The Capital City of the Black Tortoise Kingdom.
Zhao Xuan swept his gaze over the report of the great victory in Bingzhou before him.
The moment Yu Zhu played his demon army card, it was decided that he no longer posed any threat to the Black Tortoise Kingdom.
This was closely tied to the makeup of the Yu Zhu Army.
Most of the Yu Zhu Army's soldiers were refugees who had lived through the Demon Kingdom Rebellion and fled to Bingzhou.
With nowhere else to turn, they had joined the Yu Zhu Army just to get a bite to eat.
Once the demon soldiers entered the fray, the Yu Zhu Army's morale swiftly collapsed.
After the Black Tortoise Kingdom's cultivators appeared to suppress the demon soldiers, the Yu Zhu Army's soldiers began defecting to the Black Tortoise Kingdom.
At the same time, the Yu Zhu Army's reputation began crumbling completely, and they became rats scurrying across the street, reviled by all.
After all, being a bad person would, at worst, get you called immoral.
But becoming a traitor to humanity meant being stripped of your standing as a human.
Yu Zhu had now been stripped of his.
With the dust settling in Bingzhou, the Black Tortoise Kingdom could, for the time being, be considered to have landed safely.
As long as disaster relief in Chizhou was properly handled, it could no longer stir up any major waves.
Although the dust had settled, Zhao Xuan felt not a trace of excitement or relief.
All he felt was an indescribable grief.
However glorious the battle report made it sound, those who had died were all his subjects.
And everything destroyed was his land.
News had also arrived from Cangzhou. After all, word of that earth-shaking battle could not be concealed.
That Karmic