The grand victory had caused the morale of the wargodeans to soar. They were the fourth-ranked first-rate sect, and thanks to Li Wushuang, they had managed to deal a heavy blow to the Empyrean Sword Sect, the fifth-ranked sect. It was a crushing victory that had allowed them to vent. If it weren’t for Lan Sha's death, which had been a heavy blow, this would have called for a celebration.

Now that the Empyrean Sword Sect had retreated, Li Wushuang assigned new people to take over Aix Lake. The battlefield was still covered in corpses and blood, but the victors saw it as a beautiful and welcome sight, or at least Li Wushuang did. Standing atop a blood-drenched branch of the divine tree, she looked into the distance. Her helpful aides, Yun...