Chapter 364: The Appearance of the Canglan Sect

The monarch and powerful figures of Zheng Guo, at the moment Daliang's army set off, frantically declared to the outside world that Daliang was immoral.

Daliang attacking their Zheng Guo at this time was taking advantage of the situation and bullying the weak.

However, the remarks of the Zheng Guo imperial family and those powerful figures did not cause any waves in the other countries.

All countries were very clear about the grievances between Daliang and Zheng Guo.

What's more, it was Zheng Guo that took the initiative to go to war with Daliang not long ago. Now Daliang was just fighting back.

As for saying Daliang was taking advantage of the situation, if Daliang really wanted to take advantage of the situation, it could completely use this opportunity to annex other countries, but Daliang didn't do so.

The remarks within Zheng Guo did not affect the speed of Daliang's army at all.

Within Daliang, whether it was martial artists or ordinary people, they were also divided into two factions regarding Daliang attacking Zheng Guo at this time: the conservative faction and the radical faction.

The radical faction supported Daliang attacking Zheng Guo.

The conservative faction thought that the one hundred thousand army was too conservative and that it would be best to launch a national expedition.

Five days later, Zheng Guo was destroyed.

In the entire territory of Zheng Guo, there was not a single living person left.

It wasn't that Daliang slaughtered all the ordinary people of Zheng Guo. The ordinary people of Zheng Guo died at the hands of Zheng Guo martial artists and demon beasts. Before Daliang's army landed, those powerful figures in Zheng Guo frantically arrested the people of Zheng Guo, forcibly making these ordinary people absorb the demon bloodline. More than half of the ordinary strong and young people in Zheng Guo died from exploding bodies due to absorbing the demon bloodline.

Those who successfully absorbed it were recruited into the army by Zheng Guo to resist Daliang martial artists. The final result was imaginable.

As for the old, weak, sick, and disabled, they were treated as blood food by the demon race within Zheng Guo to improve their strength.

However, after these demon beasts saw Daliang successfully land on the coast of Zheng Guo, they also abandoned Zheng Guo and began to flee on their own. However, Daliang had long anticipated this scene and had surrounded the entire border of Zheng Guo in advance. Except for a few fish that slipped through the net, the others were all annihilated.

The grievances of Daliang plus the previous dynasty for thousands of years finally came to an end today.

Jiangnan Dao.

Yu Yongnian had just returned to the Shu Mansion with his wife when the butler hurried in.

"Son-in-law, the Prefect of Raozhou Prefecture heard that you have returned and came to visit. The Master is entertaining the Prefect in the front hall."

"The Prefect came to visit?"

Yu Yongnian's expression was a bit strange. The reason why he and his wife left the Jiangnan Dao Martial Way Office was because the adults who visited him these days were endless, and their attitudes were extremely diligent, which made him very uncomfortable.

He was only a Ninth-Rank martial artist, still a distance away from the Eighth Rank, but the adults who visited him were all Eighth-Rank or even Seventh-Rank, which made him very unaccustomed to it. Finally, he simply left the Martial Way Office and returned to Raozhou Prefecture.

It was just that he didn't expect that he had just returned to Raozhou Prefecture, and the Prefect came to visit in person.

"Pfft, I told you that you couldn't hide from it."

Shu Suwan walked out of the bedroom, and seeing her husband's appearance, she couldn't help but laugh out loud.

The entire Daliang knew that Lin Chen was favored and cultivated by her husband when he was in the Martial Hall, and Lin Chen's gratitude to her husband had also spread throughout the entire Daliang.

Without Yu Yu Jiaoxi Yu, there would be no me today.

This was what Lin Chen wrote in "Words to the Junior Brother of Jiangnan". And with Lin Chen's current status and position, her husband's status and position also rose with the tide. Let alone the Prefect of Raozhou Prefecture, even if the Dao Lord of Jiangnan Dao and the Director of the Martial Way Office came to visit, she wouldn't feel surprised.

"What is this called?"

Yu Yongnian smiled bitterly. He was a Ninth-Rank martial artist, having to face the flattery of martial artists stronger than himself all day long. Although it couldn't be counted as fawning, he was the center of attention everywhere, which made him very awkward.

"Don't worry, it won't be long before you won't be awkward."

"Does the wife mean it will be fine after this period?"

"Hmm, it will be back to normal after a month or so."

Shu Suwan nodded, but there was one point she didn't mention. According to the current situation, it was feared that her husband's strength would have to be improved again. Daliang would definitely use all means to improve her husband's strength.

Only when the strength was improved could a higher official position be given to her husband.

"Actually, they should go to the Jiang Mansion next door."

Yu Yongnian sighed. Although he was Lin Chen's instructor, the Jiang Master of the Jiang Mansion next door was Lin Chen's future father-in-law, and the relationship was closer.

"I heard that the Jiang Mansion closed its doors to guests long ago and does not receive any guests."

