Chapter 238: Eternal Battlefield
On July 27, Zhao Cheng was in Ji Prefecture. Although he had already swiftly captured Ji Prefecture’s prefectural city, and temporarily completed control over Ji Prefecture by holding the Yan Family hostage, and moreover completed a relatively peaceful transfer of control through the psychology of fear of retaliation from the Zhen State among the noble families above and below Ji Prefecture. But he simultaneously received news of repeated defeats on the north.
In the prefecture, after receiving the news, Zhao Cheng sighed: “I am not as good as him.”
The so-called “literature has no first, martial arts has no second”: Zhao Cheng’s sentence “I am not as good as him” was more of an admission “beyond war strategy.”
Zhao Cheng became increasingly convinced by Xuan Chong in both speech and heart; of course, he still felt: if “both sides as generals,” Xuan Chong was still a tiny bit short (on the same level), this was his final persistence under the obsession in his heart. In the past, there had been no one whom Zhao Cheng tacitly acknowledged as being on the same level as himself.
And on the “Lord” level, Zhao Cheng now admitted: Xuan Chong surpassed him by too much. Some things in his heart had already been let go.
Two months ago, the entire army above and below, except for Zhao Cheng himself, showed the appearance of arrogant troops before engaging the Zhen State. It could only be said that over the past few years, the Hao Army had been too successful, consecutively capturing multiple prefectures.
Therefore, under the debates of many noble families before the battle, the Chong Land had not yet fought but “showed complete signs of defeat,” destined to follow in the footsteps of the other prefectures.
Here, Zhao Cheng could not help but sigh at Wu Yuanchang’s forbearance; in this era of under heaven where fame, profit, and wealth were restless and chaotic, he could still endure and hold back without unleashing; clearly having the strength to win with strategy, yet hibernating to bear the insults.
Over these years, these newly promoted generals of the Hao Army had been establishing merits within Da Yao territory, yet they had not seen the Chong Lord achieve any accomplishments? Hmm, campaigning south against barbarians did not count as any accomplishment worth proclaiming.
Zhao Cheng knew the situations of his subordinates like Zhen Hao and Wang Yushan.
The preconceived concept in these arrogant soldiers’ minds: as soon as they advanced, Xuan Chong would retreat steadily, falling back to Lingnan. — However, the arrogant soldiers exposed their intentions too obviously, to the point of being predicted right from the start.
Now on this chessboard, aside from his own “general” chess piece that could move around like a “chariot” everywhere; all the other “chess pieces” had been removed.
Especially the northern “Zhen Hao,” who was leading two corps of troops south; he had lost his “horse” and was dragging the remaining “advisors” and “non-commissioned officers” chess pieces south. Zhao Cheng could not help looking at Xuan Chong’s “king” chess piece in Xiang Prefecture, feeling that Xuan Chong’s next move would become “check drawing the chariot.”
Note: Now Zhao City had not yet realized that Zhen Hao had changed; he only saw that after he detached from the operational platform, Wei Heng and Zhao Shanhe, under Zhen Hao’s mobilization, were barely maintaining the situation. Zhao Cheng’s mental power was completely focused on military matters, with no attention to popular sentiment. He had not even noticed some dissatisfaction from the women around him regarding the Ji Prefecture woman he had newly taken.
Zhao Shanhe’s current southward movement was mobilized by Zhen Hao, so tentatively count it as Zhen Hao’s troops. After all, now Bei Xie Jing had been cut off; the masters of Liangtian Pavilion within the Zhen State had activated Mountain River Yao Calculation, generating a “Mountain River Barrier,” which also severed some extraordinary communication methods.
General drawing chariot is a xiangqi term, when checking, one’s own chess piece is just aligned with another chess piece; and at this time, if protecting the old king, the other chess pieces will be captured. At this moment, Zhao Shanhe was precisely this chess piece to be sent forward to be captured.
Zhao Cheng also noticed that on various battlefields, the Chong Army’s “Guiche,” this combat unit marked by Wu Xiao Que, had not yet appeared; War Kui had only appeared on the Northern Front.
