Chapter 215: The Best State

The crowd was silent for a moment, then Xia Zhu asked in a low, slow voice: "Imperial Ancestor, do you already have a plan?"

"Hmph!"

Following this, Xia Qi cast an approving glance at Xia Zhu.

After sitting back down in his seat, he looked at them and said in a leisurely, indifferent tone: "You unfilial descendants, my decision has only just been stated, yet you are already impatient to voice your opposition. Do you still have any regard for your Imperial Ancestor in your eyes?"

Seeing this, the crowd helplessly said in respectful voices: "Father/Imperial Ancestor, calm your anger!" After everyone had calmed down, Xia Qi was silent for a moment, then looked toward Xia Fa at the end of the line and asked calmly.

"Fa'er, how much longer until your Human Emperor Fruit Position of the Imperial Dynasty reaches Great Completion?"

Hearing this, the crowd could not help but look toward Xia Fa at the end of the line.

Seeing this, Xia Fa immediately stood up and respectfully replied: "Imperial Ancestor, based on the current Qi Luck of the Xia Dynasty, I estimate that there are still over two thousand years until the day of Great Completion!"

Hearing this, Xia Qi secretly estimated the time, then asked again.

"Hmm! Since that is the case, have you determined the candidate for the next master of the Imperial Dynasty?"

"Replying to Imperial Ancestor, I already have a few candidates in mind!"

Hearing this, Xia Qi could not help but be very interested, then asked: "Oh? There are a few? Tell me about them, let your Imperial Ancestor take a look and see who can serve as the next Imperial Lord."

"Understood!"

Although Xia Fa is said to be the sixteenth Human Emperor of the Xia Dynasty, he is actually the fifteenth Human Emperor of the dynasty.

After all, the founding Human Emperor Xia Yu is not the same as these fifteen generations of Human Emperors.

Xia Yu was the co-lord of the entire Human Race, possessing the Human Sovereign of Humanity Fruit Position.

Whereas they possess the Luck Dynasty Human Sovereign Fruit Position.

The gap between the two is by no means small.

After all, once the Human Sovereign of Humanity Fruit Position is attained, one is at the realm of a Supreme God, while the Luck Dynasty Human Sovereign Fruit Position is at the peak realm of a Great Luo God.

The two differ by a major realm.

Therefore, for the Luck Dynasty Human Sovereign Fruit Position, one only needs to make some contributions to the dynasty during their reign, and once the Qi Luck reaches a certain level, one can attain the Fruit Position.

Compared to the Human Sovereign of Humanity Fruit Position, it is much simpler.

Thus, when they select the next Human Emperor of the Imperial Dynasty, besides valuing individual ability, they value individual strength even more.

And the master of the Xia Dynasty in this world, Xia Fa, has been on the throne for tens of thousands of years and has a total of twenty-seven sons and thirty-six daughters.

Among them, there are only three whom he deeply values.

They are Lv Xiao (Xia Jie), known for being skilled in both civil and military affairs; Shangyang (Xia Yang), known for having endless divine strength; and Guo Zhang (Xia Zhang), who holds the honorary title of Friend of the God Beast.

"Replying to Imperial Ancestor, I have identified three candidates: Lv Xiao, Shangyang, and Guo Zhang."

Having said this, Xia Fa waved his divine strength, causing the appearances and images of Lv Gui and the others to manifest and appear in the great hall through divine strength.

Just then, Xia Gao, who is Xia Fa's father and the grandfather of Lv Gui and the others, laughed loudly.

"I know Shangyang; he is a good child. He was born with immense divine strength. With this child as the master of the Imperial Dynasty, I believe he will be able to attain the Imperial Dynasty Human Sovereign Fruit Position even faster!"

However, no sooner had Xia Gao finished speaking than he was sternly rebuked by his father, Xia Kongjia.

"Gao, shut your mouth!"

Xia Kongjia looked at his son Xia Gao with an angry face and said coldly: "When was it your turn to speak on this matter?"

Xia Gao opened his mouth, his face flushed red as he looked at his cold father, but he did not dare to refute him in the slightest.

Seeing this, Xia Qi at the head of the table interrupted impatiently: "Enough, it has been so long, why must you bring it up again?"

The other Xia Emperors also sighed helplessly in their hearts upon seeing this.

Why? Because one hundred thousand years ago, the Xia Dynasty was the number one imperial dynasty of the time; even the newly risen Shang Dynasty had to retreat when encountering the Xia Dynasty.

