Dark Currents Surge, Jia Ma Launches a Full-Scale Siege on Ye Emperor Hall!

Meanwhile, Ye Changge and the others had already returned to Ye Emperor Hall.

A Thousand Miles in an Instant.

Ye Emperor Hall.

"Master, Junior Brother, you're back!"

Shi Hao had been playing chess with an old man. Sensing that someone had arrived at the sect, he hurried over to take a look.

Shi Hao looked at Xiao Yan and felt that something had changed about his junior brother. Strange—his appearance had not changed, but his aura was different. Sharper.

"Senior Brother."

At the same time, Shi Hao noticed Yue Mei beside Ye Changge.

His first impression was that she was stunning!

"Master really has great luck with women. He just sent one away two days ago, and now he's brought back another one today."

"As expected of Master!"

Yue Mei was even more shocked!

She looked around.

Pavilions and towers stood amid drifting immortal mist, while spiritual energy condensed into fog.

Scene after scene completely overturned her understanding of the world.

"Master, who is this young lady?"

"Don't tell me Master found us a Mistress?"

Looking at Yue Mei's dusty, disheveled state, Shi Hao had already imagined the whole story: a woman being hunted down, Master saving the beauty like a hero, and ultimately winning her heart.

"You brat, are you itching for a beating?"

Ye Changge was speechless.

Yue Mei, too, rarely blushed.

"She's merely a maid brought in to serve tea and water. Isn't that right, Chief Yue Mei?"

"How did he know?!"

"Sect Master, I did not mean to conceal it."

"It's fine. I simply do not like being kept in the dark."

"Shi Hao, Xiao Yan."

"You have been in the sect for several days now, but I have yet to issue you sect uniforms. I'll give them to you today."

"System, retrieve two sets of Sect Uniforms."

The complete outfit was primarily white, accented with green. A green lotus was embroidered at the right waist, symbolizing soaring into the blue clouds, while the words Ye Emperor Hall were stitched onto the left chest in golden thread.

"You two, remember this!"

"This is the sect uniform of Ye Emperor Hall. Its color is green, and a nine-petaled green lotus faces the heavens at the waist, signifying: Ancient Green Sky Lotus, with nine leaves blooming to hold up the sky!"

"We are the inheritors of Ye Emperor Hall. We are destined to become the sect that suppresses the continent for ten thousand years!"

"Holy crap!"

"Master, our Ye Emperor Hall uniforms are way too cool!"

Shi Hao and Xiao Yan held their sect uniforms with such delight that they could not bear to put them down.

"Don't just focus on how good they look. Once worn, they repel dust and are impervious to water, fire, and poison."

Jia Ma Imperial Capital.

Today, many experts from sects and family factions had suddenly poured into the city.

Yet the city's residents were not the least bit alarmed. The Jia Ma Imperial Family presided over the city; no one with a death wish would dare cause trouble here.

Jia Ma Imperial Family Council Hall.

"The three-day deadline is almost here. Have you all decided what to do?"

"What can we do?"

"What else can we do?!"

"That's a Dou Zong expert!"

"Are we really supposed to go to their doorstep and apologize?"

"Where exactly did this Ye Emperor Hall come from?"

"Wasn't it said to have declined?"

"Then why does it have such an expert within its sect? Could there be a major power supporting it from behind?"

Inside the Imperial Family's hall, everyone was both shocked and worried!

The experts sent by the various sects that day had been slaughtered one after another, with only a handful spared to return and deliver the message.

If they did not come to apologize within three days, not even chickens and dogs would be spared!

But would offering an apology not be the same as bowing their heads to the other side?

Fortunately, the Jia Ma Imperial Family had issued invitations today specifically to discuss this matter.

"Patriarch Jia Xingtian has arrived."

"Everyone, Ye Emperor Hall killed an elder of our Jia Ma Imperial Family and slaughtered the experts of your sects, yet it actually demands that we go to its doorstep and apologize?"

"We must unite and wipe out Ye Emperor Hall."

"I agree!"

As soon as Patriarch Jia Xingtian finished speaking, several sects stepped forward in support.

If the Imperial Family had to bow its head, how could it continue to hold its place in the Jia Ma Empire?

"But they do have a Dou Zong expert protecting them. We..."

Some sects that wished to settle the matter peacefully also voiced their thoughts.

An apology was just an apology. It was better than losing their lives, and they had indeed been in the wrong first.

