River in the Mountains, East and West of the World!

The sunlight dipped slightly west, slanting down from the zenith and casting a yellow haze over the map. The seemingly old map had in fact only been drawn not long ago. Upon it were the mountains and rivers under heaven, the terrain and the various city-states, and it also recorded the latest scouting intelligence from the Alliance High Priest Council and the Lake Kingdom!

At that moment, Black Wolf Toltec and Captain of Warriors Bertad followed His Highness's finger and looked intently at the same time. They saw a long blue trace stretching in a mighty line from distant Atoyac Lake south of Purple Grass City, crossing a thousand li of mountains and gorges upstream, all the way to the south of Shuigu City, to the main camp of the Southern Legion!

"The Talsas River—what a long river through the mountains! Only, what a pity. It is short just this stretch, just this one stretch!"

Xolotl looked for a long while, then sighed regretfully. He reached out a finger and carefully traced through the rolling mountains south of the Mountain Pass Fortress Group. This perilous mountain route was like the Three Gorges on the upper reaches of the Yangtze, forcefully cutting a two-thousand-li long river into two sections that could scarcely be navigated!

"Only this one or two hundred li of perilous mountain road prevents passage up and down! The kingdom's transport fleet has no choice but to stop here, switch to two hundred li of mountain roads, and only then reach the upper reaches of the Talsas River. But if we could follow the western basin, relying on the mountain streams, and dig a canal a hundred li long..."

Hearing this, Black Wolf and the Captain of Warriors looked at each other, both rather at a loss for words.