How else could one explain the Calamity-Cleaving Army's astonishing speed?
They came quickly, and they withdrew just as quickly.
Before the news had spread very far, before many who might have appeared had the chance to do so, this "military calamity" aimed at Cloud Kingdom had already come to an end.
Throughout the army's encirclement of Cloud Kingdom, Ye Qingyu did not utter a word.
She was not the sort of person who would still throw a tantrum or weep and wail at a time like this, caring only to vent her emotions.
Fair or unfair, she said nothing.
She understood that before the Jing Kingdom army, she was as slight as a feather. She knew that she had no say before Xun Jiucang.
Since her fate rested entirely in the hands of others.
The only thing she could do was not cause trouble.
Whether she was tense, bewildered, or worried for her father.
Endure it!
Only now, with the baleful clouds of the army drifting far away and King of Dai Mountain Ji Jinglu fleeing through the air, did she turn to look at Bai Gexiao.
All her unease spread through her eyes, like a pool of autumn water rippled by the wind. Yet she kept her voice steady, without a tremor. "Aunt Bai, can you tell me what all this is about?"
Bai Gexiao had clearly been keeping watch over Cloud Kingdom's situation at all times. Xun Jiucang had barely arrived to kill before she followed close behind, swiftly contacting the nations along the Cloudborne Trade Route and preparing to go together to Tianjing City to pressure the Jing Kingdom commander directing this war.
It was impossible for her to know nothing.
But she likely had not known in advance that Ye Lingxiao was Equality State's protector, that