Chapter 318

In March of the second year of Yuan-Shou, Zhao Xing arrived in Fengjing and went to the Imperial Palace to sit for a while.

Since the passing of the Jing Emperor, the number of times he went to the Imperial Palace had increased.

It had only been two years of Yuan-Shou, and he had already been there over a hundred times.

He would go for a stroll whenever he was free, chat with Ji Che, and often talk through the night.

"The various countries of the West Extreme have always regarded our dynasty as the Celestial Empire. Big Brother, when you go there, you must promote the majestic power of the Great Zhou!"

Zhao Xing laughed: "Under the whole heaven, is there any land that is not the King's; on the borders of the land, is there any subject who is not the King's!"

"Fifth Brother, rest assured. On this trip to the West Extreme Province, I will certainly make those vassal states understand this principle." The Martial Emperor couldn't help but be overjoyed upon hearing this: "Good, well said! Someone, come here!"

Ji Che called over a Right Historian: "Record Big Brother's words just now in the register and circulate them among the hundred officials."

The Right Historian held a brush-knife, his pupils rotating, and his ears emitted bursts of white light. Afterward, he heard the conversation between Zhao Xing and Ji Che just now and recorded it word for word. Seeing that the Right Historian had finished writing, Ji Che dismissed him and spoke his heart: "Big Brother, that piece of land in the West Extreme Province was specifically left by Father Emperor for me to build prestige."

"After I became the King, this is the first time I have sent a high-ranking official on a mission."

"If I cannot even settle the disputes of the vassal states in a tiny West Extreme Province, I will be ridiculed." "I am afraid those peace-loving officials will use this matter to attack you and me in the future."

"I will have a sense of proportion and will never let the Great Zhou fall into a great war at this time." When Zhao Xing heard this transfer order, he understood that Ji Che sending him to the West Extreme Province to take charge was definitely not an emotional decision. Here, two concepts need to be clarified: the West Extreme Province has a geographical scope and an administrative region.

The geographical scope of the West Extreme Province is far larger than the administrative region of the Great Zhou.

The West Extreme Province region actually controlled by the Great Zhou is only one-thirtieth of the entire West Extreme Province (for ease of understanding, hereafter referred to as the West Extreme Continent).

The Great Zhou's administrative region "West Extreme Province" only occupies one-thirtieth of the West Extreme Continent, but this one-thirtieth is more than 60% of the fertile land of the West Extreme Continent. The rest either does not border the Great Zhou's territory, is the land of vassal states, or is barren land with extremely harsh environments.

The Ministry of Agriculture once calculated that even if they sent the Grand Minister of Agriculture to change the weather, regulate the earth veins, and coordinate with the Ministry of Works, it would take over four hundred years. This premise is still under the condition of peacefully farming and developing.

It did not calculate the expenses for the garrison troops, civil and military officials, and migrating people needed after occupying it... From a financial perspective, investing one hundred thousand might not even yield one back.

It is not that the Great Zhou cannot conquer it, but the cost is too high, which is why it gave survival space to many "vassal states."

On the West Extreme Continent, the further west one goes, the more barren the land becomes. After passing the "Heaven Frost Mountain Range," that side is no longer called the West Extreme Continent, but the West Extreme Ice Land, or the West Extreme Glacier. Because there is no land at all, it is all ice layers.

After knowing this situation, even the most warlike Earthly Advantage sect does not want to fight the barbarians there.

However, the Great Zhou does not want to fight, but the barbarians want to move east. Who doesn't want to live in a place where spring is warm and flowers bloom, and the land is fertile?

Some of these tribes, with the support of the Founding Emperor, established countries and became vassal states like the Mosi Kingdom. After the enlightenment of the Literary Emperor, they gradually became "Great Zhou-ized" and became a line of defense for the Great Zhou's West Extreme Province. Under such a premise, expanding territory in the West Extreme Province or triggering a great war would be a blood loss.

If other generals were sent there, they might get hot-headed and fight.

Ji Che sent Zhao Xing, the Minister of Agriculture, there, so he naturally knows how to calculate this account.

In short, one sentence: one must show the prestige of the Great Zhou Celestial Empire, but one cannot let the West Extreme Province fall into the quagmire of war, at least large-scale war is not allowed. Once it turns into a great war, then Ji Che's appointment of a high-ranking official this time is a failure, and he will be criticized by many, and Zhao Xing will be the same.

Zhao Xing and Ji Che talked a lot. The little brother had great momentum, but he mentioned "fighting" very little, and war was not mentioned at all. How could he not know the Martial Emperor's thoughts?

"Gather the strength of the vassal states to fight the barbarians; unless it is a last resort, I will never mobilize the Great Zhou's army in the West Extreme Province." Zhao Xing said. Isn't this just learning from Wang Xuance?

