How Long a Road Still Lay Ahead?

"You're coming to the front lines too? Are you insane!?"

The moment he opened the Spirit Communication Jade Token, Chu Sheng heard Chu Yunqi's shocked and furious voice from the other end.

"What do you mean, 'too'?" Chu Sheng asked, somewhat surprised. "You're at the front lines as well?"

"Obviously. The war at the front is pressing hard. The Security Administration has to keep watch over the rear defenses and help manage order in the war zone. How could I possibly not come?"

Chu Yunqi's voice remained urgent as she continued.

"As for you, why aren't you staying safely in the rear—"

Before she could finish, Chu Sheng cut her off directly.

"Enough. Once I've decided something, you can't change it. You should know that much."

Silence fell on Chu Yunqi's end at once, leaving only the sound of heavy breathing.

Chu Sheng continued, "How are things at the front?"

By then, more than ten days had already passed since the one-month deadline set by the Great Yan Divine Dynasty.

And the disparity in strength between the Star Alliance and the Great Yan Divine Dynasty was enormous.

He wanted to know just how badly the front-line defenses had collapsed over those ten-odd days.

From the Spirit Communication Jade Token came Chu Yunqi's voice, thick with exhaustion and agitation.

"How else could they be? Once the troops were defeated, they collapsed like a mountain landslide."

"Less than half a month after the war began, we lost two star domains in succession. Nearly a million soldiers have been killed or wounded."

"That bad?" Chu Sheng frowned. "Didn't the Immortal Venerables step in?"

"The Immortal Venerables are powerful, but the Great Yan Divine Dynasty has Immortal Venerables too—and more of them than we do!"

Chu Yunqi immediately added,

"Besides, Immortal Venerables of the