"My lord, since the north is so important, should we now launch a full-scale attack on it?"
At the Jiangnan residence, Chen Qing, who had already returned, quickly convened everyone to discuss future plans for Jiangnan.
With the original owner back, everyone naturally has no reason not to return. After all, everyone knows that this Divine Path Style system belongs to Chen Qing. Anyone who leaves him cannot guarantee that what they currently possess will not disappear, which also means that no one has the right to rebel, except for Ao Zhen.
In the hall, almost all the important figures from Jiangnan had gathered, including Xu Hu, the Battle God who was originally stationed in the north!
It was he who was asking the question. He had long wanted to take over the North. He had really had enough of the past six months of guarding the area and constantly having to watch out for those disgusting giant snakes from the North!
Those around Chen Qing also looked at him. Since the north was so important, and Chen Qing had summoned Xu Hu at the first opportunity, did he really intend to launch a military campaign?
However, thinking about it, it doesn't seem like a bad thing. Jiangnan's military strength is now among the best in the entire Central Plains. With the addition of a fighter like Ao Zhen, it's not impossible for them to have a chance against those giant snakes in the north. From a moral standpoint, it's also fine. The north has openly rebelled against the court, Jiangnan's dispatch of troops to reclaim lost territory for the court is perfectly justified!
Chen Qing's face twitched as he looked at Xu Hu, who was acting like he was on steroids.
If they could defeat him, they would have started troop deployment the moment they returned; they wouldn't be so leisurely now.
"We can't beat them." Chen Qing shook his head directly.
"Can't beat them?" Xu Hu's excited expression froze, while the others frowned.
Is the Jiangnan no longer as strong as the North?
The Battle God Army is currently below the Sixth Rank, and can only be used for logistics. Anyone who can garrison the north is at least the Fifth Rank, and the squad leader is at least the Fourth Rank. Anyone who can lead a team of five hundred people must be Third Rank- rank martial artist. In the past, this kind of military force could have swept across the Central Plains!
This doesn't even include the rapidly rising West Sea Army, or the Yaksha General released from the Dragon Palace every five days. Now there are more than twenty of them. Combined with Ao Zhen, what in the world can stop them?
If you can't even beat these, are those burrowing snakes in the north really that powerful?
Shen San was the first to ask in doubt, "Back then, Duke of Wei single-handedly built an ice bridge in the North Sea. To this day, no giant serpent has been able to break through that ice bridge, which allowed us to successfully bring back hundreds of millions of northern people from the North Sea. Moreover, before Duke of Wei died, he killed the so-called Earth Mother. Now, the only troublesome thing about the North is that those giant serpents can hide underground. It shouldn't be that we can't defeat them, right?"
"Yes, my lord," Shen Laoba chimed in. " In Jiangnan today, we have several states that are no less powerful than the Duke of Wei, while the North has lost its Earth Mother. We should have the advantage."
"We can only say we were lucky," Chen Qing said with a helpless wry smile.
"Good luck?" Everyone was taken aback, not quite understanding what Chen Qing meant.
"That so-called Earth Mother isn't anything powerful; it's just material used to revive the Heavenly Python Palace. It's dead, and a second Earth Mother will soon be born within the Earth Serpent. Earth Serpent are creatures that can be cultivated very quickly. According to my current intelligence, there are already over a hundred Earth Mother in the north."
"Ah??"
Upon hearing this, everyone was in an uproar. Xu Hu stared at Chen Qing in disbelief. He had seen what the Earth Mother looked like before; her head was so large it could fill an entire county. There were hundreds of those creatures in the north.
Can it fit in the north?
And what will we use to feed them?
"My lord, is this intelligence accurate?" Shen Lao'er asked, taking a breath.
The head of that Earth Mother is still kept at the Dragon Palace Academy for biological research. There are a hundred of those things in the north now? Are you kidding me?
The mere thought of those enormous creatures, numbering in the hundreds, sent chills down his spine.
"The intelligence comes from Wang Shiyu of Duke of Wei."
"That illegitimate child?" Shen Qi asked.
"You know?" Chen Qing asked in surprise.
"Yes, I did pay attention to it. At the time, I felt that his background was a bit too coincidental, but because we lived so far away, I only paid a little attention and didn't investigate further."
"Uh..." Chen Qing covered her head. "Then you're pretty lucky."
Thankfully, we didn't investigate further; otherwise, Seventh Master Shen would probably be dead by now!
"What's the background of this illegitimate child?" Shen Qi immediately realized that Chen Qing's words had a hidden meaning.
"His background is extraordinary." Chen Qing shook his head and said, "Anyway, his background is stronger than you can imagine."