Seeing that Zhao Xing deeply understood his spirit, Ji Che clapped his hands and smiled: "Big Brother going, I am absolutely at ease."

"The seven great cave heavens, the two great blessed lands, and the strong of each army, you can mobilize them and act according to the situation. I have prepared an imperial edict for you. If you think it is necessary, you can establish a province and prefecture in the West Extreme Province and have overall control over military and political power!" Hearing this, Lord Zhao was moved.

The rebellion of the Prince of Liang was only a little over a hundred years ago!

Not to mention that Zhao Xing is not his biological brother. Working under the Martial Emperor, there is only one word: refreshing.

However, refreshing is refreshing. Zhao Xing thought for a moment and felt it was a bit abnormal: "The chaos in the West Extreme Province is just a minor skin disease; why make such a big fuss?"

Ji Che said: "This is exactly what I want to say next. According to the latest battle reports summarized from all over the West Extreme Province this year, as well as the deduction and review by the officials, the imperial court discovered that the strength of the Sisi Kingdom on the West Extreme Continent has expanded rapidly!" "Since last year, Ji Si and others have repeatedly deduced based on military intelligence and battle reports, reaching a shocking conclusion: the Sisi Kingdom has already controlled 80% of the small countries and tribes on the West Extreme Ice Land, both openly and secretly."

Zhao Xing frowned upon hearing this. In his past life, he had indeed heard of this Sisi Kingdom, which rose rapidly after the Martial Emperor's reign and became the hegemon of the West. But now the Martial Emperor has just ascended the throne; how could it have a trend of rising?

With this doubt, Zhao Xing set off from Fengjing in early April. He was accompanied by his four deputies: Mi Fu, Chen Shijie, Hu Yang, and Zhang Tianxing, as well as the foreign team of Prince Jinke. The Divine Lodging Warship, in the marching hall.

The Divine Lodging Warship was a reward from the Martial Emperor; it was a low-grade divine artifact of treasure quality.

As a warship, even if it is a low-grade treasure, it is quite remarkable. It came from the Divine Lodging Guard, one of the three great imperial guards. Although Zhao Xing did not take the initiative to ask to bring people, it still required quite a few people to drive this military divine artifact.

The Martial Emperor equipped him with five hundred Divine Lodging Guards. Divine Lodging, Luan Yi, and Jin Wu are the Emperor's three imperial guards, which were not even mobilized during the Jing Emperor's pacification of the barbarians. But now, five hundred were given to Zhao Xing to command.

"The Sisi tribe has established a country since the first year of Great Governance, and its national strength has advanced by leaps and bounds. This is very unusual." Zhao Xing was reading all the intelligence regarding the Sisi Kingdom.

He had gone through all the deductions of the officials and the intelligence of the military world himself.

"Li Boqian once realized Origin Sealing on the West Extreme Glacier, and now this Sisi tribe has risen to establish a country and continues to grow. Could it be that there really exists a super-strong dungeon in the West Extreme Sea?"

"It started to advance by leaps and bounds in the first year of Great Governance, so the time when the Sisi tribe truly obtained some kind of enhancement is probably even earlier."

Zhao Xing traced back to the Jing-Xin Calendar and also transferred all the old intelligence from the Jing-Xin Calendar period to view.

"The Qi-Heaven Hall also appeared during the Jing-Xin Calendar period. At the very least, the Flower Fairy can be confirmed to have participated in world affairs during the Jing-Xin Calendar period. Could it be that there is a connection between Li Boqian's glacier enlightenment, the Sisi tribe's establishment of a country and hegemony, and the emergence of the Qi-Heaven Hall?"

"All these are definitely not coincidences. The West Extreme Ice Land has a great secret!" A flash of thought crossed Zhao Xing's eyes.

"It is not impossible that a super-version dungeon existed in the Profound Yellow World in my past life, but the players just didn't discover it."

"If this is really the case, I must consider making some preparations in advance." Zhao Xing thought of the Mo-Cloud Vine seedling in the Pure Origin space. "If I really discover something remarkable, I can only raise the Big Brother." Tianyong Province is in the eastern part of the Central Province, while the West Extreme Province is in the west of the Central Province. The distance between the two is extremely far, and one must cross twelve great provinces in between. The journey is long, and without super-distance teleportation like the Li-Fire Divine Altar, it would be impossible to maintain such a vast empire. Even if prepared in advance, taking the shortest route.

Zhao Xing, Prince Jinke, King Bingtu, King Kelo, and others also spent more than three months entering the West Extreme Province. Once in the West Extreme Province, the rest relied purely on flying, because the West Extreme Province is no longer within the teleportation range of the Li-Fire Divine Altar. The Dao of the Li-Fire True Person could not reach this extremely cold province.

All the way west, it got colder and colder.

