Grand Profound Palace was one of the four great powers of the Upper World, yet they actually surrendered to an emperor from the Lower World. As soon as this news broke, it caused a huge sensation in the Upper World, like a deep-water bomb thrown into a pond.
Even the other major powers like One-Origin Sect, Imperial Sovereign Palace, and Primordial Origin Sect couldn’t sit still. They all sent spies to probe the true strength of this group from the Lower World.
Unfortunately.
By now, Victor Huang’s subordinates were overflowing with top experts.
Victor himself was already an Earth Immortal expert, and he had a thousand Human Immortal-level masters under him. So all those spies sent by the other sects were captured, and instead, Victor’s men forced plenty of intel about the three major powers out of them.
Victor didn’t rush to attack the three major powers. Instead, he focused first on absorbing and consolidating Grand Profound Palace’s territory.
Grand Profound Palace was one of the four great powers, with more than thirty vassal kingdoms and over a thousand independent cities under its command. In terms of territory and population, it already surpassed the Lower World empire.
Digesting all that territory was no easy task.
So—
Victor forcibly opened a passage linking the Lower World to the Upper World, sending officials and soldiers from the Lower World up in a constant stream.
Victor really deserved to be called a seasoned emperor, having ruled for centuries. Under his series of methods—
He wooed and split the Upper World’s native powers, suppressed and eliminated resistance, and in just one year, transformed all Grand Profound Palace’s forces into his own.
Meanwhile, the three major powers formed an alliance during that year.
They consolidated an army of over eight million, ready to march out at any moment.
In the newly built Imperial Palace of the Upper World—
Victor Huang came to request an audience with Ian Song.
"Father, I’ve fully absorbed all Grand Profound Palace’s forces. It’s time to deal with the three major powers!"
He looked a little excited—once the three major powers were wiped out, the rest of the forces wouldn’t be worth worrying about.
"Go ahead!"
Ian Song waved his hand.