"Oh?" A smile finally appeared on Qin Xiao's face. "Please speak, military advisor."
It seemed that only his own people truly understood.
Under his command, specifically within the Northern Liang army, gathered a complete group of monsters!
Qin Xiao sat on the commander's seat.
On his left were three great venomous strategists devising tactics, scheming people to death without a second thought.
On his right were four great generals, possessing the courage to match ten thousand men!
Lu Fengxian and Meng Tian were two of them.
Below them was a group of officers, collectively known as the Thirty-Six Heavenly Spirits Generals and the Seventy-Two Earthly Fiends Generals!
It could be said that Qin Xiao's core team was extremely solid.
Currently, the Great Qin had a shortage of capable personnel, and he was wondering whether he should summon all these core members to the imperial city.
After all, when he first headed to the capital, he had a vague premonition that he would encounter unforeseen dangers.
Thus, he had dismissed most of his core team early on.
Because if these people followed him, it might be a dead end for them.
Qin Xiao had given all his gold, silver, and jewels to his subordinate soldiers, leaving not a single cent for himself.
The officers and soldiers made a promise: if the Great General ever called upon them, they would return and fight to the death in his service.
Jia Xu's eyes were profound. He turned to look toward the south, gently waving the feather fan in his hand, stirring up bursts of cold wind.
"Northern Liang has a million-strong army stationed there, with General Meng Tian holding the fort. Wanting to breach it in a short time is undoubtedly a fool's dream!"
"Furthermore, as soon as the Great Zhou army arrives at Northern Liang, our forces will definitely rush to their aid. It would then become a protracted war, and the Great Zhou would find the losses outweigh the gains."
"However, the Jade Gate Pass on the southern border is different. It is the closest to the Great Zhou, and the stationed troops number no more than two hundred thousand. If the Great Zhou army makes up its mind, they can inevitably breach it in a short time!"
As for the eastern and western territories, Jia Xu did not mention them.
Everyone understood why.
Marching requires supply lines. If the Great Zhou wanted to attack his State of Qin, they could not choose to take a detour.
The closest route was the Jade Gate Pass!
"No! Impossible!"
Cai Kun frowned and retorted.
"The Great General guarding the Jade Gate Pass is the Military Saint, Xiao Xuance!"
"He employs troops with divine skill, single-handedly defending our Great Qin's southern gateway, preventing the Great Zhou from advancing an inch. As long as he is there, it is impossible for our Great Qin to lose the Jade Gate Pass!"
Hearing this, the civil and military officials all nodded subconsciously.
Xiao Xuance was an existence as famous as Qin Xiao.
His momentum even faintly showed a trend of suppressing Qin Xiao.
If one were to ask who among the younger generation in the world could rival Qin Xiao, the Great Qin's Xiao Xuance would be one of them.
He guarded the Jade Gate Pass alone, and with merely two hundred thousand troops, he could fight back and forth with the Great Zhou.
How could it fall?
At this, Jia Xu also fell silent.
Only Qin Xiao had a strange expression, finding it merely amusing.
He had transmigrated into a female-oriented novel. This world was extremely bizarre, and most people were barely normal.
There were male leads, and there were female leads, and there were an exceptional number of them.
This Xiao Xuance was one of them.
Qin Xiao vaguely remembered that Xiao Xuance even romanced a female general of the Great Zhou on the flesh-and-blood-flying battlefield.
Is that something a normal person would do?
Moreover, Xiao Xuance's reputation did not match reality; his unearned fame was just too great, simply outrageous!
Qin Xiao was almost certain that the Great Zhou would absolutely attack the Jade Gate Pass!
"There is no need to argue."
"Send down the order: I shall personally lead the expedition, taking two hundred thousand iron cavalry to the Jade Gate Pass!"
This battle could only be resolved if he, Qin Xiao, took action himself!
Furthermore, this war was a game between two great nations.
Qin Xiao had to fight an extremely brilliant campaign in front of the world's powerful nations!
To make all the nations of the world not dare to underestimate the Great Qin!
Hearing Qin Xiao's command, the civil and military officials were extremely reluctant in their hearts.
After all, Xiao Xuance could resolve this matter, so why must the Emperor personally lead the expedition?
After all, when the Emperor goes to war, if he encounters any mishap, the entire country would suffer tremendous turmoil!
The officials were both worried about Qin Xiao's life and death, and displeased that Qin Xiao did not trust Xiao Xuance.
However, since Qin Xiao's prestige was currently at its peak, they naturally dared not say anything.
"We obey your command!"
The officials took their leave.
Before long, Qin Xiao led the two hundred thousand strong army on his imperial expedition!
And this news quickly resounded throughout the world!
In restaurants, teahouses, and streets and alleys, the crowds were bustling and boiling with excitement.
Everyone was discussing the Emperor's expedition.
Whenever this was mentioned, the old Qin people would feel anger rising from their hearts.
"The Great Zhou is just relying on its strength to bully us! We old Qin people aren't easily frightened! At worst, we'll fight to the death!"
"How long has it been since His Majesty ascended the throne? He has such hot blood! The Son of Heaven guards the nation's gates, and the monarch dies for the state! This is the true character our Great Qin monarch should have!"
