Chapter 184 One Against Ten Thousand, Against Fifty Thousand
In the Southern Border’s camp.
Xu Qiao looked at the letter with trembling hands.
“Father, what is it?” Xu Longze asked. He was the eldest of the three brothers and also the heir to the title. However, when it came to cultivation base, he wasn’t as strong as Xu Longzun, as he was only at 6th Grade Earth Rank.
Xu Qiao closed his eyes and said, “Longzun and Su Wen fought on the streets! Su Wen broke his Qi Sea! Your brother is crippled!” “What?!”
Xu Longze stood up angrily and gritted his teeth as he said, “This Su Wen! Not only did he cause Third Brother’s death, he also harmed Longzun… Commander Father, doesn’t His Majesty care about this?” “Care? Why do you think the Emperor will care?! The letter said that His Majesty did not punish Su Wen but reprimanded your mother instead!”
Xu Qiao smiled bitterly, “Good! Really good! My good Majesty, are you going to treat my Xu family like this?”
He felt extremely wronged. People were like this. Most of the time, they wouldn’t think that they were in the wrong.
Xu Longzun was clearly the one who went to find trouble with Su Wen, but from his point of view, the responsibility was naturally Su Wen’s.
Xu Qiao closed his eyes! “Father, I want to return to the capital! To avenge my younger brother!” Xu Longze stood up to leave. “Stop right there!” Xu Qiao shouted coldly. “What’s the use of you going back now? How much value does my Xu family have in His Majesty’s eyes? Can you defeat Su Wen?” “Then what do we do? Do we just accept it?” Xu Longze was burning with rage! Xu Qiao gritted his teeth and said, “Gather the army! I want to surrender! Surrender to the Fire Barbarians!”
“What!?” Xu Longze’s face was filled with shock as he cried out in alarm, “Father, you can’t do this! Right now, my second brother and mother are in the capital, along with our wives and children. What should they do if we defect?”
It was not that he was very loyal to Great Zhou, but that he valued his family more.
Xu Qiao opened his eyes, and his gaze was filled with coldness. He said in a deep voice, “It’s useless! If we go back now, do you think Su Changqing will let us and our father off? We’re already at odds with the Su family. Now that Longzun is crippled, we have one less bargaining chip in His Majesty’s heart.” “That traitor Su Changqing, in the struggles of the Royal Court, I am far from being his match. When I return to the capital, I will definitely be harmed by his underhanded methods! At that time, not to mention my family, even you and I will not be able to live!” Xu Qiao looked at Xu Longze and said earnestly, “My Xu family has been generals for generations and served the Great Zhou. Now that we have fallen to such a state, it can only be said that His Majesty is muddle-headed! We only have one path left, and that is to survive and take revenge for our wives, children, and family! As long as we live, we can continue the Xu family’s legacy and have a chance to take revenge for our deceased relatives.” “If both you and I die, then the Xu family will truly have no chance of making a comeback. Su Wen and his father will also clap their hands in joy.” Xu Longze’s eyes were bloodshot! He knew that if he made this decision, it would mean that his brothers, his mother, his wife, and children would all die! But just as Xu Longcheng had said, what could he do if he returned to the capital? Xu Qiao continued, “If we fight our way back like this, Emperor Zhou can send any Heaven Rank expert. You and I will die for sure. If we join the Fire Barbarians, it will be a war between the two nations. If Emperor Zhou sends a Heaven Rank expert, the barbarian experts won’t ignore it either! We can use the barbarians to avenge my family!” “Then… let’s rebel!”
“Rebel!”
Xu Qiao and his son had made their final decision!
Just as Su Wen wished!
They led their troops to seek refuge with the barbarians. Along the way, many people took advantage of the chaos to escape. After all, not everyone was willing to work for the Barbarians. In the end, only 10,000 soldiers remained! Most of them had no family. Soon after, the Barbarians marched north with Xu Qiao and his son as the vanguard. They conquered 13 cities in seven days! Fortunately, Wu Kunhu received the news and immediately mobilized his troops from all over the country. He also gathered quite a number of troops that had escaped to forcefully defend the barbarians’ attack!
Both sides entered a standoff!
Capital, Su Residence. “Life is like a merciless carving knife, changing our appearance…”
Su Wen was lying on the bed and humming a song.
This was the leisurely life of a retiree.
