The quiet days of tender affection and strengthening their power were shattered by terrible news that exploded like thunder from the highest heavens.
This time, the bloodstained urgent intelligence had not come from the border of the Heaven Dou Empire. It had crossed vast territories from the distant Star Luo Empire, sent at the cost of many lives through the last extremely secret channel of communication between the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and the Star Luo Imperial Family, and delivered to Ning Fengzhi's desk.
The news was even more horrifying than the fall of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and revealed the Spirit Hall's methods as even more ruthless and its ambition even more brazen:
After attacking the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, Spirit Hall Pope Bibi Dong had made no attempt to rest. With the force of a thunderbolt, she had personally led more than half the elders of the Elder Hall, the most elite Holy Emperor Warrior Regiment of the Hall Guard Knights, and some members of the Judgment Legion. Joined by military leaders and nobles of the Star Luo Empire who had secretly defected to Spirit Hall long ago, they had staged a grand ceremony in the imperial capital, Dark Star City. With the imperial family and the high nobility gathered together and the city's defenses relatively lax, they had launched a long-planned decapitation strike and coup!
With their forces striking from within and without, the unprepared Dai Family of the Star Luo Imperial Family and the Hell Spirit Cat Clan—the Zhu Family, bound to them by generations of marriage and sharing their joys and sorrows—suffered a devastating blow!
The Star Luo Emperor, the empress, Crown Prince Dai Weisi, and numerous princes and princesses, as well as princes of the blood and commandery princes...the Dai