Divine Brilliance

Chapter 641: Seven Cloud Mirage

Although the idea was good, at this moment he couldn’t bring out any money from his pockets.

He would also use Grade-4 Spiritual Weapons and armor, at most Grade-5. But with his calculations, the price would be a full 10 times more than the one Kongqi Sect provided!

With the current income of Gantian Mountain, it was already tough to maintain one Blood Cloud Cavalry. Anymore and they wouldn’t be able to sustain it.

At this moment, he could just be satisfied with this, letting the Black Fox Iron Cavalry train the Support Heart Sutra in advance.

Apart from that, there was a crossbowmen training method for the Big Dipper Crossbowmen which Zong Shou was interested in.

The Iron Cavalry that was under Shihuang let Great Qin become famous in the world, suppressing all infantries and bowmen like an ocean and mountain.

The Big Dipper Crossbowmen wasn’t actually strong, their combat strength compared to Blood Cloud Cavalry was 1:10. However, they were much cheaper and the armor they currently crafted was much stronger. More importantly those bows and crossbows were fired in the tens of millions, no matter how strong the Blood Cloud Cavalry was, it was useless.

With their current yearly taxes, if they used most of the money in the treasury, they could complete two towns easily within three to five months.

Qiuwei and Zong Gang were already preparing to start. However, this needed much time.

At the very least, it wouldn’t be in time for the Huizhou Island trip.

Arranging everything well, Zong Shou boarded the Royal Demon God Shuttle, bringing only Kong Yao and Ruoshui towards Huizhou Island.

However, before they left Zhao Yanran was annoyed with those monks and insisted on going with Zong Shou. Naturally since she came, Jingyin wasn’t far behind either.

He then considered that it was not bad to have someone play instruments when he was bored. Most importantly was that soul calming spiritual tune which helped cultivation. Thus, Zong Shou brought Xuan Yunlan along too.

When they set off, Zong Shou was speechless. It was one male and five females. One small cabin was filled with so many beauties.

Was he too much? This was where the Night Demon Race headed in and out, extremely dangerous. He was going to go kill people, not on a holiday.

However, it wasn’t good to chase them away. People like Zhao Yanran weren’t normal women. Zong Shou could only pinch his nose and give up.

This Royal Demon God Shuttle in his hand was said to be the top shuttle since the Cloud World opened up. Although there were parts missing and it was only a Grade-2 Magical Treasure, its speed was still not something a Treasure of the same Grade could compete with.

At this moment, with his Grade-9 Spirit Masters Cultivation to drive this item, it was another phenomenon. In the air he turned into a cloud and traveling 16,000 miles took just half a day.

Following this, he didn’t directly drive to the place which was said to be extremely dangerous. Instead, he quietly landed in Huizhou Island and randomly sped around. He either went in circles or directly sped into the island. Sometimes he would stop for a while.

Zhao Yanran’s brow furrowed, filled with confusion. He knew that those few Great Shang envoys had been rushing them daily, it seemed like the situation here was extremely negative.

Zong Shou actually had the energy to randomly run around this Huizhou Island.

“It was said that Huizhou in the ancient times had many famous mountain sceneries. Moreover, there were many Veins. 10% of the sects in the world were housed here. If it wasn’t for the Earth Veins breaking here, there might have been three or more Shrines and Spiritual Houses.

Zong Shou shook his head emotionally, maybe this was the reason why most of the Mind Stone mines were here.

Although there were many mountains in this area, only 40% of the regions could be used as farmland. However, it was a true treasure land; there were all kinds of spiritual materials and all kinds of Spiritual Metal Mines.

Out of the 5 Continents and 10 Islands, this place was the richest. Even Central Cloud Continent which had huge amounts of items couldn’t be compared to this.

However, at this moment it should have been the most chaotic period on Huizhou Island.

Zong Shou thought back to those history books. In this time period there didn’t seem like there were any big matters that had occurred.

It was extremely peaceful. 10 years later it became a battlefield where the Sects all snatched and fought for resources.

After the Spiritual Wave ended, less than 10% of the natives here remained.

However, after experiencing the Yin Dragon Canyon matter, Zong Shou didn’t fully believe in those books that he had read in the last life.

Even during that time period in the last life, Gantian Mountain should have already fallen. Mysterious Cloud Spirit Sect wasn’t destroyed, Lingyun Sect was still at its prosperous period. Yuan Wushang wouldn’t have returned to the Cloud World and wasn’t heavily injured by him. The Yin Dragon Canyon should have also truly open only two months later.

All sorts of changes made it different from the past which was why it wasn’t certain whether any changes would happen here too.

“Weird! To be able to make that Great Shang Yuancheng Emperor so nervous, it shouldn’t be a small matter. Why didn’t the history books record it?”

