Above Chaoge.
Three Flying Letters turned into bird-shaped shadows and sped toward Xiqi.
Zhao Gongming stood amid the clouds and pressed his hand down.
The Twenty-Four Sea-Calming Pearls flashed.
All three bird shadows fell.
One tried to burn itself up the moment it fell.
Zhao Gongming sneered.
"Still trying to burn?"
Watery light pressed down.
The talisman flame went out.
The Flying Letter unfolded, revealing several lines already written on it.
[Chaoge murdered an envoy; the Grand Preceptor's Residence silenced the witness.]
[The Xiqi Deputy Envoy died beneath the Thunder Whip.]
[Wen Zhong used the Interception Sect's might to suppress the Feudal Lords' envoys.]
Zhao Gongming's expression darkened.
"The man's not even dead, and the letter's already written."
He put away the Flying Letters and turned toward the East Sea.
"Senior brother, I've got them."
At the Northern Border's frontier.
The night wind swept through the beacon camp.
Three hundred Garrison Soldiers had just received Family Letters from their families in Chaoge, and the camp had only just settled down.
Just then, an urgent order descended from the sky toward the command tent.
The order read:
[Chaoge has killed the Xiqi envoy. The Northern Border must swiftly dispatch three hundred soldiers south to defend Shang.]
Before the order reached the ground, Yun Xiao was already standing outside the tent.
She raised her hand and caught the urgent order between her fingers.
She brushed a fingertip across it.
The outer layer of writing dispersed, revealing another line of small characters beneath.
[The Northern Border's troops have already been stirred.]
Yun Xiao's expression turned cold.
"Not yet."
She sealed the urgent order inside a jade box and placed it on the desk in the command tent.
Hearing the disturbance, the defending general lifted the curtain and stepped outside.
"Immortal?"
Yun Xiao said: