Chapter 1282: White Horse Dynasty

I didn't expect there to be living beings near our world. Lu Yang changed into the White Horse Dynasty's clothes, hands in his pockets, strolling down the street.

Lu Yang was among the first cultivators to reach the outside world, and no approval process was needed.

Arriving in the outside world, everyone was delighted, flying off in different directions to see what the outside world was really like.

Lu Yang happened to find a nearby star.

"A White Horse Dynasty with a thousand years of history? Interesting."

Lu Yang temporarily named this star the White Horse Star.

After a brief investigation, he roughly figured out the situation of the White Horse Star.

The White Horse Dynasty is the largest country on this star, with surrounding scattered nations either being vassals of the White Horse Dynasty or too far away to have even formed the concept of a state.

Here, spiritual energy is extremely scarce, making it difficult to draw qi into the body, so the people have taken another path, walking a road similar to body refinement—the way of the martial master.

The three strongest martial masters are respectively the martial arts alliance leader, the dynasty's grand general, and the head of the inner palace; they can lift boulders weighing hundreds of jin, and are regarded as deities by the people.

"Their legendary spirit world must refer to our world."

"They must have witnessed the shattered scene of the spiritless land, been frightened badly, and should go see the emperor to explain things clearly, so they won't live in fear."

"Wouldn't it be better to just explain directly to them? Why investigate?" The Immortal Maiden didn't understand.

Lu Yang shook his head: "Since we came with an attitude of exchange, we must respect their customs, learn their history and culture, and only then will communication reduce misunderstandings."

"After all, we now represent the Cultivation Realm; first impressions matter, and we cannot be aloof or overbearing."

The Immortal Maiden gave an oh, still not understanding what Xiao Yangzi was saying.

She pointed toward the palace: "I see they communicate efficiently; I wanted to ask if you could learn from them."

At this moment, the White Horse Dynasty's palace erupted with a terrifying aura.

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White Horse Dynasty court assembly.

After last night's terrifying scene, from the emperor down to the ministers, everyone's hearts were filled with anxiety.

They all wanted to know what exactly happened last night—was it a divine revelation?

They used connections to ask the Imperial Astronomy Bureau, but still got no answer.

"Minister Wang, yesterday the spirit world had an anomaly—what exactly caused it? Is it fortune or misfortune?" This question the emperor had already asked Minister Wang repeatedly last night; Minister Wang could only follow the emperor's wishes and say it was an auspicious omen.

So during the morning court, the emperor had him say it again in front of all civil and military officials.

Minister Wang secretly smiled bitterly, praying it truly was an auspicious omen; if disaster struck immediately, he, as the Minister, would be finished.

All the ministers wanted to hear the Minister's answer.

"Your Majesty..." Minister Wang was about to recite last night's lines when a hearty laugh came from afar.

"That must be a good thing!" Three figures suddenly appeared, floating above the palace, emitting strange light, supremely divine, like legendary deities.

"Protect Your Majesty!"

Seeing this, the head of the inner palace hurriedly brought people to surround the emperor, watching the three figures warily.

Seeing the head of the inner palace, the three figures smiled: "It seems you're the one who can move boulders weighing hundreds of jin—Zhang Longhan, one of the White Horse Dynasty's three great masters?"

"Don't be nervous; we mean no harm."

Seeing everyone still staring at them nervously, not believing their words,

one of them snapped his fingers, and everyone uncontrollably floated up—even Zhang Longhan couldn't resist in the slightest.

His pride, his strength, was nothing but that of an ordinary mortal before these three.

The man snapped his fingers again, and everyone landed safely.

Flying—this is something only immortals can do; no matter how strong a martial master, they cannot fly!

"Let me introduce ourselves: we three are Unity Stage cultivators from the Great Xia. I am Daoist Suihan, founder of the Suihan Sect, a first-rank sect. These two are Daoist Xuan Yi and Daoist Wen Dao."

Originally they had planned to act cautiously, but upon discovering the White Horse Dynasty's existence, they realized they had merely been startled for nothing—here, there was nothing capable of threatening them.

"What happened last night was also unexpected for us; simply put, four great figures broke the world's seal, allowing us to leave our world."

The officials and emperor dared not imagine what kind of beings could be called "great figures" by these three.

"Originally, originally it's like this." The emperor stammered in reply.

Daoist Suihan looked eagerly at the emperor: "Actually, we came this time with a small proposal—I see you have many people in the White Horse Dynasty, surely many with cultivation potential, just lacking spiritual energy."

"Could you not gather all the dynasty's children for us to test their spiritual roots? If they wish to cultivate, they can come to our Suihan Sect to cultivate!"

Although the Suihan Sect is a first-rank sect, it is quite ordinary among first-rank sects; moreover, nearby are the Immortal Gate Prison Sect and the supreme-rank Qi Control Sect, so in recruitment they have no competitiveness whatsoever.

If we take advantage of other powers not yet discovering this place, and lure a few promising seedlings to our sect, that would be the greatest gain of this trip.

Seeing the emperor and ministers dazed, Daoist Xuan Yi sent a mental message to Daoist Suihan: "Big brother, you forgot to mention the benefits."

"Oh right, I got excited and forgot that part."

Daoist Suihan cleared his throat: "After all, organizing children isn't easy for you—let's do this: you tell us what you need, and we'll fulfill it."

