Above Water

"Do not be over the top with this victory! The Liang's are not an ordinary force, it has been in this continent as long as our Wen family! They are not the faint heart, do you know how many gigantic spirit beast that roams the deeps of sea? The Liang's has seen it all, you should be ashamed to win by numbers! There would be retaliation by them, we should be preparing for the worst! Because not in a million years i believed that the group that just has been taken out by the joint effort of five halls was their very best! There would be a group that will require ten hall to merge into one just to fend them off!" A Wen senior hall master that in charge of intelligence speaking about the important of being impartial.

"The elders agree of this information, we in-courage all of the hall masters to remain alert, we would like to monitor the river more, the war provisions would be provided by the Wen main family house to stand by on this camps!" Wen Xiong speaking for the elders.

"Here is my report! The Liang was defeated but the group that the five halls has shutdown was not the main force of the Liang's, they are mainly only a skeleton crew playing on some powerful formations!" Jingwei.

"How was the Liang mental state right now?" Wen Jin asked the obvious.

"They are fine, shut down once but fine, they are no panic happening on their side!" Jingwei.

"That is bad! And how was our side?" Wen Jin.

"Some halls brought out wine and drink, other than that the elders prohibited an all out celebration one win is nothing, the war just started!" Jingwei.

"Well the fighters of this family still belittling the enemy huh!? Good thing the elder is experienced and careful! I think our participation would be not in the near future! Keep on monitoring both side, sorry to trouble you with this Jingwei.." Jingwei face was red when she

nod.

Meanwhile at the dark land in the west the gate of hell was in dilate state, it keep appearing and gone at the same time! A hand begin to reach out into the earthly realm! "Boom!" A swift white claws searing the portal in a very subtle preemptive attack!

Baihu was there with his tiger celestial army the soldier was wearing a silver armor with tiger fur pattern "defend the frontier with the best of your ability! Do not let the demon to get pass!" Baihu roared!

"Kill! Kill! Kill!" The tiger celestial soldier shout in unison!

"Wargghhhh!" The demon force it way into the portal!

The soldier thrust their spears "Huff!" The spears impaled the demon limbs! "Warghh!" The demon in pain.

"Insects!" The demon hands slapped the soldiers! The slap aura double! Triple! Enlarge it size until ten times the original size! "BLAM!" It sweep over the soldier like swatting a lowly house flies!

"You dare!" Baihu jumped counter attacking! Baihu kick the demon which began to get pushed away back inside the gaping portal! "Warghh!" The demon tried to hold on! "BOOM!" "SLASH!" "SLASH!" Baihu claws raining on the demon limbs! "BOOM!" The final blow was so strong the air around the dark land vibrate and a short earthquake happened! The Demon was knocked out of his handle! With the closing of the portal the demon shouted "this is not over!" The portal dimmed and vanish!

Baihu quickly cast a runic formation towards the place where the portal once where! A seal of heavenly runic formation repaired the order of time and space in that place! Baihu sigh in relief!

"Help the injured! Carry the dead! Clean this up! Patrol this area constantly! Let this never happen again, we were lucky to stop the breach this time!" Baihu turn away and left the area.

(This can not be an accident, something on the other side was trying to get through! This is almost the same as what Xianwu was telling me at the northern barrier! Going back Baihu decided to hold a meeting between the four guardian protector!)

The war at the east continued on a higher level, the dragon elite of the Liang was arriving on the river base! Several of them was at the peak of level 8 and level 9 cultivation, the one that lead them was Liang Fan, he was the first that reach master class spiritualist level, it was a rank above the nine initial earthly realm! He was the one reason that attracted the immortals at penglai to open a communication at the first time towards the Liang family!

"Liang Fan! This is the map of our battle field, the terrain was mostly river based attack! But we are continued suppressed whenever we manage to cross the river, we are simply to exhausted to deal with their number after crossing the river, half or our naval force also has been taken down!" Liang Guan sighed.

"This river is not the problem, their number are! Have you got any force power estimation about the Wen's?" Liang Fan.

"Very little, we manage to now how many camp there are, but we can not differentiate which camp was their main force which one is their supporter!" Liang Guan.

"You know a fish in the hand is better than two at the sea!" Liang Fan.

"I know that but what are you referring here!?" Liang Guan.

"We make our stand in our side of the river, launched small coordinated attack as a prank! Provoke them one by one, the elder has wise thinking, the young would be hot in the head! We can use water to our advantage! Let me deal with them if they retaliate!" Liang Fan smiled.

"Let's make plans then!" Liang Guan.

"No need just let them volunteering! It would be fun for them, to annoyed the enemy!" Liang Fan smirking.

(When they step into the water it's just like shooting a fish in a barrel!)

Several days later attacks and baseless prank has been done to the Wen, the Liang's was happy because they are "packed like a sardines!" It's easy to do secret attack against a large number of crowd! Provoking them are a rare enjoyment!

"Elder they always provoking us! They won't stand down, this prolonged war has made our young ones restless!" a senior hall master complaint.

"We need to tighten our security! Patrol the riverside! Do not respond, we are weak in the water they luring us!" Wen Xiong.

The senior hall master sighed and break the news to the fighters, even the brave lion can be timid like a sheep when the leader was a pacifist!

"The plan works, they are clash between the elder generations and the old! But even when they are in the edge then respect hierarchy! Too bad we need another push for them to take the bait!" Liang Guan.

"Easy brother Guan, let me asked you! What do you had for dinner last night?" Liang Fan.

"A yellow fin tuna! Served in sour hot sauce! Steam and fresh!" Liang Guan smiled.

"Let say! In the middle of winter, can you catch one to cook it the way you like it?" Liang Fan goes on.

"Easy! We know they migration route, no problem the sea is bountiful! There is always fish to catch, a giant trevally also good cooked this way!" Liang Guan.

"So we never runs out of food?" Liang Fan.

"Of course no! The sea will provide regarding the seasons!" Liang Guan commented with confidence!

"So what about them?" Liang Fan pointed towards across the river to the Wen's camp.

"They!" Suddenly something click on Liang Guan head! "Liang Fan you are a genius!"

(The push that Liang Fan meant was the prolonged war vital requirements, the provisions!)

"Starting tomorrow sail south on this river! Start buying grains from the Feng's with good price, or trade them with our finest quality salts and fishery products! Do not afraid in small profits!" Liang Fan smiled.

Liang Guan understand what Liang Fan trying to do, he immediately called the senior fighters and order them to load provisions, these sailors was very happy eating earth grown stock on their food menu was a luxury that the sea shore regions!

It was the beginning of falls, soon it would be winter again! The Wen has been defending the east, Wen Jin has been training on the battle field camp, but has not even received a slight of chance to fight for the family! Most of the Lords like Wen Sen was getting concerning report from their domain because the lord was not able to manage the land, most was wasted away! Harvest failed, bandits raiding the unprotected, corruption was detected in the treasury (family was the most cruel thief of all!), the Wen supporting regions was falling apart because of this war! Furthermore the provisions needed to provide the gathering camp was hitting their limits! It's harder and harder to meet their demands, the price also became higher because of the scarcity!