Shocking the World
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There are four major powers in the world today. The Central Plains, which is based on the original Sima Qing and the Young Emperor inherited by Li Wuxian, has focused its main strategy in the past few years on heading east to the East China Sea.
In the past few years, it has swept away all rivals and has grown from a single Capital Region in the capital region into a behemoth, basically inheriting the main territories of the original Great Qian Dynasty.
In the southeast, southwest, and northwest, there is a powerful separatist force. The southeast is in a state of partial peace and no longer affects the overall situation. The two relatively strong forces in the southwest and northwest have been locked in a tug-of-war.
This King Anling represents the southwestern power.
There are also many other small factions in various nooks and crannies, basically just playing around, mostly taking a wait-and-see attitude, waiting to see who has the upper hand and then selling at the best price.
The Lihuo Army breached the capital of the King Anling.
For over a year, the main force of the King Anling was locked in a stalemate with the Da Qian Army at a formidable pass called Tian Yong Pass. The pass seemed within reach, so the King Anling kept reinforcing his troops, leaving his rear increasingly vulnerable.
No one could have imagined that, in the midst of the stalemate, the Nanli Army, which was previously considered to have no presence due to the remote and impoverished mountains and rivers, would suddenly appear as if descending from the heavens, crossing towering mountains and appearing in the far southwestern hinterland of the Great Qian Dynasty.
The Southern Li no more than ten thousand, but that was enough.
It's somewhat reminiscent of Deng Ai, but the exaggerated part is that this isn't some Yinping Path like Yinping Pass; it's a sudden appearance from the desolate, rugged mountains of the southernmost part of the mainland into the heart of the southwestern part of the Great Qian Dynasty. Analogous to advancing directly from Jiaozhi into Shuzhong, even Deng Ai would be completely bewildered...
Even more outrageous is the presence of large siege engines. These engines shattered several cities along the way before finally reaching the capital. It's truly baffling how these incredibly difficult-to-transport machines came to be.
Qin Yi felt that this must have involved the use of some immortal Technique Method. With the full support of Hidden Dragon Temple Li Wuxian should have been able to manage such a troop transport, albeit with some difficulty.
This kind of army couldn't be moved all at once by the limited capabilities of Hidden Dragon Temple; it would have to be moved in batches, and it might have taken more than half a year to build. Such a long period and such a large-scale operation would have made secrecy extremely difficult, and how supplies were maintained remains a mystery. Even in hindsight, it's unclear how things were handled. It's no wonder that the fat King Anling was destroyed.
Perhaps the constant attempts to convince King Anling that Tian Yong Pass offered hope of breaching it, leading to the continuous redeployment of his trusted troops, were all part of a carefully orchestrated scheme. Like a patient hunter, he meticulously planned for over a year, only to have his forces arrive at the perfect moment.
In short, Qin Yi didn't know exactly how his little apprentice had done it, nor did he ask Xie Yuan for details.
He was not an expert in human affairs, politics, or warfare, so asking him would be pointless.
With the capture of the King Anling, the entire separatist forces in the west were pacified, and the King Anling's army, which had been fighting against the Da Qian Army at Tian Yong Pass, surrendered completely.
This was originally a civil war within the Great Qian Dynasty. With the capital falling, the aristocratic Aristocratic Clan and gentry opened their gates to welcome the new ruler, and the change of allegiance from top to bottom was a natural progression. The armies outside didn't have any subjects willing to fight to the death; the leading generals, upon receiving their Lineage' orders to surrender, changed their flags and became part of the Da Qian Army —the kind that could be directly deployed to fight other forces...
Within days, the largest separatist warlord in the southwest was quelled, and the fertile land of the southwest changed hands.
It was only at this point that the news reached the ears of other separatist forces.
Truly... Shocking the World!
Almost all forces were caught off guard.
Because no one could have imagined that the Southern Li, a force that had been far from the emperor's reach for a thousand years and had no connection whatsoever with the wars in the Central Lands, would suddenly appear out of nowhere and become the sharpest blade to break the stalemate.
