When Long Ao Tian came to Chen Ping for aid, he only suspected that Xu Tianran still had a secret supply line and could not be certain. Even so, he gave Chen Ping a highly suspicious target.
Sun Moon Empire—Brilliant Province.
The reason Long Ao Tian was so deeply suspicious of this province was simple. The previous governor of Brilliant Province had been the Brilliant Duke, whom Ju Zi had led troops to wipe out back then.
Brilliant Province lay in the north of the Sun Moon Empire. Though it was called a province, it was practically a small duchy. Every matter within the province was decided by the Brilliant Duke alone.
It even had its own private Soul Engineer Legion. Its Legion Commander was none other than the Brilliant Duke's son, Zhao Yang, the Soul Master with the Violent Gold Bear Martial Soul who had nearly captured Ju Zi alive in the Original Work.
Although Ju Zi on this timeline had been demoted three ranks in a row because of Chen Ping and had missed the incident where Zhao Yang nearly captured her, after the other party declared himself king amid the Five Dragons Ascend the Court, Xu Tianran still ordered Ju Zi to lead troops and wipe him out. Ju Zi also killed quite a few of the Brilliant Duke's diehard loyalists.
Therefore, if there was any province in the Sun Moon Empire most likely to bypass the empire's central system and secretly provide Xu Tianran's army with military supplies, it had to be this province, whose control Xu Tianran had personally ordered retaken through military conquest.
Moreover, Brilliant Province was located in the north of the Sun Moon Empire. Xu Tianran had specifically chosen the north of the Heaven Dou Empire as the point of breakthrough for