Needless to say, Shen Qiu’s methods were truly impressive. After the Emperor opened the inner treasury and let her retrieve the medicinal ingredients, he drank several days of medicinal soup. Su Wen could feel his injured organs starting to recover.
Just as Shen Qiu had said, the Water Separation Bodhi was useful in nourishing his organs. As his injuries healed, Su Wen realized that his bodily functions had become stronger, and his True Qi was growing at a faster rate. Following that, a few more fire-elemental medicines were used. The True Qi in Su Wen’s body rose, and it increased so rapidly that even the cocoon of the Sorcerer Golden Gu could not absorb it. He was forcefully raised to the 6th Stage! At this time, news of Xu Qiao and his son’s rebellion spread to the capital. After hearing this news, Emperor Zhou lost all anger he had on the surface. Only a pair of cold eyes were left. “Send my orders to bring Xu Qiao’s family to the front line of the southern border and execute them! I want him to know the consequences of betraying me! Don’t they hate Su Wen? Let Su Wen do it!”
The Xu Family’s gates were forcefully kicked aside.
Su Wen barged in with his men.
“Who are you guys!?” Madam Xu Qiao rushed out and scolded sternly, “This is the Duke’s Residence!”
Su Wen shook his head and said, “Not anymore. Xu Qiao has already brought his men to join the Barbarians! Now, all of you are traitors. Under His Majesty’s orders, all the elders and children of Xu Qiao’s family are to be sent to the frontlines of the Southern Borders! You will all be beheaded.” “How… how could this be?” Upon hearing this news, Madam Xu’s legs turned to jelly.
At this time, a group of soldiers rushed in and brought all the Xu Family members out! Xu Longzun was also among them. The current him had a deathly pale complexion!
Although his body was still strong, without his cultivation, he was like an ant in front of Su Wen.
The two of them looked at each other. Xu Longzun straightened his neck, showing no intention of lowering his head.
To him, death was nothing.
Ever since he lost his cultivation, he had this thought several times. But he still did not want to bow down to Su Wen.
Su Wen walked in front of Xu Longzun and smiled lightly. He looked down at Xu Longzun with the attitude of a victor. “You are not wrong. If I were you, even if my good-for-nothing brother was humiliated, I would still attack!”
“But! Since ancient times, the winner takes all. This is the principle. I win, so I live. Since you lost, your entire family will die.” “Why was it difficult for me to gather my True Qi after you hit me that day?” Xu Longzun was still thinking about this question. To him, this was completely unreasonable.
Otherwise, he would not have let Su Wen attack him in exchange for injuring him.
Su Wen shook his head and did not explain. He himself had yet to fully understand the use of the Pupils of the Vermillion Bird.
He was just fumbling around. “Take them away!” Under Su Wen’s command, everyone was taken away! Su Wen’s gaze gradually turned sharp. These people would be killed on this trip to the Southern Border.
Before leaving, Su Wen went to the Spiritual Masters Residence again.
When he was injured, Ni Hongxiao visited him once. After confirming that he was fine, she did not come again. This time, Su Wen came to look for Mo Xin and also went to visit her.
She was still in the same No.7 Laboratory that no one approached. After entering, unsurprisingly, Ni Hongxiao was still in front of the experiment table. “So this is the mystery of the Beast Spirit Armor…”
The people sent by Emperor Zhou and Su Changqing to the Yan Country had successfully conveyed the secret of the Beast Spirit Armor back.
Ni Hongxiao naturally obtained a set of the manual.
After all, to a certain extent, she was a ‘peak existence’ of Great Zhou.
Su Wen never thought that Ni Hongxiao could transform Zhao Jin into such a person.
“Thank you! For helping Zhao Jin transform!” Su Wen said in a deep voice, “Those materials are far more valuable than the money I gave you. Thank you!”
Ni Hongxiao shook her head in response. “Those materials are all His Majesty’s. I don’t need to spend money…” Great, after going one round about how much money an experiment needs, she in the end still takes from the Emperor… Ni Hongxiao then walked to Su Wen’s side, picking up Su Wen’s arm skilfully as she said, “I’ve used up the blood essence you donated last time. Give me more…”
Su Wen smiled bitterly. With their relationship, he would not reject her.
After taking the blood, Ni Hongxiao placed Su Wen’s blood into the cabinet and returned to the test table. “That’s it? Didn’t you say blood AND essence?” Su Wen smiled.
Ni Hongxiao froze, before sighing helplessly as she walked back to Su Wen’s side… She then bent down.
