Post-War Deliberation: Tian Dao Yi Leads the Army

"Hey, isn't this Qu Three Billion? You're back after winning the battle?"

Qu Heng ignored him and silently sat down in his seat.

Xiao Lei pressed his advantage. "I also heard that you were scared away by a female cultivator at the Qi Refining Eighth Layer?"

In this feudal era, the humiliation of being scared away by a female cultivator was the same as being scared away by Qi Refining Eighth Layer cultivator.

"Hmph!" Qu Heng tapped the table. "I want to emphasize one point: it's because she's carrying a hydrogen bomb that I need to stay away!"

Upon hearing the word "hydrogen bomb," the Elder Council fell silent, and Xiao Lei lost all interest in joking.

Meng Yu, however, asked, "Why would that female cultivator have a hydrogen bomb? Could you have seen wrong?"

"If she didn't have a hydrogen bomb, would she dare to talk to me like that?" Qu Heng said irritably. "I'm not blind. That thing is exactly the same as the one that was launched at Eastern Victory before!"

Meng Yu also fell silent.

I learned the name "hydrogen bomb" from gamers; it's a weapon more powerful than the atomic bomb.

However, the hydrogen bomb that players are talking about is completely different from the hydrogen bomb that exploded in Dongsheng, Xihua, and Beiyuan.

The hydrogen bomb that exploded on the Taiheng land was a super bomb that could kill even those at the Spiritual Law Realm, and that could not withstand even Spirit Artifacts, treasure artifacts, or Dao artifacts.

It's more like the power of the Hengming Tower's attack, sealed inside that iron shell.

Furthermore, considering that the earliest batch of hydrogen bombs were launched from within the territory of the Great Ming Kingdom, which was in a state of the Great Ming Kingdom at the time and simply did not have the capacity to manufacture so many hydrogen bombs.

Then the definition of a hydrogen bomb becomes clear.

This is a Half-Immortal Artifact that has received Lord Hengming's approval and sealed the power of the "Hengming Tower" immortal artifact, capable of killing Spiritual Law Realm!

Before Space Divine Abilities could be used, this immortal artifact wasn't so powerful. But now that Space Divine Abilities are limited, even if it's hit by a hydrogen bomb, it can't escape. This has caused all cultivators in the Spiritual Law Realm to feel insecure.

Qu Heng's behavior may seem cowardly, but from the perspective of self-preservation, his choice was perfectly reasonable!

"So, is Lord Hengming also supporting the Dongsheng rebels?" Mengyu asked. "So what exactly does Lord Hengming mean? Is taking Great Xia not enough? Does he also want to give it to Dongsheng, Xihua, and Beiyuan?"

"You're asking me? Who should I ask?" Qu Heng spread his hands and looked at Zhao Wudi, who hadn't said a word since the beginning of the meeting.

As the elder who transmits skills, and also the oldest and most powerful among you, you should know something about Lord Hengming!

Sensing Qu Heng's attention, the others also turned around, wanting to hear the senior's opinion.

"Are you sure that woman really has a hydrogen bomb?" Zhao Wudi asked.

"Of course!" Qu Heng nodded. "I saw it with my own eyes!"

"You only saw it with your own eyes, did you scan it with your Divine Sense?" Zhao Wudi asked. "I know a little about that thing. It should be quite large. If she wasn't carrying it while flying, then she should have put it in her storage space. But now that Space Divine Abilities are restricted, where did she put her hydrogen bomb?"

"Uh, this..." Qu Heng blushed. "I ran away as soon as I saw the hydrogen bomb, I didn't even notice this!"

Now that I think about it, it seems so!

That space was clearly a divine sea, yet it also had a dreamlike quality. Regardless of what Divine Ability caused the divine sea to have a dreamlike quality, it was still ultimately a divine sea!

The Divine Sea is the sea of human will; apart from the Artifact Dao refined by oneself, or Spiritual Qi Law Power, and mental power, nothing else can be contained within it.

It's impossible that she melted down that hydrogen bomb!

It should be understood that cultivators cannot refine Spirit Artifacts indefinitely. Refining Spirit Artifacts not only takes time, but refining each Spirit Artifact is also like placing something heavy on one's soul.

Therefore, a cultivator's capacity to bear burdens is limited.

As for what a hydrogen bomb is, its destructive power is almost equivalent to that of Half-Immortal Artifact, but its material quality is not that high. Apart from being used for explosion, it has no other use.

