Chapter 279 : In a Moment, Fate Turns Its Hand
Among every hegemon-level force in Cangzhou, Saint King experts were exceedingly rare and never moved lightly.
Back at the imperial palace of the Great Zhou, when Jiang Hongye struck, she instantly slew eighteen Saint Kings.
Each major faction—whether the Western Region's Buddhist sect or the Southern Region's Demonic sects—lost a Saint King that day. The pain of that loss still lingered deeply.
Now that the stakes were enormous in this impending Buddhist-Demonic war, all Saint Kings from both sides had gathered.
Initially, the Buddhist faction outnumbered the demonic sects by a full eight Saint Kings.
But after the Demonic Sects paid a tremendous price to invite seven more Saint Kings, the gap had shrunk to just one.
And so, the Western Region's Buddhist sect, which had loudly declared its mission to "slay demons and return clarity to the world," suddenly grew timid.
