On March 1 of the eighth year of the Genesis Era, March 1 of the fifth year of the Great Huan Era, the Great Huan Dynasty would hold its Kingdom Ascension Ceremony.
The Great Huan Dynasty's announcement shook the world once again. This meant that the Great Huan Dynasty would become the Great Huan Empire, truly entering the ranks of the highest-tier powers while also becoming the first empire-level power among the Otherworlders-and it would achieve this promotion under the pressure of the undead storm.
While every other power in the world had suffered grievously in the undead storm, the Great Huan Dynasty had grown stronger rather than weaker. That alone was cause for debate!
More importantly, the Great Huan Dynasty was already so formidable and so domineering as a mere dynasty-level power. Once it became an empire-level power and Xiao Ying became the true Emperor Jian Shang, how much more formidable and domineering would it be?! Moreover, in the Battle of Yingzhou, the Great Huan Dynasty had destroyed the Great Chu Imperial Dynasty and slain fifteen hundred immortal gods and a hundred thousand Loose Immortals, including the leaders, representatives, and even young masters of various immortal-god powers. It had utterly offended those powers. Afterward, it had even "arrogantly and overbearingly" launched an open hunt for the Descended Immortal Gods. How could the immortal-god powers possibly allow the Great Huan Dynasty's Kingdom Ascension Ceremony to proceed smoothly?!
Apart from the immortal-god powers, the only force that currently possessed both sufficient strength and the worst relationship with the Great Huan Dynasty was the Dark Council. Everyone was watching the Dark Council closely, wondering whether it would seize this opportunity to deliver a fatal blow. After all, the Dark Council had clashed with the Great Huan Dynasty many times. If the dynasty