Ruan Long braced both hands against the long table, his palms pressed into a recessed groove.
The floor tiles at the center of the conference room split apart, and the glow of a three-dimensional projection rose up, outlining the entire map of Great Xia.
Within Great Xia, three red zones were especially glaring. Each was lodged at a strategic chokepoint, continuously radiating dangerous crimson light outward.
"Now that the Demon-Sweeping Plan has been approved, we must first decide where to strike in the opening battle."
Ruan Long extended a finger and tapped the northernmost red blotch.
"First, Blackwind Valley in the Northern Frontier Wasteland. The remnants of the Northern Mad Demon Emperor are entrenched there. Together with several groups of Martial Warriors who fled there after the Northern Union collapsed, they have built sixteen fortresses. The terrain is open, and the sandstorms are fierce. Their forces are all heavily armored demon cavalry, whose charges are extremely powerful. But the flat terrain works in our favor—it will be easy for us to use warship heavy cannons to bombard the area."
His finger then moved southwest, pointing between layers of towering mountains.
"Second, Scarlet Blood Abyss in the Hundred-Thousand Mountains of the southwest. The terrain is treacherous, filled with sheer cliffs and natural barriers. The place is overgrown with mutated carnivorous demon plants, and the miasma is incredibly dense. There is only one main road into the mountains, and heavy machinery cannot enter. It is suitable for special Martial Warrior squads to slowly clear out strongpoints."
At that point, Ruan Long paused, his hand hovering over the region deep within Jiangnan Circuit.
It was a vast shadow interwoven with deep black and dark red. Its location was exceptionally tricky, nearly embedded along the edge of Great Xia's most densely populated breadbasket region.