Chapter Summaries

Xiao Ying raised the threat posed by four great powers, and Great Huan’s ministers debated how to respond. When Crown Prince Xiao Fengtian proposed assigning the dynasty’s factions to different fronts, Xiao Ying challenged him to name them, and Xiao Fengtian listed ten before the discussion ended.

• Xiao Ying identified Canada, the United States, Brazil, and Indonesia as the primary threats, and the ministers agreed to focus on those powers.
• Xiao Fengtian proposed that Great Huan’s strongest factions take responsibility for separate battlefronts or campaigns while others guarded the Divine Land.
• Xiao Ying and Destiny Heavenly Empress Lü Zhi questioned Xiao Fengtian about the factions, forcing him to explain that their shared ties could improve military coordination.
• Xiao Fengtian ranked the Old Qin Ying Clan first, the Spring and Autumn Lü Clan second, and the Eastern Wu Sun Clan third, then continued through the Yue Province, Lingnan Baiyue, Carefree, Tian, Otherworlder, Founding Elder, and Calamity lineages.

Xiao Ying approved Han Xin’s faction-based deployment for the coming war, then learned that Sun Shangxiang’s seal was failing and asked Burning Lamp Ancient Buddha what to do. Burning Lamp advised Xiao Ying to share her bed, warning that doing so would turn their connection into an entangling debt of love.

• Xiao Fengtian explained the major factions and said he was recruiting former Shu ministers to build a faction for himself and the Qi Clan.
• Han Xin proposed assigning the dynasty’s fronts and conquests to different factions, and Xiao Ying approved the deployments after reassuring Han Xin that his military analysis was no crime.
• Great Huan mobilized its factions and forces across the world to carry out Xiao Ying’s orders.
• Tianzhi Baize told Xiao Ying that the seal on Sun Shangxiang, the Skybow Fragrant Empress, had become unstable and that she could awaken at any moment.
• Xiao Ying summoned Burning Lamp Ancient Buddha for advice, and Burning Lamp recommended that Xiao Ying share Sun Shangxiang’s bed, warning that it would bind them through complicated karmic ties.

Xiao Ying consulted the Burning Lamp Ancient Buddha about Sun Shangxiang’s reincarnation and chose to bind her to him through their marriage, despite the risk of provoking her when she awakened. He visited her at the Heavenly Fragrance Hall, where she willingly accepted his advance as their marriage moved beyond a formality.

• The Burning Lamp Ancient Buddha warned Xiao Ying that bedding Sun Shangxiang could create a deep emotional debt, and surmised that her previous incarnation was the Great Auspicious Goddess.
• Bai Ze encouraged Xiao Ying to act, arguing that Sun Shangxiang’s ties to the Pangu Lineage might protect them from her revenge.
• Xiao Ying decided to visit Sun Shangxiang at the Heavenly Fragrance Hall, where attendants speculated about his sudden nighttime arrival.
• Sun Shangxiang greeted Xiao Ying nervously, and her body released a thick, incense-like fragrance as he approached her.
• Xiao Ying asked whether Sun Shangxiang was willing and promised not to force her, and she affirmed that she wanted to be with him.

Xiao Ying and Sun Shangxiang’s union triggered a vast celestial phenomenon, and Xiao Ying unexpectedly regained and refined his Dao Fruit, entering a rare state of enlightenment. His enlightenment was interrupted when Sun Shangxiang awakened with the Eyes of the Great Dao, whose power eclipsed his Eye of the Three Realms.

• Sun Shangxiang welcomed Xiao Ying’s visit, and the two came together in Heavenly Fragrance Hall as a mysterious fragrance filled the chamber.
• A tremendous vortex of spiritual energy formed around Heavenly Fragrance Hall, drawing the attention of the Nine Dragons Forbidden City while its guards prevented anyone from approaching.
• Xiao Ying and Sun Shangxiang released immense auras, and Xiao Ying realized that his Dao Fruit had formed anew and his sealed cultivation was returning.
• Xiao Ying entered the Dao Fruit Enlightenment Realm and rapidly comprehended the profundities of his cultivation methods and divine abilities.
• An unknown force abruptly pulled Xiao Ying from his enlightenment, and he confronted Sun Shangxiang’s awakened Eyes of the Great Dao, which overwhelmed his Eye of the Three Realms.

