Hearing this, Lin Heng was slightly stunned.
"What kind of opportunity?"
"The Female Emperor's purpose in sending me to the Western Continent was very simple: think of every way possible to put all usable forces in order and launch a counterattack against the Extraterrestrial Cultivators."
Jiang Jingyi slowly stood up. With a gentle sweep of her jade-like hand, something resembling a Star Chart appeared before them.
Strictly speaking, it was a kind of star-sand map. Its terrain features were extremely clear, far clearer than any Star Chart by who knew how much.
Most importantly, it could be arranged at will, while a Star Chart had to be used at night.
A map of this level not only recorded mountains, rivers, and key terrain, but also the distribution of the major powers. Usually, only the Dynasty's core military institutions could obtain one.
Lin Heng had once seen Prince Qi, Jiang Yan, fiddling with this thing, so he was rather surprised that she had taken it out.
"Those names that have gone dark on it should be powers that were destroyed, right?"
"You can't say they were destroyed. They may also have relocated, such as the Star God Temple... their people have now already moved into Peaceful Stone City!"
"Lady Yi, it seems you know the Dynasty's core secrets no less than Lady Ziyan does. There's just one thing I don't understand: how does the Dynasty make the main cities and their affiliated towns form a great city-protecting net?"
Lin Heng had made some guesses before, but they had never been confirmed.
The facts were just as he had imagined. The reason the Extraterrestrial Cultivators' advance was slow was because they were constrained by the secular main cities.
Once they took territory, they had to leave people behind to garrison it. Otherwise,