Two top units, Xuan Chong was still holding them back! Concentrated together, to be used in the most critical campaign.
…Profound confrontation…
At the northern part of Kuo Tian Ridge, Xuan Chong had already quietly arrived at the northern battlefield; while the staff officers were organizing intelligence on both enemy and friendly sides, Xuan Chong, stealing a moment of leisure, was inspecting a set of armor.
This set of armor was stripped from the bodies of those Dragon Guard killed after the encounter battle between Wen Siting and the Hao Army.
Xuan Chong was holding a piece of scale armor, but in fact, the entire set of armor plates were connected by dense Feng Shui energy links; the scale armor, like dragon scales, performed even better than pure steel plate armor when facing bullet strikes. Plate armor would severely deform when facing projectiles, and when facing armor-piercing arrows, would be pierced through by the long nail-like arrowheads on them.
While the Wu Family Army firearm projectiles hitting such scale armor pieces was just like cannonballs hitting Explosive Reactive Armor. The projectiles merely shattered some armor plates, without damaging the lining, because patterns in the armor plates would generate repulsion; after the projectile impact, the repulsion exploded. — This was the explosive reactive of electromagnetic armor.
Xuan Chong said to the accompanying mechanist Jin Hao, that is, disciple of Gongshu Wang: “Take a look at this.”
Jin Hao inspected it thoroughly back and forth: “Lord, this is the Wu Yun Sect’s artifact refining technique.”
After listening to this mechanist technique practitioner’s explanation of the related artifact refining techniques, Xuan Chong silently nodded.
Xuan Chong sneered: “The armory supply system behind the Hao Army is truly diversified.”
Xuan Chong silently recited in his heart those Immortal Sects already within his territory range; after this battle, It was time to “cut down mountains and destroy temples”—these sects.
Now, although his own corps held an advantage in organization and logistics, in terms of equipment it was actually at a disadvantage. For example, Wang Feihao had a relatively hard time fighting pottery figurines and weapon armor. Traditional sect talents mastered a large amount of alchemy techniques.
And now these equipment were embedded in Zhao Cheng’s core troops, which showed that these sects avoiding the Mortal World were intervening deeper and deeper into the Human Realm.
After Xuan Chong put down the
Wen Siting’s side has successfully arrived at the north of Kuo Tian Ridge, the Chong Army’s side can very easily complete the strategic task of “cutting off Ji Prefecture”,
Next, we must kill the living forces of the Hao State—no! Crush the morale of the old forces under heaven.
…arrived at the campaign node…
Kuo Tian Ridge, Wen Siting’s troop arrived here on July 30th. In the following twenty days, the fortified position that was set up successfully blocked the Hao Army’s plan to exit Bei Xie Jing.
Wen Siting began to find other things to do. As an elder in the Chong Army system, Wen Siting worked hard to keep up with the new era on one hand, yet retained some wild ways on the other. This made the other non-commissioned officers in the military often feel the Southern Border habits.
After he entered the north of Kuo Tian Ridge, stationed the main corps there, and handed the guard duty to Wu Ling, he began to build momentum. Wen Siting arrived in the North, widely distributing hero invitations, and then he followed the local Martial World to find heroes from various quarters.
Wen Siting performed the ritual of beheading a chicken and swearing brotherhood for these heroes who were formerly mountain bandits.
In early August, after Wen Siting sent out the hero invitations, he gathered these local tens of thousands of heroes by offering to provide food and grass as a condition.
With the arrival of mid-August, after August 10th, the two corps of the Chong Army had just arrived and took over the task from Wen Siting of holding Bei Xie Jing.
Wen Siting led troops north. His corps stirred up momentum of over ten thousand people.
Of course, the farmer soldiers didn’t dare to use it; Wen Siting lay prone on the tree, looking out at the farmer soldiers retreating from the front, and shook his head! Clearly, these farmer soldiers had encountered regular troops.
