As Zhang Tie flew toward Dragon Sea City, the city itself—or rather, Black Blood City, as it had been renamed—remained as it always had, utterly unaware that a baleful star was about to descend.
Although the Black Blood Alliance had been renamed the Black Blood Temple, the bandit and brigand stench ingrained in the bones of its people was something that could never be changed. In the past, the Black Blood Alliance had entrenched itself in the lawless region of the Shattered Star Sea. With experts like the Black Blood Twin Saints, who stood at the level of Primordial Spirit generals, holding the fort, the alliance had lorded it over the Shattered Star Sea, gathering desperadoes from every side, building checkpoints and barriers, and forming a force unto itself. Almost no one dared provoke them; even ordinary temples preferred not to clash with them unless absolutely necessary.
A few years earlier, taking advantage of the Dragon Emperor Temple's weakness and the Dark Emperor Temple stirring up storms throughout the Sky-Piercing Realm, the Black Blood Alliance had poured out of the Shattered Star Sea in full force under the leadership of the Black Blood Twin Saints and invaded the Dragon Emperor Domain. After defeating the Dragon Emperor Temple's defending divine generals, they had seized vast tracts of land and over a hundred cities in the west of the Dragon Emperor Domain in one stroke. The Black Blood Alliance had then transformed itself into the Black Blood Temple.
At the beginning of the Black Blood Alliance's invasion of the Dragon Emperor Domain, the Dragon Emperor Temple had wanted to gather the Dragon Fang Army and temple experts to launch a punitive campaign. Unfortunately, before the Dragon Emperor Temple's expeditionary force could arrive, more and more factions and temples began invading the Dragon