Chapter 307: Boundless Mohist, Divine Talisman, Snatching the Bride Successfully

"Princess, we have already entered the territory of Pinghai Prefecture."

"There are seven days left before we cross the Canglan River."

On the imperial relative's ritual ship, outside the screen, Liu Wanliang's voice was gentle.

Behind the screen, the exquisitely dressed Ji Anlan knelt on the mat, her figure motionless.

Liu Wanliang continued to report in a low voice: "The welcoming team of the Yanguang Royal Court has already arrived at the Nine Heavens Yingyuan Prefecture to wait, and the journey has been very peaceful..."

Speaking of this, Liu Wanliang couldn't bear it.

A peaceful journey—this was too cruel for Princess Youruo.

However, Princess Youruo's tone was calm: "I know, you may leave."

Liu Wanliang opened his mouth, seemingly having thousands of words to say, but in the end, he only cupped his hands: "Yes."

On the other side of the screen.

Ji Anlan was kneeling and dazed, her whole body sparkling.

Besides the luxurious clothes and precious jewelry, above her head, there was a small, golden dragon-shaped phantom swimming.

The swimming dragon spat out golden light, enveloping her whole body. The true body of the golden dragon was an imperial edict, an imperial edict that only Ji Anlan could see.

Princess Youruo couldn't help but recall the scene that happened in the imperial palace after the second resolution.

That was the last time she saw her father before leaving the palace.

Ji Mingjing only wore a cyan long gown, with a wooden hairpin in his hair; it could be said he was very simple.

She, like today, knelt before the mat, watching her father walk into the sealed hall.

That was the first time she saw her father clearly, and it was the appearance most like the father in her impression, not the Emperor.

He knelt opposite her, father and daughter looking at each other, as if they had many things to say, but they remained silent for a long time.

"Anlan, how about Father makes a bet with you?" Ji Mingjing spoke first.

"Father, please speak," Ji Anlan said softly.

"You participate in the sacrificial ceremony after leaving the palace according to the ritual, and I will find a way to let Liu Tianning know about this."

"If he finds out and can bring you back before the Southern Barbarian Royal Court envoy team, I will give you both a chance."

"If he doesn't come, it proves he chose his official career and wanted to realize his own ambitions, and you are not that important in his heart."

Emperor Jing stared quietly at his daughter:

"If that is truly the case, do not blame the Great Zhou; rest assured and help your brother buy time to complete the mission."

Princess Youruo also stared at her father:

"Daughter is willing to bet with Father."

Recalling that conversation, Princess Youruo was full of anticipation.

She believed her beloved would come to save her.

Even if there were only seven days left before leaving the Great Zhou territory, she believed that as long as Liu Tianning knew this news,

he would definitely understand her heart and rush over regardless of everything.

Liu Tianning was indeed rushing to the Canglan River; he was the King of Taihe, and with the Golden Dragon Warship and the Ten Thousand Method Palace dispatched, no one dared to stop him. Zhao Xing's Wu Yao Warship followed closely behind.

If he could see the last conversation between Emperor Jing and Princess Youruo, he would probably understand 'how the old witch was forged.'

He would also understand why, after Princess Youruo returned to the country in her previous life, she only hated Liu Tianning to the bone but did not hate the Great Zhou, instead providing a considerable amount of secret intelligence for the Martial Emperor's conquest of the Barbarians.

At this moment, Old Master Zhao was perfecting the plan to snatch the bride on the Wu Yao Warship.

"First, we must wait for the Great Zhou's sending team to leave, wait for Princess Youruo to leave the Great Zhou's territory."

"In this way, at least it won't be violating the old Emperor's edict within the borders."

"If we can snatch Ji Anlan from the hands of the many Southern Barbarian experts, it can be said that the Southern Barbarian Royal Court couldn't protect the Princess at all, or didn't take the Princess's safety to heart—in short, leave some room for the Confucian scholars to debate."

"Secondly, we must snatch her openly; we cannot be sneaky. Besides, only Old Liu and I can go; Ji Che can only be a spectator, and absolutely no more people can be added," Zhao Xing thought to himself.

As for what to do after snatching her? There are plenty of reasons to make up for it.

"The Red Emperor of old had a daughter 'named Jisu', who was kind-hearted and beloved by the people. She fell in love with a cultivator named Chisongzi."

(Note: Paragraph 319-43 is a typo in the source.)

"However, the Red Emperor was bewitched by the National Master and wanted to marry the Red Emperor's daughter to the land of bugs."

"Chisongzi's great-grandfather brought people overnight to snatch the Red Emperor's daughter back to his tribe."

"Since then, Jisu lived with Chisongzi in a place called Pucheng and taught the local villagers to plant 'five grains,' which was beloved by everyone."

"After that, the villagers of Pucheng held sacrifices every year to thank the Red Emperor and Jisu for bringing 'five grains'..."

(Note: Paragraph 319-48 is a continuation of 319-47.)

Liu Tianning was stunned: "How come I don't know that Shangluo Academy has such a historical legend? Does the spell of 'Five Grains Abundance' have such an allusion?"