"Unimaginable." Shen Qi's heart skipped a beat. In this world, the only thing the Shen Family could not comprehend was the ancient past.
Were these pawns planted in advance by an ancient force?
This sounds terrifying. The reason why the Dragon Palace was divided up this time is because they never respected the human race and did not think that the human race would pose any threat to them. But obviously, not all ancient forces are as arrogant as the Dragon Palace. This ancient force in the north actually planted an inside agent in the human world long ago.
A powerful force combined with meticulous planning is truly terrifying.
"A hundred Earth Mother? We can fight them!" Xu Hu was simple-minded, only considering matters on the battlefield. "Those Earth Mother are indeed powerful, but because of their enormous size, they are inconvenient in many ways. If they all come out in full force, they might even interfere with each other, and there won't be any terrain where they can make use of their size!"
"Excellent!" Yuchi Feihong to the side, wholeheartedly agreed, "A massive size is incredibly lethal in open spaces, but if they're too large, especially in the hundreds, they'll be crowded everywhere, which actually hinders their ability to utilize their size and makes them easier to deal with. If they choose to fight separately, we can defeat them one by one. It's not like we don't have a chance!"
Chen Qing rolled his eyes. How come Yuchi has become a battle maniac just like Xu Hu?
However, seeing the fighting spirit in the other's eyes, he subconsciously understood that the Battle God was inherently fanatical about war, which was due to his divinity. Moreover, after being named the Battle God by himself, Yuchi Feihong was in a rather awkward position. Due to his lack of fame, not many Battle God were willing to join his ranks. He desperately needed a war to prove himself and expand his prestige!
"A hundred Earth Mother are not frightening, but every ten Earth Mother can be sacrificed to awaken a Void Giant Python from the Heavenly Python Palace. That thing is comparable to the True Dragon Breed of the Dragon Palace, and its combat power is not much different from that of the Dragon King Breed."
Now both Yuchi and Xu Hu frowned. Ten Dragon King Breed?
That would be very troublesome.
Yuchi Feihong still isn't confident he can truly defeat a Dragon King Breed head-on fight. Although he Dragon Transformation, his physical strength, developed over six months, hasn't fully adapted. If he were to fight a true dragon now, he conservatively estimates he has at most a 20% chance of winning.
Ten
"That's not the key point," Chen Qing said quietly. "If the mother snake is awakened, then a single Flying Void Giant Python can give birth to tens of thousands of snake offspring in one pregnancy. And these snake offspring can grow into combatants in just three months, their strength no less than that of Second Rank martial artist."
"Ten thousand? Second Rank?" Everyone was speechless for a moment!
No, one snake can give birth to ten thousand. If all ten awakened snakes are females, wouldn't that be a hundred thousand?
One hundred thousand second grade warrior
hiss.
Everyone felt a chill run down their spines; what was the point of fighting now?
Just wait to die!
"But I've been guarding this northern region for so long, and I haven't seen anything like what my lord described." Xu Hu swallowed hard. It wasn't that he doubted Chen Qing, but rather that the claim was too absurd.
With such a monster existing in the world, why doesn't the North unify the world? What are they waiting for?
"You haven't seen it because it hasn't been carried out yet," Chen Qing laughed. "Ten Heavenly Python not only need energy to revive, but also require a massive amount of flesh and blood during their pregnancy. The North can't afford to raise them now. Otherwise, even if we could successfully give birth to an army of giant snakes, what would we use to feed them?"
Upon hearing the word "Oh," everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
It hasn't even started yet!
"In that case, we should attack even more!" Xu Hu stood up and said, "Otherwise, as our lord said, we'll be facing an army of 100,000 second-rank soldiers in at most six months!"
There are also ten monsters comparable to True Dragon Breed!
"Fighting them won't work," Chen Qing shook his head. "Once an external force approaches, the forces within the north will unite, concentrate their resources, and directly summon the first Snake Mother. Our military strength would be at great risk even against a single Heavenly Python."
"And even if we win, it will be a Pyrrhic victory. You need to think this through. We don't only have the North as an enemy now. The Xiao Household in the capital, the Chen Household in the South Sea, and even that guy in the East Sea —which one of them doesn't want to annex Jiangnan?"
"This..." Xu Hu and Yuchi exchanged a glance and immediately became anxious.
Several people immediately realized what Chen Qing meant. "Inside?"
"Does Your Majesty mean that the territory where the giant serpent resides in the north is now divided?"
"This is the reason Wang Shiyu sought cooperation with me." Chen Qing looked at everyone. "This decision will determine the life and death of Jiangnan!"
There will be another update tonight.