Gao Wu Da Qin: You don't want your secret to be known, do you?

Chapter 183 A Deadly Intent Unleashed, Dragons and Snakes Rise from the Land

As Fusu had predicted, of the vast and powerful Zhuolu allied forces, only the Four Seas Allied Forces actually entered the Underworld. 🎅😾 ❻9sina.com/claws🐉♧

The Li and Yang families were slow to follow the Four Seas Dragon Army into the Underworld.

This doesn't mean that the Qiaoshan secret passage might collapse or anything.

The quality of Tianren's engineering is guaranteed. The Qiaoshan secret passage is so sturdy that even if Zhang Zhi'en were to blow it up, he wouldn't be able to break it. Even if there were any problems, Tianren would be on duty 24 hours a day to maintain it.

It can be said that the Celestials went to great lengths to get the people of Zhuolu into the Underworld to attack Qin Feng.

However, the Li and Yang families remained hesitant about taking action.

There's nothing else to it; the Li family, the Yang family, and the Four Seas Dragon Lord are all different.

What are the Four Seas Dragon Lords? They're just a bunch of stray dogs. Their homeland, the East Sea, has already been occupied by the Foundation, so there's no way they can go back.

Our Li and Yang families are wealthy and powerful families with their own households and territories!

We wear shoes! The Dragon King of the Four Seas is barefoot.

He could rush into the underworld barefoot, disregarding everything else.

How can we, who wear shoes, be like him, who is barefoot, wanting nothing and rushing into the underworld?

The underworld is no place for humans!

Although the celestial beings guarantee that the physical body will not be affected in the short term, what if it happens in the long term? Who will be responsible for us? No one!

The Celestials only want us to kill Qin Feng; they didn't promise to guarantee our safety.

Even if the Celestials guarantee our safety once we enter, who will guarantee the safety of our families who remain in Zhuolu?

Is the Donghai Foundation a benevolent organization?

Or is it that the Jiuli people are vegetarians?

Fighting and killing like this happens on our doorstep. We might get involved, but you expect us to send our entire army to fight on the battlefield in the underworld?

What are you thinking? Everyone's not stupid. The Celestials aren't my father. Even if they were, my interests would be higher than his.

So, the Li and Yang families are all talk and no action; when it comes to actually sending troops, they're nothing!

However, the foundation, the sworn enemy of the Li and Yang families, thought differently.

The foundation's bunch of idlers are always so bored, especially since the chairman has been skipping work lately. Everyone's been making money like crazy.

But people tend to go bad when they have money.

As soon as the foundation had money, it started to think about its arch-rivals, the Li and Yang families.

The foundation's senior and middle-level managers are well aware that the chairman is vengeful and that his original goal in targeting Donghai was to deal with these two companies.

Just as the Li and Yang families' allied forces were gathering to attack the Underworld, and even just as the Qiaoshan secret passage began to be repaired, the Foundation had already obtained concrete intelligence about the enemy's attack on the Underworld in Zhuolu.

However, the foundation's vice presidents kept the intelligence a secret, using their own official rhetoric that the president was not at home and they did not know what to do.

Just as the secret passage was repaired and the Allied Forces of the Four Seas entered the Underworld, the Foundation immediately convened a high-level meeting and swiftly approved the war plan.

Military control will be implemented in the Tianhe Pass area, and all unauthorized personnel will be immediately removed.

The Foundation's war machine was activated, and over a hundred of Chu's newest Blade Sea-class Shenxi motherships appeared at Tianhe Pass port.

Each Shys mothership can carry around fifty heavy war mechs and provide them with Iron Curtain protection.

Above Tianhe Pass, warships roared and thunder shook the heavens, setting up a formidable battle array.

If your Yang and Li families dare to enter the underworld territory to besiege the chairman, the foundation will flatten Zhuolu and raze your ancestral graves in the process!

The Li and Yang families naturally noticed the Foundation's stance. They quickly announced that they had no intention of getting involved in the Underworld's wars, nor did they intend to besiege Chairman Qin Feng of Iron Enclosure Mountain. They urged the Foundation not to overreact or escalate the war.

