"After Xue Heshan's birthday banquet ends, are you returning to the Northern Garrison Army?"
"Mm. It's time I went back. Besides, I made a bet with Meow King. She'll soon owe me a military tally."
"I heard the Northern Garrison Army is planning to make a move against the River Guard Army."
"They don't have the guts. Look at the Distant Might Army these past few days. Following behind the River Guard Army, they were like a pack of hyenas trailing a pride of lions. Their target was never the lions, but the rotting meat left behind by the lions."
"Yes, that's possible too. Perhaps the Northern Garrison Army caught the scent of carrion."
Li Qingxian's gaze sharpened.
Mirror Devil Empress said, "On the fifteenth of every month, an imperial edict in a golden plaque enters the River Guard Army, ordering the Grand General King back to the capital. Wang Buying. Year after year, month after month."
Li Qingxian said, "Why doesn't the imperial court cross the river northward, launch a campaign, and retake Champion City?"
Mirror Devil Empress pondered before saying, "I don't understand the affairs of the imperial court, but I know this: the reason I never went to do what I should have done was because I was afraid. Once a person becomes afraid, they can accomplish nothing."
"In the books I read, the sages said the same. Some fear Heaven, some fear Earth, some fear gods, some fear people, but at the root of it all, they are merely frightening themselves."
"When I am no longer afraid, I'll go do what I should do."
"It is only after you do what you should do that you can say you are not afraid," Li Qingxian said.
Mirror Devil Empress froze. After standing there in a daze for