Chapter 374

Otherwise, if we follow the previous plan, when these territories are incorporated into Su Xuan’s command in the future, most of those troops will likely have to be discharged or reorganized.

It’s too much of a waste of time and energy.

Jia Xu’s handling method is the best.

“Hmm! I agree with this too!”

Xun You, the person in charge of the agency, also nodded in agreement.

“Agreed!”

Xi Zhicai, Tian Feng, and others nodded after savoring it.

“Hmm!”

Su Xuan nodded with satisfaction: “Then let’s do it as you say! I will reply to Jia Xu and Xu Rong later;”

“However,”

Speaking of this, Su Xuan looked at Xun You and Xi Zhicai: “As for the officers and instructors sent for reorganization, as well as the grain, fodder, and military equipment, I will have to trouble you, Gongda and Zhicai, to coordinate! I will have the Grand General’s Mansion cooperate with you!”

“Secretly transfer the officers and instructors; it is not appropriate to expose them;”

“However, as for grain, fodder, and military equipment, we can openly contact Xu Rong and the others in the name of the Su Clan Chamber of Commerce, disguising it as a normal transaction;”

“In any case, we are maintaining similar transactions with other warlords, so this will not arouse their suspicion....”

“Yes!”

Xi Zhicai and Xun You accepted the order.

In Hanzhong, Nanzheng City, Governor’s Mansion,

“Haha! Mr. Zuo Yuanfang, it’s been many years. How have you been? I heard you have defected to the King of Zou Qian, Su Xuan. I don’t know if it’s true or false?”

Zhang Lu received word from his subordinates that Zuo Ci had come to visit. Although he was a bit suspicious, he met Zuo Ci immediately. After some pleasantries, he couldn’t help but ask the question in his heart.

If he didn’t clarify it, he really couldn’t trust Zuo Ci.

“Hehe!”

Zuo Ci smiled faintly: “Brother Gongqi, your news is quite well-informed! Not bad, I did indeed defect to my Lord, Su Xuan, several years ago!”

“Oh?”

Zhang Lu didn’t expect Zuo Ci to admit it so readily, which was a bit unexpected. He then couldn’t help but ask: “Then I don’t know what you have come to find me for, Mr. Zuo Yuanfang? It wouldn’t really be just to reminisce about the past, would it? I don’t believe that.”

He was very worried now that Zuo Ci was sent by Su Xuan to persuade him to defect to Su Xuan and give up the land of Hanzhong?

If that were really the case, he would have no choice but to kick him out.

“Let’s not rush this! Brother Gongqi, why don’t you take a look at my cultivation first!”

Saying this, Zuo Ci completely released his momentum and aura.

“Weng!!!”

In an instant, a terrifying aura directly enveloped the entire hall, making Zhang Lu feel a sense of suffocation, his body becoming somewhat stiff, let alone the ordinary soldiers and servants in the hall.

These people were directly frozen and unable to move a single bit.

“You... are you preparing to make a move on me? Is this your Lord’s intention?”

Zhang Lu asked with a livid face.

At the same time, the blood energy in his body began to surge, preparing to fight back with all his might.

“No, no!”

Zuo Ci shook his head: “I am not showing off. Brother Gongqi, you should carefully savor my aura first. I believe that with your ability, you will soon discover the mystery within.”

“Hmm?”

Zhang Lu was stunned upon hearing this. He sensed that Zuo Ci really seemed to have no malice. He temporarily suppressed his thought of fighting to the death and immediately began to carefully savor Zuo Ci’s aura.

“Eh? These are... this is impossible!”

“Qi Refining? You have mastered a truly usable Qi Refining technique? And there is even a peculiar power system, which seems to be the power of spirit and mind;”

“How peculiar, how powerful! This Qi Refining is also different from ordinary spiritual energy Qi Refining; it seems to contain the characteristics of star power. Fellow Daoist Zuo Yuanfang, what is going on?”

Zhang Lu’s level was actually not bad, and he soon discovered the abnormality in the aura Zuo Ci revealed, and asked with shock.

Wasn’t the spiritual energy Qi Refining method of this era already a dead end?

