Chapter 1817: The Imperial Family Destructs, House Xiahou Remains Stubborn (1/2)

Now that the spirit herb vault was back in the sacred land’s grasp, the second pri the decisive turn that Jiang Chen had effected, the recuperating priht have harbored Now,man’s capabilities

Under the command of the sacred land, the other factions pointed their spears against the rebels after a brief respite

In only a few days, the counter-insurgent arh the imperial family had a few true believers left, ainst the Only the most rabid of supporters still resisted

Because of this, the iely pointless The palace fell in less than half a day

The eled vainly with the protection of a few of hisof consequence He planned to sneak out of the capital in disguise, but the city was completely surrounded Moreover, too many pairs of eyes were on him

Before he could even attempt an escape, he was reported on and captured by the sacred land’s experts

The imprisonment of the emperor was the heaviest blow yet to the anti-sacred-land alliance The factions that had wanted to fight tooth and nail no longer had any spirit to do so Even the e they did of any consequence?

One of the two major factions in the rebel alliance was broken Only House Xiahou rereater forces than the iradual develop the sacred land so to back that up

Though it had suffered painful losses in several of the prior conflicts, House Xiahou’s core had remained intact It still possessed forht

The sacred land wasn’t going to repeat theweeds Moreover, it wasn’t going to atte cannon fodder Instead, the venerated forefather led the charge

Jiang Chen and the Vermilion Bird were part of the hting the i out House Xiahou His past enmity with the house meant that he would be satisfied only with its extere sooner or later

Nipping an undeveloped problem in the bud was the best solution

House Xiahou had the Cloudwave Sect and another first-rate house as its staunch supporters, thus it possessed the robust coth of three first-rate factions The collected coood match for the Eternal Sacred Land

However, other factions had joined the sacred land in quelling the rebellion

Because of their past misdeeds, the former rebel factions wanted to contribute meritoriously Their previous hostility to House Xiahou only added fuel to the fire Thus, they displayed an incredibly intense desire to fight House Xiahou was put under a lot of pressure

Its bases of operations were eradicated one by one The Cloudwave Sect and the other supporting house were forced to withdraw to House Xiahou’s nable as the sacred land, it was nevertheless a well-reinforced fortress Terrain and formations combined made it difficult to attack

However, athered outside it as time passed – so much so that the sacred land and its allies now outnumbered House Xiahou three to one

Face to face on the field of battle, House Xiahou wouldn’t be able to last more than a few moments

Alas, the security of its headquarters allowed it to gasp for a few more breaths

No ood mood This was a far cry froo Before this, they had been at a clear advantage in their encirclement of the sacred land As such, they’d been completely at ease

Now they were the ones surrounded and disadvantaged There seemed to be no way out from their predicagle was yet to be seen

The scariest thing was that the pendulu the other way When fate had been on their side, the rebel alliance had been ragtag and loose at best due to disagreements over profits Therefore, it had never been able to effect its full strength

The sacred land’s counterattack was different Since all the factions had been ruled by the sacred land originally, they possessed a natural fear for it

Further itself on the very front lines That lent its words more credibility It was thus able to concentrate its allies’ forces much more capably than the rebel alliance had