Just as the Qi Army swept across Fengli Prefecture, linking Linwu and Fengli and winning a great victory on the eastern front.
News that shook the world came from Daye Prefecture, exploding like thunder and rolling across ten thousand miles—
The twenty-sixth day of the twelfth month, Dao Calendar 3920.
Qi State's vanguard general Chongxuan Zun led three thousand troops, hiding by day and moving by night. They took the perilous path through Leopard Valley, burst into Daye Prefecture, slew the commander defending Qingling, seized Qingling City, then drove the routed soldiers into the Imperial Mausoleum. Amid the chaos, they beheaded the mausoleum warden, a Divine Presence Realm cultivator, utterly crushed the mausoleum-guarding legion, and laid siege to the tomb of Emperor Xia Xiang!
One battle astonished the world.
How he had vanished from the Linwu battlefield and broken into Daye Prefecture; how he had charged fiercely through Daye Prefecture despite its heavily stationed troops; how he had breached Qingling City and slain that veteran Divine Presence Realm mausoleum warden... those questions would perhaps have to wait until after the war for review.
That the Qi Army had struck at the vital heartland of the Xia Kingdom was now an indisputable fact!
The front lines were still locked in fierce battle, yet the ancestral graves of the Xia Kingdom's emperor in the rear had already fallen into Qi hands!
It was worth noting that Chongxuan Zun had not destroyed the Imperial Mausoleum or dug up the emperor's bones. He had not, as many imagined, opened Emperor Xia Xiang's coffin to whip the corpse, trampled upon the Xia royal house, and crushed the dignity of Great Xia's Si clan.
Instead, he had properly cleaned Emperor Xia Xiang's tomb, personally offered prayers for him, and composed an essay commemorating Emperor Xia Xiang's