While searching for the Crimson Blood Sect's camp, Lu Ye noticed something: the text on the map came in four colors—red, yellow, blue, and white.
Green Cloud Market Three was marked in yellow, while the Crimson Blood Sect was marked in blue.
Going by that, locations marked in blue should belong to the Vast Sky Alliance, red to Myriad Demon Ridge, and yellow to neutral territory. As for white... Lu Ye guessed it represented unclaimed land. Most mountains and rivers were marked in white.
Across the entire Ten-Part Map, red and blue markings interlaced in a tangled, intricate pattern. If the map were compared to a chessboard, then the camps marked in red and blue were the chess pieces of the two factions. Years of conflict and entanglement had turned those pieces into two great dragons, locked in a mutual death grip across the board.
Lu Ye had not truly integrated into this battlefield yet, but merely from the movements of the two sides' pieces on the map, he could already sense the peril of this struggle between factions.
Still, the great tides of the world had nothing to do with him for the time being. He was merely an unknown little cultivator at the second level of Lingxi. What mattered now was reaching the Crimson Blood Sect's camp as soon as possible.
Studying the Ten-Part Map of the battlefield, Lu Ye carefully planned his route and gradually formed a rough plan.
The light at the cave entrance dimmed. Lu Ye looked up to see Big Tiger stepping inside, while Yiyi emerged from atop Big Tiger's head and said happily, "You haven't left?"
She had come by once that morning, but when she did not find Lu Ye, she had assumed he had already gone.
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