"Stronghold Chief Qin, I heard the Demon Calamity attacked the Liangshan Territory and the Rubble Forest. How did things turn out?"
When Gu Feng saw Qin Shujian, he went straight to the point.
Behind him
was a whole caravan.
Qin Shujian waved a hand and smiled. "A mere Demon Calamity has no right to run wild on my turf."
"It seems I worried for nothing!"
Gu Feng was shaken inwardly, but a faint smile appeared on his face.
When the Demon Calamity emerged from the Undying Plains,
he happened to be on his way to Liangshan Stronghold with a shipment of supplies.
After hearing the news,
he had immediately spurred his horse onward, hoping to contain the spread of the Demon Calamity before Liangshan Stronghold was destroyed.
After all—
the Demon Calamity had been unleashed by an Evil Fiend.
Even within a Mortal Domain, it was more than one or two factions could match.
Although Liangshan Stronghold was a second-level faction, Gu Feng still did not believe it could withstand the Demon Calamity alone.
He had thought that when he arrived at Liangshan,
he would see a fierce battle, or perhaps nothing but ruins and a landscape completely overrun by the Demon Calamity.
Yet
when he actually entered the Liangshan Territory,
Gu Feng discovered
not the slightest sign of the Demon Calamity's corruption.
There was not even a trace of demonic energy.
When he reached Liangshan Stronghold, he saw neither fighting nor the devastation wrought by the Demon Calamity.
Still, Gu Feng did not believe his intelligence was wrong.
As for the Chengyun Trading Company's intelligence network,
setting aside more distant regions,
few could rival it within the Starflare Mortal Domain alone.
Especially after seeing quite a few wounded bandits, he was all but certain a battle had indeed taken