Wen Siting waved his hand, sending Zhang Hai with a five-hundred-man camp team to meet them. Then on the road, the Chong Army encountered the troops that had rushed over to suppress them. After a burst of gunfire, the Chong Army won a great victory.
The defeated rabble troops, without needing Wen Siting to issue the order, automatically pursued the Hao Army.
Wen Siting captured multiple locations in the southern part of Chenzhou within just over ten days; after breaching the cities, he distributed the goods to heroes from multiple routes and packaged the population to take away; to the extent that he formed a salient four hundred li long in that area.
Wen Siting’s “gathering heroes to rise” stirred up massive waves locally.
Of course, the initiator of “Great Wind Rises,” Wen Siting, knew that these local “heroes”—that is, the gang villagers—were all only good at fighting with the wind at their backs. Giving them a Chong Army flag was merely to bolster their courage.
Wen Siting rode on horseback and exchanged fist salutes with the local brothers, going through a round of the customary words “Together we take Qingshan firewood, together we drink Black River water,” before returning to the military tent. After entering the tent and discussing matters with Wu Ling, the martial world air about him immediately vanished, and he reverted to the demeanor of a “system man,” instructing the accompanying deputy officer to report the situation here to the Staff Department.
After the Staff Department received the letter, on August 25th, popular sentiment boiled within Chenzhou, and the big villain (Zhao Shanhe’s troops) began heading south.
Meanwhile, while these heroes alliances were making the most noise, Wen Siting quietly gathered all the troops back and withdrew to the designated garrison position, forming a pincer with the southern troops.
Wen Siting’s approach prompted Xuan Chong to comment: It’s just like a trader who stirs up all the retail investors’ enthusiasm and then quietly withdraws the funds. Very bad, very bad!
Due to the current Heluo Region being easy to attack but hard to defend, Xuan Chong temporarily has no intention of annexing it; moreover, the entrenched structure here is too deep, so Xuan Chong tacitly approves Wen Siting’s methods.
As for the latest generation of non-commissioned officers, they are all a generation grown up in workshop-based cities, decent at meticulous calculations; but when it comes to mingling with the local ruffians full of martial world flair in these rural areas, they really aren’t as good as Wen Siting.
Wen Siting has very high merit in this wave of decisive battle.
…Decisive Battle…
Starting on July 23, Zhao Shanhe was incited by Zhen Hao using a tiger tally and letter, leading thirty thousand regular troops south.
It’s not that his Yuhuazhou only has this many troops, but the roads and food and grass can only supply this many troops to march, and these thirty thousand troops are the elite assembled from two prefectures; it can be said that, aside from these thirty thousand troops, even gathering another hundred thousand or so from the two prefectures afterward would just be weak forces; because the old troops on the battlefield rely on those “daring to charge and kill” backbone elements to lead them.
Zhao Shanhe’s troops moving south through the Heluo Region, advancing haltingly, finally arrived at Chenzhou on August 25.
Thus, under the attack of these thirty thousand troops, the Chong Army that originally occupied southern Heluo retreated steadily.
All three defensive lines were breached. Oh, these defensive lines were all fortified positions built by Wen Siting’s own corps, positioned at key transportation routes.
Their barriers were just piles of rammed earth walls, with shooting holes on top, where heroes and valiant men could retreat to these barriers. But due to the poor discipline and organization of these valiant men, they were soon charged into and hacked down by Hao Army prefectural soldiers carrying sabers, those martial arts experts, and the positions fell just like that.
And upon seeing the beast corps of iron lion monsters and mountain rock monsters that arrived afterward, these Jiangnan experts began “fleeing” south, um, contracting south.
And during the retreat, these scattered Chong Army troops spread rumors in the chaos that “Hao Army less than ten thousand is unbeatable, over ten thousand cannot be opposed.”
Oh, this phrase was shouted by Wen Siting’s inside men among these local rural troops during the rout before total collapse.
And the rural soldiers whose morale was shattered by being hacked by pottery figurines like “giant robots,” still in shock, so when hearing such words, they mindlessly repeated them.
