In just one day, Mingzhu City had changed hands.
And this time was completely different from before. When Jin Bo became city lord, although several families had been dissatisfied, everything had still been open to discussion, and they could at least voice their opinions.
This time, the Beast-Taming Zhu Family had forced their way into Mingzhu City through violence. Just as those merchant associations and organizations were preparing to band together, a number of them were slaughtered. Even more Awakened who resisted were killed until blood ran like rivers.
After three consecutive days of killing, Mingzhu City fell silent. Everyone understood that the Beast-Taming Zhu Family did not see them as human at all.
But what could the survivors do?
Refuse to submit?
Refuse, and die.
Thus, Mingzhu City once again fell under the Beast-Taming Zhu Family's control, and Zhu Chengmian announced that an "enthronement ceremony" would be held on an auspicious date.
Well.
It was not actually an enthronement ceremony, but an Ancestor-Report Ritual.
Simply put, he wanted to comfort his ancestors' spirits and show everyone that Zhu Chengmian had reclaimed the foundation built by his forebears.
Over the following days, the Beast-Taming Zhu Family made intense preparations for the Ancestor-Report Ritual.
Many residents were forced into labor and assigned by the Beast-Taming Zhu Family's subordinates to work in various mines. Within just a few days, some had worked themselves to the point of coughing blood, their misery beyond words.
If two hundred years of peace had made people forget the Beast-Taming Zhu Family's atrocities, then these few short days reminded them anew of the Zhu Family's cruelty and brutality.
Zhang Ping and the others hid in the shadows, following the Beast-Taming Zhu Family's people and marking every one of their mines. Zhang Ping even found Prince Yue's hiding