The City Lords of White Deer, Hill Mountain, Cave Darkness, and Guo Commandery led a combined force of 240,000 troops to surround Tide Dragon City without warning.
The Immortal Wave Five Cities had a pact of mutual noninterference and nonaggression, rules naturally laid down by the Immortal Wave Sect. Although the five cities often schemed against one another, never before had armies advanced upon their borders and surrounded a city.
Now, the troops of the four cities surrounded all of Tide Dragon City like looming storm clouds, leaving no way through. This naturally sparked panic among its commoners, gentry and powerful clans, civil officials, and military officers.
Tide Dragon City had seen no warfare for many years, and it held a relatively prominent position among the Immortal Wave Five Cities. Yet just now, Ye Xuan, the old City Lord of Cave Darkness, had used a supernatural ability and secret method to address the city, declaring that they were acting on the Immortal Wave Sect's orders... This raised the severity of the entire affair to an unprecedented level.
Not only could the city's civil officials and military officers see that a great upheaval was coming to Tide Dragon City, even ordinary people could tell that, with troops from four cities surrounding Tide Dragon City on the Immortal Wave Sect's orders, they certainly had not really come for the Vengeful Ghost Sect.
Suppressing the Vengeful Ghost Sect was merely an excuse to bring the armies inside.
Otherwise, was it really necessary to mobilize 240,000 troops to deal with a single Vengeful Ghost Sect?
Was it really necessary for all four City Lords to gather here?!
Even if they intended to exterminate the Vengeful Ghost Sect, the ones coming should have been high-grade Immortal Masters from the Immortal Wave Sect, not soldiers from