Lavish rewards! Truly lavish rewards!
Subordinate Fourth Rank Rebellion-Subduing General! Actual command over three prefectures! An army of a hundred and fifty thousand!
And Spirit Crystals and major merits enough to make anyone green with envy!
Every officer in the tent, including the Nascent Soul Cultivators, found his breathing growing heavier.
These rewards far exceeded the ordinary, showing how much importance Xiao Canglan attached to this battle, and how highly he valued Qing Chen!
After all, he had not only breached the city, but also wiped out sixty thousand troops and a Nascent Soul True Lord!
All told, the soldiers who had died at Qing Chen's hands already numbered over a hundred thousand!!
Even a truly fierce general could do no better!
Tie Zhan laughed heartily, cupping his hands as he declared in a booming voice, "Your wisdom shines, Great General! Such lavish rewards will surely send our army's morale soaring like a rainbow!"
His own nephew had reached Subordinate Fourth Rank, too, and through solid military merit. This delighted him.
With this hurdle cleared, a little more maneuvering in the future would make commanding a hundred thousand troops independently no problem.
Wei Ting was even more ecstatic inwardly. He bowed deeply. "This subordinate thanks the Great General for his gracious rewards!"
This was exactly what he wanted. What he wanted was Subordinate Third Rank!
Every officer understood that a new star of military command had risen boldly over the Southern Borderlands in the most dazzling, bloodiest fashion!
Just like Wu Gui once had.
Several months later.
Deep in the rolling mountains outside Firepit County, Miaochong Prefecture, miasma filled the air, and ancient trees towered into the sky.
Inside a vast cave abode carved out beside a precipitous cliff, flickering firelight illuminated eighteen figures with fierce auras.
This was