All these things, Wen Siting’s goal is to make the Hao Army drop their guard.
After three battles and three victories, Zhao Shanhe personally interrogated the defeated troops in the camp, then said to his subordinates in the camp: Nothing special. — However, in reality, Zhao Shanhe was luckily persuading himself in his heart that “the Chong Army along this route was very small,” and he had to persuade himself this way.
On August 30, despite news already arriving of Wei Heng and Zhen Hao’s second major defeat in the north.
But at this point, after recapturing the most important economic stronghold in southern Heluo, Zhao Shanhe had already gotten carried away; he held a grand banquet for representatives of the local noble families; thus, the message “When Hao Army arrives, Chong bandits will surely be crushed” spread in all directions.
…Retreat First, Then Annihilate…
Xuan Chong looked at the battle map in the same area as Wen Siting. But compared to the “retrieving right hook” prominently marked on Wen Siting’s camp map, the location marked on Xuan Chong’s map now is the “left hook to the east.”
Wen Si contracted his corps near Bei Xie Jing and prepared the positions;
After the local rebel army he had previously incited was successively routed, Zhao Shanhe’s large army began to become “arrogant troops.”
Wen Siting received news from the general staff that another army would cooperate with him to annihilate Zhao Shanhe’s troops.
On the general staff’s map, Wen Siting’s troops are a “block,” and now there is another “left hook” that has maneuvered even further east than Wen Siting! (Chong Army in the west, east is deep into enemy territory)
This left hook is betting that there are no more heroes in the Hao Army, infiltrating from inside to the rear to cut off Zhao Shanhe’s route.
The leader of this route is Sun Aoling (Chapter 77, same type as Wang Feihao.)
The corps’ long-distance mobile surprise attack of “enter,” “deploy,” “seize” is also routine operation, no need to elaborate.
Xuan Chong: While Zhao Cheng’s cicada sheds its carapace and is blocked by me in Ji Prefecture, Hao State’s strategic decision-making is brain dead, do a few more rounds.
Xuan Chong’s characteristic as a military strategist over these decades is to cower before Zhao Cheng, but strike hard against other underachievers.
…Sparrow to Spread Wings…
Wanmaji, this is a place where north-south merchants pass through, as the name implies, over ten thousand horses pass through each year.
This was a key stronghold that Zhao Cheng required his generals to strictly defend when he was in charge. — Zhao Cheng’s reminder was that if the enemy were Wu Hengyu or other vassal lords, it would still be defendable.
But now the opponent is Xuan Chong, impossible to defend against! — Xuan Chong points a finger, and Wang Feihao’s corps surprise attacks over like flying.
Regarding “defense of key strongholds,” Xuan Chong: To make others take it seriously and responsibly, you have to give them “establishment.” Previously, Xuan Chong gave iron rice bowls to Su Ming, Cai, and Bai, the three generals.
For this point Wanmaji, when Zhao Cheng was around, it could be held for a while, but not forever.
The food and grass stockpiled inside here, under the current circumstances, was taken south by the battle soldiers in the city, leaving only civilian laborers defending it, with vehicles and horses coming and going, sending cartloads of food and grass on “ox-powered wagons” to the south.
The Hao Army garrison inside the city are all old and weak over forty years old, either wounded and recovering from saber and spear injuries on the battlefield; or newly recruited rural braves from the countryside.
On September 1, at Wanmaji’s south gate, the Hao Army officer leaned against the brick wall of the city gate, set his spear aside, and sat on a chair.
With tea water, munching fried rice, just like a security elder on Earth, if he saw someone unpleasant, he would put down the crossbar to block them from entering.
Right now, the gate officer used his spear shaft to block a cart, shouting: “You thief, one look and you’re no good person, open the package for me to inspect!”
The young man stopped wanted to argue, but the leader elder, having seen much, quickly stopped the impulsive young man, smiled obsequiously, walked forward, and took out copper coins.
Instantly “inspection” complete, the blocking spear shaft was lifted, allowing passage.
