Chapter 724: The Hidden Killing Intent of the Master Tushan Maids

"War forced reform; the Nascent Soul cultivators of the Liu Dao Sect have conceded..."

Jiang Ding Zi murmured to himself.

Next, the situation continued to develop: the Liu Dao Sect Holy Son Yin Dao and the Zhenjun He Huan Holy Daughter blocked Dong Xue Liu Yun.

On the eastern front, the Ice and Snow Palace Holy Daughter, a scion of a collateral branch, held off the Master Tushan Maidens' Corps.

The Ice and Snow Holy Daughter's name also reached them through channels of female cultivators from collateral branches of many families.

Mu Mu Tianxue.

She was the one who, when defeated, often turned into many palm-sized little figures to escape; the owner of the Blood Spirit Nine Lives Saint Body, the Ancestor of the Xuetudian in the Three Kingdoms Lands: Mu Mu Tianxue.

One of her lives was personally beheaded by Jiang Ding, and her soul was searched; that is how the Blood Spirit Nine Lives Saint Body was discovered.

This is a talent comparable to the Great Yin Dao Body and the Five Elements Dao Body, possessing extraordinary survival ability: nine cloned lives; as long as the nine lives are not all extinguished, the cultivator will not die.

The Shen Hun Lao Yin of Chun Chun Jian, the Head Maid of the Master Tushan Maidens' Corps, trembled; this meant she wanted to communicate.

Today assassinate this Jin Dan cultivator, tomorrow destroy this mountain gate; chip away piece by piece, constantly eroding the ruling foundation of the Master Tushan Maidens' Corps.

Under such circumstances, it is very likely that before the Master Tushan Maidens' Corps is breached on the main battlefield, their rear governance will completely collapse and their logistics cut off.

On the current eastern main battlefield, the Master Tushan Maidens' Corps holds the advantage; eighty thousand Dao Soldiers have surrounded the massive army further mobilized by the Ice and Snow Palace and the Liu Dao Sect so tightly that not even water can pass, attacking fiercely day and night.

Under this constant assassination campaign, the rear governance teeters on the brink of collapse; many forces that had already submitted have begun secretly pledging loyalty to the Liu Dao Sect and the Ice and Snow Palace, sending intelligence.

In short, the situation is such that shifting toward either side is possible.

Once supplies are cut off and cultivation resources are exhausted, most of the maids who came merely for profit might collapse immediately; mere strict military law would be useless.

Of course, though both are Dao Bodies, Mu Mu Tianxue is far from comparable to the Great Yin Sword Disciple or the Five Elements Dao Disciple An Tuzi; she is still struggling bitterly for the Nascent Soul realm and Nascent Soul Gong Fa, with her advancement depending on luck.

When numbers are large, Mu Mu Tianxue and her elite Jin Dan troops flee immediately; when numbers are small, Mu Mu Tianxue quickly turns back to swallow and kill them; already, multiple Jin Dan Jing Master Tushan Maids have died at her hands.

This is the huge difference of post-natal education.

"My Lord,"

The Master Tushan Maidens' Corps could do nothing about it.

But outside the main battlefield, the Master Tushan Maidens' Corps fell into a huge disadvantage.

"You are still so young; time has not changed you in the slightest."

Of course, it is also possible that before the governance collapses, the Master Tushan Maidens' Corps will first breach the allied forces of the Liu Dao Sect and the Ice and Snow Palace, achieve victory, deploy a large elite army of Golden Core cultivators to surround and annihilate Mu Mu Tianxue, and swallow nearly half of the Zheng-Mo Alliance's Great Grasslands.

Checking the clone records: in past years, she had requested communication many times, but the clone lacked the ability to communicate across such vast distances, so it was ignored.

In the image, a woman with a clear and beautiful face smiled sweetly, pure and sweet, like a girl next door.

The Ice and Snow Holy Daughter Mu Mu Tianxue keenly perceived her advantage: she possesses near-Nascent Soul-level single-combat power; she does not engage the Master Tushan Maidens' Corps head-on, but instead leads over a hundred elite Jin Dan cultivators to sabotage the enemy rear battlefield.

One must know that eighty thousand maids above the Foundation Establishment realm and over a thousand Jin Dan cultivators require massive amounts of resources for daily cultivation.

Buzz!

Jiang Ding casually tapped open her Shen Hun Lao Yin.

It made one's heart melt.

In truth, deep within those clear, bottomless eyes, an extremely dense killing intent had accumulated, almost impossible to dissolve.

Her sword intent is named the Spring Birth Sword Intent; when the sword intent unfolds, on a battlefield strewn with corpses, countless seeds sprout from the eye sockets and mouths of the dead; from tender shoots to green leaves, from grass to trees, finally forming a magnificent, blooming flower garden of immortals, full of vitality and breathtaking beauty, which can make people intoxicated without realizing it.

'Her loyalty has dropped to thirty.'

Such a thought arose in Jiang Ding's mind.

He used a favorability system from a game he played in his youth for comparison: sixty is an ordinary person; just met, with the male lead of ordinary appearance—that is this level of favorability.

Seventy is having a favorable impression.

Eighty is trust.

Ninety is loyalty.

One hundred is loyalty unto death.

Of course, Jiang Ding believed that a favorability of one hundred could not exist in the real world; humans are too fickle a species; under the passage of time, any kind of emotion will rot.

