Chapter 1141 - 1083. The League Of Northwestern Lords News
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Lie Fan had deliberately ignored them during the campaign against Wei, viewing them as a secondary threat that could be dealt with later. But now, with the board wiped clean, they required his absolute, undivided attention.
Furthermore, they had stubbornly refused to send emissaries to the capital. They had offered no tribute, and they had extended no acknowledgment of the Hengyuan Dynasty’s supreme mandate over the earth. It was an insult that a unified empire could not tolerate.
’That must be it,’ Lie Fan realized, a cold, calculating light returning to his eyes. ’That is why Wenhe is waiting for me in the study. The Oriole network has been operating in Liang Province for quite some time now against them. They are ready to report on the shadows we have cast over the northwest.’
With his strategic focus entirely renewed, Lie Fan felt the lethargy of the morning vanish. The execution was the past; Liang Province was the future.
He rose from the water, the hot droplets cascading down his scarred, muscular chest. He stepped out of the tub, taking a thick, warm linen towel from the nearby rack, and quickly, vigorously dried himself. The physical act of cleansing felt incredibly symbolic.
He was washing away the blood of the old warlord era, preparing himself to govern the new one.
He dressed quickly in the comfortable, yet impeccably tailored indoor robes that the maids had laid out for him, a simple, elegant combination of dark blue silk with silver threading at the cuffs.
Refreshed, clean, and carrying a new, lethal purpose, Lie Fan stepped out of the bathing chambers and strode purposefully down the quiet, sunlit corridors toward his private administrative study.