May I seek good fortune and avoid misfortune, and live a long and prosperous life.

Previously, the Third Prince received a secret report from the north that although the barbarians were still confronting each other outside Yulong Pass, the situation remained unstable. The Third Prince wanted to quickly quell the rebellion and then send troops north to support the front line and alleviate Emperor Xiangqing's urgent crisis.

So he immediately decided to send 100,000 elite soldiers, 3,000 warriors, and 100,000 laborers to transport weapons, provisions, and other strategic materials, heading straight for Kangcheng.

Kangcheng is not as good as Yuncheng. Its city walls are not nearly as thick, and its area is much smaller, about half the size of Yuncheng.

Half a month later, the Third Prince's army successfully arrived and camped ten miles outside Kangcheng.

Before this attack, the Night Emperor had already informed the Third Prince via archery that he would secretly accompany the army and that he would be responsible for taking action against those at the late-stage Grandmaster level or above.

With the promise from the Night Emperor, the Third Prince felt even more confident in recapturing Kangcheng.

To Li Heng's surprise, one of his old acquaintances was among the 100,000-strong army.

The little boy named Ye Zhou, whom Li Heng rescued from bandits on his way to Yuncheng, has now joined the army and become a centurion in a force of 100,000.

This little boy is fulfilling what he once told Li Heng: to be a true man. Therefore, he chose to join the Yuncheng army to protect his home and country.

Outside the city, in order to learn from the experience of the Battle of Yuncheng, the Third Prince did not immediately launch a strong attack with his soldiers, but instead first scouted all the surrounding terrain.

Then, clear away all obstacles around you.

Finally, the Third Prince sent three hundred warriors to climb the city wall to test the enemy's strength.

But as expected, they were stopped by the opposing martial artist.

The Third Prince did not allow them to force their way in, but instead sounded the retreat.

When night fell, the Third Prince sent out most of his warriors (excluding Grandmaster warriors) to launch a direct attack.

The reason for launching the attack at night was twofold: firstly, to coordinate with the Night Emperor, and secondly, because visibility was poor at night, making a successful sneak attack more likely.

Countless warriors rushed to the city wall in an instant. The opposing warriors seemed to have anticipated that the Third Prince's side would launch a sneak attack and had been waiting there for a long time.

The two sides then engaged in a fierce battle.

In this battle, the Third Prince's side had a slight advantage, but the difference wasn't too great.

Soon, the Third Prince ordered a retreat, and the warriors immediately ceased fighting and quickly withdrew from the city, showing no reluctance to continue the battle.

The second battle officially began the following morning.

The martial artists below the Grandmaster level on the Third Prince's side clashed again with the martial artists from Chen Tianwang's camp, resulting in casualties on both sides.

At midnight, the Third Prince ordered thirteen Grandmaster-level martial artists to be dispatched to initiate a Grandmaster Battle.

Li Heng disguised himself as an ordinary martial artist and quietly observed from the side.

The two sides' grandmasters quickly clashed, but since the other side only sent ten grandmaster-level experts, the Third Prince's side had the advantage.

Li Heng, too, was searching for his own goal.

In order to help the Third Prince's side quell the bandits as soon as possible and allow Yuncheng to live in peace and prosperity, away from war, he admitted that ambushing the enemy's Grandmaster martial artist was somewhat unethical, but it was the fastest way.

And so, tonight, Li Heng once again unleashed a merciless killing spree.

First, he activated the Overlord Force, used the Blood Lotus Sect's lightness skill secret technique and the Life-Saving and Body-Benefiting Force, and instantly appeared behind a grandmaster martial artist. With a Life-Destroying Palm, he directly exhausted the opponent's lifespan, killing him instantly!

Even a Grandmaster-level martial artist from Yuncheng who was fighting him was stunned.

Later, when he saw his opponent, dressed in black and masked, who had defeated him in one move, his surprise turned into admiration.

