The Flood Washes Away the Dragon King's Temple

Clearly, Kang Shi was not the only one targeting Chaoli Pass.

When Zheng "National Seal Philanthropist" Qiao was handing out National Seals everywhere, several small factions with a clear sense of their own limits understood that they lacked the strength to compete with Huang Lie and the others for the National Seals, so they did not join the pursuit. By a twist of fate, this allowed them to withdraw from the great melee among the factions in Ganzhou ahead of time.

They were lucky, yet also somewhat unlucky.

They were lucky because they were close to the Miao River. The moment the National Seals emerged, they had stuffed their treasures into their arms, retreated across the river, and reached Yanzhou territory. They were unlucky because they were not the only ones who had thought of this. Along the way, they also encountered other factions possessing National Seals.

Form an alliance?

Neither side trusted the other.

Refuse to ally and fight?

The strength of the small factions was too evenly matched.

As a result, although the fighting within Yanzhou was not as vicious as that in Ganzhou, the battles still left the common people suffering and corpses strewn across the wilderness.

Among them, one lucky faction had emerged from the pack and successfully returned to Chaoli Pass, using the pass's natural defenses to buy itself a moment to catch its breath. Yet this lucky faction was not all that lucky, because before they had even warmed their seats in Chaoli Pass, they ran into Kang Shi's troops. At first, they had still harbored a sliver of wishful thinking.

Who among the allied forces did not know that Shen Tang's troops had split into two?

Kang Shi's contingent was small. Even with Gongxi Chou and the others joining him, their side had