[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-from-special-forces-to-the-multiverse":3,"chapter-from-special-forces-to-the-multiverse-from-special-forces-to-the-multiverse-chapter-102":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","From Special Forces to the Multiverse",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2315152,4527,"Chapter 102","from-special-forces-to-the-multiverse-chapter-102",102,"\u003Cp>“Now that Bao Xiruo and her son have been rescued in advance, what does this prove? It proves that Wanyan Honglie’s trusted aides had already leaked the news. Why couldn’t we find Bao Xiruo and her son? Because Wanyan Honglie’s cronies are secretly protecting them. We can use this as an excuse to launch a sweeping purge of Wanyan Honglie’s faction.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the young Zhang finished speaking, Wanyan Hongxi slammed his hand on the table in admiration: “Brilliant idea! Tomorrow we’ll issue a nationwide manhunt for Bao Xiruo and her son. If we don’t find them, I’ll petition Father Prince to purge Wanyan Honglie’s inner circle.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s just a pity—Wanyan Honglie’s agents are everywhere in court and government. Right now, I can’t spare enough personnel to plant our own.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The young Zhang calmly pulled out a prepared list and handed it to Wanyan Hongxi: “To be honest, during the years my brother and I wandered the lands, we trained a few students. They may not be fit for state affairs, but they’re more than capable of serving as local officials and benefiting the people.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I never expected someone so young to have already founded a school! Age is no barrier to ambition. With your talent, how could you not establish a school? If these are your disciples, why settle for county magistrates? Even if they can’t rise to the imperial court, they should at least become prefects or inspectors!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>County magistrate? Wanyan Hongxi had no interest in such a lowly post—he felt Zhang Xiaofan was testing whether he was generous enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he gave his students only county magistrate posts, he might alienate this great talent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My students are mediocre and lack the ability to hold high office. Your Highness can assign them as county magistrates for a while. If their abilities prove adequate, you may promote them later according to merit,” Zhang Xiaofan insisted, declining repeatedly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“How can that be? How can that be? You helped me defeat Wanyan Honglie and dismantle his faction—yet you won’t even grant a few prefects and inspectors? That would be a disgrace!” Wanyan Hongxi didn’t ask further; he grabbed his brush and circled twenty names he liked, marking two with special symbols. He handed them to his personal guard: “Take this list to the Ministry of Personnel. Have them immediately assign these men official posts. All except the marked ones—appoint them as county magistrates.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The circled ones become inspectors; the specially marked ones become prefects. Tell them not to delay—if they do, they’re defying me.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes.” The attendant seized the list and left without a moment’s hesitation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Master, now you can rest easy. When Wanyan Honglie falls, no one in the Great Jin will dare oppose us.” With that, Wanyan Hongxi drained his cup.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Late at night, Zhang Xiaofan slowly stepped out of the Prince’s mansion. The night was deep, all sounds silenced. The streets lay still, as if the entire world had fallen asleep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only his footsteps echoed through the empty night, strikingly clear—each step accompanied by a faint resonance, like tapping on the strings of silence, reverberating with a long, lingering melody.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Old Master Hong, if you don’t show yourself, the wine and meat I brought will grow cold. Master Qiu, aren’t you coming out too?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No sooner had he spoken than a swift figure flashed past him like lightning, so fast it stunned the eye. Instantly, the figure snatched the wine and meat from his hands with astonishing speed—as if a gale had swept by—spreading the aroma of food through the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The figure’s owner devoured the food ravenously, mouth wide open, as if trying to swallow every morsel whole. Chewing and swallowing sounds rose and fell, making one’s mouth water. His face glowed with satisfaction and delight—as if, in this moment, the entire world consisted only of the wine and meat in his hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, a Taoist appeared before him. The Taoist stared at Zhang Xiaofan with a complex expression, and after a long pause, muttered: “You two are playing some damn clever tricks.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Over the past few years, Qiu Chuji’s Quanzhen Sect and Hong Qigong’s Beggar’s Sect had organized uprisings across Jin territory, but their results were minimal—each rebellion, before it could grow, was crushed by the Jin army.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By chance, they discovered another powerful rebel force in Jin lands—this group not only had troops but also its own base.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its scale was nearly nationwide across Shandong. Since they never attacked county towns, the county magistrates, to protect their own careers, labeled them bandits.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yes—bandits who had wiped out the local regular troops, occupied the countryside surrounding the county towns, and effectively surrounded the towns themselves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When they learned how these people operated, they were stunned. Could you even do this? They hadn’t thought of such a tactic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, despite its corruption, the Jin still had capable figures. After Wanyan Honglie toured Shandong, they expected the revolutionary army to engage in a major battle with the Jin forces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In response, the Beggar’s Sect and Quanzhen Sect rushed to aid the revolutionaries, prepared to suffer massive casualties to ensure the revolutionaries could withstand the Jin army’s encirclement—they had already braced for countless deaths.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the revolutionaries simply handed Duan Tiande over to Wanyan Hongxi. And Wanyan Hongxi was bold enough to expose this scandal before the entire court.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wanyan Honglie, still preparing his petition, was immediately imprisoned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the imperial family’s massive scandal exposed, the Jin had no energy left to care about the revolutionaries—they were now fully focused on hunting down Bao Xiruo and her son.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They thought the revolutionaries’ scheme had reached its end—but it had only just begun. They were using Wanyan Hongxi’s purge of Wanyan Honglie’s faction to plant their own agents inside the Jin court.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wanyan Hongxi waved his hand and handed over to the revolutionaries two prefects, eighteen provincial inspectors, and dozens of county magistrates.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And he still felt he’d shortchanged Zhang Xiaofan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The revolutionary base, which had already surrounded the county towns, now seized the towns without a single drop of blood spilled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hehehe, that Wanyan Hongxi was already a fool, and you still went out of your way to toy with him. You and Chu’an are both pretty wicked,” Hong Qigong chuckled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Old Master Hong, you’re wrong—I didn’t come up with this. It was all Chu’an’s idea. I just followed orders,” Zhang Xiaofan said, looking innocent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Same thing, same thing. Chu’an’s full of scheming tricks, and you enjoy doing bad things—but next time, call the old beggar along.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hong Qigong laughed aloud, gazing at the sky. As a child, he and his family had been captured by the Jin and taken north as slaves; only he survived. Ever since, he’d devoted himself to resisting the Jin. But over time, he grew increasingly powerless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Southern Song court’s complacent isolation and corruption, the infighting between the Beggar’s Sect’s Dirty Robe and Clean Robe factions, and the northern gentry’s growing loyalty to the Jin—all of it left him confused.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only the revolutionaries gave him a glimmer of hope: they shared a common goal of building a new world of equality; their army was the people’s army, fighting for the poor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their organization was tightly structured, with clear steps and measures for constructing the new world—and their leaders, Chu’an and Xiaofan, were far superior to him and Wang Chongyang.\u003C\u002Fp>",1229,"2026-06-20T13:48:22.834Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","bea3432826534ec5e84205298ae9ce2817a365c540f4f8b2c39b6d736fc2f003","from-special-forces-to-the-multiverse-chapter-103","from-special-forces-to-the-multiverse-chapter-101",205,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Ffrom-special-forces-to-the-multiverse-cover.jpg"]