The endless Ming Dou Mountain Range sprawled across the vast land like a crouching dragon.
After passing through rugged, winding mountain roads, an enormous military camp exuding an aura of iron-blooded slaughter suddenly appeared before the people from Shrek Academy.
This was the garrison of the Star Luo Empire's Western Group Army.
Huge command banners fluttered loudly in the wind throughout the camp, while fully armed soldiers patrolled in orderly formations, the clatter of heavy armor crisp and clear.
Even the air was filled with an inescapable aura of blood and battle.
Led by a stern-faced middle-aged general, Wang Yan guided Ma Xiaotao and the others from Shrek toward the heart of the garrison.
Before long, they arrived outside an exceptionally spacious central command tent.
However, before the middle-aged general in front could announce their arrival, an intensely heated argument suddenly erupted from within the tent.
From the voices, the argument was between a young man consumed by rage and a dignified middle-aged man.
"Father! I truly cannot understand your decision!"
"Mother and Huabin only suffered their misfortune not long ago. We are still in the mourning period, yet at a time like this, you want to move a concubine without even a proper status directly into the White Tiger Ancestral Shrine?"
"That is a place where generations of ancestors are enshrined. She is merely a maid who does not even qualify as a secondary wife. What gives her the right? I absolutely refuse!"
Everyone outside the tent stopped in their tracks, their expressions varying.
Ma Xiaotao, who stood at the front, froze outright because she knew that voice far too well.
It was not just her. Bei Bei, Xu Sanshi, Wang Dong, and the others behind her also revealed shocked expressions.
The young man shouting himself hoarse inside was