181, Banquet

The Thousand-year Army... was no longer the one that had once fought life and death battles alongside Prince Jing.

Over the long years, it had been divided, intimidated, and disintegrated by the Ritual Supervision using various means. Those who disobeyed had already been executed; only those who complied could stay alive.

There was no reinforcements.

Chen Ji suddenly felt a wave of weakness, as if no matter how much effort he put in, there would always be a hand reaching out, correcting the destiny he desperately tried to change.

Could the divination his master calculated not be altered at all?

Was this fate?

No!

Chen Ji stood among the encircasing soldiers of the Thousand-year Army like a solitary rock in the tide, but before the soldiers could close in, he did not advance but retreated, charging directly at the lieutenant like a icebreaker in the open ocean!