"So is that who you serve now?" On the top floor of the Golden Temple, a thin man was waving his hand fan as he looked at the extravagant welcoming ceremony taking place down below with his eyes narrowed in derision.

He was making no attempt at all to hide the mockery in his voice, and standing right beside him were Tokugawa Ieyasu, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Hōjō Tokimune, and Honda Tadakatsu.

There were around 10 Yin spirits in their group in total, but there was a clear divide between them.

"What are you talking about, General Ashikaga? I'm afraid I don't understand." Hōjō Tokimune was also a thin man, and he was wearing a regent robe. He spread open his hand fan and used it to cover his own mouth as he said, "Only by working together as a unified force can we take the Nipponese Underworld to greater heights. Do you think our situation isn't already terrible enough?"

Ashikaga Yoshiaki gave the three regents a cold look, skipping over Honda Tadakatsu entirely, then turned his head to disguise the scorching resentment in his eyes.

Those robes were a blatant insult to him, yet the three regents were all wearing the same thing!

After a brief silence, he said, "If you think we should work together as a unified force, then...