Bets Are Closed

In mid-September of the year 2608 of the Douluo Calendar.

Upper River Village, Blue Silver Territory, Water Wood Duchy.

Zhang Lei led a long convoy into the village, which was full of familiar faces.

The villagers had already been notified. At Village Chief Ling Changshui's direction, they gathered at the threshing ground east of the village and watched Zhang Lei and the convoy approach on horseback.

Zhang Lei swung down from his horse and greeted Third Granduncle Ling Changshan. Then he stepped onto a platform one and a half meters high, looked out at the crowd of villagers below, and called, "Folks, you all know me, Zhang Lei. I've called everyone here today because the lord has given us new instructions!"

"Although the lord isn't in the Blue Silver Territory right now, before he left, he specifically told us to get this matter, which will benefit everyone, properly taken care of!"

"Now that you've all finished harvesting the crops you planted, don't rush to sow your winter wheat. The lord left something good behind, so plant that first!"

With a wave of Zhang Lei's hand, his subordinates drove a line of carriages up to the platform and unloaded wooden crates.

Some sharp-eyed villagers in the front row had already spotted the emerald-green seedlings inside the crates, each marked with specks of blue.

Two hundred li southeast of Feier City, Fasinuo Province, Heaven Dou Empire.

An army from the Water Wood Duchy was stationed on a hillside there.

Clearly, war had already broken out between the Heaven Dou Empire and the Star Luo Empire.

There had been no exchanges of insults, no envoys killed as sacrifices before battle, because the two armies had never faced each other in formation at all!

In a bizarre turn of events, the main forces