They had only acted that day because they had been incited by the Misty Cloud Sect and its Grand Elder, Yun Leng, leading to these consequences.

"So what if there is a major power behind them?"

"I have already contacted both the new and old generations of the Jia Ma Empire's Ten Great Experts, as well as Yun Shan, the former Sect Master of the Misty Cloud Sect."

"Yun Shan?"

"I heard that he has been in seclusion for many years and may have broken through to the Dou Ancestor Realm!"

Hearing Jia Xingtian say this, everyone relaxed.

With the Jia Ma Imperial Family and the Misty Cloud Sect's many experts taking the lead, what was there left to fear?

This massive move threw the entire Jia Ma Empire into an uproar.

All hegemonic forces in the Jia Ma Empire—the Jia Ma Imperial Family, the Misty Cloud Sect, the Alchemist Guild, the Three Great Families of the Imperial Capital, and numerous renowned old sects and clans of the Jia Ma Empire—had mobilized.

It could be said that nearly every major force in the Jia Ma Empire had joined the campaign to destroy Ye Emperor Hall.

Such a display was equivalent to mobilizing the nation's strength and gathering the power of the entire country to annihilate Ye Emperor Hall!

This time, the previously obscure Ye Emperor Hall became famous overnight.

The events of that day's exchange tournament were also exposed:

A disciple of Ye Emperor Hall had overwhelmed more than a dozen geniuses and remained undefeated throughout.

A Dou Ancestor Realm expert from Ye Emperor Hall had slaughtered the experts of the major factions.

The current Sect Master of the Misty Cloud Sect, Yun Yun, had risked her life to help them.

Ye Emperor Hall had killed an elder of the Jia Ma Imperial Family.

One bombshell after another directly pushed Ye Emperor Hall into the eye of the storm.

"Ye Emperor Hall is way too fierce, isn't it? It's challenging every major faction in the Jia Ma Empire?"

"Exactly. Ye Emperor Hall is probably in for it this time."

"Not necessarily. That is a terrifying force with a Dou Zong expert. It's practically comparable to those major sects in the Black Corner Region."

"Not necessarily. I heard the former Sect Master of the Misty Cloud Sect, Yun Shan, has emerged from seclusion and may have reached the Dou Ancestor Realm as well!"

"Right. I heard that as soon as Yun Shan came out of seclusion, he put Yun Yun under confinement. He has even temporarily taken over the position of Sect Master himself!"

The tavern buzzed with voices as everyone discussed the coming battle.

Somewhere in the Jia Ma Empire, an Underground Gambling Den.

"Come on, come on, bets are open! Bets are open!"

"Ye Emperor Hall versus the major factions. Current odds: 1 to 10!"

"I'm in, I'm in!"

"I'm betting ten thousand gold coins on the major factions."

"Take a gamble and turn manual into automatic!"

Meanwhile, in Wutan City.

The Xiao Family had become a target of public scrutiny, and everyone was waiting to see them make fools of themselves.

There was no other reason. The Xiao Family had announced that it had become a subordinate faction of Ye Emperor Hall. Now that this bombshell news had spread, the Xiao Family had also been pushed into the eye of the storm.

"They thought the Xiao Family had found a powerful backer. Well, that backer is about to be finished. The Xiao Family will probably get dragged down with it."

"Yeah, what terrible luck. They only just became the number one family in Wutan City, and now this happens to the Xiao Family."

"Ah, when major powers clash, it is usually the small factions that die the worst. We should prepare early so that the flames of war do not reach us."

Xiao Family.

"Patriarch, give the order. All Xiao Family disciples above the Dou Zhe level are ready."

After the elder finished speaking, Patriarch Xiao Zhan stepped forward.

"Everyone, our main sect is about to wage war against the major factions. As a subordinate faction, we cannot stand by and do nothing."

"Moreover, Yan'er is the Hall Master's direct disciple, and Ye Emperor Hall has shown our Xiao Family the kindness of saving our lives."

"In this battle, even if we are shattered to pieces, the Xiao Family will not retreat a single step!"

"Are you afraid?"

"Not afraid!"

"Not afraid!"

"Not afraid!"

"Fuck, I'm fired up!"

"Sons of the Xiao Family, march for Ye Emperor Hall!"

The Xiao Family of Wutan City announced to the outside world that it would march for Ye Emperor Hall and defend its main sect to the death.

This was the first faction to stand with Ye Emperor Hall, and likely the only one.