Family Management Game In Immortal Continent Chapter 855: What Exactly Are My Soldiers Fighting To Protect

While lost in these musings.

The look on Tang Miao's face shifted abruptly.

He noticed that in the execution area below, his loyal followers were getting put to death sequentially!

Regardless of their desperate pleas or wails for compassion, Li Tianyue displayed zero mercy.

She had no plans to allow any of them to offer statements at all.

Executed among them were numerous disciples Tang Miao had led from Cloudreach Mountain, plus two Elders.

"General Yue, how bold of you to carry out these unsanctioned killings?!!"

Much to his shock, Li Tianyue didn't cast even a brief look toward the skies overhead; instead, she stayed motionless, quietly feeling out her environment.

Troops!

Troops from every side had encircled the execution grounds so densely that no water could seep past.

Even the key positions she had placed inside the Eastern Expedition Army—like the city entrances, the War Artifacts, and the supply lines—were now getting blocked by the devoted troops of the Eastern Expedition Army.

Dongfang Liancheng showed up, his face shadowed, at the head of the military's elite fighters.

Hovering high in the clouds, he gazed down scornfully at Li Tianyue and the thick crowd of troops arrayed behind her.

The forces under Li Tianyue had already set up their combat formations.

Though they hadn't battled together in years, their Spiritual power connected seamlessly, creating a mighty Grand Array that looked like an unstoppable war engine!

This array's merged Spiritual power, fueled by two hundred thousand troops, possessed enough might to endanger a cultivator in the Void Refining Realm.

But the most frightening part was its enormous striking distance; one blow from it could probably wreck the whole Eastern Expedition Army base.

Positioned at the front, Li Tianyue directed the Spiritual power from two hundred thousand warriors.

Up in the clouds, silhouettes of three Desolate Primordial Beasts took shape: a Blood Dragon, a Blood White Tiger, and a Blood Vermilion Bird.

This blood-red formation had dominated the fields of conflict in the Eastern Border long ago, triumphing in all clashes.

"Old General Dongfang!"

The moment Dongfang Liancheng got there, Tang Miao at last stepped out from concealment and positioned himself next to the leader, seeming as eased as if he'd received a full pardon.

Still, he held back from saying more; the icy stare Dongfang Liancheng fixed on him made him gulp nervously and awkwardly fall back behind the elder commander.

Deep down, though, Tang Miao scoffed. Such a phony show-off.

Back when your forces were low, didn't you still slink to my Cloudreach Mountain in the Forgotten Immortal Lands, groveling like a dog for aid?

Dongfang Liancheng glanced downward.

There was the seasoned commander who had trailed him through endless wars, the same one who had built up the Eastern Border into its current state.

A flicker of guilt crossed his gaze unavoidably.

But with troops gathering, blades unsheathed, and arrows nocked.

In these circumstances, he could only intone in a heavy, serious tone.

"General Yue, how much longer will you drag out this foolishness?"

Li Tianyue stayed utterly quiet.

Dongfang Liancheng's features eased a touch.

Still, certain things couldn't be voiced with onlookers present.

With all those warriors observing, he resorted to Voice Transmission.

"General Yue, foes from Duskwild Prefecture are pushing into our lands just eastward now.

You're a commander with years of service in the Eastern Border fights; you must know that what you're doing today will shatter the troops' spirit?

This Commander understands your followers have been mistreated and you've faced injustice for years, but you've stirred up plenty already."

"Let's turn this big problem small, and the small one to nothing.

Once today passes, I'll work to give back your command powers, and I'll crack down hard on the rest in the forces so they won't..."

"Hahaha!"

Dongfang Liancheng hadn't wrapped up his message when the woman under the three Desolate Divine Beasts tilted her head skyward and burst into loud laughter.

The fierce blast of her Spiritual power sent her cropped hair thrashing in the breeze.

Dongfang Liancheng's face hardened. "General Yue, such insolence!"

"Insolence?!!"

Li Tianyue's face was icy and stern. And yet, right there in the execution grounds, her two hundred thousand-strong force looked profoundly sorrowful and isolated.

She lifted her chin defiantly, staring with blazing anger at these lofty leaders and officers—and at the veteran commander she'd loyally backed for three centuries.

Each phrase she spoke clashed like metal, as though she was at last venting the fury bottled up in her heart for so many years.

"Who's the insolent one?"

"Over three hundred years, warriors from our Dynasty have journeyed countless miles from all prefectures, just to fend off invaders and shield our territory!

Under my lead, how many of these troops have soaked the fields with their blood?

To defend the realm at their backs, how many have stayed away from home for ages, or perished right on these grounds?"

"All these fighters behind me have endured slaughter after slaughter and lived.

I promised them once that since our brothers fell on this edge, we have to hold the Eastern Border.

We must keep watch over this territory for those lost comrades, and safeguard our families and allies far away."

"But now, with no reason given, you've branded my troops with 'colluding with the enemy.' Colluding with the enemy!

Li Tianyue bellowed in rage, "They've staked their lives and poured out their warm blood on this front! If they head to the afterlife carrying that disgrace, how could they face their dead brothers?!"

"Dongfang Liancheng, answer me! Just what are my warriors battling to defend?!"

The woman's tone was rough, but it held no piercing edge.

Around the execution grounds, at least a million troops encircled them.

They cast down their gazes. Truly, what were they defending?

And on what grounds could they surround these battle-hardened survivors?

Even next to Dongfang Liancheng, a few officers' faces grew somber.

They'd arrived to quash an uprising, but now only deep loneliness weighed on them.

Li Tianyue's end would surely become theirs someday!

"Cease twisting the soldiers' loyalties!" Dongfang Liancheng's complexion drained, but he compelled himself to bark firmly.

"You're sparking a revolt with your forces; naturally, you'll toss out whatever justification suits you!

Don't cling to this folly.

Lay down arms right away—don't waste your troops' lives!"

But at the term "rebellion," none of Li Tianyue's followers behind her flinched.

They unsheathed their blades and slammed them into the dirt, showing their strength!

Drums of war thundered, and horns of battle blared.

Seasoned fighters won't tolerate slights.

Their Blood-Robed General faced them, and their leader wouldn't be slighted!

If labeled as rebels, then rebel they would!

They'd crossed thousands, even tens of thousands of miles to reach here.

This soil—they could protect it, and they could raze it!

Li Tianyue raised her head and smirked.

"Dongfang Liancheng, the truth lies in the people's hearts.

Whether I'm really rising up is for history to decide.

Why put on this false show of urging surrender?

Where were you when my followers got shifted around?

Where were you amid their wrongs?

And where were you during my own degradation?"

"Only now, with a massive force at my command, do you step in with surrender offers?

You're the insolent one!

You're the stubborn fool!"

Dongfang Liancheng's look darkened.

But seeing Li Tianyue's face—after years of quiet endurance—and her officers' resolve, he dreaded they might truly launch into combat without pause!

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