Chapter 1032.1: Not Enough - Part 1
With the war in the north already underway and beacon fires visible across the horizon, fortunately this was not the first time. The Northern Frontier Army did not lose its composure simply because they had already guessed this would be an unprecedented war. For more than two hundred years, countless lives had been sacrificed defending the frontier. They could no longer afford to make mistakes over trivial matters.
Everything in the north proceeded in an orderly fashion. The only thing left to consider was the south.
Before the war in the north had even begun, the entire Great Liang Dynasty had already swung into motion. This vast empire possessed a response speed far beyond that of previous dynasties. Whether the officials at every level were of one mind or not, they all had to move for the sake of this single matter.
Along the courier roads, the sound of galloping hooves never ceased. Relay couriers from every prefecture and province poured into the Divine Capital from all directions, then immediately spurred their horses and rode back out of the majestic city.
Many of the relay couriers did not even have time to stop by one of the Divine Capital's rouge shops to buy a box of rouge for the wives who had never once left their hometowns.
The official roads were likewise filled with government convoys traveling without pause. The armored soldiers escorting them wore solemn expressions, remaining vigilant at every moment.
For more than two hundred years, the so-called bandits within Great Liang's borders had long since been wiped out during the reign of Emperor Taizong. As for the so-called roving bandits that occasionally appeared afterward, most of them were in fact pawns secretly manipulated by the cultivation world, all for the purpose of preventing Great Liang from enjoying peace. But after Daoist Wuyang fell in battle and the master of the Infatuation Daoist Temple was succeeded by that young temple master, those bandits had all but disappeared.
The demons within the empire's borders had remained the greatest enemy of Great Liang's people throughout these two hundred years. But over the past few years, wardens across the empire had been mobilized everywhere. Together with the assistance of local cultivation sects, they had already exterminated sixty to seventy percent of the demons within the realm.
In a few individual provinces and commanderies, the number had even reached ninety percent.