Qu Three Billion

When Qu Heng spent a lot of money to buy all kinds of weapons, he probably never thought that the strength of a sect depends not only on whether it has Supreme Dao Arts and Peerless Divine Abilities, but also on its sect system, promotion system, distribution system, sect ideology, and the Mental Power of its people.

Just like on Earth, having Nuclear Bomb makes you a major power. But if everyone has Nuclear Bomb, then the competition will be about things like systems, technological strength, education levels, culture and economy, population quality, and many other aspects.

Qu Heng didn't understand economics; in fact, the concept of economics didn't even exist in his mind. He only had a simple understanding: you have to pay money to buy things.

War requires weapons, so it's only natural to pay for them!

Anyway, the money belongs to the sect, not to me.

Besides, Taiheng Sect has no new disciples, wouldn't it be perfect to use the saved money to buy weapons?

However, he didn't calculate when he bought the weapons that the number of new students at the Ascension Academy each year was only forty to fifty thousand, and only one or two thousand could enter the Taiheng Sect.

The cost of purchasing cannons and tanks for the 300 million disciples far exceeds the cost of purchasing new disciples for Taiheng.

These two sums of money are actually not equal!

Naturally, no one considered the chain reaction that would follow after spending this money.

First, Qu Heng not only needs to allocate the money that should be distributed to the newborn children of Taiheng, but also a portion of the money that was originally intended for the major Aristocratic Clan.

This part has been approved by the Elder Council, so it certainly can't be paid for by a major Aristocratic Clan.

Even Aristocratic Clan below the ninth rank couldn't afford that much money, so it must have been transferred to the forty-five million ninth-rank Aristocratic Clan.

As a result, the heads of the Ninth-Rank Noble Families and even the young members of these Aristocratic Clan suddenly discovered that Taiheng not only needed them to send troops to fight, but also that the sect benefits that should have been allocated to them were reduced!

Logically speaking, since some members of these Aristocratic Clan went to war, it would be just right for their welfare to be reduced. However, this is only "just right" in terms of distribution.

From a human perspective, our Lineage contributed manpower and resources to help fight the war, even sending our own sons and daughters out, knowing they might die on the battlefield at any moment.

Not only do you not compensate us or give us more, but you also withhold the benefits we are entitled to. Who can stand that?

Yes, you published your reasons on the Taiheng website, but does issuing a notice give you the right to exploit us?

The attitudes of the Ninth-Rank Noble Families were quickly reflected on the front lines.

After all, everyone has a mobile phone these days. This was Qu Heng's first time leading troops into battle, and he didn't know that soldiers should have their mobile phones confiscated. Naturally, he didn't sever the connection between these Ninth-Rank Noble Families scions and the rear.

I'm fighting on the front lines, but my Fang Family isn't getting any benefits; in fact, they're being oppressed. And you expect me to risk my life for you?

You must be joking!

I don't have the guts to disobey orders on the battlefield, but I can slack off and take a break, right?

Make them hesitate when attacking, fire bullets into the air when shooting, dawdle when advancing, and move swiftly when retreating.

The soldiers' slacking off increased logistical pressure. After all, if the gunners couldn't penetrate the defenses, they had to use artillery. The more artillery was used, the more ammunition was consumed.

Qu Heng continued to extract benefits from the Ninth-Rank Noble Families, further exploiting them and causing the soldiers at the Ninth-Rank Noble Families lines to become even more hesitant to advance.

Qu Heng's original plan was to use an army of 300 million to quickly annihilate Eastern Victory, and then move on to Northern Plains and Western Splendor to completely wipe out the three rebel armies.

Zhuge Liang conquered the Qin, Tang, and Ming dynasties in a total of no more than six months.

My soldiers are far superior in quality and strength to Zhuge Liang 'Zhuge Liang. Although the area I have to fight over is much larger, my opponents are not as formidable as Zhuge Liang's.

Three months to complete the entire map, that's not unreasonable, is it?

But the truth is, after a month of fighting, they've only just broken into the Eastern Victory line.

The Eastern Victory rebels worked together to build a second line of defense in the rear. The Tai Heng Army fought for another half a month, often advancing during the day only to be forced back at night. The battle line did not move for half a month!

"What's going on? Why?" Qu Heng woke up from his seclusion.

That's right, he also took a short break while commanding the battle.

Cultivating immortality, it's normal to occasionally have insights.

