363: Chapter 362: Lin Bai, I Need You (5th update) 363: Chapter 362: Lin Bai, I Need You (5th update) Lin Bai descended from White Cloud Peak, his face flushed with excitement.
Now that he knew the whereabouts of the earth attribute spiritual objects, he no longer had the patience to prepare himself.
He wished he could fly straight to the frontier.
“Let’s go to the Sword Alliance.”
“I wonder if the Divine Alliance has provoked the Sword Alliance while I was away.”
With that thought, Lin Bai immediately headed towards the headquarters of the Sword Alliance.
As he traversed the path, he surprisingly found that more than half of the disciples of the Spirit Sword Sect were missing.
The empty Spirit Sword Sect was imbued with a strange aura.
When Lin Bai arrived at the Sword Alliance, he discovered that almost all the warriors were missing.
There was no sign of Lijian Xing, Wang Hao, and Sun Qian.
“What happened?
Why are the warriors from the Spirit Sword Sect not here?” Lin Bai exclaimed in surprise.
Immediately, he headed straight to the residence of the Elder of the Sword Alliance.
Fortunately, Lin Bai found the Second Elder in the Sword Alliance.
“Disciple Lin Bai requests an audience with the Second Elder.”
Lin Bai called out respectfully from outside the building.
As soon as his voice fell, an old man with a flushed face and radiant happiness quickly strode out of the building, quickly coming to Lin Bai, “Lin Bai, you’ve returned.”
Seeing Lin Bai return safely, the Second Elder was overjoyed.
After a while, the Second Elder reprimanded, “You child, why didn’t you return to the Sect first after leaving Chaoyang Palace and instead went overseas?
Couldn’t you return first?”
“You’ve just been through a great battle, and overseas is so dangerous, with so many pirates.
What if your injuries weren’t healed and you put yourself in danger?”
The Second Elder chastised him.
Lin Bai was slightly moved in his heart and said, “Although I sustained some injuries in Chaoyang Palace, fortunately, I am almost fully healed.”
“Second Elder, why do I see that half of the disciples of the Spirit Sword Sect have disappeared?
Where did they go?”
“I searched around the Sword Alliance just now, but I didn’t see Lijian Xing or Wang Hao.”
The Second Elder sighed lightly and said, “The situation is this, the border war is urgent, Nanning Pass has fallen, and Ji Bei has already taken most of the Sword Alliance disciples above the Earth Martial Realm to the border.”
“What!
Nanning Pass has fallen?
How is that possible?
The First Princess led a seven million-strong army to Nanning Pass, how could it fall?” Lin Bai exclaimed in surprise again and again.
“Yes, the First Princess indeed led a seven-million-strong army, but the Dayue Kingdom fielded a nominally five million soldiers, in addition to a hidden five million.”
“As soon as the First Princess’s army arrived at the border, they were greeted with a fierce assault from the Dayue Kingdom.
More than half of the seven million soldiers were casualties, and Nanning Pass fell.”
The Second Elder spoke gravely.
Lin Bai said, “Why not mobilize reinforcements from the Imperial Capital?
The First Princess currently commands an army of twenty million!”
The Second Elder said, “I’m not sure about that either.
It’s said that the First Princess did call for reinforcements from the Imperial Capital, but the help didn’t arrive in time, thus missing the strategic opportunity, and Nanning Pass was lost.”
“Now, the ten-million-army of the Dayue Kingdom has invaded the territory of the Shenwu Kingdom and is ravaging the southern region of the Shenwu Kingdom, turning it into a river of blood.”
“Therefore, the Four Major Sects have sent martial arts masters to the frontlines to assist the First Princess in quelling the chaos.”
“Almost eighty percent of our Spirit Sword Sect’s disciples have gone, and more than seventy elders from the Elder Pavilion have also gone.”
Lin Bai listened to Second Elder’s explanation.
Requested assistance from the Imperial Capital, but the reinforcements hadn’t arrived.
