As the Liang Family led the Yue Kingdom army westward, taking every prefecture and commandery of the Shu Kingdom along the way, the Wu Kingdom army led by the Yang Family and the Qi Kingdom army led by the Liu Family also launched their assault upon the Immortal Dynasty's center—the core five provinces directly governed by the imperial clan.
The Liu Family of Qi Kingdom gathered every Cloud Ship in the family, with colossal vessels ten thousand zhang long as their flagships. They mobilized the elites of every noble clan and family throughout Qi Kingdom's provinces into an army, setting out from Qing Province, invading Yan Province, and advancing upon Si Province.
The Yang Family of Wu Kingdom likewise assembled all its warships, using the Dragon Gate to suppress the Jin River. They gathered the elites of the noble clans and families from every province of Wu Kingdom into an army, sailed directly from the East Sea into the Jin River, traveled upstream to invade Yu Province, and pressed onward toward Si Province.
This battle concerned the life and death of the two families' immortal-rank ancestors within the Tenfold Hells. More than that, it concerned the survival or destruction of both kingdoms and both families!
Thus, neither the Yang Family nor the Liu Family held anything back. They brought their greatest advantages fully into play while conscripting cultivators from noble clans throughout their kingdoms to form armies. They had practically ceased to care about suppressing, defending, or even preserving the local prefectures and commanderies.
After all, for the two families and two kingdoms, this was a battle for national destiny. Victory meant survival, and afterward they would have ample time and strength to suppress anew and sort out the problems in the local prefectures and commanderies. But if they lost,