Thirty favorability, hmm, loyalty.

This means that the person before him is beginning to harbor hostility toward Jiang Ding; no, hostility is too mild; it is a faint killing intent—that is more accurate.

'Somewhat unexpected,'

'Even a girl raised and educated from childhood is like this...'

Jiang Ding thought.

In the Cultivation World, high-level cultivators are often ruthless toward subordinates and juniors, killing them arbitrarily; originally, it was thought to be innate evil and perversion.

Now thinking about it, there is also an element of self-protection within it.

As long as one does not invest emotion,

one will never be betrayed, never be hurt, never be bound by anything, forming a weakness.

"Mm."

Jiang Ding nodded lightly.

Regarding killing intent, regarding hostility, he did not care.

Dare to act, and you die; that is all; nothing else is mixed in.

Of course, it is not that the entire Master Tushan Maidens' Corps has become corrupted.

He could feel that the loyalty of most maids cultivated by the Master Tushan Xiancheng was above seventy; many were at eighty, and some even reached ninety-five, such as Gong Gong Caiyu, who is already a Jin Dan cultivator.

Overall, the Master Tushan Maidens' Corps remains reliable.

For instance, right now, with a single order, most Master Tushan Maids would obey; even surrounding and killing the Head Maid Chun Chun Jian would be the same, extinguished with a flick of the finger.

But one thing is helplessly frustrating: among the thirteen maids who comprehended sword intent, except for Gong Gong Caiyu, all have loyalty below fifty.

The stronger the ability, the higher the status, the lower the loyalty?

The lowest of them all, Xun Wind Maid Heilouxi among the Nine Great Maids, had loyalty so low it fell below ten; she likely viewed Jiang Ding as an obstacle on the Nascent Soul Dao path, a Dao enemy of some sort.

Many maids believed Tushan Master Dinghai Zhenjun was the mastermind behind the scenes, raising them like pigs, and would appear at the moment of their advancement to swallow them whole, just like the ancient legend of the Heaven's Luck Old Demon.

One must admit, this speculation holds a certain degree of rationality.

Jiang Ding's thoughts drifted.

Before the female cultivator, the youth in green robes softly hummed in response, asking nothing, caring for nothing, letting the river of time flow on.

Chun Chun Jian's heart gave a sudden thump.

All the resentment and fear in her heart instinctively receded and sank deep at this moment, as she constantly self-hypnotized, recalling the times she personally experienced when she was a young girl.

Back then, Nascent Soul True Person Jundundun taught her with meticulous care, granting honors unheard of and never before seen; no Nascent Soul True Person had ever been like this, showing such patience even to their own children was extremely rare...

Gradually, her mindset changed.

Jiang Ding felt slightly surprised in his heart.

The loyalty of the female cultivator before him was rising, climbing from thirty to forty-one, then stopping.

This was a data-driven judgment based on his estimation.

'Humans truly are complex creatures...'

"Master,"

Chun Chun Jian's voice was soft and gentle as she said, "Could you please write a letter by hand, requesting Senior Elder Qingyunzi to emerge from seclusion and lend us a hand to tie down the Ice and Snow Saintess's assassination attempts?"

"Senior Elder Qingyunzi?"

Jiang Ding was stunned.

Who is this?

After pondering for a long while, he finally found a clue in his sea of consciousness.

"Han Lin, is it?"

"Yes, it is Senior Han."

Chun Chun Jian respectfully said, "Senior Han escaped from the Six Paths Holy Son Yin Dao when he was at the early stage of Jin Dan; now that he is a peak Jin Dan cultivator, he surely has the ability to tie down the Ice and Snow Saintess, allowing us to lead troops to surround and kill her."

"However, Senior Han does not trust my promise."

Speaking of this, a trace of anger appeared on her face.

On the current Northern Plains, Chun Chun Jian True Person, the head maid of the Tushan Maid Group, is a figure of great renown, comparable to the warlords 'Blood King' Liu Dong Xue Liuyun and Great Love True Person, keeping her word worth a thousand gold.

But to that ordinary-looking youth, she was not trustworthy at all; her intent was rejected the moment she proposed it, even though she herself was extremely eager for the Nascent Soul opportunity within the Wang Ting Wangting Fudi.

He proposed such a condition.

"Very well."

Jiang Ding used his divine sense to handwrite a divine thought transmission message.

Since the Tushan Maid Group currently provides him with an annual fiscal contribution of six hundred million low-grade spirit stones, he is willing to provide them with convenience.

The content of the divine thought transmission was nothing special: a promise that if Han Lin establishes military merits meeting the corresponding standard, he will definitely receive a Wang Ting token related to the Nascent Soul Dao-attainment opportunity after the Tushan Maid Group secures victory in the Wang Ting Wangting Fudi.

Then, that was all.

The implied meaning within was self-evident.

If anyone obstructs, is blinded by greed, or violates the promise, Jiang Ding will personally execute them.

Yes, without this promise, the likelihood of the current Tushan Maids turning on each other and robbing one another is quite high.

After all, in the face of the Nascent Soul Dao-attainment opportunity, what is conscience?

"Master, this servant takes her leave."

Chun Chun Jian carefully held up this divine sense letter, bowed, and retreated to leave.

(End of this chapter)