Chapter 701

You Zu

Within the star forged from condensed crystal stones, in the vast crystal hall, Youzu, Xuanwu, Xupo, Chizhi, and Yizun sat upon the massive throne, their faces as grim as a corpse's.

But deep in their eyes flickered excitement, joy, even the fire of exhilaration and encouragement.

Piece after piece of soul crystals radiating immense soul fluctuations, piece after piece of blood essence radiating scorching heat, hovered before them, free for them to harvest.

This is an immeasurably vast fortune, an astronomical sum of wealth, and also precisely the sole purpose of their coming to scout the outpost this time: to strike down all other clans' beings in one blow and replace Yourou, Wutou, Yanhao, and others.

You Ruo

But they lost the wager…… they lost rather badly.

They intended for the Great Martial God Country to secure the final victory, and they were even willing to employ three supreme divine artifacts to bolster the Great Martial God Country.

Da Tie

"Useless trash should be completely eliminated." Youzu said gloomily: "Yourou, not bad; I can tell you have a good grasp of those lowly Pangu remnants. This round, you win…… you may share a portion of power, which is your due."

He paused, then Youzu sneered: "However, the next round of the wager is coming up…… are you prepared?"

Yourou smiled, giving Youzu a slight bow.

Gongyang Sanlü

The hot-tempered Yizun stamped his feet heavily, his low growl shaking the entire hall violently: "That brat…… that damned brat…… he let too many who should have died live. I've memorized him, I've memorized him!"

Clenching his fists tightly, Yizun roared: "One day I will personally crush every bone in his body."

Yourou lifted her head, smiling calmly: "No, I think he's quite good. It seems we have a disagreement about him? But it's fine, isn't there still the next round of the wager?"

Gongyang Clan Elder

Gongyang Clan

Xupo spoke, his ethereal, yin-like voice halting the brewing conflict among Youzu, Yourou, and Yizun: "Now we should divide the spoils. It's merely a lowly Pangu remnant, a bug you could crush with a hand…… the spoils are what matter most."

The eyes of Youzu, Yizun, Xuanwu, and Chizhi lit up simultaneously, fixedly staring at those soul crystals and blood essence.

"Exactly, tangible benefits are what matter most." Youzu licked his lips, then slammed his trident hard onto the floor, shaking the whole hall as countless ice crystals condensed from the air.

"The problem is, these soul crystals and blood essence cannot be evenly divided by five, and each piece of soul crystal and each portion of blood essence contains varying power, different attributes, strengths, and purity—how can we truly distribute them fairly?"

Jade Prefecture

Dividing the spoils must be fair, just, impartial, and transparent; he cannot tolerate the slightest loss, or else he will use his big fists to school certain people—what is called 'absolute fairness under the fist'!

The crystal hall erupted like a market, the members of the five great god clans, regardless of rank, all began spitting at each other.

The affairs of the Three Kingdoms battlefield, the scheming of the Three Kingdoms' unification, they temporarily had no mind for it. Anyway, the ultimate victor was the Green Hill God Country, and even mighty beings of the Divine Realm fell—over ten thousand dead—this haul is enough to temporarily satisfy their greedy appetites.

Prince An's Mansion

The vast Ancient Armory was shrouded in a thick mist; within the haze, the faint clang of metal and the buzzing of swiftly turning mechanisms could be heard.

Through the mist, one could see the entire floor of the Ancient Armory flowing, layer upon layer of thick metal shells shifting shape, while countless subterranean mechanisms interlocked, compressed, and each bizarre production line strained to shrink its own volume.

Datie precisely controlled the entire Ancient Armory; the huge, low-tech attachments that could be added at will were discarded, as were the massive furnaces, basic metal ore smelting tools, and so on—all cast aside. Only the high-precision production lines dedicated to crafting core components for the giant god soldiers remained, wriggling like living creatures.

In just a quarter of an hour, the Ancient Armory, covering thousands of li, completely transformed; its most crucial core production zone compressed into a roughly ten-li cuboid metal lump.

In the void, the faceless Yin-Yang Daoist stood aloft; his body swayed, and behind him a large hand formed of black and white qi gently reached down, grasping the metal lump where the Ancient Armory's essence had gathered, lifting it lightly into the Yin-Yang qi vessel.

"Please!" the Yin-Yang Daoist extended his hand toward the Gongyang Clan elder standing aside, Gongyang Sande, whose cultivation had peaked at the Embryonic Treasury Realm.

Gongyang Sande gritted his teeth and handed over a hundred spatial rings of immense capacity to the Yin-Yang Daoist.

Each spatial ring stored vast quantities of cultivation resources—primordial crystals, precious elixirs, various rare materials, and so on—its total amount equivalent to the combined output of all the Gongyang clan's fiefdoms over a hundred years.

Five Elements Divine Light

This deal, the Gongyang clan lost out.

However, this transaction had to be carried out… How could Linghu Qingqing possibly allow Wu Tie's controlled Ancient Army Office to continue occupying her own territory? So, she could only pay a price, and asked the Ancient Army Office to move.