It was only because the then-master of the Imperial Dynasty, Xia Gao, issued a wrong political decree that buried hundreds of millions of the elite imperial army in one stroke. The Xia Dynasty declined at that time, its Qi Luck faded somewhat, until the Shang Dynasty caught up, showing signs of surpassing the Xia Dynasty.

Feeling the atmosphere around him become depressed, Xia Qi could not help but speak up.

"Fa'er, since you already have three candidates, then strive to determine it within these two thousand years, so you can offer sacrifices to Heaven and raise your Qi Luck early to attain the Human Emperor Fruit Position!"

Because at this time, Xia Fa's strength is mainly supported by his position as the current master of the dynasty's Qi Luck, and does not belong to his own strength.

Therefore.

Only by attaining the Human Emperor Fruit Position can one's strength at the peak of a Great Luo God be eternal.

As for Xia Qi's urging, although Xia Fa felt strange in his heart, he still obeyed his Imperial Ancestor's words.

"Fa'er understands!"

Just as the others wanted to say something, Xia Qi said with a grave expression.

"This is a critical period. There are only two paths before all imperial dynasties: one is life, the other is destruction!"

"And the opportunity for life is to achieve final victory and make the Xia Dynasty the only imperial dynasty of the Human Race (Heavenly Dynasty); while death is to follow the crowd and become one of the losers among the ten thousand imperial dynasties."

"As the head of the many imperial dynasties, if war breaks out ten thousand years from now, given the strength disparity between the Xia Dynasty and the others, all the imperial dynasties will inevitably form an alliance to deal with the Xia Dynasty's methods. By then, it will be too late!"

Hearing this, everyone was silent for a while.

"Good!"

Xia Kongjia, the fourteenth Xia Emperor, stood up and said with a passionate heart.

"Imperial Ancestor, what should we do? I, Kongjia, am the first to support you!"

Xia Kongjia's sudden action made Xia Zuo, who was deep in thought, extremely dissatisfied.

"Sit down! As an emperor, what kind of decorum is this, shouting and acting so boisterously! You are no better than your son!" After Xia Ku finished speaking, Xia Gao, who wanted to keep a low profile, could not help but smile bitterly and innocently.

Having already been scolded by his father Xia Kongjia, he was now being dragged out by his grandfather to be whipped while lying down, completely innocent.

After Xia Ya finished speaking, he ignored the bitter-faced father and son, Xia Kongjia and Xia Gao, and asked Xia Qi at the head of the table respectfully.

"Imperial Ancestor, there are a total of three thousand imperial dynasties in the Yellow River Basin. Even if we strike first, with the strength of our Xia Dynasty, we can probably only take down a hundred or so. When the other dynasties react, what should we do then?"

At this time, the scale of the Xia Dynasty, although stronger than all the imperial dynasties in the Yellow River Basin combined when taken individually.

But its strength is limited; what Xia Ku said about taking down a hundred dynasties in an instant by surprise is already the best-case limit.

If any accidents were to occur during this (such as the God Race intervening), it is estimated that taking seventy or eighty Imperial Dynasties would already be the best-case scenario.

Therefore.

Not only Xia Zuo, but everyone present was also very curious about what plan Xia Qi actually had in mind, and what confidence he had to boast that he could capture all three thousand Imperial Dynasties of the Yellow River Basin in one fell swoop.

Because the Imperial Dynasty model at this time is different from the tribal model.

If it were the tribal model, they could still appeal to reason like the co-lord model of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors era, letting those tribes verbally or actively support the Xia Shi Imperial Clan.

But under the Imperial Dynasty model, coupled with the concept of a sole unified Imperial Dynasty, which master of an Imperial Dynasty would be willing to personally bury the accumulations of countless years? And who would be willing to give up the immense opportunity of being the master of such a sole Imperial Dynasty? Therefore.

For the Xia Dynasty to unify the entire Yellow River Basin, it is bound to be incomparably difficult.

This period is not something that can be easily resolved in ten thousand or one hundred thousand years.

What is more.

The ten-thousand-year deadline set by the God Emperor of the Divine Court was already prepared for the long term, with the struggle of the Imperial Dynasties added to the struggle between the Mysterious Gate and the Divine Court.

The problems within this cannot be resolved without dozens or hundreds of great eons.

After all, this involves the Divine Court and the Mysterious Gate, and given the massive scale of both, it is fundamentally impossible to resolve easily.

(End of this chapter)