"Hurry! Hurry and invite the city lords of the other alliances to Qinghe City for a meeting. " The Qinghe City Lord couldn't help but order his disciples when he heard Vice City Lord Jiang's suggestion.
The White City Alliance was already heading towards the Qinghe Alliance with the Cheng Family experts. How could he not be anxious?
If there were people from the other alliances present, they could still come up with a countermeasure.
However, if the Qinghe Alliance was the only one facing the Cheng Family experts, he really wouldn't know what to do.
If the Qinghe Alliance couldn't stop the Cheng Family, then the crisis they had brought to the White City Alliance would be resolved. Wouldn't all their efforts be for naught?
"City Lord, since the White City Alliance is heading towards the Qinghe Alliance with the Cheng Family experts, shouldn't we hurry to Qingyang City as well?
Otherwise, if the Cheng Family experts don't see us, they might start a war with Qingyang City. That would be troublesome, "Vice City Lord Ji said worriedly.
Qingyang City was the last city leading to the White City Alliance. It was also the first city they had to face when they arrived at the Qinghe Alliance.
Now that the White City Alliance was heading towards the Qinghe Alliance with the Cheng Family experts, they would definitely reach Qingyang City first.
However, they were all at Qinghe City. As the Vice City Lord of Qingyang City, how could he not be worried?
"Yes, Vice City Lord Ji is right. Everyone, follow me to Qingyang City first." As the Qinghe Alliance's City Lord, he would definitely be more worried than anyone else if something happened to Qingyang City.
Thus, the Qinghe City Lord brought all the Vice City Lords and a portion of the army to Qingyang City.
No matter what the White City Alliance and the Cheng Family planned to do, he had to at least gather enough troops.
If they didn't come to an agreement with the Cheng Family, at least they wouldn't be defenseless.
Furthermore, the Cheng Family might not dare to attack the Qinghe Alliance after seeing the troops of Qingyang City.
Therefore, it was necessary for them to move their troops to Qingyang City in advance. Regardless of how strong the experts from the Cheng family were, at the very least, if they had enough troops in Qingyang City, they would more or less be able to intimidate them.
While everyone was heading towards Qingyang City, the other cities of the Qinghe Alliance also gathered their troops and headed towards Qingyang City.
After all, the safety of Qingyang City was the most important thing right now. If they only had the military strength of Qingyang City and a portion of Qinghe City's military strength, it would not be enough.
It would take about two days to reach Qingyang City from Qinghe City.
As for the Qinghe City Lord and the others, in order to reach Qingyang City as soon as possible, they did not travel with the army. Instead, they brought a group of Deputy City Lords and some experts to Qingyang City as quickly as possible. It only took them slightly more than a day to arrive.
As for the army that had departed from Qinghe City, they would arrive at Qingyang City in half a day.
When the Qinghe City Lord and the others arrived at Qingyang City, the atmosphere in Qingyang City had already become a little tense.
Clearly, Qingyang City already knew that the White City Alliance had led their troops to Qingyang City.
Although the south gate of Qingyang city had always been tightly shut in the past few months, and the city was no longer as bustling as before, everyone was still unable to remain as calm as before after learning that war was likely to break out in Qingyang city.
Especially in Qingyang City, many commoners and merchants wanted to leave Qingyang City in advance.
However, Qingyang City's city lord's mansion would definitely not allow them to do so.
Although Qingyang City might really clash with the White City Alliance, or even go to war, things might not be that bad.
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If these people were allowed to leave Qingyang City, it would definitely cause even greater panic in the entire city.
Moreover, every city was inseparable from commoners and merchants. If all these people ran away, even if Qingyang city remained safe and sound, it would greatly affect the prosperity of Qingyang city.
Even if Qingyang City was fine in the future, it would be very difficult for them to summon these people back.
Everyone understood this, so if a war broke out in any city in the cultivation world, the first thing they would do was to seal the city gates. Apart from the city lord's people, everyone else could only enter the city.
Even if the commoners in the city were very dissatisfied with this, they would not care at all. After all, they only considered the interests of Qingyang City and the city lord's mansion, not the commoners and others.
It would take at least five days to travel from Yu City to Qingyang City in the White City Alliance.
During these five days, apart from the army of Qinghe City, the armies of the other cities of the Clear River Alliance also arrived at Qingyang City one after another.
The Clear River Alliance was slightly larger than the White City Alliance. The Clear River Alliance controlled a total of 28 cities, six more than the White City Alliance.
Moreover, the White City Alliance only had two first-class cities, while the Clear River Alliance had four.
