Published: March 7, 2025
Chapter 382: The Fifth Expedition!
This time, the situation was more perilous than ever before!
Chu Yang fought his way through relentlessly, constantly setting ambushes, employing tricks, scheming, and using all sorts of tactics. After several battles, he successfully advanced into the Sky Tower Mountain Range!
The Sky Tower Mountain Range, as everyone knows, is a crucial point where Great Zhao and Iron Cloud intersect!
As long as Chu Yang crossed this mountain range, he would enter Iron Cloud's territory! By then, the sky would be high enough for birds to fly, and the sea wide enough for fish to leap, rendering the Golden Horse Knights Hall powerless against him.
Therefore, the experts summoned by Jing Menghun from the Golden Horse Knights Hall were almost all concentrated here, covering the mountains! There were nearly thousands of them, each a master in their own right!
Some were hidden in the shadows, already laying down ambushes; others were waiting at various key points, either guarding from high ground or lurking in the dark, driving Chu King of Hell into a corner.
The experts from the Golden Horse Knights Hall chasing after Chu King of Hell, called by Jing Menghun, exceeded a thousand!
Chu Yang, almost covered in wounds, charged into the territory of Nine Peaks and One Garden at Sky Tower!
It is no exaggeration to say that when he saw this familiar mountain range, Chu Yang almost let out a sigh of relief and fell down weakly!
Fortunately, he managed to hold on. Because now, the Nine Peaks and One Garden at Sky Tower was already an empty shell. There was not a single person inside!
This place was only about four or five hundred miles away from Tie Butian, far enough to see each other.
But those four or five hundred miles severed all communication between the two sides!
Chu Yang thought Tie Butian was still in the Capital City, completely unaware that Tie Butian had already reached the front lines. And Tie Butian believed that Chu Yang was still thousands of miles away, never imagining that he had come so close!
If Tie Butian had known, he would have immediately mobilized an army of five hundred thousand to welcome him! Even if it meant fighting to the last soldier, he would ensure Chu Yang's safe return.
Unfortunately, he did not know!
Chu Yang entered the Sky Tower with blurry eyes... utterly exhausted...
Far away, on the official road of Great Zhao.
Flags fluttered, covering the sky and almost blocking out the sunlight!
Hundreds of thousands of troops marched forward, like a giant dragon slowly moving across this vast land. In the middle of the procession, a bright yellow carriage, exuding an air of riches and luxury, traveled among the troops, surrounded by simple curtains.
This carriage seemed to gather everyone’s gaze! Its leisurely pace, compared to the other carriages, was filled with a calm and unhurried demeanor.
Diwu Qingrou leaned against the cushion of the carriage, wearing a warm, composed smile, looking gently at the crowds on both sides of the road, her gaze sharp and cold, like mixed ice and snow.
On both sides of the road, officials bowed deeply to send off the Fifth Minister on his expedition. The civilians lined the streets in a grand send-off! However, this also slowed the marching speed of the army even more.
Diwu Qingrou's expression was warm, but inside, she felt quite impatient. The grand send-off ceremony in Zhongzhou had already displeased her. This clamor of sending off the soldiers further annoyed her.
Especially since they were already three thousand miles away, yet there were still officials trying to curry favor by mobilizing the public for a send-off, which made Diwu Qingrou even more displeased.
But she felt helpless.
Because she knew, although all of this was just a formality, it was necessary. It was a way to unite the hearts of the people. When the good news arrived, or when the people were needed, the power hidden in today’s ceremony would reveal itself.
That was an extremely enormous power!
Even a king could not deny the strength of public sentiment!