Ten days passed.
Under the leadership of Zhou Mingyuan, a Martial Grandmaster, the Seeking Truth Army easily occupied all of Far City, and more than ten thousand hot-blooded men of the Eastern Kingdom joined its ranks.
Every Japanese invader in Far City was executed, regardless of status!
Every Westerner who had oppressed the people of the Eastern Kingdom was likewise executed!
Hongyang Province was shaken to its core.
The Eastern Kingdom's Southern Military Office sternly denounced the Seeking Truth Army in Far City as traitors and rebels, ordering its six Martial Grandmasters to report to the provincial capital immediately, bow their heads, and confess their crimes!
It also branded Li Yue, master of the Seek-Truth Martial Hall, a cult leader and placed a bounty of thirty million silver dollars on his head. Anyone who killed him could collect the reward from the Southern Military Office!
Meanwhile, the Sakura Nation Southern Command and the southern military authorities of the other eight Western nations each dispatched more than one Martial Grandmaster. Twenty-two Martial Grandmasters in total advanced on Far City, bent on slaughter.
"Those who provoke the Great Cherry Blossom Empire must die!"
"Anyone who kills a subject of our Great Cherry Blossom Empire will have their entire clan exterminated!"
"In one month, a Grand Martial Master of our Great Cherry Blossom Empire will arrive. The Eastern Nation Imperial House must send an imperial prince to welcome them!"
Five Heroes United as One, the supreme commander of the Sakura Nation Southern Command, coldly issued these pronouncements.
"The Eastern Nation Imperial House must issue a Martial Prohibition decree! No citizen of the Eastern Kingdom may practice martial arts!"
"Martial Artists undermine the law. The Eastern Kingdom enjoys an age of peace and prosperity; such lawless groups as Martial Artists should not exist."
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