Zhu Xiangyang clenched his fists and thought,""Although I'm a warrior and can't participate in government affairs like my father, protecting the people's safety and the country is something I'm good at. Resisting the bandits from the foreign country and saving the people were both major events.”He thought,"A real man is born between heaven and earth. He should have done something."”Zhu Xiangyang's eyes were filled with determination.
The five men in black were one of the advance teams sent by the prince of the Arctic State to the territory of the Great Duo Kingdom for his coming of age ceremony. The ceremony of adulthood in the Arctic State was to sneak into the territory of the Great Duo Kingdom, kill and plunder to prove their wisdom and bravery.
This year, the Crown Prince of the Icewind Nation was going to perform this ceremony, so it was naturally going to be a big fight. Therefore, the Icewind Nation sent dozens of advance teams to sneak into the cities and towns of the Great Duo. They would either inquire about the local rich families, the deployment of the soldiers, or plan how to rob them in a covert manner. After the Crown Prince arrived, they would then assist in the operation, either stealing property or assassinating important officials. The snowflake shaped crystal was indeed the token of the Icewind Army. It had the same effect as the token of the Dado Army, but they called it the Icewind Token instead of the token.
In the main hall of the Imperial Palace in the capital city of the Ice Wind Nation, the King of the Ice Wind Nation, Wang Jifu, was standing high above the royal platform. In front of him, a person knelt down on one knee before him. It was the current Crown Prince of the Ice Wind Nation, Wang Shuoshi. The ministers below the stage lined up neatly, their behavior strict.
King Wang Jifu had a solemn expression as he said in a clear voice,"" Hundreds of years ago, our ancestors were pushed into this world of ice and snow by the tyrant of Da Duo, causing our people to suffer in this bitter and cold place for generations. We must never forget this humiliation! One day, our Ice Wind Nation will definitely take back the humiliation that Da Duo has given us! God bless my Ice Wind. Prince Wang Shuoshi will abide by his mission and swear to use his life's strength to wash away the shame of my Ice Wind for generations!”Speaking up to this point, Wang Jifu calmed down his agitated state of mind. He glanced at the officials below the stage and continued,"When a gentleman begins to crown himself, he must pray and complete the ceremony. Today is the day when I, Prince Bingfeng, will become an adult. I will follow the teachings of my ancestors and order Prince Wang Shuoshi to be the top general of the hunting army. I will lead the hunting vanguard army to Da Duo to test his heart, refine his strength, grind his will, and intimidate Da Duo! Crown Prince Wang Shuoshi, can you take on this responsibility?”
"My son will not fail you!" the Crown Prince exclaimed.”
King Wang Jifu looked at the Crown Prince who was full of ambition and was very satisfied. After nodding his head to show his approval, Wang Jifu continued,""Crown Prince, you must remember that everything in Da Duo, be it fertile land, livestock, beautiful women, or wealth, will one day belong to me, Bingfeng! You are here to take back what should have belonged to us and take back our country in the future!”
"My son understands!" the Crown Prince said in a clear voice.”
The ministers below the stage were impassioned and said in unison,"One day, we will take back everything from Da Duo!”
Wang Jifu waited for the ministers to quieten down before he suddenly shouted loudly,""If we work together, Bingfeng will win! Crown Prince, let's go!"
The Crown Prince accepted the order with a loud voice. He leaped off the stage and walked out of the hall with large strides.
At this moment, in the drill ground outside the hall, a thousand mighty elite soldiers were waiting. The Crown Prince walked to the front of the mighty and tall warhorse. He flipped over and jumped onto the horse. His posture was neat and clean. One look and one could tell that he had been tempered thousands of times to be able to have such skills.
The Crown Prince waved his hand and led the army out of the city, heading towards the Great Duo. For a moment, only the sound of orderly footsteps could be heard. Other than that, there was no other noise. It could be seen that the military was strict and the soldiers were refined.
Hundreds of years ago, the court of the Great Duo Dynasty sent the criminals who had committed serious crimes but did not cause death to the snowy mountains in the southeast wilderness, leaving them to fend for themselves. Later on, the imperial court became increasingly corrupt. Many good officials who cared about the people, good ministers who worried about the government, righteous generals, commanders who had made great contributions, and others who the imperial court did not dare to kill were framed by the imperial court and sent here.
The loyal and loyal people who had been banished here slowly met in this cold and bitter place. As they gathered and chatted, they deeply agreed with the imperial court's bullying, and everyone was filled with righteous indignation.
