With one sword art, I cleaved the drifting clouds; down fell stars to fill the sky.
Before the Earth Temple of Xingyang Commandery City, countless rioting cultivators fled in panic, employing every means at their disposal. Yet with a single stroke of True Lord Li Chun's sword, Sword Qi filled the heavens like falling stars, engulfing the cultivators and slaying them on the spot. None escaped.
Within the commandery city, there were still cultivators who had risen amid the chaos, wreaking destruction, slaughter, and robbery throughout the streets. Seeing this, they fled in terror, trying to escape beyond the city walls.
True Lord Li Chun shook his head and raised a golden seal. In an instant, he took control of the commandery city's protective grand array. Though much of the array had already been damaged, under True Lord Li Chun's command it still operated for the most part, suppressing the fleeing cultivators.
They too were all slain.
Though this True Lord Li Chun from the Imperial Academy looked refined and gentle in bearing, when he acted, he was ruthless and merciless, showing not the slightest restraint.
Before the Earth Temple in Xingyang Commandery City, blood had already flowed into a river.
And at this time, it was not only Xingyang Commandery City.
Chen Commandery City in Yu Province, Boling Commandery City in Ji Province, Fengyi Commandery City in Yong Province, Jiyang Commandery City in Yan Province, Yingchuan Commandery City in Yu Province, and Fufeng Commandery City in Yong Province.
The commandery cities of the Seven—those clans of the 'Five Mausoleum Commandery Clans' that had produced Nascent Soul True Lords and opened up New Province—were all attacked by troublemaking cultivators from the Commoner's Alliance. At the same time, Nascent Soul True Lords from the Imperial Academy emerged from the Earth Temples