It didn't take long, only twenty-one days. When the results came out, we found that we were still in the same place as we were twenty-one Heavenly Queen ago.

"Sect Leader, the rebel army on the other side is like groundhogs, they never fight us head-on. They either defend their fortified cities or hide somewhere and then sneak up on us at night!" This was Qu Liang, a member of the Qu Family, who was now serving as a military advisor and responsible for relaying Qu Heng's orders.

"Such a thing happened?" Qu Heng exclaimed in surprise, "The Taiheng Army isn't blind at night, how could they be ambushed?"

How could a cultivator, who can see all night and doesn't need to sleep, be ambushed?

This is outrageous!

"They seem to possess a Divine Ability to block vision, something called the Night Walking Technique, which is especially effective at night!" Qu Liang said.

Qu Heng thought for a moment; he had never heard of this Divine Ability before.

"Who are the rebels on the other side?" Qu Heng asked.

"It's all sorts of forces, including Konoha, Iwagakure, Kumogakure, Kirigakure, Iwagakure, Sunagakure, the Marines, the Demon Slayer Corps, the Freedom Legion, and a whole bunch of other things," Qu Liang said.

"Very strong?" Qu Heng asked.

"They're not that strong, but there are some top-tier experts who are very difficult to deal with!" Qu Liang said, "For example, Pain, Uchiha Madara, Senju Hashirama, Sengoku, Garp, A, Mei Terumi, and there's also a guy named Tsugikuni Yoriichi who's especially powerful. He's young but has already reached the Qi Refining Eighth Layer, and none of us on our side can match him!"

"Is that so?" Qu Heng was taken aback, then remembered.

His Tai Heng Army recruited members from Ninth-Rank Noble Families, whose highest cultivation level was only the Qi Refining Eighth Layer Ninth-Rank Noble Families Refining Divine Aspect Realm.

It is important to note that the Three Tribulations Realm is not a separate realm; it is also classified within the Divine Aspect Realm and is a tribulation that occurs after reaching the Great Perfection of the Divine Aspect Realm.

Even the most powerful cultivators from the Ninth-Rank Noble Families are only at the Qi Refining Eighth Layer. These cultivators certainly can't come when Taiheng recruits soldiers.

Those who came were naturally cultivators at or below the seventh level of Qi Refining.

In that case, if I don't take action myself, there really isn't anyone who can do anything to that Tsugikuni Yoriichi.

"Eastern Victory actually has such a genius?" Qu Heng felt it was somewhat unbelievable. It had only been 16 years since Zhang Jiao began teaching, and yet someone had already cultivated to the Qi Refining Eighth Layer!

Even Taiheng has never seen anything this abnormal!

It's important to understand that not everyone is like Yang Ning, who can master Peerless Divine Abilities at a glance.

Ordinary people's souls simply cannot withstand a few Daoist texts; they must cultivate one word at a time, sentence by sentence.

Even powerful Aristocratic Clan don't have a good way to speed this up!

"Only through universal cultivation, among billions of people, could such a genius emerge!" Qu Heng sighed, then asked, "Since this person is so powerful, why didn't he unify Dong Eastern Victory, but instead still possess so much power?"

With Tsugikuni Yoriichi Tsugikuni's power, who in Konoha or the Marines could defeat him?

"Oh, because the faction he belongs to is too weak; they only have a dozen or so capable fighters," Qu Liang said. "Those like Konoha and the Navy have armies numbering in the hundreds of thousands."

Qu Heng nodded, indicating that he had gained some understanding of his opponent.

He hadn't really studied his opponent beforehand; with an army of 300 million, he figured he could just sweep them aside.

He felt that the reason why the progress had not been smooth over the past 21 days was because he had not participated in the command. When he was in command before, the battle went very smoothly!

He first transferred five Qi Refining Eighth Layer from his Lineage to kill Tsugikuni Yoriichi. He didn't want to play the game of evenly matched opponents; since he had an opponent, he would go all out to kill him.

He actually wanted to train Qi Refining Ninth Layer disciples, but given the large number of people shooting from the shadows on the battlefield, the Qi Refining Ninth Level disciples refused to come, citing their unwillingness to bully the weak. Instead, he assigned five Qi Refining Eighth Layer disciples who had no rights to him.

They are all members of the Lineage; their fathers or mothers might be his Qu Heng, granddaughters, or great-granddaughters.

He couldn't say anything, anyway, five Qi Refining Eighth Layer were enough.

The 300 million-strong army was divided into forty divisions, each attacking one of the forty forces.