"I haven't heard of it either. Big Brother, you made it up on the spot, right?"

Ji Che listened with great interest: "Chisongzi, isn't that Dean Liu? Then the Red Emperor and the Red Emperor's daughter are the Emperor and the Princess."

"But wasn't the great-grandfather a bit excessive? Also, Big Brother, I'm not in this."

Zhao Xing smiled: "History is vast; you can discover more."

That's right! How history is written, isn't that up to oneself in the future? Ji Che suddenly felt his thinking was opened up.

Big Brother is indeed a talent!

Liu Tianning, interrupted by the two, couldn't help but laugh; he hadn't thought about so much at all.

Just snatch, and after snatching, leave it to heaven's will. How to give the Emperor a reason to explain it—that wasn't something he should consider.

Aren't there so many ritualist ministers who are just eating for free?

Zhao Xing was also bored and just thought about it casually.

Is the old Emperor the kind of emperor who cares about face? Marrying off the Princess has already achieved his goal. After snatching her back, he certainly won't force Princess Youruo to marry again.

He is the kind of person who 'wants the goods but doesn't want to pay.'

So this matter can definitely be done. If Emperor Jing was determined to marry off Princess Youruo, then this matter couldn't have been done from the beginning, and someone would have jumped out to forbid him from leaving the Spirit Ruins Blessed Land.

"The welcoming team of the Yanguang Royal Court of the Southern Barbarians has already arrived at the Nine Heavens Yingyuan Prefecture to wait. It is rumored there are five First Grade Life Palace realm experts, and the brothers of Crown Prince Wan, seven Second Grade leaders, and five hundred Third Grade followers."

"Kill as many as there are; it's best to kill them all," Zhao Xing said.

Liu Tianning nodded; in this way, he could also form a deadly feud with the Yanguang Royal Court of the Southern Barbarians, which was equivalent to cutting off the retreat for rebellion.

What is better for showing loyalty than forming such a private feud?

"Good, good, good!" Ji Che slapped his thigh excitedly, "It should be so! Kill them all!"

"Within the Great Zhou territory, with experts escorting, we certainly cannot act."

"According to ritual, when we reach Yingyuan Prefecture, there will be a small team of guards and an honor guard following the Princess to the Yanguang Royal Court."

"When we snatch, we cannot hurt our own people, and certainly cannot let our own people die; not even one."

Zhao Xing looked at Liu Tianning.

The 'own people' he spoke of didn't matter what faction they were from; as long as they were Great Zhou, they couldn't be killed.

Liu Tianning also understood Zhao Xing's meaning: "I won't be impulsive."

Zhao Xing and Liu Tianning could go to snatch the bride, and naturally, there were people who went to escort and facilitate this matter to proceed smoothly.

With Liu Tianning's current strength and status, there were not many powerful families who dared to do this.

Only the experts among the Seventy-Two Academies dared to come and stop them.

But facing these people, Zhao Xing couldn't let Old Liu just hack them.

He came here mainly to hold Liu Tianning back, preventing him from killing too much; this time was even more serious than when Old Liu was looking for Murong Qing years ago.

The ones coming weren't Fourth or Fifth Grade, but at least High Grade. If they really did that, the nature of the matter would be too vile.

Time passed day by day, and soon Princess Youruo's ship crossed the Canglan River and stayed at the Nine Heavens Yingyuan Prefecture.

At the same time, Zhao Xing and Liu Tianning also arrived at the riverside.

"Big Brother, why aren't we moving?" Ji Che asked puzzledly.

"You stay here and watch; just cheer for us," Zhao Xing brought a huge Earth Mirror, "You know how to use this, right?"

"I can't go?" Ji Che patted his sword, "Big Brother, don't look down on me; my sword has not yet been tested!"

"With a three-foot green blade in hand, I can also kill some small fry!"

"You can send scout straw men to accompany us, but you must stay here yourself," Zhao Xing said.

Ji Che understood and could only say helplessly: "Fine."

He immediately retracted his sword and pointed, and intermediate straw men condensed in the cabin.

Four-method-in-one Flying Divine Shield Martyrdom Scout Straw Men.

Zhao Xing had only taught him the intermediate straw man method.

"Rise!"

Straw men flew up; it seemed Ji Che still wasn't reconciled, and making dozens of them in one breath was enough to satisfy his craving even if he couldn't cross the river!

Zhao Xing was afraid that the Martial Emperor would develop some rebellious heart, so he specifically left a clone to accompany him.

Ji Che curled his lips but could only helplessly stay in the city north of the river.

As for his straw man clone, it continued to move forward.

Zhao Xing and the others didn't take the Princess's route.

After Princess Youruo crossed the river, it was the Nine Heavens Yingyuan Prefecture, while Zhao Xing and his teacher crossed the river into the Southern Barbarian buffer zone, an extremely cruel wasteland.

"The Southern Barbarian land is actually this terrifying?" Ji Che could see the huge lightning snakes flashing in the sky and the raging gale through the straw man, and couldn't help but exclaim.

