This cannot be said without sadness.
Although these people had pledged their loyalty to the Tianjing Sect for various reasons, their hearts were not entirely trusting of it, still harboring wavering and hopeful thoughts.
And as both sides completely fell out and began to cut ties and kill each other's vassal cultivators, the previously calm southern regions of Jingguo Country suddenly started to become unstable.
Without the need for the upper echelons of the two powers to add fuel to the fire, the vassal families under them, already tainted with each other's blood, began to actively seek out and fight their counterparts.
Especially in the land of the three states, where the Zhou Family of Lanzhou suddenly announced the various gains from looting the Jiang Family, many powerful cultivator families were eager to follow suit.