"I was still too careless... Those players never had good intentions towards me. They probably sent that mage just to conveniently gather intelligence from my side, and then they chose this exact moment to deal with me... Could it be that they've already allied with Tao Country?"

By now, even if Wang Zhifan were more obtuse, he would understand the situation. The highly-valued Mr. Sun suddenly died with his head exploding, clearly shot remotely by a player with a gun, and the mysterious death of Mr. Han likely cannot be separated from the players' myriad tricks. After all, they both died suddenly within the army. If Tao Country's native forces had such methods, they would have used them years ago and not waited until he swallowed Yin Country first to act.

"Send down the orders! Each unit defend in place and await reinforcements! I will personally take action now!"

Since the greater situation has already descended into chaos from the very beginning, Wang Zhifan no longer expects his remaining subordinates to perform any miraculous feats. He plans to personally turn all the collapsing situations around himself, otherwise, his month's worth of efforts will be completely in vain.

After giving his instructions, his figure instantly vanished from the grand hall and reappeared several kilometers away. This location is near where his only trusted old prime minister handles affairs. He specifically arranged a clone to guard here, but his intent was not to seek out the old prime minister when he arrived by dream-walking. It was only to conveniently set off in secret, preventing his movements from being detected by those with ill intentions.

He then summoned the Red Deer Horse on the spot, leapt onto its back, and galloped into the sky, beginning a series of rapid-fire emergency responses. He forcefully brought all the out-of-control battles back from the brink, preventing the breakdowns from connecting and affecting the entire war situation.

Thus, it first started in a small town near the new capital, where a Terracotta Army did not dare attack the new capital where he was located. They specifically chose this not particularly important yet strategically significant location to act. They believed that under the current circumstances, the immensely powerful King of Feng Country rumored everywhere could not afford to care for this place, and each relied on the hard features of the Terracotta statues to charge the city gates, intending to form a human ladder to force their way in.

While this town's Feng Country garrison was still organizing their defenses, yet to show signs of collapse, a silhouette suddenly appeared from the horizon, landing among the attacking Terracotta Army in the blink of an eye. Then, crash after crash of thunder and lightning erupted among the Terracotta Army. When the garrison soldiers, somewhat astonished, looked outside, wanting to know what had happened, all they could see was a vast spread of broken and collapsed Terracotta Army scattered on the ground outside the city gates, each Terracotta revealing a charred corpse inside.

"General! The Tao Country people are all dead!"

"What just happened?!"

...

Some young soldiers, who were about to drop large rocks outside the city gates, were bewildered when they found the enemy suddenly dropping dead, and cried out in astonishment.

"This... must be Lei Gong's wrath! He smote these Tao Country bandits!"

The garrison officer, equally puzzled by the recent events, casually made up an explanation.

What they didn't know was that Wang Zhifan, who had dropped from the sky at incredulous speed to help them defeat the enemy, was now already soaring through the skies to the next location.

This place was approximately thirty li from the earlier town, where a Terracotta Army clashed with a Feng Country patrol and engaged in battle. However, the Feng Country army was weak, and the soldiers almost immediately crumbled, while the Terracotta Army pursued the victory, routing the Feng Country army so that they abandoned their armor and helmets.

But suddenly, every Terracotta that had been recklessly hunting down the Feng Country soldiers stopped moving entirely, like stakes, tumbling down in groups to the ground, and it seemed they all turned into dead objects, never to move again.

The fleeing Feng Country soldiers, upon seeing this, mostly seized the chance to escape, but some brave ones stayed to observe for a while and then cautiously went back to investigate the situation. They found that after breaking open the Terracotta, the Tao Country soldiers inside had already become rigid, cold corpses.

Wang Zhifan accomplished this naturally by using the power of ice. His current strategy was to rely on the Red Deer Horse's aircraft-like speed and his powerful perception to circle around the enemies. Once he detected the enemy, he would swiftly eliminate them, not relying on his forces to have significant extermination success.

This method could be said to be quite primitive and inefficient, but it suited him very well. His personal capabilities were beyond average, not only crushing these Tao Country armies in combat capabilities but also possessing highly efficient area-decisive means and unparalleled stamina endurance, paired with the Red Deer Horse's incredible mobility, which made him a full-map movement cheat. Upon discovering an enemy, he could eliminate them within seconds and then raced to the next location at terrifying speeds.

Moreover, having expanded Feng Country by annexing the former Yin Country, its total area hadn't surpassed a thousand li in radius. He clearly knew the approximate positions of his forces and the enemy, so this sweep-style clearing progressed faster than he anticipated. In just about two hours, he had decimated approximately seventy to eighty percent of the invading Tao Country forces, almost leading to a quasi-wipeout of many Terracotta Armies, without them ever knowing what attacked them, as their eyesight couldn't track the descending silhouette from above before being obliterated.

Thus, after a round of intense busyness, Wang Zhifan confirmed that the new land he seized for Feng Country was basically secure, with not only those invading Terracotta Armies annihilated, but even the rogue military camps reported by signal runners quelled by him in passing.

After cleaning up the former Yin Country regions, he subsequently made his way to his old stronghold, Feng Country's mountainous region.

Originally, upon hearing the intelligence, he hadn't believed Tao Country's strongest Zutao Army would attack such a low-value place, but reality proved that enemies' actions sometimes defied logic. They chose indeed to send their strongest force to attack an old Fengdu he had no desire to return to.

The number of Terracotta in the Zutao Army was limited, only about thirty, but each stood five to six times taller than ordinary ones, with heights over fifteen meters, and their foot diameters exceeded three meters. Walking through the mountains, they were like moving hills, their collective march causing the ground to quake. The old capital's garrison couldn't possibly confront them.

Fortunately, in these mountainous terrains, the Zutao Army's marching speed slowed significantly, and when Wang Zhifan arrived, they had only destroyed the encampment at the mountain's base and hadn't yet had the chance to assault uphill.

"These Zutao seem to have no soldiers inside... They're completely clay giants..."

After reaching the old capital, Wang Zhifan initially intended to use the power of ice to quickly kill the drivers of these clay giants, only to unexpectedly discover that they contained no life forms inside, meaning they were entirely constructed of earth elements, with no apparent weaknesses as he had thought.

"These massive figures are more suitable for handling with the Ocean Envoy Curved Saber."

After quick contemplation, Wang Zhifan felt that the Ocean Envoy Curved Saber's instant-kill effect provided the most efficiency in dealing with them. So, he promptly switched weapons, leaping off the galloping Red Deer Horse to slice these massive figures one by one.

However, just as he landed on the head of the first Zutao giant, his perception detected a sudden change in energy. The moment he reacted, the Zutao giant he landed on exploded thunderously! It unleashed massive flames that shook the surrounding mountains!

"This lone player is incredibly strong, he might not be dead, so everyone stay alert."

After the attack, on a hill fairly distant from the explosion site, a medium-built but charismatic youthful player calmly spoke while observing the flare-lit area.

Behind him, the ten or so players who once appeared with him in Tao Country now all revealed themselves. Each seemed ready for battle, including a thin young mage who had formerly sought refuge with Wang Zhifan.

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