Arriving in the western part of the West Extreme Province, passing through various counties, it began to snow one after another. "Setting off in April, after walking for more than three months, it is only mid-August now." "The western part of the West Extreme Province has already entered winter for a small part."

"The solar term orders of winter have begun to become active, and all techniques, martial skills, and spells related to cold and ice have shown a small increase."

"Conversely, Fire-element techniques, martial skills, and spells have all been weakened." Zhang Tianxing stood on the warship, looking at the world of heavy snow outside, "It's really cold."

"I heard that the people of the West Province have thick hair and are generally short. The people of the Ice Land even grow gill-like organs behind their ears. It is truly one side of heaven's time raising one side of people." Hu Yang also sighed. "The data says the West Extreme Province is the most fertile land in the West Land, but it seems to be relative." Chen Shijie looked down at the land below, "The earth veins are weak, the soil is barren, and it cannot be compared with other provinces at all."

"30% of my plant soldier types cannot exert their full combat power here. The further west, the more serious the situation." Mi Di was closing his eyes to rest, looking inward at heaven and earth. "Only 30%?" Hu Yang and Zhang Tianxing looked at Mi Fu in surprise.

Everyone had never been to the West Extreme Province and made different sighs. Mi Fu's sigh attracted the attention of the other three.

Hu Yang and Zhang Tianxing even felt that Mi Fu was bragging.

However, Mi Fu really wasn't bragging. The environment of his Star Ruins small world was also extremely harsh. Having been an official in such a place for a long time, Mi Fu's soldier types had evolved and adapted to the extreme environment. Mi Di didn't want to explain to Zhang Tianxing and Hu Yang, because these two were from aristocratic families.

For the past three months, he and these two were just casual acquaintances.

He got along well with Chen Shijie: "Shijie, you are good at the three techniques of Earth Palace, Earth Splitting, and Earth Treasury. If you can split the earth to draw the Yang energy up, then use the Earth Palace technique to block the earth energy from sinking, and use the Earth Treasury Return-to-Origin to store the power of the earth veins, my plant soldier types will be able to exert their full strength." Chen Shijie shook his head: "I don't know if it will work after going down. I heard that some areas don't even have earth, it's all ice."

Hu Yang smiled: "It has to work even if it doesn't! We are about to enter the war zone, we can't let Lord Zhao take action." Zhang Tianxing agreed: "That's right."

The four were chatting outside.

Inside the cabin, Zhao Xing was chatting with Prince Jinke, King Bingtu, King Kelo, and others about the situation of the Sisi Kingdom. In his past life, Zhao Xing rarely came to the West Extreme Province, mainly because it was too poor.

There was simply no oil to be fished.

The West Extreme Province controlled by the Great Zhou is not much smaller than Pinghai Province, with only two blessed lands and seven cave heavens. The rest of the West Land is even more so.

Transportation is also extremely inconvenient.

Doing missions and dungeons in such a place is time-consuming and laborious, and there is not much oil, so there is really not much motivation to come.

"Your Highness, which experts of the Sisi Kingdom are worth noting?" Zhao Xing asked. Although he knew a lot of intelligence, Prince Jinke was a local after all, and perhaps he could discover some unusual things. Prince Jinke said: "The number one expert should be the King of the Sisi Kingdom, 'Dieus'. He calls himself the 'Great Lord of Sisi', but he has never taken action."

Zhao Xing asked in confusion: "Oh? Has he never taken action, or is it because everyone who has seen him take action is dead?"

"Perhaps as the Duke said, everyone who has seen him take action is dead." Prince Jinke said in a deep voice, "He is hailed as the number one expert, mainly because Dieus has fifty Venerables under his command." "Half of the Venerables were taught by Dieus."

"Because they are different from other Venerables, they will call Dieus the Great Saint Teacher." Zhao Xing listened quietly.

In the intelligence, the fifty Venerables of the Sisi Kingdom are all first-rank peak or perfection combat power.

Fifty Life Palace realm experts are nothing in the Great Zhou, but in the West Land, fifty Life Palace peak and perfection experts are quite a lot. Life Palace realm, as the name suggests, is to construct a Life Palace.

Being able to reach the peak and perfection level means that the Life Palace is approaching perfection, and every move conforms to the Heavenly Dao. Walking to this step, at least low-level rule domains can be born. Even if no one has seen Dieus take action, being able to cultivate twenty-five Venerables is enough to be called the number one expert of the West Extreme Ice Land.

"King Bingtu, King Kelo, you have been fighting with the Sisi Kingdom since the Great Governance period, tell me about your feelings." Zhao Xing looked at the other two experts. Among them, King Bingtu is already in the Life Palace realm, and he has had the experience of fighting with Venerables.

"I have fought with the Venerable 'Ulik' of the Sisi Kingdom seven times." King Bingtu recalled.

