"You want to see the guild leader?"
Abe Ayaka was slightly taken aback by Chen Qing's request. Didn't Chen Qing dare to meet with the guild leaders at this time? Wasn't he afraid of being plotted against?
Don't be fooled by the fact that those leaders can only be in special areas and can't fully descend into this world. If you're in a special void, there are some spells that can be used against you. This guy is really bold.
"You can't make that decision," Chen Qing said bluntly. "You're trapped in this city now, and reporting it would take a lot of resources, wouldn't it? Coincidentally, what we lack most right now is time. Why don't we just get it done in one go?"
Abe Ayaka frowned slightly upon hearing this, but finally bowed and said, "Please wait half a day, Your King of Qin. I will give you an answer by dusk at the latest."
"Then I will wait."
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"Does Chen Qing want to see us?"
The three major guilds had all gathered in the void. Led by the leader of the Divine Martial Guild, important figures from the Myriad Void and Tianhua Guilds had also arrived in the void where the Fourth Guild was located. The Fourth Guild, which possessed the most human fortune, now had the largest void area, which was enough to allow beings like them to appear here in spirit form.
"This is what my subordinates reported to me." Kagura, the guild leader of the Divine Martial Guild, looked up at the high-ranking members of the Fourth Guild above the Void Mirror.
"He's got some nerve."
Although only spirits can enter the void, their existence, even as spirits, is something that the mortal world cannot even imagine. If it weren't for the rules that restrict them, any traitorous emperor sent here could be crushed by their divine souls and the world could be destroyed a thousand times over!
"That certainly takes guts." Kagura smiled slightly. "I recently heard a rumor that the guy who sealed the golem twenty years ago, almost severing our Ancient Revival, wasn't the real Pu Yunchuan. But this one is the true creator of the world!"
"Really?" A female voice asked with a hint of curiosity from above, while the other two who came with Kagura from the Divine Martial Guild, whose bodies resembled a nebula, trembled slightly.
They were clearly shaken by this statement.
"So what if they're creators?" Another voice coldly said from the void above, "Weren't those Reincarnator sent by the Federation all so-called designers? Haven't they been stuck in the first Samsara for so long?"
"We've been here for so long, do you really think a newcomer, even if he knows some version vulnerabilities, can turn the world upside down?"
"Isn't it all over now?" Kagura looked up, her eyes icy. "Given this situation, you all seem quite relaxed?"
Silence fell over the crowd. Frankly, the current situation was not to be underestimated.
Once the North is swept away, the three major forces— Heavenly Python Palace, Dragon Palace, and Ghost Domain —will be almost completely out of reach of them. In the struggle for the second version, they will be at an absolute disadvantage. In the worst case, they may not even be able to recover in this Samsara, and the Second Tier will be completely occupied!
If this human emperor were to emulate the King of Qin and use absolute power to control the world and prevent bloodshed, the Earth Spirit Revival would dissipate at an extremely rapid pace, and they would be completely excluded from this Samsara.
The inability to recover from a single Samsara causes them significant harm.
" Chen Qing is the best partner," Kagura whispered. "He controls a quarter of the Dragon Palace, and the military strength of Jiangnan is now comparable to an ancient power. By joining forces with him, we can create a tripartite balance of power with the emperors of the Central Plains. Once the situation stabilizes, they will naturally be no threat."
"Would he be willing to do that?" the voice above asked doubtfully. "From his perspective, it wouldn't be easy to cooperate."
"Since he has proposed to meet in person, he must have a plan for cooperation. Why don't we let him come?"
What do you think?
"What else can we say?" The two nebulae beside Kagura spoke in icy voices, "Forced into a cooperation between the Four Great Guilds by an NPC, and having to ask a newcomer for help, they've lost all face. What do they care about now?"
Everyone: "."
It is indeed a disgrace. Over countless millennia, they have amassed such immense power, only to be outmaneuvered and humiliated by a mere NPC. Indeed, the human race of this world should not exist!
What will Chen Qing do?
In the capital, the two crossed the vast Northern Lands and returned to the capital in less than half a day through a special passage on the Yin-Yang Road. Also returning was the Poison Mother, who had been wandering on the Yin-Yang Road. As a collaborator, she was now enshrined in a Ghost Temple, enjoying countless years of worship from the Power of Faith she had never imagined.
This time, it chose the right person!
Meanwhile, in the imperial study of the palace, the entire room had become a space where yin and yang were intertwined, just like in the King Xiang Palace, where the two were Ying Yi on water, upside down.