"This doesn't count as truly terrifying," Zhao Xing explained, "It's not even one-ten-thousandth."

Staying in the Nineteen Prefectures and staying in the Southern Barbarian area felt significantly different.

Terrifying celestial phenomena were rarely seen in the Great Zhou territory, but they were everywhere in the Southern Barbarians.

The two warships had just crossed the river for a hundred miles when Zhao Xing narrowed his eyes and looked ahead.

"Someone is coming."

Liu Tianning also looked ahead.

Although he was First Grade, his divine soul was not as strong as Zhao Xing's.

Three breaths after Zhao Xing sensed it, he sensed the figures flashing in the thunderclouds ahead.

"Zhan Sanchen of the Golden Spirit Academy," Liu Tianning said coldly, "He is the elder brother of Zhan Si Gong and also the honorary vice-dean of the Golden Spirit Academy."

"A Second Grade late-stage Sword Sect martial artist."

"He excels in the Golden Spirit Four Divine Sword Method, entered the Dao with the Second Grade true intent 'Lesser Yin Xin Metal', and practiced the 'Golden Battle Body'." Zhao Xing turned his head and asked: "Is he also one of the bad guys from back then?"

Liu Tianning snorted: "No, his younger brother was, but it couldn't be separated from his indulgence. His younger brother was killed by me in the fifth year of Dazhi."

Ji Che's straw man suddenly inserted itself between the two, his eyes shining: "Big Brother, Big Brother, what do you mean? The bad guys from back then? What other stories were there back then?"

"We'll talk later." Zhao Xing pushed the straw man's head away; one must choose the occasion to gossip.

"Oh."

Zhao Xing looked at the people in the thunderclouds: "Teacher, no need to trouble yourself, I will go solve it."

Liu Tianning nodded silently.

It was indeed inappropriate for him to act; Murong Qing was his pain back then, and he was afraid he wouldn't be able to hold back and would kill.

This had nothing to do with being sober; Liu Tianning had a feud with those people!

They blocked him once back then, and two hundred years later, they came again?

If Liu Tianning were really allowed to act, he would be driven mad even if he wasn't already.

*Swish~*

Zhao Xing rushed out of the warship and flew into the clouds.

Zhan Chen saw that it was Zhao Xing who flew out and couldn't help but look contemptuous: "Why, Liu Tianning killed my brother, and he doesn't even have the courage to face me? He has to send you, this disciple, to block the blade?"

"He certainly has the courage to play with women!"

Zhao Xing knew this was an old sarcastic person, and he had no eye for detail at all, failing to see his realm.

For such an old fool, Zhao Xing had no intention of talking to him.

His body began to copy and paste, and in the blink of an eye, twelve clones appeared and then disappeared into the clouds.

"Actively attacking a strong person? Zhao Xing, you asked for this!" Zhan Chen roared and began to activate the Golden Battle Body.

The blood in his body expanded, and his body began to grow larger.

Logically speaking, after he performed the third change of the Martial Dao Golden Body, his body would become larger, and his spell resistance would be greatly improved.

He was larger now, but it was different from what Zhan Chen himself thought.

Why was there no Four Spirits Dharma Image with golden light flashing?

And why was his nose getting longer?

Zhan Chen made a sound of doubt, and the next second, a pig's grunt came.

"Grunt~ Grunt~"

Zhan Chen: "???"

He was completely stunned.

*Plop~*

Rain fell in the clouds.

A drop of rain flashed past the pig's eyes, reflecting his current appearance—a large pig head.

"!!!"

Zhan Chen screamed miserably, struggling constantly.

But it was useless. Before long, a vine entangled his fat body.

The branches of the Floating Vine bound him tightly, and the leaves tightened, sealing his mouth and nose.

"Shh~" Zhao Xing put his finger to his lips, and the other finger pointed to the clone beside him: "Don't scream, we're recording."

Zhan Chen looked and saw that there were indeed clones carrying large echo snails and mirage pearls recording on the spot.

Zhan Chen: "!!!"

Zhao Xing smiled: "Zhan what's-his-name? You wouldn't want your pig appearance to be seen by your disciples, friends, and family, would you?"

"If you don't want that, don't scream."

"This Marquis is kind-hearted; as long as you are obedient, I won't do such a crazy thing, hehehe~"

Lightning reflected on Zhao Xing's face, and a sinister smile appeared on his face, the strange sound making Zhan Chen's pig skin tremble, and the whole pig became honest.

Death is not terrible; social death is terrible!

He found out what a wrong decision it was to come here!

Liu Tianning was purely crazy; he would die at worst, but this disciple—he was just too terrifying!

Seeing that Zhan Chen was honest, Zhao Xing led him out of the clouds. He didn't send him to Old Liu's Golden Dragon Warship to be locked up,

but returned to the Wu Yao Warship.

"Wow! What a big golden fat pig!"

Ji Che's straw man stood on the deck, and when he saw Zhan Chen, he was stunned.

He had never seen such a big pig!

"Big Brother, is this the Pig Luo Method you once mentioned, passed down from the first Minister of Agriculture, Wu Cheng?" Ji Che asked with admiration.

