Today's first update: Chapter 3097! 1/4!
"Coming upon one pitfall after another, danger upon danger; entering the pit, do not act..."
"Do not act... Do not act!"
"I was wrong again!"
Within the icy royal court, the Eight Wise Kings repeatedly chewed over the third line of the Kan hexagram, words that sounded like a prophecy. His voice was hoarse and trembling, finally turning into a low roar filled with unwillingness and despair.
When the latest frontline report was shakily presented by a trusted aide, what little sanity he had left was nearly shattered, pushing him to the brink of madness.
No matter how gently Queen Ting Sha Piaoliang spoke beside him or how hard she tried to comfort him, she could not pull him from the abyss of crushing defeat and self-doubt.
In the end, he had repeated the same mistake and fallen into unprecedented mental turmoil. He longed to seize even the slightest victory, yet his actions had completely violated the hexagram's warning: when trapped in danger, do not act rashly.
His unwillingness to stay idle, his obsession with remotely micromanaging the battle, had once again pushed the allied forces into an irredeemable abyss and brought about a devastating defeat that could not be undone.
Clearly... before deciding to accept that damned "turtle shell"—no, "Huang shell"—surrender ruse, the overall battle, though deadlocked, had remained largely under control. With their abundant forces and layered defenses, the allied forces could still contend with the Huang Army and wait for a change in circumstances.
But now, everything seemed beyond saving!
With a seemingly clumsy surrender ruse that struck directly at human nature, Xu Kun had used tens of thousands of suicide troops as tinder and a million elite allied soldiers as fuel. Borrowing the three-hundred-mile Wind Zone, which had gathered