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The next day, after spending the night with everyone and sending them off to Blazing Academy, Bai Yu went into seclusion to heal his injuries.
This time, it was the longest period of seclusion since Bai Yu was born, lasting for almost a year.
Before this, he didn't even need to do his own cultivation, so naturally he didn't need to go into seclusion for long.
During his seclusion, the war between Tian Dou and Star Luo continued in full swing. As expected, Star Luo, which was being suppressed, launched a surprise attack.
Using their reduced forces, they concentrated millions of troops and set off from the Star Luo Empire, crossing the right border of the Star Dou Great Forest and heading straight into the Balak Kingdom, which belonged to the Tian Dou Empire.
In no time, the Star Lou army rampaged through the territory of the Balak Kingdom, almost destroying the capital.
Fortunately, Star Luo only wanted to use the Balak Kingdom as a route to directly attack Tiandou; otherwise, the Balak Kingdom would definitely have been the first Tiandou vassal state to be destroyed since the start of the war.
However, Star Luo's rapid advance did not last long. Qian Renxue, who had been prepared for this, had already stationed a surprise force within the Tiandou territory.
Upon receiving intelligence that Star Luo was attacking the Balak Kingdom, Qian Renxue immediately mobilized this surprise force.
Ultimately, they intercepted Star Luo's army of millions at the border between the Balak Kingdom and the Tiandou Empire.
Meanwhile, Qian Renxue secretly mobilized manpower on various front lines to launch a flank attack on the Balak Kingdom, intending to completely cut off the rear of Star Luo's millions of troops.
Unfortunately, due to a shortage of manpower, nearly half of these millions of people left.
After all, Star Luo gave up a lot of territory in order to gather these people, and with less territory, the defensive area will be smaller, and the number of people needed will also be smaller.
However, this wouldn't work for Tian Dou, because uprisings frequently occurred in the newly occupied territories, so there simply weren't enough manpower available on the front lines to encircle the Star Luo army.
As a result, most of the Star Luo people fled back to their homeland to continue their defense, while the Tiandou people also returned to their respective homes and went back to the battlefield they had been fighting on.
Only the Balak Kingdom suffered a major blow; a war caused nearly 70 percent of the civilians in the territory to flee.
Forty percent of them were taken over by the Tian Dou Empire.
Looking at his kingdom territory reduced to ruins, the king of the Balak Kingdom almost fainted from crying in the toilet.
After this surprise attack failed, Star Luo changed its tactics, no longer retreating, but instead began to put up a fierce resistance.
After all, if they keep retreating like this, they'll eventually have to retreat all the way to Star Luo City.
At this time, family factions within both Empires also began to get involved.
They either followed the trend of Tian Dou, hoping to reap the benefits after Star Luo's destruction, or they wanted to take advantage of the situation and gamble on Star Luo's ability to turn the tide.
After all, they've been observing for so long, and they've figured it out.
Although Spirit Hall supported the Tiandou Empire, it wasn't a full-fledged support; it was entirely based on burning money.
Therefore, the forces that dared to step in at this time to help Star Luo were all gambling that Tiandou didn't have that much money to burn.
But what they didn't know was that the so-called "burning money" was only on the surface.
After two years of chaotic fighting, coupled with the cooperation between Qian Renxue and Bibi Dong, it was all intentional.
At this point, the Spirit Hall personnel on the battlefield were in complete disarray, and no reliable records were kept.
Therefore, the exact number of people sent by Spirit Hall was entirely up to Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue.
The record clearly states one hundred, but on the battlefield it's one thousand! What? Where did the other nine hundred come from? Are you dumbfounded? Those were clearly the leftovers from before!
With Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue deceiving both sides, the number of Spirit Hall personnel on the battlefield increased with each battle.
This left Marshal Ge Long, who was commanding from the front lines, somewhat bewildered.
Whenever the night is quiet, he wondered to himself, does the empire have that much money? Did they go too easy on him when they were embezzling all these years?
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Nearly a year has passed since Bai Yu went into seclusion.
On this day, the secret chamber door of the Tian Dou Imperial Palace opened once again, and Bai Yu, whose injuries had been completely healed, walked out from it.
Having not seen sunlight for a long time, he shielded his eyes with his hand and took a satisfied breath.
Then Bai Yu snapped his fingers, and a curtain of water appeared, sweeping over his body and washing away the dust and grime. After sensing Qian Renxue's location, he vanished.
When he arrived at a side hall of the Tian Dou Imperial Palace, he saw Qian Renxue engrossed in her work and couldn't help but sigh in admiration.
This girl is really a workaholic. Most people couldn't stand this kind of boring and tedious work. He experienced it in Spirit City for more than a year and couldn't help but want to run away.
So, don't be fooled by the high power of the emperor's job; they actually had a lot of work to do. Unless you were a tyrannical ruler, you would be exhausted every day.
"It's been a long time, my little angel. Has anything major happened outside while I was in seclusion?"
Qian Renxue, who was processing the memorials, suddenly heard Bai Yu's voice. She paused in her work and looked up with a hint of surprise in her eyes.
During Bai Yu's seclusion, she was able to maintain a calm attitude for the first two months, but as time went on, she began to worry.
So much so that she would go to the entrance of the secret room almost every day to check on Bai Yu's condition, just in case he suddenly died.
If she hadn't been able to sense that Bai Yu's life fluctuations were very stable, she would have wanted to break down the door and enter, since this had been going on for quite a while.
Then Qian Renxue put down the memorial in her hand, got up and came to Bai Yu's side, scanning him up, down, left and right.
"Your injuries have healed? How come you've been in seclusion for so long? Didn't you say you could come out anytime?"
Upon hearing Qian Renxue's question, Bai Yu smiled, reached out and hugged Qian Renxue, then sat down on a chair nearby.
Qian Renxue naturally wouldn't stand for Bai Yu's little tricks, after all, she hadn't come to terms with Bai Yu and Bibi Dong's relationship yet.
Therefore, Qian Renxue was like a pig about to celebrate the New Year, constantly struggling in Bai Yu's arms.
(TL: that's kind of dark lol)
Bai Yu naturally ignored Qian Renxue's struggles. After all, things were different now than they were back then. Qian Renxue was furious back then, and no amount of coaxing would work; in fact, it would only make things worse.
But now so much time has passed, and he's used every trick in the book; it's time to take the initiative.
He can't just wait for Qian Renxue to come and throw herself into his arms, can he?
That's impossible to even think about. If he doesn't take advantage of this injury to deal with Qian Renxue, it will only get harder and harder in the future.
Then Bai Yu rested his chin on Qian Renxue's shoulder, and said with a smile in his voice:
"What? You're worried about me? Don't worry, this little injury won't kill me."
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