The Emperor seemed to have gone mad.
In the year Li Chengyuan had been leading the campaign personally, he had buried prisoners of war alive over a hundred times and massacred the populations of no fewer than several dozen cities.
This was no longer a war; it seemed to be nothing but slaughter for the sake of pleasure.
Such cruel methods made it seem that not even Ren Tu—the unparalleled killer who had buried a million people alive at the founding of Xuan Yang—could compare to him.
The Witch Race's resistance grew ever more ferocious, showing signs of fighting the Southern Garrison Army to the death. Many great scholars from the academies could no longer bear to watch and submitted memorials to admonish him.
The Confucian Family valued benevolence and righteousness above all. Li Chengyuan's actions undoubtedly violated their teachings, yet he did not even bother to conceal them.