“Ouch… Be gentler!”
“Shut up, are you a man or not!” “Don’t you know what you’re holding?” “So annoying! This is too troublesome!” Su Wen was physically and emotionally satisfied as he left the Spiritual Masters Residence.
This time, he was not the only one who went south. Wu Lie, as well as many other generals, including his eldest brother, Su Cheng, were included in the roster.
They also brought along 100,000 Royal Guards which would be placed under the command of Wu Kunhu.
After all, even the cleverest housewife can’t cook without rice. Even Wu Kunhu was only able to defend when he was at a disadvantage in terms of military strength. It would be a fool’s dream to think of counterattacking. After not seeing him for some time, Su Wen realized that his elder brother’s cultivation had obviously improved. He had already reached the level of a 9th Grade Star Rank, and was just a step away from breaking through to Earth Rank.
It seemed that his talent was not bad. It was just that he did not have a Heaven Rank cultivation technique.
This time, Yan Luoying was also sent out. However, unlike Su Wen, she was appointed as the lieutenant of the army and would serve under Wu Kunhu.
It was very clear that after she married Su Wen, Emperor Zhou had already planned to train her and officially transfer her into the army.
The team set off in a grand procession. After traveling for a day, the team stopped to rest.
Su Wen led the Secret Shadow Guards to escort the Xu Family.
Yan Luoying, on the other hand, had to lead the troops. Now that she was in the army, she seemed to have become a completely different person.
The smile on her face disappeared and her expression turned cold and stern. It was impossible for her to stay with Su Wen. After the tent was set up, Su Wen suddenly realized that a person dressed in the Great Zhou uniform was running towards him!
That person’s clothes were a little fat and his helmet didn’t fit him.
He looked extremely ridiculous as he walked. “Brother Su!”
Upon hearing this delicate little voice, Su Wen knew that this was Sister Muyu! “Why are you here?” Su Wen quickly looked around and brought her into the tent. Wu Muyu smiled. “I let Wu Lie bring me in! How is it? Aren’t I impressive?”
“Impressive your head! If you come, won’t your father kill me?” Su Wen sighed.
But he was actually quite happy. “I don’t want to either, but you’ve been so busy recently. You’re always running around. I miss you!” The little girl hugged Su Wen and started acting cute. Could such a cute little sister be driven away?
Was he still human if he did that?
Su Wen said unhappily, “Where’s Wu Lie? Why didn’t he send you here?” Wu Muyu pouted and said, “How would he dare to let anyone see him with me? He said that once we reached the front line of the southern border to not say that he was the one who brought me here. He asked me to say that I came along with you.”
However, Wu Muyu smiled slyly and said, “But it’s nothing. Brother Su, I will tell my father that he insisted on bringing me here. My father dotes on me the most. Even if he knows that it’s fake, he will definitely beat my brother up to vent his anger!” Su Wen: “….”
He could not help but feel sorry for Wu Lie! When he thought about his sister, he felt goosebumps as well. She was also a little devil! However, it was a pity that even if Su Changqing and Su Yuanuan were added together, they would not be enough to even fight him even with a handicap… The team slowly advanced. Beside Su Wen, there was suddenly a new good looking Secret Shadow Guard! Even though the accompanying Secret Shadow Guards saw this new addition… No one dared to make a sound. Lord Su Wen’s current reputation… was quite terrifying Can’t you see those people he was escorting?
It was Lord Su’s masterpiece!
Didn’t you see what happened to the government officials of the Li Prefecture? Another of Lord Su’s masterpieces. That’s right, the so-called King of Li Prefecture, Wang Yuanchun, and all the officials of Li Prefecture had been dismembered not long ago in the capital! Emperor Zhou hated them and did not let them off easily.
He publicly pronounced them guilty and sentenced all of them to death by a thousand cuts!
Those days had indeed increased Su Wen’s Emotional Value by quite a large amount. As the commoners clapped their hands in joy, Su Wen’s debt had already fallen to 400,000. Although this sum was still a staggering one… Finally, after a long journey, the group arrived at Southern Border, Water City. At this moment, Wu Kunhu was leading his army to confront the barbarians.
Everyone entered the city and made their own arrangements.
Su Wen and a group of officers and generals went to meet Wu Kunhu.
Yan Luoying was among them. She was wearing armor and looked very heroic at the moment.
Su Wen went over and smiled. “How has my Madam been recently?”
