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Chapter 207 Other Worlds, Zhang Li's Choice
January 1636, the ninth year of the Chongzhen Emperor's reign.

The emperor sat in the Fengtian Hall of Yingtian Prefecture, looking down at the civil and military officials below and listening to their reports.

Huguang had been completely occupied, Hong Chengchou surrendered, and Qin Liangyu died in battle.

Upon hearing this news, Wang Chao fell silent for a moment, but he was not surprised.

If Hong Chengchou was able to surrender to the Later Jin Qing army in history, he could naturally also surrender to the Salvation Army.

Qin Liangyu, as the only woman in history to be granted a title, was a loyal subject of the Ming Dynasty. She fought for the Ming Dynasty her whole life, and it was only natural that she would die for it. He did not believe that he could subdue her.

People's hearts are never so easy to win over.

As for the dynasty, it was just a pity for this historically famous female general.

The dynasty did not discriminate against Hong Chengchou, but treated him as a surrendered general.

Hong Chengchou certainly had many flaws in his historical record.

After surrendering, the Qing army made great contributions in the battles against the Ming Dynasty, massacring countless people.

However, those were all things that had not yet happened, and the dynasty would not treat them differently because of them.

In addition, the army has completed its rest and is ready to attack Jiangsu and Zhejiang at any time.

After listening to everyone's reports, the dynasty was about to issue the order to attack Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

However, at that moment, Wang Chao suddenly stopped and narrowed his eyes slightly.

The concentration of energy in the heavens and earth is rapidly increasing, and it will soon more than double.

Even Wang Dahu, Wang Zhiyuan, Wu Chang, and others sensed the change in the concentration of energy in the world. They were amazed and took the opportunity to devour the energy, thus boosting their own strength once again.

It wasn't until a quarter of an hour later that the heavens and earth shook violently, and the concentration of energy in the heavens and earth finally stopped rising.

At this time, the concentration of energy in the heavens and earth had reached more than five times that of before.

Even in areas outside the territory of the People's Salvation Army, many extremely dangerous ghosts can be born.

In addition, as long as everyone cultivates diligently and has good cultivation methods, they can eventually achieve the state of immortality.

Perhaps other people's level of immortality is far from comparable to that of the dynasty, but it is still the level of immortality.

This has an impact on the outside world.

For the dynasty, however, the impact was even greater. The dynasty felt a sudden tremor in the heavens and earth, and its mind was momentarily dazed, instantly becoming one with the heavens and earth.

In that instant, Wang Chao's mind swept across the heavens and earth.

Earth, Sun, and Moon.

Apart from that, this world is nothingness, and the countless stars in the sky are nothing but illusions.

At this moment, Wang Chao truly realized the essence of this world: it was nothing more than a small world similar to his previous life.

Not to mention the vast universe, even among the many stars in our solar system, there are only the Sun, Earth, and the Moon.

Before the dynasty could think too much, his mind and spirit merged even further with the world.

"boom!"

In an instant, countless rules and information flooded into his mind. If he hadn't merged his mind with the spiritual energy of the outside world at the last moment, filtering and carrying those countless rules and information with spiritual energy, his mind and soul might have collapsed.

At the same time, a mysterious message entered his mind, giving him a profound understanding of the world as it is today and the reasons for this situation.

Previously, the reason why this world could advance every time the dynasty broke through a realm was simply because this world was weak.

Therefore, those slight changes in the dynasty led to a more noticeable improvement in the world.

As for his current harmony with heaven and earth, it is simply because heaven and earth have been elevated to their current limits through some kind of adjustment.

Furthermore, every advancement in the world's history is related to dynasties.

In addition, the dynasty's various powers are closely connected with the rules of heaven and earth, which is why the dynasty's mind was drawn into the process of adjusting heaven and earth.

Following this, the world's rules began to operate, changing from the inside out, eventually affecting the world's barriers.

This gave the dynasty's mind another chance to observe beyond the world, in a deep, dark void, where some stars, some near and far, flickered.

As the world came to be perfected, this historical world seemed to emanate some mysterious power, spreading towards the deep, dark void.

At one point, this power seemed to touch something, and the dynasty felt the world tremble again, as if it had resonated and connected with something.

Sensing this, Wang Chao's expression changed slightly.

If beings capable of surviving outside this world were to discover this world, something terrible might happen.

Just like the famous Dark Forest Theory from a previous life.

In the next instant, Wang Chao felt a huge ball of light suddenly appear in the dark void in the distance.

Wang Chao could sense that the one that had previously resonated with and connected with the power of his world was that distant sphere of light.

Even now, with the dynasty's mind in harmony with the world, the sphere of light is so enormous that it still feels incredibly vast, almost blotting out the sky.

The dynasty felt no smaller than the world he was in now.

perhaps
Wang Chao pondered for a moment, thinking that the enormous sphere of light might also be a world in itself.

As for why the two sides resonated with each other and formed a connection, he didn't know.

After that sphere of light, which was suspected to be the world, appeared, it crashed into this world with a thunderous roar.

As the two sides drew closer, Wang Chao could sense that their forces seemed to have merged further, causing certain changes to the rules of his world.

However, this change is extremely subtle and will likely take a considerable amount of time to have an impact on the real world.

Looking at that world in the distance.

The dynasty felt that it would probably be affected in the same way.

Just as Wang Chao was thinking about whether he could use the power of the world's spread to examine that world more closely, he suddenly felt a sense of disorientation, and his mind instantly withdrew from the state of being one with the world.