As such, in terms of military strength, the Clear River Alliance had around three million soldiers.
This time, because the Cheng family's experts were involved, the Clear River City Lord did not dare to be careless. A portion of the forces of the 28 cities gathered at Qingyang City, amounting to around two million soldiers.
The Clear River City Lord felt very proud when he saw this many soldiers.
Besides, ever since the White City Alliance submitted to the Cheng Clan and led the experts of the Cheng Clan to Qingyang City, he had been very worried in the past few days.
However, now that he saw the Clear River Alliance's nearly two million soldiers, he suddenly felt a sense of heroism.
The Cheng family was very forceful, but according to the news he had received, the White City Alliance had not brought many people this time, only around 50,000.
Such a small number of people was not even worth mentioning in front of their two million strong army.
Moreover, this was only the beginning. Many of the alliances had already replied to him, saying that they had already gathered some of their forces and were heading to Qingyang City.
The other alliances were heading in different directions and were quite far from the Clear River Alliance, so they had not received any news yet.
The Clear River City Lord estimated that it would be very difficult for these alliances to send troops to Qingyang City.
Even so, he estimated that Qingyang City's soldiers would not be less than four million.
The White City Alliance had only brought 50,000 soldiers. Even if they had experts from the Cheng family, it would not be enough.
As such, he was in a very good mood at this moment, and he was very confident.
He could only hope that the Cheng family would not go overboard. Otherwise, he would not be afraid of the Cheng family at all.
One had to know that the Cheng family's actions had already greatly affected the alliances.
The White City Alliance had continuously issued missions for the Cheng family in the past two years. Fortunately, the White City Alliance's missions had been limited in the first year, and the missions had been very ordinary. Even though they had attracted many people, they had not affected them too much.
However, in the past two years, the White City Alliance and the Cheng family had expanded their cooperation, and the missions issued by the White City Alliance had become even better. As a result, the White City Alliance's reputation had increased.
Even the topics of discussion in the various cities of the alliance were related to the Cheng family's missions issued by the White City Alliance every day.
It would have been fine if that was all.
However, the situation was far worse than they had imagined. As the White City Alliance's reputation grew, more and more people were attracted to them, causing the population of their cities to plummet. This was a huge loss for such a large alliance.
Seeing that they were suffering losses while the White City Alliance was profiting greatly, it would be a lie to say that they were not enraged or jealous.
As such, these alliances were prepared to work together to suppress the White City Alliance. If the White City Alliance was tactful and was willing to share some of their profits, everything would be fine.
However, not only did the White City Alliance not compromise, but they also chose to submit to the Cheng family and completely sided with them. Now, they had even asked the Cheng family to help them out.
If they really allowed the Cheng family to settle this matter, would the White City Alliance go even further in the future? Wouldn't the other alliances suffer even greater losses?
As such, the other alliances were unwilling to see this happen.
Otherwise, the other alliances would not have responded so enthusiastically after receiving the news from the Clear River Alliance.
However, even though the other alliances had already responded, it would take at least five days for the nearest alliance to arrive at Qingyang City.
Based on the current timeline, the White City Alliance would arrive at Qingyang City in two days.
It would be best if the other alliances could arrive at Qingyang City before the White City Alliance, but he knew that this was not very likely.
As such, he decided not to escalate the conflict with the White City Alliance for now. It would be best if he could stall for more than three days until the armies of the other alliances arrived.
After all, he would feel more confident with more allied armies around.
Furthermore, if the Clear River Alliance came into conflict with the White City Alliance or the Cheng family, the Clear River Alliance would be the only one to suffer losses. This was not worth it.
The idea of making things difficult for the White City Alliance had been discussed and agreed upon by everyone.
Now that the Clear River Alliance was the only one in trouble, they could not let the Clear River Alliance bear the consequences alone.
Therefore, the most important thing for him now was to stall for time!
Two days later, the 50,000 people of the White City Alliance appeared outside the southern gate of Qingyang City as expected.
"City Lord Zhou, Qingyang City is just ahead. It is also the first gate guarded by the Clear River Alliance!" City Lord Bai said as he pointed at the massive city ahead.
Although Qingyang City was a border city, it was a genuine first-class city.
Perhaps because Qingyang City was an important gate for the Clear River Alliance, the Clear River Alliance paid special attention to it.
It was not important whether the other alliances of the Clear River Alliance closed their gates or not. As long as the southern gate of Qingyang City was closed, basically no one would be able to enter the territory of the White City Alliance from outside the Clear River Alliance.
The entire Clear River Alliance was an alliance that connected the White City Alliance to the wider world outside.
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