"The first time was in the twentieth year of the Jing-Xin Calendar. At that time, Dieus had not yet established a country, he was just a great lord of the Sisi tribe, and Ulik was a lord under him."

"At that time, I was responsible for going to the 'Wei Mountain' of the 'West Extreme Glacier' to mine polar cold ice. Wei Mountain is not a real mountain, but a continuous ice mountain area. There are many precious materials there, such as Wei Mountain ice stone, polar cold ice, cold marrow, jade beads, etc."

"The first time Ulik and I fought was because of a conflict over collecting these treasures."

"At that time, I was third-rank, and he was only fourth-rank. Seeing me, he only had the part of fleeing. I knocked him into the sea eye at that time, thinking he was bound to die, so I didn't pay attention to him anymore..." King Bingtu recalled: "Unexpectedly, he didn't die. Fifteen years later, when we met again, he actually broke through to the early stage of third-rank. At that time, I was at the peak of third-rank."

"We met again in the 'Wei Mountain' area. In the second fight, he escaped from my hands."

"The following year, the Sisi tribe announced the establishment of a country, but at that time, no one cared. After all, although the Sisi tribe was considered a large tribe, it could not be compared with our Mosi Kingdom, and our territories did not border. "It wasn't until the fiftieth year of Great Governance that the Sisi Kingdom established by Dieus constantly conquered and finally threatened our territory."

"Fifty years is not short, I almost forgot about Ulik, but in their expansion, I met him again..."

King Bingtu's expression was a bit trance: "At that time, I didn't recognize him, it was he who mentioned it himself, and I connected him with the little lord from before." "That time, we fought again, I was in the late stage of second-rank, and he also reached the early stage of second-rank."

"As a result, I only had a slight upper hand."

Zhao Xing didn't feel anything wrong when he heard this, it was just a very ordinary story of a genius growing up in a foreign race. "From the fourth fight, I couldn't take any advantage at all."

"The fifth fight was in the seventy-fifth year of Yong-Zhi. At that time, he had completely surpassed me and became a first-rank expert, while I still stayed at the second-rank perfection." Zhao Xing checked the time, it was probably five years later, Prince Jinke of the Mosi Kingdom brought his five generals to the Great Zhou for help for the first time.

In the sixth fight, King Bingtu learned a lot of advanced experience from the Great Zhou and went back. He still didn't beat Ulik, but successfully broke through to the first-rank realm. The seventh time was when Prince Jinke's younger brother died, and Prince Jinke broke his arm.

Many experts under Jinke only King Bingtu, King Kelo, and Suo Suo survived.

"In just 135 years of establishing a country, he has been suppressing the Mosi Kingdom." Zhao Xing secretly said. "Venerable Ulik? Never heard of such a person, and there are fifty of them?" Listening, Zhao Xing suddenly asked: "Do you know Dieus's age? And the fifty Venerables under his command, what are their ages?"

"Age?" Prince Jinke pondered: "No one knows Dieus's exact age, he is very mysterious, but he should be over five hundred years old."

"As for the Venerables under him, we don't know much about the others, we only know that the twenty-five Venerables under Dieus are very young, and we haven't heard of them before. They only emerged in the last hundred years or so." King Bingtu said: "I can feel Ulik's life fluctuation, it's about 250 years old."

Zhao Xing frowned.

Ulik, about 250 years old, reached the peak of first-rank? This kind of talent is already very exaggerated.

Zhao Xing was born in the 274th year of the Ding-Xin Calendar. The Ding-Xin Calendar lasted 278 years, the Jing-Xin Calendar 37 years, the Great Governance and Yong-Zhi combined 158 years, and the second year of Yuan-Shou, he was already 201 years old. Liu Tianning was 105 years older than him, already 306 years old.

Liu Tianning was also over two hundred when he broke through to first-rank. Both of them cultivated themselves.

Of course, looking at age alone cannot fully explain talent.

Like Liu Tianning and Zhao Xing, both realized rule domains early, were good at multiple techniques, and raised Pure Origin soil realms... Liu Tianning had to solve the drawbacks of the Ten Thousand Law Straw Man at that time, while Zhao Xing raised mountains to strengthen the Heavenly Fortune realm. However, from the intelligence and King Bingtu's description, it can be seen that Ulik is a top-tier talent!

"Assuming they are all equally young, are there dozens of others with talent like Ulik, or even stronger?"

"This Great Lord of Sisi, Dieus, actually cultivated so many experts. The national fortune is simply too strong." Zhao Xing secretly said.

"Combined with what I saw in my past life, the Sisi Kingdom later became the hegemon of the West. At the beginning of the establishment of the country, it was favored by heaven and gave birth to so many experts, which is understandable. Now the small world has begun to show signs of spiritual energy tide, perhaps this Great Lord of Sisi discovered a small world."

