How hard was it to master a complete Law?
More importantly, each Law could accommodate only a handful of cultivators—nine was usually the limit.
And the more people who cultivated it, the harder cultivation became.
Even with the Heavenly Star Myriad Forms Palace's deep foundations, who knew how many years it had taken to nurture just six Taiyi cultivators on the Path of the Stars?
Wait. If the Path of Taiyi won't work, perhaps I can do this...
Inspiration suddenly struck Tang Changsheng!
When the following year came around, the Southern Chen army finally marched on Dingfeng City after a delay of more than a year.
Southern Chen had three hundred thousand troops but claimed an army of eight hundred thousand. They surged toward Dingfeng in a mighty tide, throwing Dingfeng City into panic.
At the time, Dingfeng City had only fifty or sixty thousand Imperial Guards.
Elite troops though the Northern Zhou Imperial Guards were, facing so many enemies left everyone bereft of confidence.
Calls for surrender and peace talks rang out without end, but Zhao Youlang overruled every objection and insisted on meeting the Southern Chen army in battle beneath Dingfeng City.
By mid-April, the Southern Chen army had completely surrounded Dingfeng City.
After several defeats, the Northern Zhou Imperial Guards had been pushed back into the city and several Barbicans.
On the third day of May, the Southern Chen army began its assault.
Yet that day would go down in history, for Zhao Youlang won a miraculous victory that laid the foundations of the Xinwei Dynasty.
As the Southern Chen army attacked the city, it fell into a death trap prepared long in advance.
From the walls of Dingfeng City and several satellite fortified villages positioned to support one another, hundreds of cannons suddenly opened fire