Grand Minister of Agriculture Han Zhengfang was the leader of the Heaven-Piercing Sect.
When those twelve characters appeared in the sky, flying toward Imperial Emperor City with the flock of swans, everyone on the ground of Xuanyuan Hill who saw them stood dumbfounded.
Who was the Grand Minister of Agriculture? A powerful Phantom Knight, one of Great Xia's Nine Ministers, vested with immense authority—and no ordinary one among the Nine Ministers. It could be said that the position of Grand Minister of Agriculture carried the greatest weight among them, because he controlled the economy and agriculture of all Great Xia. Everything concerning the food, clothing, shelter, transport, daily necessities, trade, industry, finance, farming, forestry, animal husbandry, and fisheries of everyone in Great Xia fell within the Grand Minister of Agriculture's authority.
The Heaven-Piercing Sect was a malignant tumor that had thrown Great Xia into turmoil, and it had even colluded with the Devil Race. As the catastrophe approached Great Xia, the Heaven-Piercing Sect's uprisings and riots across the land had become increasingly frequent. Apart from the Devil Race, the Heaven-Piercing Sect had practically become Great Xia's greatest internal threat.
Within the entire Heaven-Piercing Sect, its most mysterious figure was its leader. It was said that aside from a handful of core members within the sect, no one knew who the Heaven-Piercing Sect Leader truly was. The impression the sect leader left upon everyone was that his hands could reach the heavens, that he was capable of nearly anything. The recent upheaval in Central Province had only proven the terror of the Heaven-Piercing Sect and the power of that mysterious leader lurking behind it—the Blood Sea Divine Pool had already spread to the Nine Divine Provinces. What was there that the Heaven-Piercing Sect could not accomplish?
And now, those twelve enormous