"The current situation is that Gale Hall holds the advantage in the power struggle among several forces, having occupied the City Lord's mansion. Fortunately, before I left the City Lord's mansion, I set up an array to hide the entrance to the earth veins, and so far they haven't discovered it."

"If we want to enter the earth veins, we are bound to clash with Gale Hall. You all saw the scene just now; now everyone in Black Sand City is watching us. As soon as we show any intention of action, they will likely unite to oppose us."

"The forces of Black Sand City are intricately intertwined; though not strong, with our current strength, dealing with so many forces simultaneously is extremely arduous. By then, I'm afraid we won't even be able to enter the City Lord's mansion," Chu Tianhe said.

After listening, Chu Tiange asked, "What about the Sand King's Palace?"

"They're not here. The underground palace of the Sand King's Palace moves with the underground sand river. Before they appear, no one knows where they are," Chu Tianhe said helplessly.

The Sand King's Palace is indeed not easy to find. If this incident hadn't been triggered by them, it probably wouldn't have even entered everyone's sight and received so much attention.

"No matter, they'll definitely appear when we make a move on the earth veins," Chu Tiange said indifferently.

"Do you know the situation of the various forces in Black Sand City well? Is there a possibility to defeat them separately?" Chu Tiange looked at Chu Tianhe and asked.

Revealing our identity as special envoys and generals of the Zhou Dynasty would only invite more violent attacks in such a chaotic place as Black Sand City.

Chu Tianhe had his subordinates bring intelligence on the major forces of Black Sand City...

After reading the intelligence, Chu Tiange made a decision to defeat the major forces separately and then make a decisive attack on the City Lord's mansion.

According to the intelligence on the strength of each force leader, the strength of five generals brought by Chu Tiange was clearly superior.

Most people who lord over Black Sand City are wanted criminals who have committed crimes in the Zhou Dynasty and left a criminal record. Breaking through to the Core Formation Realm is just good luck, let alone finding a good spiritual object to forge a quality divine soldier.

Most Core Formation Realm individuals in Black Sand City don't have the time to carefully select a suitable object for sacrificial refining. After breaking through to the Core Formation Realm, they can only hurriedly choose a decent spiritual object to use as a sacrificial refining object and quickly forge their divine soldier.

Otherwise, they might be killed by other Core Formation Realm individuals with divine soldiers, as nobody wants to see more people sharing their benefits.

The leaders of Core Formation Realm forces in Black Sand City also tacitly target newly advanced Core Formation Realm cultivators. If they can't establish themselves in the shortest possible time, promotion to the Core Formation Realm is the time of death.

For this reason, Black Sand City hasn't seen a newly promoted Core Formation Realm martial cultivator for a long time, as most new force leaders are outsiders.

Whether it's a Core Formation Realm promoted locally in Black Sand City or an outsider, they don't have the time or choice like generals in border cities of the Western Desert to select the most suitable sacrificial refining objects and obtain the strongest divine soldier for themselves.

Therefore, the strength of the generals is generally stronger than the leaders of various forces in Black Sand City.

Chu Tiange assigned the most suitable opponents for the five generals based on their divine soldiers' attributes, allowing them to maximize the advantages of their divine soldiers.

He glanced at Lu Yu, instructing him to deal with a force leader at the peak of the Qi Sea Realm. This leader, from an old force in Black Sand City, had already reached the peak of the Qi Sea Realm long ago and was ready to advance to the Core Formation Realm at any time.

However, due to Black Sand City's harsh living environment, he had been concealing his strength, quietly searching for suitable spiritual objects to refine into divine soldiers.

If nothing unexpected happened, he would soon leave Black Sand City, advance to the Core Formation Realm, and return after refining his divine soldier.

Unfortunately, just yesterday, a major event overturning Black Sand City occurred—the City Lord vanished, and the relations among the forces became extremely tense, all vying for the position of the City Lord of Black Sand City.

He now dared not act rashly, fearing for his life.

Li Qinfeng sat in the hall; thus far, he had never chosen the wrong side, and every force he sided with ended up victorious, so he had always been fine.

Until today, when Lu Yu walked into the place where he was.

He truly hadn't sided wrongly, but unfortunately, Chu Tiange was destined to stand against the entirety of Black Sand City. No matter how he sided, he couldn't change the fact that he would become Chu Tiange's enemy.

When Li Qinfeng saw Lu Yu walk in, he appeared very calm and asked, "Who sent you?"

He didn't care who Lu Yu was; since Lu Yu came to kill, it meant he was just a pawn. He wanted to know who was behind Lu Yu.

Now, in Black Sand City, only Core Formation Realm martial cultivators qualified as players in the game.

Lu Yu didn't speak. Raising his hand, he struck out with a blade, a bright line dividing the hall.

Boom! The house was split in half, collapsing inward. Li Qinfeng, flying out from the ruins, looked somewhat disheveled.

Bang~ Lu Yu stomped the ground hard, leaping up to slash at Li Qinfeng in midair. Li Qinfeng wielded a long sword, creating countless sword shadows to continuously weaken Lu Yu's attack.

Boom! One slash to break ten thousand techniques.

Even though Li Qinfeng's sword dance confounded Lu Yu, Lu Yu used a brute force style, breaking all sword moves and slashing Li Qinfeng harshly to the ground.

Li Qinfeng's eyes flashed with shock. He felt unable to withstand Lu Yu's attack and immediately changed moves to attack Lu Yu, trying to exchange injuries for injuries to force Lu Yu to stop and defend.