How Shall We Proceed?

"In a situation like this, nothing offers better value than directly attacking the Heaven Dou Empire and seizing its cities."

"If all the Heaven Dou Empire's strong ones are lured away, while Shrek and the Dou Ling Empire's strong ones are tied down by a single plea for aid, what will be waiting for the Heaven Dou Empire?"

As soon as Chen Ping laid out this analysis, Xuan Zi and Han Ruoruo nearly broke out in cold sweat.

"Chen Ping, what should we do next? Advise the two empires not to send reinforcements, or even urge the Star Luo Empire to send men to the Heaven Dou Empire?"

By then, Qian Duoduo had arrived with a large group of other Elders who had learned of the border situation. They had come to find Xuan Zi for a meeting and happened to overhear this exchange between him and Chen Ping.

"No. That isn't realistic."

Chen Ping said, "The Sun Moon Empire first broke into the Star Luo Border and blasted open a breach, allowing its army to be transported over from the Sun Moon Empire at any time."

"The Sun Moon Empire is famous for its soul guidance devices. Combined with the Mingdou Mountain Range's excellent terrain and their absolute advantage in detection soul guidance devices, once they have their defenses in place, it will be almost impossible to drive them back."

"They only need to leave behind a small number of elite troops, working with soul engineers to hold the breach blasted open on the Mingdou Mountain Range side. With that breach there, the Star Luo Empire will not dare transfer more troops to reinforce the Heaven Dou Empire, because they have no idea when the Sun Moon Empire might attack."

"Once the Star Luo Empire's border defenses loosen even