Chapter 774: 774
When Wu Qi was running wildly across the Pangu Continent, the internal strife of Yu Clan in Zhong Province was in full swing .
On the day of Princess Zhang Le's visit, Yu Mu and Yu Miao suddenly broke out into a confrontation; and subsequently, the Yu Clan in Zhong Province was officially split in two . As the current Clan Master, Yu Mu had a great advantage over his opponent . He had ordered the clan's private army to take down Yu Miao and his companions, and the tens of thousands of soldiers obeyed . With that, misfortune struck not only Yu Miao and those Elders who were close to him, but also their family members . Since most of them resided within Yu Clan's mansion, Yu Mu's order had resulted in over seventy percent of them being captured alive .
Yu Miao and the Elders managed to flee Zhong Ning City, but most of their family members were in Yu Mu's hands . Yu Mu had grasped the righteous cause and legal status, and was in control of the clan's private army, as well as the forces from some other channels . Hence, most of Yu Clan's allies could only communicate with him; and therefore, Yu Miao and the dozen or so Elders around him, who represented the Yu Clan in Zhong Province, were losing out completely .
Over the past month or so, Yu Mu had never stopped at anything to suppress Yu Miao . He had sent men out to capture those from Yu Miao's branch who had won the powers of the thirty provinces in the previous competition . Some lucky ones managed to escape, while the others who were too late to react were taken down from their thrones of Prefecture Overseer and captured alive .
All the powerful clans in Zhong Province were paying close attention to the internal strife of Yu Clan . A struggle for power within a clan such as this was not uncommon in Great Yu, but rarely had been one that was so bloody and thorough . The high-handed approach of Yu Mu, and how he had taken so little time to bring Yu Miao down, had literally become the classic lecture of internal strife .
Some powerful clans had thought of fishing in this troubled water, but when the Yu Clan in Liangzhu suddenly sent dozens of Elders and a larger number of experts to 'visit' Yu Mu, they immediately pulled their hands back . They knew they could afford to offend the Yu Clan in Zhong Province, for a clan that was plagued by internal strife did not have the leisure to counter their harassment . However, they dared not to fight against the Yu Clan in Liangzhu . Even Bo Zhongfu was not strong enough to compete with the Yu Clan in Liangzhu, as it was one of the most important powers in Great Yu's Directorate of Celestials!
After slightly over a month of ruckus, all of Yu Miao's powers had been taken over by Yu Mu . The Prefecture Overseers of thirty provinces, the powers of the various branches of Yu Clan, and the clan's income streams across Zhong Province, all were taken over by the people Yu Mu had sent out . Meanwhile, Yu Miao was charged with the crime of colluding with immortals, and Bo Zhongfu had issued a warrant to have him captured .
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It was a starry night . Under the bright starlight, Princess Zhang Le hovered atop a dark cloud, her body emitting an ominous aura as she sent her vast divine sense spreading in all directions, completely enveloping the province in front of her . Inch by inch, she was searching for anything that was suspicious .
More than a dozen captains, whose cultivation bases ranged from the Five Stars and Six Stars Realm of the Second Pangu Heaven, along with thousands of soldiers, were quietly guarding the princess in three serpent-shaped flying ships near her . They were sent here by Ji Ao . When he heard that Wu Qi was assaulted by someone and had gone missing after being thrown into the void, he flew into a rage . Without hesitation, he complained to Emperor Haozune and sent scouts to find out more information about Dong Hai Province .
When he learned that Yu Miao was colluding with some powerful clans in Zhong Province to scheme for Dong Hai Province's power, his pent-up anger exploded . He immediately used all his connections in the imperial court to give the fiercest reaction to the matter . That was why Liangzhu's Yu Clan was able to poke their hands into Zhong Province so smoothly, and why Princess Zhang Le had several thousand elites protecting her .
Yu Miao's quick downfall had much to do with Ji Ao's outburst . He had misjudged the importance of Wu Qi for Ji Ao, and underestimated the impression Wu Qi had left in the hearts of some people in Great Yu . As a result, when he did what he should not have done to the property of the now missing Wu Qi, the reactions from all sides had brought him and those close to him to the brink of extinction .
Princess Zhang Le suddenly gave a cold laugh . She murmured a few incantations under her breath, and a chilly wind abruptly rose and swept out in all directions . In just the blink of an eye, the entire province down below was enveloped by the biting wind . It was a sixth-grade province under the jurisdiction of Zhong Province, and was ruled by a powerful local clan, the Ye clan . After Bo Zhongfu had taken over Zhong Province, Ye clan had defected to him as fast as it could . After some flattering and pleading of its allegiance, it had smoothly replaced the previous Prefecture Overseer who had fled with his entire clan, taking over the power of this province .
Of all those who had colluded with Yu Miao to share the interests of Dong Hai Province, Ye clan was the most aggressive one .
In the retaliation Princess Zhang Le launched over a month ago, this province ruled by Ye clan had suffered the most tragic consequences . All its crops, pastures, and vegetation were eaten clean by the swarming locusts in just three days . Then a plague suddenly broke out, causing more than ninety percent of its population, which originally numbered in billions, to fall ill in bed . In just over a month, the province was already on the verge of collapse .
But just tonight, Princess Zhang Le had discovered with her divine sense that Yu Miao and the dozen of Elders whom Bo Zhongfu had ordered to be captured, as well as the clan members who had fled the Yu Clan's mansion with them, were all hiding in a secret chamber within Ye clan's mansion .
The air of the whole province was filled with plague viruses that were invisible to the naked eye . They were not ordinary viruses, but the ones conjured from the divine power of the God of Scourge Princess Zhang Le had formed . Invisible and emitting no energy, seemingly alive and lifeless at the same time, they were impossible to be detected and guarded against with common Dao magics and divine abilities, save for a spell cast by a God who possessed an opposite divine power .
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