Ming Dynasty: pacifying the rebellion and defending the border, dominating the world

Chapter 393 A Tricky Task, Troublesome People
Li Yang and Bei Li.

It hangs high overseas and has little contact with the Central Plains.

For the imperial court and the people of various countries in the Central Plains, it was too distant and unfamiliar.

Even those intelligence organizations usually only collect information on some major events in overseas countries.

Although Lu Xiaofeng had a wide circle of friends and many intelligence channels, he knew very little about Liyang. Hearing Sikong Zhaixing say this, he became curious.

"One of the most difficult people to mess with?"

"You have such a high opinion of that person inside?"

Lu Xiaofeng raised his eyebrows, his eyes full of curiosity: "Although I don't know much about Liyang, I have heard some things about it. There is Li Chungang, the number one romantic swordsman in the world; Wang Xianzhi of Wudi City, who has accumulated strength and achieved great things late in life and is the ultimate martial artist in the world; there is also Wudang, which is indispensable in the martial arts world of Liyang; and Longhu Mountain, the ancestral home of the Taoist sect in Liyang for hundreds of years."

"And the Jixia Academy, which is said to have been founded by the Confucian sage."

"Could it be that one of these forces has arrived?"

During his time with the Xuanjia Secret Guard, Lu Xiaofeng was no longer the naive young man he once was. Thanks to the advance payment from the Heavenly Sword mission, he had already broken through the Finger Profound Realm, opened the gate to the Celestial Phenomenon Realm, and become a Grandmaster of the Celestial Phenomenon Realm.

Sikong Zhaixing joined the Secret Guard several years earlier than Lu Xiaofeng, and his accumulated experience was even more formidable.

Both being grandmasters of celestial phenomena, Lu Xiaofeng felt a slight chill run down his spine when he was beside him. Although he had not yet become a terrestrial immortal, he was not far off.

They even sent Sikong Zhaixing to keep watch...

“The people inside are either at the Celestial Phenomenon level or above, or… they come from one of the major powers.” Lu Xiaofeng took a deep look at Zuichunlou, and he already had a vague answer in his heart.

Sikong Zhaixing knew Lu Xiaofeng was clever, so she didn't keep him in suspense. She just looked at him with surprise and said, "Little Chicken Lu, did you miss a few? Didn't you read all of Li Yang's intelligence book last time?"

"Oh?"

Lu Xiaofeng did not argue, but instead looked on with a questioning expression.

He naturally read it all. How could a smart man like Lu Xiaofeng, who finally had the opportunity to read a country's intelligence, possibly be tempted to skip it to save time?
The factions and individuals he didn't reveal were obviously intentional.

"What makes you take this so seriously?"

"Could it be that the people inside are even more troublesome than the ones I just mentioned?"

“It might not be more troublesome, but it is…” Sikong Zhaixing frowned, shook his head at Lu Xiaofeng, and slowly uttered a few words: “It might not be easier to deal with.”

"You just said 'deal with'?" Lu Xiaofeng frowned upon hearing this. "Are the people who came very powerful? Very troublesome?"

Seeing that things had come to this point, Sikong Zhaixing had no intention of keeping him in suspense. He shrugged and said, "A sword god who broke his sword and left the martial world, a prince of Beiliang whom the Liyang royal family hates to get rid of, a city lord of the Martial Emperor City who has left the title of the number one martial artist in the entire Liyang martial world vacant for sixty years, and a demon from the Spring and Autumn Period, do you think it's troublesome?"

"That...that's a huge problem."

After saying that, Lu Xiaofeng turned around without hesitation and was about to use his Phoenix Dance in the Nine Heavens to leave.

He thought his mission was simply to cooperate with Sikong Zhaixing to monitor one or two people. Even if it was a bit troublesome, Lu Xiaofeng was not afraid because of his identity as a secret guard.

After all, this is the capital of the Ming Dynasty, right under the emperor's nose.

Even if Zhang Fuyao, the most powerful Confucian sage in Liyang who is said to have lived for eight hundred years, were to come in person, or if Wang Xianzhi, the lord of Wudi City who is said to be able to kill all the top-ranked experts in the Jianghu of Liyang, were to come in person, Lu Xiaofeng would not be afraid.

but……

The people Sikong Zhaixing mentioned were precisely those whom Lu Xiaofeng least wanted to provoke, and those he simply couldn't afford to provoke. "Don't be in such a hurry!"

