Chapter 854

Because of the turmoil stirred up by Master Tian Ze, Zou Wuzhu had to draw another group of people to quell the rebellion. He absolutely could not let Master Tian Ze take the opportunity to cut off his channel for conveying royal orders. But Master Tian Ze was also well-versed in guerrilla tactics. Over the years, he led his subordinates to constantly create turmoil in the Minyue Kingdom, but he was never caught. The forces under his command became increasingly powerful, which was not without reason.

Since the battle when the Han Kingdom conquered Baiyue, he became a prisoner. During the ten years he was imprisoned, he thought about revenge every moment and also reviewed his failure.

Although he was indulgent and arrogant after just coming out of the death row, soon, because of several setbacks, he recognized reality. After that, Master Tian Ze became calm and cautious.

Bringing the Corpse-Driving Demon, Wushuang Gui, the Hundred Poison King, and others back to Baiyue, he worked day and night, not daring to have any slack, and carefully developed his forces.

Although Yan Lingji mocked him after seeing him, saying that he had not taken back everything that belonged to him for so many years.

But at the same time, Zou Wuzhu had not wiped out his forces for so many years either.

At the beginning, Zou Wuzhu could not wipe out the forces under Master Tian Ze's command, and now, he could not do it even more.

Master Tian Ze and his subordinates, while avoiding the encirclement and suppression by the people under the Minyue King Zou Wuzhu, constantly stirred up turmoil in Minyue. In the past, these turmoils were painless for the Minyue Kingdom.

But now it was different. The Qin army was currently in the mountains and forests, launching a conquest against the Minyue Kingdom.

These turmoils were enough to change the direction of this war.

In the mountains and forests, the army led by Li Xin clearly felt the changes.

When stepping into the mountains and forests, he had expected that the people of the Minyue Kingdom might come to harass the Qin army and had made corresponding preparations. But when the two sides truly encountered each other, he realized the difficulty of the Minyue people. The other side was like a loach. Every time they attacked the Qin army, they turned and fled. By the time they organized people to pursue, the other side had already fled into the vast mountains and forests and disappeared.

If it were in the past, Li Xin would definitely have sent people to pursue without saying a word, even if he had to dig three feet into the ground, he would kill these Minyue people.

But now he did not do so.

Not only because of the instructions of the Emperor before coming, but also because the situation in the land of Baiyue was more complex than he imagined.

After all, the Qin army had just arrived in this mountain forest and was extremely unfamiliar with these continuous mountains and forests. Regarding Baiyue people were different; they had lived in them for generations and were extremely familiar with the environment inside.

Along the way, they encountered many poisonous miasmas, venomous insects, and wild beasts. These encounters made Li Xin understand this mountain forest a little more and know the dangers hidden in it, which naturally made him not dare to advance rashly.

Facing the harassment of the Minyue people, all he could do was to be as vigilant as possible.

However, soon, he found that the number of times the Minyue people harassed the Qin army had decreased.

In the past, the Minyue people attacked the Qin army day and night. Now, often for many days, they could not encounter the Minyue people once. This change was too obvious, and it was difficult for Li Xin not to notice it.

This made him look at Yan Lingji who had already returned.

"Miss Yan Lingji, is this matter related to you～～?"

Yan Lingji gave an answer: "To be precise, someone wants to take revenge on Zou Wuzhu, so we hit it off! They chose to help us!"

Li Xin's eyes flickered, revealing a thoughtful look.

Yan Lingji did not explain much. She could only say that persuading Master Tian Ze to help the Qin Guo was indeed a troublesome matter. Even if she thought she knew Master Tian Ze very well, it took a lot of effort to accomplish this. Master Tian Ze had indeed changed a lot compared to back then.

With the help of Master Tian Ze, the people of the Minyue Kingdom were unable to harass the Qin army led by Li Xin. The Qin army used the mechanical beasts developed by the Gongshu family to carve out a thoroughfare in the mountains and forests. At the same time, there were many insect repellents and antidotes developed by Nian Duan, and people from the Yin-Yang School accompanied and assisted. Although the marching speed was not fast, the Qin army basically did not encounter any obstacles along the way, crossed the vast mountains and forests, and arrived in the territory of the Minyue Kingdom.

After that, it was the thing the Qin Guo was best at.

That is... war!

When the Minyue Kingdom lost the natural barriers of towering mountains and steep ridges and deep mountains and old forests, when the Qin army arrived at the residence of the Minyue Kingdom, it was like entering an uninhabited land. Even if the Minyue King Zou Wuzhu organized soldiers to fight against the Qin army in time.

But the Qin army was not the Han army of the past, nor was it the Chu army. Back then, when the Han and Chu kingdoms joined forces, they still let the Minyue Kingdom suffer a great defeat, let alone the fact that the strength of the Qin Guo was even greater than the combined strength of these two kingdoms. And the current Minyue Kingdom was no longer the Minyue Kingdom of that year. Compared with the Minyue Kingdom of that year, the current Minyue was much weaker.

This war took a long time from preparation. The Qin army also spent a lot of time marching in the mountains and forests. But when the Qin army truly arrived in the territory of the Minyue Kingdom, the speed at which the war ended was faster than imagined.

The army of the Minyue Kingdom was like clay chickens and pottery dogs, collapsing at the first touch.

Facing the killing of the Qin army.

The Minyue King Zou Wuzhu, who originally lived in the palace of the Minyue Kingdom, finally lost that calm attitude. He began to panic.

Afterward, he prepared to imitate his father. Seeing that the situation was not good, he prepared to slip away.

Even if the Qin Guo occupied this place, as long as he escaped, he could still re-establish the Minyue Kingdom in other places.

However, this time, he wanted to escape, but it was not so easy.

A person who was extremely familiar to him cut off his retreat. This person was... Master Tian Ze!

The half-brother of the Minyue King Zou Wuzhu, and the deposed Crown Prince of the Minyue Kingdom!

……

On the sea.

The Mirage set sail again, left Liupo Mountain, and headed toward the more distant sea area.

Because the world's spiritual energy in this sea area was abundant, Yanfei and other people from the Yin-Yang School restarted their cultivation.

Jing Ke and the people of the Mohist School continued to digest what they saw and heard on Liupo Mountain.

Although they did not know the reason why an ancient immortal mountain like Liupo Mountain became so deathly silent and withered, if what Jiang Taigong said was true, then there was no doubt that their trip would unveil the mysterious world that had already been silent in history and silent in time.

What does the Mountain and Sea world look like?

Is it a world full of vitality? Or is it a world as deathly silent as Liupo Mountain?