Chapter 180: Attacking the East Shanyue

Brother Shamoli raised his head and walked out of the courtyard, but he didn't see his large group of beautiful wives and concubines. The courtyard was empty, with a few leaves drooping on the ground. Only a middle-aged man stood in the courtyard, leaning against the stone room and watching him quietly.

"I am Chen Donghe. I have met the Great King and congratulate the Great King on breaking through to Qi Refining."

"I have met the fellow Daoist."

Chen Donghe ignored him, bowed respectfully, and said in a deep voice:

"Second Uncle, this person is Brother Shamoli."

Brother Shamoli was slightly stunned. Only then did he realize that there was one more person in front of him, which made him break out in a cold sweat, secretly horrified.

This person was simply dressed in a gray robe, with long, slow eyebrows and a heroic demeanor. He carried a sword on his back, wrapped tightly in cloth, and another sword hung at his waist, which was quite peculiar. His cultivation was already at the ninth layer of Qi Refining.

"Brother Shamoli... has met the... Senior."

Brother Shamoli knew that this person was the Li family ancestor, Li Li Tongya. For a time, he knelt on one knee on the ground, cupping his fists and not daring to speak, his heart filled with anxiety.

Li Li Tongya looked at him and said softly:

"Condense your true essence and show me."

Looking at the secret thunder true essence in Brother Shamoli's palm, Li Li Tongya nodded slightly. This "Purple Thunder Secret Yuan Technique" was truly unusual, with great power and rare thunderous power. No wonder the Brother Xuan-Yin Thunder Liquid it required was so difficult to collect. If Brother Shamoli had used pure heaven and earth spiritual energy to reach Qi Refining, he would mostly be considered a strong person among the early Qi Refining stage.

Li Li Tongya looked Brother Shamoli up and down with his spiritual sense, and only then spoke:

"Get up, I will send you back to the East Shanyue to be your Great King."

Although Brother Shamoli had been prepared for a long time, he was still excited when he heard this. He kowtowed several times on the ground, saying words of gratitude. When he raised his head, Li Li Tongya's figure was already gone.

Before Brother Shamoli could react, several people walked into the courtyard quickly. They stripped him of his Easterner clothing and put on various specifications of animal bones and jade stones for him. The hair crown that Brother Shamoli had learned to coil up like an Easterner was also taken off, and the jade hairpin was pulled out. His long hair immediately scattered, and he had the look of a East Shanyue person.

"This..."

Brother Shamoli was made itchy by his long hair. Having stayed in the Easterner's territory for too long, he had already secretly despised this disheveled look. At the moment, he was embarrassed and laughed foolishly.

After changing his clothes and accessories, he was invited out of the courtyard. Brother Shamoli saw a ground full of East Shanyue people kneeling on the steps in front of him. It was a team prepared for him by the Li family. More than a dozen of them were playmates who had been on the Easterner side for the past few years. He hurriedly walked down quickly and shouted:

"You are all my backbone, please get up quickly!"

Brother Shamoli said this, but it didn't sound like what a East Shanyue Great King should say at all. Everyone stood up with strange expressions. Only then did Brother Shamoli walk through the crowd happily, stepped on the wooden footstool, and boarded the carriage pulled by two large horses.

"Clatter..."

Brother Shamoli's flag was raised, and surrounded by troops, he walked toward the outside of the town in a grand manner.

Brother Shamoli lay in the spacious carriage, listening to the clanging of weapons and footsteps, repeatedly stroking the comfortable material, picking up a fruit and putting it into his mouth, a smile hooking at the corner of his mouth.

Unexpectedly, the curtain was lifted with a clatter, and an old man with white hair and beard and a face full of flesh walked in. His two round, staring eyes stared straight at him, scaring Brother Shamoli into choking. He hurriedly straightened his body and pretended to be dignified:

"Who are you?"