This is a blind spot in thinking; you could say that empiricism is deadly.
It was only at this moment that people remembered that the thirteen-year-old "Nanli King" on the throne was not just a title, but the real king of a country called Southern Li that had existed for a thousand years!
She has a truly loyal elite force, and even the support of the people of an entire nation. Without such a puppet, no one would dare to allow such a puppet to truly mobilize her army.
The actions of the Nanli Army prove that all of this was Li Wuxian's own arrangement, and the entire world situation revolved around her from beginning to end.
This little girl, who had been hiding deep within the Great Qian Palace, finally revealed her true colors.
Not to mention how shocked others were, even Qin Yi, her master, was speechless, unsure of what to say.
Qin Yi did not stay in the southwest.
Xie Yuan was busy pacifying the southwest, sending proclamations to the world, and consolidating the situation, so Qin Yi took his leave and flew directly to Dragon Abyss City.
He flew north, glancing down at the ground as if watching a slideshow.
The numerous warlords, large and small, who once dominated this area have long been eliminated, and it is now entirely within Li Wuxian's sphere of influence. Everywhere, production is being restored, with farmers encouraged to cultivate crops and sericulture. The land has returned to peace and tranquility, a far cry from the chaos and turmoil seen when we left the rift valley last time.
As autumn arrives, golden rice paddies can be seen everywhere, and people are harvesting, indicating that production has been stable for a long time and is not just beginning.
Occasionally, one could see government troops suppressing bandits, but the bandits were scattered and insignificant.
The Great Qian Dynasty is clearly showing signs of great order, which is an inevitable result of the transition from chaos to order.
Since the uprising at Great Joy Temple, the Great Qian Dynasty has been in turmoil for ten years, leaving the land riddled with holes and in dire need of restoration. The people yearn for stability, and the cyclical law of reunification after a long period of division has finally arrived.
After pacifying the southwest, Li Wuxian controlled two-thirds of the country, and his momentum toward unification was unstoppable.
As Xie Yuan said, this is an irreversible trend that cannot be reversed by human effort.
Unless the immortals intervene.
Qin Yi now naturally knew that even immortals were not omnipotent. Unless immortals like Wuxiang Taiqing, whom he currently could not comprehend, intervened, based on his current understanding of immortal abilities, Qian Yuan could not possibly reverse the fate of the world, cast spells to alter the National Luck, or affect billions of people. Qian Yuan did not possess such capabilities.
All that can be done is through violence, such as killing Li Wuxian, leveling Dragon Abyss City, or directly annihilating the army. In that case, the situation would naturally change. These are violent means, not some kind of magical trick.
In this situation, the true magic of the immortals lay in Meng Qingying's act of seizing the National Luck to create a puppet, and then sharing a portion of it with Li Wuxian. After that, Li Wuxian gathered the Mountain and River Dragon Qi, and had already developed the aura of a human ruler, making him unshakeable by any Immortal Method.
Trying to sway others with tactics is folly, and may even backfire.
They probably wouldn't even dare to use violence.
This powerful force of the earth's revival, if forcibly broken now, would create further unforeseen changes, and the terrifying karmic consequences would be unbearable for anyone. This is the destiny of the Human Emperor, not some ethereal or indistinguishable thing, but a factual rule based on the wishes of all living beings.
Qin Yi looked north towards Longyuan.
Even with his completely unknown aura-observation technique, he could vaguely see a giant dragon image, even larger than the Star Dragon Meng Qingying had acquired, hovering in the sky, soaring through the universe, and guarding the mountains and rivers.
P. S.: Sorry, I'm having writer's block. I couldn't write anything all night, so today's bonus chapter will be delayed. Let me catch my breath and organize my thoughts; I'll add it tomorrow. Also, chapter 344, which I've been in prison for a long time, has finally been released. Those who didn't subscribe before, please do so to make up for it.