Following the landing of the eastern side of the East China Sea, the southern border launched an equally strong attack.
The strongest practitioners of the Tong Shen realm among the witch clan all came together and hardened their battle bodies to triple the gap in the Lianyuan Mountain Range, allowing the Zhenshan Army to drive straight in and take Yangcheng in a single day.
At the same time, on the Hou Qian side, there were people who went forward to say their piece.
“Mi Shen Weng ——”
Ji Chengtian stared at the vicissitudes of the old man within the main hall, “You’re actually from the Southern Border as well!”
The former third in the Heavenly Ranking, Mia Shen Weng, was an old monster who had lived for seven or eight hundred years. His person was mysterious and unpredictable, and no one knew how many underhanded cards this old monster had prepared in all these years.
Ji Chengtian had not expected that the Southern Border was even related to Mia Shen Weng.
“Whether or not one is from the Southern Border should have nothing to do with the purpose of the old man coming here. The old man has only lived a long life and has known more friends.”
Mia Shen Weng smiled lightly, “I have only come this time to deliver a message for the Great Witch Sacrifice of the Southern Border.”
“Uniting the two foreign races to attack the Great Qian?” Ji Chengtian snorted, “Do you take me for a fool?”
The Eastern Ying and Southern Border that were now besieging the Great Qian were both uncompromising foreigners, they were not attacking the Great Qian, they were advancing into the Central Plains.
If Hou Qian were to unite with them, their reputation would be completely infamous.
Of course, Ji Chengtian didn’t actually care about reputation, but to do so would undoubtedly be to cut himself off from the Central Plains and side with those foreigners.
If he joined forces with the foreigners, I am afraid that the Hou Qian would be in chaos internally, not to mention the siege of the Great Qian. In the beginning, Ji Chengtian and the Witch King had joined forces to kill Qing Yu quietly, let alone now when he had openly joined forces with the foreigners.
Only a fool would do such a thing.
“Of course it’s not for Your Majesty to attack head-on by force.”
Mi Shen Weng revealed a mysterious smile and said, “All that is needed is for Your Majesty to set up an army at the border and delay Great Qian’s forces. If the Great Qian is finally defeated by the Southern Border and the East, Your Majesty can still go there in time to reorganise the country, can’t he? After all, Your Majesty is also a descendant of the Great Ancestor and part of the Ji royal family.”
The two options of besieging the Great Qian and reorganising the river and mountain after its defeat were different in meaning and difficulty, although the timing of the march was different.
“Please think about how to act, Your Majesty, I will leave you alone, farewell!”
Miao Shen Weng obviously saw that Ji Chengtian’s heart was moved, smiled and said goodbye, then disappeared from the hall as a mist of light.
A day later, Emperor Shengde of Houqian sent a letter to Daqian, saying that both sides were descendants of the Great Ancestor and of the same race.
Ji Chengtian did a more perfect job than what Yishen Weng had suggested, and under the pretext of a*sisting the Great Qian, he sent troops to the border so that the Great Qian did not even have a reason to reprimand Hou Qian.
After all, they intended to send troops to help you, not to invade you, so what is the point of scolding them?
Although everyone knows that Emperor Shengde has a tiger’s heart and knows that if you allow the Hou Qian army to enter the country, it would be tantamount to inviting wolves into your house, but this has never happened, so who are you to reprimand a good man who has come to help on trumped up charges?
In any case, Hou Qian is holding back a considerable part of the war effort of Da Qian, and now that they are under siege from two sides, Hou Qian’s actions are undoubtedly pouring oil on the fire and adding fuel to the fire under Da Qian.
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The great event of the two foreign clans attacking the Great Qian in unison also made the Nine Heavens Conference open again.
As soon as Zhu Tian showed up, he immediately blasted Ji Chengtian, without any regard for the fact that he was a supreme power.
“You Tian, what do you mean? Do you know that the Eastern Region is our base?” Zhu Tian shouted sternly, without any trace of his old style of playing to the crowd.
Zhu Tian’s real identity was Jiang Muyun, the wife of Jiang Hao Gang, the head of the Jiang family in Eastern China. In the past few days, no less than a hundred Jiang family members had died on the shores of the East China Sea alone, and many more had been killed and injured in the various branches of the family.
“It is the purpose of my Nine Heavens to set off great calamities and trigger calamity qi. The original change of heaven also led the gra*slands to invade the Central Plains, and what I am doing is no different from him.” Ji Chengtian said without pretense.
This was the point. The Nine Heavens had gathered here for the purpose of triggering the Great Tribulation, and what Ji Chengtian had done was indeed correct.
However, now was not the time.
Ever since Qing Yu and the Blade God had known the consequences of breaking the blockade, they had tacitly chosen to slow down the pace, taking it one step at a time. They couldn’t break the blockade and find several more Dao Realms pressing down on them before they could break through themselves, could they?
Now push the Great Tribulation to a high (anti-harmony) tide, and the Daoist Lord of the Taishang will come out to make trouble. If they win against the Heaven-compliant Tai Shang Daoist Lord, there will be two more greats descending from the Buddha and the Daoist Ancestor. Even if Qing Yu and the Blade God have iron heads, they are not this iron.
Qing Yu thought about it and let Ren Piaomiao say, “The point of conflict between the two of you is the invasion of Eastern Japan, which cost the Jiang family a lot of money. Why don’t we contribute to help the Jiang family, or at least let the strength of the Jiang family be preserved?
As for the southern border, then let Great Qian carry the load. What do you guys think of this?”
“But there are still supreme beings over in Eastern Ying who have yet to strike, so will Xuan Tian be the one to carry the load when the time comes?” Ji Chengtian said with a hint of a related smile.
He knew that Cang Tian, or Ren Piaomiao, was on Qing Yu’s side, and his words were, in effect, Qing Yu’s meaning, so of course he refused to let Qing Yu have his way.
And, if Great Qian was not defeated, how would he, Ji Chengtian, have the chance to reorganise the mountain, wouldn’t the four states of Great Qian smell good?
“Cang Tian’s intention is mainly to preserve the strength of the Jiang family. Our aim is to help the Jiang family first, and as for expelling the East, it depends on the will of the people, is that so?” Qing Yu smiled and said.
The main aim was still to keep the war within certain limits and not to fight to the death now. Moreover, by joining the battlefield on the shores of the Eastern Sea, they could also temporarily avoid that whirlpool of the Interligator clan’s war body.
The eyes of the various powers were still more on the Interligator War Body than the Eastern Ying invasion. If Qing Yu wanted to wait and see what happened for the time being, he would have to find a name and try to avoid it, at least until he could see what both Mak Cang Sheng and the Southern Border were up to before entering.
“This is what the poor dao proposes, if you have any opinions, you can vote.”
“Of course I have no opinion.” Zhu Tian returned to her old demeanour and giggled.
She was the one who received the benefit, so naturally she would not have an opinion.
As for the others, Changing Heaven and Yantian had died, Yangtian Lin Zixiao and Cangtian Ren Piaomiao were all Qing Yu’s people, and since Hazel Heaven Lan Cang was now asking for Qing Yu’s help, they would not object either.
The only ones left were Ji Chengtian, who was clearly against it, and the Blade God.
“Yes, this matter will be arranged by Xuan Tian.” The Blade God said as such.
Although he and Qing Yu were not exactly friends, they were now on more or less the same footing, so naturally he would not give Qing Yu a hard time.
So the matter ended with six votes in favour and one against.
