Chapter 1034: Chapter 65: White Bone Soul Nails, Unsealing the Law Code on the Ascending Dragon Platform!
At the moment of intersection, the beam of light suddenly refracted and shot towards the sky.
The dragon boat at the center immediately vanished along with the light beam.
The next moment.
The light dissipated.
They had already appeared in a new environment—the True Dragon Royal City.
Zhao Xing surveyed the surroundings, finding himself in a vast Dragon Stone Square, with nine towering mountains around it as well.
However, their flying boat was not in the central region but had appeared to the northeast at East Dragon Mountain.
"We have entered the area of the Central Dragon Court." King Shenluo pointed west, "Fly west, and you will reach the Nine-star Fire Prison where Bai Yunwu is trapped."
"We’re not going that way." Zhao Xing spread out a map, "First head to the ’Ascending Dragon Platform’ in the south."
"Alright." King Shenluo immediately piloted the flying boat, rapidly heading south.
As for Ji Mengjun, Tong Jin, Jiang Chuan, and Xiao Huang, they stayed inside the cabin.
If there is no danger, they wouldn’t show up randomly to avoid unnecessary trouble and tracking.
Their mission was merely to escort Zhao Xing, avoiding any fights if possible.
As for King Shenluo and Ye Yuxong, they didn’t ask anything, with the explanation being "classified."
Zhao Xing then closed his eyes and quietly waited to reach his destination.
He was simultaneously contemplating in his memory palace.
"Bai Yunwu holds the Dragon King rank and has a large fiefdom in the Gusi Kingdom."
"According to intelligence, Bai Yunwu received a distress call from ’Bo Yi,’ a first-class strong member of the West Sea Water Clan, thus contacting Tang and Ao, two first-class sealer kings, as well as a total of forty-five high-grade human clan members under their command, for a rescue mission."
"In the end, it was a trap. The strongman ’Bo Yi’ of the West Sea Water Clan had long been brainwashed by the Sect World and preemptively set up an ambush, causing Bai Yunwu and his reinforcements to be trapped in the Fire Hell Plain."
"Bai Yunwu is one of Great Zhou’s four Dragon King-ranked nobles, and Tang and Ao, the Family Heads, are the Water Clan Chiefs of the East Sea, forming the bulwark of the East Sea defense line."
"Their entrapment immediately attracted support from the other three king-level Dragon Ranks of Great Zhou."
"The opposing forces involved the Golden Feather Royal Court, Holy Spirit Royal Court, Flame Light Royal Court, and Purple Dragon Royal Court of the four great barbarian kingdoms; the Great Snake Country of Japan and its thirty affiliated feudal states; the two major Divine Sects of Bishui and Xuantian out of the Ten Divine Sects. The forces of the five top-level sects: White Bone, Corpse Puppet, Four Saints, Qingyang, and Guiyuan."
"These forces began to encircle and attack the reinforcements of Great Zhou."
"Most of the strong individuals have the authority to command the Dragon Clan, for instance, those at the Lord Level (Second Grade) can command City Lord Level Dragons (Third Grade), and the other three king-level Dragon Ranks of Great Zhou can mobilize even more."
"Thus, both human and Dragon Clan strong individuals from the Ten Great Kingdoms of the Dragon Court Ancient Land rapidly increased."
"Initially, it involved only three first-class Water Clan sealer kings, Bai, Tang, and Ao, along with forty-five high-grade individuals."
"Within less than seven days, the number of first-class humans exceeded a hundred, involving tens of thousands of high-grade individuals, and the count was still growing."
"Truly the whole world is the enemy; the negative influences of Prince Liang’s rebellion are starting to show in the external situation." Zhao Xing thought to himself. "There never used to be such a large-scale attack on Zhou."
"However, it can’t all be blamed on Prince Liang. Emperor Jing’s external expansion over nearly three hundred years has made him essentially a ’Demon Sect’ in the eyes of Outer Realm Forces, and Emperor Jing is also considered the number one great devil in the world."
"Taking advantage of Emperor Jing’s purges in the early years of Da Zhi, diminishing military power, quickly seizing the opportunity to attack the high-end powers of Great Zhou in the Dragon Court Ancient Land."
Zhao Xing knew about this, but he hadn’t planned to get involved because such wars wouldn’t last long.
Emperor Jing simply didn’t want to deplete his family’s resources in high-end battles, not that he couldn’t fight them.
In a few months, the alliance of external opposing forces couldn’t hold out anymore.
Great Zhou losing a few first-class individuals is inconsequential, while for those so-called top sects, large tribes, and strong Water Clans, losing a first-class individual would severely damage their primordial energy. Moreover, without significant benefits, why follow the Divine Sect and Southern Barbarian forces into a fight?
Thus, this Dragon Court’s encirclement of Great Zhou quickly fell apart.
Just as he pondered this, a second ’Zhao Xing’ appeared at the entrance of Zhao Xing’s memory palace, speaking coldly to the first Zhao Xing: "The original plan was to wait out this storm and calmly reap benefits, but now you have to risk your life. Have you forgotten the original intention of the grand plan for longevity?"
The first Zhao Xing responded, "I planned to wait out this storm. In my previous life, it was not Bai Yunwu who was trapped in the Nine-star Fire Prison, but Tang Yinglong. But now it has changed."
The second Zhao Xing scoffed: "What does it have to do with you? Long Xiao is just an NPC; what does it matter to me if he’s dead?"
The first Zhao Xing said, "It’s not just for Long Xiao; Bai Yunwu cannot die now, and even the three Water Clan sealer kings should avoid death if possible."
The second Zhao Xing questioned, "Why can’t they die?"
"Now there’s a deviation, are you sure you can retreat safely?"
The first Zhao Xing explained, "The deviation isn’t significant. What’s certain is that those trapped in the Nine-star Fire Prison are definitely one of the three East Sea Water Clan sealer kings."
"This is because the encirclement operation by the alliance opposing Great Zhou was aimed at them."
"Eliminating the Water Clan sealer king of the East Sea is the best choice."
"After the upheaval in Pinghai State just subsided, if another of the three Water Clan sealer kings dies, Great Zhou’s plan to expand from the East Sea will encounter great difficulty, and the Seven Island Chains defense line will have to shrink by half."
"The resources on the sea are abundant, if this area gets blocked, how will Great Zhou sell its goods to the Four Seas in the future? Future fiscal revenues will undoubtedly decline."
"With reduced fiscal revenue, when I become the Grand Minister of Agriculture, wouldn’t I be perpetually poor?"