Chapter 1263

With two kingdoms gone from the western kingdoms, they certainly won't dare act rashly. In the coming years, on one hand we can help the Chilperi Kingdom restore its fighting strength and build prestige; on the other hand, we intimidate the western kingdoms—wouldn't that kill two birds with one stone?

"Chun'er, your insight is excellent."

Emperor Tianwu the Twenty-Second listened and felt there was indeed some reason in it. If it could be carried out successfully, it would surely deal a heavy blow to the Taji Kingdom and the Lei Dun Kingdom.

"But as you said, we currently don't know exactly where the two-nation allied army has reached. If their target is us, and they set up an ambush outside the natural-defile canyon, it would also deal us a heavy blow. When that time comes, it would be us who need to worry."

"On one hand we must march in secret; on the other hand we must continue to pretend we know nothing, only then can we deceive the enemy! Isn't the Taji Kingdom and the Lei Dun Kingdom pretending to be the Chilperi Kingdom's merchant guild and continuing trade with us? Then we'll turn their own trick against them—keep up the trade, and then strike them by surprise!"

"Father Emperor, what do you think?"

"Chun'er, you mean using the spatial-transfer magic formation to quietly move the army out beyond the fortress city?" Emperor Tianwu the Twenty-Second's eyes lit up. "That really is a good plan."

"Exactly, Father Emperor. Although the spatial-transfer magic formation is the secret ambush point we once set up outside the fortress city, if we can seize the chance to wipe out the living forces of the two western kingdoms, at least they won't be able to restore their fighting strength within the next hundred years, and the entire western kingdoms will be filled with awe toward our Tianwu."

Outside the room.

The Second Imperial Prince Li Jian, who shared the same thoughts as the Third Imperial Prince, listened to the discussion coming from the inner room, frowned, and left with a flick of his sleeve.

He knew Li Chun had been secretly plotting something, but he hadn't known Li Chun's plot was this big—only reporting the Chilperi Kingdom war after three whole months. Only that bastard would do something like that.

But even the Imperial Intelligence Department under his control didn't know about this. Did Li Chun have his own intelligence network, or was there a problem inside the department?

Whichever it was, he had to be prepared.

He was the rightful heir; Li Chun could forget about taking his position. But what should he do?

Suddenly, a figure surfaced in his mind!

Perhaps he could help me!

The Third Imperial Prince Li Chun discussed with his father emperor in the study for a long time. In the end, Emperor Tianwu the Twenty-Second still agreed to the Third Imperial Prince Li Chun's request to lead the campaign, but made him promise that once there was danger, he could return directly without caring about anything else.

To this point, the Third Imperial Prince Li Chun naturally agreed; he still valued his own life rather dearly.

That very night, the empire's two great armies—the Eternal Night Army and the Thunder Shadow Army—stood ready. Then, under the orders of their respective army commanders, they secretly advanced toward the Rockstone Fortress.

Because Your Majesty had issued a forced-march order, the two great armies traveled day and night, using the various hidden large-scale spatial magic formations within the empire's territory. In just three days, four hundred thousand troops had reached their respective designated positions.

Next, they would wait for Your Majesty's attack order!

On the third night, Emperor Tianwu the Twenty-Second ordered the attack and activated the hidden spatial magic formation concealed in a valley some distance outside the Rockstone Fortress, transporting imperial soldiers in batches.

As soon as the order was given, Lord Xuan Wuji and Lei Yi each took out their army command tokens, and had the accompanying spatial mages begin to connect with the secret spatial-transfer formations hidden outside the Rockstone Fortress.

Because the valley where the secret spatial-transfer formation was located could only hold a limited number of people, each of the two great armies could only teleport fifty thousand at a time, completed in four teleportation batches. Each large-scale magic formation required half an hour to accumulate the energy needed for teleportation.

But for one night, for the two great armies, time was more than enough.

Inside the valley outside the Rockstone Fortress.

Two enormous spatial magic formations began to respond to the teleportation signals from afar. The violent spatial fluctuation energy caused the magic formation runes buried beneath the dust to gradually emerge.

Each rune line was about twenty centimeters wide, like a groove. Dazzling white light radiated from the runes, illuminating the entire pitch-black valley. Countless animals dwelling in the surroundings were frightened by the violent spatial fluctuations and scattered in all directions.

The two large-scale spatial magic formations, almost one after the other, began to emit light even more dazzling than before, lighting up the entire valley as bright as day. The light lasted for nearly a minute before rapidly fading.

At the same time, at the center of each of the two magic formations, fifty thousand fully armed soldiers of the two great armies appeared.

"All personnel, immediately leave the teleportation zone and station yourselves at the valley mouth area. Scouts, search the surroundings for any people. Once unidentified personnel are discovered, kill them on sight!"

Lord Xuan Wuji and Lei Yi issued nearly identical orders. The hundred thousand troops went directly to the valley mouth and stationed themselves on the left and right sides.

The two army commanders also took the chance to catch up.

"Old Lei… long time no see."

"Yeah, Wuji, long time no see."

The two middle-aged men, upon meeting, excitedly embraced each other at once.