He wasn't unaware of the need to focus on one point, but these scions of the Aristocratic Clan all had their own conflicts, and he didn't know how to reconcile them.

We've been playing this way before, and since there haven't been any problems, let's continue playing this way.

This move didn't cause much of a stir online. After all, not many people have commanded large armies in battle, although many ordinary people have watched the entire Great Xia unification war. But how could they dare to criticize the leader of the Taiheng Sect?

Inside the Spirit Realm, however, many civil and military officials burst into laughter.

"Those who eat meat are base and incapable of long-term planning; this is indeed true!" Cao Gui remarked first.

Many civil and military officials from the Spring and Autumn Period nodded in agreement. Warfare at that time was still very primitive, and the population and available soldiers were both small.

Therefore, although there was still more learning to do, they were still eliminated in the first wave by those abnormally strong men when they arrived in the Spirit Realm.

However, this doesn't stop them from making empty threats.

"Indeed!" Sun Wu Tzu, who wrote the Art of War, nodded. "The art of war dictates that if you have ten times the enemy's strength, surround them; if you have five times, attack them; if you have twice, divide them; if you are equal in strength, fight them; if you are fewer in number, flee from them; if you are weaker, avoid them. With three hundred million against twenty million, although we have superior numbers, the morale is different now than it was a month ago. How can we possibly divide and attack them?"

The others nodded in agreement.

If this had happened a month ago, there would have been no problem with you doing this. You had more troops, and the Tai Heng Army had just been formed and was in high spirits.

But what's the situation now? Your soldiers all know that something happened at home, they've been slacking off for more than twenty days, and their morale has dropped to a certain level!

On the contrary, the opposing side was not only fighting a defensive battle, but was also being suppressed for more than 20 days, and was feeling extremely frustrated.

In short, they are a desperate army!

However, it cannot be said that victory is guaranteed. After all, the rebel army in Eastern Victory is mostly composed of characters from Japanese anime. As we all know, their major battles are often village skirmishes. Once the number of people reaches tens of thousands, strategic command will become problematic.

For example, the Summit War was like a mentally challenged Warring States period, and during the five villages' melee and the fourth war, 100,000 ninjas were just there for show.

The scene shifts, and we are now on the Eastern Victory side.

Although there are more than forty factions in this area, with a powerful enemy nearby, a joint command center has been established.

The ministers are composed of the heads of various departments, but they are all powerful and will participate in the war. The real decision-makers are the staff composed of wise men from various factions.

For example, Nara Shikahisa, Shikamaru Nara, Orochimaru, Samui, Tsuru, Nicole Robin, Aizen, Light Yagami, L, Conan.

Before them was a huge map, showing the 19 million square kilometers of land in Eastern Victory.

At this moment, at the bottom of the map, there are two parallel lines, one blue and one red, representing the two opposing sides.

Behind the line, there are densely packed red and blue dots of varying sizes, corresponding to the number of troops deployed by both sides.

This shows that although the Eastern Victory Army was at a disadvantage in terms of the overall situation, it actually had an advantage in terms of intelligence.

People in the small world do indeed value intelligence. Whether it's the military or business, sending spies is a routine operation.

"The number of pills and shells procured by the Tai Heng Army has suddenly increased by 427%. I heard that Qu Heng has also emerged from seclusion. It seems they are about to launch a general offensive against us!" Mikoto Misaka was operating the computer. Among everyone present, she was the most skilled at this.

"The Tai Heng Army, with 300 million troops, attacked Eastern Victory, but was blocked at the border for a month and a half. They should be getting impatient!" He said. "However, judging from their posture, they still intend to divide their forces?"

"That's a bit disrespectful!" Aizen adjusted his glasses. From a supervillain to a strategist for the Eastern Victory Army, he was as terrifying as an opponent and as reassuring as a teammate. "But that's precisely our strategy, which led them to underestimate us and act rashly!"

Nara Shikahisa nodded.

Although they failed to defend in the first battle, they only lost some cities and did not suffer much loss in terms of Eastern Victory.

The reason for this is that it is a strategy to make the troops arrogant.

Let them gain an early advantage, and the opponent will naturally underestimate them, then act rashly and expose their weaknesses.

If you underestimate your opponent and then give up, the decline in combat effectiveness will be even more severe.

Of course, the most important point is to strengthen Qu Heng's confidence and make him believe that dividing the army into forty routes is the right thing to do.