"Correct." Zhao Xing nodded, "But compared to Senior Wu Cheng, the gap is still not small."

"This is an ultimate spell, but I only cultivated it to the top-tier completion level."

"If it were the ultimate level, it would be a real pig, and its size would be the same as an ordinary pig."

"After seven days, it will completely turn into a pig."

"However, it is large now, and even if it turns into a pig, its combat power is very strong, and it can injure a Third Grade early-stage expert."

Zhao Xing performed the Outer-Refining Transformation Method, which could at most reduce Zhan Chen's strength to this level.

Of course, even this was terrifying.

Zhan Chen was a Second Grade late-stage expert!

Now that he had turned into a pig, he couldn't even kill a Third Grade expert, only injure them.

In addition, his pig spell lasted for a full three months. From a certain perspective, although it didn't have the lethality of Wu Cheng's, this was not necessarily a kind of torture.

Ji Che's nickname was... at this time, seeing this big fat pig, he was very curious, touching here and looking there.

He even flipped open Zhan Chen's pig ears to look.

This made Zhan Chen want to die.

However, he was bound tightly by the Floating Vine; the more he struggled, the tighter it got, and finally, he could only give up resistance completely.

Anyway, it was already like this; they shouldn't be able to tell who he was, right?

Zhao Xing shook the mirage pearl and echo snail in front of Zhan Chen, signaling him to stay quiet.

Zhan Chen's heart was like dead ashes, lying on the ground motionless.

"You have learned a lot during your seclusion." Liu Tianning naturally saw the whole process of the battle.

However, he didn't expect that the clone Zhao Xing performed was also a top-tier Nine-Turn Transformation Method, only one level away from completion.

And Liu Tianning didn't know the pig spell.

Was the ultimate Outer-Refining Transformation Method so easy to practice?

Only someone like Zhao Xing, who was proficient in three schools, could integrate them, not only practicing it but also walking out of his own characteristics, different from Wu Cheng's Dao.

"This is simply more uncomfortable than killing him," Liu Tianning laughed happily, "Why didn't I think of this way to deal with those old stubborn people before?"

The old people of the Academy valued those old rules and cared about face.

Zhan Chen must be feeling terrible right now.

"Teacher is open and upright, with a heart like a newborn child," Zhao Xing said.

Liu Tianning could see injustice and rush into the thief's den to kill them all, but he wouldn't think of these tricks.

Old Master Zhao was different; what kind of crazy operations wouldn't he do?

"It really is something he would do." In the Nine Heavens Yingyuan Prefecture, high in the west, King Luo stood on the viewing platform of the Mohist Palace. His eyes were full of Earth Mirrors.

Not only monitoring the Princess's guard and the Southern Barbarian aliens, but also all the movements around the Nine Heavens Yingyuan Prefecture.

As a staunch pro-war faction member, King Luo never believed that marriage alliances could solve the Southern Barbarian problem.

All his actions were based on the strategic thought that the Southern Barbarians were a life-and-death enemy.

Therefore, monitoring was completely necessary.

Of course, another point was that he also had to keep an eye on Liu Tianning and Zhao Xing.

To avoid making any excessive moves that would anger the aging Emperor Jing and cause irreparable things.

"Grand Marshal, is there really no problem with this?" Lu Ying, the Junior Minister of Works, looked blankly at Zhan Chen, who had turned into a pig in the picture.

"What problem could there be? Now they are all acting in a private capacity outside the borders; what problem could there be?"

Lu Ying said: "I'm worried that the one surnamed Zhan won't be able to change back, making it hard to explain."

"Rest assured," King Luo said lightly: "Zhao Chen'an has always had a sense of measure."

Even the impulsive act of Zhao Xing scolding Prince Liang back then, looking back now, was great wisdom!

It's a pity that the Heavenly Derivation King couldn't see this scene, and he couldn't get along with Ji Si, so he could only chat about the past with this Junior Minister of Works.

"Back then, he—"

The warship continued to move forward because they detoured around the Nine Heavens Yingyuan Prefecture to the south to intercept.

The Princess's sending route was simple and clear, so their route was also basically clear.

Before long, a second group of people blocked the road.

"Liu Tianning!"

In a desert, three fiery red figures soared into the sky and quickly caught up with the warship.

"Cangyan Academy, one of them is called 'Cang'. In the seventh year of Dazhi, I killed four vice-deans of Cangyan Academy."

"One of them was the junior brother of this one called Cang."

"The bald man wearing the Heavenly Fire Dharma Robe is a mechanism master named 'Yan Yan'."

"As for the other one, I don't know him," Liu Tianning stared and said, "I have too many feuds with the Academy people; sometimes I don't know why, and I'm too lazy to ask."

Zhao Xing laughed when he heard this; this was Liu Tianning, who didn't care about the resentment of those small fry at all.

Although this lineup had three people, in terms of strength, it was not as good as Zhan Chen; there was only one Heavenly Luck realm expert, and the other two were Third Grade realm.

Zhao Xing didn't know what they were thinking in their heads.

