"Was this also the way of war?" Ji Qianling's voice came from beside him.
"What?" Lin Su drew his thoughts back from the distant Heartless Sea.
Ji Qianling smiled softly. "Using the Wing Race's blood to cleanse the land and gather the hearts of Xihe's people was the way of war. Erecting a Monument of Heroes gathered military morale! That, even more so, was the way of war."
Lin Su smiled lightly. "I'm afraid you can't keep following me anymore."
"Why not?"
"I'm afraid that after following me, your path will stray from the way of calculation and step into... something neither fish nor fowl."
"Follow you? What do you mean, follow you? How far am I supposed to follow? And what kind of way is this of yours? The way of teasing people?"
Lin Su's gaze fell on her, and he looked at Ji Qianling with some surprise. Damn, I think you've changed...
That tilted head and lip-biting expression—he could see it on Piggy's face. Seeing it suddenly appear on hers made him deeply unaccustomed...
The battlefield was cleared quickly.
Lu Tiangao turned into a frenzied looter. Leading fifty thousand elite soldiers, he and his men were like fifty thousand locusts; after one sweep, every kind of rare treasure the Wing Race had accumulated over thousands of years had become their spoils.
Then the hundred warships of the fifty-thousand-strong army lined up neatly before Lin Su.
This war had already broken through all convention.
Two races had been exterminated, yet not a single soldier had been injured.
The gains, too, were unprecedented.
"My lord, shall we withdraw and return?" Lu Tiangao asked.
"Withdraw and return! But we won't take the road back!" Lin Su raised his eyes and cast them toward a deep valley to the left.
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