"Here it comes..."
The moment Li Yun asked about the other strongholds, Li Feihe and Tian Qing both perked up.
They exchanged a glance.
Then each pulled a stack of papers from his robes.
Every page was densely covered in writing.
"Chief, we didn't dare neglect the task you gave us. It's just... there are more than twenty strongholds of all sizes in Crane Mountain, and quite a few are stronger than us. Even when we wanted to investigate, getting close was difficult."
"With so little time, the two of us worked together over the past few days but only managed to gather some basic information."
"Would you like to look it over first, Chief?"
"All right!"
Li Yun had never expected them to uncover every detail about Crane Mountain's twenty-odd strongholds in such a short time. Even a general picture would be good enough.
Li Yun stacked the papers they handed him together.
He read them one by one.
He looked thoroughly absorbed.
As the saying went, know yourself and know your enemy, and you could win a hundred battles.
When it came to learning about an enemy, Li Yun never cut corners or took the matter lightly.
It was just...
The information Li Feihe and Tian Qing had gathered was a little too basic.
It barely scratched the surface.
Still, something was better than nothing. At the very least, it gave Li Yun a rough understanding of Crane Mountain.
According to the papers,
Official roads ran along every side of Crane Mountain, so strongholds stood in all directions. Apart from the Flying Crane Stronghold and Guiyang Stronghold, there were twenty-three others.
That was already the lowest number in recent years.
Even last year, when their numbers had peaked, Crane Mountain had held twenty-nine strongholds.
So what had happened