His own people would bleed if the celestial orderians resorted to brute force, which was something the sun emperor was originally unwilling to do. But now there were fifty million casualties, proving that his original methods had been meaningless. By the coincidence of cause and effect, Li Wushuang was the reason he had lost. He hadn’t been defeated by the Ninedragon Army, but by the Xuanyuan Dragon Sect’s entire arsenal, including the Ninedragon Emperor and a hundred thousand Dragon Imperials.

His announcement was followed by an attack from the Divine Sun Palace. At that moment, Tianming could almost feel the end of the world. For an instant, he seemed to have lost his hearing; all he could see was the expansion...