Chapter 1721: Chapter 1328: Fair-Weather Friends! Pawn Crosses the River!
"Ding!"
Inside the Dragon Tiger Gang, four people elegantly clink their glasses and then drink their wine dry.
Jiang Dali hasn’t moved yet, Xiao Feng laughs heartily, picks up the wine jar, changes to a big bowl and fills a cup for him, saying delightedly, "Today, our brothers and friends rarely get together to drink. Small cups aren’t satisfying, let’s switch to big bowls."
"Good! It’s rare to reunite, indeed we should not leave until we’re drunk!"
Lu Xiaofeng smiles faintly, his two mustaches almost curling onto his face, his eyebrows dancing with delight.
Sikong Zhaixing shakes his head with a troubled look, waving his hand, "No, no, you drink, you drink. My alcohol tolerance is about right with cups; drinking with bowls, perhaps tonight I can’t be a Gentleman on the Beam and might have to sneak flowers and steal people."
Everyone laughs loudly at this, then clinks their glasses with fervor, the atmosphere lively.
After three rounds, Lu Xiaofeng sets down his wine bowl, with a slightly flushed face, looks at Jiang Dali and says, "Old Jiang, now you’ve truly become the number one in the vassal states, and Black Wind Village is indeed the foremost power. In a few days, the World’s No.1 Martial Arts Tournament hosted by you and Black Wind Village will be grandly held;
you are now enjoying both fame and wealth, shouldn’t you stop and learn from me, find a woman and enjoy the happiness of a man’s life?
Look at Old Xiao, his child has already been born and is affianced by the Mongolian Emperor himself, becoming Mongolia’s Golden Saber Prince Consort. If you were to be with... with..."
At this point, Lu Xiaofeng’s tongue also begins to tie a bit, unsure whether to mention Miss Wang, Miss Murong, or the most tricky Miss Wanwan, truly a difficult choice.
Jiang Dali laughs heartily, sets down the wine bowl, his tiger eyes shining, "You’re drinking too much! Now’s not the time to discuss this. I have one last, more important thing to do, which I previously didn’t have the ability to undertake, now I barely have the capacity."
Xiao Feng, surprised, wipes away wine stains from the corner of his mouth, raises his hand and asks, "Brother Jiang, with your current strength, if you still barely have the ability for it, there must be nothing left in the vassal states. Are you going to the Holy Dynasty?"
"That’s correct!"
Jiang Dali nods with a smile, pulls open the seat and stands up, looks at the sky with a lone bright moon, slowly saying, "From beginning to end, my goal has always been in the Holy Dynasty. However, what I want to investigate involves too deep and broad aspects, and without certain strength, there’s simply no way to start.
Now things are different. After this World’s No.1 Martial Arts Tournament, once I deal with some matters over in the vassal states, I will set out for the Holy Dynasty. At that time, the foundation of Black Wind Village in the vassal states will still need you all, my brothers, to look after."
Hearing this, Xiao Feng and the others are slightly shaken in their hearts. Xiao Feng sets down his wine bowl, wanting to speak and follow Jiang Dali to the Holy Dynasty, but the words catch in his throat, unsure of how to express them.
Even Jiang Dali only considers he barely has the strength now to investigate matters related to the Holy Dynasty, even if he follows, it seems he won’t be of much help, yet it’s such a helpless situation.
Even if his martial talent doesn’t quite match this benefactor, he can still be considered top-notch, but even so, now still stuck at the bottleneck of the Heavenly Human 9th Realm, wanting to break through to the Returning to Truth Realm, without a sudden enlightenment or sufficient accumulation, it’s tremendously challenging.
"Don’t worry! With the current number of experts in Black Wind Village, even if we don’t look after it, there’s no one who dares provoke."
Sikong Zhaixing nonchalantly shakes his head and laughs, internally adding a sentence, "You’ve already fought undefeated across the vassal states. Sects you don’t provoke are burning high incense."
"The matter you want to investigate, what is it? Could it be related to the Holy Dynasty Imperial Family?"
Lu Xiaofeng’s curiosity is aroused, and the amateur detective’s occupational savvy in the martial world again sniffs out some unusual signals, asking.
"That’s right."
Sikong Zhaixing also becomes interested immediately, his eyes slightly aglow, "There are so many treasures in the Holy Dynasty Palace. The treasures that the Heavenly Gate Master Shakyamuni left behind, you didn’t share much with me, why not take me with you when you go to the Holy Dynasty."
"You truly have the audacity of a thief!"
Jiang Dali smiles casually, "The matter I want to investigate is unrelated to you, nor do you need to know too much. When the time is right, I will speak of it. If you want to know sooner, continue to improve your strength."
After speaking, he laughs loudly and walks towards the courtyard, with a flick of his hand, "swish swish," several books fall onto the table where everyone is drinking.
"These Martial Arts Secret Manuals are prepared for you. If you are interested, you may learn them."
Xiao Feng and the others direct their gaze to the table.
Only to see "Three Points Return to Essence Energy," "Ten Thousand Ridges Piercing Cloud," "Snow Blood Claw," among other secret techniques entering their view.
Sikong Zhaixing takes a look, moved to the point of tears.