This could only mean that someone influential in the Imperial Capital had intercepted the request for help.
That person must be holding power in the palm of his hand.
The Qi Prince!
Lin Bai narrowed his eyes.
At the time when the Year-end Tail Sacrifice had just ended and the Qui Prince had just been stripped of power, the Dayue Kingdom launched an invasion.
Lin Bai didn’t think it was that simple.
Sure enough, it seemed that this matter had a certain connection with the Qi Prince.
With the fall of Nanning Pass, the millions-strong army of Dayue Kingdom had stormed into the territory of the Shenwu Kingdom.
Brutally, they forged ahead and seized every city they came across.
The southern territory of the Shenwu Kingdom already resembled a corpse-strewn wasteland, with the common folk in a miserable state.
The entirety of the southern region was flooded with the smoke of war.
The Second Elder said, “Oh yes, the First Princess sent three letters for you, but you were not here when they were delivered, so I kept them for you.”
“I’ll give them to you now.
I haven’t read them.”
As he spoke, the Second Elder took out three sealed letters from his storage bag and handed them over to Lin Bai.
Lin Bai accepted them, observing the delicate penmanship on the envelopes.
There was no doubt that these were written by the First Princess herself.
If the First Princess had written to him, it was surely because there was something of utmost urgency.
Without any delay, Lin Bai opened the first letter.
The first letter read: “Lin Bai, I had just led my troops to Nanning Pass when we were ambushed by the army of Dayue Kingdom.
We fought a fierce battle through the half of the night.
Our casualties were significant, even Chu Jiangliu was severely injured.”
“Although we repelled the enemy, we too suffered heavy losses.
The towering walls of Nanning Pass have been destroyed halfway by the City-Destroying Cannon prepared by Dayue Kingdom.
I don’t know how long this city can hold up.”
“Lin Bai, it seems that leading an army is not my forte.
I marched out from the Imperial Capital proudly on my first expedition and suffered such a grievous defeat just after reaching Nanning Pass.”
“I look forward to your reply, guide me.”
That was the content of the first letter.
After reading it, Lin Bai felt a tightening in his heart.
Such an arrogant woman as the First Princess, suffering such a terrible defeat on her first outing to battle, even made her question her own ability to command an army.
Even Chu Jiangliu was gravely wounded in the night attack and was on the verge of death.
Despite everything, Lin Bai appeared emotionless, but his eyes were sharper than before.
He then opened the second letter.
It read, “Lin Bai, Nanning Pass has fallen.
The myriad soldiers of Dayue Kingdom are too strong for us to resist.
The seven million troops I brought are almost annihilated.
We have retreated to Jia Yueguan, the last line of defense in the southern region.”
“If you get this letter, please come to the frontier as soon as possible, help me quell this rebellion!”
After reading the second letter, Lin Bai’s expression turned cold.
The second letter had to have been written by the First Princess after the fall of Nanning Pass.
With the loss of Nanning Pass, the First Princess fell back to the last line of defense in the southern region, Jia Yueguan Pass.
This undoubtedly meant that they were handing over the entire southern region to the army of Dayue Kingdom.
No wonder the southern region was now a field of bodies and the common people suffered.
Lin Bai silently opened the third letter.
In this letter, there weren’t so many words.
Only one sentence.
“Lin Bai, I need you.”
Swoosh!
Lin Bai put the three letters away into his storage bag, his face full of killing intent, he headed straight for the outside of the Sword Alliance.
“Lin Bai, where are you going?” The Second Elder asked hastily as Lin Bai left without turning his head back.
“The Frontier!”
Lin Bai’s voice was as clear and powerful.
Even though Lin Bai turned his back on the Second Elder, the latter could still feel the killing intent on Lin Bai’s face and the chilling light on his Qingge sword.
The Second Elder squinted his eyes, watching Lin Bai’s retreating back, he said quietly, “What an overwhelming momentum he has.
It seems that upon his arrival at the frontier, rivers of blood will undoubtedly flow.”
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