Let Me Explain, Fairy
Chapter 247 - 192: Choice

Chapter 247: Chapter 192: Choice

At the lakeside of the Imperial City in the Imperial Capital where silence reigned, the bustling Wanxiang City was alive with activity, yet within a luxurious chamber in the east of the city, there was no sound.

Lou Ji, wearing a black dress with green patterns, crossed her arms and leaned against a nearby column:

"This is the reason my sister has to leave, with the new year comes an autumn of incidents."

"...."

Xu Yuan did not immediately respond, carefully reading the latest "Grade-A" confidential report that Lou Ji had just handed him.

With his current status, he should not have been qualified to view such confidential reports, but who asked Lou Ji to be so fond of him?

Just now, she had sought him out abruptly, saying that she was going to quit and leave, and when he asked for the reason, Lou Ji directly handed him this report about the Northern Frontier war.

After a while,

As a wisp of blood flame rose, the document in his hand burned to ashes, and Xu Yuan’s brows were tightly furrowed.

Although the Wanxing Mountain Range was lively with battle, the absence of even a single war behemoth suggested that Ancient Abyss was only engaging in routine depletion of the Demonic Beasts within the mountains as a probing action this year, and if it weren’t for Myriad Manifestation Sect having other intentions, Shengshan County would not have suffered heavy casualties.

The current Northern Frontier was the only place in the Dayan Empire that could truly be called a warzone.

Therefore, Northern Frontier was always of great interest to Xu Yuan.

People always like to pay attention to these things, especially when you can get your hands on real, first-hand information.

When Xu Yuan first arrived in Wanxiang City, he sought similar intelligence, and whether it was the official Gazette or the internal reports from the Prime Minister’s Mansion, they were full of victorious news.

It was either that they had slain two thousand barbarians in a certain mountain, or they had surrounded the main force of a Barbarian Tribe’s in a certain river, and even in the largest scale battle, Princess Wu Yuan completely obliterated the main force of a large tribe and slaughtered seven to eighty thousand of their old and young.

Princess Wu Yuan’s intentions this time were easy to guess; if she couldn’t exterminate the barbarian tribes, she had to beat them so they couldn’t recover for twenty years.

But now, the situation had suddenly changed.

The victorious reports were gone, and the forty thousand Feathered Forest Army led by Wu Yuan, along with twenty thousand elite soldiers from the various Sects and clans, were directly besieged by the Barbarian Strange King at Dali Mountain.

After a moment of silence, Xu Yuan stood up, his brows furrowed, and he paced the room:

"Hejia Town, such a critical transportation hub’s forty thousand garrison troops were defeated, resulting in the severance of the main army’s land supply and provisions? And the fact that the two Second Grade experts from the Spiritual Water Palace who were transporting military supplies and equipment with the Sumeru Ring were directly killed by barbarians at Tianpu Cliff..."

Xu Yuan found it absurd.

He was still only partially familiar with the warfare model of this world, but he knew there were three methods of transporting supplies.

Besides the regular land transportation and air transport, there was the method of powerful individuals traveling quickly with a few or even a dozen Sumeru Rings.

The majority of the supply transportation for the Prime Minister’s Mansion’s assault on Wanxiang City was through the latter method.

This was also why Sumeru Rings were so rare, as they represented true strategic assets, able to relieve armies of supply pressure.

It was understandable for land supply routes to be cut off as it was a classic military blunder with many potential causes, but for high-level Cultivators to be ambushed was a bit implausible.

Lou Ji’s face, usually marked by languid grace, now carried a touch of helplessness as she sighed:

"Changtian, these events happened within the span of two days."

There was an implied suggestion in her words.

Of course, Xu Yuan could hear the implication.

The Formation Pattern Technique of the Primordial Source Crystal was currently only available to the Prime Minister’s Mansion, and it was classified as top secret among Grade-A confidential information.

In other words, even if someone had immediately informed the front line where Wu Yuan was, there would not have been enough time to respond.

Someone had given no room for Princess Wu Yuan to react at all.

Realizing this,

Xu Yuan looked up at Lou Ji:

"Was it the Sects’ doing?"

The confidential report only detailed objective events that had occurred and did not include speculations or conjecture.

Lou Ji spread her hands:

"I don’t know, but it’s very likely."

An absurd feeling suddenly emerged in Xu Yuan’s heart:

"But those forty thousand troops guarding Hejia Town and the twenty thousand elite forces at Wu Yuan’s side were all from the Sects, not to mention the two Primordial powerhouses."

Lou Ji stepped closer, leaned in, and lightly patted Xu Yuan’s shoulder, her phoenix eyes filled with profound meaning:

"Changtian, sixty thousand people might seem many, but to the Sects of the whole world, it really isn’t a significant number, and the same goes for two Primordials."

Silence.

Then,

Xu Yuan, puzzled, asked, "The Sects... what are they trying to do?"

Lou Ji did not directly answer his question but offered more information:

"Several Black Scale Guards covertly revealed that the supplies Wu Yuan escorted northwards were not for forty thousand but for a hundred thousand."

"A hundred thousand..." Xu Yuan wore a strange expression: "You mean she’s hiding troops?"

Lou Ji laughed lightly, shaking her index finger softly as she explained:

"Marquis Wucheng has two hundred thousand Northern Border Army troops across six towns. A few years ago, because of certain events, when that old man Li Yaoxuan called Marquis Wucheng back to the Capital, he also brought four garrison towns to fortify the Capital. But after Wu Yuan broke through and delved deep into the barbarians’ domain, three out of the four garrison towns that were in the Capital have already been secretly dispatched. They’re estimated to arrive at Northern Border City in less than ten days; I only found out about this a decade ago."

"....."

Upon hearing this, Xu Yuan suddenly understood.

The ability to secretly move troops in this world was not exclusive to their Prime Minister’s Mansion.

The Dayan Royal Family also had the capability, though it seemed they hadn’t kept their movements as quiet as their own operation.

But this Emperor secretly moving so many elite forces toward the Northern Frontier...

Xu Yuan rubbed his temples:

"Is the Emperor trying to take advantage of this opportunity to settle the northern barbarians once and for all?"