As the gate officer weighed the coins, listening to the crisp sound, and put the coins into the pouch at his waist; suddenly with a buzz, the ground under his feet shook, he was tossed like a coin in the pouch. And the bricks and tiles on the city battlement creaked.
Only to see, on the left side of the city wall, a massive projectile embedded in the wall. As the projectile fell from the wall crater, bricks and tiles shattered; cracks spread, and bricks at the edges fell like raindrops, “crash” falling down.
While he was dazed, he heard thunder-like cannon fire from afar, looking along the loud cannon sound, on the road two li away, eight massive giant oxen appeared, with heavy cannons carried on the backs of the giant oxen.
Just as those same old and weak on the city wall reacted and prepared to sound the gong for battle; a huge shadow cast from the sky thickened like “dyeing,” more and more concentrated, looking up, massive nine-headed flying birds descended whistling.
The turret with the cannon on the city wall was smashed down just like that, chaos erupted in the city.
The Guiche at ten zhang height landed, its nine heads picking people to bite on the street, some spewing poisonous smoke at the city gate from dozens of zhang away.
And outside the city wall, the golden bulls that had fired a salvo were also advancing in big strides, and when approaching the city wall, the ox horn mechanisms at their heads extended into ten-meter poles, with explosive packages at the top of the poles, the ox horns stabbed into the city wall, with a boom the city wall was “rammed,” um, blasted down.
…Half a shichen later…
Subsequently at the city gate, the gate guard who was pinned under the ruins by bricks and tiles with only half his body exposed felt the sound of a large troop entering the city from the roadside. He raised his head and groaned, wanting to call for help, but the people on these chariots just glanced at him and did not step forward to waste the time it would take to dig him out from the rubble.
The gate guard raised his head and looked behind him, seeing the flags of these troops in distinctly different armor, bearing a “Zhen” character.
This troop, mainly composed of “monstrous beasts” from the air, Giant Soldiers, and war chariots, was Xuan Chong’s “chariot” chess piece. —Compared to the Giant Soldiers and monstrous beasts that moved with the main army, concentrating them for use brought out their excellent marching and assault capabilities, unhindered by slower troop types.
Earlier, when the main army was still there, Xuan Chong would not have dispatched such a force of only a thousand or so men but with terrifying combat strength. Because the “chariot” is not like the “soldier” that fills the lines, but must be prepared far in the rear, waiting for gaps left after the enemy’s mobilization, then suddenly thrusting forward to capture the opponent’s chess pieces.
On this grand chessboard, Xuan Chong’s “chariot” had successfully taken out a “soldier” behind the “Chu River Han Border,” and the next step was to capture the “minister.”
However, it was not over yet; soon after, the Chong Army’s “horse” chess piece also moved.
…Chariot and cannon striking down…
Starting from August 28, Sun Aoling led an army of five thousand on a three-day forced march, finally capturing Wanmaji on September 1.
After receiving Xuan Chong’s mobilization order, Sun Aoling’s Chong Army abandoned unnecessary military supplies and marched a hundred li overnight, directly infiltrating into the interior of Chenzhou.
Wanmaji was a rare point of abundant food and grass in the Later Hao controlled area. Sun Aoling’s corps swiftly seized it, immediately eating their food and drinking their supplies.
Speaking of which, Zhao Cheng’s advisors under him had always wanted to go to Xuan Chong’s territory to live off the land. But now it had backfired, giving the Chong Army the chance to turn the tables and consume their grain.
The more the Hao Army lacked food, the more it lacked strategic mobility, and lacking strategic mobility meant that when forced to attack, their food and grass gathering points became easier for the strategically mobile Chong Army to capture.
The food and grass at Wanmaji were all the life-saving grain that the major noble families of Heluo had monopolized during the current disaster! Now taken by the Chong Army, everyone in Hao State was anxious beyond measure and had no choice but to engage in a strategic decisive battle.