The Ancient Army Office will eventually still be handed over to the Gongyang clan to control; this money can only be paid by the Gongyang clan.

Gongyang Sanlü and the other high-ranking members of the Gongyang clan were very unwilling to bear this expense. But there was no choice; Linghu Qingqing could not possibly provide this money either. In order to smoothly take control of the future Qingqiu Ancient Army Office, the Gongyang clan had no choice but to grit their teeth and pay.

After paying this fee, Wu Tie swept away the core area within the Qingqiu Ancient Army Office, but the Gongyang clan did not suffer too much loss.

After all, there is still a more high-end Great Wei Ancient Army Office waiting for them to take over. Thinking of this, the Gongyang clan's feelings, from top to bottom, the whole household, finally became somewhat balanced.

The Yin-Yang Daoist swept away the core area of the Ancient Army Office, leaving all the auxiliary equipment and the outer defensive systems to the Gongyang clan.

Then he hurried all the way into the territory of Yu Prefecture.

The Yin-Yang Two Qi Bottle sprayed black-and-white spiritual light, sweeping across the Yu Prefecture territory in a massive plunder.

The newly built Prince An's Mansion, not long after completion, was swept away in a flash of spiritual light.

Some of the famous beautiful mountains and rivers of Yu Prefecture, those naturally exquisite vistas, were swept away in a flash of spiritual light.

Within Yu Prefecture, the ancestral homes of the major clans that had defected to Wu Tie, as well as the scenic mountains and rivers near those estates, were likewise swept away in a flash of spiritual light.

The Yin-Yang Two Qi Bottle's capacity is enormous; a few prefectures' worth of items can easily be loaded into it.

Even if the Yin-Yang Two Qi Bottle is filled to the brim, the Canghai Daoist follows behind the Yin-Yang Daoist; his one hundred and eight Canghai Pearls have enormous capacity, each containing a formed miniature world, so everything that Wu Tie has set his sights on can be packed and taken away.

All the way sweeping clean, they finally arrived at Qu Prefecture.

In Qu Prefecture's Huan Yun Mountain, the forests that had just sprouted countless tender medicinal herb seedlings were directly moved by the Canghai Daoist's great divine power, one mountain peak at a time, three peaks at a time, into the Canghai Pearls.

The Wu Family Fortress, as well as the castles built by Wu Tie's close subordinates on Huan Yun Mountain, were also moved away one by one.

Almost the entire Huan Yun Mountain was moved into the Canghai Pearls by the Canghai Daoist; then, cooperating with the Yin-Yang Daoist, he continued sweeping across the other fief prefectures of Wu Tie's Prince An's mansion.

What they moved were tangible, visible objects.

Meanwhile, the Five Elements Daoist secretly acted in private, moving those things that ordinary people cannot see.

Between heaven and earth, underground spirit veins mostly exist in the form of five-attribute spirit veins. The Five Elements Daoist commands the innate and acquired Five Elements Grand Dao, making him extremely sensitive to five-element earth veins.

He traveled underground all the way, and in Yu Prefecture, Qu Prefecture, and other fief territories of Wu Tie, the main spirit veins underground were directly pulled out by him using Five Elements Divine Light.

Under the Five Elements Daoist's great divine power, these enormous spirit veins turned into vivid, lifelike giant dragons, roaring as they were drawn into the Five Elements Divine Light.

Giant spirit veins, large spirit veins, medium spirit veins… and the various rare minerals that accompany these spirit veins of different attributes, the Five Elements Daoist left none behind, taking them all completely.

In Wu Tie's original fief, only the small and tiny spirit veins, as well as some embryonic spirit veins still in gestation, were spared by the Five Elements Daoist's generous hand. With these small and tiny spirit veins, Wu Tie's original fief could at least maintain normal output, not turning into desert overnight.

Especially Mu Dalu keeps generating and expanding, continuously supplying an endless stream of power.

These remaining spirit veins continue to grow and strengthen themselves; given hundreds of thousands to millions of years, as long as they are not destroyed by external forces, they can gradually grow into medium, large, or even huge spirit veins.

Visible mountains and rivers, castles and ancestral homes, scenic spots and so on were all taken by the Yin-Yang Daoist and the Canghai Daoist.

Intangible spirit vein deposits were all moved by the Five Elements Daoist.

Pei Feng, Wu Tie's chief minister of internal affairs, then commanded the Five Elements Spirits and the Invincible Army, conscripted all transport ships in the territory, and also borrowed countless transport ships from the Qingqiu Divine Kingdom and the original Great Wei territory, to relocate the populace within the fief.

According to the enfeoffment edict, all populace on Wu Tie's fief are his subjects.

Wu Tie has now gone from Prince An to Wu King; his fief expanded from just a few prefectures to the entire original territory of the Great Wu Divine Kingdom. He forcibly relocated the populace of those prefectures to the Great Wu's lands—quite reasonable, legally speaking.

