Jinling City.
Yin Long was buried in all manner of affairs.
Only by keeping herself this busy could she set aside her worries for a while.
Besides, the Demonic Calamity had recently been erupting on an ever greater scale and with ever greater force. Even the South had suffered heavy losses.
The situation in the North was worse still.
The Northeast had been hit especially hard. The Shun Army had lost half its troops, and morale had plummeted through its ranks.
If the Imperial Dynasty Ancestor had not intervened several times, the Shun Army would probably have been finished already.
Even so, he could not hold out much longer alone, much less stop the endless Devil Race army.
Not long ago, the Imperial Dynasty Ancestor had ordered the people of the Northeast and the Shun Army to retreat within the passes. Kun Kingdom and Zhou Kingdom had both sent armies to meet them, along with dozens of Skyfaring Warships.
Without them, the journey of nearly ten thousand li would have left all those civilians dead along the road.
All sides knew perfectly well that the changes in the Demonic Calamity were probably connected to what Zhou Yan and Xia Qingchen had done in the Demon Realm.
And from the looks of things, the situation was deeply troubling...
"The Shun Army is finished. Senior Li was badly wounded holding off the Devil Race army. He took every member of his Lineage, young and old, to seek refuge in Zhou Kingdom. The civilians and Shun Army troops were divided between Zhou Kingdom and Kun Kingdom..."
"But that will only put Kun Kingdom under even more pressure..."
"More importantly, Kun Kingdom and Zhou Kingdom are separate powers. Without King Zhou there to hold the situation together, their conflicts may not be easy to