If you were to pit it against an ordinary Spirit Artifact staff, the one that would lose would be a hydrogen bomb.

Refining this thing?

But

I can't very well admit that I was scared away by someone using virtual illusions!

Qu Heng could only stand firm in his stance and said seriously, "Does the Supreme Elder mean that I can't even tell if a hydrogen bomb is real or fake?"

"Then there's nothing we can do!" Zhao Wudi spread his hands. "If the hydrogen bomb is real, it means that Lord Hengming is standing behind the Eastern Victory rebels. In that case, we can ignore Eastern Victory, Western Splendor, and Northern Plains. We can just wait for the rebels to unify the country!"

Qu Heng immediately shook his head. "How can this be? I've only been the sect leader for a short time. How can I not lose all my sphere of influence!"

Moreover, that hydrogen bomb is probably, possibly, perhaps, indeed fake, which means...

"I do believe that Lord Hengming is not supporting Eastern Victory behind the scenes!" Xiao Lei said.

"Oh, Elder Xiao, what advice do you have for me?" Qu Heng's eyes lit up, and he quickly asked.

"As everyone knows, Lord Hengming is an upright and honorable immortal!" Xiao Lei said, "If he were truly supporting Eastern Victory behind the scenes, he would have come forward to tell us, but he hasn't!"

The elders all nodded in agreement. "That makes sense!"

"Furthermore, if that hydrogen bomb is real, why didn't she use it on the Tai Heng Army, but instead used it on you?" Xiao Lei added.

Given the choice between bombing 300 million people and bombing only one, anyone would choose that!

Don't say that this person is the sect leader. Taiheng has no shortage of the Spiritual Law Realm cultivators. The sect leader is not the only choice, second Under One Person. If he dies, you can replace him.

"What do you mean?" Qu Heng asked.

"She may indeed have a hydrogen bomb, but the channels through which she obtained it may not be legitimate! And she may only have one!" Xiao Lei said, taking out his phone and opening the PowerPoint presentation.

"I've investigated. This female cultivator's Barzebub, and she belongs to the Inazuma faction!"

"Inazuma, is there anything special about it?" Qu Heng asked.

Xiao Lei was speechless. "You've been fighting for a month and a half, and you still don't know what your opponent is like?"

"Uh..." Qu Heng was speechless; he really didn't know.

The world has Sun Wu, but he didn't rewrite "The Art of War," since those in the Spirit Realm already know what they're talking about.

Without the Art of War, Qu Heng would naturally not know the principle of knowing the enemy and knowing yourself, and thus never being defeated.

Besides, with my 300 million against my 20 million, I have no idea what my opponent is doing, so I can just sweep them aside!

Xiao Lei sighed and could only explain, "Inazuma, among the forty-two factions that don't belong to Eastern Victory, she belongs to the Teyvat side, and all the Teyvats have joined Da Xia! Zhong Li, the current Senior Grand Secretary of Da Xia, belongs to the Teyvat, Li Yue side!"

Qu Heng was speechless. Teyvat, what a strange name.

"So, it's the Great Xia that's supporting Eastern Victory?" Meng Yu asked.

Xiao Lei shrugged. "That's hard to say, but Great Xia certainly has reasons to support Eastern Victory!"

Qu Heng nodded. They did have this reason, after all, Eastern Victory was now a neighbor of Daxia, as was Taiheng.

The two neighbors are now fighting, and Da Xia's attitude is definitely that the longer and more intense the fight goes, the better!

"Then I'll call Yang Sheng and ask him what exactly happened!" Qu Heng said.

"It's no use!" Xiao Lei said, "That Barzebub isn't an official of the Great Xia Dynasty at all; she's just a Rogue Cultivator. What reason do you have to ask Yang Sheng that Rogue Cultivator from his family has come to the Eastern Victory region?"

Qu Heng was speechless and could only hang up the phone.

Xiao Lei was speechless. Even if she was Rogue Cultivator, he should still have asked her questions. How could she just hang up the phone?

However, he didn't intend to remind him. Pointing out information that Qu Heng didn't know was called filling in the gaps, but pointing out Qu Heng's mistakes could lead to resentment.

Although his cultivation level is higher, Qu Heng is the sect leader!

It wouldn't be difficult to secretly cause some trouble for the Xiao family!

"So what should we do now? Continue fighting? Or..." Qu Heng asked.

