129: The vanguard has arrived! The fate of the Northern Regions is about to change!

Northern Region, Wang Family Ancestral Land.

The Wang Family, originally shrouded in the grief of the Second Ancestor's fall, was now completely covered by a dark cloud called "despair."

Inside the discussion hall, the atmosphere was deathly silent.

The Family Head, Wang Zhantian, sat on the main seat, looking lost. That once arrogant face seemed to have aged hundreds of years in just a few days.

His eyes were bloodshot, his eye sockets deeply sunken, and his whole person exuded a decadent aura as if he were about to die.

"Empty... it's actually empty..."

He was still unconsciously murmuring those few words repeatedly.

That piece of "void immortal gold," which had exhausted ten thousand years of the Wang Family's savings and cost the lives of the Second Ancestor and eight Elders, was actually just an empty shell!

This blow was even more fatal than the fall of the Second Ancestor or being ridiculed by the world!

It completely crushed Wang Zhantian's Dao Heart and stripped away the Wang Family's last shred of hope for a comeback.

Below the hall, dozens of core Elders of the Wang Family were ashen-faced and dejected, like stray dogs whose backbones had been removed.

Just then.

"Report—!!!"

A Wang Family disciple rushed into the hall, crawling and rolling, his voice filled with sobbing and extreme fear.

"Family... Family Head! This is bad! The Great Xia Divine Dynasty's... the Great Xia Divine Dynasty's 'Suppression of Demons Edict' has spread across the world!"

With trembling hands, he presented a copy of the edict.

An Elder took it weakly and unfolded it to look.

With just one look, he felt as if struck by lightning, his whole body trembling violently, and the edict in his hand fell to the ground with a "thud."

"Going too far! This is going too far!!!"

The Elder's hair and beard bristled with anger; he pointed at the edict, shaking all over, nearly spitting out a mouthful of old blood.

"What Demons Suppression Allied Forces! What acting on behalf of Heaven! This is clearly trying to drive our Wang Family to extinction and annex my entire Northern Region!"

"What a Great Xia Empress! What a Ji Hongxue! Such a cruel heart! Such poisonous methods!"

Hearing this, the other Elders gathered around.

When they saw the contents of the edict clearly, the entire hall instantly exploded into a frenzy.

"It's over... it's completely over now..."

"How does she dare?! How does she dare to twist the truth like this, so utterly shameless!"

"No justification for war? She has directly created a 'justification' for herself! And it's a name of 'righteousness' that no one can refute!"

"Now the whole world thinks we have the Heaven Swallowing Demonic Art. Who will believe our explanation? Who will help us?"

Cries of despair rose one after another in the hall.

If the news that the "immortal gold was empty" was like falling from the clouds into Hell.

Then Ji Hongxue's edict was like directly putting a lid on Hell and welding it shut with concrete!

"Family Head! What should we do now?!"

"Family Head! Please make a decision quickly!"

All eyes turned simultaneously to the lost figure on the main seat.

Wang Zhantian slowly raised his head, and a flicker of movement finally appeared in those deathly eyes.

He took the edict and read it word by word.

With every word he read, the muscles on his face contorted a bit more.

When he saw the final sentence, "Anyone who sides with the Wang Family shall be regarded as an accomplice of the Demonic Path and their entire clan shall be exterminated," he could no longer restrain himself and furiously tore the edict to shreds!

"Puff—"

A mouthful of stagnant blood that had been building up in his chest sprayed out, and Wang Zhantian's entire body swayed violently.

"Ji! Hong! Xue!"

He squeezed those three words through his teeth, the malice in his voice enough to make the heavens and earth change color.

"Pass my command!" Wang Zhantian forced his body up and roared, "Immediately seek help from all the Sects and families in the Northern Region! Tell them that if my Wang Family is destroyed, the Great Xia Divine Dynasty's next target will be them! This is the principle of 'if the lips are gone, the teeth will be cold'!"

"Furthermore! Immediately send people to the Central State and the Eastern Wasteland! Tell those Holy Land families! Say that my Wang Family is willing to offer the 'void immortal gold' as long as they send troops to resist Great Xia together!"

At this point, he could only treat that "empty shell" that had made him the laughingstock of the world as his last saving straw!

However, just as his command was issued.

"Boom—!!!"

A thunderous roar that shook the heavens and earth suddenly came from the direction of the easternmost gate of the Wang Family Ancestral Land!

Immediately after, shrill alarms echoed throughout the entire Wang Family Ancestral Land!

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"

"The Great Xia Divine Dynasty's army! They... they have already attacked!"

The messenger's terrified scream was the final straw that broke the camel's back.

Wang Zhantian and all the Elders were instantly struck by lightning, collectively petrified on the spot.

So fast?!"

From the issuance of the edict to the arrival of the army, it hadn't even been a single day!

Wang Zhantian rushed out of the hall like a madman and, along with several other Great Sage Ancestors, tore through the Void Realm, instantly appearing at the eastern border of the Wang Family.

He saw that the far horizon was already covered by a boundless iron-blooded black cloud!

Banners blotted out the sun, and Killing Intent soared to the sky!

Ferocious War Galleys crushed through the Void Realm like steel behemoths, the giant cannons on their prows flashing with destructive spiritual light.

Below them, millions of black-armored soldiers formed grim battle arrays, and the iron-blooded Evil Qi gathered together was almost enough to dye the sky red!

At the very front of the army, a burly general wearing Divine Martial Armor and holding a Heavenly Halberd rode a ferocious beast of the Saint King Realm. His gaze was like lightning as he pointed towards the Wang Family Ancestral Land from afar.

It was exactly the vanguard general of the Great Xia Divine Dynasty, Han Qingtian!

"Wang Family remnants, listen up!"

With the support of saint power, Han Qingtian's voice was like rolling thunder, spreading across ten thousand miles.

" By order of Her Majesty the Empress， I have come to punish you demons.！"

"If you are sensible, open the mountain gates immediately and surrender yourselves! Her Majesty is merciful and may leave you with an intact corpse!"

"If you dare to resist, kill without mercy!"

Those three words "kill without mercy" turned into physical sound waves, violently slamming against the Wang Family's Mountain Protection Array, causing ripples of intense vibration.

Looking at the magnificent and murderous Great Xia army, and then looking back at his own panicked and low-spirited clansmen, Wang Zhantian's heart instantly sank to the bottom.

He knew that Ji Hongxue had no intention of giving them any breathing room at all!

She wanted to use the fastest speed and the strongest force to ruthlessly trample the Wang Family, this "stepping stone," into the dust of history!

"Going too far!"

Wang Zhantian's eyes were crimson as he roared fiercely.

"All Wang Family disciples, hear my command!"

"Activate the Clan Protection Array! Follow me... and meet the enemy!"

Things had come to this; there was no turning back!

Only a fight to the death!

On this day, the sky of the Northern Region was completely dyed the color of blood.