"Brother Shihu, regarding the battle of Shadowfell Prefecture, I am endlessly grateful for the letter you sent three months in advance, which allowed me to anticipate the enemy's moves and evacuate in the face of danger to preserve the lives of everyone at Silver Wolf Lake.
Now, the Azure Cloud Li Clan is pestering us relentlessly and determined to see us destroyed.
I heard that the Li Clan has brought three Void Refinement experts this time; I kindly ask Brother Shihu to meet and discuss..."
At the border pass, a hundred thousand cultivators could be seen—riding swords, commanding spirits, and activating array formations.
Bi Shihu wore armor, trailed by ten puppets, looking incredibly imposing. However, at this moment, holding the letter sent from the Yun Clan, he frowned slightly.
Behind him stood a general with a youthful appearance, carrying a long spear on his back.
At a single glance, one could tell he was the kind of expert adept at taking enemy heads on the battlefield.
Bi Shihu was the former Marshal of the Shadowfell Prefecture Border Pass.
Under his command were four great generals: Blood-Robed Li Tianyue, Pagoda Ge Li, Divine Archer Guan Mingxuan, and Tracker Cai Yongzhen.
They respectively commanded the four great armies of Offense, Defense, Long-range Archery, and Array Formations.
This spear-wielding general was Pagoda Ge Li.
Bi Shihu opened the letter without avoiding anyone's gaze. Ge Li caught a glimpse of it, and a look of disdain appeared on his face.
"Marshal, what kind of thing is Yun Manlou? How dare he call you brother? He really doesn't know his own weight."
Taking a few more looks, Ge Li frowned slightly.
"The Marshal's letters have always passed through my hands.
Regarding the battle of Shadowfell Prefecture, our army knew absolutely nothing about the Wu tribe's invasion three months prior.
Where did this matter of sending him a letter to evacuate come from?"
Hearing this, Bi Shihu looked puzzled, his deep voice carrying a hint of bewilderment.
"I do not know either. It seems someone is playing tricks in the shadows. Patriarch Yun believed I was the one who sent the letter.
Now that the Azure Cloud Li Clan has come knocking at his door, I'm afraid they've already made a sinister move against the Yun Clan."
"The Azure Cloud Li Clan? General Blood-Robe's clan?" Ge Li's eyes widened.
"In the grand scheme of the battlefield, where are there no casualties?
General Blood-Robe sacrificed her life for the Dynasty and made a great contribution to the evacuation of our Shadowfell Prefecture from top to bottom.
Instead of taking pride in this, the Li Clan is stirring up unreasonable trouble. If so, why did the Li Clan allow Li Tianyue to serve as a general in the first place?"
As he spoke, Ge Li even carried a bit of arrogance.
Back when the Shadowfell Prefecture was fleeing, the Commander of the Four Armies, Bi Shihu, was once regarded as a deserter.
That was because the people of the world were blind.
They had bided their time and acted when the opportunity arose. Upon arriving in Deston Prefecture and winning a victorious battle, the eyes of the world brightened once more.
How were they still deserters now?
The Marshal commanded the army properly, allowing the soldiers and civilians of Shadowfell Prefecture to flee from top to bottom, followed by victory after victory in Deston Prefecture.
This also made the people of the world understand that it was Li Tianyue who had erred in her military strategy, while Marshal Bi Shihu turned the tide, minimizing losses to the greatest extent.
Now in Deston Prefecture, even though the Marshal had been demoted, they were still an indispensable army in Deston Prefecture.
"There is no need to pay attention to the Azure Cloud Li Clan. They are merely an immortal clan of the Azure Cloud Prefecture; what do the affairs of our army have to do with the Li Clan?"
Bi Shihu tossed the letter aside, yet the frown in his eyes did not unfurl.
"The most urgent matter is still to deal with the eighty thousand Wu tribesmen who have intruded into Deston Prefecture.
Go and tell Guan Mingxuan and Cai Yongzhen to deploy their troops immediately, encircle them with my main force, and annihilate the enemy swiftly!"
"Yes, sir!"
.......
Two months later.
Deston Prefecture, Cloudsummit City. A massive army clashed.
Bi Shihu was the former Marshal of the Shadowfell Prefecture Border Pass, and as the descendant of a famous general who had once served beside the Human Emperor, he certainly did not disgrace his ancestors' reputation.
With the assistance of cultivators from all over Deston Prefecture, they slaughtered the Wu tribe members who had intruded into Cloudsummit City, sending them fleeing in panic.
Bi Shihu, at the peak of the Void Refinement realm, fought his way out of the Void Refinement space alongside a Wu tribe elder.
Full of high spirits, he lifted the severed head of the Wu tribe elder. Covered in blood, he hovered in the air, looking down proudly at the battlefield below.
"The battle of Shadowfell Prefecture was not my fault; the outcome was uncertain, so why should I have fought?
From now on, the world will know that I, Bi Shihu, emerge victorious in every battle!"
With Bi Shihu slaying the enemy elder, the human cultivators on the Cloudsummit City battlefield raised their heads and cheered.
Bi Shihu listened to his subordinates' praises with intoxication. "In the end, I did not tarnish the glory of my ancestors."
Ge Li, who had also emerged from the Void Refinement space, looked disdainfully at the fleeing enemy elders and laughed loudly.
"Marshal, with another recognition from the dynasty this time, even if you haven't reached the Body Integration realm, your status will likely be no lower than the three Body Integration mighty figures of the Imperial Protectors Guard!"