Cha Fuli held the highest seat. He treated Chen Yingyang and the other generals without the slightest courtesy, but observed every formality with me. Though there was distance between us, he clearly wasn't as unrestrained as he was with his subordinates. He must have been somewhat wary of me...
Interestingly, some of his subordinates and the commanders of the other armies either stayed silent, treated me as an ordinary commander, or probed me discreetly...
Marshal Chen Yingyang and his subordinates remained silent throughout. They didn't say so outright, but they treated me courteously, unlike Cha Fuli's men, who were so brazen... Some of Chen Yingyang's men occasionally revealed their dissatisfaction with Cha Fuli...
At full strength, the Mo Blade Army numbered ten thousand, divided into left, right, front, rear, and central divisions, each commanding two thousand men. Four of its generals were Principal Fourth Rank. Only the central division's general, Feng Anling, was Third Rank, and he also served as deputy commander of the Mo Blade Army. Feng Anling was courteous when he met me. He had a steady temperament, a meticulous mind, and a thorough knowledge of military strategy. According to Night Guard intelligence, he came from the Five Armies Commandery. Like all the Mo Blade Army's generals, he had the military's newly risen elite behind him, all promoted after Emperor Taining ascended the throne...
*The front division's general, He Bao, was a tough man with Barbarian Race blood. He wielded a pair of great war hammers and had fought his way into his position through sheer strength. He seemed unconvinced by me. Or rather, most of the generals here were unconvinced when they saw a Dao Cultivator and Fate Arts Master like me commanding troops. Still, whatever their misgivings, none dared provoke a Fate Arts Master. At least