Risking their lives to test whether Liu Tianning would abide by the law?

It was truly self-inflicted humiliation.

"Turn into a pig!"

Zhao Xing rushed over quickly.

The three people had just rushed into the sky when they turned into three fiery red pigs, bare, without even hair. To prevent these people from setting a trap to commit suicide, Old Master Zhao added a 【Thunder Primordial Lock】 and then tied them tightly.

This process still carried the large echo snail and mirage pearl.

"Grunt~"

Zhao Xing also performed the Sleepy Bug Method, extracting a few life soul parasitic bugs from the three of them for backup.

"Oink~"

"These three pigs are so ugly, red here and black there, without even hair, so ugly."

Ji Che's commentary made Cang and Yan Yan feel ashamed and angry, wishing they could die immediately.

However, Zhao Xing extracted their sleepiness, making the three of them incomparably sober.

Seeing Zhao Xing carrying the mirage pearl and echo snail again, they simply closed their eyes and pretended to be dead.

Fighting all the way, walking all the way.

The pigs on the Wu Yao ship gradually increased, locking up several cabins.

Zhao Xing felt it was unbelievable.

"Old Liu has offended so many people; how many Academy people did he actually mess with during those years he was supervising?"

"Oh, and the Dazhi sixty-year purge, counting the period when he went crazy."

"I said why he killed so many people in his previous life; there were reasons for it," Zhao Xing thought to himself.

"If I were the Emperor, I would also use Old Liu to death; using Liu Tianning's hand, I could completely bring the Seventy-Two Academies to submission."

If it were an ordinary person, they couldn't withstand the retaliation of the Academy forces.

Liu Tianning was different; he had many clones, so retaliation was impossible.

Kill the clones? Let you kill! And I can also charge you with the crime of attacking an official.

The true self huddled in Shangluo Academy and didn't come out; no matter how the Academy people tried, it was difficult to retaliate successfully.

Zhao Xing fought fourteen battles, basically getting one with every grab.

All turned into pigs and locked on the Wu Yao warship.

However, when he encountered the fifteenth wave of people, a First Grade expert finally appeared.

You Xuanfeng wore a moon-white robe, his sleeves fluttering, as if he had merged with heaven and earth.

His face was firm, his eyes as deep as the stars.

"Dean of Tianfeng Academy, You Xuanfeng, a First Grade Five Elements Divine Talisman Master." Liu Tianning stood on the deck, looking ahead.

Then he turned his gaze to the two people beside You Xuanfeng.

"Yao Wuji of the Divine Martial Academy, Chen Ju of the Mo Shou Dao Palace."

"The three of you cannot stop me."

Facing three First Grade Life Palace realm experts, Liu Tianning stood with his hands behind his back, completely ignoring them.

Zhao Xing also stared carefully; these three were not the kind of experts who had just entered the Life Palace realm. They each occupied one side of the sky.

Heaven and earth were under their control; if one didn't look with the naked eye, one would find that these three were no different from the surrounding heaven and earth energy.

"Can briefly distort the rules of heaven and earth, and have already practiced their own Dao Arena," Zhao Xing thought to himself. "These three are true experts."

Second Grade Heavenly Luck realm experts could only influence the rules of heaven and earth, and the force was not great.

But First Grade Life Palace realm experts could completely distort the rules of heaven and earth to form a 【Dao Arena】 extremely favorable to themselves.

"Liu Tianning! You are too arrogant!" Yao Wuji beside You Xuanfeng shouted immediately: "Do you really think you are invincible in the world?"

"At least for you, I am invincible," Liu Tianning said lightly.

Yao Wuji was furious and wanted to say something, but was stopped by You Xuanfeng.

"Liu Tianning, you can ignore the three of us, but do you also ignore the Emperor?"

"The Princess entering the Southern Barbarians is a great peace plan set by the Emperor."

"Do you really think you can do whatever you want?"

Liu Tianning avoided answering.

He had long known that someone would use the edict to talk about things, so when encountering such questions, he didn't answer at all.

Just start fighting.

*Swish swish~*

Liu Tianning immediately flashed out of the Golden Dragon Warship.

*Hum~*

The first to move on the opposite side was not Yao Wuji, but You Xuanfeng and Chen Ju.

*Clatter~*

Within ten thousand meters of Liu Tianning's warship, a total of ninety-nine divine talismans appeared.

"Forbidden Dharma Divine Talisman Array?"

Zhao Xing's Wu Yao warship was far away and was not within this range.

In fact, it was also because You Xuanfeng didn't want to frame Zhao Xing in.

Because in the eyes of the outside world, Liu Tianning was the 'principal offender', and Zhao Xing was at most an 'accomplice'; this newly promoted Second Grade expert was not taken seriously.

They wouldn't bully such a junior.

If they really caused something to Zhao Xing, no one could bear the anger of the Three Schools of Agriculture.

Even Emperor Jing wouldn't allow Zhao Xing, who was researching the Derivation God Art, to be injured.

