"Your Highness, why not open it and take a look?" Lü Jing urged.
After quite a while, Li Qingxian said, "I know what's inside."
"What if the goods don't match the order? You should look."
Li Qingxian stroked the bundle once more and stored it in the Heaven-and-Earth Bracelet.
The guards wore mournful expressions and looked away.
Before long, the clatter of disordered armor and footsteps rose outside.
"Your Highness, He Bao has not failed his mission! Before the Mo Blade Army, no demons remain!"
The moment He Bao's broken-gong voice rang out, half the city wanted to cover their ears.
He Bao, clad in shattered armor, strode inside. The wounds all over him still showed turned flesh and blood. His entire left ear was gone, and a small section of the left side of his head had caved in.
Behind He Bao followed a group of generals, their faces glowing with joy.
After examining He Bao, Li Qingxian nodded. "Well done."
He Bao drew a deep breath and straightened his chest.
A single word of praise from the Idle Prince made all those long years of effort worthwhile.
"Give our brothers generous burials," Li Qingxian said gravely.
"Rest assured, Your Highness! They fell north of the Great River, beneath Champion City."
The generals were filled with emotion.
Over these past decades, how many among the Human Race would rather die north of the Great River than scrape out a miserable existence south of it?
Yet even that wish had been beyond their reach.
"Hold a ceremony tomorrow. I will personally bury one brother. From now on, whenever a brother falls in battle, the commanding general must take part in the memorial rites."
"As ordered."
Li Qingxian looked toward the doorway. "Over the next few days, we may not have