Jialing Pass stood at the heart of the Heavenly Spirit Mountain Range. Easy to defend and difficult to attack, it served as the Heaven Dou Empire's southern shield.
In the original story, the Spirit Hall Empire had seized control of Jialing Pass first.
Of course, after Qian Renxue ascended the throne, her foresight ensured that taking control of Jialing Pass was her first priority.
South of Jialing Pass lay the Ice Soul Grassland, with the Four Great Kingdoms farther south. From west to east, they were the Balak Kingdom, the Silves Kingdom, the Haagen-Dazs Kingdom, and the Ancient Thunder Kingdom.
The Four Kingdoms Coalition converged before Jialing Pass, bristling with aggression.
A million soldiers spread across the Ice Soul Grassland in a vast, dark sea!
Yet Jialing Pass was built against the mountains amid treacherous terrain, with walls a hundred meters high and a hundred meters thick. Even a million-strong army dared not recklessly launch a frontal assault.
Atop Jialing Pass.
Qian Renxue, disguised as Xue Qinghe, stood on the battlements, gazing at the dark mass of the Four Kingdoms Coalition below. A contemptuous sneer flickered in her eyes.
A rabble!
So what if they had scraped together a million soldiers?
She did not even need to muster the strength of the entire empire to defend against them.
With this mighty stronghold, she needed only a hundred thousand soldiers to keep the four kingdoms' million-strong rabble outside Jialing Pass.
Only the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan deserved her attention.
Several people stood behind Qian Renxue.
They were Ge Long, marshal of the Heaven Dou Empire, Ning Fengzhi of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Sword Douluo, and Qi Dao.
Dugu Bo had not come. First, he was busy breaking through to level 97. Second, his martial soul's poison was far