Bai Xiaowen's gaze remained calm.
"A monster! No wonder someone like him managed to unite the notoriously difficult Three Kingdoms Plane!"
Alec decisively used a Return Scroll, and his figure vanished.
"He got away? Lucky him."
Bai Xiaowen did not mind.
Alec's reaction had given Bai Xiaowen the confirmation he needed.
The Awakening Skill Taiping Talisman's Heart-Confounding Talisman could indeed be used on Awakeners and could control them—as long as they did not escape its range.
With the unpredictable Awakener dealt with, Bai Xiaowen regrouped with Li Shuyi.
Bai Xiaowen mounted Er-Er the White Eagle and circled above the tower ship. Like an airborne early-warning aircraft, he swept the area with his mental power. Only after confirming that no other Awakeners had slipped aboard did he return.
By then, the Jiangdong fleet had scattered in every direction.
More than twenty fireships charged straight into Zhou Yu's shore camp at the Three Rivers Estuary. Fanned by the wind, the flames roared.
The camp's ten thousand-plus Jiangdong soldiers suffered terrible losses and fled in a rout.
Zhou Yu still tried to lead his warships against the Yuan Army's vessels, but those ships were now chained together and exceptionally stable.
The archers atop the tower ships no longer struggled even to stand, as they had in their first encounter. At Huang Zhong's command, they loosed a volley. The rain of arrows drove back the Jiangdong fleet, and the tower ships forced their way to shore.
Without meeting any serious resistance, Bai Xiaowen led his troops ashore and set foot on Jiangdong soil.
Under the command of fierce generals such as Huang Zhong, Zhang Liao, and Xu Huang, the vanguard charged. How could the soldiers from Jiangdong's shore camp, already fleeing in disarray, withstand them?
Taishi Ci rallied his men and fought desperately, but