Chapter 1752: Chapter 473: Exchange and Unstoppable Advance
Then, by accident, they clashed with the officials of West Qian.
Then, also "by accident," a Riddler went missing in that clash.
And as luck would have it, the Riddlers who came back reported that while chasing that evil cultivation, they uncovered a huge conspiracy.
Some evil cultivators were preparing to carry out a massive Blood Sacrifice in West Qian, and the most crucial intel was in the hands of that missing Riddler.
If the Daqian officials hadn’t shielded the evil cultivators, they would have already gotten the information smoothly.
Evil cultivation and Blood Sacrifice and all that were already a super sensitive topic lately, and now a Riddler had gone missing on top of that—how could they swallow this?
Jia Shisi flew into a rage on the spot and wanted to go chop people, but was stopped by Jia Shiwu—he didn’t even know who to chop. Was he supposed to just go straight and chop Daqian’s West Qian officials?
Wouldn’t that basically mean starting a war.
So Jia Shiwu first sent people deep into West Qian to talk to the Daqian officials over there, telling them to hurry up and release the man.
The Daqian officials were incredibly arrogant, flatly refused, insisting it had nothing to do with them and so on and so forth.
Then some West Qian person, who "understood the bigger picture," quietly told the Riddlers that the man was locked in a dungeon, being tortured day and night, as they tried to steal Dadui’s intel—especially the internal intelligence of the Riddlers.
This fuss went on for a few days. After confirming the news, Jia Shiwu said this couldn’t be tolerated; how could they just watch a Riddler suffer like that, and immediately sent people to raid the dungeon.
Soon, many people watched with their own eyes as the Riddlers who came to rescue him burst out of the dungeon with a man covered in blood, his flesh torn open, and even had a fight right there inside the city.
A lot of people saw that.
It was ironclad proof the officials were really shielding evil cultivation and had even arrested a Riddler.
After that, the Riddlers rescued their man and even kindly sent a message back: the evil cultivators in West Qian really were about to start the Blood Sacrifice, and they’d even found the location of the Sacrificial altar.
Unfortunately, the Jinyi Wei in West Qian were all as good as废物, and the officials were still saying the same thing—that they had never arrested anyone at all.
But in private, the local Shangguan was so angry his lungs were about to explode; even he felt sure someone really had done this behind his back.
A few days later, in the wilds of West Qian, traces of a great battle appeared.
Whoever struck, there was definitely a Ninth Tier involved.
By the time the experts who sensed it rushed over, they only found some Evil Cult Sacrificial Altars that had already been destroyed, plus some lingering Evil Qi.
The next day, the Dadui people who had entered West Qian ran into Daqian’s people; both sides were blazing with Fire Qi and got into a fight at the slightest disagreement.
On the fourth day, the Daqian court finally got the news.
Emperor Dui flew into a rage and directly sent out troops to enter West Qian and exterminate the evil cultivation.
Dadui’s grand army advanced like a hot knife through butter; within three days they had pushed a thousand li deep and dug up a full seven Evil Dao Altars.
At this point, word spread that the evil cultivators had been laying groundwork in West Qian for many years, preparing to use the altars as formation cores to launch a grand, earth-shaking Evil Cult ceremony.
On the seventh day, three thousand li of West Qian’s territory fell under Dadui’s control.
Meanwhile, in the Daqian court, a bunch of people were still bickering.
"Dadui is bullying us too far; even a blind man can see they’re just after seizing West Qian’s land! We must send King Ning with troops to strike back!"
"King Lian is the most suitable."
"I think King Xian is more appropriate."
On the tenth day, within West Qian’s borders, the booming sound was like war drums exploding.
A hundred thousand men in specially forged armor gathered together, their Qi-Blood soaring into the sky, faintly forming a blood-red tiger’s head in the clouds.
So many Body Cultivation warriors gathered together, their terrifying momentum fused by the Soldier Evil Technique, with Qi-Blood burning—it was practically Immune to All Techniques.
The army rolled forward, flattening everything. Even experts who saw them from far away couldn’t help but turn pale.
Were these still the draft-ox Body Cultivators they used to think of?
The gathered Evil Qi and Qi-Blood was practically no different from a Ninth Tier Body Cultivator.
Moreover, that Soldier Evil Qi grew thicker and stronger with each battle; the more they fought, the fiercer they became.
By now, after sweeping all the way, their momentum was sky-high.
A West Qian Sect expert had just come to take a look when a streak of Blade light fell from the sky, hacking him straight back into his Sect; the entire station was sliced cleanly in half by a single strike.
In fifteen days, Dadui’s soldiers had steamrolled eight thousand li, without encountering a single city that could hold out for even one day.
The most ridiculous part was that the local Jinyi Wei scattered at the first sign of trouble; they had long since vanished without a trace.
And the local Mortals actually felt quite a bit like they were joyfully welcoming the royal army.
By this time, in the Daqian court, no one was still arguing.
"The day before yesterday, the Sect Master of West Qian’s Xile Sect was heavily wounded by a single slash and his Sect was literally split apart by one blade.
Today, he finally couldn’t hold on any longer and was shredded by the Blade Qi that had invaded his body.
Yesterday, the Wang Clan of West Qian was wiped out after stubborn resistance.
If we delay any longer, a few months from now we might see Dadui’s ironclad army right here."
Someone muttered in a deep voice, just stating the facts, without mentioning who should go.
"King Lian is best at commanding troops; let King Lian go."
"Seconded."
"Seconded."
After arguing for so many days, they finally had a decision.
These people were actually a little scared now.
If Dadui just wanted a pretext to reclaim its old territory, they actually wouldn’t care that much.
After all, West Qian was never exactly a prosperous region of Daqian.
Even if Dadui did reclaim its homeland, based on past experience, the local Sects and clans would basically keep on living as they had.
Who would’ve thought Dadui would throw "martial ethics" out the window—within just a few days, they wiped out a major faction with a Ninth Tier sitting in town, and exterminated a deeply rooted local great clan.
Especially Jia Shisi—that shameless bastard actually struck personally.
A Ninth Tier Peak expert, with half a foot already stepped into the Tenth Tier, specializing in slaughter along the Blade Dao, personally taking the field—who could possibly stop him?
And yet they’d even managed to seize a pretext, claiming it was Daqian’s side that deployed a Ninth Tier first.
Our Ninth Tier was only at the first tribulation stage, and he only went there to take a look!
Too bad this mess couldn’t be explained clearly. Once the fighting starts, who struck first becomes impossible to prove.
The one-tribulation expert on Daqian’s side died, so whatever Jia Shisi said became the truth.
Anyway, the two really did fight. As for the process, that no longer mattered.