Why did Zuo Ci succeed now?

Now that he looked at Zuo Ci carefully, he realized that the old man’s vitality was strong, and he didn’t look like a person of a hundred years old at all.

He looked more like a young man.

It was simply incredible.

“Hehe!”

Zuo Ci was very satisfied with Zhang Lu’s reaction. He smiled, waved his hand, took out a scroll of spiritual contract, and handed it to Zhang Lu: “Come! If you want to know the secrets within, sign this spiritual confidentiality contract for me first! Ensure you won’t leak the secrets! Only then can I tell you; otherwise, you will never know in this lifetime!”

“Whether you can step onto the true path depends on you, Brother Gongqi!”

The true spiritual contract document was something created by Su Xuan, in which Su Xuan’s spiritual contract was imprinted. As long as the other party signed their name on it, they would be forcibly pulled into a strand of energy and spirit, reaching a contract.

Making the other party unable to violate the content of the contract.

It was actually Su Xuan’s spiritual contract document version.

It was specifically for convenience in such situations.

“This...”

Zhang Lu was slightly stunned. He took the contract scroll and looked at it, feeling that this thing contained incomparable mysterious spiritual power and spiritual energy. It didn’t look like a simple thing at all.

“Is this real? Is it the kind of contract that has true effect? You even have this kind of thing? Hiss!”

He couldn’t imagine what kind of secret Zuo Ci, or rather Su Xuan, was hiding behind him.

It was a pity that the world still thought Su Xuan was just a warlord who was powerful on the surface.

Now it seemed that was not the case at all!

The more mysterious it was, the more Zhang Lu was attracted to it, unable to extricate himself.

Immediately, he signed his name without hesitation.

The next moment, the contract automatically burned, turned into a spiritual rune, and went straight into Zhang Lu’s sea of consciousness, and ingested a strand of Zhang Lu’s spiritual power and soul energy.

Then, Zhang Lu understood the true function of this contract.

He would not be able to leak any of Su Xuan’s secrets in the future without Su Xuan’s permission.

“What a terrifying method!”

Zhang Lu sighed, but he didn’t feel any fear. Instead, he looked at Zuo Ci with a smile: “Fellow Daoist Zuo Yuanfang, can you tell me properly now? I can’t wait to know everything!”

Saying this, Zhang Lu waved his hand at the guards and maids around him. These people immediately left quickly, leaving only Zuo Ci and Zhang Lu in the hall.

“Haha! Naturally!”

Zuo Ci laughed aloud and immediately gave Zhang Lu a rough introduction to the situation on Su Xuan’s side.

He picked some information that wasn’t very important to reveal to Zhang Lu.

Hmm! Mainly information about the Star Qi Refining Method, the Mind Cultivation Method, and some cultivation resources.

Because Zuo Ci knew very well that these were what Zhang Lu was most interested in.

“Hiss!”

Sure enough, after hearing it, Zhang Lu gasped again: “The King of Zou Qian is actually so heaven-defying? He has successively created two cultivation methods that can lead to immortality?”

“And he has created and mastered a large number of methods to cultivate cultivation resources? In that case, what is the King of Zou Qian’s strength now?”

“Hehe!”

Zuo Ci nodded with a smile: “The Lord’s martial arts alone have long reached the perfection of the Heaven-Human Realm, and his Qi Refining path has also reached the perfection of Qi Refining, just one step away from Foundation Establishment!”

“Moreover, this is not difficult for the Lord; there is no such thing as a bottleneck!”

“In addition, the Lord’s cultivation in the Mind Path has also become unfathomable!”

“I don’t know exactly how strong the Lord’s strength is now!”

“But the Lord has clearly been invincible in the world for many years!”

“Even if placed in the pre-Qin period, the era of the Hundred Schools of Thought, the Lord’s strength would likely be invincible in the world, right?”

It seems that even in that era, those who could truly achieve Foundation Establishment were few and far between.

And Su Xuan’s strength could not be divided by realm.

Zuo Ci believed that his Lord fighting across realms should be no problem at all.

It just depends on how many realms he crosses.

— Author's Notes —

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