Fighting 300 million with 20 million is suicidal, but if the 300 million is divided into 40 parts, each part would only be 7.5 million.

A 20 million bet against a 7.5 million bet is a huge advantage!

As for which 7.5 million to spend, is there even a question?

"Whoosh!" More than a dozen sharp Sword Qi suddenly struck the five Qi Refining Eighth Layer cultivators who were besieging Tsugikuni Yoriichi.

The five quickly dodged, then looked cautiously at the newcomer. "Another expert?"

"Of course!" The newcomer had a ponytail and wore a T-shirt tied at the waist, revealing her fair abdomen.

Her lower body was clad in jeans, one leg longer than the other, revealing her straight and slender thighs.

In the world of A Certain Magical Index, there is a genius girl who reached the Saint level at the young age of 18: Kanzaki Kaori!

She's definitely not the strongest in the A Certain Magical Index world, but she's incredibly popular and has fair legs, so Yang Ning gives her a lot of attention.

My current cultivation level is also at the Qi Refining Eighth Layer!

"And me!" She had long, dark hair tied in a ponytail, wore a purple kimono, had purple eyes, and a beauty mark at the corner of her eye.

The girl also held a naginata as tall as herself, named Inazuma.

Raiden Shogun!

Two more footsteps sounded, but this time no one spoke.

The five turned around at the sound and saw a young man with an afro and a cold expression walking over with another young man with long, straight black hair and an honest expression.

"Uchiha Madara, Senju Hashirama?" The five recognized the two, and after sensing their cultivation levels, they immediately broke out in a cold sweat. "Also at the Qi Refining Eighth Layer? You've been hiding your cultivation?"

The five people—three men and two women—didn't say another word and immediately started fighting!

The five were quite confident. "We are members of the Qu Family, and we cultivate the Great Destiny Technique. You country bumpkins don't even deserve to be our opponents!"

You don't know until you fight, and once you do, you'll be shocked.

The five people's Law Power was not only no weaker than theirs, but it completely overwhelmed them!

This means that they not only cultivated Eight Gates Divine Ability, but their Divine Ability could also be perfectly integrated to produce an effect no less than the <Great Destiny Technique>!

But how could that be? Aren't there only two Supreme Dao Arts in the entire world?

These five people were actually using five different Supreme Dao Arts!

How is that possible!

The five of them instantly had one thought, "Run!"

This information must be sent out. The rebel army has actually mastered many Supreme Dao Arts. If this information gets out, it will definitely shock the world!

But these five were merely at the Qi Refining Eighth Layer through Lineage resources and years of cultivation, while the five who attacked them were all prodigies from their respective worlds, protagonists in their eras. How could they possibly escape?

A fight that lasts for days and nights is only possible when the strength of the opponents is evenly matched. But when there is a significant and overwhelming difference in strength, a few minutes are enough!

A few minutes later, the five men killed five members of the Qu Family and then headed towards Qu Heng's main camp.

These five people weren't just randomly selected.

Madara can use genjutsu, Senju Hashirama can use barriers and sealing techniques.

Kanzaki Kaori and Tsugikuni Yoriichi highly lethal.

Raiden Shogun possesses exceptional perception and can even seal Divine Sense with lightning!

Raiden Shogun sensed the scout first, then sealed his Divine Sense; Madara controlled his actions; Hashirama set up a barrier to conceal the movement; and Kanzaki Kaori Tsugikuni Yoriichi move.

Without a sound, the scouts and agents along the way were all eliminated.

A force of 300,000 Qi Refining Stage cultivators formed a military formation and followed silently behind them.

An army of 300,000 men should theoretically be impossible to hide, but the military formation evolved and developed by the Spirit Realm has such a wonderful function.

Twenty minutes later, Qu Heng had just given the order to attack, suddenly felt a sense of dread.

He immediately activated his Divine Sense and discovered that the elite rebel army was already less than ten miles away from his main camp!

"How dare you!" Qu Heng was completely shocked. My main force has an army of ten million!

Moreover, I've never seen a Qi Refining cultivator dare to charge into the Spiritual Law Realm cultivator's formation!

"I'd like to see what you're up to!" Qu Heng, instead of relying on his superior strength, surprisingly didn't notify his subordinates to prepare.

His thinking was simple: what if I remind them now, and they notice and then retreat?

Not reminding them would only result in a slight loss of troops, but it would cripple this elite force. Our morale would soar, while the enemy's would plummet. Wouldn't that make the battle much simpler?

