Loser System and Berserker Me Chapter 170: Underground Rats

Tuk tuk!

Tsenpo Ling reflexively tapped against her throne, deep in thought.

She hadn’t gotten much information out of Bibre. It had been years since the latter moved to the Tibetan Plateau, so most of what he knew about the Western Regions were outdated. Similarly, his intelligence about the Shu clan was worth something but not much.

Even so, Tsenpo Ling managed to grasp some vital information.

“Tenacity and resentment, huh?” she murmured.

Bibre had mentioned legends about vengeful spirits from the Central Plains, especially the two cruxes behind their strength. These two cruxes had pointed out the next move for her.

“Attacking the heart is the superior strategy. I’ll have to work on the Tang emperor.”

While Great Tang had been warring with the Tibetan Empire in recent years, for the Tang emperor, what was even more threatening than external threats like the Tibetan Empire were Protectorate Generals who had powerful armies in their grasp but refused to follow directives.

The last thing the declining Great Tang wanted to do was to fight enemies on multiple fronts.

Tsenpo Ling could use this to convince the Tang emperor to sign a treaty with her, with her promising years of ceasefire in exchange for Anxi, Beiting, and a few other key areas around the Tibetan Plateau.

That might just crush the ghost horsemen’s fighting spirit.

If they stood before the ghost horsemen with the Tang emperor’s edict, declaring that their emperor had forsaken them, their raison d'être would unravel. For whom would they be fighting for now? For whom would they be loyal to now?

No matter how tenacious those ghost horsemen were, how many of them would continue fighting when the faith that had driven them for the past few decades suddenly collapsed?

And the thing was that Tsenpo Ling had a good chance of pulling this off.

Great Tang had already long abandoned Beiting and the Western Regions, which meant that the Tibetan Empire was just asking for a redundant document of acknowledgment in exchange for years of peace.

The Tang court would surel

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