"Wait, I just woke up. Do any of you know why the Great Qin is going to war with the powerful Great Zhou?"
A young man who had stayed up late asked, rubbing his sleepy eyes, looking shocked upon hearing the news.
On the second floor of a teahouse sat a group of soldiers, drinking and smiling bitterly.
"The Princess of the Great Zhou, who was also our former Empress, Wu Yan'er, is dead. She was granted death by His Majesty."
"She attempted to use the Great Zhou's name to shelter Qin Yu, that beast who killed his own father and mother, and she even wanted Qin Yu to co-rule as Emperor alongside His Majesty..."
Smack!
Inside the restaurant, the sound of someone slamming a table suddenly exploded.
"Beast! Outrageous!"
"How can our dignified Great Qin suffer such a humiliating insult!"
"His Majesty killed well! A satisfying kill!"
Everyone in the restaurant clapped and cheered.
If a prince in the country plotted to usurp the throne, they might only complain a bit.
After all, whoever was Emperor made little difference.
But once it involved another country, the nature of the matter was different.
Everyone united against the outsiders!
"Ah, right, Sir Soldiers, how do you know this so clearly? Could it be that you are His Majesty's direct troops?"
A young man asked in confusion.
"Why didn't you go on the expedition with His Majesty?"
The soldiers drinking on the second floor paused their movements, shaking their heads with bitter smiles.
"We used to be the rebel army on Qin Yu's side..."
The crowd: "..."
......
Meanwhile.
The various nations of the world also received the news.
They mocked or ridiculed.
All were watching the war as a joke.
Waiting to see how the Great Qin would be destroyed by Wu Zhou.
After all, the Great Qin had only been one of the seven great powers for a very short time.
It was the weakest country among the seven.
Facing a behemoth like Wu Zhou, they only had the option to kneel and surrender.
Qin Xiao personally leading the expedition was nothing but courting death.
Those subordinate vassal states also began to grow restless.
They all stared fixedly at the fat piece of meat that was the Great Qin.
Once the Great Qin was breached, they would immediately dispatch troops to encircle and annihilate the Great Qin!
The territory of a powerful nation was certainly fertile; once swallowed, their national strength would inevitably surge!
Right at this time.
The Empress of Wu Zhou, upon hearing the news of Wu Yan'er's death, flew into a furious rage!
The measly State of Qin dared to kill her daughter?
She issued an order.
An order of annihilation!
This instantly pushed Qin Xiao into the teeth of the storm!
For a time, Qin Xiao became the enemy of the whole world!
.....
Jade Gate Pass.
On the battlefield where flesh and blood flew.
The soldiers of the Great Qin and the Great Zhou were slaughtering each other!
Corpses piled up like mountains, and blood pooled into streams!
In the center of the battlefield.
There was a man and a woman, wearing different sets of armor, standing in opposing camps.
Beside them, soldiers were fighting desperately to the death!
The two turned a blind eye to it all, their eyes tender as water, gazing deeply at each other.
"You came."
"Yes, I came, but you shouldn't have."
"But I missed you. Tossing and turning in the military camp, I yearned for you day and night, wishing I could be by your side every single day!"
"But we are enemies! Our meetings only bring bloodshed!"
"Yes, we are enemies. That is why, just to see you, I did not hesitate to wage war against you once again."
Xiao Xuance gazed affectionately at the female warrior in crimson armor standing before him.
Hidden in his eyes was a cautious, tender love.
Along with a trace of the agonizing pain of star-crossed lovers!
They were supposed to be sworn enemies, yet she was his childhood sweetheart, the woman he loved!
They were forbidden to love, but he couldn't help himself!
"I do not care how many men die in battle, I just wanted to see you!"
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nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
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transmigrates into the world as the sect master of the Heavenly Yan Sect, which is on the verge of being wiped out. He binds a system that grants him cultivation power based on the number of disciples he has: for each disciple, he automatically gains a year's worth of cultivation every single day! Take one disciple: every day he gains 1 year of cultivation power. While others struggle through a year of bitter training, he gets the same just by sleeping through a single night. Take ten disciples: every day he gains 10 years of cultivation power. Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul—he breezes through all bottlenecks without lifting a finger. Take one hundred disciples: every day he gains 100 years of cultivation power. Even a Soul Transformation Venerable before him can’t survive a single blow. Take ten thousand disciples: every day he gains 10,000 years of cultivation power! With a wave of his hand, he topples empires. With a single step, he crushes the sacred grounds of the universe. ... While others fight tooth and nail for secret techniques, Lin Yan casually hands out Nascent Soul-level cultivation manuals as beginner textbooks. While others strain to find talented recruits, Lin Yan opens his doors to anyone—so long as they’re human. In just three short years, the Heavenly Yan Sect went from a backwater sect made up of three crumbling huts to a sacred land that every cultivator under heaven would kill to enter. ... One day, otherworldly demon gods invade, with a million demon soldiers pressing down upon the realm. Lin Yan, yawning, rises from his lounge chair and glances at the system panel: [Current Disciples: 1.28 million] [Daily Cultivation Increase: 1.28 million years] He waves his hand casually, and the countless demon soldiers are reduced to ashes in an instant. “So noisy… interrupting my fishing.”
