Seven Kingdoms Encircle the Burial Mound

"Luo Qiwu."

"We're going to ambush and kill him?" Jiang Chongguang murmured, repeating the name. A dangerous glint flashed in his eyes.

Han Sushu shook his head. "You can't beat him right now. But we don't need to face him head-on this time. Our target is the horse beneath him."

Hearing that he was no match for Luo Qiwu, Jiang Chongguang couldn't help curling his lip.

But he had always trusted Han Sushu, so he did not argue.

"That horse does look impressive. But is it worth both of us coming all this way?" Jiang Chongguang asked, puzzled.

"That horse is called the Earth-Stealing Blacksteed. It carries ancient dragon blood, can travel ten thousand li in a day, and its hooves never touch the earth. Most importantly—

"It once lived in the Cloud-Dream Marsh. During Qian's conquest of Xiang, the marsh ran dry for seven days, and the horse all but vanished from the world. Who would have thought a surviving bloodline would appear in Langya Commandery years later?" Han Sushu glanced at Jiang Chongguang as he spoke evenly.

By then, Luo Qiwu had mounted the blacksteed and returned to the commandery governor's residence, surrounded by the crowd.

Jiang Chongguang's gaze remained fixed on the direction in which he had disappeared.

"The Cloud-Dream Marsh..." His expression turned distant.

The Cloud-Dream Marsh had been a heartland of the Xiang Kingdom, the birthplace of countless legends and tales. But after Qian destroyed Xiang, all that splendor had been buried.

Even he, the rightful heir of Xiang, knew only a few fragments.

"The Imperial Tomb Commandery holds the realm's thirteen provinces within a single domain. But those thirteen provinces came into being only after Great Qian was founded. To display his great achievement of destroying the Seven Kingdoms and uniting all under heaven,