Qu Heng sat calmly in the central command tent, watching as the vanguard of Madara Ban slaughtered the enemy on the city walls. It was only then that his own troops discovered the attack.

"The quality of our soldiers is indeed somewhat lacking!" Qu Heng shook his head, but there was nothing he could do about it. The Renyi Army had been fighting all along, while their Tai Heng Army had only been formed a month ago, so it was inevitable that there would be a gap.

Five Qi Refining Eighth Layer stormed the fortress. He had also deployed elite troops to defend the fortress, but they couldn't take down the five men in a short time.

Not only could it not be defeated, Susanoo Perfect Susanoo and three swordsmen standing on its shoulders also directly blasted down the city wall protected by multiple arrays!

The 300,000-strong army that followed closely behind captured the city wall and stormed the camp in just ten minutes.

The defenders on the city wall quickly sent out a call-to-action signal.

However, the army composed of scions of the Aristocratic Clan was untrained and might not even be able to understand the signals.

Moreover, once a person falls behind, it's very difficult to recover.

Furthermore, the retribution for Qu Heng taking away the benefits of the Ninth-Rank Noble Families has also arrived.

Faced with an enemy attack, the first thought of these scions of the Aristocratic Clan was not to resist, but to pretend they didn't know anything, or even to run away.

After all, you might not be rewarded for your merits, but if you sacrifice yourself or die, your Lineage will definitely be bullied.

There's no need to even think about it. After all, my Lineage was already being bullied while I was still alive and on the front lines. What's more, my Lineage's strength has weakened since my death.

I come from the Aristocratic Clan myself; how could I not know the character of other Aristocratic Clan?

The troops were slow to assemble, lacked fighting spirit, and fled at the slightest disadvantage. In addition, the Eastern Victory rebels had assembled their elite forces, so when 300,000 men charged into a fortress with 10 million men, they were as if they were in an empty field, and directly attacked the core of the fortress!

Qu Heng could no longer remain seated on the fishing platform. He left his room and went to the Inner City wall of the fortress, watching the enemy troops get closer and closer until they could speak in their normal voices.

"You..." Qu Heng looked at the five people, already feeling a sense of appreciation for their talent.

If one can reach the Qi Refining Eighth Layer in sixteen years, what will happen in one hundred and sixty years?

As for whether they were rebels?

Is this a problem?

They are a righteous army only because they have not experienced the glory of my Taiheng.

If I pardon their sins and grant them a Taiheng household registration, wouldn't they be eternally grateful?

However, before he could speak, Raiden Shogun had already slashed down with his sword.

"Sigh, it seems we have no choice but to fight!" Qu Heng shook his head, then stretched out a hand.

A fifth-level Spiritual Law Realm cultivator fighting Qi Refining Eighth Layer can be done with just one hand.

Raiden Shogun Dian's slash did not strike Qu Heng; instead, it left a mark in the space around him!

"This is... Space Divine Abilities? No!" The space is extremely unstable right now; no one can use Space Divine Abilities. Moreover, how could Qi Refining Eighth Layer Level cultivator possibly come into contact with spatial power?

Therefore, what this strike unfolds is not space, but: the divine sea!

The Divine Sea, or the sea of human consciousness, was something Divine Sense Qu Heng had never seen anyone use in battle before.

No, this divine sea is different from the ordinary divine sea; it has a dreamlike feel to it.

Is it some kind of special Divine Ability?

As he pondered, Raiden Shogun's Musou no Hitotachi had fully unfolded.

What appeared before Qu Heng was a rocket, 320 meters tall, 16 meters in diameter, pure white, and standing upright!

In an instant, the hairs on Qu Heng's body stood on end!

This is a hydrogen bomb!

This is insane!

A hydrogen bomb is incredibly powerful. If it exploded here, I might not die, but you definitely wouldn't escape!

He glanced at Raiden Shogun, but only felt that the man's eyes were icy cold, as if he didn't care about his life at all.

What kind of deep-seated hatred exists between the Eastern Victory rebels and my Taiheng forces that someone would attack me with a hydrogen bomb?

It's important to understand that while the Qi Refining Eighth Layer might be dispensable to Taiheng, it's an extremely powerful figure in Eastern Victory!

Qu Heng used the Calamity Annihilation Heavenly Origin Steps to escape dozens of miles in the blink of an eye.

But he still felt it wasn't enough, so he ran for several dozen kilometers before stopping.

