The Eight Eyes Wind Direction Swordsman
The Part 53
Shen Zhou pulled Xuan Wu's sword from Yun Zishan's stomach which was still stuck in his navel. The pain received from the baby who sucked his blood vanished.
Yun Zishan was sleeping exhausted with the baby in his arms. Meanwhile, Shen Zhou left him in the dungeon room after receiving a report from Kun Lun.
***
The Shu Imperial Palace.
Emperor Liu Bei was having a meeting with a representative of the Kai residence of the middle branch of nature. To enlist the help of them to help him win the war against the three empires that Shen Zhou had conquered.
“Pardon me, your highness Emperor Liu Bei. We will not interfere in the battle of the Shu Empire with the White Dragon. Especially if you have to intervene directly. We can only provide more powerful weaponry from the middle realms.”
“We have a risk with the minions of the Heavenly God Emperor, if we appear, surely they will also appear,” refused Kai Jiu.
"It's okay, Mr. Kai Jiu, we understand. Armament assistance was enough for us to win the war,” Emperor Liu Bei replied with a sly smile.
***
The borders of the Southern Water Kingdom and the Northern Fire Kingdom.
Shen Zhou was meeting with General Zhao Yun who had already gathered a troop secretly to seize the Southern Water Kingdom.
However, Shen Zhou could not go deeper into the downtown area of the Shu Empire which had already installed the formation of the Kai residence of the middle branch realm.
General Zhao Yun did not know what Emperor Liu Bei was planning. Even Kun Lun did not enter the downtown region of the Shu Empire either.
“The noble White Dragon Emperor, it seems that my existence as a traitor of the Shu Empire is well known. I can't go inside, all the important access can't be entered. Especially regarding the weaponry and military information of the Shu Empire. Not a single General in Shu Empire could enter the soldier barracks building,” General Zhao Yun explained.
“Shen Xin has no news for eight months. Was he killed by Emperor Liu Bei?" shen Zhou thought while stroking his chin.
The blue-eyed man then stood up and closed his eyes to use the divine consciousness to detect all the regions in Shu Empire to search for Shen Xin's whereabouts and found her to have been imprisoned and made insane by someone the unknown.
Shen Xin was imprisoned in a special prison protected by an illusionary formation and all those imprisoned were counterintuitive to Emperor Liu Bei.
“I will go alone to downtown Shu Empire. You continue the plan to invade the Southern Water Kingdom secretly,” Shen Zhu's word then disappear from the sight of General Zhao Yun teleporting to the downtown of the Shu Empire.
Shen Zhou's body flickered and appeared outside the protective dome covering an area of 20 km from the Empire's downtown region.
Shen Zhou was unable to break through the formation of the four Demonic Dragon Emperors.
Although Shen Zhou for 8 months had already broken through to the ninth-star War Emperor stage by cultivating using Tao Tie's sword. But still the formation was at the cultivation level that was at the intermediate realm.
The cultivation level in mainland XI intermediate realm consisted of Worldly, Heavenly, Supreme Warrior, Supreme King and supreme Emperor, as well as each cultivation level divided by early, intermediate, and peak.
After Shen Zhou touched the nine-star War Emperor stage, the White Dragon's heirloom effects and sky-level bone strengthening could no longer be used, either, unless he had risen his cultivation to the initial worldly level and his bone strengthening level reached the sky king stage. Then the effect will return but only one level.
Shen Zhou circled the protective dome of the Demon God Emperor formation to look for a crack in order to enter it. However, he did not find it and ended up exhausted, because the protective dome absorbed his divine chi energy.
Shen Zhou eventually moved away from the layers of the protective dome and found a very peaceful village with a green expanse of rice fields as far as the eye could see.
“I did not expect, if in the territory of the Shu Empire there is a village that is so peaceful as this,” Shen Zhou muttered with admiration to see the beautiful panorama before his eyes.
He who had already lost his chi energy walked quickly towards the village to enter its territory. But immediately scuttered by the village guards.
“Stop! You must pay tribute to enter the village. Otherwise you will us jail,” threaten one of the guards.
“Quick give 10000 gold coins! We will arrest any high-ranking officials of the Shu Empire who enter our village territory. If you know his identity as a soldier or an Imperial official, then we will ask for 10 million gold coins" the other village guards said.
