Every Arrangement, Every Scheme. Qi Yue Wu Yi? With You, I Share My Robe!

After another day of travel, Dai Chengfeng and Zhu Fan finally returned to Wu'an City.

At that moment, lead-gray storm clouds piled layer upon layer, shrouding the sky above Wu'an City, making the entire city feel especially oppressive.

Rumble!

A muffled peal of thunder, like the roar of a giant beast, tore across the horizon.

Everything foretold that a torrential downpour was about to arrive.

"This really is fine weather!"

Dai Chengfeng sat in the carriage, looking at the gloomy sky with deep eyes. "My odds of victory have grown by a few points again."

Before long, the two men's carriage returned to the City Lord's Mansion in Wu'an City.

They had only just gotten out.

"Your Highness, you've finally returned."

"You're several hours later than scheduled. Did something unexpected happen?"

At that moment, Zhu Yan, the city lord of Wu'an City, seemed to have been waiting for a long time.

At his side lay a suit of silver-white armor and a brand-new spear.

Dai Chengfeng looked at the armor and spear, then nodded. "There was something of an unexpected incident, but it was a good thing. You'll know soon enough."

Before he had left, he had thought that, if everything went smoothly, he should return to the city around Zi Time last night.

But because he had absorbed the fifteen-hundred-year Emperor Blood Tiger Soul Ring above his level, it had delayed him somewhat.

But now that he was back, nothing would be affected.

Or rather, he was right on time.

Dai Chengfeng looked at Zhu Yan. "Have you arranged everything I told you to before I left?"

Zhu Yan nodded. "Reporting to Your Highness, this general has already completed all the arrangements you ordered in advance."

"Good!"

As Dai Chengfeng spoke, he took a deep breath, then looked at his uncle Zhu Fan with incomparable seriousness. "Commander of the Star Luo Empire Imperial Guard, Zhu Fan, hear my command!"

"This general is here!"

Zhu Fan instantly dropped to one knee, his left hand pounding against his chest, his expression utterly solemn.

"I'll give you two hundred men!"

"You must hold Wu Ping City's North Gate for half an hour. You absolutely cannot allow the city gate to close."

"Can you do it?!"

"This..."

Zhu Fan looked at Dai Chengfeng in confusion. "Your Highness, if I personally lead two hundred men out of the city, Wu Ping City will definitely receive intelligence in advance and close the city gate. How am I supposed to—"

Before Zhu Fan could finish, Dai Chengfeng chuckled softly. "But what if no one knows you left the city?"

"And what if you and those two hundred men can appear directly eight hundred meters outside Wu Ping City's North Gate?"

Hearing Dai Chengfeng's question, Zhu Fan nodded. "Then this general is confident that I can definitely hold it."

"Forget half an hour—even an hour would be no problem."

"It's just, how am I supposed to do that without being discovered, while also appearing directly eight hundred meters outside Wu Ping City's North Gate?"

Dai Chengfeng looked at Zhu Yan.

Zhu Yan nodded, then explained to Zhu Fan with some embarrassment, "My apologies, Commander Zhu Fan."

"In truth, one month after road construction began, this general received a private military order from His Highness."

"He ordered me to use the road construction as cover and open an underground passage leading directly outside Wu Ping City."

"It's just that His Highness once said I was not to reveal it to anyone, so I didn't."

"Even the workers who dug the underground passage were found from other cities. And every time they entered the passage, their eyes had to be covered beforehand, and I alone led them inside..."

Dai Chengfeng spoke again then. "It was only because time was short, and we had to ensure absolute secrecy."

"Therefore, the tunnel I ordered Zhu Yan to dig is not very wide."

"In a short period of time, accommodating two hundred people is already the limit."

"Wu'an City's main army cannot use the tunnel to go to Wu Ping City..."

"But with this newly built road on the surface, what was originally a journey of an hour and a half now only takes half an hour."

"This is also why I had to have you, Uncle, hold Wu Ping City's North Gate for half an hour."

After hearing Zhu Yan and Dai Chengfeng's explanation, Zhu Fan did not get angry.

After all, he knew very well that the fewer people knew a secret, the better.

Therefore, he merely gave Dai Chengfeng another solemn military salute. "In that case!"

"Your Highness can rest assured. With my strength as a Soul Douluo, eight hundred meters is nothing."

"I'm fully confident I can charge through Wu Ping City's gates before they close, and hold out for half an hour until the main army arrives."

Dai Chengfeng nodded. "Uncle, go."

