A new Dao Fruit, a terrifying divine ability! Advances in alchemy, a plot to surround and kill

The first was the upheaval and changes within the [Extreme South Palace].

The Shi family of the [Extreme South Hall] and the Qu family of the [Enforcement Hall] had fallen outright.

With the [Illusion-Breaking True Lord] speaking out-and before countless watching cultivators at that-even if the Qu and Shi families had been right, they would have been wrong; even if they had been white, they would have been black!

Besides, neither family had clean hands to begin with. They were guilty, so their outcome needed no further mention.

Interestingly, the [War Arts Hall], which should have risen to prominence and shone during the war, had instead been jointly suppressed by the two halls and two families backed by the [Moon-Embracing True Lord], sinking into the dust for a time.

Now that it had risen again, its first act was to dig graves for the two families.

Naturally, it struck ruthlessly and with particular enthusiasm.

This was precisely what it meant to ruin a household and eradicate a clan. Every high-ranking cultivator was executed, while all the low-ranking cultivators were sent to the front as cannon fodder. With their meager cultivation, they had nowhere to run even if they fled.

However, the principle of sparing ordinary mortals from the calamity was upheld.

They were ordered to change their surnames, their genealogies were destroyed, and they were scattered and resettled in mortal commanderies and counties, forbidden to gather again. After only a few generations, no one would know their family had once borne the surname Shi, nor that they had once belonged to a glorious, powerful clan of the Immortal Dao that commanded the winds and clouds-

The other matter was the spreading fame of the [True Lord Ten Thousand Longevity].

Within days, it had spread throughout the Song Region, then across