Jiang Ding quietly listened to the current situation in the Northern Plains.
Overall, the hidden moves planted by the Great Sun Sect and Great Sun Sword Sect during the two-hundred-year war had succeeded. Dozens of rebel armies had performed sacrifices to Heaven simultaneously. In the end, seven rebel forces, including Bloodflow Cloud's, had successfully concealed themselves from the karmic perception Celestial Lord Shuo Yang had laid down ten thousand years ago and gained the protection of dragon qi.
The Northern Plains had now become a pot of boiling porridge.
The rebel armies occupied third-tier spiritual veins everywhere and held them fast, turning the great clans upside down and leaving them scorched and frazzled.
The sole forbidden ground for these disorderly armies was the thousand-li radius around fourth-tier spiritual veins. They did not dare enter this range, for the protection of dragon qi would fail there.
This had been Celestial Lord Shuo Yang's design back then, meant to avoid driving Nascent Soul True Lords into a corner and to leave room for maneuver.
Otherwise, no matter how wondrous karmic arts were, if generations of Nascent Soul True Lords desperately exhausted them, after ten thousand years, the karmic arts would collapse as well. That would not accord with his original ideal of an empire lasting ten thousand generations.
It was also a solid defensive ring that could block the entry of foreign Nascent Souls.
Unfortunately, the Great Sun Sect had found a loophole and deceived Heaven to cross the sea.
"Bloodflow Cloud is the strongest among all the rebel armies, and so he has drawn the joint suppression of the Six Paths Sect, Ice-Snow Hall, and Joyous Union Sect. The Iron Clan's main army, meanwhile, relies on its cities and spiritual veins to hold the borders, resisting the armies of the Great