Li Xiang met their trusting gazes and nodded slightly.
"Over the past half month, I used the Paper Effigy Maker's paper rats to get a rough grasp of the Wangsi City Outer City's terrain and the ghost army's movements."
His expression solemn, Li Xiang revealed the most crucial intelligence he had gathered during that time.
"Qin Zhong didn't awaken simply to consolidate the Netherworld's forces."
"I secretly listened in on a meeting of the Ten Great Yama Clans' elders."
Li Xiang drew a deep breath and dropped a terrifying piece of news that could turn the Living World upside down.
"The Netherworld is preparing to launch a massive campaign against the Mortal World."
"What?!"
"Attack the Mortal World?!"
Even Tang Hua'an and Lin Xuanshu, who had remained composed until now, could no longer sit still. Both rose to their feet in shock.
The Netherworld was going to attack the Living World?
This was no minor Ghost Calamity like the one in Blackwater Ancient Town. If those countless billions of ghost troops and innumerable terrifying Ghost Kings and Yamas crossed over, the Living World would become a hell on earth, its people plunged into misery and ruin.
"How dare they? The Living World has the ancestral seats of the Three Teachings and Beiyang's million elite troops. The laws of heaven and earth also restrict the Ghost Clan from crossing over en masse. What gives them the confidence to launch a world-destroying war?" Lin Xuanshu asked incredulously.
"Because the balance has been broken."
An eerie light flickered in Li Xiang's eyes as he dissected the vast struggle behind it all.
"The Commander-in-Chief is sweeping across the Living World, about to forge the pinnacle of human rule and command the Mortal World's fortune. That immense surge of yang energy has thinned the barrier