You Mengde remembered his master's advice: pay close attention to the Black Rock Mountains. His master had also said that the key to the Black Rock Mountains lay with Tang Changsheng...
You Mengde had been somewhat skeptical at first. But in so short a time, Tang Changsheng had turned clouds with one hand and rain with the other, utterly transforming the Black Rock Mountains.
Night fell, and birds startled in the forest.
Every rustle of grass, every breath of wind, was now enough to unsettle the Pan Army.
Shao Jun City lay in the rear, so the main force had not been stationed there.
The Pan Tribe's thirty-thousand-strong main force had split in two and pushed into the Black Rock Mountains, sweeping the area, capturing slaves, and destroying the forests.
But now both Pan armies had heard that Shao Jun had been killed and Shao Jun City taken. Thrown into confusion, they had actually regrouped...
Nothing like this had ever happened before. An army of twenty or thirty thousand Pan Tribesmen could sweep aside any Tribal Stockade in the Black Rock Mountains except Hongdong Stockade.
Even deep in enemy territory, they had moved as if strolling through a quiet courtyard.
But everything had changed. Ever since Shao Jun had been slain by the Hongdong Wizard and even Shao Jun City had fallen, everything had changed.
Worst of all, the entire army knew Shao Jun was dead. Their morale had plunged to rock bottom.
Their commander had died in battle—and that commander was Shao Jun, the King Pan's crown prince. Under the Pan Tribe's brutal laws, the whole army was in trouble... They might all be buried with Shao Jun.
That was assuming they escaped the Black Rock Mountains alive and made it back to King Pan City...
In short, the