Chapter 701: Bai Qi

"It was only when they annihilated the Xiongnu that I first learned of the Han Empire!"

Upon hearing that the Han had actually managed to annihilate the Xiongnu, Bai Qi and Wang Jian were also greatly astonished.

"This Han's strength is actually so formidable. Although our Great Qin could also annihilate the Xiongnu, the losses it would inflict upon our Great Qin would also be enormous!"

"Otherwise, the Xiongnu would have been annihilated by us long ago — how could they have lasted until now!"

Hearing Ying Zheng's words, Bai Qi furrowed his brow tightly and said with a solemn expression.

"Indeed. If we wanted to annihilate the Xiongnu, with the strength of our Great Qin soldiers, we could do it with ease."

"But the Xiongnu are too far from our Great Qin, and we are unfamiliar with the Grassland. Our army's logistical supply is insufficient — that is the greatest reason!"

"Otherwise, how could those few hundred thousand Xiongnu iron cavalry dare to invade our Great Qin's borders like this!"

"They are merely relying on the fact that we do not dare to venture deep into the Grassland. If we could solve these problems, we would have Extinguished them long ago!"

At this moment, upon hearing Bai Qi's words, Wang Jian also said with a solemn expression.

Hearing the words of Bai Qi and Wang Jian, Ying Zheng also nodded and continued to say to the two of them:

"What you have said is indeed the main reason our Great Qin cannot Extinguish the Xiongnu!"

"However, the strength of this Han Empire is truly formidable!"

Speaking of this, even Ying Zheng was utterly shocked that the Han Empire could possess a Million-Strong Legion of Innate Realm Warriors.

"Lord Wu'an, General Wang, can you imagine it? This Han Empire actually has a Million-Strong Legion composed of Innate Realm Warriors!"

"Moreover, the mounts of this Innate Warrior Grand Army are actually the Xuanwu Divine Beast!"

"To tell the truth, since I unified the six kingdoms, I have never been so shocked by any single faction!"

Ying Zheng's words resounded in the minds of Bai Qi and Wang Jian like the tolling of a great bell.

"A Million-Strong Legion of Innate Realm Warriors…"

"Xuanwu Divine Beast mounts…"

At this moment, these two sentences echoed unceasingly in both of their minds.

After a long while, Bai Qi and Wang Jian finally recovered from their shock.

Bai Qi stared fixedly at Ying Zheng and asked with a solemn expression:

"Your Majesty, the news cannot be wrong, can it? A Million-Strong Legion composed of Innate Realm Warriors — this is truly too hard to believe!"

"Not to mention that the mounts of this Million-Strong Legion of Innate Realm Warriors are all Xuanwu Divine Beasts. With such strength, who under Tian Xia could be their opponent!"

"But if the other side possesses such strength, why have we not heard even a single piece of news about this Han Empire!"

To tell the truth, Bai Qi was utterly unwilling to believe that the other side would have a Million-Strong Legion of Innate Realm Warriors.

He felt that Ying Zheng's intelligence must be inaccurate, and that this Han Empire probably only had a few hundred Innate Realm Warriors at most.

One must know that the resources required to cultivate a single Innate Realm Warrior are enormously vast.

Not to mention that the other side actually has a Million-Strong Legion of Innate Realm Warriors — what an astronomical amount of resources that would be!

Such resources simply could not be produced by any single nation in the world.

Their Great Qin was powerful, wasn't it! Yet even so, they currently had fewer than two hundred Innate Realm Warriors.

Within Great Qin, the most elite army was the God-Slaying Army under his command.

But even his God-Slaying Army had only One Hundred Innate Realm Warriors.

All the other members were composed of Warriors above the Sixth Heaven of the Postnatal Realm.

And this was only after mobilizing the full national strength of Great Qin that they had managed to cultivate Five Thousand God-Slaying Army soldiers.

