Chapter 144

The Battle of the Ba River in Changan City shocked the world once again. After this battle, Yuwen Chengji of the Yuwen Clan was recognized by the martial arts world as the number one expert in the world.

No one disagreed; after all, since he first entered the martial arts world, although he hadn't experienced many battles, every battle was extraordinary.

The first battle was killing Fa Nan with one hammer; the second time he struck, he hammered Du Fuwei to death; the third was the battle for the Imperial Jade Seal at Jingnian Zen Temple; the fourth time he struck, he injured Martial Venerable Bi Xuan with two punches, making the latter admit his defeat.

An invincible record began from this point.

And under Su Fan's deterrence of the heroes, Zhu Yuyan also successfully brought the Evil Emperor Reliquary back to the base of the Yinkui Sect.

Su Fan did not bother with the subsequent matters; Su Fan being able to help her block the crowd was already a great effort.

Of course, the reason Su Fan put in such effort was that Zhu Yuyan had paid a huge price; otherwise, how would Su Fan have helped her block a group of Grandmasters just because of a promise of cooperation?

Letting the latter obtain the Evil Emperor Reliquary without any loss.

Such a thing of harming oneself to benefit others, I'm afraid even a person of high moral standing would not do.

Su Fan didn't care about the Evil Emperor Reliquary, but couldn't the people around him use it? Using this Evil Emperor Reliquary to cultivate a few Master-level experts would definitely be no problem.

Don't look at the fact that Grandmaster-level experts keep appearing; Master-level experts are still the hegemons of the martial arts world.

The condition Zhu Yuyan used to move Su Fan was that the Yinkui Sect would do its utmost to help him unify the world.

Su Fan knew that the Yinkui Sect's influence spread throughout the world, and they had planted their own secret agents in all factions, some even being the bedmates of various leaders or great generals.

Using them to obtain information—regarding information, Su Fan was clearer than anyone, and its role, combined with the army of Wu Commandery, made unifying the world even easier.

In fact, it was just so; after Zhu Yuyan obtained the Evil Emperor Reliquary and returned to the Yinkui Sect's base, she went into seclusion herself but also ordered the Yinkui Sect to fully assist the Yuwen Clan.

The first thing was to personally take down Lin Shihong and a group of southern warlords; thus, by the beginning of the sixteenth year of Daye, the south, excluding the Lingnan region, was unified by the Yuwen Clan.

The Yuwen Clan was also the true hegemon of the south.

As for the south, the Yuwen Clan did not continue to advance but instead seemed to sit and watch the winds and clouds of the north.

No matter how earth-shattering the battles between the northern warlords were, the Yuwen Clan took no action.

The more this was the case, the greater the pressure in the hearts of the northern warlords; how could they not know that the Yuwen Clan was constantly accumulating strength?

However, this was an open conspiracy; the Yuwen Clan could recuperate and slowly develop the strength of their army, but they could not do so.

They could only desperately squeeze the people under their rule, constantly demanding, constantly conscripting, and then fighting great battles with other warlords, plundering the strength of other warlords to strengthen themselves.

But this was just drinking poison to quench thirst; compared to the Yuwen Clan, they were constantly consuming their own potential.

Although they were constantly fighting great battles and winning, their own armies would become stronger, but wanting to rely on fighting to support fighting required strong logistics.

In the Central Plains of the north, great battles were happening everywhere, and the people's livelihood could not be taken care of at all; food and fodder all relied on plundering.

People of insight could all see that the many warlords in the north were already in a disadvantageous position.

But there were not many ways to solve it, unless a hero could appear among the northern warlords who could unify the north with the least loss and then quickly defeat the Yuwen Clan; otherwise, once they fell into a bitter battle,

because of the years of war, the accumulation of food and fodder in the north would be exhausted, and then the consequences would be serious.

Although the population of the south could not compare to the north, because the Yuwen Clan was constantly farming, the accumulation of food and fodder reached a shocking level.

This point had already been discovered by all parties in the world.

The importance of food and fodder didn't need to be said; looking at history, countless great battles failed because of food and fodder.

Precisely because of this, many people of insight swarmed into the south; naturally, many people wanted the merit of following the dragon.

In the eighteenth year of Daye, the battle between the northern warlords, the Li Clan and Dou Jiande, was still continuing; although the Li Clan had obtained the support of the Buddhist Sect,

Dou Jiande was not bad either; he also had the support of some martial arts clans and the Demonic Sect behind him, and plus Dou Jiande was quite popular with the people, so the millions of people in the Hebei region worked together, which managed to block the sharp attacks of the Li Clan.

It was just that at this time, they had already fallen into a state of exhaustion, even if the millions of people in Hebei were of one mind.

In terms of hard power, they could not compare to the Li Clan; years of great battles had already turned the Hebei region into a land of yellow earth for a thousand miles, and the lack of food had become Dou Jiande's greatest crisis.

This hurdle was very difficult to pass.

So people with discerning eyes could see that Dou Jiande was about to be defeated, and the Li Clan would eventually become the winner.

And the battle between Wang Shichong and Wagang ended with Wagang's victory, a point many people had not expected.

However, this year, the Yuwen Clan, which had been silent, finally moved; on the very day Wagang broke through Luoyang City, before Li Mi could even get excited, Su Fan, with Li Jing as the commander-in-chief, sent out an army of 150,000.

Wherever the great army went, white flags were everywhere, and countless cities surrendered upon seeing the wind.

Without the slightest obstruction, they reached Luokou.

This majestic pass that had troubled Wagang for over a year was captured in just three days.

The world was shaken, but before Li Mi could send troops to reinforce, Li Jing had already led the army to the outskirts of Luoyang City.

He had brought the principle that speed is the essence of war to the extreme.

Of course, this also had a lot to do with the logistics in Su Fan's army.

Over several years, with the help of Lu Miaozi, the military industrial system was developed, and logistics had seen significant development.

Plus the draft horses provided by Feima Ranch, the marching speed of the army under Su Fan's system was greatly improved.

Marching a hundred miles a day was no longer a problem.

In March, Li Jing led an army of 150,000 to attack Luoyang City; in this battle, Luoyang City was broken in less than a month.

Wagang was destroyed, and Li Mi's ambition collapsed instantly.

The world was greatly surprised; no one expected that there would be so many martial generals in Wagang who would defect during the battle, so the army captured Luoyang City with a loss of only a few thousand.

Thus, only a few warlords remained in the north.

Afterwards, the army recuperated for half a month and headed north again.

One battle settled the universe.

The final battle between the Li Clan and the Yuwen Clan was earth-shattering, and eight Grandmaster-level experts appeared.

No one expected that the Li Clan would finally take the initiative to unite with the grasslands and Goguryeo, and Bi Xuan and Fu Cailin both came to assist.

Plus one Grandmaster from the Buddhist Sect and Li Yuan's fourth son, there were four Grandmasters.

It was very terrifying.

Even so, the Li Clan was finally defeated.

Fu Cailin lost his life to a short sword in Taiyuan City, Bi Xuan fled to the grasslands with a severed arm, and Liaokong of the Buddhist Sect had his dantian destroyed, becoming a cripple.

And that fourth son of Li Yuan, Li Yuanba, was finally captured.

Such an ending truly made the people of the world unable to believe it.

Four Grandmasters were all defeated.

In fact, the Grandmasters of the Yuwen Clan were not inferior to the Li Clan, and the Twin Dragons became famous throughout the world in one fell swoop.

One year later, the Yuwen Clan unified the world, Yuwen Chengji proclaimed himself emperor, the country name was Gan, and he was known in history as the Great Gan Taizu.