However, Lord Xinling, the vice president of the foundation, quickly jumped out and said, "When did my foundation say that it was expanding the war? You are just being guilty. We are just conducting routine training exercises and military drills!"

This situation has put the Celestials in a state of anxiety.

The Celestials are counting on the families of Zhuolu to go to Iron Enclosure Mountain. If you don't go, how can they possibly conquer Iron Enclosure Mountain by relying solely on the Four Seas Alliance?

But the Li and Yang families acted as if to say, "If you want us to go to Tianren, you have to deal with the foundation first."

Left with no other option, the Celestials could only persuade the Alliance of Blessed Lands and Grotto-Heavens to ask the Seventeen Blessed Lands and Grotto-Heavens to check and balance the Foundation.

However, Bai Ze, the leader of the Seventeen Blessed Lands, went on a voyage and disappeared without a trace. He acted as if we were demons, not humans, and that it was none of our business if humans fought each other to the death. He said, "Do whatever you want, we can't afford to offend you, so we'll just avoid you."

Under these circumstances, the Celestials were left with only one option: to find Master Meng and ask him to send a coachman to stop the Foundation's war provocations.

But if Master Meng asks, "You celestial beings killed the coachman one minute, and then you asked me to stop the coachman's men from killing you the next. How immoral of you to do that!" Why don't you just let Master Meng kill the coachman Qin Feng with his own hands? Wouldn't that be faster?

The celestial beings would never dare to approach Master Meng, for whoever did so would be admitting to the fact that Qin Feng had been besieged and killed.

To surround and kill Qin Feng is tantamount to defecating on Mencius's head, and now it's done secretly.

If you go to Mencius again to stop the foundation, it's like defecating on Mencius's head and then asking him for toilet paper—that's going too far!

Aolai Kingdom, Jianye City, Foundation Headquarters Conference Room.

The president's office was completely empty.

Several vice presidents were present, and they were all extremely busy.

While answering the phone, Lord Xinling said, "Ancestor Qiongqi, you are too kind. The Foundation really doesn't need your support! We have been at peace for more than half a year and have long since recovered our strength! The Foundation is confident that it can take over the entire Battle of Zhuolu."

On the other end of the phone, the Old Ancestor Qiongqi spoke, "Since the Vice President has put it this way, then I won't force any more troops on you! I, Qiongqi, can guarantee the Foundation that Hongmeng Yuan will always be the Foundation's most reliable ally, without exception!"

"Although our demon race cannot intervene in the human civil war, we have many humans here. I can organize the human experts within our demon race into a civilian volunteer group and send a considerable number of people to the foundation!"

"If needed, call the Ancestor. He keeps his word and will never be as ungrateful as those other snobbish blessed lands!"

Lord Xinling, Wei Wuji, replied, "Of course, Chairman Qin Feng has repeatedly emphasized that the Qiongqi Ancestor is the foundation's most relied-upon backer. I will definitely keep the Ancestor's words in mind."

Wei Wuji hung up the phone, shushed, and muttered to himself, "One by one, the moment they hear about war, they swarm over like flies to blood. Are they here to help? Or are they here to divide the spoils?"

At that moment, the door opened, and Prince Dan said, "Otherwise what? Do you think they really came to help? They're all just after Zhuolu and want a piece of the pie."

"Especially considering the last battle in the East China Sea, the seven nations dispatched their elite troops, and afterwards each reaped enormous benefits!"

"Now that the seven kingdoms are not participating in the war, these monsters from blessed lands have all started to have ideas."

"Who told our guild leader to be so generous! In other people's eyes, the guild leader is synonymous with a spendthrift."

Wei Wuji asked, "Has the guild leader been in contact?"

Prince Dan shook his head. "They said from Iron Enclosure Mountain that the president has been missing for five days. Even Young Master Fusu doesn't know where he went. He only said that the president said before he left that he was going to the ends of the earth for a romantic date."

Lord Xinling muttered to himself, "To the ends of the earth, for a romantic rendezvous?"

"Is the student council president out of his mind?!"

