When the fleet of the Western Expeditionary Army came ashore, almost everyone was stunned by the sight before them.
All the soldiers had originally prepared themselves for a difficult landing battle.
Yet everyone landed safely and soundly. The ones who "welcomed" them were a group of enemies who had laid down their weapons, their faces filled with bewilderment and fear.
Of the two hundred thousand troops allied from the seven countries of the Western Continent, more than sixty thousand had died, over fifty thousand had fled, and more than eighty thousand had remained behind to surrender.
Among them were no few extraordinary individuals of Viscount and Count rank.
This was already the result of Li Fei deliberately holding back.
If she had wanted to slaughter all two hundred thousand allied troops, no more than thirty thousand would have escaped in the end!
However, she had brought the Western Expeditionary Army here to conquer the Western Continent, not to destroy it.
If the latter had been her goal, the Great Blue Dynasty would not have needed to wait seven years.
After reaching Number One Under Heaven seven years ago, Li Fei could have crossed the sea alone, come to the Western Continent, and swept straight through everything!
She alone could have crushed the seven countries of the Western Continent.
But one person could not conquer the Western Continent.
The upper echelons of the seven countries of the Western Continent only needed to hide, shift their rule from the open into the shadows, and continue resisting.
Unless Li Fei wanted to carry out some kind of "great extinction" and kill everyone on the Western Continent.
Otherwise, indiscriminate slaughter would only leave behind ruins, corpses strewn across the ground, and endless hatred.
The reason the Great Blue Dynasty had sent a four-hundred-thousand-strong Western