Qing Chen's voice was calm. "Send orders to Circuit Inspector Pei Xuance and Inspecting Censor Li Qingyuan. Use the Nine Profound Suppression of the North Formation as the foundation to hold the hundreds of thousands of miles inside and outside Yanmen Pass. Under no circumstances are you to pursue the enemy into the Black Fox Ancient Road."
"Anyone who pursues without authorization will be dealt with under military law!"
Wei Ting was still somewhat unwilling to accept this. "My lord, what about all those fortune nodes behind us? Are we just giving them away for nothing?"
"Abandon some of them." Qing Chen's gaze settled on the terrain near Fallen Star Plain, and his finger traced a circle extending a million miles to the rear.
"Send orders to all three armies. Suspend the advance toward Yin River City. Make Fallen Star Plain the final boundary and concentrate the million Dao soldiers within the million miles behind it."
Xin Bairen studied the circular region, looking thoughtful. "My Lord, do you intend to establish a base here first?"
"Correct." Qing Chen nodded. "From now on, replace the large formations with small ones."
"Organize every five hundred Dao soldiers into a Meridian-Building Banner. Have them carry prefabricated formation bases, Fortune Talismans, and Earth Vein Talismans, and set out in different directions. Once they have established a fortune node, they need not maintain it. Set down a concealment formation and return immediately."
"Send out twenty groups at a time. Break the whole into scattered parts."
"I'll show him what fighting a protracted war means!"
As Qing Chen continued issuing orders.
One point of light split into ten, and ten split into over a hundred.
Some of those nodes were real.
Others contained only simple formation patterns and a small quantity of spirit stones, specifically intended