Yangzhou, Jiangning Prefecture, Yicheng, Xingyi Sect.
When Gu Sheng received the news while seated in the quiet room, Teng Qingshan had already led the army back to Yicheng. Of the more than ten thousand Innate Elite Cavalry who had set out on the campaign, every one had returned, with no casualties. Even the most seriously injured had merely suffered broken limbs, and after some recuperation, their fighting ability would not be affected at all.
The first battle of the Fire-Gilded Iron Armor in the Nine Provinces had yielded astonishing results. With ten thousand men, they had conquered the entire Qing Province in a single battle, shaking the whole land. This group of red-armored Innate Elite Cavalry was now hailed as the strongest army in the Nine Provinces, drawing sidelong glances from every faction.
The Innate Elite Cavalry's performance in this war had been simply too dazzling. If not for the even more shocking emergence of the four Void Realm experts in Yangzhou, the eyes of the entire world would have been drawn to them. Even now, countless people had begun making plans of their own.
Of course, what more people wanted to know now was what the Xingyi Sect of Yangzhou would do next. In the battle for Qing Province, the Xingyi Sect had suddenly revealed four Void Realm experts. The twenty-two-year-old Teng Qingshan was naturally the focus of attention. Some had even been spreading the rumor in secret that a hundred years from now, the Nine Provinces would bear the Teng name. That claim had gained considerable traction.
The rise of the Teng Qingshan and Teng Qinghu brothers had been so miraculous that it was almost despair-inducing. Two Void Realm experts under the age of twenty-five had appeared one after another, and they would each have at least three