Across the boundless grasslands, two tall horses rode side by side.
The braided man riding behind shouted, "Yegai, did you get it wrong? If you want a place in the Assembly, shouldn't you be going to contend for the title of First Under Heaven?"
"No, you're the one who got it wrong!" Zhao Rucheng said from the front, riding at a gallop. "A place in the Assembly means exactly what it says. I want to watch the Yellow River Assembly. You just need to get me a seat where I can sit and watch!"
"But you're going anyway!" Yuwen Duo still wouldn't give up. "What's wrong with fighting a few matches while you're at it?"
Zhao Rucheng: ...
What the other man said made no sense at all, and yet, for some reason, it seemed strangely hard to argue against...
He could only growl, "Cut the nonsense!"
"Sure thing!" Yuwen Duo squeezed his horse's flanks and scampered ahead.
The date for the Yellow River Assembly had been set: the eleventh day of the seventh month.
They said Court Consultant Xie Huaian had personally gone to check the water levels. In any case, the six countries of roughly equal standing had agreed on the date together. As for the other countries, they could simply follow the arrangements.
That left nothing to do but wait.
For those taking part in the Yellow River Assembly, there was nothing else to do during this time but cultivate.
Basically, no one would bother them for any reason.
Apart from his regular daily cultivation, Jiang Wang had been devoting his recent efforts to the Fire Realm Art. During his cultivation on the General-Summoning Platform, with Yi Xingchen's help, he had managed to complete an initial version of the technique.
But if he wanted to