The Capital.
The Guan Residence.
The bedroom.
Bang!
Guan Ming rushed into the room in excitement, not even stopping to knock.
Looking at the gravely ill Old Man, he shouted, "Old Eighth and Old Ninth are back."
"What?"
The deathly pale old man sprang straight up.
There wasn't the slightest sign of poisoning left in him.
"Are you sure?"
"Last night, Old Ninth infiltrated the Ma Family's main camp and hacked Ma Fangshan into a cripple."
"The Ma Family's old man issued three secret orders in succession, recalling their army to Shen Prefecture."
If the Old Man had still harbored doubts a moment earlier,
he was now utterly certain that Old Ninth really was back.
So utterly unrestrained,
so brutal and insane-
it could only be Old Ninth.
"This morning, Ice Prefecture dispatched fifty thousand troops to the border with all haste."
"Fei Island recruited a hundred thousand fighters. Shu Dong requested that we send ships to help them land on the Korean Peninsula."
"Black Six, Black Seven, Hei Ba, and Wu Yan's entire group have arrived in Chun Prefecture."
"Chun Prefecture Mayor Zhang Yang issued a notice declaring a prefecture-wide lockdown. Anyone entering without prior notification is to be killed on sight."
"Overlord Stronghold issued the Overlord Decree. Every Lei Zi in the Northeast is heading to Chun Prefecture to assemble."
"Xiang Prefecture secretly dispatched seven thousand Lei Zi to Chun Prefecture by train."
"Bandit Hall answered Chun Prefecture's call, entering the Koreans' Gathering Zone on its own and already beginning to ravage it."
"Purple Gold secretly supplied Chun Prefecture with enough weapons to arm thirty thousand people. Word is, Wang Shengnan arranged it."
One heartening piece of news followed another.
Color visibly returned to the Old Man's face.
He kept muttering, "He's really back. That little bastard is