"It should be called the Primordial Forbidden Dharma Divine Talisman Array." You Xuanfeng pointed, and the divine talismans wrapping the Golden Dragon Warship emitted terrifying energy fluctuations, spinning rapidly.

When the speed reached a certain level, it completely left the line of sight and disappeared directly into the air. "Within my Primordial Forbidden Dharma Divine Talisman Array, except for the caster, no one else can use spells."

"Every divine talisman here has been refined by sages for hundreds of years."

"Liu Tianning, stop."

You Xuanfeng looked at Liu Tianning: "For the Princess, for yourself, and for the peace of the Great Zhou."

Zhao Xing watched quietly, while Ji Che shouted loudly: "Go to hell, you hypocrite, why don't you let your mother and sister marry into the alliance?"

"You claim to be messengers of peace, fearing war, but now you put such techniques on your own people, shameless!"

Unfortunately, his scolding couldn't be heard at all, and he could only kick the big fat pig's butt to vent his anger.

"Grunt~" Zhan Chen's nostrils snorted twice. Who did I offend? I didn't even speak, why take it out on me?

Zhao Xing operated the Wu Yao warship, and the Fire Source Divine Cannon and Divine Dragon Heavenly Sword were aimed at You Xuanfeng.

Feeling the existence of the 'heavy weapon', Chen Ju turned his head and glanced at Zhao Xing.

"Marquis of Divine Might, do not be impulsive."

While speaking, Chen Ju moved a direction-stacking compass at his waist.

The next moment, Zhao Xing found that the weapon array on his warship had lost its effect.

"Damn!"

Almost forgot that these things were invented by the Mohist people.

Using this to fight, it was truly showing off in front of Guan Yu.

"Belongs to internal fighting," Zhao Xing gave up the idea of using the warship.

No way, Chen Ju was a First Grade mechanism master; the cultivation method he practiced would eventually lead to the birth of a special existence called 【Boundless Mohist】 in his body.

It was like the solar term order of the agriculturalist, pure primordial soil, five-element particles.

Chen Ju was also on the 【Dao Soldier Flow】, and he could control micro-spell matrices, or even control the enemy's.

Only mechanism masters who had cultivated 【Boundless Mohist】 in the 【Dao Soldier Flow】 could do this; those like the Divine Luo King who walked the Divine Luo Flow couldn't do it.

In other words, Chen Ju was a self-school mechanism master, and a very talented one at that!

However, Zhao Xing was just putting on a show to cheer; he didn't believe Old Liu's "world's number one" was just bragging.

If he were trapped by You Xuanfeng in one move, then he would have truly re-cultivated in vain.

Sure enough, Liu Tianning didn't let him down.

"Five Elements Primordial Forbidden Dharma Divine Talisman, it can forbid the law of heaven and earth, but it cannot forbid the law of the self."

Liu Tianning was not only not panicked, but the clone on the Wu Yao warship also taught Zhao Xing on the spot,

"He uses the rules of heaven and earth to bind, not knowing that the self-school agriculturalist is already a heaven and earth in itself, and does not need to borrow the power of heaven and earth."

After speaking, a shadow quickly spread on Liu Tianning's Golden Dragon Warship.

The originally hidden divine talismans were revealed again, turning into a dazzling sphere.

*Crack crack crack~*

On the divine talismans, sharp thorns suddenly appeared, propping up the divine talismans.

Pure primordial projection, directly projected onto those ninety-nine divine talismans.

"Ninth Grade Heavenly Horn Bamboo!" Zhao Xing stared fixedly.

Around Liu Tianning, seven bare bamboos appeared.

Each bamboo was very thick, with seven colors in total, corresponding to the seven powers of gold, wood, water, fire, earth, wind, and thunder.

*Hum~*

You Xuanfeng closed his hands, and the sphere created by the divine talisman array began to rotate disorderly.

However, as his divine talismans rotated, Liu Tianning's seven bamboos also moved with the movement of the projection.

"Heavenly Horn Bamboo, known for being able to poke a corner out of the sky; seven kinds of Heavenly Horn Bamboo, possessing five elements, wind, and thunder. Every time I prop up his divine talisman, the Heavenly Horn Bamboo absorbs the power of his divine talisman."

Liu Tianning taught: "He changes, I change. I use the gold bamboo to overcome the wood talisman, the wood bamboo to overcome the earth talisman, the earth bamboo to overcome the water talisman, the water bamboo to overcome the fire talisman, the fire bamboo to overcome the gold talisman—"

"His divine talisman's power level is above the Heavenly Horn Bamboo, but the power of the divine talisman is limited, while the Heavenly Horn Bamboo can absorb the power of the divine talisman from the outside and absorb power from the pure primordial soil from the inside."

"Circulating endlessly, he cannot trap me at all."

"This method comes from the 'Heavenly Horn Five Elements Array Breaking Method' of the Soldier Envoy Academy. Not only the Heavenly Horn Bamboo, but other divine wood fairy branches can also break the talisman array according to this method."

Zhao Xing nodded, watching seriously.

You Xuanfeng's appearance at this time was quite strenuous, but Liu Tianning still had the heart to talk to himself, obviously everything was under his control.

