“Is it time that wanders about this deeper and deeper autumn, or is it this deeper and deeper autumn that is being brought away by a moment of time?”

Within the most majestic Yunqin Imperial City, a newcomer foreign poet muttered this type of crazy talk while drunk in a deep alley, staring at the old elms reaching out from the houses nearby.

In the eyes of this unconventional nomadic poet who didn’t care about matters of the royal court, the passing of autumn in the massive Yunqin Empire this year was no different from the last.

However, for the people who worried about the empire’s greater matters, this autumn was extremely alarming.

In the furthest west of the empire, after a great reorganization was carried out for a hundred thousand men in Jadefall City, there were still sixty thousand left. The west defending great general position was temporarily left vacant. In the eyes of most of Yunqin’s officials, Nanshan Mu who was of great use in pacifying the chaos, moreover held an important position in Jadefall Border Army was at least going to take on the Vice Commander-In-Chief Cheng Yu’s position.

However, for some reason, Central Continent Imperial City didn’t give out this type of order, instead transferring over River Facing Province’s Provincial Supervisor An Xuting to take over Cheng Yu’s position, leaving the west guarding great general position above him vacant. Meanwhile, Nanshan Mu resigned from his post in retirement, Central Continent Imperial...