Chapter 1365

A Divine-tier Beast Tamer already belongs to the very top of the pyramid in this world.

"Thank you!"

Su Yang smiled and handed the Platinum-tier fierce beast crystal core he had just taken back to Xu Han.

Xu Han's eyes lit up; she reached out to take it, yet hesitated.

"It's just a Platinum-tier fierce beast crystal core, take it!"

"Thank you, Young Master Su!"

Su Yang ate while chatting with Xu Han.

To Su Yang's questions, Xu Han answered almost everything she knew.

Although Xu Han's strength was weak, the information she knew was quite a bit more than that of the beast tamers Su Yang had killed earlier.

Su Yang felt his harvest was not bad.

He could also take the chance to learn the language of the Qingluan Kingdom.

The Qingluan Kingdom was considered a powerful nation; once you learned the officially used Qingluan language, you could communicate freely with people of the Qingluan Kingdom and several nearby countries.

After eating and drinking his fill, Su Yang paid for the meal and was about to leave, but was called back by Xu Han: "Young Master Xu, you've come to Demon Xiong Cheng — would you like someone to show you around?"

"What's up?"

"I can lead the way for you!"

"Sure!"

In the afternoon, Xu Han took Su Yang on a leisurely stroll through Demon Xiong Cheng.

Xu Han had a good way with words; she talked as they walked, letting Su Yang easily get a clear picture of Demon Xiong Cheng.

By evening, Su Yang treated Xu Han to dinner.

After dinner, standing at the inn's doorway, Su Yang slipped her another Platinum-tier crystal core: "This is for you — consider it today's guide fee."

"This, I can't accept!"

"Why?"

"I said I'd show you around during the day, but I never said I'd charge for it!"

Su Yang looked at Xu Han, his brow furrowing slightly.

"Young Master Su, are you going to enlist tomorrow?"

"Probably not. If I were to enlist, I'd need my family's permission!"

Enlist?

To help fight the Huaxia Federation?

That was absolutely impossible.

Su Yang had no interest in playing some double agent either.

"There are some scenic spots near Demon Xiong Cheng — would you like me to take you there tomorrow?"

"No need. I'll probably have to wait until General Feng Yu's army arrives at Demon Xiong Cheng before I can enter that spatial fusion point!" Su Yang rejected Xu Han's idea. He had vaguely realized that Xu Han's refusal of his crystal core seemed to have some other scheme in mind, and a big one at that. He was a man with a family now, and there was no shortage of beauties around him. As for Miss Xu Han, he still had to turn her down. "I may need to return to my family tomorrow, to see whether my family will allow me to join the army, or whether there's some other way for me to visit another world."

"Oh!"

Xu Han's tone was full of disappointment.

She watched Su Yang step into the inn, and couldn't help sighing in her heart.

On the way home, she touched the hard crystal core in her pocket, feeling only slightly comforted.

But she soon stopped in her tracks, looking toward the inn.

There was actually one more crystal core in her pocket!

In the middle of the night, the sky had no stars or moon; you couldn't see your hand in front of your face.

Su Yang, lying on the bed in his inn room, suddenly opened his eyes.

In an instant, he appeared on the rooftop of the City Lord's Manor building in Black Xiong Cheng.

Subtle and vast soul energy spread out, and he quickly locked onto two King-tier experts within Black Xiong Cheng.

One of them lived near the City Lord's Manor, the other in the slums of Black Xiong Cheng.

Xu Han had said Black Xiong Cheng had only one King-tier expert, and that was City Lord Li Kui.

But clearly, she was wrong!

Black Xiong Cheng had another hidden King-tier expert.

No matter why the other party was hiding, Su Yang didn't care.

His target was very clear!

Su Yang summoned the Seven-Colored Illusion Butterfly, and after several blinks, landed inside a lavish courtyard.

The instant he landed in the courtyard, City Lord Li Kui in the master bedroom was already hypnotized.

Su Yang entered the room, gently closed the door, and Li Kui, in his pajamas, walked up to him with blank, lifeless eyes.

An Emperor-tier Seven-Colored Illusion Butterfly hypnotizing a King-tier expert was simply effortless.

"You are Black Xiong Cheng's City Lord Li Kui?"

"Yes!"

"When will Grand General Feng Yu's Fire Phoenix Legion roughly arrive at Black Xiong Cheng?"

This question involved military secrets of the Qingluan Kingdom, which Xu Han didn't know.

In all of Black Xiong Cheng, the one most likely to know was City Lord Li Kui.

As City Lord of Black Xiong Cheng, he must be responsible for receiving the hundred-thousand-strong Fire Phoenix Legion.

"About half a month from now!"

"What route?"

After Li Kui finished drawing out the rough marching route map of the Fire Phoenix Legion, Su Yang did not kill him, but went back to sleep.

Looking at the Fire Phoenix Legion's marching route map, Su Yang nodded in satisfaction and vanished on the spot.

When he reappeared, he was already in Marshal Xu's office.

In the latter half of the night, the general headquarters was still brightly lit.

Marshal Xu sat on the sofa, and seeing Su Yang, was not surprised.

He was used to it.

"General Su, how did it go?"

"The situation is very bad!"

When Su Yang said the situation was very bad, then it was definitely very bad!

"Notify everyone for a meeting — ten minutes from now!"

Marshal Xu roared toward the office door.

"Yes, Marshal Xu!"

The adjutants at the secretariat outside the door ran off one by one.

Ten minutes later, the Federation's top brass sat neatly in the large conference room.

After briefly recounting the matter of the Qingluan Kingdom, the entire Federation high command was in an uproar.

Even though they had long prepared for the worst, when they heard with their own ears that the Qingluan Kingdom planned to invade Water Blue Star and intended to reduce all beast tamers below Platinum-rank and civilians to slaves, they were all enraged.

"Bang!"

A lieutenant general slammed the table hard: "The Qingluan Kingdom has bullied us too far. Our Huaxia Federation will absolutely not submit — we will fight to the death!"

"Right!"

"Take them down!"

"Let them see how powerful our Huaxia is!"

"Even if we die, we'll drag a few of them down with us!"

"..."

Several hot-tempered generals stood up.

The remaining older high-ranking officials in key positions were not so impulsive, but none of them looked good.

They were all people used to being in charge — who would be willing to become a captive, to bow beneath another?

These high officials of theirs would not end up as slaves, but they all had families.

None of them wanted their descendants to become slaves for others.

A high official sighed: "But the Qingluan Kingdom is really too strong. Their king is a Divine-rank beast tamer, and he can casually pull out an elite force of a hundred thousand. Our Federation is no match!"

For a moment, the entire conference room fell silent.