Xiao Lei shrugged. "Why are you looking at me? If I say let's fight, and then we lose, wouldn't I be the one to take the blame?"

Meng Yu Zhao Wudi both shook their heads, neither of them speaking.

Chen Xiangyun and Lu Jiang exchanged a glance. They had been used to their low Lineage rank and had no right to speak during meetings.

Now that there are fewer people around, I suddenly feel like maybe I can say something too?

However, upon further inspection of Zhao Wudi at the head of the table, I decided to let the elder have the chance to shine.

Zhao Wudi leaned back on the stone chair, his posture relaxed, as if the discussion at this moment was not about the life or death of the Taiheng Sect.

For a cultivator at the peak of the sixth level of the Spiritual Law Realm, this is indeed not a big deal.

The rise and fall of the Taiheng Sect, or whether the Zhao Family perished, had a greater impact on him than the sealing of his Space Divine Abilities after the severing of the Absolute Earth Heavenly Connection.

Faced with this strange event that had never occurred before, he didn't know how to deal with it, and divination yielded no results.

Seeing everyone turn to look at him, Zhao Wudi said irritably, "You are all young people. The present and future of the Taiheng Sect are in your hands. When you encounter difficulties, you should find ways to solve them. What are you always expecting from me! I can only give you guidance for a short time, can I guide you forever?"

"However, we are currently facing a great upheaval that has not been seen in a thousand years in Taiheng, and we do indeed need the wisdom of our elders!" Qu Heng said earnestly. He had just suffered a defeat and was indeed not confident enough to make decisions on his own.

Zhao Wudi looked displeased, though he was secretly pleased, but he kept a straight face and said, "Sigh, then I'll give you pointers one more time!"

"Yes!" Qu Heng nodded, "This junior is all ears!"

Zhao Wudi nodded and said, "According to Xiao Lei, even if Eastern Victory has a hydrogen bomb, it's only one, and the blast radius of a hydrogen bomb is only 140 kilometers!"

"If I divide my forces into two locations, 150 kilometers apart, then can I only choose to detonate one of the hydrogen bombs?"

Qu Heng was taken aback. "That makes sense!"

Since there is only one hydrogen bomb, its greatest deterrent effect is when it is not detonated.

Once I'm ruthless enough to sacrifice a group of people, you'll lose all your deterrent power.

"What about the command?" Qu Heng asked.

The implication is, what if their hydrogen bombs are used to attack me instead of soldiers?

"Fighting is different from cultivation. Combat and leading a sect are still too difficult for you!" Zhao Wudi did not intend to pursue Qu Heng's responsibility for the defeat. After Zhao Wudi, they were from the same first-class Lineage and were on the same side.

If we say Qu Heng is wrong, wouldn't that be tantamount to criticizing a first-rank Aristocratic Clan?

A first-class Aristocratic Clan is certainly not wrong.

However, Qu Heng's command skills were indeed questionable.

If given time and given more battles, he can gradually grow stronger.

But if you don't change the person now, the resentment of the Aristocratic Clan below will be hard to quell.

"Moreover, as long as you don't appear on the battlefield, you naturally won't have this option!"

Qu Heng was speechless, yet he had to admit that the old man was right.

"In that case, how about changing commanders?" Qu Heng thought for a moment and said, "Tian Dao Yi was once a dominant force on the Hundred Nations Battlefield, almost unifying the world. He should be a good candidate!"

Taiheng does have some military talent; after all, the Hundred Nations Battlefield is a training ground for leading troops into battle.

However, those who need to collect luck through the Hundred Nations Battlefield to improve their cultivation are mostly ordinary cultivators.

Note: Commoners here refer to those who are not from the Aristocratic Clan, but are disciples of a minor prince or a young master from a minor Aristocratic Clan family.

What? You mean ordinary people, the sons of farmers?

That's a person too?

How could a cultivator from a commoner background possibly win the Qi Ingestion scions of the Aristocratic Clan? Therefore, whether it was the early campaign against the Great Peace Way or the later campaign against Eastern Victory, Qu Heng never considered letting them lead the army.

But now, we can't do without it.

"Tian Dao Yi" Zhao Wudi thought for a moment, then nodded. "That's acceptable!"

Just then, many commoner cultivators complained that their treatment and opportunities were not as good as those of the Aristocratic Clan.

Now the opportunity is yours; it's up to you to seize it!