Sikong Zhaixing seemed to have expected this. He grabbed Lu Xiaofeng's sleeve and said with a sly smile, "Isn't it just a half-crippled Li Chungang, a Wang Xianzhi, and a Huang Longshi?"

"This is the capital city, guarded by Cangyun and Tiance, and with His Highness's divine might."

"Let alone just a few of them, even if the entire Jianghu of Liyang came in droves, tigers would have to lie low and dragons would have to coil up."

"What are you afraid of?"

Lu Xiaofeng struggled a few times, but couldn't break free no matter what. He rolled his eyes at Sikong Zhaixing and said, "Aren't you afraid? Wang Xianzhi has the Martial Emperor's Sixty Years of Tide-Striking. I am truly invincible in the mortal world. One man and one city make Liyang the number one in the world of martial arts, and no one can take it away. Even Zhang Zhenren praised him back then, saying that his reputation is well-deserved."

"I have also heard of Huang Longshi. He was one of the disciples of the Confucian sage Zhang Fuyao. Later, he stirred up the world and used his wisdom to influence the world's affairs. His chess skills are so high that he is recognized as the best in the nineteen-line chess game. He can make no mistakes in his calculations. With his silver tongue, he can unite and destroy a country in silence."

"He also possesses the ability to know the events of the past and future centuries. During the Nine Kingdoms War, he single-handedly persuaded each country to submit to Li Yang, ultimately bringing the originally chaotic overseas Nine Provinces under Li Yang's control and personally facilitating the tripartite balance of power between Li Yang, Northern Mang, and Northern Liang."

"In fact, the intelligence from the secret guards last time mentioned that the reason why the land immortals in the Jianghu of Liyang have sprung up one after another in the past 60 years is because Huanglong Mountain has drawn the fortune of the countries destroyed by Liyang into the Jianghu."

"Such a person is extremely intelligent, which is more terrifying than his cultivation level."

"Although Li Chungang broke his sword and left the martial world, he once boasted that 'If Heaven had not given birth to Li Chungang, the way of the sword would have been in eternal darkness,' which made him famous throughout the world. Later, there was a saying in the martial world of Liyang: 'Don't say that there is no one in the world who can defeat you. We still remember the wooden horse and ox.'"

"That old sword god was a terrestrial immortal sixty years ago. Now that sixty years have passed, he's probably not far from being a terrestrial celestial being, is he?"

Swordsmanship is most adept at killing, and Lu Xiaofeng himself can be considered half a swordsman. His friends, such as the young sword god Ximen Chuixue, as well as many young swordsmen in the martial arts world whom he has long admired, all prove this point.

Li Chungang, a celestial being from the Land of Immortals, has returned to the martial world after sixty years. Lu Xiaofeng does not believe that he will remain stagnant.

Even if he doesn't break through to the realm of terrestrial celestial beings, he will undoubtedly be a peerless terrestrial sword immortal in the world.

Lu Xiaofeng was genuinely afraid that if he, a mere Celestial Realm cultivator who had just broken through thanks to the Dragon Tonic Soup, dared to wander around under the Sword God's nose, he might lose his head in the blink of an eye.

After all, what he's targeting now isn't a terrestrial deity.

Instead, it was Wang Xianzhi and Li Chungang, who were suspected to be celestial beings on land, and Huang Longshi, who was known as the number one demon of the Spring and Autumn Period from overseas Liyang!

None of them are easy to mess with.

As Sikong Zhaixing listened to Lu Xiaofeng's detailed account and saw his serious expression, he suddenly burst into laughter:
"Haha, hahaha."

"Lu Xiaoji, I think you should stop calling yourself Lu Xiaofeng and just change your name to Lu Xiaoji."

"Their courage is like that of a chick."

Lu Xiaofeng's face darkened, and he felt an urge to grab Sikong Zhaixing on the spot and beat him up.

After Sikong Zhaixing finished laughing, he grabbed Lu Xiaofeng and said, "Come on, today I'll teach you for free what kind of courage a secret guard under His Highness should have."

"I'm not leaving, let go."

"Holy crap, old monkey, are you crazy?"

After being dragged into the Drunken Spring Pavilion by Sikong Zhaixing, Lu Xiaofeng had no choice but to accept his fate. However, after seeing Sikong Zhaixing's next move, Lu Xiaofeng was almost scared out of his wits on the spot.

Sikong Zhaixing arrived at the room where Wang Xianzhi, Li Chungang, and Huang Longshi were. Without hesitation, he kicked the tightly closed door open.

(End of this chapter)