The moon hung bright over the spot where the Ten Entrails Tree had once stood. The dark sky surrounding it formed a very clear contrast. But there were also clouds, and as they crept in front of the moon, that clear contrast was obscured. As a result, the banquet in the palace was slowly being covered by a stream of darkness.0

In turn, that dark stream was muddying the waters that lay between Sea-Sealing County and the Holytide Region.0

It would have been within the rights of Xu Qing and Kong Xianglong to say the very things Zhang Qifan had just blurted. After all, they had fought in the war, and had been present for all the chaos. They were eyewitnesses. But now was definitely not the time for Zhang Qifan to be saying such things. Although he was from Sea-Sealing County, he hadn’t experienced any of those things personally. He was like an outsider who aired someone else’s grievances, then joined forces with them in opposition to the same adversary.3

This entire situation had obviously been planned ahead of time. However, it seemed certain that this was not the original plan.0

Xu Qing had obviously turned things around by keeping Kong...0