My Cultivation Starting from Archery-Chapter 567 - 200 Choice_3
Chapter 567: Chapter 200 Choice_3
“What? Father has returned?!”
The Blood Sacrifice Array had been in operation for nearly two months.
The matter had long since caused an uproar, known to all under heaven.
Within the Capital City, it even once fell into chaos.
After all, the Emperor, the two Princes, along with the Old Governor, were all in Liangzhou—if anything were to happen, I fear that the chaos would not subside for at least two years.
But it was on this day that they suddenly received news.
The crisis in Liangzhou had been resolved.
Not only that, but His Majesty the Emperor had also returned early and announced the court assembly as usual.
Inside the Qinghe Hall.
Civil and military officials gathered in full attendance.
Emperor Longqing sat on the Dragon Chair, tending to all the accumulated state affairs from as early as 5 a.m. until the evening before they concluded, after which he explained a number of issues concerning the subsequent handling of the court’s governance.
The impression given was as if he intended to handle all state affairs in one fell swoop, then act as if he was washing his hands of the matter.
After explaining the last message.
Emperor Longqing then opened his mouth indistinctly, “How goes the war in the Northern Territory?”
Ming Qingfeng, the newly appointed Minister of War, answered, “Liangzhou and You State have both stabilized. Within two months, all chaos will cease; Your Majesty can be at ease.”
“We,”
Emperor Longqing paused, “are asking about the movements of your barbarian headquarters.”
The barbarian headquarters!
Indeed, to this day, the Capital City has yet to reach a consensus on how the crisis in Liangzhou was resolved.
They only know that You State has achieved victory.
But setting aside You State, the scattered barbarian headquarters still had nearly two hundred thousand troops lying in wait, unmovable.
According to common sense.
With such a major defeat in the front lines.
The barbarian headquarters should have taken some kind of action.
Yet to date.
The Great Desert laid silent, with no movement detected.
It was as if…
The barbarians of the Great Desert had all vanished overnight.
Not just the barbarians.
There was also an army from Dasheng that headed north and disappeared, with no news to this day.
Hongze Camp, Chen Sansi!
Therefore, they were still unclear about the ins and outs of the situation.
“Your Majesty.”
Ming Qingfeng said, “Your humble servant will closely monitor the barbarians’ subsequent movements and report anything immediately to Your Majesty.”
“Enough.”
Emperor Longqing waved his sleeve, “Dismiss the court.”
“Dis… ”
The eunuch by his side had already strained his voice; just as he reached the middle of his cry.
Outside the palace.
Suddenly a more resonant voice arose, interrupting him.
“Urgent news from the Divine Eagle, covering eight thousand miles!”
“Urgent news from the Divine Eagle, covering eight thousand miles!”
“Victory report——”
“A victory report of utmost importance——”
“… ”
Passed through layers.
Finally, from outside the Imperial Palace it reached Qinghe Hall, and was handed to Huang Hong, the Chamberlain of Ritual Supervision.
The so-called victory report.
It was not a single letter, but several letters stacked together in a box.
The first few.
Were letters of allegiance from barbarian tribes such as the Murong and Duan Clans!
Moreover, each was personally written by a Great Khan, accompanied by the Great Seal, with sincere and earnest words.
“It must be the Emperor’s personal campaign that has struck terror into the barbarians’ hearts!”
“After the four tribes’ submission, there shall no longer be war in the Northern Territory for a good while!”
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“Such is the majestic power of the Emperor, deterring the barbarians!”
Yan Maoxing took the lead and shouted, “His Majesty has cultivated the way for forty years. This time, as he personally headed to the Northern Territory, upon making a move he shocked the entire world. The barbarians, having witnessed the divine might of Emperor Wan Shou, how could they not bow their heads in submission?!”
The facts indeed appeared so.
No one knew just how many years His Majesty the Emperor had practiced cultivation.
The civil and military officials only knew of the countless expenditure of silver and wealth, even those most loyal to Dasheng could not help but murmur in their hearts that this was a wasteful depletion of the national treasury and a squandering of national strength.
But in Liangzhou…
The Emperor, in his Taoist robe, slew the demon with a single sword strike, witnessed by all under heaven.
Since then.
The civil and military officials finally had an epiphany.
The Emperor’s cultivation quest had been successful!
Their Emperor was truly an Immortal!
“His Majesty, with the body of a True Dragon, disregarded his own safety to slay the demon!”
“It is only natural for the barbarians to be utterly terrified.”
“Exactly, exactly, what Lord Li says is true.”
“… ”
The civil and military officials’ words of praise flowed ceaselessly like a river.
“That’s enough.”
Only when Emperor Longqing interrupted without any expression.
His heart had no ripples; rather, he found the letters of allegiance quite peculiar, and he said in a heavy voice, “Huang Hong, continue reading!”
Sure enough.
The more the reading continued, the more unusual it became.
In the beginning, there was only mention of General Chen.
But as it went on.
The words “General Chen” appeared with increasing frequency.
Terms like “invincible bravery”, “peerless under heaven”, “Martial Arts Saint” were endlessly cited.
Even further on, the frequency of mentioning General Chen even surpassed that of Emperor Dasheng…
The letters of allegiance were not battle reports, so they generally did not discuss the details of this battle.
But one could still discern a thread within them.
“This, this… ”
“Could it be that…”
Yan Maoxing analyzed, “Could it be that the crisis in Liangzhou was truly resolved after General Chen headed north, all the way to Langjuxu Mountain, where he destroyed the main Array Eye?”
“How could that be possible?”
“… ”
Civil and military officials discussed animatedly.
Chen Sansi was but a general of the Mystical Phenomenon rank, and the Hongze Camp had only over ten thousand men.
Whereas, the barbarians in the Great Desert, when added up, had a force of over two hundred thousand.
Even if they had time to deploy to Langjuxu Mountain, there were more than one hundred thousand troops, not to mention the number of Martial Saints.
On paper, even if they did manage to reach Langjuxu Mountain, it would be akin to a sheep entering the tiger’s mouth.
“Read.”
Emperor Longqing stressed his tone.
Only then did Huang Hong take out the last letter from the box.
That was…
The battle report from the Beiliang Army’s Hongze Camp!
“The seventy-fourth year of Longqing, on the eighteenth day of the last lunar month.”
“Chen Sansi led the entirety of Hongze Camp’s soldiers to the Barbarian Capital.”
“After thirteen thousand Hongze Camp soldiers lined up, they clashed with one hundred and eleven thousand soldiers from the four barbarian tribal armies at the foot of the mountain.”
