Chapter 299: Wu Ze
By late July, the northern war was still ongoing. Both sides remained engaged in small-scale clashes, while Azure Yang Upper Continent continued expanding outward, constructing military fortresses and laying roads underground as it advanced step by step.
This was a very steady tactic. Though it consumed considerable supplies, Azure Yang Upper Continent's accumulations over the past sixty years were enough to sustain this war.
Within the continent, the Frost Continent people had launched several surprise attacks, but they seemed merely to be going through the motions. After being driven back by the Profound Residence, they made no further major moves.
Yun Chen had analyzed it in private. The Frost Continent people were likely waiting—waiting for the northern war to gradually intensify, until both Residences were wholly occupied by the great conflict. Only then would they enter the fray again.
Zhang Yu did not involve himself too deeply in this. The two Residences had entrusted Frost Continent to the Profound Residence for containment, but precisely how it was defended and how manpower was deployed were matters for the Profound Chief to consider, and now for Yun Chen to consider.
So long as Yun Chen continued fulfilling his duties, Zhang Yu only needed to ensure that internal surveillance was properly handled.
Yet he also knew that the time left to him was pressing.
On one hand, as the war grew fiercer, the strength invested by both sides would inevitably increase, and more and more people would be drawn into it. On the other, the matter of the creation people remained like a dark cloud hanging over Azure Yang Upper Continent, and no one knew when thunder and torrential rain would come pouring down.
These past days, he had been trying to study the third level of the visualization