October 5th, 5:00 a.m.
The two major official forums of the Taiyi Sect and the Five Elements Alliance exploded. Two posts were highlighted in red and pinned to the top. One was published by the Capital City headquarters account:
#The Lord of Weapons Cult Launches a Major Assault on the Capital City. Elders and senior executives from branches surrounding the Capital City, rush to provide aid immediately.#
The second was an announcement from the Songhai Branch:
#The interest group led by Cai Qinhe colluded with the Southern Faction and Dark Night Rose to lure and kill Yuanshi Tianzun and plot against the Alliance Leader. After their crimes were exposed, they violently resisted arrest and have been executed. Follow-up investigations will continue. Please watch the forum for updates. Hereby announced—Fu Qingyang.#
Both incidents were fallout from the Tribunal. In fact, some had already foreseen that Yuanshi Tianzun's return to the Spirit Realm would trigger a series of unpleasant repercussions.
But no one had expected things to blow up this badly.
Clearly, the Lord of Weapons Cult had seized upon the internal turmoil within the Five Elements Alliance to launch an attack on the Capital City, hoping to further weaken the official faction.
Since the Five Elements Alliance's founding, the only time the official side had been driven to the point of having an enemy at its doorstep was during that nuclear crisis, when they had arrogantly struck at Asura.
Nothing similar had happened in the following twenty years.
This only further highlighted how the Five Elements Alliance under the Ten Elders' rule had gradually decayed—scheming against one another, destroying talent, suffering backlash, and bleeding itself dry through internal strife. That was how the evil organizations had found their opening.
"A rotten organization is doomed to perish."
"The Five Elements Alliance is