"I... can't understand..." Chu Pu could not help shaking her head.
Gongshu Feng offered no further explanation, but from the look she cast his way, he seemed to read a trace of utter naturalness in it.
—It was only natural that she could not understand.
"You find it absurd because you have never looked beyond the outside."
Xia Fan's words suddenly startled her—before, Chu Pu had thought they were merely the victor's taunt, but now, thinking back on them, she felt goosebumps rise along her back.
What if everything he said was true?
It was not mockery, nor was it boasting, but simply the statement of a fact.
The Yuheng Envoy involuntarily averted her gaze and looked out the carriage window. People often said that enemies understood each other best, yet she realized that she did not understand the Qi State at all. She only knew that after Ning Wanjun raised the banner of rebellion in Jinxia City, she had swiftly expanded her power across the entire country and launched an attack against Seven Stars of her own accord; that they possessed their own methods of education, shattering the theory that Qi Sense Users were determined by Mental Nature while also creating many new Sorcery Arts; and that the Mo Clan had supplied the rebels with large numbers of magical instruments and mechanical weapons, causing the Seven Stars Army to suffer defeat after defeat. Beyond that... she knew nothing of the Qi State.
For example, the snowy scene before her.
By this point in the war, the entire Xu State had long entered a period of tightening belts and cutting food, pouring every available resource into the war machine. Yet in Shangyuan City of the Qi State, this seemed like no more than an ordinary winter. Pedestrians on the streets