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Almost simultaneously, while the Yin Kui Sect's "Yin Queen" Zhu Yuyan and her group were helping more than ten thousand Twin Dragon Army soldiers in Yingchuan surround and attack Shi Feixuan and the other assassins who had come right to their doorstep on the full-moon night of the Lantern Festival, thousands of miles away in Yuhang Commandery, things unfolded just as Shi Feixuan had said. The Twin Dragon Army's commander, Kou Zhong, and the "Heavenly Blade" Song Que of the Lingnan Song Clan had just climbed the bell tower to celebrate with the people when a large group of ill-intentioned martial experts caught them completely off guard!
There were quite a few of the attackers mixed in with the crowd and storming the tower, and every one of them was an expert. They struck with ruthless moves, killing or knocking down in an instant the dozens of guards accompanying the two men and the several dozen soldiers stationed inside the bell tower. Before long, they had the entire tower under control.
At the same time!
Inside Yuhang City, at least hundreds of skilled martial artists were causing chaos throughout the already brightly decorated, bustling city's markets and streets, attacking the patrol soldiers responsible for keeping order. It seemed they were deliberately buying time for the experts attacking Kou Zhong and preventing the Twin Dragon Army's main force from rushing to their aid.
It was an old-fashioned tactic, but undeniably effective, especially on a night like tonight, the Lantern Festival.
Their brazen, calculated ambush instantly threw the already lively, crowded Yuhang City into chaos. On top of that, soldiers trying to maintain order were repeatedly attacked by experts lurking in the shadows or hiding in the crowd. Unable to figure out what was going on, and faced with panicked crowds