He dared to say that, seeing Shen Zhou wearing the heirloom of the White Dragon that had already been upgraded into the robes of the White Dragon Emperor and looked like an elegant noble.
“So they are hostile to the Shu Empire. But why?” shen Zhou thought with a face full of question marks. Then proceed by saying to one of the guards, “Okay, I will give you whatever gold coins you ask for. But meet me with your village chief.”
"This is a ring containing 1 ja gold coins. I'll give it to meet me with your village chief" Shen Zhou asked for a second time.
“100 million gold coins, hahaha ...,” tease one of the unbelieving guards the space ring contains 100 million gold coins.
Suddenly there was a rumbling sound of horse footsteps approaching towards Sawah Hijau Village. The rumbling sound of footsteps was the soldiers of the Shu Empire who would attack the Green Sawah Village who always refused to deposit taxes on the Shu Empire.
Residents of Sawah Hijau Village objected to the tax request determined by the Shu Empire, which is 10 times the yield.
Shen Zhou quickly withdrew from the road leading to the center of the village, as it was about to be crossed by an cavalry led by General Ma Chao.
General Ma Chao's horse was in the front row and stopped immediately when it came to the front of the two guards and shouted a warning, "Hurry and call your village chief! It's time to pay taxes and you've been delinquent 3 times!"
"That's right!" The guard stabbed a spear into General Ma Chao and was immediately broken by the young general
KLANG!
The two guards shot a beacon up into the sky to ask for help from all the villagers. Shen Zhou simply fell silent on the shoulder of the road watching them fight.
After 3 minutes, the village chief along with hundreds of men came to help the two guards and the fight between 200 soldiers of the Shu Empire against the residents of Green Sawah Village was inevitable.
In just one flick of the spear, General Ma Chao instantly made all the residents of Green Crater Village helpless.
“Catch them!” general Ma Chao's edict was already very furious against dissidents like those who had been in arrears 3 times the tax on the Shu Empire.
Shen ZHou just looked on with a cynical smile and chimed in, “Why don't you guys just kill them right away? Garbage like them is useless, except me, garbage like them I can recycle”
“Civilized!” hardik Head of Green Sawah Village named Nuo Gu.
“Which I said was true,. Just try your two guards did not prevent me from meeting you, surely General Ma Chao will not catch you all.”
“You guys are just making tired of the Imperial officials. Only the poor and have no future are in arrears of taxes.”
“If I am the Emperor, I will scorch the village like this and I will replace it with a better Village program,” Shen Zhou replied with a cynical smile.
The Village Chief and the residents became furious and General Ma Chao was quite sympathetic with the words that Shen Zhou said to the Green Sawah villagers.
Then Shen Zhou with a cold face cast a space ring containing 100 million gold coins at General Ma Chao, "The Lord General was a delinquent in taxes of the residents of Sawah Hijau Village and it could pay up to 100 times the tax payment. This village I have bought, after this I hope the Empire does not interfere in my affairs with this village."
General Ma Chao circulated his perception to check the contents inside the space ring and instantly widened his eyes, “100 million gold coins?!”
The two guards who had previously rebuked Shen Zhou were kneeling limp and approaching Shen Zhou. Then kowtow to him, “We apologize sir. We are guilty.”
Shen Zhou threw a cold face at the two of them and paid them no heed.
“What's your name?” ask General Ma Chao.
“The name is not important. One day the General will also know,” replied Shen Zhou then went and leaned his body under a large tree to meditate on restoring the chi energy in his depleted dantian.
Fortunately, the problem of Sawah Hijau Village can be solved with money. Otherwise, Shen Zhou could die if he had to fight with General Ma Chao without any chi energy.
All the soldiers of the Shu Empire left the gate of the green Sawah Village with a very resounding result and released all the villagers of Sawah Hijau.
Nuo Gu approached Shen Zhou and wanted to thank him. But he was condescending because Shen Zhou was meditating and was afraid to disturb him.
So, Nuo Gu decided to sit next to Shen Zhou waiting for him to finish meditating.
Inside Shen Zhou's subconscious, he saw a teleportation formation in the basement of Green Sawah Village. The teleportation formation was connected towards the Xia Mainland intermediate realm.
However, the formation required 100 million spirit stones to activate it permanently and required strengthening of the sky king level bones to trigger the activation