Zhang Lu had been destroyed, but an even more formidable Yuan Xi had arrived in Hanzhong.
Liu Zhang could not tell what Yuan Xi intended, and he still held on to a measure of hope.
He had been enemies with Zhang Lu, so their fighting was hardly surprising. But Liu Zhang had no quarrel with Yuan Xi. It was only natural for him to hope for the best, which was why he sent Zhang Song to sound him out.
The major events of Romance of the Three Kingdoms are all happening early... Is that because of me?
Bai Xiaowen pondered in silence.
In Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the sequence had been Cao Cao destroying the Yuan family, the Three Visits to the Thatched Cottage, the Battle of Red Cliffs, Ma Chao raising an army, Cao Cao pacifying Hanzhong, and Liu Bei taking Western Sichuan.
But Zhuge Liang had joined Liu Bei before the Battle of Guandu. Ma Chao's uprising and Bai Xiaowen's conquest of Hanzhong had also happened years ahead of schedule.
Bai Xiaowen, a traveler from another world, could no longer be called a butterfly. He was a great roc whose wings hung like clouds from the sky. With every beat of those wings, waves surged through the Three Kingdoms Plane World, leaving the course of history unrecognizable.
Though history had changed, its path still held clues.
Bai Xiaowen judged that if Zhang Song's mission to Hanzhong went badly, he would visit Liu Bei on his way home and help him take Western Sichuan.
For three days, Bai Xiaowen had eagerly sought Zhang Song's counsel and treated him with humility, winning his loyalty. He had thus beaten Liu Bei to him.
Zhang Song's Western Sichuan Geographic Atlas was of little use to Bai Xiaowen, who already had the