"Any request at all?" the emperor asked cautiously, afraid of offending the immortals.

"Could you help us solve the problem of the coastline continually rising?"

"That's nothing—I'll freeze part of the sea later, build an ice continent, and the seawater will naturally recede."

Freezing part of the sea is trivial for Daoist Suihan, not even worth calling a request: "Any other requests?"

"Could you help us deal with the ominous star? The Minister said it's because of the ominous star's existence that our dynasty suffers constant disasters."

"Is the ominous star a star? Where is it?" Daoist Suihan stroked his chin—this was somewhat difficult.

The Minister hurriedly produced the Star Observation Chart, pointing the way for Daoist Suihan.

This was Daoist Suihan's first time seeing the Star Observation Chart; he found it remarkable: "This chart is not bad—could I buy a copy from you?"

They were worried about not knowing the outside roads, when a map was delivered to their door—indeed, doing good deeds brings rewards.

"I'll give it to you, I'll give it to you." The emperor said repeatedly.

The three of Suihan studied it for a long time before they could clearly see the star-watching diagram and the position of the calamity star.

He used the Great and Small Wishes, opening his large hand to lift the palace roof: "The calamity star is in that direction, right?"

At this moment it was early dawn, the sky just lightening, the starry sky still visible, the calamity star twinkling.

Actually this is a normal astronomical phenomenon, only everyone present doesn't understand it.

The Daoist Suihan's natal magic treasure is the ice bow; he drew the ice bow, condensed an ice arrow, and shot it at the calamity star.

Not long after, under everyone's gaze, the calamity star exploded and vanished.

Please... you.... collect 6... 9... books.... please....!

"Not bad, not difficult, settled." Daoist Suihan smiled.

Everyone was frightened into sitting limp on the ground, this, this is what kind of immortal method, drawing the bow to shoot stars, this completely exceeds their cognition, simply witnessing the reenactment of myth with their own eyes.

Suddenly three flood dragons appeared above the palace.

"Dragon! It's a dragon!" a minister shouted, dragons are auspicious omens in their legends.

The three friends of Suihan frowned, they recognized these three dragons, they are from the East Sea Flood Dragon clan, did they also find this place?

"I didn't expect so many mortals here." The leading flood dragon seemed not to see Daoist Suihan, transformed into human form and helped up the Emperor.

"Sorry for frightening you, that was not my intention."

"No, no problem."

"I suppose Daoist Suihan has already told you our situation; I don't know if your land is willing to accept the protection of our Flood Dragon clan?"

"With our protection, we can teach you the methods of longevity and cultivation, as well as many benefits."

The three friends of Suihan frowned: "Accepting protection is another form of territorial expansion; do you want to make the White Horse Dynasty your territory? This is not allowed!"

The flood dragon laughed: "If both parties agree, how could it be impossible?"

"This White Horse Dynasty is not bad, quite suitable for relocating our people here."

Then another three Void Union stage cultivators appeared, emitting a faint chill.

The flood dragon frowned: "Cultivators from the far north?"

They rarely interact with people from the far north.

The three Void Union stage cultivators from the far north came before the Emperor: "Are you the Emperor here? We want to migrate some people to your place."

"Daoist, you have overstepped." The flood dragon warned, the White Horse Dynasty is their territory, how could they allow the far north people to migrate here?

The far north cultivators sneered: "Overstepped? You just said it yourself, mutual consent, what's the problem?"

The palace atmosphere instantly turned icy cold, three factions, nine Void Union stage cultivators all fixed their gaze on the White Horse Dynasty.

"Shall we fight?"

"Who fears whom!"

"Then come on!"

The three factions yielded to none, eyes icy, circulating their profound arts.

The Emperor and his ministers were frightened by this scene into stumbling sideways, panicking and wanting to flee without choosing a path.

"Oh, let me see who wants to fight?"

The youth leaned against the doorframe, half-smiling, staring at the nine Void Union stage cultivators.

"Who!"

Seeing the youth's appearance clearly, the nine Void Union stage cultivators were as if doused with cold water, instantly calming down.

Lu Yang!

Lu Yang helped up the supervisor who had fallen at his feet, smiling as he walked toward the three factions.

"You seniors are quite impressive, forgot the rules?"

"When going out to explore, one should minimize disturbance to living beings on the stars, did you all forget?"

"One came to test spiritual roots, one came to seize land, one came to colonize, all quite capable!"

Facing Lu Yang's reprimand, the nine Void Union stage cultivators lowered their heads, afraid to answer.

In their eyes, Lu Yang now is not just arrogant on the first day, but a genuine Tribulation Transcendence stage cultivator, an existence they dare not provoke.

In the Emperor and his ministers' hearts, Lu Yang gained a layer of mysterious veil.

These nine divine beings possess heaven-reaching abilities, yet before this youth they were frightened into speechlessness.

Who exactly is he?!

"Letting you go out is to let you see what the outside world is like, not to let you show off your might!"

Lu Yang turned his head, just about to comfort the Emperor, saying we seek peace, with me here nothing will happen.

Just then the Emperor respectfully raised the Imperial Jade Seal above his head: "My lord, we, the White Horse Dynasty, are willing to submit to you."

Lu Yang: "..."

No, I didn't come here to do this.

(End of chapter)