Chapter 425: Stubborn

"Marquis Su! You shouldn't have come here."

"When the great battle comes, we might not be able to protect your safety."

Bai Qi looked at Su Fan somewhat helplessly.

He didn't expect Su Fan to be so stubborn, insisting on coming. This place would soon become a battlefield for the chaotic battle between the top experts of the human and divine forces, which would be extremely dangerous at that time.

Wang Jian and the others arriving, at least they had the combat power of the Five Qi peak. Even if they were not the opponents of the Three Flowers Realm, they had the ability to protect themselves, especially with several Five Qi peaks joining forces, they could also confront a Three Flowers expert for a while.

And Su Fan's strength, in their eyes, was really no different from an ant. Not reaching the Five Qi Realm, in the eyes of the Three Flowers, was no different from a mortal. Even at the Profound Mastery peak, one couldn't block a casual strike from them.

By then, if a great battle really erupted, I'm afraid their residual power could threaten the former.

If it were anyone else, Bai Qi wouldn't have nagged at all.

Because Su Fan's status was different, and his significance to the Great Qin was different. Although Bai Qi and the others had already exited the stage of the Great Qin imperial court, it didn't mean they had truly become hermits and didn't care about anything.

This was impossible. As old Qin people, Bai Qi and the others' love for the Great Qin was no worse than anyone else's. They were willing to exit and hide also because of the Emperor's plan.

For the sake of this plan, they were even willing to self-defile.

And who was Su Fan? The sage of the current age. His help to the Great Qin was even more than Bai Qi and the others.

Indeed, Bai Qi, Wang Jian, and the others could capture cities and seize land, expanding the Great Qin's territory, which could also enhance the Great Qin's national destiny.

However, the destiny of a dynasty was not an endless increase in territory to enhance destiny.

Comprehensive national power was actually the embodiment of dynasty destiny, and a dynasty's comprehensive national power was not just reflected in territory and the army.

No matter how strong the army was or how large the territory was, sometimes it would instead drag down a dynasty's power. Belligerence often caused a dynasty's national power to decline.

The comprehensive national power of later dynasties, besides the military aspect, also had political and economic aspects.

Especially the economy, which was quite important. After all, if the economy was not good, wanting to establish a powerful national defense was also a joke.

There was no military power whose economy would be very poor. Even if belligerent, it required huge military expenditures.

The economy of ancient dynasties was best reflected in taxation, grain taxation. How much grain could be obtained every year was the embodiment of a country's greatest economy.

The Great Qin of the past really could be considered belligerent, and it was also thanks to conquering the Six States and seizing the wealth of the Six States that the Great Qin was able to slow down.

Otherwise, I'm afraid the Great Qin would have collapsed first.

Later, the Great Qin unified the world, but the interior was not peaceful, and it was even surging with undercurrents. The remnants of the Six States were eyeing covetously in the dark, and the people of the Six States also didn't have much sense of belonging to the Great Qin.

The Great Qin relied entirely on a powerful army to coerce, but this obviously couldn't be long-lasting. Once some accident occurred, it was very likely that an avalanche-like crisis would occur.

But just at this time, Su Fan appeared. In just a few years, he reformed agriculture, causing huge changes in the Great Qin's agriculture. The yield per mu of good fields climbed steadily. In this way, the Great Qin government's tax revenue increased, and the bottom-level commoners also had surplus grain every year, and their lives began to get better.

In this way, even if the people of the Six States originally didn't have much sense of belonging to the Great Qin, and even resisted the Great Qin's laws, after being able to eat their fill, they didn't have any bad thoughts.

After all, being able to live, no one was willing to do work that would get their heads cut off.

The Great Qin was peaceful, and destiny was climbing steadily. Everyone could feel this point.

Therefore, regarding Su Fan, even Bai Qi and the others didn't dare to have any negligence. Sometimes, they would also consider Su Fan's meaning.

But now, they didn't hope for Su Fan to continue following, because it was really too dangerous.

Although they had made many complete plans before coming, they still couldn't prevent some accidents from happening.

If there really was any accident, it wouldn't be a good thing for the Great Qin.

Even if this time they suppressed part of the Divine Court's deities, because of Su Fan's death, causing the Great Qin's development momentum to stop, this wouldn't even count as a profit.

Why did the Great Qin want to kill the Divine Court? It was not just because of Ying Zheng's own lofty ambition, but also the consistent will of others in the Great Qin, to make humanity more powerful, so that humanity would feed back destiny to the Great Qin, which would then be more powerful.

And in the end, these people would all receive feedback from humanity.

This was the benefit of killing the Divine Court.

However, the Divine Court was not that easy to suppress and destroy. Even these people didn't dare to have much guarantee. The existence of the Divine Court was too long-standing, and those deities were even more ancient.

Even the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors couldn't do it. Could the Great Qin's current strength do it?

This was an unknown; they didn't know.

Therefore, they needed a guarantee, which was that the Divine Court couldn't be destroyed, but the Great Qin's power couldn't stop either.

And Su Fan was their biggest guarantee.

It was not that they exaggerated Su Fan's role. All these years, they could clearly feel that vitality of the Great Qin. In the past, the Great Qin was powerful, that was the power of the army. The entire Great Qin interior was actually heavy.

The Great Qin army was powerful, entirely exchanged by sacrificing countless old Qin people. Those old Qin people sacrificed too much for the Great Qin.

And now the Great Qin had changed.

This point, the high-level officials could see clearly. This was brought about by Su Fan's reform, and the Great Qin's strength was improving at high speed.

They believed that if Su Fan was there, decades later, the Great Qin would inevitably be even more powerful. The Great Qin needed such a Prime Minister.

Naturally, they didn't hope for him to have any danger.

"Martial Lord, you can rest assured. This Prime Minister understands the danger within. However, this Prime Minister will not go deep, just watching from the periphery."

"And although my combat power doesn't want to fight much, I still have the ability to protect myself."

Su Fan said with a smile. Regarding Bai Qi and the others' worry, Su Fan naturally understood, but for such a great battle, if he didn't participate, it would truly be a pity.

This was a true peerless great battle. Perhaps it was not the final decisive battle, but a great battle of twenty or thirty Three Flowers experts was likely truly rare.

He naturally didn't hope to miss it. If he could comprehend even a little bit from within, for him, it would be a huge help.

"Martial Lord, don't forget, the Black Tortoise Mechanical Beast in this Prime Minister's hand, although its attack is not strong, its defense is extremely powerful. Even if it really encounters a Three Flowers Realm deity, it is enough to resist for a while."

Su Fan mentioned the Black Tortoise Mechanical Beast, and Bai Qi and the others were silent.

This mechanical beast was a mechanical puppet beast that Su Fan organized the Mohist school, Daoist school, and others to jointly forge in these few years.

Bai Qi and the others also knew the defense of this Black Tortoise Mechanical Beast. ===== CHAPTER 426 =====