Divine Brilliance

Chapter 1173: Chapter 1171- In front of Hundred Victory Pass

“There is news from His Majesty…”

Hu Zhongyuan’s face was instantly filled with joy. For a full month they didn’t know anything about Zong Shou.

Even if the Common People Vast Habitat Mysterious Golden Life Book still had his name, everyone was still worried.

Only at this moment did they manage to swallow their heart down.

Great Gan had the Cabinet, the Privy Court and also the Five Army Inspectorates.

Even without Zong Shou everything could run normally. The truth wasn’t that. Although everyone did their jobs, but they weren’t at ease.

Only when they knew what had happened to him did they feel more calm.

Kong Yao who was observing the situation was alerted, looking over with a weird expression and a questioning gaze.

Hu Zhongyuan’s expression turned solemn, “It is someone called Li Xin who held the letter and returned to Gantian Mountain. I heard that this person is half a step End Realm and is one of the helpers His Majesty recruited. He is on orders to head over to Tianfang World and lead the cavalry army…”

Seeing Kong Yao frown, Hu Zhongyuan immediately knew the reason and smiled, “He said that His Majesty is fine. At this moment he is trapped in a small sized world fragment and will return in a few days.”

Kong Yao was deep in thought, she didn’t understand what space fragment could trap Zong Shou.

Just as she was deep in thought, a loud rumbling spread out in the distance.

Looking out, the entire area shook. In front of the pass, a giant crack formed on the plains and spread about. It reached towards the city walls like a spiderweb.

“Earth Cracking Technique!”

Kong Yao’s eyes turned but she didn’t do anything. That technique was just a Grade Four technique however if the people casting it were two Saint Realm Venerables along with three thousand spirit masters, then its strength could shake all mountains.

It was more than enough to deal with the incomplete structure.

However at this moment she didn’t need to worry. Hundreds of sword lights struck forth and stabbed in front of the city walls.

In the middle was a giant being with a thousand foot sword body, hundreds of swords rotated around it.

When the cracks stretched over, numerous yellow glows spread in the air.

“Those factions are not behaving again!”

Hu Zhongyuan scoffed, “Luckily during the God Falling Plains battle we wiped out the spirit masters that Great Shang hired.”

During the battle in the south, seventy percent of the Great Shang spirit masters were killed, their overall strength was much weaker than Great Gan. However if one added it the huge territory that Great Gan had to defend, the difference wasn’t much.

At this moment, ten percent of the spirit masters belonged to the Shi Family, the others were from sects as well as the aristocratic families of the southwest. Next would be from the Demon Path…

“Great Shang is working with the Demon Path, Yuanchen is asking to die! Sooner or later the people will give up on him!”

The person who spoke wore a green shirt and held a long sword. It was Sword Sect Ruotao. Just now it was the Sword Sect who held to scatter the Earth Cracking Technique.

The Hundred Victory Pass battle concerned the rise and fall of six factions, even the Sword Sect had to bother.

Ruotao who was the next Ten Thousand Sword Vast Habitat Palace Head represented the entire Sword Sect to defend the place.

The Buddhist Faction had to continue to suppress the corpse army which was why they couldn’t send many over.

“Asking to die? That might not be the case. Since Confucian Faction joined hands with Demon Path then naturally Yinyu wouldn’t care.”

Suchen laughed coldly, “With the twelve Copper Men and with Li Biexue suppressing, even if the five factions worked together, Yuanchen isn’t afraid. Moreover the Taoist Faction is happy to see it happen. Zhu Zi’s line will only try to persuade them, if they fail they would just step aside. Maybe they are even laughing and waiting for a chance to jump in. Yinyu needs to rely on the Confucian Faction if he wants to rule…”

When he said that, his face twisted, filled with rage and his eyes turned red, “Jin Buhui just mocked him to alert Yinyu to not make the same mistakes and now he is going to be killed. That idiot, now his head is still hanging on the city walls. The people don’t know and really think he is a traitor who scolded the emperor. They all curse at him and even in death he is being humiliated!”

Talking about Jin Buhui, everyone present was silent. They all knew him and knew that Zong Shou was brothers with him.

If Zong Shou had returned and knew that his sworn brother had ended up like this, who knew how he would react.

At this moment Yinyu indeed didn’t have to bother that much…

However Great Gan couldn’t step up. One reason was that they didn’t have enough strength. Tianfang World was facing huge danger. The other was because they couldn’t.

If Great Gan sent an envoy to want his body back, wouldn’t it prove that he was a traitor?

Kong Yao thought back to the past, at that time didn’t she also think that Yinyu was a wise ruler.

Now that she was far away, she had another view. A few years ago just to ask Great Gan to fight the Night Demon Army, he used her as a pawn and tossed her aside.