"He's in the Martial Arts Arena. The entrance to the passage is in City Lord Zhu Yan's room."

"Yes!"

Zhu Fan answered, then turned and left.

Watching Zhu Fan's departing back, Dai Chengfeng said, "Uncle, be careful!"

Zhu Fan waved a hand. "Chengfeng, your uncle is a Soul Douluo!"

"During the time I'm gone, you're the one who needs to watch your safety. Remember, don't stray too far from Zhu Yan."

"Mm!"

Only after Zhu Fan's figure had completely vanished did Dai Chengfeng look at Zhu Yan again. "Zhu Yan, City Lord of Wu'an City, heed my command!"

"This general obeys!"

Zhu Yan likewise dropped to one knee, his eyes incomparably solemn, with a faint trace of exhilaration that a great hatred was about to be avenged.

After all, compared with Dai Chengfeng and Zhu Fan, Zhu Yan was the one closest to the soldiers of Wu'an City.

Xu Feng, for example, had been personally promoted by him, and was someone he valued greatly.

Before this, the two of them had also once fought together on the battlefield.

But...

At that thought, Zhu Yan's eyes reddened slightly, killing intent surging from him.

"I order you to assemble all troops in Wu'an City before the Weiling Stele."

"At the same time, send men to seal off every exit in Wu'an City. Not even a fly is to be let out."

"If anyone disobeys and attempts to leave the city... there is no need to report it. Kill them on the spot!"

Zhu Yan cupped his fists. "This general receives the order!"

Because they had to assemble every day to go repair the roads, and because Dai Chengfeng had even made a special rule...

Even while repairing roads, the soldiers of Wu'an City had to keep their armor on at all times.

Therefore.

In just Half Zhuan Xiang, all the officers and soldiers of Wu'an City, apart from those responsible for guarding the walls, had already finished assembling before the Weiling Stele.

Only, they were all very puzzled...

After all, in the past, whenever they repaired the roads, they had assembled before the city gates. Why had it suddenly been changed today to gathering before the Weiling Stele?

And just as they were wondering and discussing it...

Clop, clop, clop~

The crisp sound of horse hooves rang out. Dai Chengfeng, clad in silver-white battle armor and holding a spear, rode his warhorse before the crowd.

Members of the Dai Family were naturally tall. Dai Chengfeng's father, Dai An, for instance, stood a full 2.2 meters tall.

On top of that, Dai Chengfeng had been tempering his body with Innate Geng Metal Qi all this time, stimulating his body's potential ahead of time. So at this moment, dressed in battle armor, he had every bit the air of a young general.

Until he arrived before all the soldiers.

Dai Chengfeng lifted his spear and pointed at the Weiling Stele he had specially built for the officers and soldiers who had died in the battle against Qian Renxue.

"Soldiers!"

"Do you know what this is?"

Hearing this, one soldier ventured, "The Weiling Stele?"

"Not entirely!"

Dai Chengfeng shook his head and shouted, "This is not only the Weiling Stele. This is a grudge! A blood feud with Heaven Dou Empire!"

"On this stele are a full 2,862 names..."

"They are all the names of soldiers who fearlessly sacrificed themselves to protect Wu'an City in the Wu'an Blood War eight months ago!"

"And today!"

"I, Dai Chengfeng, Fourth Prince of Star Luo Empire, will lead you all..."

"To avenge them!!!"

At the word "avenge," the eyes of all the soldiers of Wu'an City instantly reddened. Surging killing intent, accompanied by Soul Power that ran wild from their fury, swept back up into the sky.

Dark clouds turned into a vortex, and thunder exploded within it.

To Dai Chengfeng...

The outcome of that battle left him feeling more unwilling to accept it than anything else.

But to every soldier in Wu'an City, this was pain they had felt in their own flesh, a blood feud as deep as the sea!

After all, among those brief 2,862 names were brothers who had once lived and died beside them, fathers who had raised them, sons of their own bloodline... Those were the entire lives of so many people!

"Revenge!"

"Revenge!!"

"..."

Everyone roared in fury as one!

Boom—!

A peal of thunder split the sky, briefly lighting up the names on the Weiling Stele.

The wild wind whipped the Great Banner about, and the torrential rain that had been held back for so long finally fell at that moment.

Dai Chengfeng let the rain soak his armor. His spear angled upward, pointing straight toward the northwestern horizon—toward Wu Ping City. "Qi Yue Wu Yi? We share the same robe. When the king raises his army, we ready our spears and halberds, and share the same foe!"

"On this march, follow me and trample Wu Ping City to pieces! Kill!"