Crash...…

Thunderbolts flashed across the sky

The originally tranquil and clear sky suddenly became overcast with dense clouds, and the entire land quickly darkened. Lightning flickered and thunder rumbled, as a massive black cloud gathered rapidly over the Capital of Great Yu. The cloud sometimes contracted, sometimes expanded, as if an unrivaled fierce beast was about to burst out from within.

The whole city of the Capital of Great Yu spanned three hundred li in each direction, but at this moment, not only did the clouds cover the entire capital, but even the sky for a thousand two hundred li around it also darkened.

A Saint's wrath can leave corpses strewn for millions, blood flowing for thousands of li.

Just judging by the range of the celestial phenomena influenced by Emperor Yuliang at this moment, all the people of the Capital of Great Yu and all the martial artists of the three families understood what these twelve words truly meant.

Fifteen hundred li in radius, what kind of concept is that?

And, to affect the celestial phenomena for fifteen hundred li, last year's alliance flood over Longxiang and Great Jin's burn at Xiapi only sent third-rank demons, influencing weather for merely a few hundred li.

Yet here, it was a full fifteen hundred li.

"Hou Yuxiao, you've caused trouble!"

The thought flashed through the minds of millions of people in the Capital of Great Yu at once, after all, Hou Yuxiao had just been appointed as State Preceptor by Jiang Yuyun, and they weren't so quick to accept it, so they called him by name in their hearts.

"Capital of Great Yu, Divine Ancestral Spirits..."

With a soft chant, Wanyan Cheng made his appearance!

He was wearing black and gold armor with a beast face that swallowed the sky, his stature was large and robust. Emerging from the mass of black mist, he floated slowly towards Hou Yuxiao, his expression not as angry as outsiders imagined, but rather calm.

"Disrespecting Yu's rites, dishonoring the Divine Dynasty..."

He walked to Hou Yuxiao, stopping about ten meters away, and slowly reached out a finger, pointing at Jiang Yuyun who was sitting high on the imperial throne below:

"During the high period of the Divine Ancestral reign, no one in the world would dare reprimand this saint, what qualification does Jiang Yuyun, an illegitimate prince of a broken realm, have to earn this saint's respect?

Furthermore, you are merely a Sub-Saint of Martial Dao, governing an area less than half a state, despite your wits can slightly pique this saint's interest, what gives you the nerve to be so... disrespectful to this saint?"

The moment "disrespectful" was uttered, Wanyan Cheng pointed at Hou Yuxiao.

Suddenly, the world changed color.

The black cloud above Wanyan Cheng's head exploded abruptly, and black demonic qi filled the entire world in an instant. The violent aura surged, encompassing the tens of millions of people and all the martial dao experts in the Capital of Great Yu in a moment.

For a moment, the world directly lost its light.

A vast darkness, endless darkness.

Instantly shrouded everyone on the earth.

Whoosh...

In this sunless sky, Hou Yuxiao took a deep breath. Even though he already knew what he would face before rebuking Wanyan Cheng, only when actually confronting the pressure a Saint brought did he realize how foolish his action was.

Of course, he deliberately provoked Wanyan Cheng!

First, he knew Wanyan Cheng could not kill him, and Wanyan Cheng himself should be aware of this as well;

Second, during the battle of Jianye Prefecture when Leiyin Temple was destroyed, he had seen saints in action, even facing a palm from Fahai with the Red Flame Army, but his understanding of a saint's power was still vague, after all, Fahai was merely a newly ascended saint, and relied on Shi Tian's Soldier Solution's relic to break through, so his strength was somewhat compromised.

As for the final reason, it was his actual motive: to force the alliance to intervene.

He led his army north, allied with the Lu Family and the Jiangbei Alliance, essentially seeking to join the alliance. Everyone in the world, including the alliance, thought he was heading to Dongyuan Path, to cooperate with Zhao Yulong's army to attack Emperor Yuliang, but no one expected him to strike the Capital of Great Yu, and moreover, successfully take it.

Will the alliance be displeased?

Of course, striking the Capital of Great Yu was not only playing a trick on Great Jin.

The alliance, waiting eagerly for reinforcements, would also have their concerns.

But the issue was, Hou Yuxiao had taken it.

Taken it, changes the situation.

The significant meaning of capturing the Capital of Great Yu was clearer to Hou Yuxiao than to the recently deceased Pingcheng King of the Wanyan Clan, and he also believed that Great Jin and the alliance understood that to protect this hard-earned result, the alliance wouldn't allow Wanyan Cheng to kill him.

Wanyan Cheng surely knew this too.

This is why Hou Yuxiao dared to rebuke Wanyan Cheng.

Jiang Yuyun was just a puppet, the Capital of Great Yu was entirely under his control now, to allow Wanyan Cheng to kill him would be tantamount to handing over the Capital of Great Yu to Great Jin. The alliance wouldn't fail to see this, even if Qinjian Villa held grudges against him, no matter how much Zhao Yulong was unwilling to intervene, he must come forward to stop Wanyan Cheng.

It's inevitable...

With Great Jin fighting on three fronts, while the alliance's steady retreat was observed unfavorably by the world's powers, if at this critical juncture the Capital of Great Yu truly changed hands, the alliance's momentum would double, and the anti-Jin forces would certainly thrive, most directly, the morale of those armies currently fighting Great Jin would grow exponentially.

Also, if they lost the Capital of Great Yu, what would Great Jin do next?

Continue maintaining a three-front battle, according to the original plan, they need to take Liangzhou, Hexi, and Jizhou, leaving aside the first two for the moment, at least as it stands, conquering Jizhou by Great Jin is out of the question.

The Capital of Great Yu is like a nail embedded in Emperor Yuliang's rear, can he rest easy fighting the alliance's army? The Pingcheng King has been killed by him, and the remaining Yucheng King, Yongwei King, along with Zuoqiuyuan, with over five million troops under them, dreaming of retaking the Capital of Great Yu from his hands is pure fantasy!