When the one million five hundred thousand Dao Soldiers outside Yanmen Pass divided into four military formations and drilled simultaneously, their sky-piercing military baleful aura swept away the wind and snow for thousands of miles around.
Countless treasure ships spanned the Sea of Clouds, formation flags rose like a forest, and armor gleamed in the sunlight. Dense fortune and military formation power converged into a dark-red ocean whose end was almost beyond sight.
Whenever Qing Chen climbed the gate tower and looked at the one million five hundred thousand Dao Soldiers outside the pass, an unmistakably clear feeling arose within him.
At this very moment, he truly possessed the means to command the Northwestern Circuit and deter the Golden Tent Khanate's Black Fox King Tribe.
"The affairs of the realm rest on this Commander-in-Chief's shoulders!"
As for Pei Xuance, he never woke.
The Governor-General's Office publicly declared that Circuit Inspector Pei had been severely wounded by that bizarre black-and-white power, leaving both his divine soul and his Nascent Soul foundation damaged. Ordinary fourth-tier medicinal pills could hardly take effect.
Qing Chen had not only assigned several Alchemists to care for him but had even personally used the Mystic Womb Demon Lotus's divine sense to stabilize his sea of consciousness. He had already shown the utmost benevolence and fulfilled every obligation.
In truth, however, Qing Chen had never genuinely put his heart into treating him.
He had merely fed him several fourth-tier medicinal pills in succession to sustain his physical body's vitality, then locked down Pei Xuance's Nascent Soul with a primordial magnetism seal, neither allowing his injuries to worsen nor letting him truly wake.
For every day Pei Xuance remained unconscious, no one in the Northwestern Circuit could truly exercise the Circuit Inspector's authority.
This was best.
Let that Army-Garrison