But thinking about it, Zhao Xing still felt that there was a big problem.

It's not that other places can't produce geniuses, but producing so many geniuses intensively within a hundred years, each of whom can reach such a height, is really a bit exaggerated.

"If the Sisi tribe started to obtain some kind of enhancement at the end of the Jing-Xin Calendar, it shouldn't be a spiritual energy tide. I'm afraid the Heavenly Realm hadn't even started to show spiritual energy abnormalities at that time." "The Qi-Heaven Hall is already one of the first beneficiaries. There is no reason for the Sisi tribe to be earlier and stronger." Many guesses arose in Zhao Xing's heart.

"Now the seven great spirit lakes in my body, those spiritual energies turned into liquid, are very precious. If I want, I can also mass-produce some experts. It's just because I need to consider 'manual spiritual energy recovery', so I saved these spirit liquids." "This Great Lord of the Sisi tribe must have also obtained a similar opportunity."

Zhao Xing can now be sure that Dieus, the Great Lord of the Sisi tribe, obtained some great opportunities. These opportunities allowed him to create the birth of some experts in a short period of time. As for whether this opportunity is related to the ancient temple Li Boqian once saw, it remains to be determined.

"It's best to capture Ulik and interrogate him."

"If it can be determined that the benefits are great, we can mobilize the army to suppress the border and let the Great Zhou's experts come for dimensionality reduction strikes." Not conquering the West Extreme Continent is because there is no benefit.

If it is determined that there is a great harvest, the Great Zhou is a hungry wolf that wants to ascend! With a plan in mind, Zhao Xing immediately said:

"Your Highness, Ulik is the commander who led the conquest of the Mosi Kingdom, harmed your brother, slaughtered the subjects of the Mosi Kingdom, and occupied the territory of the Mosi Kingdom... He is truly guilty of heinous crimes!" "Must kill him!"

"I am here on orders to avenge you."

"Rest assured, no one can stop the Great Zhou's Kingly Army, the Army of Justice... Ulik is dead!"

After drawing the big cake, Prince Jinke and King Bingtu were excited and immediately got up and kowtowed to Zhao Xing. After pacifying Prince Jinke and others, Zhao Xing left the guest cabin and summoned Chen Shijie, Mi Fu, Hu Yang, and Zhang Tianxing to discuss matters. "I intend to capture Venerable Ulik of the Sisi Kingdom alive. I suspect they have, have greater ambitions."

Chen Shijie, who was familiar with Zhao Xing, always felt that his words were strange, but he couldn't say what was wrong.

Zhao Xing said: "Hu Yang, Zhang Tianxing, you immediately take my seal and take a flying boat back to the seven great cave heavens and two great blessed lands of the West Extreme Province, and notify the garrison commanders to prepare for battle." "My requirement is that as soon as my order arrives, they must be able to immediately intervene in the battlefield of the West Land vassal states and fight a war of annihilation!"

Hu Yang and Zhang Tianxing looked at each other, quite surprised, but since it was Zhao Xing's words, there was nothing to question. "Understood!"

The two immediately took Zhao Xing's seal and sailed back.

This matter was also handled more reliably by Hu Yang and Zhang Tianxing, because the two of them looked like dignitaries in the capital. Neither Mi Di nor Chen Shijie had this temperament.

After the two left, Mi Fu couldn't help asking: "What's going on? Didn't you say you wanted to use the barbarian army to fight the barbarians? Now you are preparing to intervene? Is such war mobilization a bit inappropriate?" If it were another superior, they would definitely not be able to stand Mi Fu.

Old Chen is still here, questioning the order as soon as it was issued, which is too disrespectful.

However, Lord Zhao knew Mi Di's personality. This was a master who could contradict the Martial Emperor and cut the Martial Emperor's military budget with a big knife. This wording was already considered gentle. Zhao Xing smiled: "The vassal states are not stupid either. We have to set up the style first. If we don't even do the appearance, how can others believe it?"

Mi Di nodded, indicating that he understood Zhao Xing's approach.

He was only worried that fighting would cause a burden to the people of his own country. As for the vassal states, they were all barbarians and were not in the scope of Lord Mi's patriotism and love for the people.

Chen Shijie was thinking about the specific plan: "The Ulik you want to capture alive is the commander who led the conquest of the Mosi Kingdom. According to the intelligence, his strength is at the peak of the Life Palace realm." "It is not easy to capture him alive. With the soldiers of the Mosi Kingdom, I am afraid it is difficult to do so, and it may not even be possible to force Ulik to lead the army himself."

"If you want to surround and kill him, you must first form a strong army of vassal states to lure him out."

Chen Shijie walked two steps in front of the sand table and pointed to the map: "Except for the Mosi Kingdom, the three countries of Beitu, Sako, and Ande all border the territory of the Sisi tribe. It is easy to mobilize troops from their four countries to form a coalition army." "After the coalition army is formed, we can attack the defense line east of the Wei Mountain Glacier, forcing Ulik, who is fighting the 'Galan tribe' in the south, to lead the army to respond."

