"Wang Kun of the Jing Kingdom killed Li Longchuan of Qi State."
Qi Wen truly had no need to raise his voice, for those words were already a thunderclap.
Rumble, rumble, rumble!
Was it warships crossing the sky, or rolling heavenly thunder? The spectators atop the End of the World Terrace could no longer tell.
Too many unexpected things had happened today.
And for the vast majority of ordinary islanders—even cultivators—the banners atop city walls changed hands just as the sun set into dusk, even as heaven and earth declined... All they could do was accept it. They had no power to alter it.
Rumble!
A rift split directly through the night.
Cao Jie's aura soared skyward!
This Marquis of Sincerity of Great Qi, this bitter-faced commander who was mild and unhurried in most circumstances, now revealed his full ferocity, carrying the momentum to overturn heaven and earth.
With only a change in his gaze, one could tell—he had completely prepared himself for a direct clash with the Jing Kingdom, and possessed the resolve to decide life and death with Song Huai.
In the direction of the Summer Corpse Army camp, a baleful cloud rose at the same time, like an enormous umbrella opening over Huai Island.
This, too, was the sharpness of Great Qi's Nine Legions. All those who did not belong to Qi State were naturally the "wind and rain" to be shut out.
Far away on Jueming Island, Soldier Sha also crashed into the heavens. The fleet led by Qi Wen raised a forest of weapons even higher. The Heaven Cover Army, which had already reached the Near-Sea Archipelago, answered their commander's furious rage in full!
Everything now had an explanation.
Why Tian Anping had come bearing hatred, and why he had demanded an accounting from Lou