"So it was the Night Emperor who made the move. That's not surprising!"

Li Heng killed this late-stage Grandmaster martial artist in just one breath.

Then, Li Heng used his lightness skill to find his next target.

Soon, he appeared to the side of another late-stage Grandmaster martial artist on the other side.

Just as the opponent was terrified and immediately put on defense, Li Heng struck the opponent's chest with another palm strike.

In just three breaths, the grandmaster martial artist turned into a withered old corpse and fell from the sky.

When Chen Tianwang's camp saw two of their Grandmasters killed in one move by a masked man in black, they immediately thought of the legendary figure, Ye Tianzi, who had recently slaughtered nine of their Grandmasters single-handedly.

"Damn it, the Night Emperor has attacked! Run!"

So, with expressions of terror on their faces, they ignored the enemy's attacks and used all their lightness skills to escape.

Apart from a few unlucky grandmasters who were caught up and killed by Li Heng, the rest of the grandmasters scattered like birds and beasts, disappearing without a trace.

This left even Li Heng speechless, "Has my reputation become so great? I've only ever heard of names that can stop a child from crying at night, I never imagined my name could stop a grandmaster from crying at night."

In this battle, Li Heng killed five Grandmasters in succession, and the remaining Grandmasters fled. The remaining warriors on Chen Tianwang's side also abandoned the city and fled, disregarding the civilians and the army.

With their own grandmasters overseeing the situation, the Third Prince's side continuously sent warriors up the city walls to take over the surrounding defenses.

Finally, the gates of Kangcheng were opened by our own warriors, welcoming the Third Prince and his large army into the city. Kangcheng was thus completely recaptured!

At this time, no trace of Chen Tianwang, the leader of the Blood Lotus Sect, or others was found in Kangcheng.

It turns out that when the Third Prince arrived in Kangcheng with 100,000 elite troops and 3,000 martial artists, Chen Tianwang, the leader of the Blood Lotus Sect, and other core high-ranking officials had already withdrawn from Kangcheng, leaving only ten grandmasters to guard the city.

Moreover, King Chen instructed these masters to hold their ground if they could, and if they couldn't, they should retreat in time to preserve their strength.

Clearly, King Chen already had the idea that Kangcheng was doomed to fail. Leaving some grandmasters here was merely to do his part and avoid losing face.

To Chen Tianwang's surprise, despite his orders to the Grandmasters to retreat in time when things went wrong, Li Heng still managed to kill five of them. Even with so many Grandmasters under Chen Tianwang's command, he still felt a pang of heartache.

……

After the Third Prince's forces pacified Kangcheng, 5,000 of their 100,000 elite troops were selected to enter the city to maintain order, while the rest remained stationed in the main camp outside the city.

When they entered the city, the sight inside horrified them!

The city was a scene straight out of hell!

The pungent smell of mutton permeated the entire city.

Blood stained the entire street.

Everywhere there were severed limbs, heads, and bones scattered across the land.

When the Third Prince ordered a check of the city's population, he discovered that less than one in ten residents remained.

The city, which originally had a population of over one million, now has less than one hundred thousand people left!

According to the surviving residents of Kangcheng, Chen Tianwang's troops were involved in cannibalism.

When the army ran out of food, they selected the best women from Kangcheng and dragged them away to serve as food for the army.

King Chen also occasionally allowed his soldiers to commit rape and plunder within the city, euphemistically calling it cultivating the soldiers' wildness and maintaining their combat capabilities.

These are nothing compared to what's to come.

The most vicious thing was that on the day Chen Tianwang and other high-ranking officials left Kangcheng, he personally ordered the massacre of the people of Kangcheng and the looting of all the gold, silver, grain, and livestock in the city. Anything that could not be carried away was burned on fire, in any case, it was absolutely not to be given to the enemy.

Therefore, on that day, Kangcheng was a scene of bloodshed, with countless Kangcheng residents screaming in agony before finally collapsing in pools of blood.