Each word of analysis, each song of praise sounded like celestial music. Ma Teng and Han Sui felt their eyes and ears grow clear.
The great road lay beneath their feet, and grandeur waited at its end.
"This is the fertile soil of Guanzhong, the eight-hundred-li Qin River Valley. Qin and Han both set forth from here, a land where tigers crouch and dragons coil. Hold it and march east, and the world is yours to contend for!"
Fa Zheng.
Born into a powerful Guanzhong clan, he had harbored designs upon the Six Directions since youth. With a few casual words, he planted seeds in their hearts, and tender shoots broke through the soil.
And he, Fa Zheng, was one of the advisers most skilled at cultivating ambition beneath heaven!
With a word in Zhao City, Jia Xu had thrown Guanzhong into chaos. Here in Guanzhong, Fa Zheng made those surging flames blaze in earnest.
Jia Xu did it for the Luo Clan.
Fa Zheng did it for revenge!
"In three days at the earliest, seven at the latest, the Three Thousand Dare-to-Fight Warriors will descend like divine troops from heaven. When that time comes, our army will pin down the rebel forces of Li Jue and Guo Si while the Dare-to-Fight Warriors strike their grand banner. Then victory will be ours!"
A phoenix banner rose high into the air!
"So this is the Wei River!"
Fa Zheng roared to the entire Liangzhou army, laying bare the bloody answer: "In years past, the Six Commanderies were exalted, and Guanzhong was heaven's storehouse. Was that not because of the honor of the Han Emperor, the Son of Heaven?
"Was it not because the Son of Heaven's might held sway over the Four Seas and Eight Wildernesses?
"Since the Later Han, the