A Good Start

Of the five routes of attack, True Person Wei directly vetoed two.

He raised no further objections to the remaining three, and Liang Zhaohuang and the others had to settle on one route from among them.

In the end, after deliberation, they chose the leftmost route.

The reason for choosing it was that, of all the routes, it passed through the most river regions.

The northern plateau and barbaric wilderness were dominated by plateau and mountain terrain, but rivers still ran through the ravines of the plateau and the valleys between the mountains.

The water in these rivers mostly came from snowmelt atop the plateaus and high mountains, eventually flowing east and south into the East Sea.

The leftmost route Liang Zhaohuang and the others had chosen essentially followed a river through the northern plateau wilderness.

There were two main reasons for this choice.

First, among the Golden Core True Persons who had come as reinforcements, the greatest number cultivated inheritances of the water element. After all, they came from the eastern and southern regions of the Immortal Dynasty, lands dotted with rivers and lakes, where water-element cultivation clans were naturally the most numerous.

Thus, it was only natural that the largest number of Golden Core True Persons among the reinforcements cultivated water-element inheritances.

Moreover, the volunteer forces brought by their respective clans likewise came from the eastern and southern regions of the Immortal Dynasty, so those cultivating water-element inheritances were naturally the most numerous among them as well.

As such, taking this river-following route of attack would best bring out the strength of the Golden Core True Persons and the reinforcements they had brought.

The second reason was that water was the source of life. Even the settlements of the northern barbarians were mostly built not far from rivers