The self-school, not only has ten thousand method clones! There are also magical plant soldiers.

You Xuanfeng's appearance at this moment was quite strained, yet Liu Tianning still had the heart to talk to him, clearly showing that everything was under his control.

The Self-Nature School doesn't just have Myriad Law Clones! It also has magical plant troops.

Zhao Xing had once participated in the 【Impossible Training】 and knew that this type of formation had its limits.

Furthermore, if it were truly capable of sealing Liu Tianning's Myriad Law Clones, the clones Old Liu had now would already be unable to speak.

Clearly, this Dean You still lacked the necessary skill.

His hands danced until they became blurs, yet he still could not make the Divine Talisman Array close to completely seal Liu Tianning; the range instead kept expanding.

It looked like a breathing jellyfish, but as a whole, it was constantly expanding!

"Dean You, I'm here to assist you!"

Yao Wuji instantly transformed into a streak of light, attempting to drill into the battlefield.

However, before he could even enter the battlefield, he was swatted away by a vine.

"Bang!"

On Yao Wuji's black battle armor, a clear dent appeared, leaving the mark of the vine.

Floating Vine!

Unlike Zhao Xing's green Floating Vine, Liu Tianning's Floating Vine was blood-colored.

Both were Ninth Realm, but clearly, Old Liu's specimen was more ferocious!

Seeing that his companions could not hold Liu Tianning, Chen Ju intended to make a move.

Zhao Xing immediately shouted via voice transmission: "Chen Ju, you must not be impulsive either! Otherwise, you will surely regret it endlessly!"

Chen Ju stopped his movements and looked back: "What does the Marquis of Divine Might mean by this?"

Zhao Xing scoffed: "Are you playing dumb? You are a First-Rank powerhouse of the Moshou Academy; you should know that what I brought back was not just that God-Weapon for the King of Shenluo."

Chen Ju's expression changed; Zhao Xing knew at a glance that he was aware of the Fuming Furnace.

He immediately sent another voice transmission: "Chen Ju, I don't care if your philosophy is peace or war, but since a wonder like the Fuming Furnace has fallen into the hands of your Mohist school, you should at least owe me a favor!"

Chen Ju had wanted to play dumb, but now he could no longer keep it up.

He sighed immediately and said: "Since the Marquis of Divine Might says so, Chen Ju will no longer interfere."

"But I also advise the Marquis of Divine Might: do not act willfully and ruin yourself."

Zhao Xing said: "You don't need to worry about that. Move faster, I'm about to fire the cannons!"

Chen Ju: "..."

He was quite decisive; the mechanical box behind him instantly turned into a pair of silver wings, and he flew away as a streak of silver light.

"Boom!"

Just as Chen Ju left, a Fire Source Divine Cannon exploded in the air right next to You Xuanfeng.

"Boom~"

You Xuanfeng was immediately blasted until he was dizzy and disoriented. He flew out of the smoke, covered in dust, only to realize in a daze that Chen Ju had already disappeared.

At the same time, the Shenluo Heaven Sword fired, locking onto Yao Wuji.

This burly man had just been swatted away by the Floating Vine and was unsteady on his feet when he saw a golden sword covered in dragon scales fly toward him.

"What?!" Yao Wuji was shocked.

He couldn't help but be shocked.

This thing was a new product created by Great Zhou craftsmen, modeled after Yin Xiu's Dragon King's Counter-Scale Sword.

After nearly a hundred years of research, it could already achieve the effect of breaking rule-based domains!

Although the Wu Yao warship was a Ninth Realm warship, its weaponry and equipment were very advanced. After all, who is Master Zhao?

He is a Dragon Emperor candidate of the Dragon Court! Having brought out so many precious materials, wasn't it easy to get a share of this?

Just take the imitation of Yin Xiu's Dragon King's Counter-Scale Sword; without Master Zhao's order, would Yin Xiu have cooperated?

Bringing Chen Ju along was to prevent Master Zhao from acting rashly, but as soon as Chen Ju displayed the 【Immeasurable Juzi】, he was seen through by Zhao Xing.

Such a powerful mechanical engineer had no reason not to know about the Fuming Furnace.

As long as he was in the know, he automatically owed Master Zhao a tiny bit of a favor.

"Rumble~"

Following a wave of fluctuations, You Xuanfeng was blasted until he was covered in dust, and Yao Wuji was even worse off; his arm was already gone.

"First warning!" Zhao Xing's voice came from the ship. "Dean You, next time it won't be an airburst. Yao Wuji, next time I'll be cutting off your head!"

"I also cultivate the Myriad Law Grass Man, but it can also go insane," Zhao Xing said eerily.

The two were actually stunned by Zhao Xing for a moment.

If Liu Tianning cut them down, the price would be high.

Zhao Xing... that was really hard to say.

This was from their perspective, because since the promotion of the Derivative God Art, many First-Rankers had been decrypted, plus the Dragon Court factor and the status of the three schools of agricultural officials.

