Five hundred li northeast of Youdu, Great Qi, lay a low-lying stretch of land where the grass had already grown half a meter tall. A lush sea of green swayed in the breeze, making it feel as though one stood in the Green Hills, broadening the heart and refreshing the spirit.
Yet no one would have imagined that all of Great Qi's elite forces had already lain in ambush here, waiting for the people of the Tianchen Kingdom to come.
At that moment, Li Huowang lay beneath the soil with his brows tightly furrowed, using his keen hearing to sense every movement aboveground.
He had been lying here for an entire day, all to verify whether the dice's information was correct.
"Feeling stifled? Want to come up for a breath of air?" Li Huowang asked Li Sui in his heart.
"Dad, they're here."
The instant he heard those words, Li Huowang's scalp tightened and his heartbeat quickened.
Then he heard the heavy footsteps above, along with birdsong. There were no birds at all in Great Qi now! Those were birds from Tianchen!
With a thought from Li Huowang, the compacted earth around him began to liquefy, carefully pushing him slowly toward the surface.
When one of Li Huowang's eyes peered through a gap in the grass and saw the deliberately arranged attire of Great Qi commoners on the newcomers, he finally let out a long breath.
"So it isn't the Unspeakable Army. They sent spies instead. The Tianchen Kingdom is starting to play dirty."
There were quite a few of them, at least several hundred.
Li Huowang did not know what these people had been sent here to do, but no matter what they intended, now that their location had been discovered, their plan was finished.
Without any warning, several