After leaving the city, the two of them barely met.
Yan Luoying nodded. “It’s alright! These people are still afraid of me. They’re very obedient!”
That’s right. In the rumors, Yan Luoying’s reputation was not much better than Su Wen’s.
Killing Demoness.
Human massacrer.
That was not all.
However, Yan Luoying had already adjusted her attitude ever since she married Su Wen.
They could say whatever they wanted as long as they remained obedient when she commanded them.
Suddenly, Yan Luoying sniffed and turned to look at Su Wen. She asked suspiciously, “Why do you smell like cosmetic powder?” “Ah! Did you smell wrong?” Su Wen feigned ignorance. Who else could it be? It must be from Wu Muyu. Yan Luoying leaned closer and sniffed again. She frowned and said, “What did you do? Don’t tell me that you made a move on the Xu Family’s women…”
Su Wen hurriedly waved his hand and said, “How is that possible? I don’t know either. Maybe I got it while patrolling.” Yan Luoying still had some measure of trust in Su Wen. She only replied, “I believe you should know what you can and cannot do.”
Everyone entered the temporary general’s residence, which was also the conference hall of the army. Wu Kunhu sat up high and swept his gaze across everyone. When his gaze landed on Su Wen, he paused for a moment. Then, he arranged for everyone to sit down. Wu Kunhu said in a low voice, “There are still a few places that need to be defended. Since you guys have arrived, you will bring strong reinforcements for our army. Now, whatever I will say, you guys do!” “Wu Lie, lead 10,000 soldiers out of the city and head west…” “Yan Luoying, you lead 5,000 soldiers out of the city and bypass the forest on the left…” Wu Kunhu was swift and decisive. He began to arrange for everyone to reinforce the defensive
line.
As for this city, its strategic position was actually not that bad. After all, the barbarians had already failed to conquer it for days. At this moment, the army was stationed below the city and was only cursing and challenging. After arranging everyone, Wu Kunhu looked at Su Wen and sighed. “Although I hate you, you are here on the emperor’s orders. Hurry up and complete His Majesty’s orders. On the city wall, behead Xu Qiao’s family. After that, your skills are not bad, so stay here and serve!” “Er… His Majesty didn’t tell me to stay…” Su Wen muttered. It wasn’t that he was afraid of going to the battlefield. He was just afraid that Wu Kunhu would discover that Wu Muyu had followed him… He wanted to quickly bring Wu Muyu back to the capital.
“I am the biggest here.”
Wu Kunhu’s expression was calm, but his five words were domineering. Then, he continued to look at the map on the table and said casually, “Go! Hurry up and complete the mission His Majesty gave you, so that you don’t have to worry!” On the city walls! All the family members of the Xu family were brought up and stood in the gaps between the city walls. Su Wen went up the city wall and saw that there were barbarians cursing below! “Cowardly turtles in the city, hurry up and come out! Why did you bring these women here? Are you going to send them to play with me?” shouted the Fire Barbarians.
Compared to humans, the barbarians were much taller.
Most of them were around three meters in height!
However, there were clearly fewer in population. From Su Wen’s point of view, there were at most twenty to thirty thousand people below the city!
Even so, the valiant Barbarians were far stronger than 100,000 ordinary soldiers.
And beside these barbarians were human armies!
It was the surrendered army led by Xu Qiao! However, after conquering several cities, Xu Qiao managed to recruit many soldiers as well. Currently, they numbered about 20,000! Added together, there were only 50,000 people in total outside the city! When Xu Qiao saw Su Wen pushing his family up the city wall, a bad feeling rose in his heart! He roared, “Su Wen, what are you doing?” The Barbarians who were scolding and cursing immediately shut up. Not to mention anything else, Xu Qiao himself was very strong and had a 9th Grade Earth Rank cultivation. After fighting with the barbarians several times, he still won the respect of some barbarians with his strength.
His roar was laced with True Qi, and everyone could hear it clearly. At this moment, Su Wen took out a loudspeaker.
That’s right, it was literally a megaphone. He went to look for Mo Xin to get him a megaphone!
After all, it was quite tiring to use True Qi to shout. Furthermore, it was not as effective as using the loudspeaker. Furthermore, using True Qi to shout through the loudspeaker would make it even louder. “Hello, testing one, two…”
The familiar sound of mike testing came out.
into
The loud sound blasted out through the array engraved in the loudspeaker. It’s effect was pretty decent, leaving Su Wen satisfied. “Hello everyone! Hello everyone! Let me introduce myself first. My name is Su Wen. You might not know me well, but my father is Su Changqing. Have you heard of him? He is the prime minister of Great Zhou.” Wu Kunhu, who was looking at the map in the city, frowned and looked up at the city wall.