The Chong Army Staff Department had seized upon Wanmaji as the key point. When the Chong Army made this decision, they knew this action would force the Hao Army into a decisive battle. They predicted the Hao Army had not yet made its decision and preemptively made related decisions! —Decision cycles must be fast.
On the Hao Army side, upon hearing Wanmaji had fallen, the troops that had originally been seeking to fight Wen Siting’s troops immediately pulled back from the brink.
Subsequently, another Chong Army cavalry troop arrived at Bao City, which had been ravaged by Wang Yushan and was left with only sixty households. They ate and slept on the spot. The horses were also fed beans.
The Chong Army staff officers immediately began executing the second step of Xuan Chong’s plan.
On September 2, under the scorching sun, the Chong Army cavalry split into two parts, one going south and one north to outflank and capture the key towns of Fan Bridge and “Ludu,” completely cutting off Zhao Shanhe’s other supply lines for food and grass, arrows, and armor.
Zhao Shanhe’s corps of thirty thousand men sent south to support Ji Prefecture was directly sealed off in southern Heluo.
At this point, Zhao Shanhe’s southward Hao Army had only two moves: break north through Sun Aoling’s blockade or break south through Wen Siting’s blockade.
At this moment, Zhao Shanhe had no reinforcements. Because of Zhen Hao’s great deception, there had been a major defeat.
The various prefects and governors suddenly “realized” in their mansions with their advisors: their task was to guard their posts. Even if they had tiger tallies now, they would not obey them.
…Now Wanmaji is the Chong Army’s command post…
With the key points firmly secured, Xuan Chong nodded to the staff officers by the map and sand table: “At this point, the initiative in the battle situation is in my hands. Next, our army must plan steadily to completely shatter the Hao Army’s last bit of morale!”
Xuan Chong raised his head and looked at these talented individuals of Zhen State who had participated in planning this battle in the military camp. Over these past years under Wu Family Army rule, the so-called noble family talents had all run off to attach themselves to Central Plains heroes. These students who had followed him to conquer the world must now charge onto the grand stage under heaven and experience the aura of the world’s heroes.
Heluo is the very center under heaven, and historically, many eternal battlefields have been born here.
If a great annihilation is achieved, it will tell the world: there are still people who haven’t signed up for the contention for supremacy under heaven! Don’t rush to follow the trend and grab tickets on the popular “ships.” Who knows, the hot “ships” might be sunk by an earlier “canoe.”
…Perspective shifts outside the mortal world…
In September, with the “hundred thousand Hao Army completely destroyed” in the mountains and rivers of the north, the first to sense the change in the battle situation were the observing immortal families.
Though these immortal families outwardly avoided the mortal world and did not want to provoke military conquests, in reality they secretly took sides openly and covertly. As soon as the battle situation showed even a slight disadvantage, they would send out low-cultivation disciples—Foundation Establishment Stage or Qi Refining Stage disciples—to enter the world.
But all this could only intervene during gradual changes in the situation; when there was sudden massive auspicious qi flow amid uncertain heavenly mechanism, these immortal families also had no time to alter the situation.
For example, the current situation was just like that; after Xuan Chong placed his “chariot” and “horse,” Ji Prefecture became filled with killing intent.
For instance: In the Hao Army, Wang Yue, a Linjian Sect disciple who had joined as a military master, was discussing “heavenly cycles” and metaphysics with a disciple from a military family noble family also from Ji Prefecture; suddenly his jade pendant at his waist shattered, and amid the stunned gazes of his military friends, he flew off on his sword. But soon after, he fell back down. After leaving the military formation, his spiritual energy was in chaos, and he could no longer control it.
Originally, as a peak Foundation Establishment cultivator, Wang Yue’s cultivator spiritual power was suppressed within the military formation; outside it, free from suppression, he could draw more spiritual energy from heaven and earth. Now it was reversed: he could still control spiritual energy while in the military formation, but once he left, it was as if heaven and earth had become a net.
In Wang Yue’s eyes, the originally elegant surrounding mountains and waters suddenly changed; the peaks’ beauty was gone, leaving only peril; the rivers and streams became erratic, full of hidden currents and killing intent everywhere.