"I'm quite curious about what he'll do," the Emperor chuckled. "He acts like he's creating a peaceful world, and his prestige in Jiangnan is even higher than that of the King of Qin of Qin back then. But if he openly protects the demons of the Northern Lands, the image he's built up over the past five years will collapse in an instant. But if he doesn't go, I'm afraid those so-called Samsara people will wipe out all the strongholds in the Northern Wasteland!"
"He doesn't seem like the type to sit idly by and wait for death." King Xiang recalled his several meetings with Chen Qing and said in a low voice, "Perhaps he has an unexpected method."
"Then I certainly look forward to it." The emperor's smile remained unchanged, but he changed the subject. "How many troops will we have before spring?"
" The Ghost Temple setup is going smoothly, and the Flying Dragon Army's conversion rate is very high. Your method is very effective. Preliminary estimates suggest that by spring, the entire Flying Dragon Army will be successfully converted!"
"Oh?" The emperor nodded in satisfaction upon hearing this.
The Flying Dragon Army was his own elite force, which he had personally trained. It held a higher position in his heart than the Golden Dragon Guard, who were the sons of the Xiao Household family. Moreover, they were absolutely loyal to him. The reason he had them guard the Southern Frontier was to accumulate strength.
Over the past twenty years, he has secretly sent a lot of resources there. Many people don't know that the current Flying Dragon Army, even the lowest-ranking infantrymen, are all at the level of Sixth Rank generals, and the leaders of ten or even twenty men are at least at the Fifth Rank level. They are the strongest army in the world before the arrival of the ancient times!
With such a good foundation, the speed at which evil spirits descend and improve will naturally be quite fast. And this time, the ones that descend are King Xiang's direct descendants: the Heavenly Ghost Guard.
It is said that each of them is Transcendent evil spirit, and they are incredibly brave in battle. When facing the royal guards of the other three kings, they can often take on ten enemies at once!
For such a powerful evil spirit to descend upon a human body through the Ghost Temple, the vessel itself needs to have a good foundation, and it needs a longer time to become ghostly. Normally, it would not be possible to descend all 200,000 Heavenly Ghost Guard within three years.
But he came up with a plan. The demonization needed to be done secretly, slowly corroding the enemy. The Southern Barbarians used deception to make the soldiers believe they had received the blessing of the gods and had a way to rapidly increase their strength, but they didn't know that their bodies were being replaced little by little by evil spirits.
The evil spirit must not rush this method, otherwise, once discovered, it will provoke a fierce resistance from the original spirit, which may lead to the collapse of the body, or even damage to the evil spirit itself.
The emperor's method was quite simple: he ordered the soldiers to give up resistance!
Of course, no matter how loyal they were, simply telling the soldiers to give up and let the evil spirits possess their bodies would not earn them the loyalty of the 200,000- Flying Dragon Army, so he proposed the concept of one body with two souls.
No more deception, no more resistance. The evil spirit corrupts the soldier's body, but cannot expel the soldier's spirit. After possession, the evil spirit controls the soldier's body, but after a certain period of time, the evil spirit automatically withdraws from the soldier's body, leaving the soldier with an enhanced body. In layman's terms, it is equivalent to renting.
The reason this method didn't work for others is that it couldn't convince either side. No one would believe that an evil spirit that had taken over their body would obediently return it, and vice versa. No evil spirit would actually give up a human body that had been strengthened with so much effort.
But this time was different. Both King Xiang and Emperor Xiao Household had absolute authority over their own troops. The Flying Dragon Army was willing to trust the Emperor, and even King Xiang 'King Xiang evil spirits dared not defy his authority.
Thus came this almost impossible collaboration!
In less than six months, the Flying Dragon Army of 200,000 will be formed!
"Is two hundred thousand enough?" the emperor asked, looking at Xiang Kingly Dao.
"Ha," King Xiang sneered, "If it weren't for insurance, 100,000 would be enough. Ghost soldiers don't need logistics, and those potent snake venoms are almost useless against them. By the spring, although we can't have all the Heavenly Guards attack at full strength, it will be more than enough to wipe out those beasts in the north!"
The emperor nodded slightly, agreeing with the assessment. According to King Xiang's prediction, the 200,000 Flying Dragon Guard would reach the First Rank level by the beginning of spring, with all ten squad leaders being Transcendent. He hadn't even dared to imagine such an army before.
He also believes that no one in the world is invincible!
Calvin's condition is too severe; he needs to take salt again.
Tomorrow is Saturday, I'll try to get up early and start working on the Mofang's Cube...