Thus no one stepped forward to stop Pei Feng; he allowed the massive fleet to set out from Wu Tie's fief, covering the sky and earth, marching all the way across the southwest half of the Qingqiu Divine Kingdom's territory, hurrying to reach Wu Tie's fief.

The relocation of the populace took a full half a year.

When Pei Feng emptied the populace of one prefecture, officials from the Qingqiu Household Bureau quickly moved in to receive and inventory the land left behind by Wu Tie.

After all, Yu Prefecture and Ju Prefecture—the prefectures Wu Tie originally occupied—were the ancestral dragon-rising lands of the founding elders of the former Great Jin Divine Kingdom; the nearby hundred-odd prefectures are the most fertile, especially Yu Prefecture, a place where fat literally oozes.

In this victory, the Qingqiu Divine Kingdom won a total triumph, unifying the three kingdoms. As for the Divine Realm elders who followed Linghu Qingqing into the duel battlefield—those who have died need not be mentioned for now. Those fortunate elders who survived deserve to be enfeoffed!

Although the Great Wei's original territory is a huge chunk of fatty meat, enough to enfeoff any number of new aristocratic clans, the Qingqiu Divine Kingdom's capital remains Qingqiu City, and places like Yu Prefecture, which are right nearby and richly fertile, are still coveted prime lands by everyone.

Therefore, when Pei Feng moved the populace of one prefecture, the Household Bureau officials immediately took up residence and began to inspect and inventory.

Then, the Household Bureau officials directly sent a memorial of complaint to Linghu Qingqing.

Spotless, utterly spotless—after Pei Feng's move, the prefectures he left behind are cleaner than a dish licked by a dog. All those magnificent and famous scenic spots have been completely relocated.

Those renowned mountains and rivers, blessed caverns, holy cultivation sites, and so on have all been completely relocated.

Everywhere, famous pavilions, towers, gardens, cities, and the like—even those dug three feet deep—have been entirely relocated.

As for medicinal mountains and fields, needless to say, any hill worth a bit of money has been hauled away.

In the ordinary farmlands, not a single grain was left; everything was harvested clean by divine ability.

Household Bureau officials employed earth-travel technique to survey underground; the subterranean of Yu Prefecture and other prefectures is empty and bare—those rare large spirit veins are gone, not a trace left, and the accompanying rare mineral deposits have been completely extracted, leaving nothing.

All the major prefectures…

Well, the good common folk have all been relocated, and even ordinary prisoners guilty of petty theft have been moved as well.

In the prisons of each prefecture and county, only those scoundrels who committed the ten unforgivable heinous crimes were left behind.

Obviously, Pei Feng dislikes these fellows and does not want to bring them to pollute Wu Tie's new territory; thus these scoundrels were all left to the Qingqiu Divine Kingdom. Their case files are placed at their cell doors—whether the Qingqiu Divine Kingdom's officials who take over decide to kill or release them has nothing to do with Pei Feng.

"This little lass, she actually did it!" Inside the Qingqiu Palace, Linghu Qingqing took the document submitted by the lower officials, stared wide-eyed, speechless.

Pei Feng—she even swept clean the rare birds and beasts on Wu Tie's fief.

In the mountains and forests, the White Tiger, Azure Wolf, Flood Dragon, Mandarin Duck and Phoenix, and other rare birds and beasts of slight value were all captured alive by her troops and taken away. Even those gorgeous-feathered parrots, babblers, magpies, and embroidered chickens, etc., were also taken away.

What remained were only the chirping sparrows and pitch-black crows.

"Really, that little girl of the Pei family—tsk, how did she manage it? Heh, hehe, hehehe." Linghu Qingqing could only dry‑laugh, seeming unable to do anything else. He only felt a toothache; this matter, this Pei Feng—how exactly did she pull it off?

"Truly…… a capable, tough woman who can manage a household and get by…… Look, look, she even took away the solid‑colored black and yellow dogs, leaving only those with spotted, white, or mixed fur…… These are the ones nobody wants, all left behind."

Linghu Qingqing shook his head and sighed: "Never mind, never mind…… For the sake of the Wu King's righteous aura, let her go."

Gongyang Sanlü stood aside, silent.

"For the sake of Wu Tie's righteous aura?"

Heh, if it weren't for the many Divine Realm elders who have defected to Wu Tie's side, what righteous aura—wouldn't have been chopped up by your single order?

But it's fine. Come on, come on—after all, it's just the barren, desolate land of the Great Wu Divine Kingdom; let him go.

Now, Gongyang Sanlü wants to haggle with Linghu Qingqing for his own benefit.

Wu Tie has taken a fief from the Great Wu Divine Kingdom; Gongyang Sanlü isn't greedy—give the Gongyang clan thirty percent of the original Great Wei Divine Kingdom's territory as a fief, and Gongyang Sanlü thinks that's acceptable.

Rallying his spirits, Gongyang Sanlü is about to start a contest with Linghu Qingqing.