"The battlefield is chosen by us. In this way, the success rate of the encirclement and capture will be greater."

"This person has to come, because the Galan tribe is just a tribe. But if the four-nation coalition army is defeated, the Sisi tribe can occupy a large area of land in the east, so that the southeast of Wei Mountain can no longer form a threat." "With such temptation, I think Ulik will definitely be willing to come and try."

Zhao Xing praised: "Good, worthy of you."

Originally, he was worried that Chen Shijie had been a provincial magistrate for too long and hadn't been in the army for over a hundred years, so he didn't know how to fight. But now it seems that little Chen's military literacy hasn't fallen behind at all.

In just this moment, he gave a rough plan.

Chen Shijie discussed with Zhao Xing unhurriedly, and soon Mi Di joined the discussion.

Zhao Xing found that what he thought was very close to his own, and some places were even more detailed. Obviously, Chen Shijie had also done his homework in the past few months. The reason why Chen Shijie was like this was firstly because of his personality, and secondly because he felt that his promotion was purely because of Zhao Xing.

Mi Di is powerful and cultivates three schools, Hu Yang and Zhang Tianxing are powerful and have prominent backgrounds. What does he, Chen Shijie, have? He felt that he was inferior to the other three deputies in every aspect, so he could only work hard.

The three discussed for a long time.

After the Divine Lodging Warship arrived in the Mosi Kingdom territory, it turned on stealth.

Zhao Xing split his clones to secretly meet the kings of the four countries: Mosi, Beitu, Sako, and Ande.

The plan started in late August, and the three countries of Mosi, Sako, and Ande went very smoothly.

They were originally vassal states of the Great Zhou and admired the culture of the Great Zhou. After the enlightenment of the two emperors, the Literary Emperor and the Jing Emperor, as soon as Zhao Xing, the special envoy of the Celestial Empire, arrived, they were full of confidence and soon agreed to send troops. When they arrived at the Beitu Kingdom, problems arose.

The King of Beitu warmly received Zhao Xing and chatted for six days. The King of Beitu was very enthusiastic, but when it came to sending troops, the King of Beitu was a bit hesitant and changed the subject. By the sixth day, the King of Beitu didn't even see Zhao Xing.

Even the attitude of the envoy became a bit indifferent.

"It seems that this King of Beitu already has a heart of disobedience. Hmph, barbarians are indeed untrustworthy!" Mi Fu, who went to find the envoy again and was perfunctorily sent back, was a bit angry. "If you ask me, this King of Beitu must have already surrendered to the Sisi Kingdom."

"Not necessarily surrendered yet." Chen Shijie said, "His enthusiasm in the past few days didn't look like it was faked. Suddenly changing his attitude, I'm afraid the envoy of the Sisi Kingdom has also arrived."

Zhao Xing said. "The Beitu Kingdom has not yet faced the threat of the Sisi Kingdom and has not been truly beaten by the Sisi tribe, so it may not be able to make up its mind so quickly."

"The King of Beitu is an expert, he is stronger than the kings of the other three countries, so we should still try to win him over."

"Wait for Zhang Ning's news."

Zhang Ning is the envoy stationed in the Beitu Kingdom. He has lived in the Beitu Kingdom for a hundred years and was sent here at the beginning of the Great Governance. As soon as the voice fell, a tall man with a burly figure, wearing battle armor, and carrying a sharp sword walked in hurriedly.

"Duke Junyi, two lords, I received news that the King of Beitu secretly met the special envoy of the Sisi Kingdom and suddenly strengthened the city defense array of the Royal City. I am afraid he is going to surrender to the Sisi Kingdom!" "Taking advantage of the fact that the official order has not yet been issued, I will escort Duke Junyi and the two out of the city!"

In another post house in the Beitu Royal City.

A Sisi tribesman with fish gills behind his ears and three horizontal lines on his forehead, as if blue fluorescent light was flowing, was resting in the house. There were several other Sisi tribesmen waiting for something nearby.

Suddenly, a figure walked in hurriedly.

"Envoy Wu Yuan, I received news that the King of Beitu was persuaded by the Great Zhou envoy and suddenly strengthened the city defense array of the Royal City, and has decided to attack our country!" "This place has become dangerous, please leave quickly, Envoy Wu Yuan!"

Hearing this, Wu Yuan's pupils shrank.

The Beitu Royal City was built against the mountain, and the Imperial Palace was built on the highest peak.

At this time, in a palace, a figure stood quietly on a high platform, looking down at the post house at the foot of the mountain.

