"Sect Master Yu, the newly enthroned emperor has gone mad. The reforms he's proposing are becoming more and more unreasonable, and they've seriously harmed everyone's interests. Now he's reached for our land. Who knows what he'll target next?"
"We don't know how Sect Master Ning of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect came to support Xue Qinghe's policies. There's nothing we can do about that."
"We've unanimously decided to overthrow the Xue Family and take the throne. We want you, Sect Master Yu, to become the new emperor of the Heaven Dou Empire. We believe that under your leadership, we'll all live better lives instead of suffering under the oppression of that tyrant, Xue Qinghe!"
Faced with the nobles' expectations, Yu Yuanzhen, too, began to harbor ambitions of becoming emperor.
Although the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan had never aspired to contend for the throne, they still shared the ambition to dominate the continent.
One could say that the ambition to dominate the continent belonged not only to the two empires and Spirit Hall, but also to the Upper Three Sects.
As the weakest royal house, the Xue Family of the Heaven Dou Empire was watched hungrily by Spirit Hall and the Star Luo Empire. If a major internal conflict broke out, the empire could easily be swept away in one fell swoop.
The previous two rebellions had both aimed to replace the ruling dynasty, but neither had threatened the Heaven Dou Imperial Family or caused much internal strife.
Both had remained within tolerable limits.
Abolishing private land ownership struck too deeply at the interests of the great nobles. It had seriously crossed their bottom line, and they simply couldn't tolerate it.
But the power Xue Qinghe commanded was beyond anything they could have imagined—more than any emperor before him