Chapter 64: Demons, Do Not Flee! Die for Me!! [Sixty-seventh year, eighty-five years old.]
[After Zhenpin died, you spoke far less.]
[After all, there was no one your age in the army.]
[Because of the "Ginger is Still Old and Spicy" trait, you did not feel your Blood Qi declining, but a familiar sense of emptiness gradually welled up inside you.]
[You knew this was the feeling of your end approaching.]
[The trait's effect could not prolong your life. When your lifespan ran out, you still had to go.]
[As the Demon-Extermination Army raced around putting out fires, the Demon Race within the Five Domains was forced to turn scattered forces into concentrated ones, gathering together and acting collectively.]
[Of the Five Domains, the Central Plains had the densest population and the richest resources.]
[After gathering together, the Demon Race mainly operated in the Central Plains as well.]
[Thus, during these years of war, your Cloud-Top Flying Boat had basically never left the Central Plains, flying back and forth above Dagan's two capitals and eighteen provinces.]
[Of course, this was no time to fuss over which side the Central Plains provinces lost to the north and south during the previous struggle for legitimacy among the northern, central, and southern factions now belonged to.]
["Marshal, the demon horde's slaughter of villages near Tangshan City was merely a feint. Just as we were about to arrive, they scattered and fled. Their true concentrated assault was on the Nushan Crystal Mine three hundred li away, where they looted a great number of crystals!"]
[You sat aboard the Cloud-Top Flying Boat, reading a military manual as you listened to your subordinate report on the war situation.]
[Crystals played an important role in this war.]
[They were like the oil that powered tanks during World