Shu Suwan knew the situation of the Jiang Mansion, but she knew that her father wanted to take this opportunity to increase the influence of the Shu family in Rao City. It was impossible to close the doors to guests like the Jiang Mansion.

Linhu Village, Poyang County.

It was still calm. Jiangnan Dao specially arranged for several ranked martial artists to guard around the village. Those who did not get permission were forbidden to enter the village.

Except for the Jiangnan Dao Dao Lord and the Director of the Martial Way Office who led the Raozhou Prefecture Prefect and the Raozhou Martial Way Office Director to visit Linhu Village once and visited Lin Chen's parents, no other outsiders could enter.

The imperial court arranged it this way because they knew that Lin Chen's parents were just ordinary people, so as not to disturb their lives too much.

However, although outsiders couldn't enter, there were many families who had a good relationship with the Lin family over the past two years. The four families of Lu Yongfeng had been keeping in touch with the Lin family over the years, and they would naturally enter the village to congratulate them this time.

Wealth in the deep mountains has distant relatives.

Over the past two years, some distant relatives of the Lin family who hadn't kept in touch before had also been keeping in touch with the Lin family in the past year or two, and they had all rushed over. Just entertaining these guests and relatives, the Lin family hadn't stopped.

Zhao Canghu carried his hands behind his back, wandering around the whole village when he had nothing to do, especially in the back mountain and some open spaces.

"Village Chief, are you looking to see which open space in our village can be sold? This time it can definitely be sold at a high price."

A villager saw Zhao Canghu's wandering figure and said with a smile.

"You bastard, you only have money in your eyes. Selling the land in the village, aren't you afraid of angering the ancestors?"

Zhao Canghu glared, but the scolding words made several villagers stunned. Anyone could say this, but coming from the Village Chief's mouth, it was too inconsistent. In the past, every time Lin Chen had good news, the Village Chief would arrange a sacrifice to the ancestors. Whether Lin Chen was there or not, he would first sell the spirit tablets in the ancestral hall, and later sell the land. Why did he suddenly change his nature this time?

"I tell you, our Linhu Village is a treasure land and cannot be sold. I remember when I was young, a certain expert once said that our Linhu Village is a treasure land of Feng Shui, called something like a dragon-raising land, which is to produce a true dragon. This land cannot be sold for any amount of money."

Zhao Canghu had no bottom in his heart now. He had also been flipping through some notes left by the old people in the village these past few days, for fear of missing any important records.

In the past, he boasted to the outside world that Linhu Village was a treasure land of Feng Shui, which was to sell the land at a high price.

But Lin Chen had reached this height now. The adults who came a few days ago said that Lin Chen was now the number one person in the Nine Nations.

The number one person in the Nine Nations.

What kind of concept was this?

His status was even higher than that of the Emperor.

Of course, Zhao Canghu was not disrespectful to the current Emperor. The status of the Daliang Emperor in the hearts of the people was still very high.

He just didn't expect that Lin Chen could reach such a height.

Only a few years had passed, and a fisherman boy had become the number one person in the Nine Nations.

Could it be that Linhu Village was really some treasure land of Feng Shui?

He really believed it a bit now. Otherwise, how to explain Lin Chen's situation?

Anyway, no matter what, the land in Linhu Village could no longer be sold out. He was even thinking about whether he should take back the land that had been sold. As for the money received at that time, he would just return it to those people.

This time, when those adults arrived, the newly appointed County Magistrate of Poyang County who followed at the end even privately told him that if Linhu Village had any needs, he could contact the County Government, and the County Government would solve it.

If the money was not enough, just ask the County Government for it.

East Sea Domain.

The coastal area of the Great Yan Dynasty.

At this moment, a giant ship sailed out from the pier, heading toward the vast sea area at a terrifying speed.

"Why was the Long Wang Ship dispatched?"

"The Annihilation Storm has dissipated. It should be to search for those desolate islands."

"Are those desolate islands worth the Long Wang Ship being dispatched? Aren't those only interesting to scavenging sects and martial artists?"

On the sea, many people who saw this giant ship nearly thirty zhang high showed expressions of surprise.

In the entire East Sea Domain, there were only ten Long Wang Ships in total, and they might not be dispatched once in decades.

"Who knows? This time the Annihilation Storm has existed for thousands of years. Those islands in the sea have been deposited for thousands of years, and there should be many good things. Maybe it has also moved the experts of the East Sea Donghai Shengong."

The East Sea Donghai Shengong was the top sect in the East Sea Domain, and the ten Long Wang Ships also belonged to the East Sea Donghai Shengong.

"Everyone, this time the Annihilation Storm has lasted much longer than in the past, leading to more sects going out to sea." On the deck, several middle-aged men stood, and the middle-aged man in the middle pointed to the passing ships and explained with a smile.

As a Hu Hu Zhishi of the East Sea Donghai Shengong, their East Sea Donghai Shengong didn't look down on the islands on the sea. The reason why they went to sea this time was because of these Deacons from other top sects on the sea.

