Immortal Dynasty, Jiaozhou, Jiaozhou City!
Liang Ruijian sat within the provincial governor's residence in Jiaozhou City, reviewing the message in his hand.
Ever since taking Yue Province, Liang Ruijian had not delayed in the slightest. He led the army aboard Cloud Ships and Flying Boats northward to attack Jiaozhou.
There had been no central Immortal Dynasty army stationed in Jiaozhou. King Ning, Sima Nan, had deployed nearly all of the Immortal Dynasty's southern forces along the border between Yue Province and Liu Province; they had long since been annihilated and scattered along with him in battle.
As for the powerful clans of Jiaozhou City, the Five Insects Hu Family was merely grass atop a wall, bending with whichever way the wind blew. When the central Immortal Dynasty army came to suppress the rebellion, the Jiaozhou clan forces led by the Hu Family proved no match for them and decisively surrendered.
And now, with the central Immortal Dynasty army defeated, the Yue Kingdom army led by the Liang Family launched a simultaneous assault on Jiaozhou from both sea and land.
The Five Insects Hu Family did not even put up any resistance. They directly led Jiaozhou's powerful clans in surrendering to the Liang Family and to the Yue Kingdom.
The Yue Kingdom army under Liang Ruijian's command captured Jiaozhou City with almost no effort at all.
In truth, with the Immortal Dynasty's situation having developed to this point, with six houses dividing Jin, the surviving great families and powerful clans throughout the Immortal Dynasty's provinces had already seen matters clearly. The final victor of this great war could only emerge from among the six kingdoms and six houses that possessed Immortal-tier existences.
The other great families and powerful clans had no Immortal-tier figures to rely upon. If they involved themselves, they