Zhang Tiande was acutely aware of how his injuries were worsening by the moment.
Yet to ask a man who had campaigned for many years to abandon his skills and forego that transcendent power in these turbulent times? This was something he absolutely could not accept.
Besides, with the pressures of finances and food, logistics issues, rear-area turmoil, the troops' low morale, and the administrative authorities' demands... all these things compelled him to continue fighting.
Zhang Tiande was clear that his greatest advantage lay in the brute force he commanded; to cease wielding such force was an outcome he could not bear.
He had struggled for nearly half his life to reach his current position, and he could not relinquish the military might, power, and official status he had accumulated.
Moreover, Zhang Tiande knew that while he was in poor condition, the state of those two Evil Women from the Heavenly Will Sect was not much better than his.
