Encirclement and Counter-Encirclement (Wishing All My Friends a Happy New Year!)

Chapter 862: Encirclement and Counter-Encirclement (Wishing All My Friends a Happy New Year!)

In the twenty-first year of Emperor Kaiyuan's reign in Great Gan, divine lightning descended from the heavens, seeking to slay the demon Jia Rong within the imperial city.

Three days later, Jia Rong fled with the Jia Clan.

Fifteen days later, Zhen Tiandu, a grandmaster of the Zhen Family in Jinling, Great Gan, broke through to the Great Grandmaster realm and raised the banner: "Heed Heaven's Will, Slay the Heavenly Demon (Jia Rong)."

Regions throughout Great Gan answered the call.

Five days later, Great Yin proclaimed to the world: The Heavenly Demon Jia Rong had invaded Great Yin, his crimes monstrous and too numerous to recount. In accordance with Heaven's will, Great Yin called upon capable men and righteous people across the land to join in slaying this Heavenly Demon and restore order to the world.

In less than a month.

The Jia Clan, once at the height of its power as the foremost family under heaven, had been torn open like a punctured balloon, rapidly deflating.

Other than Great Ding, which had made no statement, they had practically become enemies of the entire world.

Oh, Emperor Kaiyuan and the Great Gan court had made no statement either. But he had abandoned his former fawning attitude; his silence was the clearest statement of all.

As for Great Ding, some people were busy improving their martial cultivation—among the three kingdoms, Great Ding had the most flourishing martial culture and the greatest number of martial experts.

The rest argued endlessly over Jia Rong's matter, unable to make up their minds.

To be honest, those who understood Jia Rong's strength best and felt it most deeply were not Great Gan, but Great Ding and Great Yin.

The latter had been