Xiao Ying awoke from enlightenment at the Peak True Immortal realm and suspected Sun Shangxiang had briefly revealed a terrifying awakened power before finding no clear evidence of it. After attending morning court with her, he prepared to join Great Huan’s military campaign, and the chapter ended as Arthas and his leaders gathered to welcome Xiao Ying’s army in Lordaeron.

• Xiao Ying awoke to Sun Shangxiang’s powerful gaze, sensed heavenly punishment approaching, and sealed his cultivation to prevent a breakthrough.
• Xiao Ying examined Sun Shangxiang and found her newly advanced to the True Immortal realm, with a bow-shaped primordial spirit rather than a Buddhist sarira, leaving him unsure whether she had awakened.
• The next morning, Sun Shangxiang urged Xiao Ying to attend court before the three-sided war and campaign against four nations began, and he invited her to accompany him.
• Xiao Ying brought Sun Shangxiang to Great Huan’s morning court, where ministers noted his favor toward her and the Eastern Wu Sun Clan.
• In Lordaeron, Arthas, Uther, Jaina, Muradin Bronzebeard, and other leaders assembled at the Teleportation Formation to welcome Xiao Ying and Great Huan’s main army.

Xiao Ying arrived in the Calamity Dynasty and ordered it to conquer the United States Region, revealing that he meant to unite its enemies and defeat them in a decisive battle before true immortals and gods emerged. Great Huan began pouring troops through the Super Teleportation Formations, and the buildup shook the region and the wider world.

• Xiao Ying arrived in Lordaeron with Yu Ji, Sun Shangxiang, and Great Huan's forces, where Arthas and the Calamity Dynasty's ministers welcomed him.
• Xiao Ying ordered Arthas to mobilize the Calamity Dynasty and subdue the United States Region's nations within three months, then unify the region within half a year.
• Jaina questioned the plan to publicize the campaign and warned that it would let the surrounding powers prepare to attack.
• Xiao Ying confirmed that he intended to let the enemy nations unite so he could crush them in one battle, explaining that they had to act before true immortals and gods emerged.
• Arthas pledged to carry out the order, and Great Huan sent waves of troops through the upgraded Super Teleportation Formations to the Calamity Dynasty's borders.
• News of the mass deployment spread across the Americas and the world, shocking the United States Region.

Great Huan’s allies seized Bandung Imperial City’s teleportation formation and brought in Eastern Wu’s Sun Clan to begin an invasion of Indonesia. As the city’s garrison counterattacked, the Qiao Sisters used their mental gifts to oppose its soul-based pressure.

• The Great Huan army entered the Calamity Dynasty while forces across the United States Region gathered defensively along its borders.
• Sea Emperor Rotra, the Mohist branches, Chinese sects, and Indonesian clans captured Bandung Imperial City’s Super Teleportation Formation.
• Sun Jian and more than ten thousand Eastern Wu Loose Immortals arrived in Bandung, accompanied by the Qiao Sisters and leading Sun Clan generals.
• Bandung’s millions of soldiers and tens of thousands of soul aspects surged toward the City Lord’s Manor, forcing Sun Jian’s forces to meet them in battle.
• Sun Jian asked Sea Emperor Rotra to escort his sons and others to the volcanoes outside the city as the invasion force prepared to attack Indonesia’s volcanoes.
• The Qiao Sisters performed Twin Qiaos United, Butterfly Dream, Flower Shadow to counter the Indonesian army’s mental suppression.

The Great Huan Faction captured Bandung after three days of brutal fighting, securing a foothold in the Indonesia Region as wars opened across Canada and Brazil. Xiao Ying and Sun Shangxiang waited beneath the Radiant Divine City, expecting the new Radiant Emperor to meet them.

• Da Qiao and Xiao Qiao used their Butterfly Dream, Flower Shadow domain to counter Indonesian mental attacks and help Sun Jian’s forces push back the Bandung army.
• Eastern Wu reinforcements poured through the Super Teleportation Formation, and the Great Huan Faction expanded its battlefield around Bandung’s City Lord’s Manor.
• After three days and nights of fighting, the Great Huan Faction captured Bandung, suffering four to five million casualties while the Bandung forces lost nearly ten million.
• The Great Huan Rising Stars Lineage opened a battlefield in Canada, while the Great Huan Elders Lineage fought a difficult campaign in Brazil.
• Xiao Ying told Sun Shangxiang that he expected the new Radiant Emperor to come meet them beneath the Radiant Divine City.