He is the King of the Beitu Kingdom, a famous first-rank expert on the West Extreme Continent. In the Sisi tribe's expansion over the past hundred years, the Beitu Kingdom has never been invaded, all because of the King of Beitu's prestige.

"Father."

A golden-haired, blue-eyed young man approached behind the King of Beitu.

"Yi, how is it going?"

The eldest prince, Yi. He is the eldest son of the King of Beitu and is also a first-rank Life Palace realm expert.

"Father, I have leaked the news to the envoys of both the Great Zhou and the Sisi." After a pause, the eldest prince asked in confusion: "Father, which side are we standing on? Why do you want to release such fake news to them?"

"Yi, what do you think?"

The eldest prince "Yi" pondered: "Compared to the giant Great Zhou, the Sisi tribe is short but capable. Its threat is close at hand, especially the Great Lord Dieus, who is mysterious and powerful."

"The Great Zhou is a giant, but its majesty is far away in the Central Province. Since the end of the previous Great Emperor's reign, his gaze has rarely looked at the West Extreme Continent."

"If I had to choose, I think I would choose to form an alliance with the Sisi tribe."

"Why?" The King of Beitu asked his son the reason lightly.

"Wu Yuan is first-rank, but that so-called Duke Junyi is only second-rank." The eldest prince pondered: "The Mosi Kingdom has been asking for help for many years, but the Great Zhou has never sent anyone, and those who come are officials with low strength. They only think about using the power of the vassal states to deal with disputes."

"That official named Zhao Xing is said to be the brother of the new Great Emperor, but he doesn't even have the surname Ji, which is obviously just a bluffing title."

"Looking at the past hundred years, the Great Zhou's control over the vassal states has weakened. No matter the reason, it proves that the Great Zhou's rule over this side is declining."

"So I think we should stand on the side of the Sisi tribe."

"The Beitu people only fight for themselves." The King of Beitu said lightly, "Whoever has the stronger power on the West Extreme Continent, we will help."

"Watch, see whose determination is greater."

In the post house, Zhao Xing, who received the news, shook his head: "Cannot leave."

"My lord, if we don't leave, it will be too late." Zhang Ning said in a deep voice.

"Zhang Ning, have you found out where the Sisi envoy lives?" Zhao Xing asked.

"I know." Zhang Ning nodded, "My lord, you want to..."

"That's right." A flash of killing intent appeared in Zhao Xing's eyes, "Kill the Sisi envoy, and the King of Beitu will have no way out."

The Great Zhou has not shown its majesty in the West Extreme Province for nearly two hundred years. Zhao Xing is very clear about the King of Beitu's predicament and worries. Whoever is strong, he helps!

If Zhao Xing leaves, the King of Beitu will definitely join forces with the Sisi tribe.

"How could the King of Beitu, an expert, not even have this bit of control, letting people find out about the Imperial Palace? If I leave, it proves that the Great Zhou has no determination at all and will not invest power to do this."

"Now that you have found out the location of the Sisi tribe's embassy, it must be that the King of Beitu deliberately let us know."

"Zhang Ning, do you dare to kill with me to show the majesty of our dynasty?"

Zhang Ning smiled: "Lord Zhao, when I came, I was wearing armor and carrying a sword, and I had long been prepared to die."

"Good, you lead the way!"

"Understood!"

Zhao Xing, Zhang Ning, Mi Fu, and Chen Shijie quickly left the embassy and sneaked toward the Sisi tribe's embassy along the wide Royal City avenue. When the four arrived at the Sisi tribe's post house, they found that it was already empty.

"Hmm? Not here?" Zhang Ning's face changed slightly. "I clearly confirmed it myself, they live in this post house."

"Could it be that they went out, or left?" Mi Fu said.

"The things are still here, the people are not, it's impossible that they left." Chen Shijie glanced around, "There are still many ceremonial objects of the Sisi tribe here, they couldn't possibly not take them away." "Then there is only one possibility." Zhao Xing smiled, "The Sisi tribe special envoy also holds the same idea as us, to kill us."

"Go, let's return!"

This time, Zhao Xing no longer sneaked, but walked openly.

Just after coming out of the post house, not long after, they ran into an eight-person team. The leader had three blue horizontal lines on his forehead and wore black battle armor. The others had the unique three-line divine seal of the Sisi tribe tattooed on their dharma robes and battle armor.

"Swish swish swish~"

The two groups met, and immediately determined the identity of the other party.

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

Neither side hesitated for a moment and immediately started to act.

Wu Yuan's figure twisted, and the next moment he appeared in the sky, punching into the air.

"Bang!"

Debris filled the sky, and Zhao Xing's body dissipated with it.

However, more "Zhao Xings" appeared in all directions. Wu Yuan frowned,

He is in the late stage of the Life Palace realm, the other party is only second-rank perfection, clearly he had locked onto the other party, but it was a fake body? "Swish swish swish swish swish~"

Wu Yuan's figure was fast to the extreme, rushing into the sky, and in an instant, hundreds of phantoms appeared in the sky.

