I Don't Agree to the Terms
Chapter 518 - 285: Don’t Gang Up on One Person

Chapter 518: Chapter 285: Don’t Gang Up on One Person

"The loss battle strategies of the thirty-six stratagems have been completed."

Gu Shanhai looked at the one-sixth completed strategy, feeling somewhat satisfied. As the tactics in the art of war improved, the strength of the White Tiger naturally transformed as well, since part of the White Tiger’s makeup included these tactics.

"Beauty trap, empty fort trick, reverse espionage, self-harm trick, chained plotting, and escape as the best strategy. With this set, at least when at a disadvantage, there’s no worry about having no strategy to use."

"The next will be the well battle strategies."

If the loss battle strategies were used when one’s own side faced strong opposition, then these six well battle strategies were to be used when facing betrayal from one’s own teammates.

Previously, when the power of Liang State was small, internal harmony prevailed without the fear of betrayal. But now, with increased power, factions naturally emerged, making it uncertain if someone might betray him.

Thus, these well battle strategies were crucial. Of course, they didn’t necessarily have to be used only in cases of betrayal, just like the loss battle strategies, they could be used as normal strategies too, but they possessed exceedingly strong effects in specific situations.

After handling today’s work, Gu Shanhai traditionally reviewed the intelligence delivered to him. Jiang Lu had already led troops to seize Xuanzhou, preparing to initiate the maritime shipping strategy.

The corresponding data and materials provided by Gu Shanhai were a powerful testament, illustrating clearly to everyone in Liang Wang’s forces that there were indeed profits to be made.

However, in reality, opposition within the forces didn’t matter; it was enough that Jiang Lu agreed.

There were indeed many factions within Liang Wang’s forces, but that didn’t mean Jiang Lu would be swayed by them; rather, everyone was overpowered by Jiang Lu.

"An Array? What is this?" Gu Shanhai was puzzled.

A Jinyi Guard scout from Si Li State’s Luo Chuan had uncovered a new power, named the Array.

It principally involved Daoist Soldiers forming some kind of array with the leader as its core, creating a brand-new force.

"Strange, is it a brand-new military capability invented by Luo Chuan?" Gu Shanhai examined the intelligence. Luo Chuan controlled six types of Arrays, namely: swiftness as the wind, silent as the forest, invasions as fire, unmovable as the mountain, mysterious as the darkness, and thunderous as the tempest.

Each Array possessed extremely powerful strength, a new active ability outside of regular strategies.

However, unlike strategies being executed by the leader, the Array required coordination among the Daoist Soldiers to meet certain conditions, although the power boost was substantial, it came with significant limitations.

Gu Shanhai remembered that in his previous life, this Array hadn’t existed, or perhaps, the intelligence he collected was insufficient since information about this world was more like filling gaps, making it easy to overlook some aspects.

Luckily, this wasn’t important, for Gu Shanhai had no intent on leveraging foreknowledge. Moreover, even if he knew about it, what could be done? With so many top-tier tactics in his possession not even mentioning the Array, it would be challenging to intercept.

As for why Luo Chuan’s Array suddenly emerged, previously having been quiet, it was because the other side had actively spread it, offering it to their leaders like a carrot in front of a donkey.

This was intended to mediate conflicts. From a wealth of intelligence, Luo Chuan’s strength was undeniable, but politically immature, felt uneven like having one foot smaller than the other.

He could conquer territories, but was not the material to defend them.

"If I could get my hands on these six great Arrays... wait, can’t I just outright buy one?" Gu Shanhai had just thought of letting the Jinyi Guard embedded in Yong’an City gather one for him before he realized, he could simply perform a Prophetic Divination.

This world involved tied selling but truly provided, and the pricing was quite fair.

"None? What’s going on???" Gu Shanhai directly used Prophetic Divination to request a masterless legacy of the Array, but naturally found none.

"I was planning to throw in a hundred thousand years [of my life], and you’re telling me there’s no masterless one?"

"Okay then, let’s scale back to just the Arrays from these seven states."

Since there were no masterless ones, Gu Shanhai planned to just seize them forcibly; after all, he was shameless. As they say, treasures and natural resources belong to those with virtue, and his alias was Wude; having five virtues should be adequate.

Yet he still found none.

This nearly gave Gu Shanhai forehead wrinkles.

"This shouldn’t be happening. I was planning to use the Evil Path to seize them, how could there still be none?" Gu Shanhai felt something was a bit off.

If you say there’s no masterless one, he could believe that, since the Array seemed like some Secret Technique that even noble families didn’t know about, but the lack of owner-bound ones meant that none of Liang Wang’s seven states possessed an Array.

"Then I’ll just directly take any Array, no matter whose it is."

Gu Shanhai proceeded with the Internal Organ Divination Skill, using the highest standard, investing nearly a hundred thousand years of his lifespan into it.

A massive amount of documents and literature constantly emerged before his eyes, making him feel as if he was wandering among an infinite expanse of stars.

In that moment, he seemed to touch upon secrets.

"F**k... snap out of it, snap out of it." Gu Shanhai felt overwhelmingly uncomfortable, a massive, ghastly pale wound emerging on his abdomen.

"It’s been so long, even the muscles are nearly necrotic." Gu Shanhai glanced at the dim morning light; his previous divination was close to noon, and now it was dawn on the next day. He felt he was nearly becoming a corpse.

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