Chapter 865: Chapter 40: Rebel’s Choice, One Month Later, Mysterious Treasure! (Da Zhang)_6
"I’m afraid not."
"Could he already be dead?" He Zhengchen’s face changed dramatically, "Don’t you know he has another identity? Why didn’t you stop him?!"
He Zhengchen only had to look slightly through the official seal to find detailed information in Zhao Xing’s files.
He knew Zhao Xing was Liu Tianning’s disciple, was aware of his relationship with Princess You Ruo, and even knew he was valued by both Xuantian Academy and Kunyuan Academy.
How could Zhang Ping and Wu Xuan Ying let Zhao Xing engage in such a life-threatening act?
"You all are reckless!" He Zhengchen sighed, Zhao Xing was dead because his government office ordered the suppression, how could he explain it to all parties?
"Prefecture Lord, don’t worry, the Tianxia King has already been killed by Zhao Xing," Zhang Ping said, "Zhao Xing is safe and sound, this is the latest intelligence."
He Zhengchen’s gaze froze, his pupils dilated.
"Prefecture Lord, it’s true," Wu Xuan Ying said, "there’s absolutely no mistake."
He Zhengchen suppressed the excitement in his heart, not daring to say any more about ’I already knew.’
"Tell me in detail, about what Zhao Xing has done."
"Yes."
"On the second day of the second month of the lunar calendar, that day..."
...
Zhao Xing left the city to suppress the rebellion on the fourth of the second month.
On the fifth, he eliminated the middle-ranking officers of the Tianxia King, which took a day.
To fight the Tianxia King, he activated the Li Fire Formation, burning it for three days and nights.
By the time of confiscating the properties, it was already the afternoon of the tenth of the month.
On this day, He Zhengchen also came out.
Upon He Zhengchen’s victory, the various departments of the Prefecture City immediately began operating swiftly.
He personally contacted Zhao Xing to show his full support.
He sent out a large number of selected officials to head towards Tianxia County.
But He Zhengchen was also very concerned about Zhao Xing’s safety.
The implication was to have Zhao Xing return first.
However, at this time, Zhao Xing had already gone to Puyang County.
On the thirteenth of the second month, Marquis Puyang and his one hundred and five trusted aides were all beheaded.
On the same day, Zhao Xing mobilized the Grassman army, including ninety-seven Ten Thousand Skill Avatars, a total of forty thousand, to march across various counties of Puyang County.
He executed over forty-three thousand and eight hundred people, who under the Heavenly Eye Skill were determined to be rebels, were all sentenced to death.
But there were many more people who hadn’t received the Black Dragon Qi Fortune decree from Prince Liang, and in the chaos, committed heinous and illegal acts.
Zhao Xing’s choice was to take severe measures!
Light sentences became heavy, heavy sentences became death sentences!
As a result, those crippled numbered over one hundred and fifty thousand.
Those directly executed were also over forty thousand people.
The bloody suppression directly made the Black Dragon Qi Fortune over Puyang County disappear, flying away!
Because every single rebel was thoroughly eliminated!
...
On the night of the sixteenth of the second month.
Zhao Xing arrived at Yuhe County.
At this time, He Zhengchen, in the name of the Prefecture Lord, issued orders to the Yuan Gui, Yuan Yu, and Yuan River armies.
Instructing them to obey Zhao Xing’s commands, plus his status as an Inspector, Zhao Xing smoothly took over the five thousand-strong Yuhe Army.
There were nine Fourth-ranked, three thousand Fifth-ranked, and a total of fifty-one thousand in the entire army, cooperating with the military supplies gathered by Zhao Xing’s fifty Mixed Element Battleships.
Zhao Xing marched straight towards Xinyang County.
Because this force was already previously corrupted, the twenty thousand Xinyang Army had less than three thousand innocent people!
On the twentieth of the second month.
The entire Xinyang Army was declared obliterated.
This time all were dead, twenty thousand people, with no one escaping Xinyang County.
This was due to He Zhengchen’s coordination, as the boundary monuments of Xinyang County sealed the entire county, leaving no escape.
As for the three thousand innocents?
They were forcibly armed to resist, because not resisting meant being killed by Marquis Xinyang.
At this point, they could no longer be considered innocent.
