Xu Zifeng did not understand, but Commander Yun Xu knew that this was precisely what made Li Chen so shrewd as the ruler of a superpower.
To give a simple example, if Li Chen ordered Xu Zifeng to attack the Starfall Kingdom, would the Starfall Kingdom not fight to the death once it received word?
Then the Eternal Day Empire would have achieved its goal, because it wanted both to reap profits from selling armaments and to have the Southern Kingdoms wear down the Heavenly Strategy Dynasty's military strength.
After all, if the Heavenly Strategy army attacked the Starfall Kingdom, the Starfall Kingdom could hardly sit there waiting to die.
But Li Chen had not told Xu Zifeng to attack anyone. He had merely ordered him to advance a thousand meters each day.
That meant the Southern Kingdoms did not dare provoke the Heavenly Strategy army either. Who would dare? Would that not be courting death?
It created a situation where Li Chen made the kings of the Southern Kingdoms guess what he intended to do.
And since they had to guess, they were bound to be afraid.
One thing was certain, anyway: the Southern Kingdoms would not take the initiative to provoke the Heavenly Strategy army unless it explicitly named them as its targets.
Was Dai Wuchang, king of the Starfall Kingdom, not a perfect example? To put it bluntly, the Heavenly Strategy army was still far from his country, yet he was already terrified.
Because he truly had no idea what Li Chen intended to do, and he did not dare provoke him.
Human fear of danger paled beside fear of the unknown.
Precisely because of that uncertainty, Dai Wuchang could no longer sit still even with the Heavenly Strategy army far away. He wanted to find an