It left a huge impression on her heart at that time and she felt really fortunate now.

“Yinyu isn’t such a person and he just wants to infuriate His Majesty!”

Ten thousand feet out a fire blazed. It was those City Climbing Chariots which were lit. Most of the Shang troops on the walls were cleared out.

The main general Ren Tianxing walked over, his eyes shone brightly.

“Do you remember a few months ago what Yinyu told his messenger to say? That if we want his help we need Commander Kong to enter the Imperial City as a hostage. If His Majesty got angry he would start war and that would be what Yinyu wanted.”

Hu Zhongyuan clenched his fists and his joints crackled.

Yinyu’s words were, “I have seen his concubine Kong’s beauty. I have been thinking about her recently and want to invite her to the Imperial City as hostage.”

It wasn’t much for relatives to be sent as hostage. However those words were obviously saying that Yinyu craved for her beauty.

How was that something a wise ruler would say? Not only towards Zong Shou, it was an insult to the whole Great Gan!

Even if they thought about it now, Hu Zhongyuan was filled with rage and shame.

“Why did those people in the Cabinet ask for help? They knew it was impossible but they still sent a letter, they were asking to get humiliated!”

Prime Minister was really dumb and knew that Great Shang definitely wouldn’t help them.

“The Cabinet isn’t wrong, to show politeness first to grab the moral high ground.”

Kong Yao shook her head. She agreed with Renbo’s actions. She also agreed to what Ren Tianxing had said.

Yinyu had the twelve Copper Men and also Li Biexue as Grand Teacher. He did have the ability to be so sharp and arrogant.

However the methods that this person had were still rare in the world.

To crush the Shi Family such that they had to focus all their strength to attack Jiangnan and not restrict the emperor.

To anger Zong Shou, he thought of a plan to force Great Gan into a situation where they couldn’t advance or retreat.

Yinyu also wanted to act on the various aristocratic families in the country.

Those powers would go all out to resist even if they knew they weren’t strong enough, even fighting to death.

However if Great Gan fought the Dark World Demon Court, these aristocratic families would rather survive with Great Shang than be pillaged by the Night Demons and lose all their power in Great Gan.

If Zong Shou really got angry and started to fight with Shi Qianli, no matter if they won or lost, Yinyu was happy to see it happen. He was killing many birds with one stone.

“I still think the same as two days ago! It is really dangerous here, Concubine please move away from this area.”

That Ren Tianxing stood like an iron tower, looking towards Kong Yao stubbornly.

“With me here I can defend for ten days! However if anything happens to Concubine, it would affect His Majesty’s decision making. Two days ago, you used the reason that there is no news about His Majesty and you needed to calm the hearts of the troops to not return. Now that His Majesty is about to come back, you can do so…”

Kong Yao still shook her head and didn’t agree, “The twelve Copper Men are in Yinyu’s hands. Great Gan is facing so much danger. Only by staying here can I help my husband. We can’t lose this pass. I will defend to the end and live and die along with it!”

Ren Tianxing frowned, he looked towards Hu Zhongyuan in an annoyed manner. The latter gave a helpless expression.

Kong Yao was really stubborn and if she made her mind up, even if mountains cracked and oceans broke apart it wouldn’t be changed. How could he manage to persuade her?

Ruotao and Suchen were filled with respect. As expected from Zong Shou’s woman, as expected from the famous commander to be so bold.

She just stood here and didn’t need to command. The soldiers beneath just needed to look up and they felt more confident.

Kong Yao was expressionless. She understood Ren Tianxing’s worry but she wouldn’t compromise.

Only by lasting a long enough time here could she get more troops over from Great Gan.

Only by causing Shi Qianli to see no hope of success would he turn his attention back to Great Shang to fight Yinyu and not compromise.

Only by wasting Great Shang’s money such that they had to increase taxes and continue to act on the aristocratic families.

Could they cause chaos to grow and more people to fight back and restrict Yinyu.

Zong Shou wasn’t able to get the twelve Copper Men so this was the only thing she could do for him.

That was what husband and wife should do for one another.

“What is that?”

“Fire Crow?”

“Did Huoya Demon Lord arrive?”

The discussion caused Kong Yao to be awakened. She looked up to see many red birds coming out of the cloud layer. There were more and more of them and they covered the sky.

They were all birds formed by spiritual flames, tens of thousands of them.

Kong Yao’s face sunk. If it was this person then the battle today would be problematic.

This person’s strength was late Saint Realm. However his abilities were really suited for sieging.

She was originally unafraid but due to the troops being shifted to the tomb and the Tianfang World, there were only five hundred thousand left.

Tens of miles away, a broken drum-like laughter spread forth.

“His Majesty Yuanchen has said! If Kong Yao is willing to surrender, he can let Zong Shou live!”