After Shi Yan left, Tianming, Long Wanying, and the rest gathered to talk about the army.

Long Wanying said, "The news has reached her. That means the army will soon arrive on the continent. This time around, the Northdipper Swordsage has kept everything so secret that not even I received word about it through my sources. In other words, Li Wushuang's side probably doesn't understand the extent of the retaliation that’s coming either."

"No doubt, they expect some more reinforcements from the Empyrean Sword Sect, so they did have more wargodeans and Blueblood Starocean reinforcements come. The former sent close to eighty thousand while the latter sent a hundred and fifty thousand troops. While that number may increase, it's highly unlikely that they'll send a full million. There's no way a simple fight over the fruits of the divine tree merits so many troops," Tianming said.

"In that case, they should have no...