Ever since Murong Fu brought the forces of the Thirty-Six Caves and the Seventy-Two Islands under his control, Lijia Village and the Tianshan factions had united, though they still maintained separate facades on the surface.
A contingent of the Eight Divisions of Lingjiu Palace had also remained behind to help manage the relevant personnel. Although the Hexi Corridor region was nominally a no-man's-land and a buffer zone between Western Liao, the Tibetan Kingdom, and Xixia, it was already effectively under Murong Fu's control.
Against this backdrop, Murong Fu received troubling intelligence: Xiao Feng, the King of the Southern Court of the Liao Kingdom, had arrived in the Hexi Corridor and intended to join Xixia Yipintang's upcoming campaign against Lingjiu Palace.
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