972 The Unpredictable Heart Of Men 4yr

Translator: StackThatCoinEditor: Hitesh_

In the past ten days, there had been a lot of trouble in Ling Dynasty.
In the days after Liu Bang's military advisor—Reverend Li Yang—and dozens of his friends were killed, many low-profile but important figures in the court were murdered, including three lesser Celestial Lords who had come down from Heaven to help. Their heads were taken when they were meditating in the cave abodes they had constructed outside the city.
Moreover, all the souls of the dead were gone; the artifact that the seven Buddhist Patriarchs and the nine Dao Patriarchs had crafted to collect souls did not do its job. The murderer certainly had some Primal-grade artifact that could cover up the aura, which had prevented the artifact form sensing the death and allowed him to so easily wipe out the souls.
This had shocked the Ling Dynasty. Zhang Tengyun, Liu Bang, and Lu Buwei made a panicked decision: they ordered the army to quickly disengage from Dong Hai, switching from active attacking to passive defending. Immediately afterward, they rapidly expanded the military forces and sent the armies out in both south and north, sweeping through the mortal kingdoms from outer heavenly realms like a fierce tide