The Kaiyang Envoy felt as though his brain was no longer enough.
In his view, even if it was a coffin, there had to be something sitting there. He had anticipated that the diggers might encounter rock too hard to penetrate, or that the immortal artifact's outer shell might be protected by sorcery, but he had never expected this outcome.
"Are you sure you didn't get the location wrong?" His tone had lost its former calm. Yesterday, two pieces of bad news had arrived from the west. First, unrest had broken out within Bumi City, allowing several captured Yao to escape. Second, the Jinxia Army had also arrived on Yama Island, numbering at least five thousand, and had captured Tsushima Prefecture in an extremely short time. They clearly seemed poised to pursue the Seven Stars.
He could accept the former. After all, the Kaiyang Envoy had never held much hope for the local people's ability to govern. A few fewer monsters would not affect the overall situation. The latter, however, was rather troublesome. Jinxia had once defeated the Qi State Bureau of Military Affairs head-on. Intelligence indicated that they not only possessed sorcerers on the level of Feathered Garment, but were also highly skilled in Mechanism Art. Their threat was far beyond what native armies like those of the Yama Queen and King Dong Sheng could compare to.
In a sense, the appearance of the Jinxia Army had already exceeded the Seven Stars' planned arrangements.
He did not understand why, with a massive army already crossing Gao State's border, the princess of Qi State still had the mind to deploy troops to an island at sea. Nor did he understand why the Seven Stars had needed months of preparation to take this step, while the other side had reacted in