Li Qingxian sat at Heaven Marrow Academy, cultivating slowly.
Jiang Youfei arrived at Heaven's Mandate Sect. Seeing Li Qingxian cultivating safely, she turned and left, joining the Idle Prince Army to continue leading her old troops south with the main force.
Gold and Silver Island.
The old king had died, but his death was kept secret. The royal family's struggle for the throne had reached a white-hot pitch.
At the Dragon Platform Ancestral Grounds, Shen Zhizhai cried out that Heaven was aiding him. Drawing on the power Li Qingxian had left behind, he influenced the island nation's Fortune, weakening the ancestral grounds of Qi Kingdom.
Swift Mountain, outside Divine Capital.
Four enormous Qi Emperor Statues stood side by side, gazing toward Divine Capital. Solemn and majestic, they shook the heart whenever one beheld them.
A permanent camp of a thousand soldiers was stationed here to guard the Four Emperors' Giant Statues.
But tonight, Swift Mountain Camp was silent.
Groups of people gathered, each carrying a wicker basket on their backs. The baskets held chisels, hammers, iron rods, and other tools for cutting stone. Without encountering the slightest obstruction, they appeared before the Four Emperors' Statues.
They wore short shirts and long trousers. Their skin was dark purple-brown, their faces deeply furrowed with wrinkles, the calluses on their hands swollen like tumors, and their muscles knotted like tree burls.
"Begin!" Han Anbo gave the order. Thousands of people either swiftly climbed to the mountaintop or rushed toward different parts of the four statues, pulling tools from their baskets and hammering and chiseling away with resounding clamor.
Beside Han Anbo, a Fate Arts Master asked in a low voice, "Old Han, these people's backgrounds all check out, right?"
"They do. Within five generations, every one of them has family members who participated