Zong Shou was in silence, thinking about it for long, he could only confirm that it was because this place was secluded. The battlefield was 200 miles away from Huizhou above the Cloud Ocean and most people didn’t know the reason behind what had happened there…

Or maybe those people purposely wiped away this period of history to try to cover something.

Then he thought about Kong Yao, the invincible future Army God would also be shifted here a month later.

Two years later she would return to Central Cloud Continent, directly raising by two ranks and becoming a Primary Grade Two Chief Commander. That was also when she truly begun her invincible legend in the Central Cloud Continent.

Just as Zong Shou was in deep thought, Zhao Yanran spoke impatiently, “Why are you randomly spinning around here and not going to Lianyun Island?”

Lianyun Island was west of Huizhou. It was where the Night Demon Race was entering and exiting, where they tried to take down…

Zong Shou came back to his senses, his lips curled up mockingly, “A general needs to know the geography. Even if we can’t make use of it we still need to know about it. I want to battle the Night Demon Race and I can’t be uninformed of the distribution of the cities as well as weather changes.”

Zhao Yanran stopped breathing, thinking that Zong Shou’s words made sense and were backed by experience.

However, did Zong Shou have such little confidence in this Huizhou Island trip? He was sure that he wouldn’t be able to block it at Lianyun Island, the flames of war would spread to Huizhou Island?

Ruoshui was still sleeping, at this moment she heard those words and didn’t think much about it. Blinking, she exclaimed in a surprised manner, “Isn’t the Ruler searching for the few Veins that the Daoling Vast Habitat handed over to us?”

Zong Shou’s face turned red as he stared at Ruoshui. Why was this girl slapping his face?

Zhao Yanran and Xuan Yunlan’s looks changed. They knew that Zong Shou would be such a person.

His skin was as thick as a city wall, coughing slightly before recovering back to normal.

“Do you know what? I won’t neglect both work and private matters!”

The few mines were exchanged over for Xiao Xiangzi’s head. Naturally, it belonged to him and had nothing to do with Renbo. This was why it was a private matter.

He was driving the Royal Demon God Shuttle to make rounds around the mountain. He sent down his Spiritual Sense, confirming that there was a close to High-Grade Mind Stone mine and there weren’t any signs of it being harvested. Only then was Zong Shou satisfied, allowing the shuttle to rise up to 30,000 feet high.

At this moment, Kong Yao suddenly pointed outside the window and asked, “Where is that place?”

Zong Shou found it weird. These few days Kong Yao had been totally quiet, not participating in their conversations.

At this moment it was surprising that she spoke up.

Walking beside her, Zong Shou looked out and then he smiled.

He saw a scenic mountain, covered in a veil which made it look illusionary.

That place was a beautiful view in the future. He also recognized it. It was called Seven Cloud Mountain.

Due to this place being only 320 miles away from the ocean, the nearby ocean had an ocean mirage occur the start of every month. Light shone back down, causing the mountain to be covered in Seven-Colored Spiritual Light which was how it got its name.

“That place is known as Seven Cloud Mirage, it is in fact really beautiful! In the future, if we are free let’s go play around there.”

He thought that Kong Yao admired the scenery here. However, who knew that she would shake her head, “This place is a dangerous area and is crucial. If I were you, I would build a camp there to store resources in case of future problems.”

After she said this, she looked toward the mirage, deep in thought.

It should be a reflection from a mirror-like lake.

This place gave off a really blinding light which made it impossible for one to look directly at it…

Zong Shou was speechless, so she had been focusing on the land geography of Huizhou Island the whole time.

Looking on closely, it was as what Kong Yao said, it was a crucial area indeed. It was like a barricade. Apart from some places below the mountain, there were no areas to step foot on. Nearby would be a path that headed toward the eastern plains of Huizhou island.

Zong Shou squinted and then asked solemnly, “Then apart from that which other areas can be used?”

Kong Yao was in deep thought, a moment later she shook her head, “I know a little about the situation of the Night Demon Race. Only this mountain can block them. If this place is occupied then there is no other place on this Huizhou Island which can be defended.”

Night Demon Race members had a pair of wings, unable to fly for long. However, those areas which humans couldn’t pass through were like flat land to them.

They treated all the mountains of Huizhou like flat land. On the contrary the native Cloud World members like them couldn’t utilize the geography.

The only one which could be defended was really that Seven Cloud Mirage as well as the barrier-like mountains around.

As long as he placed enough strong bows and crossbows around, even if the Night Demon Race could fly, they couldn’t bring grain and resources.

“However, to defend this area we need enough cloud ships to lock down the Cloud Ocean.”

Hearing Kong Yao say this, Zong Shou felt a headache. That’s right. If the Night Demon Race used ships to go around the island, although this place was dangerous, it would be totally useless.

He could only hope that the situation on Lianyun Island wasn’t as bad as he had imagined.