Underlying Currents

The next month was relatively normal, Zhan Wei didn't leave the palace.

He spent most of his time with his fiancee, during the day time they had lessons together and at night he familiarized himself with the changes in his body.

Towards his fiancee Yunzi, Zhan Wei had some good impression, but that was to be expected they spent most of the day together, although he couldn't say he had feelings for her , he had a sense of familiarity and felt comfortable with her.

Yunzi also felt the same , normally due their engagement, there ought to be a bit of tension and awkwardness between them but Zhan Wei's cool personality made her feel comfortable in his presence.

With time they became like friends , in the Zhan Manor Zhan Wei spent most of his time training or cultivating so he never really had contact with his peers and had little knowledge about so many things.

Yunzi spent most of her time in the palace but she was very learned , Zhan Wei approached her with things he didn't understand, although they had tutors on all kinds of area , she was like his extra lesson tutor.

During the whole month he hadn't seen the Emperor, although everything seemed normal , he felt something strange was going on.

Time passed by , he was in his residence cultivating when qing'er brought him a letter from his father , according to the letter he was coming to the capital.

Although he felt happy about seeing his father , he couldn't think of a reason for his father to travel to the imperial city, He just couldn't shake that premonition that something was wrong.

The next day during their usual lessons, he discovered that Xia Yunzi's mood was a bit of , he felt she was tense.

After staying a while she excused her , saying she wasn't feeling right.

The remaining lessons went by , by noon as he passed by the route leading to the imperial court , he saw different war banners.

Based on their insignia , they belonged to the war clans of the barren wastelands, all nine Clans of the barren wastelands had their elite squad.

Elite squad were the group of soilders under the direct command of the general.

Each Clan head of the War Clans served as a general in the imperial army.

looking at the group of soldiers outside the courtroom , based on what he was seeing not just his father, the Clan heads of the other War Clans were also around.

Coupled with Yunzi's behavior today , he felt something wasn't right.

The nine war clans guarded the barren wastelands of great Xia empire all year round , only a matter of urgency could make all nine Generals come to the imperial city at once.

It wasn't until late at night, Zhan Wei saw his father " Zhan liang" , he wore a battle armour and looked weary.

In his residence his Father sat on the man seat apart from Zhan Wei, the rest were all present.

The first to talk was the Second Elder, " Clan head , why did the Emperor summon all the nine generals ?".

" Recently all the wild beast in the barren wastelands seemed to become demonized all of a sudden , their blood qi has increased massively and even docile beasts seemed to have become violent " , replied Zhan liang.

He continued , "Hordes of beasts in the mountain region of the barren wastelands have started to wreck havoc everywhere , these demonized beasts are very powerful, normal soilders can't deal with them".

Listening to him , they were all worried , naturally human beings preyed on beasts and beasts preyed on humans, it was the law of nature.

Yet the sudden increase in strength of large numbers of beasts and their aggressive behavior, something was wrong.

Zhan Wei was very worried, one had to know the War Clans were the first line of defense of the Xia empire in the barren wastelands, he was worried about his family and Clansmen.

Not just him, they were all worried.

There had to be a reason for a large numbers of beast to suddenly become demonized.

" Father what is going to happen now ?" , said Zhan Wei.

Hearing him , Zhan liang chuckled , " Don't worry , even if the sky is to fall , the tall ones are there to prop it up ".

Saying to Zhan Wei and Xiaomei, " You can both leave , I want to speak with the second elder ".

After they left , Zhan liang's look became a bit grim.

Seeing his look, the Second Elder asked " Is it that serious ".

Zhan liang answered " A large of beast suddenly becoming demonized, the violent behavior, aggressive strength and blood red eyes , I'm afraid it can only be the blood demon clan ".

Hearing him the Second Elder " Zhan Feng " sucked his breath, " how come I thought, they were sealed !". The word demon was a broad term , yet Demon Clan's were different, they all possessed all forms of mystical abilities and were very terrifying.

The blood demon clan was a high level demon clan with great battle prowess , back then during the Great war centuries ago , thousands had sacrificed their lives to resist them ,at the end they could only seal them.

If it was really the Blood Demon Clan , then the hoards of beast were just pawns.

Looking at his reaction, Zhan liang continued , " A Great War is coming , one accompanied by large bloodshed and destruction".

" For now the safest place is the capital, make sure to safeguard Wei'er, I don't know if we will survive this war ".

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In the imperial observatory , the Emperor could be seen standing with his hands placed behind his back , his deep black eyes looking towards the sky.

With a sigh he said , " After waiting for so long you have finally started ".

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In the Chen Manor , in a large luxurious room , a young boy could be seen sited cross-legged, the room was dark and littered with dead bodies of all kinds , blood and pieces of flesh splattered across the room.

This young had blood all over his robe and face especially around his mouth, With blood reds eyes and wide grin, he licked the blood across his lips and said," Centuries ago , Xia Tianming you and those old foogies sealed this king , now you all will watch how my Blood Clan fill this land with carnage as we savor your blood".

Laughing hysterically he continued, "how dare you worms seal this king , how dare you worms resist me !".

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The next , the atmosphere in the imperial capital was very tense , obviously news had reached the people about the behavior of the wild beasts in the barren wastelands.

Although the War Clans had tried to suppress them , they couldn't stop the large horde completely , some beasts had slipped and devastated some nearby villages.

All sorts of murmurs could be felt around and the citizens were in the distress.