Chaotic World Book

Although overall, Zhao Changhe is roughly considered a chess piece of hers, Ye Wuming.

But in terms of this matter alone, Ye Wuming is instead one of Zhao Changhe's placements, using her stance against Jiuyou willingly and with great attention.

Whenever she thinks of this, the blind one has an indescribable sense of oddity, as if she can see a man striding toward her amid wind, frost, snow, and rain, trying to pull her down from the high clouds and press her under his throne.

Xia Longyuan and his group didn't manage this, yet he is doing so right now.

However, knowing his intentions well, and even aware that there are baser parts in his mind, the blind one still chooses to be a pawn this time, watching his performance with anticipation, hoping he doesn't break the chain.

This feeling is truly strange.

Zhao Changhe's side is actually about to reach the decisive battle stage. This isn't a prolonged war, although it burns across the land, regardless of victory or defeat, the battle will end quickly.

Speaking many ways, actually at this time, Huangfu Qing and Zhao Changhe have advanced for many days, swift with the light cavalry advancing directly, now they have bypassed the corridor of the Mongolian Grassland, entering the Northern Desert Plains.

Zhao Changhe dares not release a commanding gaze for long-distance perception, and over there Tie Muer and Bo'e also dare not stretch their divine senses recklessly; now neither side can ascertain the opponent's exact movements. Yet this gives Zhao Changhe more advantage, the Hawk Taming Masters sent by Sisi can already see the distant mountains' shadows, revealing a corner of the Holy Mountain on the grassland.

In contrast, Tie Muer's eagles... were almost all roasted.

Including the Longevity Heaven God... with his cultivation surpassing all others in layers, he can completely see Zhao Changhe's side, but Zhao Changhe cannot see his situation. But Zhao Changhe and Vermilion Bird Yue Hongling never felt the gaze from others, indicating that not even the Longevity Heaven God has probed with divine senses.

According to the message passed by San Niang through the Four Symbols Sect Secret Technique, the Longevity Heaven God is only using one of his weaker split souls to hold her back—based on this judgment, the only conclusion is that the Longevity Heaven God's injuries have not healed, worried about repeating the defeat overseas, he dares not recklessly appear in this path with a group in the Imperial Realm.

This is correct, everyone is anxious to launch a northern expedition precisely because of this reason.

Theoretically, Tie Muer is a blind man at present, completely unable to grasp the movements of their army.

"Yet this is misleading." Huangfu Qing had already concluded this for Zhao Changhe while still galloping across the grassland in the past days: "That day Tie Muer collided with you, it was a deliberate mislead."

"This is their home field, even the various grassland tribes have evacuated, all water sources have been polluted, it's impossible for them to be without arrangements here. The Longevity Heaven God should align with nature, akin to our Five Elements, every water source we seek, even every blade of grass, could be the Longevity Heaven God's eyes and ears, meaning they always have a thorough understanding of our situation."

In recent days, Huangfu Qing increasingly displays the capability and judgment of a commander, Zhao Changhe agrees with her words.

With Tie Muer's Seven Injuries Fist technique, it's very distressing for this army. After marching for so long, aside from initially battling two Southern Desert tribes, everywhere is desolate, not even a dog turd to be seen, impressing madness upon people.

Xue Canghai is about to explode these days, initially thought marching beyond the fortress would be intense battle, ending up just taking a street tour. Every day enjoying the vast wilderness, it seemed pretty at first, but watching for over a dozen days drives people crazy.

A mere street tour could be tolerated, the key is no food or water to drink.

Clearly there is a Storage Box, but ordinary soldiers are unaware. A few high-ranking officers know, but the Commander strictly forbids using it, even mentioning it.

Thus everyone is using the dry rations and water pouches they carried from departure, along with the grain plundered from those early Southern Desert tribes, used till today, there's nothing left to eat. The tens of thousands of army relies on sporadically found wild deer and wolf packs on the grasslands to sustain, what sort of living is this?

Especially water, it's not entirely unavailable to drink, all sources are polluted, but this is spring, there's occasional rainfall on the grassland. Ironically, they rely on catching rainwater to subsist... previously marching, rain was most unwelcome, now it's anticipated.

After more than a dozen days, this army's morale is nowhere near what it was when they first marched beyond the fortress, everyone looks languid, Commander Huangfu Qing is indifferent, only forcefully suppressing with military law.

Kindly enough it's been grasslands they passed, horses can graze directly, otherwise they likely wouldn't have made it... yet even so, horses can't subsist solely on wild grass, warhorses aren't maintained like this!

However, despite the vast grassland, Tie Muer's orders can't permeate every corner, occasionally encountering some small tribes that didn't leave, getting looted by the Han army, basically relying on these to improve life. But this is insufficient for the army's needs, everyone pitifully shares in shifts, the so-called "feeding off the enemy," the gap between ideal and reality is immense.

No one knows how the western army solved the grain supply issues, perhaps they transported grain when they marched out, certainly not as miserable as the eastern army. This woman leading as commander for the first time, can she truly lead troops?