Divine Brilliance

Zong Shou spent another 3 days within Jiefu City. The sales of the basic pills were much worse than he thought. It actually fell all the way until 24 times before the situation slowed down slightly. It had exceeded the drop of the last life by close to 8 times.

At that point, everyone in the city looked at Zong Shou with greed. Their eyes shone like they saw a gold mine. Filled with jealousy and hatred, no one dared to look down on him anymore.

During these few days, a large number of resources were crashing. Only the basic pills, not only did they not fall, it’s price explosively increased.

On rough estimation, Zong Shou took out a hundred over grade 7 beast crystals to purchase. If he exchanged the pills to beast crystals now, he would get close to 70 times price difference compared to a few days ago.

One could even foresee the explosive growth of basic pills in the next few years.

Zong Shou didn’t hesitate at all. On the 3rd day, he sold half of the pills for 20% lower than market price to the Sanlu Bank as well as the shop opened by Taiyuan Sect.

The manager of the Taiyuan Store accepted it without hesitation. He only smiled, his eyes filled with deep meaning as he gave a friendly smile.

As for the old man from the Sanlu bank, he sighed slightly, “The prince really deserves praise. You do know that these basic pills, after these few years, if one did some work, it’s value could still be increased by 5-10 times?”

Zong Shou didn’t reply, to increase to that price, it would depend on who and which power was manipulating it. Even if he could, he still needed to be alive to spend it.

The old man seemed to know the answer, his face was also really gentle and merciful,” you selling these pills is like giving me thousands of grade 7 beast crystals. Is there anything you need us to do?”

When he heard that Zong Shou still didn’t answer, only rolling his eyes. Thinking that this person was far from being as decisive as the person from Taiyuan Sect. That old man gave a bitter smile, “Those bunch of crazies at Taiyuan Sect could start a war with the entire cloud world without hesitation. Our Wujue Villa doesn’t have that ability. Forget it, I will take this on behalf of the prince. Tens of thousands of grade 7 beast crystals, I really don’t want to push it outside my door. However, although I am stopping those hidden sects, below the ascended level, it would depend on yourself. Oh right, prince, I know a Return to Sun spirit master that is reliable. Do you need me to introduce him to you?”

Zong Shou smiled. What he needed was a reliable bodyguard.

Just a few minutes later, Zong Shou walked out of the bank in satisfaction. Today he did this loss of a deal. Hu Zhongyuan and Tan Tao, surprisingly, didn’t say anything. The latter’s gaze towards Zong Shou also became more and more complicated. When he acted, he didn’t hesitate. When he should give up, he did. He really couldn’t see through this price.

Although those pills were sold at a low price, Zong Shou’s wealth went from a hundred grade 7 beast crystals to 7 thousand.

And when Zong Shou walked out of the bank, he saw that the price of beast crystals had fallen by 10%.

“These shrine sects are really vicious when they do things. I respect, I respect!”

Saying such a sentence that didn’t make any sense, Zong Shou was right about to leave. Hu Zhongyuan didn’t understand whilst Tan Tao smiled slightly. Since they couldn’t stop the fall, then why not totally suppress it, then buy it back at a low price. In the future, they could still earn money. These beast crystals might not be worth money now, but in the future, when the cultivators of the human race increased, the price would rise once more. For Zong Shou to say that those shrines were vicious wasn’t wrong at all.

On the last day in Jiefu City, he crazily purchased goods. Once Zong Shou made his leave, the number of carriages had increased by 3 times. There were 2 more people beside him, one male and one female. The male was known as Li Luo, and the girl known as Shi Dan. They were both 40-50 years old. The latter was the Return to Sun realm spirit master recommended by the old man. She had formed 8 true spirit talismans. The former was personally sent by the deacon from the Taiyuan Sect. He was the same rank as Tan Tao, an earth chakra 7 meridian Xuanwu ancestor.

However, when this person arrived, Zong Shou looked at him with surprise. This person might not be as good as Hu Qianqiu and was weaker than Zhu Junhou, but in terms of combat strength, he could challenge 8 meridians!

The 2 of them didn’t speak much with Zong Shou. They were only instructed to protect him to Gantian Mountain. They only bowed politely and stood like statues by the side.

Zong Shou himself didn’t care, making huge purchases in an unrestrained manner before leaving Jiefu City.

Zong Shou still didn’t agree with Tan Tao’s suggestion to move more troops from Xuan Mountain City. However, the 3 thousand cavalries that followed him was kept by him.

500 iron tiger halberd warrior, 1000 mysterious armor wind dragon cavalry along with 3 thousand cavalries. 4500 men along with thousands of carriages made their way into Ruohai Mountain range.

On the 3rd day, they saw a few red Swift birds like balls of flame rushing over from afar and arriving in front of Tan Tao. Wrapped on their feet were several small golden tubes.

Tan Tao casually took out the paper slips. He didn’t even take a look and delivered it to the window of Zong Shou’s carriage.

After Zong Shou opened it up, he took in a deep cold breath. Then, he facepalmed, his head hurting, “I only earned a little of their money. I only sold their pills for 300 over more grade 7 beast crystals, Do they have to go so far?”