Xiao Ying asked Sun Shangxiang how to resurrect Divine General Ji Geng and the Heaven-Piercing Divine Guards, and she identified Dao Progenitor Hongjun as the only likely person able to find their lingering life imprints. Their discussion ended when the Radiant Emperor arrived, and Xiao Ying declared that he had come with goodwill and an opportunity.

• Xiao Ying remembered his vow to reserve one Great Resurrection Spell talisman for Divine General Ji Geng and the fifty thousand Heaven-Piercing Divine Guards.
• Xiao Ying asked Sun Shangxiang whether she knew a way to resurrect the guards, and she suggested their lingering life imprints could serve as the required medium.
• Sun Shangxiang said Dao Progenitor Hongjun could search the Pangu World’s Great Dao for the imprints because he had once merged with the Dao.
• Xiao Ying questioned how Sun Shangxiang knew this, but an overwhelming pressure interrupted their conversation as the Radiant Emperor arrived with nearly a hundred figures.
• The Radiant Emperor challenged Xiao Ying for entering the heart of his territory with only Sun Shangxiang, and Xiao Ying replied that he had come bearing goodwill and opportunity.

Xiao Ying used his overwhelming authority and a promise of future dominion to persuade Radiant Emperor Goethe to accept a sealed decree naming him Great Huan’s third emperor. Goethe then allied the Radiant Divine Kingdom with other nations against Great Huan and moved his capital and armies toward the Calamity Dynasty.

• Xiao Ying confronted Goethe, revealed that Great Huan had confined the descended true gods, and explained that its conquest of the United States Region was inevitable.
• Xiao Ying offered Goethe a sealed imperial decree appointing him Great Huan’s third emperor and promised him the chance to rule across the American continents.
• Goethe accepted the decree after Xiao Ying outlined a strategy for expanding the Radiant Divine Kingdom’s power.
• That afternoon, Goethe and leaders of other nations declared the Calamity Dynasty and Great Huan’s expeditionary army their greatest enemies and mobilized against them.
• The next day, the Radiant Divine City moved toward the Calamity Dynasty as the Radiant Army and other nations’ forces advanced.

At a war council, Xiao Ying explained that he had recruited Radiant Emperor Goethe to unite the United States Region for a decisive battle, not because he trusted Goethe to remain loyal. He revealed that his oath could be sidestepped through his authority over an immortal kingdom and suggested he could reward Goethe with a broader title while leaving Arthas’s position intact.

• Jaina Proudmoore briefed the Great Huan leaders on the United States Region’s enormous mobilization, its forces, and its powerful rulers and heroes.
• Xiang Ta and Himiko debated whether Goethe could control the Radiant Divine Kingdom and keep it from fighting Great Huan, while Arthas warned that Goethe might change sides.
• Xiao Ying said Goethe’s sincerity did not matter because he had recruited him to rally the regional powers for battle, and claimed Great Huan would win regardless.
• Xiao Ying revealed that he had sworn the eternal covenant in the name of the Great Huan Celestial Dynasty and could avoid its consequences through his authority as ruler of an immortal kingdom.
• Jaina asked what would happen to Arthas if Goethe submitted, and Xiao Ying explained that Goethe had been promised rulership of the United States Region, while broader continental titles could be granted conditionally.

Xiao Ying’s ministers planned to concentrate their forces against the Hero Civilization, and Jaina earned the formal title of Arcane Master for her strategy. Meanwhile, Hua Qiandai led a surprise assault on the Toronto Imperial Capital’s military camp to seize its Super Teleportation Formation.

• Wei Wuji warned Xiao Ying that the Hero Civilization’s commanders could greatly strengthen its armies and urged him to concentrate their forces for a decisive battle.
• Jaina proposed using Xiao Ying to draw the enemy’s main forces together while the four Hero Legion commanders held the other directions; Xiao Ying adopted her plan and named her a true Arcane Master.
• Thousands of Undead Hero Bases moved from the Calamity Dynasty as tens of thousands of allied Hero Bases advanced across the United States Region, while local powers and factions mobilized.
• The Great Huan Rising Stars Lineage made no visible move in Canada as Otherworlder groups revolted in other regions; on the third day, hundreds of thousands of Otherworlders rose up in Toronto.
• Hua Qiandai led fifty thousand Jianghu experts and fifty thousand Great Huan experts in an assault on the military camp beside Toronto’s Forbidden Palace, charging toward its Super Teleportation Formation.

