Over the next few days, Gu Xi, who had been constantly traveling, discovered that his advance was being influenced, whether intentionally or not.
When they realized they could not directly influence Gu Xi, the Dragon Ancestors began influencing the Orc forces through the battle formations, hoping to use the Orcs' attacks on Gu Xi to control his pace of advance.
All of the Dragon Ancestors' intentions were hidden within their control over the battle formations.
They were plainly telling Gu Xi that they intended to control his speed of advance.
They wanted Gu Xi to reach Dragon City at a designated time.
Moreover, the Dragon Ancestors had used a very direct method, something close to an open conspiracy, to tell Gu Xi how they intended to handle things.
They had Fengxin City increase the intelligence they provided to Gu Xi.
Most of the intelligence Gu Xi had received before had been brief reports.
The intelligence being provided now was clearly much more detailed.
There were even detailed deployment notes for areas not covered by Gu Xi's map.
They were clearly telling Gu Xi, My setup is right here. If you have what it takes, jump out of it.
Could Gu Xi jump out?
Of course he could.
As long as Gu Xi disregarded everything and charged straight for Dragon City, any setup would be broken.
But the map sent over by the Dragon Ancestors bluntly told Gu Xi that if he followed their plan, the credit for taking Dragon City would be his, the benefits would be his, and the pressure on him would be lower.
In the end, he would not receive any less benefit at all.
The only condition was that the timing had to remain under the Dragon Ancestors' control.
Normally, anyone who understood the requirements involved