The old man had the cultivation of the peak of the Fetal Breath stage, dressed in Easterner clothing, with white whiskers sticking up, and the flesh on his face relaxed. He said with an old demeanor:

"To let the Great King know, I am the East Shanyue tribesman who occupied the land of the Eastern East Shanyue back then. I was defeated by Gani-Xi's eastward advance, took refuge with the Easterners, and followed Lord Li Xiangping in and out of the East Shanyue land seven times, with many meritorious deeds. It has been twenty-one years now."

"Gani-Xi's opponent?!"

Brother Shamoli was really startled when he saw this person's tone was so arrogant. You must know that a figure of Gani-Xi's level could be called the Lord of Destiny in the East Shanyue. His father was only a general under Gani-Xi back then. He immediately became respectful and said respectfully:

"May I ask the Senior's name?"

"Ahuila!"

The old man grinned, revealing a mouthful of yellow teeth. His two eyes looked at Brother Shamoli's face and he slowly opened his mouth:

"I am untalented, and I am the Great Wizard of the Great King, in charge of hunting, witch medicine, planting, and other families."

Brother Shamoli immediately stiffened. The status of the Great Wizard in the East Shanyue was like a Deputy King. His own king position hadn't even sat down yet, and the Li family had already arranged everything for him, which made him very embarrassed, but he didn't dare to show it. He piled up a smiling face and said:

"Please help me a lot in the future, Wizard!"

"That is natural."

Brother Shamoli looked at Ahuila's clean appearance with his hair coiled up, moving around uncomfortably all over his body, and finally couldn't help but coil his hair, picked up a jade chopstick on the table to fix his hair, and only then breathed a sigh of relief, laughing:

"I really can't stand this barbaric look."

Ahuila laughed, raised his head quite proudly, and said solemnly:

"Easterner etiquette is complicated, and the Great King has a lot to learn!"

"Exactly!"

Brother Shamoli nodded solemnly.

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"Brother, have you thought of a way to rule this East Shanyue land?"

Li Li Yuanjiao stood on the swaying carriage, looking toward the rugged mountain road in the distance. The carriage he and Li Yuanshu were riding was different from Brother Shamoli's; it was a chariot used for charging, with a wide field of vision, and the cold wind blew on their faces. Fortunately, both of them were immortal cultivators of the second layer of Fetal Breath, so they didn't feel any cold.

"Hmm."

Li Yuanshu nodded slightly, rested his arm on the support on the side, and said softly:

"The East Shanyue people are under Brother Shamoli's control. We stand behind the scenes, govern the country according to the usual process, and all positions involving the immortal path are controlled by our people. When we take down the Eastern East Shanyue, we will immediately measure the land and calculate the spiritual fields."

"These spiritual fields and spiritual objects naturally belong to my Li family, and my Li family will send people to plant and harvest... The Eastern East Shanyue territory is very large, and I fear there are many spiritual fields."

Li Li Yuanjiao nodded and said in a low voice:

"I fear our family's cultivators are not enough. At that time, we can only pick fertile spiritual fields to plant first."

Li Yuanshu smiled, looked at Brother Shamoli's carriage in front, and replied:

"There are more than 200,000 people in the Eastern East Shanyue. How many Fetal Breath cultivators can be supported? Although these people cannot fight on the field, it is no problem to plant spiritual fields. Even if these East Shanyue people are not good at farming, if they are sent to the east to live for a few years, they will naturally learn it eagerly."

The brothers looked at each other and smiled. Over the years, they had seen too many East Shanyue people coming from the east, influenced by the luxurious and exquisite life in the east, spontaneously putting on robes, wearing hair crowns, and speaking fluent official language, even more despising the East Shanyue than the native Easterners. Naturally, they had sufficient confidence in changing these people.

"When the barbarians enter our Easterners, they will change their customs to become Easterners!"

Li Yuanshu laughed, patted the long sword in his hand, and said in a low voice:

"What is harder to get is more precious. When we control the Eastern East Shanyue, we will strictly restrict the eastward movement of the East Shanyue, so that those East Shanyue nobles have to smash their pots and sell iron to be able to go east to see. There will be a top-down worship of the east among the East Shanyue. In less than twenty years, they will be no different from Easterners!"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 184 =====