Killing Dao Fruit
Chapter 662 - 573: A Billion Families, Equal Competition

Chapter 662: Chapter 573: A Billion Families, Equal Competition

The dense Naiman cavalry pressed forward step by step, their heads topped by the "Nine Banners White War Banner" and the "Four Banners Black War Banner" fluttering in the wind.

An endless, pitch-black military aura shot straight into the heavens, above the army’s mass it transformed into countless wolves, tigers, and leopards with gaping mouths continuously rolling, tearing, and biting, poised to devour someone at any moment.

Ao——!

Ordinary people, if they stared for a moment, would start to truly hear the dreadful sound of myriad beasts howling in their ears.

It was enough to terrify one to death, to split one’s liver and gallbladder.

This was the period in history when the five tribes of the Naiman were at their zenith.

The force that had broken into Central Pass and pursued the Great Yan Army to this point was roughly two hundred thousand, comprising the main cavalry force along with accompanying auxiliary soldiers.

The Han King Chuoluosi was a Great Success Realm "Martial Saint" himself, and, along with the two "Huo Balgui Ren" under his command, Zhi Shi Si Li, all the "Martial Saints" summed up to four.

"Food is Heaven," "Buddha’s Hand Bodhisattva," the "Tent Master Bai" who had not yet been born two hundred years ago, and the "Earth Mother Black Sky" who had accompanied the great army to knock on the gates back then.

Martial Saints plus Sages, the combat power of the Green Seal Level totalled eight!

Fifty li away at the Earthwork Platform.

On the Great Yan side, Li Chengyun had replaced Zhou Qizhen, Xie Tianke had replaced the Duke of Ying Land, and there were also "Martial Saint" General-in-chief of Consorts Jingyuan and Marquis Taining Chen Ying, totalling four as well.

The "Great Sun Female Venerable," as one of the Green Decree Earth Gods, had seen her combat power plummet after leaving the Moluo Islands, and could no longer be considered a complete Green Seal.

It was the "Five Techniques of Civilian Control," "Calling a Deer a Horse," "Lady Mengjiang Weeping at the Great Wall," and the second prodigy of "Taiyin Xuanbing Dao" that made up for the deficit in the magical arts.

This era was still a time when "Dragon Qi Prohibition" was relatively flourishing.

The Great Yan Court had no Warlock Group, but it did carry a group of Scholars qualified to cast the "Literary Ascension to Dragon Technique."

Especially the Imperial Observatory Bureau’s Spirit Platform Doctors of Spring, Summer, and Fall, who had all followed them, possessed by three Strange Immortals.

The second prodigy took the place of the Ministry of War Minister Kuang Ye.

Combining the normal timeline and historical battlefield, the two sides had a total of sixteen Green Seals, more than during last year’s standoff in Southwest Liang State.

Thanks to Wang Yuan’s cheating outside of the battlefield, the top-tier combat power of both sides was once again leveled.

Which also settled the minds of all ranks and generals belonging to the Great Yan side, if only slightly.

Immediately after.

The humiliation recorded in the history books, along with the new and old grudges accrued over hundreds of years between Yan State’s borderlands and the Naiman People, rushed to the hearts of all Flame People.

"Attack the traitors! Attack the traitors!..."

"For the centuries-long plan of our progeny, exterminate the Naiman in today’s battle!"

"Kill! Kill! Kill!"

Because in the Deceit Realm the rule was that losers die.

If the Great Yan side won this battle, it wouldn’t merely be about securing twenty years of peace as initially planned.

It would be a matter of the survival or extinction of the Naiman race!

After all, the population of the grasslands could not compare with that of Great Yan.

When Great Yan lost two hundred thousand elite troops in the "Disaster at Earthwork," it was seriously weakened but the nation’s foundation remained unshaken.

But if the five division Han King lost all his direct elite line here, the remaining youth in the normal timeline would never be able to hold onto their pasture, their territory.

Along with everyone from the five divisions of the Naiman People on the grasslands, they were all doomed to disappear as quickly as their predecessors.

To be replaced by another ethnic group.

No matter which vassal eventually unified Red County Shenzhou, they could declare from that point on that there was a new player at the table they presided over.

Even with the protection of the "Grey Deer Taoist Lord," for at least a hundred years there would be no need to worry about the other party having the strength to wrestle with them.

Zhu Bo’an, while exhilarated, couldn’t help but shake his head slightly:

"It’s a pity that the lands beyond the Pass have harsh climates and harsh living conditions, totally unsuitable for farming.

Even if the territories of the Naiman five divisions become vacant, and we move Great Yan citizens out of the Pass on a large scale, they can only continue to ’dwell by the water and grass, move with the heavenly timings’."

After evolving over the years, they would merely change from farming migrants into another nomadic tribe.

My master once said that productive forces determine relations of production, and economic foundations determine superstructures.

Only with ’specialized settlements’ can we gather the power of the people and gradually form a true system."

To integrate the bitterly cold lands of the vast Desert North, which are even larger than Red County Shenzhou, fully into the New Dynasty’s ’Dragon Qi Prohibition’ territory.

To completely resolve the confrontation between north and south that has lasted for thousands of years.

If someone could solve this age-old conundrum and double the land for Red County Shenzhou and the native Heavenly Dao, they might well create the honored position of a "Corpse Dissection Immortal."

Actually.

When he learned that the agricultural research institute had hybridized sea rice, Zhu Bo’an also asked his master how to settle people in the Desert North.

But he heard his master say something profound, which to this day he still can’t comprehend:

"The strategy for permanently pacifying the North Border, apart from hastening industrialization, lies in... growing potatoes in Siberia!"

However, even with the generals’ fervent desire to kill, there was still one critical issue unresolved.

The history books recorded that the fifty thousand strong army sent to quell the traitors had dwindled to a mere core of over two hundred thousand by the time they retreated to the Earthwork Platform.

After being besieged for several days, they were cut off from provisions and water, greatly reducing their combat power.

After being possessed by modern souls, internal strife became even more pronounced.

Far less coherent than the opposing Naiman five divisions.

The three Green Seal Strange Immortals were also the primary culprits, objects of universal loathing.

Zhou Qizhen’s (Li Chengyun), Wang Zhen’s (Zhu Bo’an) subordinates led by the Eunuch Party (Chuyun Army), and the Duke of Ying Land’s Zhang Fu (Xie Tianke) under the command of the Noble Group (Border Army) were also at severe odds.

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