Tan Tao took the paper. When his eyes landed on it, at that close to 7 digit number, his body shuddered. Following which he smiled bitterly. 300 more grade 7 beast crystals was a huge stab on both of those powers. How could those 2 people not hate him?

Thinking about it slightly, Tan Tao had already calmed down. “Prince, if what I think is correct, Yunxia Mountain and Blazing Flame Mountain are eyeing the mind stone mines in Ruohai Mountain range. Why not we temporarily retreat back to Xuan Mountain City?”

Hu Zhongyuan frowned in unhappiness. But when he looked at the paper in his hand, he immediately changed his viewpoint and felt that retreating was the better option.

4 exits, each with an army above 200 thousand. That was simply madness. If they wanted to leave from those few places, it was no different from rushing to their own death.

Zong Shou looked into the distance deep in thought. After a short moment, he turned his head, “I heard that my father fought the Cloud Continent with a thousand cavalry. No matter how strong the enemy, he didn’t fear them. Gantian Mountain is like that too, there are only Gantian Mountain people who died in battle. Even if only one person is left we won’t retreat. Is your Xuan Mountain City like that, seeing the enemy being slightly stronger and you want to run?”

The nearby cavalry was pretty much all Xuan Mountain City mysterious armor wind dragon cavalry. When they heard that they all scoffed in rage, staring over with their eyes wide opened. Tan Tao clenched his fists, suppressing the anger in his chest. Knowing that they couldn’t win against the enemy, but still wanting to charge up, that wasn’t courageous but stupid!

He wanted to try to persuade him, but when he saw Zong Shou’s eyes which were filled with disdain, Tan Tao stopped himself. His expression was cold, “We will follow what young city lord wants! Which path are you planning to take? Cloud stacking exit’s land is more level and has a lot of fog. However, the road is really narrow. Hengjing plains are slightly wider but there’s a river obstructing…”

Before he finished, Zong Shou smiled, “There’s no need to choose, we will walk the Ruohai Straits. The Ruohai Straits that once trapped 400 thousand of our Xuan Mountain City troops.”

Tan Tao gritted his teeth, one could hear a crackling sound within his mouth. After a short moment, he barely opened his mouth to speak, “Young master do you know what you’re speaking? Although Ruohai Straits is wide, where cavalry performs the most. It is also closest to Gantian Mountain, but…”

“It is also where one can place a huge army! The other 3 spots would at most have 200 thousand people. But at this Ruohai Straits, one could place 300 thousand, even 400. Once we are blocked in from the back, we will have no place to escape.”

Before he finished, Zong Shou directly interrupted him. Seeing Tan Tao look surprised, he shook his head, “Tan Tao you know the enemy is strong, but do you know about martial aura, military strength, the battle of a country’s strength? We can’t give in, Xuan Mountain City is also surrounded by enemies so how many people can they send?”

Tan Tao frowned. It was obvious that he didn’t know. Zong Shou didn’t explain anymore, saying expressionlessly, “forget it, I won’t explain to you, you will understand in the future. Anyways, we can’t show our weakness. So what if they have 400 thousand troops. We will cross where they are their strongest. Since I started cultivation and comprehended the sword in my hand, I had never given in before. My sword is like that, I am too on the battlefield!”

Tan Tao’s eyes constricted as he looked in shock at Zong Shou. After bowing slightly, he didn’t say anything more. Li Luo and Shi Dan were also slightly surprised. However, after exchanging glances hey chose to remain silent.

Receiving the message from the red Swift birds, these 4500 cavalries, tens of thousands of war horses and war beasts not only didn’t slow down, but they also sped up.

2 days later they arrived at the place known as Ruohai Straits. They were slightly east of the Ruohai Mountain range, in the valley surrounded by mountains.

The 1st thing Zong Shou did was to look down together with Tao Tao. There were hundreds of miles separating them and that place, but he had a Return to Sun spirit master beside him.

Using a spell, a transparent water mirror appeared in front of them. The spiritual runes flashed within and occasionally there were ripples but one could see several hundred miles away.

“How well behaved. They actually sent 400 thousand!”

Hu Zhongyuan couldn’t help hit swallow his saliva, his eyes filled with awe.

Only to see 280 miles away in that valley, were many soldier camps, occupying tens of miles, a really majestic sight.

What Zong Shou paid more attention to was the aura given out within the camps. There were actually close to a thousand. There were 6 who were able to compare to Tan Tao.

“6 Xuanwu ancestors, 2 Return to Sun spirit masters. This battle won’t be easy. Oh right, there’s also those two…”

Thinking about Feng Yu and Xiong Kui who although weren’t Xuanwu ancestors but had Xuanwu ancestor strength, the corner of Zong Shou’s lips convulsed. He knew his opponents were strong, but to be strong to such a level, even he himself didn’t have much confidence in breaking through.

“Seems like we can only take a gamble, let’s hope he doesn’t disappoint me…”

Just as he thought about that, Zong Shou exclaimed. Only to see behind him, in that instance, numerous cold glows flew towards him.