According to the deductions of Wu Qi and his men, Zhao Cheng's occupation of the Chain Mountains was not a prelude to taking Wu City. What he wanted next was Heaven's End Pass.
He only had to wait for the heroes to heed the imperial decree and campaign against the Yellow Heaven Daoist. Once the Yellow Heaven Daoist was defeated and killed, and his forces scattered, Zhao Cheng could forge a secret Yellow Heaven edict, falsely relay his final command, and gather the remnants of the Yellow Heaven Army beneath his banner.
He had ambition, methods, ability, decisiveness, and ruthlessness. Only this fit with everything Zhao Cheng had done since entering the Chain Mountains.
As for taking Wu City with five thousand men, that was a joke. The section of Wu City's walls facing the Chain Mountains stood over ten zhang high—more than fifty meters—and when it had been built, the Wu King of old had even employed Daoist arts.
The city walls were also more than five zhang thick, nearly twenty meters.
As for the gates, Wu City's gates were massive iron doors cast in a single piece. No one knew what benefits the Wu King had promised back then, but he had actually managed to invite a resident immortal to use Daoist arts in their making.
That was why the Wu King had believed that, with such an iron city, the Southern Wasteland would stand secure forever, enduring for a thousand autumns and ten thousand generations.
Yet history had proved countless times that the strongest fortress was always breached from within. Wu City was naturally no exception.
Wu Qi naturally did not believe that, with his control over Wu City, anyone would open its gates for the Yellow Heaven Army.
Compared to Wu City, Heaven's End Pass was