"Take us directly to see the highest-ranking commander here."
Tu Bo said.
The leader hesitated for a moment, then quickly answered in a deep voice.
"This humble one holds a lowly post. Please wait a moment while I go request an audience."
Ye Tian and Tu Bo gave no reply.
The Yin soldiers behind them had long been seething with indignation, wanting to vent their leader's anger for him, but the situation forced them to swallow it down.
The leader did not get angry at this. He knew that experts naturally had strange temperaments. If they were too approachable, he might not have found them convincing.
He also knew that if the two people he had brought in this time could prove useful, rewards would certainly be his.
For the sake of a bright future, what did it matter if he endured humiliation for a while?
"Back then, this Thousand Mechanisms Camp was one of the rare tiger armies in my domain. Otherwise, it would not have been sent to guard such a borderland. Yet after not seeing it for such a short time, how had it become so unbearable?"
Tu Bo sighed, unable to hide his wistfulness. Not long ago, these soldiers had still been his subjects. Even if he no longer controlled them in substance, at least that was still the case in name.
"The world was ever-changing. Your incarnation had remained in that place and never emerged, while your true body was sealed away. There was nothing you could do about whatever happened outside."
Ye Tian rarely offered such consolation.
As the two spoke, a troop of roughly equal size approached them.
"Where are you from? Why are you here? Why are you neither patrolling nor returning to camp? What are your intentions!"
The leader was a