[Xie Yuan rose from his chair, looked left and right, then bent over the unfolded map until his nose nearly touched it, his eyes wide.]
Google search TWKAN
[Marsh Lake teemed with demons. Even the combined forces of Jiannan Circuit's army and the Demon-Slaying Office could not withstand them.]
[The demons already held an unassailable position. They could emerge through the five waterways to raid at will, then ride the current down to ravage other prefectures and circuits.]
[After the Second Master, several generations of Lords of Marsh Lake had spent a century ordering their demons to move mountains into defensive barriers, building walls of bronze and iron.]
[Marsh Lake was now impregnable. Worse, over the past two hundred years, a "Demon Sage" had emerged whose power far surpassed that of his predecessors.]
[Its forces also included nine Great Demons of fearsome reputation: the nine chiefs seated in the Dragon Palace. Marsh Lake was stronger than it had been a century ago.]
[Zhang Yunzhi looked toward you with keen interest.]
["The Demon-Slaying Office at Marsh Lake now commands nine hundred commandants, all skilled fighters of the Middle Three Realms of Martial Dao. An expert of the Upper Three Realms holds the fort, alongside an agent of the Divine Hidden Office at the Primordial Spirit Eighth Realm."]
["That force would be more than ample for the Demon-Slaying Office of any other prefecture. Against Marsh Lake, though, it is stretched thin—nowhere near enough."]
[A single Great Demon could match a martial artist of the Upper Three Realms, and Marsh Lake had more than one.]
["The trouble is, we cannot deploy the army. They take their orders from the military governor."]
[Her father served at Marsh Lake as chief commander of its Demon-Slaying Office.]
[Xie Yuan sat back down and sighed at length.]