Two days later, Qiao Rui and the other teammates joined up with Bai Xiaowen.
At the same time, it meant that the Yuan Clan Faction's two armies had completed their rendezvous, for a total of fifty thousand troops.
It was worth mentioning that Xun Yu, despite the hardship, had followed Qiao Rui's army on horseback all the way to Changyuan, where he clung to Cao Cao's coffin and wept bitterly.
Seeing how haggard Xun Yu had become, Bai Xiaowen asked in surprise, "Lord Chancellor, why have you grown so gaunt after only a few days apart? You are practically unrecognizable."
Xun Yu forced a smile. "Thank you for your concern, my lord."
Bai Xiaowen offered him a few words of comfort, then thought to himself, Xun Yu truly held Cao Cao in extraordinary regard. That, too, was the result of Cao Cao's personal charisma.
Leaving Xun Yu alone beside Cao Cao's body in the mourning hall, Bai Xiaowen went out to meet his three teammates, and they exchanged information.
Bai Xiaowen was also somewhat surprised by Abota's gesture of giving Qiao Rui a Raven Messenger before leaving.
Naturally, he too thought highly of the Raven Messenger's strategic significance in a Grand Unification war. For such an item to appear in the Three Kingdoms Plane World was, like the Map of Mountains and Rivers, a balance-breaking tool.
Its only drawback was its limited duration, but with more than eighty days of validity, it was more than enough for a single Grand Unification.
Bai Xiaowen further deduced, "It seems that cooperation outweighs conflict in the Star Alliance as well. Abota saw how smoothly our Grand Unification had begun and believed there was a strong chance that Lord Tier Evolvers would emerge among us. That was why he gave us the Raven Messenger,