The Canglan Sect had a way of recruiting disciples like the Canglan Order, and other sects also had similar means. However, even if there were lucky ones on the islands who were taken a fancy to by these sects in the past, they were mostly those lucky ones who took the initiative to go to the location of each sect.

But this time, five top sects actually went to the East Sea Domain to welcome the disciples they had taken a fancy to.

This situation had never happened before. Hu Yunhua understood in his heart that it was highly likely that the Annihilation Storm had lasted too long this time, and there really were a few good seedlings that appeared.

"Brother Hu, how many have been discovered on these overseas islands so far?"

"So far, one thousand three hundred and seventy-two have been discovered. In the past, every time the Annihilation Storm retreated, about one hundred more islands would appear. This time the Annihilation Storm lasted longer, so the distance of retreat will be further. It is estimated that two hundred islands may be discovered."

Hu Yunhua introduced the situation to everyone. The so-called dissipation of the Annihilation Storm was not really disappearing, but retreating into the depths of the sea area.

Since the establishment of the Yan Yan Yan Huang Chao, the Annihilation Storm had always existed. At first, it appeared directly on the coast, but the Annihilation Storm was like the tide. Every time it disappeared, it would retreat a distance of one hundred thousand li. The next time it appeared, there would be no Annihilation Storm within these hundreds of thousands of li.

Over the years, with the multiple retreats of the Annihilation Storm, the sea area of the East Sea Domain had reached a terrifying depth.

"Why does the East Sea Domain call the sects that go out to sea scavenging? It is very similar to the act of fishermen picking up the catch on the beach after the tide recedes. The only difference is that after the tide recedes, it will rise again after the tide rises, but after the Annihilation Storm retreats, it will not return to this area."

Hu Yunhua introduced the situation of the Annihilation Storm to the Deacons from several other sects.

"That is to say, no one knows how deep the entire sea area is."

Hu Yunhua nodded: "Even the experts of the Sixth Innate Realm do not dare to easily step into the most intense area of the Annihilation Storm. As for those who go to these desolate islands to try their luck and inherit the Martial Way, they are all in the outer area of the Annihilation Storm."

"The outer area of the Annihilation Storm has a depth of one hundred thousand li. Innate experts can enter as long as they are careful. Just like now, the Annihilation Storm has retreated, which is the weakest time. Besides those exposed islands, some Innate martial artists will risk entering the outer area of the Annihilation Storm, but they can only stay inside for thirty years at most. Thirty years later, the Annihilation Storm will strike again, and all the annihilation energy in the outer area will be several times the original."

After listening to Hu Yunhua's explanation, the Deacons of each sect present nodded. They had heard of the overseas islands and the Annihilation Storm in the East Sea Domain, but they didn't have a very detailed understanding.

Based on the location of their sects, if there were no accidents, they would never come to this East Sea sea area in their lives.

"Brother Gao, your Canglan Sect is so far from the East Sea Domain. Being able to let you, a Hu Hu Zhishi, come in person, it must be that you have discovered a genius who is not ordinary."

Gao Zeming listened to the words of the man beside him and smiled: "It can't be counted as not ordinary. It's just that I happened to be near the East Sea Domain, so I just picked up these disciples on the way."

Gao Zeming didn't want to expose Lin Chen's situation. Those present were also top sects, and there was competition among everyone in the Yan Yan Yan Huang Chao.

Before coming to the East Sea Domain this time, he specifically went to the hall where the Canglan Order was stored in the sect to understand. According to the location display, there were seven Canglan Orders in the East Sea of the sect.

That is to say, besides Lin Chen, there were six other people who had learned the Canglan Finger and were qualified to go to the Canglan Sect to participate in the entry assessment.

The others on the deck heard Gao Zeming's words and smiled knowingly. Where did the coincidence come from?

As an Innate martial artist, even if Gao Zeming really had something to do in the East Sea Domain, it was impossible to pick up these people. Just getting the qualification for the entry assessment, it was not certain whether they could become sect disciples. How could a dignified Innate expert lower his status to pick them up?

"Brother Gao is really low-key. I won't hide it from everyone, our Heavenly Sun Palace has indeed discovered a few good seedlings this time, only nineteen years old and already at the Second Rank."

The Hu Hu Zhishi of the Heavenly Sun Palace, also one of the twenty-four super sects, spoke up, instantly causing surprise among the others.

Nineteen years old and already at the Second Rank, this was already the standard for inner disciples of each sect. Thinking that they were on a desolate island and the Martial Way resources were not as good as those of the Yan Yan Yan Huang Chao martial artists, this Martial Way talent was even higher.

One who reached the standard of an inner disciple couldn't let a Hu Hu Zhishi come to pick them up in person, but if there were more than three, it would be worth it.

ps: I was delayed by some urgent matters today, so it's just one chapter. Two big chapters will be offered tomorrow.

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