And apart from his Five Thousand God-Slaying Army, there were Wang Jian's Fifty Thousand Great Qin Elite Soldiers.

Although these Fifty Thousand Great Qin Elite Soldiers were not as powerful as Bai Qi's Five Thousand God-Slaying Army, they also possessed cultivation at the First or Second Heaven of the Postnatal Realm.

This was also the foundation that had enabled their Great Qin to eradicate the six kingdoms and unify Tian Xia back then.

However, the hopes of Bai Qi and Wang Jian were shattered, for they only heard Ying Zheng say to them solemnly once more:

"Lord Wu'an, General Wang, this is intelligence that Meng Tian personally sent people back at the risk of their lives. Do you think Meng Tian would dare to deceive the Emperor?"

Upon hearing this, the hearts of Bai Qi and Wang Jian also sank. If they were not careful against such an opponent, Great Qin would face the peril of annihilation!

"If this intelligence was sent back by Meng Tian, then it absolutely cannot be false! It seems the strength of this Han Empire is truly terrifyingly formidable!"

Bai Qi was silent for a while, then sighed with considerable helplessness.

"There is another piece of news. Previously, I dispatched Wei Zhuang of Liusha, Xing Hun of the Yin Yang Family, and the Heaven-rank assassins of the Luo Net to Little Sage Village to hunt down the Mo Family rebels."

"Today I just received news that everyone who went this time was completely annihilated. Even our Great Qin's Young Master Fu Su and Prime Minister Li Si were captured alive by them!"

"And the ones who struck were precisely the people of Little Sage Village and the Mo Family. For some unknown reason, the Mo Family's Gao Jianli, and Little Sage Village's Yan Lu and Zhang Liang — all three of them — had actually broken through to the Martial Emperor Realm."

"And Gai Nie and Fu Nian had broken through to the Second Heaven of Martial Emperor. In the end, even Xun Zi himself stepped in, which led to the complete annihilation of our Great Qin's personnel!"

After Bai Qi and Wang Jian had calmed down, Ying Zheng suddenly spoke to them again.

"Your Majesty, I feel that Xun Zi stepping in is hardly surprising! After all, our Great Qin has already made a move against Little Sage Village!"

"It's just that, as I recall, since the death of their Grand Master, the Six-Fingered Dark侠, the Mo Family has only had one Martial Emperor Realm expert, Yan Dan. How has another Gao Jianli suddenly appeared this time?"

Hearing Ying Zheng's words, Bai Qi could not help but ask Ying Zheng in confusion.

"Hehehe! Lord Wu'an is unaware. Not long ago, when the Mo Family's Grand Master Yan Dan was fighting Liusha's leader Wei Zhuang, the Six Souls Fear Curse within his body flared up and he died on the spot!"

"And now, the person who has succeeded as Grand Master of the Mo Family is the son of Jing Ke from back then. And Gai Nie betrayed our Great Qin precisely for this boy!"

Speaking of Gai Nie's betrayal of Great Qin, Ying Zheng was once again somewhat unable to contain his anger!

As the Sword Saint of Great Qin and Ying Zheng's sword-path teacher, Gai Nie's betrayal dealt Ying Zheng a tremendous blow.

"After annihilating our Great Qin's people, this Mo Family and Little Sage Village directly chose to head north with their entire force."

"Therefore, I suspect that Little Sage Village's choice to aid the Mo Family is likely related to the Han Empire."

Immediately afterward, Ying Zheng once again detailed the intelligence sent back by the Shadow Secret Guard to Bai Qi and Wang Jian.

After hearing Ying Zheng's words, Bai Qi and Wang Jian could already be certain that the Mo Family and Little Sage Village had most likely secretly defected to Han.

Otherwise, they wouldn't dare make a move against a young master of the Great Qin, or the Prime Minister of the Great Qin.

"Your Majesty! This minister guesses that the Mo Family and Little Sage Village have most likely thrown in their lot with the Han Dynasty!"