At that moment...
News arrived.
It sent all of Northcloud Prefecture into an uproar.
The Marquis of Thousand Mountains had rebelled. Within three days, his army had taken 1,936 cities in Thousand Mountains Prefecture. Over ten million people had died in battle, and the Imperial Court had lost numerous powerful cultivators.
Even among those in the Divine Martial Realm, more than a dozen had fallen.
Cui Zhen, the lord of Mountain-Guarding City, had been defeated.
Even wielding the Dao Artifact, the Moon-Chasing Bow, he had been no match for the Marquis of Thousand Mountains.
The marquis had killed him with three palm strikes, then severed his head and hung it up for public display.
This sudden upheaval...
Affected not only Thousand Mountains Prefecture, but all the Thirteen Prefectures of Great Zhao.
After all—
This was the first rebellion in history by someone of the Marquis of Thousand Mountains' standing.
Great Zhao was now plagued by one natural disaster after another.
Wars and bandit uprisings erupted across the land, and some regional lords had rebelled as well.
But those had been minor disturbances. Those so-called regional lords might only have governed a single city or territory. The only one who had amounted to anything, Marquis Yifeng, had been wiped out by the Imperial Court in one fell swoop after founding the Great Feng Kingdom.
The Marquis of Thousand Mountains was different.
He governed all of Thousand Mountains Prefecture, with 4,300 cities under his jurisdiction.
He was a powerful regional lord who held sway over an entire corner of Great Zhao.
Now that the Marquis of Thousand Mountains had rebelled...
The already unstable Great Zhao had been plunged further into turmoil.
When he received the news...
Qin Shujian was momentarily stunned, but quickly recovered.
"To think that Great Zhao has ruled over