The Imperial Court decided to have Li Xuancang head to Jingzhou to hold the fort and take charge of the overall situation.
Everyone gradually dispersed and swiftly dispatched people to contact the various factions.
The Imperial Clan and the major aristocratic families all sent personnel, preparing to travel to Jingzhou alongside Li Xuancang.
The Du Family dispatched over a hundred people: five Astral Qi Realm cultivators, with the rest all in the Blood Condensation Realm.
If Du Tianfeng had not already broken through to the Profound Connection Realm, he would have entered the secret realm this time as well.
Li Xuancang sent people to Yu Prefecture, ordering Ouyang Meng, Bai Meng, Su Xinghai, Zhang Tianhu, and Zhang Tianbao to proceed to Jingzhou and join him.
Zhang Tianhu, Zhang Tianbao, Ouyang Meng, and Bai Meng were all in the Late Astral Qi Realm, with formidable combat strength.
Su Xinghai had only just broken through to the Astral Qi Realm. Though he was merely in the Early Astral Qi Realm, he was exceptionally strange and capable of fighting across realms. Even Li Xuancang could not see through him.
The five of them would be able to gain quite a bit by entering the secret realm.
The various factions soon received the Imperial Court's message and fell into hesitation.
"How could we possibly act together with the Imperial Court? Ignore them."
"They want us to obey the Imperial Court's arrangements? What wishful thinking."
"Tell the Imperial Court's people to get lost. They have no right to point fingers at us."
"..."
Quite a few martial world factions immediately rejected cooperation with the Imperial Court.
"The struggle over the secret realm will be brutally cruel. Cooperating with the Imperial Court is not impossible."
"With Li Xuancang holding the fort for the Imperial Court, our