No further word came from the Blood Qin Empire. Ying Zheng had clearly abandoned his summons for Lin Qi.
With the Hu Xinzhu family pulling strings, Longcheng's clansmen had withdrawn from Twin Sun Red Dragon City at top speed. Using a teleportation magic array, Lin Qi delivered a handwritten letter from Longcheng to the Long Family clansmen—Lord Longcheng was already commanding troops on the Western Continent against Ying Zheng. In other words, Longcheng, together with Eastern Harmony King Lin Qi, had rebelled!
Faced with this utterly unreserved letter, Longcheng's clansmen cursed Longcheng and Lin Qi to the heavens even as they were forced to leave Blood Qin Empire territory. The Long Family clansmen knew perfectly well that Emperor Ying Zheng was no softhearted man. Longcheng's actions had already laid the butcher's knife across every clansman's neck. Unless they fled, their entire families would surely be wiped out.
It was not only Longcheng's family—even Hu Xinzhu's entire household vanished without a trace.
Less than two days later, Lin Qi received news from Tiger Island: his territories in the Blood Qin Empire had been reclaimed, and all deputy officers and officials within them had been thrown into prison. Had Lin Qi not long ago arranged for Tiger Clan members to move Blackbeard's wives and concubines away, Ying Zheng would certainly have swept them all up in one net this time. Not a single person would have escaped.
"So this is it. We've completely torn off all pretense!" Dressed in the magnificent divine robes of the Dawn Temple, Lin Qi walked through Berely's streets. He raised his head to gaze at the sky and let out a faint sigh. Still, there was nothing much to grieve over. What Ying Zheng had taken back was merely that little bit of the Tiger Clan's overt