Clean Up, Part I

The battle dwindled not longer after Cì Han was killed. Hou Jingshu had wanted to keep him alive so she could force a surrender and turn the Zhou Kingdom into a vassal state, but that was impossible now that Loong Chen had killed him. She was still curious about that man. She also wanted to scold him for ruining her plans, but there was already so much on her plate that she couldn’t deal with his actions.

First things first.

She needed to deal with the fallout of this war.

“We’ve managed to get a talley of the fallen,” Yu Chenguang stood as he held a scroll of parchment in his hands. Hou Jingshu sat on the throne normally reserved for the emperor and listened intently, as did those sitting around them. “Four thousand six hundred fifty four cultivators have died from our side. On the enemies side, we estimate around fifteen thousand died. The rest have surrendered and are being processed.”

“Your did quite a magnificent job, You Majesty!”