In their eyes, Zhao Xing carried more weight than Liu Tianning; he was clearly the capable general left by the Jing Emperor for the next generation.

Zhao Xing was still so young; if he killed someone in a fit of impulse, would the Jing Emperor really kill Zhao Xing to avenge them? This was a private matter happening outside the borders! They came to obstruct, not under any imperial decree.

Who knew if Zhao Xing was in a clear state of mind? They didn't know!

Anyway, once Chen Ju left, they couldn't beat Liu Tianning either. In a flash of thought, You Xuanfeng and Yao Wuji took the opportunity to retreat.

"Whoosh~"

The two disappeared instantly.

"Hahaha, Big Brother is mighty!" Ji Che danced and jumped for joy.

"They didn't necessarily have the heart to stop us to the death; it was nothing more than a show for His Majesty," Zhao Xing said.

"It is precisely because of this that these people are detestable," Ji Che said. "If they had truly been willing to die for their convictions and insisted on stopping us, I would have held them in higher regard... Hmph, hypocrites!"

Zhao Xing glanced at Ji Che and couldn't help but laugh.

The young Martial Emperor at this moment was a proper angry youth.

Not bad, not bad.

Inside the Juzi Palace, the King of Luo stared at the Earth Mirror and couldn't help but laugh as well.

"The peace faction is just prone to compromise. Also, if they can make peace with enemies, how could they be that firm?"

"The Grand Marshal is right." Lu Ying was a military agricultural official; in the Mohist mechanical faction, he belonged firmly to the war faction. "Stop war with war; war is the way!"

"Chen Ju, hmph, what a waste of his talent!"

Time passed, and with the departure of the three First-Rankers, no one else jumped out to stop Liu Tianning and Zhao Xing.

At this time, inside the Nine Heavens Yingyuan Mansion, the Southern Barbarian guard team had also completed the handover of their escort duties.

A large number of guards and honor guards remained at the Nine Heavens Yingyuan Mansion, with only a small portion continuing to accompany Princess Youruo on her journey.

Until they completely left the territory of the Nine Heavens Yingyuan Mansion, Princess Youruo's eyes gradually turned to despair.

She held a small grass man in her arms, murmuring to herself: "Are you really going to let me lose?"

"You overturned half the world's academies for Murong Qing, burned the life of the Floating Vine to save Zhao Xing,"

"yet you refuse to be impulsive once for me..."

Princess Youruo squeezed the grass man, her fingers turning white, the expression on her face becoming increasingly desperate.

Just as she wanted to tear the grass man in her hand to shreds, suddenly: "Protect the Princess!"

"Enemy attack!"

"What? Sleeping at a time like this?!"

"Get up quickly!"

"What kind of vine is this? Ah!" Princess Youruo immediately pricked up her ears to listen, hope reigniting in her eyes.

She shouted toward the door: "Director Liu, what is happening outside?"

Liu Wanliang did not answer, but a figure appeared outside the screen.

"My Princess, your servant has arrived late."

Hearing the familiar voice, Princess Youruo's tears burst forth.

At the same time, the dragon-shaped imperial decree phantom above her head dissipated, no longer shrouding Ji Anlan.

The golden light vanished, and Princess Youruo snatched up the imperial decree, quickly stepped off the dragon bed that had confined her for many days, crossed the screen, and threw herself fiercely into Liu Tianning's arms, holding him tightly and patting his back incessantly.

"Waaah~"

"Alright, I'm here, don't cry anymore." Liu Tianning stroked Princess Youruo's face.

"The battle is still ongoing outside; I cannot let Zhao Xing wait too long."

Princess Youruo looked up: "Zhao Chenan came too?"

"Ahem, it seems this disciple has arrived at a bad time?" Zhao Xing's figure flashed out from the side.

He actually didn't want to eavesdrop, but Old Liu's words were just so damn persuasive.

He had only said it casually, but the first thing Old Liu said when he saw Youruo was actually so romantic...

Master Zhao also really wanted to hear this gossip; after all, although he didn't want to date himself, he liked watching others date.

"You..."

Princess Youruo blushed, a rare sight.

"Ahem." Zhao Xing saw this and cupped his hands: "Please, Master's Wife, move to the Myriad Law Hall; leave everything here to us."

"Wait a moment!" Princess Youruo quickly composed herself and took out an imperial decree from her bosom.

"Liu Tianning, Zhao Xing, hear the decree!"

Zhao Xing was stunned, while Liu Tianning quickly pulled him down to kneel.

Princess Youruo waved her hand, and the imperial decree unfolded, revealing a majestic voice.

"The Southern Barbarian monsters have uttered filthy words, tarnishing the dignity of the Imperial Clan, and intend to plot treason!"

"I command you two to cooperate with the army to execute the Southern Barbarian Imperial Clan and welcome the Princess back!"

"I will settle the crime of you two kidnapping the bride when you return!"

"If you fail the mission, or if my daughter loses a single hair, bring your heads to see me!"

"Your servant obeys the decree!!!"

Zhao Xing shouted.

Well played, Old Jing, you played both the good guy and the bad guy! Master Zhao, I am impressed!