“What is this kid doing? Must he make it so troublesome to kill a few people?” At this moment, on the city wall, Su Wen rambled on, “As for me, everyone can be considered to know me now. Come, first, let’s perform a show for everyone. Please take a look, it’s the Xu Family’s decapitation show!”
“Execute!”
At Su Wen’s command, the Shadow Guards unsheathed their blades without hesitation and chopped off the head in front of them!
There was no great fanfare, everyone was killed with a single strike!
Heads fell along the walls.
Xu Qiao’s eyes were bloodshot as he stared at the city wall!
Meanwhile, Xu Longze’s face was covered in tears!
[Ding-dong. Congratulations, the host has received Xu Qiao’s resentment. +400 Emotional Value.)
[Ding-dong. Congratulations, the host has received Xu Longze’s resentment. +500 Emotional Value.]
A large amount of Emotional Value entered his account.
Evidently, these two already hated Su Wen to the core.
However, Su Wen did not care. He was about to start his ultimate goal and harvest his Emotional Value.
“The performance is over. Then, I, Su Wen, will sincerely greet all your mothers and ancestors!”
“Especially the humans who surrendered with Xu Qiao. I want to ask you, do you have any conscience? The barbarians and humans have fought for generations! All of you are worse off than animals, but you’re all behaving like humans wielding weapons. Do you think you can obtain glory and wealth? Let me tell you, no, not to mention that you can’t win, even if you win, you will be treated as abandoned by these barbarians…”
Wu Kunhu listened attentively and shook his head. He laughed to himself as he roared, “This kid has such eloquence… to shake the morale of the army. Not bad!”
Su Wen thought that this speech could earn some emotional value. After all, there were tens of thousands of people.
However, he realized that after he finished speaking, the system did not give any response.
After some thought, Su Wen understood.
These words might be able to enter the hearts of some people, but even if these people heard it, they would only feel guilty about their own choices or have other thoughts. However, it was unrealistic to say that they would have any strong emotions towards Su Wen.
‘Sigh… I guess I’ll have to be direct.’
Su Wen shouted into the loudspeaker, “Everyone below the city! And that bunch of dog barbarians, f*ck your entire family! Yo Mama so fat, when I swerved to avoid her on the street, my horses died of exhaustion! Yo Mama so fat, that she trips over people with just a strand of her hair…”
Up and down the city walls, everyone was stupefied.
Even Wu Kunhu in the city couldn’t help but sigh in admiration. “This kid’s mouth is too dirty!”
After a moment of silence…
Suddenly, endless furious roars erupted from below the city!
“I’m going to f**king kill this bastard!”
“Su Wen, f*ck you!”
“I can’t take it anymore. Attack the city!”
Their anger finally gave Su Wen the feedback he wanted! Su Wen smiled happily as he watched the Emotional Value increase.
Carrying a loudspeaker, he sat on the city wall and verbally sparred with these people.
Even if those people were to use their True Qi, they would not be as loud as Su Wen’s loudspeaker. Moreover, it was hard to hear what was being said when there were more people shouting.
Su Wen fully displayed his top player worthy venomous tongue. Thinking back to his previous life’s experience of playing moba games, those scenes of him becoming a street pianist flooded his mind.
All sorts of filthy words were spewed out!
When has this Great Ancestor ever been afraid of anyone!
Although the Emotional Values obtained through this kind of cursing and swearing was very low, there were the numbers to make up for it.
After all, there were tens of thousands of people below them!
Su Wen watched as his debt began to decrease rapidly!
He laughed wildly in his heart. His mouth was like a Gatling gun, shooting without stopping!
Let’s fight!
They spat at each other for less than 15 minutes, and his debt was cleared!
And then… the path to growth began…
However, Su Wen unhappily realized that some people had already shut up.
Obviously, they also realized that they did not have an advantage in this scolding battle.
Furthermore, after cursing for a bit and calming down, the sustained stimulation of swearing was relatively low.
It was just like how many people would stop getting angry after scolding for a while. Instead, it would become a pure competition.
Even so, Su Wen’s Emotional Value was still increasing rapidly…
But the increase was slowing down!
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