Winds of War

As the years slipped by, five years passed in the blink of an eye!

Time truly was like a flying knife, so swift it frightened people!

Yet sometimes, time flying by did not frighten people—it made them happy, because they had lived through such hardship and pain during that time...

During this period, many people on the Sacred Land Continent suffered greatly and wished time would pass faster, because they had endured the agony of war.

Ever since Ye Lang and Zhao Yarou suddenly vanished, the situation across the continent had begun to change, growing ever more intense. Then war broke out—an all-out war between empires, with flames of battle spreading across the entire continent.

As for the outbreak of this war, some believed it was caused by Ye Lang and Zhao Yarou's disappearance. The two of them were the eye of the continent's storm, the fuse that lit the war.

In truth, the cause of this war was indeed Ye Lang and Zhao Yarou's disappearance!

Zhao Yarou's disappearance did not leave the Soaring Sky Empire leaderless, nor did it create chaos. Under Zhao Yarou's arrangements, nothing would change simply because someone had vanished, herself included.

Yet her disappearance gave the Soaring Sky Empire an excellent pretext—a reason for war. The Empress of the Soaring Sky Empire had disappeared. That reason was enough for the Soaring Sky Empire to launch any war it wished, even one waged with the strength of the entire nation.

At the time, Soaring Sky claimed that someone had abducted Zhao Yarou and that they needed to find her, searching country by country. Naturally, they intended to send troops.

Sending troops to search for someone—if that meant occupying another's territory, would it not be as easy as turning one's hand over? What nation would agree to