For the time it takes an incense stick to burn, Qing Qiu scrambled to compile all the information from Injustice Prefecture and Emperor-Receiving Prefecture, then carefully put it all into two jade slips. Racing back to the Secretariat Division, she found Xu Qing waiting for her, his eyes closed in rest. She hadn’t done all the work herself. She’d enlisted the help of some of the other swordsages, who double checked everything and added their personal sealing marks to their work. This was all to ensure there were no slip-ups, since any mistakes could be easily traced back to their source.12

Opening his eyes, Xu Qing took the jade slips and examined them.5

Sea-Sealing County needed more troops, and they couldn’t be levied from the nonhumans. Therefore, the only thing Xu Qing could think to do was look toward Injustice Prefecture and Emperor-Receiving Prefecture. Because of the incidents in Forbidden by the Garment and Forbidden by the Zombie, the palace lord had exempted the sects there from sending forces to the front lines. After all, they needed to focus all of their attention on keeping those two forbidden grounds under control.0

Sea-Sealing County had a total of thirteen prefectures. If he could divert the forces of two entire prefectures to the forces on the front lines, it would be nearly a twenty percent boost....1