business was so vast that even the Zhao Clan, renowned as a commercial empire, couldn't match its global scale.

Chenxue Pavilion wasn't as large as the Dongfang Family in terms of business, but its Artificial Element Seeds had helped make up for the shortage of Element Seeds, opening up the mage markets of countries around the world.

If these two great forces joined hands, they could crush the economies of some small countries in Europe and Africa outright.

What's more, besides the Dongfang Family and Chenxue Pavilion, the Parthenon Temple and the Victoria Clan, where Ailin lived, had also imposed economic blockades on the Holy City to varying degrees.

In the short term, the Holy City would not only lose its