A surprise indeed, it’s a bonus surprise.
Seeing these three Martial Arts, he already changed his mind three times in a breath.
Although he may not be willing to spend the energy to learn these Martial Arts, their value is extraordinary, simply because each of them is a unique copy, worth a lot of money. He had swiftly divided the spoils in his mind.
"Three Points Return to Essence Qi" should be given to Xiao Feng, to help Hero Xiao enhance his Inner Strength. By then, with each sip of wine, it would be a Golden Dragon wave, Three Points Return to Essence Qi, seven points rely on the spirit of wine.
"Snow Blood Claw" should be given to Lu Xiaoji; after the Spirit Rhinoceros’ Finger, it would be followed by Snow Blood Claw, greatly boosting combat power.
"Ten Thousand Ridges Piercing Cloud", this kind of difficult Martial Arts that can emit formless Sword Qi, should be left to the one with the most outstanding talent.
"After all, boozy friends are the best. Whether you’re doing well or not, or he’s doing well or not, when it’s time to drink, you all come out to drink. The ones doing well will even give some benefits to those not doing well."
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After leaving the table, Jiang Dali returned to the office within the gang to handle important matters and browse through some intelligence information organized by subordinates that required his review.
By this evening, from various vassal states across the more than five hundred sub-branches of Black Wind Village, over seven million Mixed Martial Arts players had signed up to participate in the World’s No.1 Martial Arts Tournament, and a large number were still on their way to register.
It is estimated that by the end of the entire registration phase, at least tens of millions of Mixed Martial Arts players will choose to participate in the World’s No.1 Martial Arts Tournament.
This will be an unprecedented large-scale power event in the Mixed Martial Arts World, with a magnitude surpassing all previous large-scale power events, whether it was the Three Kingdoms War of Song, Jin, and Liao countries of the past, or the Ming Country vs. Black Wind Village war, or even the Leifeng Tower Save the World event, nothing could compare.
Jiang Dali couldn’t help but feel a strong sense of pride and accomplishment.
It seemed like the many large-scale power events before this were also all created single-handedly by him.
Sure enough, this kind of record could only be refreshed by himself.
As for the vassal states, including the Holy Dynasty, only his Black Wind Village could have such a huge appeal and influence among the players. This World’s No.1 Martial Arts Tournament will truly be ’world’s first’ and become the biggest support for him entering the Holy Dynasty.
Meanwhile, he also noticed the movement on the Ying Country’s side.
In Ying Country, Black Wind Village also has a fixed asset — the No God Absolute Palace.
However, he did not activate this relatively sensitive asset, as a competition point for the Martial Arts Tournament.
Firstly, after some contact with the mysterious Xuanhua Ship Master from Ying Country, he also investigated Xuanhua Ship through family sources (Chapter 1245), knowing that the Xuanhua Ship Master is probably not simple.
The other party is at least a Returning to Truth 5th Realm expert and also has a powerful brother, so he doesn’t want to make too many enemies without grievances or enmity, dragging his steps in the vassal state mire. As long as the other side does not provoke him, there is naturally mutual happiness without conflict of interest;
Secondly, apart from the relatively valuable Holy Tomb, he also doesn’t think highly of this tiny place Ying Country and intends to attract players out of Ying Country by not setting the Martial Arts Tournament competition point there, to lure the well-cultivated crops from others’ vegetable fields to his own;
Thirdly, he had already dispatched ’Grave-Snatching Grandmaster’ Liao Rushen to Ying Country to mobilize players to assault other seals containing Orochi at the Holy Tomb, and some results have been achieved. Ying Country is already chaotic and not suitable for stimulating the Ying Country Royal Family and that Xuanhua Ship by holding the Martial Arts Tournament there.
But conversely, if Xuanhua Ship Master insists on preventing him from causing havoc in the Holy Tomb, then the first notion of ’not wishing to be enemies’ will change, because, for the excellent training ground resources of the Holy Tomb, and the Eight-headed Giant Snake Poison Blood needed by Dongfang Bubai, he will inevitably need to confront Xuanhua Ship once and for all.
Jiang Dali looked at the rather lively Ying Country section on the Jianghu Forum.
It can be seen that one Holy Tomb, under the mobilization of Liao Rushen, is being attacked by many Ying Country players and foreign players. Some internal situations of the Holy Tomb have already been revealed, and this action has also caused condemnation from the Ying Country Royal Family. Some families in Ying Country are already gathering forces to fight back.
Jiang Dali squinted his eyes, "I still can’t get away from the Dragon Tiger Gang for the time being, and Liao Rushen is just a representative I sent to Ying Country to test the waters, a pawn that crosses the river. With my momentum of destroying the Heavenly Gate, I wonder what that Xuanhua Ship Master will do against this move. Will he avoid the sharp edge and stay still, or will he take my pawn?"
No matter what choice the other side makes, what move is taken, he internally already has contingency plans prepared.
But if the goal can be achieved without lifting a finger, Jiang Dali is also happy to see it happen, so he can go to the Holy Dynasty sooner...
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(Evening update! Requesting a wave of guaranteed monthly votes, 30 more monthly votes tonight, 1,000 more words in the extra update)
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