"How could someone like him possibly be in a relationship!"

"Strategists falling in love? Good heavens, that's even more laughable than making military strategists learn embroidery!"

"That's utter nonsense!"

Prince Dan said, "The president's decision to abandon the matter is actually giving the Celestials an opportunity to attack him."

"The celestial beings don't have the guts to actually kill the coachman! Although they really wanted to get rid of him, the Master was watching!"

"So, as soon as the chairman left, they rushed to confront Tieweishan, afraid of missing this opportunity."

Lord Xinling lit a cigarette and said leisurely, "So, they went to those three families in Zhuolu! They don't actually think those three families in Zhuolu are willing to be their lackeys, do they?"

Prince Dan said, "These three families aren't those four big fools, the Four Seas Dragon Lords!"

"The Li and Yang families simply cannot bear to abandon their thousand-year-old foundation in Zhuolu and establish a new foundation in the underworld."

"Ao Cheng, the controller of the Four Seas Alliance in the Underworld, was originally a spy planted by the Chairman beside the Four Seas Dragon Kings. Although he later stepped out from behind the scenes and successfully gained real power as the Dragon King, he doesn't trust the Celestials. He trusts the Chairman more than the Celestials. He doesn't have the guts to besiege Iron Mountain or kill the Chairman, but he not only has the guts, but also a lot of guts, to use the pretext of besieging the Chairman to seize territory!"

Just then, Lord Mengchang entered from outside, saying hurriedly, "News has arrived from the front. In the Battle of Wuding River, the allied forces of the four seas suffered heavy losses, but they finally defeated the 400,000-strong Yin army of Iron Enclosure Mountain on the banks of the Wuding River. Ao Cheng now demands that the Li and Yang families immediately enter the battlefield to besiege Iron Enclosure Mountain!"

Lord Xinling laughed, "Lord Dan of Yan, you are truly a prophet! Just a moment ago you said that Ao Cheng was using this as an excuse to seize territory, and it turns out that's exactly what happened!"

Yan Dan crossed his arms and said, "To think that a battle at the Wuding River could result in such heavy casualties, Ao Cheng's lie is really low-level! Now we'll see if the Li family and the Yang family will end up in the underworld."

Lord Mengchang said, "I believe they will go in. Putting aside everything else, the celestial being's sword is hanging over their heads; they dare not refuse!"

Lord Xinling said, "I don't think they'll dare to go in! Going in would mean the war at Zhuolu has escalated! They wouldn't dare risk having their home raided to attack the Iron Mountain Guild Master's hometown!"

Prince Dan clapped his hands, "How about we make a bet? Let's bet on whether those two families dare to enter the Underworld! I bet they won't!"

Lord Xinling asked, "What's the stake?"

Prince Dan asked, "How about a month's salary plus bonus?"

"Okay!"

"I'd like to participate!"

Lord Xinling, Lord Mengchang, and Prince Dan were chatting and laughing merrily.

Outside the door, Hei Fushen walked in. "Gentlemen, don't be happy, something's happened."

Everyone was slightly taken aback. "What's wrong?"

Shen Buhai said, "The intelligence personnel from Kunlun have sent word that the King of Youzhou has dispatched an army of about 200,000, which arrived in Zhuolu three hours ago."

Lord Xinling's eyes gleamed. "King of Youzhou, is he courting death? Isn't the next blessed land in the world going to be Youzhou? Why hasn't the Master gone to find him yet, but he's already come looking for trouble with the Master!"

Shen Buhai said, "No, I haven't finished speaking! He's not going to cause trouble for the chairman; he's going to cause trouble for Zhang Zhi'en!"

"What?!"

"I'll blanch it!"

"It's chaos, utter chaos!"

The vice presidents were instantly on the defensive.

The King of Youzhou actually sent an army of 200,000 to cause trouble for the Celestials!

Shen Buhai poured himself a cup of tea and said while drinking, "I'm also very shocked. This King of Youzhou, usually so unassuming, truly understands the meaning of 'low profile.' He sees fame and fortune as nothing but fleeting clouds, and only profit matters!"