Hua Qiandai led the Carefree Lineage in a surprise assault on the Sea God Empire’s main army camp in Toronto, aiming to seize its Super Teleportation Formation. As her forces were surrounded and suffered heavy casualties, she attacked the Divine Emperor Warrior guarding the main hall, while the Heaven-Seeking Divine Whip destroyed four others.

• Hua Qiandai led the Carefree Lineage into the Sea God Empire’s left army camp while Toronto’s troops were distracted by the Otherworlder unrest.
• Hua Qiandai fought through the God Warriors and reached the main hall, where a mysterious imperial-robed Divine Emperor Warrior and four others confronted her.
• Hua Qiandai wounded or dismembered the four Divine Emperor Warriors, but the Sea God Warriors surrounded her forces and inflicted heavy casualties.
• The Palace Memory Core revealed that the Divine Emperor Warrior was a True God powered by a True God’s soul and divine-grade metal, then demanded that Hua Qiandai promise the Great Huan Celestial Dynasty would not attack the Sea God Empire.
• Hua Qiandai suddenly charged the main hall, and the Palace Memory Core sent the Divine Emperor Warriors to stop her.
• The Heaven-Seeking Divine Whip appeared and shattered the four Divine Emperor Warriors, dissipating their spiritual essence.

Hua Qiandai used Heaven's Lament to seal the God Warriors’ power, but the Divine Emperor Warrior survived because it ran on immortal crystals. With the Carefree Lineage surrounding it and clearing the camp, Hua Qiandai and Xiao Fengxuan prepared a brief attack before the Sea God Emperor could send reinforcements.

• Hua Qiandai killed four Divine Emperor Warriors with the Heaven-Seeking Divine Whip and attacked another, whose blue energy sphere repelled her weapons.
• Hua Qiandai activated Heaven's Lament, sealing the energy sources of the surrounding God Warriors and driving the Carefree experts to attack their living controllers.
• The remaining Divine Emperor Warrior killed hundreds of Carefree experts because its immortal-crystal power was unaffected, and Xiao Fengxuan identified its energy source.
• Xiao Fengxuan ordered the Carefree experts to surround the Divine Emperor Warrior while they cleared the camp, and Hua Qiandai warned that another Divine Emperor Warrior could ruin their plan.
• Xiao Fengxuan proposed that Hua Qiandai attack after ten breaths while he used the Blood-Swaying Soul-Shaking Bell to disrupt the Divine Emperor Warrior for three to five breaths.

Hua Qiandai and Xiao Fengxuan defeated the Divine Emperor Warrior and opened the main hall, where Hua Qiandai persuaded Sea Emperor Laniyas to surrender. Laniyas offered the untouched, prepared Super Teleportation Formation to Great Huan, leaving the Carefree forces ready to use it.

• Xiao Fengxuan proposed that Hua Qiandai suppress the camp and then strike the Divine Emperor Warrior with him; their coordinated attack disabled the warrior and left it as a heap of metal.
• Hua Qiandai and Xiao Fengxuan opened the main hall’s steel doors and found it filled with God Warriors and Laniyas’s followers.
• Hua Qiandai offered Laniyas a powerful position in Great Huan and gave him ten breaths to decide whether to submit.
• Laniyas accepted Hua Qiandai’s offer, ordered the hall’s defenders to stand down, and revealed that the Super Teleportation Formation was intact and stocked with spirit stones.

