Chapter 15

Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation

“Yay, the king is coming.”

At the west sea outpost, Qing Qiu Zi Yue cheered like a child when she heard that Yang Xu was coming.

She raised her arms high and waved her slender fists. She jumped around in the spacious living room, her majestic peaks quivering and attracting attention.

Qing Luan was still in its transformed form.

She squatted elegantly on the back of the chair and looked calmly at Qing Qiu Zi Yue. She deliberated and said, ” “Although the king said that he would come, he won’t be here in a day or two.”

The west sea post was more than 100 miles away from the palace.

A distance of more than a hundred miles sounded very short. In modern society, it only took half an hour to travel on the high-speed road, and only about an hour to travel by ordinary national roads. It would be even faster if they took the plane or the high-speed rail.

However, in this wildland, this terrifying world covered by ancient dense forests, it was too difficult to travel more than a hundred miles in a straight line. They had to pass through the dense forest to avoid countless ferocious beasts, all kinds of indescribable monsters, and traps from nature. They might have to walk twice the distance, or even longer, and it would take five to seven days.

This would only happen if everything went smoothly.

If things didn’t go well, death was a very common result.

Even though the Great Xu state had opened up two routes to the west sea, they still had to face great difficulties every time they changed their troops.

Qing Qiu Zi Yue understood this, but she did not care.

It’s just five or six days, no big deal.

“It doesn’t matter. The king will be fine,” she said with a smug smile.

“Hmph, when the king comes to the west sea outpost, I can be alone with the him …”

Qing Qiu Zi Yue’s fox-like eyes narrowed into crescents, and her beautiful face was filled with joy and happiness, not hiding her expectations for the future at all.

In the past, in the City, although she used all kinds of excuses to stick to Yang Xu, Yang Xu was the king and the leader, so he always had a lot of women around him.

The chances of Qing Qiu Zi Yue and Yang Xu being alone were close to zero.

But it was different now. Yang Xu couldn’t have come to the west sea outpost with the palace maids, and her sister couldn’t have come with him. At the moment, no one could stop her from being alone with Yang Xu.

Thinking of this beautiful future, Qing Qiu Zi Yue could not stop smiling, and Qing Luan could not help but roll her eyes.

This idiot! Is this the time to think about this?

Qing Luan didn’t hide her dissatisfaction and sneered, “You should first think about how to give the king a satisfactory answer.”

Qing Qiu Zi Yue was stunned for a moment, her foxy eyes blinking, unable to react.

Satisfactory answer?

What answer?

She was stunned for a moment before she asked, “Is it those outsiders? ”

Qing Luan rolled her eyes, speechless at Qing Qiu Zi Yue’s belatedness. Can’t they think more about the proper business and stop thinking about those unnecessary things? Besides, she is still here.

Time alone with the king… haha, continue dreaming.

“Don’t tell me you’re going to wait for the king to come before you take action?” she said unhappily.

Qing Qiu Zi Yue was enlightened, and she pursed her lips nonchalantly, saying casually, “Don’t I have you?”

“I’ve already handed this matter over to you.”

“I’ve already said it.”

“Eh, you didn’t forget, right?”

Qing Qiu Zi Yue looked at Qing Luan suspiciously, her expression questioning whether she was trying to be lazy or not. Qing Luan fell into silence.

Qing Qiu Zi Yue had told him about this.

But…

As the commander, was it reasonable to not do anything?

Who could count on a stupid Fox to do more?

Qing Luan did not say anything more and flapped its wings to leave Qing Qiu Zi Yue’s room.

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The most important thing to do before the journey started was to plan the route.

A safe and feasible route was the most important factor to ensure the safety of the journey.

At present, there were two routes in Great Xu nation that led to the west sea outpost. One was to go through the big river dozens of miles east of Chao Yang Royal City. They would first go up the river, then turn into the mouth of the sea, and finally go south to the west sea outpost.

This route was four to five hundred miles in length, the longest, but also the fastest and safest. If everything went well, they would arrive at the west sea outpost in four or five days.

Usually, the defense of the Great Xu nation would take this route.

The other route was to head west along the Black Rock Mountains. Once they reached the west coast, they would turn north and head to the west sea outpost.

This path was only about two hundred miles long, but it was even more dangerous. Since they had to travel on foot and had to bring along a large amount of supplies, it would take them at least five to six days to reach the outpost.

After some consideration, Yang Xu decided to lead 200 soldiers to the Black Rock Mountain route.

From here, they could pass through the Black Rock Town of the azure bird tribe, where they could take a short rest and reorganize. They could also transfer some of the soldiers of the Black Rock Town to strengthen the forces of the west sea post in preparation for the possible conflicts and wars in the future.

Of course, these were not the most important reasons.

The most important reason was that Yang Xu wanted to take the opportunity to clean up the ferocious beasts along the way and obtain more life force so that he could activate his Level 2 authority as soon as possible.

As for the capital, although only three hundred soldiers were left, they were not important.

Although the Great Xu nation only had 2500 soldiers, the ordinary citizens were not weak lambs. They also had extraordinary combat power. Almost half of the population of the Great Xu nation was in the royal city. Even if there was no army stationed there, it was still the most powerful city.

The departure of the army was a major event.

Although Yang Xu was eager to know what had happened in the west sea, he didn’t rush to lead the army to the west sea outpost.

After everything was ready, all the departments were notified that day, and they only took action the next morning.

The two hundred soldiers were mostly from the fox race, and the azure bird race. The merfolk race only made up a third of them.

In order to ensure a smooth journey, Yang Xu brought one of the commanders of the Great Xu nation army, Yun Xiao.

The Army of the Great Xu nation used a simple and ancient system.

There was a sergeant for every five people, and it was the smallest organization in the army. Usually, the operations were done in units of five.

There was a ten-man squad leader for every thirty people.

Every hundred people will have one centurion.

Every 500 people would have one commander.

The commander was the highest position in the Great Xu nation’s army.

The sky was slightly bright, and the warm sun had yet to pass through the towering cliffs and enter the palace. An army of two hundred people was already waiting in line outside the urban area.

They were fully armed.

Most of the fox race members wore leather armor that was mainly green-gray in color.

Although the alloy armor was good, the production was limited. Most of the foxes were agile. Although their telekinesis was strong, their physical strength was not much stronger than that of ordinary humans. The heavy metal armor would limit the agility of the foxes.

The merfolk race transformed into human form, wearing a white waist-tight long-sleeved dress.

All of them were as beautiful as flowers, petite and dainty, as if they were young ladies from a big family who had gone on an outing.

The azure bird clan, on the other hand, held bows and arrows in their hands. They were dressed in black tights that outlined their graceful and streamlined figures. Their sharp eyes were like those of a falcon, full of oppression.

Around the army and on both sides of the road, the residents of the palace who had received the news woke up early and came to see them off with solemn and respectful expressions.

This was the tradition of Great Xu nation.

When the army went to war, the people would come to send them off and express their blessings to their family and friends, hoping that they could return safely.

The population of the Great Xu nation was close to ten thousand, and half of them lived in the Royal City. This included all the pregnant women and children. This was to make it easier to take care of the children and to ensure the safety of the next generation.

Thousands of people surrounded the army and discussed animatedly. Most of them were worried.

They had heard about what had happened in the west sea the day before. They were worried when they learned that other tribes had come from the vast west sea and that Yang Xu was going to go on an expedition in person.

Yang Xu was not only the king of Great Xu country, but also their faith.

They didn’t dare to think and couldn’t understand what the enemy from the west sea was.

But they were worried about Yang Xu’s safety.