"From what Huai Chuan said, is something big about to happen down south?" Li Qingxian asked.
Meng Huaichuan smiled. "I never said that. All I said was that the Devil Sect and the Evil Sects have been colluding too closely with the Jingyang Kingdom and the Sulu Kingdom. They may well take things too far, angering the Eastern Ding Kingdom and the surrounding countries, and trigger a disaster."
"How strong is the Eastern Ding Kingdom?" Li Qingxian asked.
A glint flashed through Meng Huaichuan's eyes. "Think about it, and the answer is obvious. If the Eastern Ding Kingdom really were mediocre, why would Great Qi even spare it a glance? It was precisely because we discovered that its strength was growing by the day, and that it had wiped out several Devil Sect strongholds in retaliation, that the hawks at the top began preparing to act."
"Has the Eastern Ding Kingdom gained new top-level forces?"
"Although the Eastern Ding Kingdom isn't as large as the Qi Kingdom, its history is far longer. It simply kept to its own corner of the world and avoided conflict. Later, when martial cultivation flourished, its former emperor was muddleheaded and incompetent. Fearing that martial cultivation would threaten his throne, he used every means available to suppress it. This eventually weakened the kingdom, and a joint invasion by several countries brought it to the brink of destruction. Still, the Eastern Ding Kingdom was, after all, a great power in Fate Arts and Daoist arts. Once things stabilized, it began gradually lifting the martial cultivation ban. Little was apparent in the early years, but over the past century, it has grown rapidly. Especially over the last twenty years, Great Qi has been too busy fighting the Demon Race to pay it any attention. By the time