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The victory of Soul Fighting City's faction, now settled in the Hua Canopy, Hua Summit, and Hua Radiance districts, was like a boulder cast into a deep pool. Its ripples had long since spread into Heaven Dou City's far more hidden Underworld.
That enormous "cake," seemingly within easy reach, made countless factions drool, their greedy gazes glittering in the darkness.
At the very least, the Demonic Plant Masters of the Plant Association's Heaven Dou branch had quietly gathered, while the War Division and assassin division of Xuan Ye Pavilion's Heaven Dou branch had sharpened their blades. Beneath the seemingly placid surface, hidden currents surged and roared.
Heaven Dou City.
Aboveground, the northeastern and northwestern districts were gathering places for government offices, the residences and estates of court nobles, powerful hereditary clans, and top-tier factions, as well as their business establishments.
The southeastern and southwestern districts, meanwhile, had eastern and western markets much like Chang'an City. Dragons and snakes mingled there; they were a paradise for the lowest walks of life and the true heart of the Underground City. This was especially true of the Southeastern District, where a spiderweb of passages connected countless shadowy lairs.
Counting the first day, when the situation had remained unclear.
Four days!
Sword Lord Azure Bamboo of the Azure Bamboo Lin Family had been missing for four suffocating days!
For three days, the towering waves unleashed by the authorities had poured underground through the great entrances at the Eastern Old Temple, the Abandoned Waterway, and the Black Market Passage.
Iron hooves and flashing blades awakened ancient nightmares slumbering deeper beneath the earth.
To search for the Sword Lord, and to suppress the chaos that erupted in his wake, the various factions-including the official City Guard Army, the elites