Chapter Summary: “Sea God Falls”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Sea Emperor Laniyas is revealed to have anticipated defeat. Rather than destroying the Super Teleportation Formation, he left it intact and fully supplied with Spirit Stones, intending to surrender when doing so would maximize his political benefit.
• Laniyas formally submits to Hua Qiandai, allowing the Great Huan forces to use the teleportation formation and take control of the Sea God Empire’s military infrastructure.
• Hua Qiandai replaces the formation’s Spirit Stones with Immortal Crystals and higher-grade Spirit Stones, greatly increasing its capacity and transmission speed.
• To secure Laniyas’s loyalty, Hua Qiandai promises him enormous rewards, including Immortal Crystals, cultivation advancement to the True God Realm, and eventual rule over the Sea God Empire.
• Laniyas warns that the Sea God Emperor possesses more Divine Emperor Warriors than previously believed—possibly three. Although his own guardian has been destroyed, he claims his expertise in spiritual power allows him to restrain or control such warriors.
• Nearly ten thousand Great Huan troops arrive through the formation, including the rising generals of the New Star Lineage, such as Guo Jia, Ma Chao, Dian Wei, Xu Chu, Zhao Yun, and Gan Ning.
• The forces divide their objectives: Hua Qiandai, Laniyas, Xiao Fengxuan, and leading generals remain in Toronto to confront the Sea God Emperor, while other generals spread throughout the empire to seize its cities and regions.
• When the Sea God Emperor arrives with his ministers and forces, Hua Qiandai, Laniyas, and the New Star generals attack. Hua captures the Sea God Emperor alive with the Heaven-Seeking Divine Whip.
• Of the Sea God Empire’s three Divine Emperor Warriors, one is destroyed and two are subdued.
• Within three days, Toronto Imperial Capital falls. Within seven days, the entire Sea God Empire collapses, stunning the world and surprising even Xiao Ying.
• The chapter closes by noting that the Indonesia battlefield is also progressing rapidly with the help of the Qiao sisters.

Character Developments

• Laniyas is portrayed as calculating, politically astute, and highly pragmatic. His surrender is not an act of desperation but a carefully timed strategy designed to gain Hua Qiandai’s favor and preserve his future status.
• He shifts from enemy ruler to indispensable ally, using his knowledge of Atlantis technology and Divine Emperor Warriors to justify his value to the Great Huan forces.
• Hua Qiandai demonstrates both strategic caution and political skill. She refuses to let Laniyas control the teleportation formation, but she also recognizes his usefulness and skillfully incentivizes his cooperation.
• Hua further establishes her authority by promising Laniyas advancement and dominion, while personally leading the decisive assault against the Sea God Emperor.
• Xiao Fengxuan helps reinforce Laniyas’s belief in Great Huan’s wealth and resources, using the existence of Immortal Crystals to tempt him into wholehearted service.
• The New Star Lineage proves that its strength lies in the number and quality of its young generals. Once underestimated, it becomes the faction most likely to complete its conquest objectives first.
• Xiao Ying is surprised that the New Star Lineage, rather than the more favored factions, achieves the most spectacular victory.

Significant Themes

• Strategic surrender and political calculation: Laniyas shows that submission can be used to preserve influence and obtain rewards if timed properly.
• Power through incentives: Hua Qiandai wins Laniyas’s loyalty not only through force but through promises of status, cultivation, wealth, and authority.
• Knowledge as a weapon: Laniyas’s specialized understanding of Atlantis technology allows him to remain valuable despite lacking the raw combat strength of Hua Qiandai and Xiao Fengxuan.
• Rapid shifts in allegiance and power: The Sea God Empire collapses with astonishing speed once its ruler is captured and its military structure is seized.
• The rise of overlooked forces: The New Star Lineage’s victory emphasizes that numerical strength, unity, and youthful potential can rival established factions.
• Conquest through combined methods: The Great Huan forces succeed through a mixture of military force, technological control, political persuasion, and regional administration.

Character Interactions

• Hua Qiandai and Laniyas: Their relationship changes from opposition to wary cooperation. Hua remains suspicious of Laniyas but recognizes his strategic value, while Laniyas respectfully submits and attempts to secure the best possible position under her authority.
• Laniyas and the Carefree Lineage: Laniyas openly explains the Sea God Emperor’s hidden strength and offers his expertise against the Divine Emperor Warriors, forcing the faction to reassess him as more than a defeated enemy.
• Hua Qiandai and Xiao Fengxuan: Together, they represent the Great Huan side’s overwhelming strength and advanced resources, though Hua is more cautious about trusting Laniyas’s combat claims.
• Laniyas and the Sea God Empire: He orders his own generals and citizens to withdraw and assist the invaders, effectively transferring control of the empire’s military and cities to Great Huan.
• Hua Qiandai and the New Star generals: After their arrival, she reorganizes the campaign around their strengths, keeping the leading figures in Toronto while dispatching the rest to conquer the empire’s other regions.
• Hua Qiandai and the Sea God Emperor: Their confrontation ends with Hua decisively capturing him alive, symbolizing the complete collapse of his authority.

