The Southern Wilds Allied Army had established its front line here in the forests of the Yi Mountain Range, choosing a stretch of relatively high Mountain Ridge, leveling the ground, clearing the wilderness, and building a camp.
It resembled a barren island floating in a boundless green ocean, surrounded on every side by endless forest.
Even within the Forest Sea, however, differences in terrain were apparent. To the north, the climate was warm and humid, with ample sunlight. Together with numerous low-grade spirit veins of varying sizes and accumulated earth energy, this made the trees noticeably taller and sturdier. These trees were the foundation of all life and resources in the Forest Sea, and the vitality there was correspondingly richer.
To the south lay vast expanses of hills that gradually descended in elevation. Although they still counted as part of the Forest Sea, they were approaching its edges. Several thousand li farther south lay sprawling swamps and wilderness.
A few poor ore veins were scattered through these areas, but the Northern Border Aristocratic Clans placed little value on them, treating the region merely as an open battlefield for repelling invasions.
The truly prosperous regions lay farther south, near the cities guarded by those clans.
Recently, the Southern Wilds Allied Army had suffered defeat after defeat. There was a reason it had established its final Vanguard Camp here. This also seemed to mark the Southern Wilds' bottom line: the fighting in the wilderness could reasonably stop here. If the enemy continued south, within ten thousand li they would have to begin storming cities and taking strongholds, driving the war into an abyss of even more irreconcilable conflict.
The Southern Wilds Allied Army attached considerable importance to this Vanguard Camp. Some time earlier, even before Fang Qianyuan and the others arrived, it