At daybreak, the entire Eastern War Zone was on edge, its alert level raised to the highest grade long ago. Elite squads searched everywhere, above and below ground.
Gu Yue, a strategist of the Human-Demon Battlefield Grand Governor's Mansion, had also just led a group of men away from Ye Zhen's North Sea Heavenly Wave Army camp, his expression dark.
They had found nothing!
When he had arrived at the North Sea Heavenly Wave Army's station with his men, Marshal Ye Zhen had been standing in the military camp with a host of generals, rigid as flagpoles, awaiting possible orders.
As the foremost adviser to Grand Governor Ji Yuan of the Human-Demon Battlefield, Gu Yue could call upon certain mysterious forces unknown to others under Ji Yuan's command.
Among those mysterious forces were extraordinary individuals proficient in rare Divine Abilities and Secret Arts with all manner of unusual effects.
Yet despite Gu Yue's probing conversations, they had discovered nothing.
Even though the Grand Governor had an extraordinary person capable of discerning truth from lies, who could confirm that Ye Zhen had not told the complete truth when questioned...
What could they do about it?
With suspicion alone, no evidence, and no direction in which to search for evidence, they could not touch Ye Zhen.
That was one of the unspoken rules of Great Zhou's officialdom!
Watching Gu Yue depart, Ye Zhen's lips curled in a cold sneer.
The arrival of that group represented the Grand Governor's Mansion's suspicions toward Ye Zhen, but they could only remain suspicions!
"Make preparations. In one hour, we will go to the Grand Governor's Mansion to report completion of our orders, then determine the station for this joint defense assignment," Ye Zhen ordered.
"My lord, we have just received a secret jade slip from the