Dependence

Under absolute violence, the truth of the matter no longer mattered. The three accusations Lu Baizou had raised in order to force a coup were swiftly declared settled by the upper ranks of the Second Garrison.

The information that a Saint had attacked the city had come from the Prime Minister's Mansion.

The white wolf demon was not the Kirin Wolf, but an ancient war beast the Prime Minister's Mansion had found.

And the woman in the city who carried the aura of Tachao's unique cultivation art was not the Great Desert Goddess either, but a concubine brought by the Prime Minister's Mansion's legitimate son.

The soldiers below were caught off guard by this sudden shift in public opinion, but their objections were quickly and systematically suppressed by the lower and middle-ranking officers.

No further doubts were raised, including by Lu Baizou himself.

This farcical struggle for power ended just like that, hastily and carelessly.

The formations on the Drill Ground were dismissed. The mid-ranking officers led them away from the camp in batches, toward the city walls to prepare for battle.

After greeting Xu Yuan and saluting him, the senior generals who had previously sat on the fence also left with their old subordinates.

They knew full well that now that the dust had settled, it was time for reckoning.

Lu Baizou was, after all, the commander of the Profound Court Army. Even though his attempt to seize power had failed, they had to leave him some dignity for the sake of their decades as comrades-in-arms.

In less than half an hour, the Profound Court Army camp fell silent. Only Xu Yuan, Li Junwu, the old general surnamed Jin, and the already-deposed Lu Baizou remained on the entire Drill Ground.

Unlike the Western Pacification Prefecture generals who had saluted