In the end, all twenty thousand were killed!
...
On the twenty-third of the second month.
Zhao Xing led the Yuan Yu Army to suppress the fifth stationed army.
This was the easiest task, as he arrived in Shangdang County, the Prefectural Governor ’Qu Xin’ had already carried out a plan by the Ritual Repairer, luring all sixteen leaders of the rebel ’Longyang Army’ into the city to be killed.
As Zhao Xing arrived, the Longyang rebel army was still obediently camped outside the city, unaware of what had occurred.
...
On the fifth of March.
Zhao Xing arrived in Jiangwu County.
This occasion also saw the greatest amount of killing.
The rebellion suppressed, giving tremendous pressure to the three nearby rebel armies of Jiangwu County.
Marquis Jiang, along with two other marquises, had no choice but to merge their forces, relying on the Array set up with five local Spirit Mountains, to resist and suppress.
In this battle, Zhao Xing, with the Yuan Yu Army, the arriving Yuan Gui Army, and thirty thousand ghost soldiers and ghost generals, wiped out the seventy thousand joint rebel army.
Thus, in the Tianhe Prefecture, out of eleven stationed armies, only two rebel armies remained.
And they could no longer form a climate.
Because He Zhengchen, noticing Zhao Xing’s prowess back in late February, had already mobilized the City Guard Army of the Prefecture City, as well as the remaining ghost soldiers and ghost generals from the divine temple, and the Military Minister of Agriculture Officers from the Transportation Department.
...
Beifeng County, where the Gang Wind blows all year long.
It is considered one of the harshest environments in Tianhe Prefecture.
This harsh environment, in turn, produced a powerful army known as the ’Beifeng Army.’
"Why, why hasn’t the promised support from Prince Liang arrived yet?"
"Why, why can you kill the Tianxia King! You were just a Fourth-rank realm Minister of Agriculture!" Beifeng Marquis Yang Dang, his eyes bloodshot, stared intently at Zhao Xing outside the city’s Array.
Unreconciled, he had only just started the rebellion, yet his dream was shattered within a month.
"Sleep~ sleep~"
The only response he got was a faint whisper, hidden within the city’s Array, Beifeng Marquis Yang Dang still felt an overwhelming drowsiness.
Thanks to the month-long slaughter, Zhao Xing’s Dream Walking Technique became more proficient.
This spell, supported by the powerful quantity of life souls supplied by the Derivation God Decision, exceeded Zhao Xing’s expectations in power.
In less than fifteen minutes, Yang Dang succumbed.
"Puff~"
Yang Dang chopped off his only remaining leg to stay awake.
Yet, another fifteen minutes later, he felt the heavy drowsiness once more.
"I’m unwilling, I’m unwilling..."
Yang Dang mumbled to himself, leaving only a physical shell, he fell from the sky, sinking into a dream.
"Thud~" Even though he hit the ground, blood splattering everywhere, he didn’t wake up.
"Hmm? For a Fourth Grade Perfect life soul, he’s quite resilient?" Zhao Xing noticed that even after Yang Dang fell asleep, he took a full fifteen minutes to kill him.
"Truly rare, his soul, as a Fourth Grade Perfect martial artist, nearly reached the Third Rank!"
"I’ve killed so many Fourth-rank individuals, yet his life soul not only kept pace with his physical realm but even surpassed it significantly."
Zhao Xing vaguely sensed that Yang Dang was not simple.
With a quick calculation, he saw a Treasure Vault emitting a faint purple light.
Upon another look at the panel, he found his Qi Fortune had jumped to Yan Qi.
"Could this be a treasure?" Zhao Xing was stunned.
Combining the panel and magic deduction, he foresaw that Yang Dang might indeed hold a secret.
Something that could be considered an opportunity even for himself.
"Quickly breach the city!"
"Once the city falls, search Yang Dang’s residence immediately."
Zhao Xing was also invigorated, casting spells profusely.
Simultaneously commanding all Mixed Element Battleships to bombard this segment of the city wall Array.
"Boom boom boom boom!"
Under the saturated attack, the city’s Array finally broke!
"Swoosh swoosh swoosh~"
Following his senses, Zhao Xing had numerous avatars search, soon finding the Treasure Vault emitting a purple glow.