Battling a Nation Alone

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"I'm fine!"

Troubled though he was, seeing the concern from Qi Ji and the others, Jian Shang still forced out a smile in reply. After a pause, he looked at Qiu Li and ordered:

"Summon the four generals, Li Tong, Long Ju, Ji Bu, and Meng Tian, along with Southern Pacifying King Lan Ge, Lan Fenghuang, and the other Lingnan elders!"

Qiu Li left to carry out the order, but Jian Shang offered no explanation to Qi Ji and the other women. Subconsciously, he considered this a man's affair. Besides, it mainly concerned Otherworlders, which made it all the more unnecessary to burden his women with additional worries.

"Has the holy war broken out?" Jian Shang said nothing, but Hua Qiandai suddenly asked.

"Holy war?" Jian Shang blurted out in confusion.

"What Otherworlders call the National War. In our eyes, it's a struggle between peoples and between faiths, so we call it a holy war!" Hua Qiandai replied as though it were only natural.

"Yes! A struggle between peoples, between faiths..."

Something stirred in Jian Shang's heart. Surprised by Hua Qiandai's astuteness, he sighed ruefully.

Had the Huaxia Region not been torn apart and mired in internal strife, the Vietnam Region would have been worrying about an invasion from the Huaxia Region, not daring to invade the Divine Land.

The difference in overall strength between the Vietnam Region and the Huaxia Region was enormous. If both sides truly united their forces and attacked en masse, the Vietnam Region could only have taken a