It was just as Wu Tai had expected.
Aside from Mount Tai City, every other city had come under enemy attack.
But most of those cities had fared much like Mount Tai City.
They had repelled the surprise attacks. Only two cities had been caught unprepared and routed by the enemy.
After this exchange,
both sides had suffered losses.
While the army at Mount Tai City rested and regrouped,
deep in the Endless Mountains,
a magnificent hall, imposing as a mountain, stood in a valley.
Inside the hall,
there were twelve seats, each occupied by a figure.
Terrifying auras spread from them.
As those auras gathered,
space warped slightly.
Suddenly,
A middle-aged man with silver hair falling to his shoulders opened his eyes. A terrifying aura seemed to brew in his double-pupiled eyes as he slowly said, "One of the Twelve Nether Envoys has fallen!"
At those words,
the other eleven opened their eyes as well, their expressions utterly impassive.
"The Black Nether Envoy had formed the Divine Ability of the Reversed Feather, whose power rivaled that of a great Heavenly Being cultivator. Only someone above the third level of the Heavenly Being realm could have killed him, surely?" a man in blue robes said slowly, a crescent moon shimmering on his forehead.
He paused briefly before continuing.
"As far as I know, there are no cultivators above the third level of the Heavenly Being realm in Thousand Mountains Prefecture apart from the Marquis of Thousand Mountains."
"Why speculate? We need only take a look," a woman in court attire said coldly.
Then,
a cold gleam flashed in the silver-haired man's double-pupiled eyes.
Immediately afterward,
a circle roughly ten feet across appeared before them all.
Within the circle,
an image emerged.
Had Qin Shujian been there, he would have recognized