Chapter 998: Speculation

The fact that the rebels have more than ten Golden Immortal martial generals is actually a headache for the Nanjun high-level officials present.

Although Wang Jian and his son are responsible for dealing with the rebels.

But if the rebels really break through Wang Jian and his son's defensive line and the gate of Nanjun is opened, what should these high officials do in the future?

Is it possible to surrender to the rebels?

That is no different from seeking death; perhaps the rebels will win them over, not kill them, and even give them high official salaries.

But they know that once they surrender to the rebels, the family behind them will truly be finished.

The Great Qin's law will not bypass their families.

So they can only look forward to Wang Jian and his son being able to block the rebels outside; otherwise, once the rebels really break through, they will all be finished.

Over the years, they have never held back, and it is precisely because of this.

Regarding this power that suddenly emerged from the rebels, they are also shocked, and of course, even more curious—a Golden Immortal is not something any faction can possess.

Even the empire cannot easily produce them.

They also know that the empire must have had a lot of hidden power for so many years; from Wang Jian and his son not having any panic, it can be seen that ten-plus Golden Immortals are not a sky-collapsing matter for the two.

Obviously, facing ten-plus Golden Immortals, even if the two are not enemies, they know that the empire has powerful strength to suppress them.

But that is the empire; for these families, a Golden Immortal is truly a sky-collapsing matter.

Among the civil officials of the empire, I am afraid there are not many factions that can possess the power of a Golden Immortal; most of the Great Qin Legalists have no demand for their own cultivation.

Among the Hundred Schools of Thought, only the Taoist School and the Military School value their own cultivation the most, especially the Taoist School, which cultivates the Dao itself.

And the Legalist School actually values its own cultivation the least; after all, their power can borrow from the dynasty.

They spend most of their time in the officialdom; the higher the official position in the dynasty, the stronger the power they can borrow.

People all have inertia.

Compared to cultivation, they feel that being promoted is relatively easier, especially in this secular world full of desires; cultivation is truly too difficult.

Even though cultivation has the effect of longevity, attracting countless dignitaries.

However, cultivating the Dao might show no results for ten years; how many people can persist?

For mortals to cultivate the Dao is truly too difficult and requires powerful perseverance.

Those who can persist have long gone to the deep mountains and old forests.

Besides the Taoist School, the Military School values personal strength the most; in the empire, it is the military families that have the most powerful strength.

The empire's top military families have produced strong people in an endless stream, especially those few Great Generals, each of whom is very powerful.

The Martial Peace Duke of that year even beheaded the Gouchen Great Emperor of the Heavenly Court, which shows the ferocity of the Military School.

However, the Military School mainly practices martial arts, and martial arts cultivation is even more difficult; among the Great Qin dignitaries, only military family disciples can persist, and other dignitaries can rarely persist.

This is why martial generals have always been the most powerful force in the empire.

Military families producing talents does not mean that there are many Golden Immortals.

In reality, only the top few families among those military families possess Golden Immortal-level combat power, and the rest are a bit worse.

The high-level officials of Nanjun understand this quite well.

It is precisely because of this that they understand how terrifying it is for the rebels to suddenly produce ten-plus Golden Immortals.

They are also curious about where the rebels got such great power.

The remnants of the Six States—even when the Six States were at their peak back then, whether they had ten-plus Golden Immortals is an unknown.

Back then, the Six States, including the Great Qin, indeed had predecessors who became immortals and left the Nine Provinces to cultivate elsewhere.

However, when the empire destroyed the Six States, the immortals who left the Six States did not return; now that the Great Qin has become powerful, they have returned.

Wanting to restore the state relying on ten-plus Golden Immortals—the Nanjun high-level officials present all sneered at this.

After the Great Qin unified the world, its strength skyrocketed, far from being comparable to ten-plus Golden Immortals.

However, the power behind these ten-plus Golden Immortals who suddenly appeared is different, and they must understand it.

"I have never seen those ten-plus martial generals before; they are very unfamiliar."

Wang Jian, seeing the gazes of the crowd, also shook his head.

As a general who participated in the destruction of the Six States, Wang Jian had also encountered some famous generals of the Six States back then, and some were even more terrifying than him.

For example, Li Mu and Lian Po of the Zhao state back then were both very powerful and not inferior to him at all.

It is just a pity that the Kings of the Six States did not have the grand strategy of the Great Qin Emperor and were suspicious and wary of the great generals in the army.

How could they be opponents of the Great Qin, which was of one mind from top to bottom?

In the end, the Six States were destroyed; those famous generals of the Six States some lived in seclusion, some died in battle, some joined the Great Qin, and some fled.

Among the rebels, the Xiang clan, the previous commander Xiang Yan—Wang Jian had encountered him when he destroyed Chu back then and had also competed with him.

As the victor, Wang Jian naturally did not care.

It is just that the Xiang clan is worthy of being a top noble of the Chu state, producing talents in an endless stream; although Xiang Yan was a defeated general, it does not mean that the other party's ability was poor.

The other party's ability was not bad; even if he was a bit worse than him, he would not be much worse. The reason he was easily defeated by him before was also because the power of the Chu state was too far from the empire's.

The Xiang clan, besides Xiang Yan, the current rebel leader Xiang Yu is even more terrifying.

The other party's troop command, at the beginning, even compared to his son Wang Ben, was a bit worse, but the great battles over these years have made the former's troop command experience increasingly strong, faintly beginning to surpass Wang Ben, and even not much worse than his own.

What is even more terrifying is the other party's personal strength, coupled with his own Military School "Yong" (Bravery) Dao; it is not one plus one equals two.

The great battles over these years, relying on the powerful Great Qin army, have gradually been unable to suppress him. The other party has now appeared with ten-plus unfamiliar Golden Immortals.

He also has a headache.

He also reported this matter to Xianyang City, but the response from Xianyang City was to let him try his best to block the rebels.

As for support, it was just a steady stream of soldiers, but the generals he wanted were gone.

Especially the martial generals with Golden Immortal combat power; Xianyang City actually did not respond.

As a Great General of the Great Qin, he knows the power of the Great Qin; in the several major war zones of the empire, there are quite a few martial generals at the Golden Immortal level.

Especially in the Northern Frontier and the surrounding area of Xianyang City, these two major war zones have the most Golden Immortal-level martial generals.

But now that they cannot support, he understood something.

The Northern Frontier cannot support because of the Xiongnu and barbarians in the northern grasslands, but Xianyang City having no power means that Xianyang City must have encountered some problem and cannot take care of this side for the time being.

As for what problem, he cannot know for the time being, although he sent people to inquire. ===== CHAPTER 999 =====