He impatiently rode his horse out of the pass, gazing at the faintly discernible military tents on the horizon. 2

Suddenly, he quietly took a detour while silently cursing himself for being so foolish and confused as to why he was in such a hurry.0

He Lei’s death had been announced to the world, and there had been no such thing for Yue Hongling. She was still on the Ranking of Man. Since there was no announcement pertaining to her death, that at least proved that she was alive.0

It seemed that aside from causing trouble and revealing your accomplishments sometimes, the greatest advantage of the Tome of Troubled Times was reporting one’s safety…0

From this, Zhao Changhe could easily extrapolate that when it came to someone as prominent as Yue Hongling, if she had truly been captured by the barbarians, they would have definitely publicized it. Since they had not done so, this indicated that she had not been captured at all. It was more than likely that she had not encountered any danger at all, and he had simply been worrying himself by overthinking things.1

The vastness of the Grasslands was immense. To the west lay the...0