This was the case for disciples in the midst of it, while cultivators at Golden Core and Nascent Soul could sense it even more clearly.
The Wu Yun Immortal Sect sect master, observing from a thousand li away, felt as if pricked by needles and had to retreat several hundred li, exclaiming in great alarm: “Troops connect to calamity knots! This place is about to become a battlefield unseen for millennia.”
And in the major sects of Da Yao and the Sitian Cheng’s Yao calculations, where heavenly mechanism was originally unclear, through “fall
…One calculation…
Far away in the East Sea, the Cixin Sect Sect Master, in the Falling Star Array of the Galaxy Falling Nine Heavens, saw the Yao Calculation result: “When Heaven unleashes its killing intent, stars shift and constellations change!”
Her beautiful face gazed at the stars in the sky. At this time, all the stars in the direction of Da Yao’s Ji Prefecture flickered uncertainly, as if the light was distorted by the hot airflow from a furnace fire. (This is a physical phenomenon where consciousness fluctuations affect light propagation)
…Two Calculations…
Yao Capital, eight Heavenly Palaces drifted back like abandoned tomb districts with clusters of lights floating. (Ghosts will return home on the seventh day to take a look, unfixed Palaces will naturally also drift back)
Among them, the heavenly book stone tablets erected in each palace displayed runes that changed, these Yao Calculation runes showing the situation of mountains and rivers in various places.
The grandmaster of Linghua Sect looked at the results of the Yao Calculation and remained silent for a long time. The censor beside him urged, but to no avail; while the disciple nearby said in a low voice: “When the earth releases its killing intent, dragons and serpents rise from the land.”
Because on the Map of Mountains and Rivers, the dragon-like earth veins are now beginning to twist. (This is caused by consciousness affecting the distribution of material gravity on the planet. Evil Moon projects information to interfere with the human path, which will cause the gravity of certain mountains and rivers to be completely isolated.)
…Three Calculations…
Within the Qingyuan Sect sect grounds, the sect grounds were recruiting entry-level disciples.
One hundred disciples who met the qualifications were listening to the lecture below; while the Sect Master, as usual, was performing Yao Calculation on “fortune and misfortune”. However, today, he couldn’t help but open his eyes, because this time, the disciples summoned into the sect all seemed to have three parts less auspicious qi in their facial features.
Then he landed and carefully examined a disciple’s facial features; these facial features all showed “family members suffer calamity” and “frustrated ambitions”.
As he calculated, this Sect Master became dizzy and fell onto the meditation cushion. After a long while, he said, “When people unleash killing intent, Heaven and Earth overturn!”
Narration: In this world, everyone’s consciousness is interconnected; when family members are about to suffer calamity, there will be hidden worries in their hearts, leading to clenched hands, furrowed brows, and changes in palm lines and facial features.
Many of the new disciples recruited by Qingyuan Sect were children from noble families in the south of Da Yao. These noble families all cultivated “righteous methods and Righteous Path,” and currently few were betting on Zhen State led by Xuan Chong.
Meanwhile, the public sentiment that Xuan Chong had nurtured by connecting with the people over these years was about to erupt. Many families that had enjoyed wealth and honor since the founding of Da Yao were about to decline, while poor families and even vagrants with great military merit rose—wouldn’t that mean “Heaven and Earth overturning”?
Since ancient times, among those who entered the Dao through military strategy, none had influenced Under Heaven more than those who created the “eternal battlefield of a thousand ages”.
…Perspective returns to the tent under the Military Strategist’s calculations…
Meanwhile, Xuan Chong here had no idea what enormous impact his actions had on the Cultivation World. Xuan Chong: The Immortal Sects do not think of me, so why should I care about immortals?
Whether it was Wu Hanluan cutting off Xuan Chong’s immortal path in his youth on the grounds of “strong birth chart, suited for the battlefield”; or the “history teacher” system that Xuan Chong inherently possessed insisting on materialism; in short, he was destined to have no affinity with the Immortal Path.