Looking at the Fengtian Hall before him and the assembled civil and military officials below, Wang Chao couldn't help but feel a sense of disorientation, his eyes becoming somewhat glazed.

After a long while, Wang Chao finally came to his senses, feeling extremely exhausted, as if he were about to fall asleep at any moment.

Clearly, this is a consequence of his mind merging with the world. With his current soul consciousness strength, he is far from being able to withstand the impact of the world's rules.

Even if this world consists of only the sun, the moon, and the earth beneath our feet.

But that was still not something a dynasty could afford.

Forcing himself to speak, Wang Chao began:
"Then Da Hu and Wang Shi will lead the army to attack Jiangxi;"
"Li Shu and Li Yu will attack Zhejiang."

However, as soon as he finished speaking, Wang Chao suddenly turned his head to look westward, a cold glint flashing in his eyes.

Before the four below could respond loudly, Wang Chao spoke again.

"The troops attacking Jiangxi will be led by Wang Shi and Chen Ying."

Hearing Wang Chao suddenly speak, everyone looked on in surprise, not understanding why he had changed his mind.

However, they soon found out the reason.

"Da Hu, you will be appointed General Who Conquers the West, leading the troops to completely reclaim the Seven Guards of Guanzhong."

The Seven Guards of Guanzhong were the seven guard posts that were occupied by Turpan: Hami, Shazhou, Chijin Mongol, Handong, Anding, Quxian, and Aduan.

Some have already been reclaimed by the militia, such as Shazhou and Chijin Mongolian Guard;

Some areas, however, remain under the control of Turpan, such as Hami.

Now, the dynasty is preparing to have Wang Dahu take it back completely.

At this point, Wang Chao paused before continuing:
"If you have the capacity, then destroy the Turpan Khanate."

Hearing this, what else could the crowd not understand? This must mean that Turpan had led its army to invade.

"Yes!"

Wang Dahu stepped out of the ranks, gave a forceful military salute, his eyes flashing with a cold light, a hint of red appearing within them.

Upon seeing this, Wang Chao couldn't help but speak in a deep voice.

"Be careful not to kill too much."

Wang Dahu bowed and casually agreed.

"Yes!"

Judging from his expression, he clearly didn't care much.

Seeing this, Wang Chao couldn't help but sigh, hoping that he could suppress the murderous intent in his heart.

After issuing another set of orders, Wang Chao returned to his palace.

Wang Chao slept for a full day and night before finally recovering and feeling refreshed.

After recovering, the dynasty's inner vision space revealed that its soul consciousness had once again reached its limit, teetering on the edge of a breakthrough.

In addition, the Heavenly Palace, evolved from divine power, and the Netherworld, evolved from eerie energy, have become more profound and condensed, and more mysterious, showing a subtle trend toward transformation into reality.

Thinking about the current shortage of talent, feeling the spiritual space of national destiny, and looking at the Netherworld and the Heavenly Palace, a thought vaguely emerged in the dynasty's mind.

He currently has no way to truly open up the Immortal Realm or the Underworld, and to integrate the Netherworld and the Heavenly Palace into them.

However, he might be able to use his extraordinary abilities to merge the netherworld, the heavens, and the spiritual space of the nation's destiny.

Perhaps, the celestial realm and the underworld derived through this method will possess some mysteries beyond those of ordinary spaces.

However, the dynasty could sense that even if it could achieve these things, it would certainly not be something that could be accomplished in a short period of time.

Therefore, the dynasty planned to completely overthrow the Ming Dynasty and establish a new country before carrying out this mysterious fusion and evolution.

The most important thing now is to improve our own strength.

Thinking back to everything he had felt when he was in harmony with the world, Wang Chao felt a sense of urgency.

No one knows when that world will collide with this world, or what the consequences will be.

However, increasing one's own strength is never a bad thing.

For dynasties, the best way to enhance their strength was to expand their occupied territories and bring in more people.

The dynasty aimed to conquer not only Jiangxi and Zhejiang, but also the entire Jiangnan and Jiangbei regions, as well as Shanxi, Shandong, Shuntian Prefecture, and other areas.

Thinking of this, the dynasty once again ordered the conscription of 300,000 soldiers, intending to wipe out the Ming Dynasty in one fell swoop.

While the dynasty was recruiting soldiers again, Lu Xiang-sheng on the north bank of the Yangtze River was also constantly trying to launch an attack.

Unfortunately, he never succeeded.

Meanwhile, Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng, who had fled to Shandong, once again rallied a large number of people, creating a massive momentum and conquering cities and territories with unstoppable force.

In March, Li Zicheng had already advanced into northern Zhili, and Zhang Xianzhong had even captured Qufu in Shandong.

This time, neither Zhang Xianzhong nor Li Zicheng were actually very interested in occupying land.

They are not stupid; they can naturally see the current state of the world.

The People's Salvation Army has occupied most of the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty is on the verge of collapse.

Neither of them believed they could compete with the People's Salvation Army for control of the country.

In this way, they only had two choices: surrender to the People's Salvation Army or leave the Ming Dynasty.

As for disbanding the team, I'll just live as an ordinary citizen.

They never even considered it.

Although they were just ordinary people back then.

But after so many years in high positions, leading their armies to conquer the east and west, they have long been accustomed to their status as superiors, so how could they be willing to become ordinary people again?
Therefore, they only had two choices: surrender or leave.

Surrender is out of the question. Li Zicheng is Gao Yingxiang's nephew and participated in the attack on Manchuanli.

Given Zhang Xianzhong's notorious killings, and considering the consistent practices of the Salvation Army, if he were to surrender to them, his fate would likely be grim.

(End of this chapter)