Great Huan Celestial Dynasty, Nine Dragons Forbidden City.
The festive spirit of the Heavenly Grace Ceremony, celebrated by the entire nation, had yet to fade when, as the moon began to rise, news reached the Nine Dragons Forbidden City that the Great Wall in Di Province, in the northern reaches of the Great Huan Celestial Dynasty, had fallen in a single assault and a massive invasion was underway. The entire court, civil and military alike, was shaken.
In the main hall of governance, the Great Huan Celestial Lord Xiao Ying, the eight consorts of Great Huan, the three State Commissioners, Ghost Marquis Guo Jia, and other senior ministers who had already dispersed gathered once more. Even the newly resurrected ministers Shi Ji, Tian Mang, Li Yuan, and Jiang Sheng had been summoned urgently to the hall to discuss this grave matter before they could enjoy their family reunions or the joy of rebirth.
A military sand table covering several hundred square meters had been brought into the hall. Apart from Xiao Ying, who sat high upon the Heaven Lord's throne, all the ministers stood around it.
This enormous sand table had been crafted by Great Huan's True Immortals through immortal arts. It vividly depicted the terrain of China's Divine Land, with mountains, rivers, forests, and plains rendered in exhaustive detail, clear at a glance. The Great Huan Celestial Dynasty also possessed a top-tier terrain model encompassing the entire Pangu World, but it was too large, and since the present battlefield was primarily China's Divine Land, they had not used it.
"According to our intelligence so far, the Northern Alliance enemy forces, led by the Great Wei Dynasty, dispatched over ten thousand Loose Immortals to launch a surprise attack on our Celestial Dynasty's Great Wall. Seventy to eighty percent has fallen,