Luoyang in Turmoil (Part Two)

"Zhu Yuyan truly fell short of Fan Qinghui when it came to the overall situation. But compared to Wu Zetian, Fan Qinghui was far behind as well. And she did not even use a cipher for her messages. Had she never considered that they might be intercepted?"

Looking at the secret letter intercepted from a Jingnian Zen Sect carrier pigeon, Shen Fei shook his head lightly. Besides logistics, intelligence was equally crucial in war. The Great Qin's Black Dragon Scrolls and Thousand Machine Copper Plate, for example, used knowledge of ciphers. Both were indispensable; if one only seized one of them, there was no way to decipher anything. Even if the chances were extremely low, they could not be ignored.

"Developing our intelligence network needs to be put on the agenda as well. We can draw some lessons from the Black Dragon Scrolls and Thousand Machine Copper Plate."

"Li Mi defeated Yuwen Huaji? Yuwen Huaji truly was that useless."

Inside the side hall to the left of the imperial palace's main hall, Shen Fei, Xu Xingzhi, Wan Wan, Bai Qing'er, Ouyang Xiyi, and the others stood around an enormous sand table. It encompassed all the terrain around Luoyang and Chang'an.

Shen Fei had made it by organizing relevant maps, having Red Queen conduct extensive drone scans, and then using earth-element immortal arts. He had made figurines before, and since this was done with immortal arts rather than by hand, it was even more exquisite. If Shen Fei went into the model business now, he would definitely make a fortune.

At this moment, most of the irrelevant sections of the side hall had been torn down. The entire hall was filled with sand-table terrain maps of Luoyang, its surrounding towns, and mountain ranges.

"Something is wrong. Li Mi's strength is not