There was no investigation, no diplomatic note.
Huo Yuhao personally drafted and proclaimed to the entire continent a tearful Proclamation Against the Sun Moon Empire's Betrayal. The Holy Spirit Cult Emperor's golden words spread throughout the empire via Soul Tool broadcasting devices, and countless imperial soldiers, farmers, and Soul Tool workers bowed their heads to listen:
"The Sun Moon Empire has provoked border conflict without cause and murdered several of our Holy Spirit Kingdom's loyal and valiant border defenders! Their conduct is despicable and their crimes unforgivable! Today, the Holy Spirit Kingdom upholds Heaven's will to punish these rebels. We swear to flatten Ming Capital and settle accounts with these rotten parasites who use bizarre contrivances to exploit the common people and corrupt human civilization!"
Millions of crusading troops, hundreds of thousands of Undead Ghost Soldiers, and the Evil Eye Tyrant legions of ten-thousand-year and hundred-thousand-year cultivation circling overhead swept without warning toward the Sun Moon Empire's homeland defenses like a black storm of world destruction, brazenly launching an all-out assault!
Wherever the army passed, the Sun Moon Empire's border towns and strongholds were torn apart like withered branches.
The defending troops, who normally relied on Soul Tool Arrays, collapsed in swathes before the combined slaughter of the fearless, pain-insensitive undead tide and Holy Soul Master warriors. Vast tracts of land became scorched earth and ruined walls.
"Long live the holy war!"
"The Douluo World must be purified!"
One Holy Soul Master warrior after another, bolstered by Holy Soul Master secret arts and specially made Soul Tools, charged into Soul Tool Arrays, detonated with a roar, and perished alongside the enemy!
The war advanced so quickly that the Sun Moon Empire's rotten imperial family and military-industrial leadership were utterly unable to cope.
In just one month, the Holy Spirit