The situation along the Eastern Region border had undergone several changes over the past ten years.
When Yang Guanfeng and Han Wang had first arrived, they had faced bandits trying to enter the Tiger Chasing Dynasty. Most of them had originally been rebel armies within the Eastern Wilderness whose uprisings to seize power had failed.
As time passed, by the fourth year, the new regimes that had emerged after the dissolution of the Eastern Wasteland Dynasty had gradually stabilized.
The First Prince of the former Eastern Wasteland Dynasty had monopolized the entire eastern territory, while the Third Prince and Seventh Prince had used a great river as their boundary, one in the north and one in the south, occupying the western regions.
The entire western border of the Seventh Prince's territory, along with a small stretch of the Third Prince's territory, bordered the Tiger Chasing Dynasty.
After a three-legged balance of power formed within the Eastern Wilderness, the number of rogue soldiers and wandering bandits plummeted, and the border situation settled down as well.
It was at that point that the Tiger Chasing leadership freed up its attention to begin consolidating and arranging the various domestic forces. The Yang Family thus rode this great tide and began developing rapidly.
This stable situation lasted around three years. Those three years were also the most comfortable period on the border front; there were basically only three small skirmishes a month, and fewer than five major battles in total.
But by the seventh year, the involvement of sect forces turned the previously tranquil border situation treacherous and ever-changing once more, and the situation took a sharp turn for the worse.
With sects backing them from behind, the Seventh Prince's and Third Prince's forces began stirring again, setting their sights on the borderlands of