Tianyuan Mountain Range.
The sky was sunless, shrouded in dense fog.
Heavy armor tread on the leaf-covered ground, a line of soldiers silently marched through the dense forest, and the vast mountain range exuded an oppressive feeling, where even the chirping of cicadas and birds seemed desolate.
In this highly insular military environment, common soldiers could only rely on official propaganda and their own eyes for information about military situations. What their eyes saw was often far more genuine than what they were told by higher-ups.
Though the few peak masters who stayed at the mountain gate always claimed that the overall war situation was stable and improving, recent changes within the mountain—whether in material mobilization, propaganda rhetoric shifts, or the high-intensity operation of the Mountain Protection Array—made them realize something: the Sect Master seemed to have already been defeated at Hongnong.
