The Wei River wound around Xianyang City, surging majestically as it flowed northwest.
It was also a rare great river that had no connection to the Long River.
Great Qin, a powerful nation under All-Under-Heaven, stood just beyond the Wei River, here in the northwest, looking down upon the Western Border and even gazing out over All-Under-Heaven.
There was no need to say much about Qin's strength.
Within the Western Border, none could stand against it.
The brutal battle fought on the River Valley Plains in Dao Calendar Year 3917 had directly propelled Great Qin to the title of "the mightiest," letting it faintly surpass Eastern Qi and seem capable of matching Jing, enthroned in the Central Regions.
Great Chu, with its powerful troops and horses and mighty magical artifacts, boasted that "its treasury has been full for three thousand years, and its arts and spells are the finest under heaven." Yet it had swallowed the bitter fruit of defeat, abandoned its years of investment in the Western Border, and been forced to retreat to the Southern Border to lick its wounds.
It had almost entirely lost its influence in the Western Border.
Xiang Longxiang, a renowned general of All-Under-Heaven, had died amid his army. A prodigy of his generation, Zuo Guanglie, had been pursued for a thousand miles and killed in an obscure corner of Zhuang Kingdom.
The former was a loss to the "present." The latter, a loss to the "future."
Yet Zuo Guanglie was far more than merely "a man with a bright future." Before he fell in battle, he had already been a famed young talent throughout All-Under-Heaven, a pivotal general in Great Chu's Military Department, the established heir of Great Chu's Zuo Clan, and the next commander of the Red Tassel, one of Great Chu's