Each phantom appeared behind Zhao Xing, the fist carrying strange three interlaced ghostly lights, as if three cracks appeared in space. A punch smashed out.

"Boom!"

Hundreds of Zhao Xings all dissipated.

However, higher up, a similar number of Zhao Xings appeared again.

"Another fake body?"

Wu Yuan was even more surprised.

He couldn't distinguish it the first time, and the second time he chose to destroy all the other party's fake bodies.

But how come there are more and more as he fights?

Zhao Xing's true self jumped out from behind a clone.

Looking down quietly.

Since practicing the "Soldier-Using Divine Decision", his 【Divine Wood Jump】 has undergone a qualitative change.

No longer need living plants to jump.

His true self can jump out from any clone.

"Die! Dark Absolute God Prison!"

Wu Yuan's whole body was filled with fierce flames, black light expanded, and the whole world seemed to have turned dark.

Dark Absolute God Prison is not just "darkness" in the five senses, even the primordial spirit leaving the body and the perception of destiny will fall into "darkness".

Of course, Wu Yuan cannot black out the enemy's primordial spirit vision, let alone black out the destiny perception of the Life Palace realm and Heavenly Fortune realm.

But his domain is also at the third stage. Facing such crushing, it stands to reason that this Great Zhou official should be dead.

But... no!

Zhao Xing still existed.

He just looked down at Wu Yuan from high in the sky.

In the distant Imperial Palace, on the high mountain.

The King of Beitu had some surprise in his eyes.

Wu Yuan's strength was within his expectations.

However, Zhao Xing exceeded his imagination. He saw Zhao Xing's extraordinary, but didn't expect him to be so extraordinary.

"Actually able to jump around in Wu Yuan's rule domain, what kind of move is this?"

The King of Beitu considered himself to have seen the world.

But he had really never seen such a situation.

A person cannot have no true self. Although the King of Beitu couldn't tell which one was the true self, he could be sure that Zhao Xing's true self was definitely among them.

But clearly Zhao Xing had no domain, yet he could jump in Wu Yuan's rule domain.

He really couldn't understand it.

In the sky, Zhao Xing appeared again, looking at the surprised Wu Yuan below.

It's not that he didn't have a domain, but he had already performed it!

"Realized the Heavenly Time domain after the 92nd year of Yong-Zhi, and at the end of the first year of Yuan-Shou, realized the Self Straw Man domain, achieving 'Rule Jumping'."

"Based on the Ten Thousand Law Straw Man clone, the range of the Self Straw Man domain is completely determined by the number of clones."

Using the Self Straw Man as a base point to jump within the Five Elements Heaven and Earth, this is a Self domain that has never appeared before!

Because this was realized by Zhao Xing based on the "Substitute Straw Man" of the spiritual energy era in his past life, combined with the Yin-Yang Self Sutra, the Soldier-Using Divine Decision, and using Five Elements spiritual energy.

"Realizing this Self domain and achieving rule jumping between inner heaven and earth can truly be called a life-saving divine skill, but this still doesn't count as a real 'Substitute Straw Man'. Because one cannot jump between straw men." Jumping through inner heaven and earth, even if Wu Yuan realized a rule domain.

But the Self School domain is a heaven and earth in itself, and is very little affected by the oppression of the outer heaven and earth rules. Even in the other party's rule domain, Zhao Xing can complete the jump.

Even a real super first-rank would find it difficult to capture Zhao Xing's true self.

The Ten Thousand Law Straw Man was already difficult to practice, and having to realize the Self rule domain, and having a large amount of spiritual energy and the Soldier-Using Divine Decision as a reference, the difficulty superposition is simply unimaginable. However, once realized, it is a Self divine skill that is one version ahead! This is also an important reason why Zhao Xing prioritized studying the "Soldier-Using Divine Decision" back then.

"The movement, moves, and domain used by this Wu Yuan all give me a strange feeling."

"His technique clearly hasn't reached the ultimate level, yet he realized a third-stage darkness-type domain first?" Zhao Xing secretly said. "Intelligence says he is Ulik's brother. It seems that killing him can get some useful information."

"You also try my domain!"

Luring Wu Yuan to rise into the air three times in a row, Zhao Xing had already set up the ultimate Cloud technique in the air.

When Wu Yuan wanted to take action for the fourth time, he found that Zhao Xing had completely disappeared.

He found himself in a cloud space.

"What?! What kind of spell is this!"

Wu Yuan felt something was wrong. He wanted to rush out, but found that the surrounding clouds suddenly began to flow.

"Hum~"

The cloud space rotated rapidly, ten suns appeared in the sky, and the Layered Cloud Realm began the spell rotation.