"When Confucius was traveling throughout the land, he was about to reach Youzhou when he ascended to heaven at the Great Perfection, and Youzhou became a foreign land outside the bounds of propriety and law!"

Many people regret that Confucius never reached Youzhou.

"Now that Master Meng has already set Youzhou as his next target, he has instead taken the initiative to attack Zhang Zhi'en. Is this move an attempt to postpone Master Meng's trip to Youzhou?"

Lord Xinling looked at Shen Buhai and asked, "Has he come up with any excuse? Two hundred thousand troops is no small number. If Youzhou mobilizes such a large force, without a suitable excuse, he will be besieged by the two major clans as soon as he arrives in Zhuolu, and may even face an attack from the Jiuli tribe!"

Shen Buhai said, "The King of Youzhou has an excuse. He said that during the Great Judgment at the Gates of Hell in the Underworld, Zhang Zhi'en finally erupted and killed several Great Spirit Officials, including the Great Spirit Official of Wild Dog Ridge! This Great Spirit Official was a great general of Youzhou when he was alive, and became a Great Spirit Official after his death. Now that Zhang Zhi'en has killed people from Youzhou, Youzhou must punish Zhang Zhi'en!"

Lord Xinling said, "If the Youzhou army attacks Zhang Zhi'en, then the army of the City of the Dead will relax. Given the temperaments of the celestial beings like Wude Xingjun, Pojun, and Tanlang, they will directly attack Tiewei Mountain! Prince Fusu and the others may be in danger."

Shen Buhai said, "Yes, this is the most troublesome! After all, our foundation has no grudges with Youzhou, and the chairman has not explicitly stated that we want to ally with Zhang Zhi'en. Our foundation cannot become hostile to Youzhou just because the King of Youzhou is seeking revenge on Zhang Zhi'en! But his actions will indeed worsen the situation. What is this King of Youzhou thinking? Isn't he worried about being purged by the chairman and the Master after this?"

Lord Mengchang said, "Is it possible that he foresaw that he would be jointly eliminated by Master Meng and President Qin in the future? So, he decided to strike first, establish a territory in the underworld, and then, when he can no longer stay in Youzhou, find another place to hide?"

"No, it can't be that simple." Shen Buhai's eyes gleamed. "They've been developing in Youzhou for a long time. Even when Confucius was at the city gates, they didn't give up. They certainly won't abandon it because of Mencius!"

"The Youzhou army's entry into the underworld is definitely not as simple as avenging a dead general; there must be deeper interests involved."

"It's just that we're outsiders right now and can't see through the tricks involved."

Lord Xinling asked, "Is it possible that the guild leader is behind this? Is he inviting the Youzhou army in to balance the power between the two sides?"

No one spoke. None of them had ever been to Youzhou, nor did they know what Youzhou was.

It can only be said that the situation is out of control.

Ambitious rulers from all sides, taking advantage of the favorable circumstances, manipulate the heavens and earth, like dragons and snakes riding the wind.

This scene is truly breathtaking.

Heaven, with its murderous intent, shifted stars and changed constellations, rebuilding the secret passage on Qiaoshan Mountain to connect the realms of Yin and Yang, intending to swiftly and decisively quell the chaos in the underworld!

Unbeknownst to the heavens and the mortals, the earth was wreaking havoc, dragons and snakes rose from the land, and ambitious rulers from all directions dispatched their armies to vie for control of the underworld. In an instant, in this chaotic underworld latrine, besides Qin Feng, who was stirring up trouble, there was another stinking stone in the latrine: the King of Youzhou.

At this point, even if the celestial beings wanted to stop the King of Youzhou, they couldn't.

After all, the King of Youzhou had a legitimate reason to attack, and he was attacking the target that the Celestials wanted to attack. However, the Celestials were not sure whether they would actually attack Zhang Zhi'en if they let the Youzhou army pass through, or whether they would reconcile with Zhang Zhi'en and join forces to attack the City of the Dead.

The Celestials opened this instance, but they will eventually lose control of it.

(End of this chapter)

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