Based on his previous observations, the blast radius of a hydrogen bomb is roughly this far!

Qu Heng turned his head and stared blankly at the distant fortress. He waited for a long time, but he never saw the all-encompassing light. Instead, he received a phone call from Zhao Wudi.

"Qu Heng, Sect Leader Qu, what are you doing!"

"What are you doing?"

"You deserted your post in the face of battle! A Spiritual Law Realm cultivator afraid of a Qi Refining Stage cultivator, especially a female one! You've completely disgraced Taiheng!"

"What?" Qu Heng was stunned. He quickly opened his phone, clicked on Deep Blue Weibo, and saw that the number one trending topic was "Taiheng Sect Leader flees without a fight!"

"I was dodging a hydrogen bomb to avoid being killed along with the enemy, not fleeing without a fight!" Qu Heng cursed as he clicked on the entry.

Upon seeing the detailed information within the entry, Qu Heng was completely dumbfounded.

"The sect leader fled the battlefield, Tai Heng Army suffered heavy casualties!"

The Tai Heng Army had no will to fight to begin with. It would have been better if the sect leader had fought alongside them, but now...

Due to their limited perspective, they couldn't see the hydrogen bomb that Raiden Shogun Musou no Hitotachi; all they could see was their sect leader running away without a second thought when faced with a cultivator at the Qi Refining Eighth Layer!

With the added propaganda and live broadcasts from the Eastern Victory rebels, the Tai Heng Army knew about it in no time.

In an instant, everything collapsed!

If even the sect leader has run away, what are we still doing here!

Moreover, you probably didn't do this on purpose; you just wanted us dead so you could seize our family property.

With morale shattered and conspiracy theories rampant, the soldiers of the Tai Heng Noble Families now only want to go home!

What's the point of making great achievements or recovering Eastern Victory?

Nothing is more important than being alive!

When morale collapses, let alone 300 million soldiers, even 3 billion or 30 billion soldiers would be chased around by 20 million, 2 million, or even 200,000 people!

Moreover, not only were the Eastern Victory Sheng rebels relentlessly pursuing them, but these Lineage members were also taking advantage of the chaos to retaliate against rival Lineage. After all, if they died now, the blame could be placed on the Eastern Victory Sheng rebels. If not now, when?

In this chase, the defenses that had been lost for a month and a half were all taken back in just one day!

In the internet age, Qu Heng received news of his defeat very quickly.

But asking him to go back is impossible; that's Nuclear Bomb!

I've painstakingly cultivated for tens of thousands of years, finally reaching the Spiritual Law Realm, with a lifespan nearly infinite, only to be bombed by a hydrogen bomb?

He could only gather his defeated troops at the border of Taiheng. Fortunately, cultivators are fast, and he managed to gather them back in just two days.

Finally, let's tally up the numbers.

It came with 300 million, now it's 127 million.

Qu Heng felt alright, since he didn't think it was his problem at all.

First, I did not desert my post at all.

Secondly, even if I wasn't there, you shouldn't have fought like this!

Moreover, let alone the death of a scion of the Aristocratic Clan, even if it were a member of the Qu Family, Qu Heng wouldn't care about his own wife and children.

Anyway, cultivators have long lifespans, so they can remarry and have more children.

But when he opened his phone again and saw the comments from netizens about the battle and the nicknames they gave him, Qu Heng's calm expression finally crumbled.

He led 300 million soldiers but was defeated by the Eastern Victory rebels, who had emptied their coffers and barely managed to muster 20 million soldiers, hence the name: Dongsheng Captive.

In addition, there was a sect leader who ran away.

Because Raiden Shogun was wearing a purple kimono, and the Taiheng people didn't recognize kimonos and only thought it was a kind of skirt, he earned the nickname "Purple Skirt Enthusiast." They believed he liked the purple skirt and couldn't bring himself to harm it, which is why he ran away.

And what really made him lose his composure Qu Three Billion.

It's simple, straightforward, and widely spread, unlike other complicated titles. After the first netizen suggested it, it instantly became a hit across the internet, to the point that Qu Heng couldn't even find his own name anymore; all he could find were "Qu Three Billion"!

Even the word "heng" is gone. When talking about this word, netizens will automatically replace it with "three hundred million"

It's easy to imagine that this name will replace Qu Heng, the head of Taiheng Sect, and other identities, accompanying him throughout his life!

It's even possible that even after he's dead, his story will still be circulating online!