The United States Coalition Army debated how to respond to the Great Huan Faction’s forces gathered near Kansas Royal City. After Azshara urged caution and Emperor Goethe rejected waiting, Goethe proposed concentrating their attack on Kansas Royal City while holding the other fronts.

• The Great Huan Faction assembled its leading armies at Kansas Royal City as the United States Coalition Army gathered across the North American Great Plains.
• Aman'Thul urged the coalition leaders to attack immediately, but Azshara warned that Great Huan might be waiting for them to expose a weakness.
• Azshara compared the forces and experience of the Great Huan armies with those of Hero Civilization and advised the coalition to maintain its defensive position.
• Sargeras raised the possibility that Great Huan was waiting for its other expeditionary armies, while Emperor Goethe challenged Azshara’s recommendation to wait.
• Goethe proposed holding the other three fronts and launching a full-force assault on Kansas Royal City to defeat the Great Huan Celestial Lord and the Calamity Emperor.

The Great Huan Faction and the multinational coalition prepared for a decisive battle at Kansas Royal City, each planning to commit their main forces. As the enemy advanced, Xiao Ying ordered reinforcements from three fronts to gather, and the Azure Lotus Flower Empress arrived with Carefree and Sea God forces.

• Emperor Goethe, Ner'zhul, and the other coalition leaders agreed to concentrate their forces on an assault against Kansas Royal City and divided their targets among the enemy legions.
• The multinational coalition marched at night, using forces on three fronts as a bluff while its western army advanced toward Kansas Royal City.
• After receiving the coalition's plans from Emperor Goethe, Himiko proposed moving the main forces from the other fronts to attack the enemy's flanks.
• Arthas supported Himiko's plan, and Xiao Ying ordered Xiao Dieyi to use Teleportation Formations to transfer the main Scourge forces and reinforcements from the three fronts.
• A Forbidden Guard reported that the Azure Lotus Flower Empress had arrived with tens of thousands of Carefree experts and a large contingent of Sea God experts, including Sea God Emperor Atlas.

Xiao Ying made Atlas and the other surrendered Sea God Empire leaders bind their life imprints to the Heaven-Supporting Emperor Pagoda, then allowed them to rebuild God Warrior forces under Great Huan’s merit system. The Heaven Desolation Witch King revealed that Atlas might be an ancient deity’s reincarnation and practiced a supreme soul-cultivation scripture, which Atlas offered to Xiao Ying.

• Xiao Ying ordered Atlas, Orlana, Wen Liwen, and Lundan to surrender their soul essence to the Heaven-Supporting Emperor Pagoda, and the Heaven Desolation Witch King bound their life imprints to it.
• Atlas offered to lead God Warriors against the Magic Dynasty, but Wei Wuji objected that moving the army would endanger the Canadian front; Hua Qiandai then brought God Warriors as reinforcements.
• Xiao Ying allowed Atlas and the other surrendered leaders to build their own God Warrior armies, distribute the available Divine Emperor Warriors, and acquire resources on credit through Great Huan’s merit exchange system.
• The Heaven Desolation Witch King identified an ancient deity’s imprint in Atlas’s soul and suggested that Atlas was a reincarnation who practiced the lost Myriad Spirits Canon.
• Atlas claimed he practiced the Atlantis Civilization’s supreme Atlas Codex and offered it to Xiao Ying, though he said its original had been destroyed.

Xiao Ying inspected the Atlas Codex and prepared Kansas Royal City’s defenders for the approaching coalition army. As the enemy’s siege engines advanced and the Tomb God Emperor’s Calamity Storm began to gather, Xiao Ying revealed two powerful concealed avatars to help carry out his plan.

• Xiao Ying judged the Atlas Codex to be a useful foundation and promised Atlas access to the Myriad Spirits Canon if he served well.
• Xiao Ying read the enemy’s formation and ordered Hua Qiandai, Atlas, Arthas, and Uther to keep the two wings from collapsing while the center faced the strongest forces.
• Xiao Ying proposed using Hua Qiandai’s prohibition ability against the enemy, while Jaina warned that he needed to avoid breaking the Eternal Covenant.
• Xiao Ying summoned avatars taking the forms of Cao Cao and Liu Bei, and Hua Qiandai discreetly gave the Sigh of Heaven to Cao Cao.
• The coalition army halted ten miles from Kansas Royal City and began deploying its siege engines as the Tomb God Emperor’s Calamity Storm gathered.