Within the Great Gan Dynasty, celebrations were spreading everywhere.
The Empress's Grand Wedding date had been set. The imperial capital and its surroundings were filled with festive cheer. Even the border troops had received the wedding bonus, and all the soldiers were eagerly looking forward to spending it—they'd already decided what to buy!
However, while the Great Gan Dynasty was awash in celebration, the Great Zhou Dynasty, several kingdoms away, was shrouded in dead silence.
Wang Jingzhong had been beheaded. The entire Imperial Observatory had been wiped out. Not one of them had returned.
That head was still on display inside the imperial palace.
The entire palace was cloaked in silence. The news had even roused the Supreme Emperor and many imperial ancestors from seclusion.
They were the Great Zhou Dynasty's most secret and formidable forces, with cultivation at its very peak. Some had even reached the pinnacle of the Eighth Realm, the Infinite Realm, and stood just one step away from the Celestial Phenomenon Realm.
Their ambitions had long since gone beyond unifying the world. They sought to ascend to the Upper Realm and pursue a more distant world, and had thus devoted themselves to bitter cultivation while waiting for the Ascension Platform to open.
But this incident had far too great an impact.
No one questioned the alliance between Ying Dang and the Great Gan Dynasty, especially after they had witnessed the fate of an Infinite Realm cultivator with their own eyes.
"His head was simply plucked off. An Infinite Realm cultivator couldn't do that. The Great Gan Dynasty has a Celestial Phenomenon cultivator backing it."
One Old Ancestor gave his assessment, and everyone else agreed.
"Wang Jingzhong was a veteran official of six dynasties. The Lieyang Holy Land had guided him, and he was strong enough to