Double Dragons Army Seizes Food from the Tiger's Mouth, Li Faction Takes a Desperate Gamble

In the end, on the afternoon of the last day before the three-day deadline expired, the cornered Yuwen Huaji and Wei Zhenzhen finally made up their minds. With no other choice, they wrote a letter to the commander of the Double Dragons Army—Kou Zhong, the current Grand Overseer of Jiangnan Circuit—and respectfully handed it to Annie, who was preparing to leave.

Amid their unease, Annie said little. She simply slipped away from the dilapidated, desolate city of Xu in Yingchuan and vanished into the wind-whipped snow and bitter cold.

The two had no idea when Annie would deliver the letter to Kou Zhong, or whether she would truly help them by carrying it and persuading the now triumphant Grand Overseer of Jiangnan Circuit. With no options left, they could only remain cooped up in the cold, desolate city of Xu and wait anxiously for news.

But then!

To their complete surprise, not even a month after Annie left Xu County, the capital of Great Wei in Yingchuan, the young marshal of the Double Dragons Army and deputy overseer of Jiangnan Circuit, Xu Ziling, launched a brazen nighttime raid on the Wei imperial palace with a band of elite death warriors.

That night, amid soaring flames and a chaotic din of battle cries, Xu Ziling and the cornered Yuwen Huaji fought each other!

They battled from the gates of the rather shabby Wei imperial palace all the way to the roof of the main hall, then from the rooftop into the hall itself. The commotion was so great that nearly everyone in Xu County saw it.

According to the rumors afterward, some eyewitnesses even swore that, on that snowy night, they had seen a green dragon and a crystalline white tiger battling fiercely in the Wei imperial palace, as if they