The corpse of Qiu Tie, Jing Kingdom's newly appointed river official, was laid upon a high platform piled from yellow mud, fashioned after the River Viewing Terrace and echoing Yin Xiaoheng atop Pegasus Plateau from afar.
Lou Yue, who had publicly declared Equality State the chief culprit in Tianjing City the day before yesterday and sworn to wipe it out, came to receive this gift.
This was undoubtedly an enormous provocation.
Equality State's retaliation had already begun—and with such hardness, such ferocity!
Yin Xiaoheng had been dead for two days. Heavenly Lord City had collapsed yesterday.
Jing Kingdom was scouring the entire realm, displaying its might with supreme arrogance, utterly without restraint. No one dared meet its edge.
But on the fifth day of the third month, upon the banks of the Long River, beside the Yellow River, Equality State formally declared war on Jing Kingdom!
Today's platform of piled corpses was the final "gift." Tomorrow, the green hills would not bury their bones, nor would the Long River cleanse their souls. Wherever they encountered people of Jing Kingdom, they would kill people of Jing Kingdom there.
This was an open declaration of war to the entire Present World—
As retaliatory consequences for the destruction of Heavenly Lord City, from this day onward, Equality State would kill every Jing Kingdom powerhouse left alone outside.
Whether True Persons or True Lords!
Equality State could not save Li Mao, who was currently being hunted down, nor would it try to. They would carry out endless, equal blood-soaked hunts against Jing Kingdom!
The blood of every Equality State member would be repaid with the lives of Jing Kingdom people.
Since Equality State's founding, this was the first time it had displayed such an attitude.
Bloody, violent, extreme.
In all the years before this,