Decades ago, the heroes who had gradually established themselves in the snowy mountains of the Wilderness finally established their own country, leaving the Great Duo and establishing the name of Ice Wind. Those who did not want to openly betray the country would move to the depths of the grasslands in the extreme south, separated from the icy winds, and live isolated days.
Perhaps it was because they were unwilling or because they were angry, the Icy Wind had been thinking about taking over the Great Duo for decades. Since the founding of the country, there was a rule that the descendants of the king and important ministers must go to the Great Duo to kill when they reached adulthood. It was called the Hunting Ceremony.
The Great Duo Dynasty and the Ice Wind Kingdom were separated by a mountain that was so high that one couldn't even see the top.
The Broken Sky Mountain Range started from an extremely cold land with no grass or living things in the north, and ended at the Broken Mountain Pass in the south. The Broken Mountain Pass, which was built at the foot of the Broken Mountain, was the starting point of the Great Wall that the Crown Prince of Daduo had proposed to build to defend against foreign enemies.
The Great Wall started from Broken Mountain City and extended all the way to the south, ending at a natural moat.
This natural moat was called the Earth Valley. It was more than a mile wide and bottomless. One could only hear the faint sound of raging waves flowing from the bottom of the natural moat. The Arctic State was an isolated land with the Broken Sky Mountain Range in the west, thousands of miles of glaciers in the north, the ocean in the east, and the Gobi Desert in the south.
Further south of the Gobi Desert was the place where the people who had separated from the ice and wind and were unwilling to be enemies with their homeland, Daduo, lived. It was a vast grassland that faced the sea on both the east and south sides, and the earth valley and natural moat on the west.
After a few years of evolution, the people who migrated here gradually integrated into the scattered residents of the grassland. After a few years, they gradually evolved into various tribes on the grasslands. After a few decades, it finally became a federal country, named the Imperial Lightning Federation.
At this moment, at the gate of Broken Mountain Pass, Prince of Ice Wind, Wang Shuoshi, and the others were all dressed up as peddlers and porters, entering the pass separately.
When they cleared the customs, each person paid a tael of silver as the "customs duty", but Wang Shuoshi firmly believed that he would take back the "customs duty" that he paid today from the hands of the Great Duo by a thousand times or even ten thousand times in the future.
The Crown Prince Wang Shuoshi attached great importance to this " hunting ceremony ". He had long planned meticulously on how to invade the cities, towns, and villages, how to assassinate, rob, transport, how to find out about the situation of the Great Duo Kingdom, and how to secretly investigate the deployment of the army. As for the strategy, Wang Shuoshi planned to split his forces into five groups. Four of them would go to the east, south, west, and north, while the other group would travel to support them. After a month, the five groups of people would gather at the port city of Silver Tide City in the south of Da Duo. They would then rob and kill in Silver Tide City before boarding the ship and sailing across the vast ocean, taking the sea route back to the Arctic State.
A few days after the Icy Wind Prince Wang Shuoshi led his troops into the Great Duo Empire.
Late at night, two hundred masked men in black stood quietly on a hill in the outskirts of South Valley City, southeast of Daduo. At this moment, South Valley City was quiet and peaceful. Apart from a few places of romance, this important town known as the granary of Da Duo had long fallen asleep.
At this moment, the 200 masked men in black on the hill suddenly rushed into the city at the same time. They were swift and silent, probably because their feet were already wrapped in cotton cloth.
The city guards at the city gate, who had been guarding against people evading taxes at night, had yet to regain their senses when they were slashed by the men in black, and blood splattered on the spot.
The men in black charged into the city and split into several groups to take down the four gates. There were also several groups of people surrounding the yamen, the city defense, the rich families 'mansions, and the brightly lit land of romance.
A black-clothed man standing on a high ground saw that his companion was ready. He took out a white flame from his bosom, lit the fuse with a firebreak, and released it into the sky. When the men in black in the city saw the signal, they immediately took action.
For a moment, people were crying and screaming. There were noises of tables and chairs being overturned, doors and windows being broken, and so on. The chaotic sounds reverberated in the sky above South Valley City.
At this moment, a loud whoosh was heard. A wall of fire appeared out of thin air and surrounded the entire South Valley City. At the same time, dozens of small tornadoes suddenly rose up, blowing 200 black-clothed masked men who were scattered all over the city into the air and throwing them into the open space in front of a small wine shop.
As soon as the men in black landed, the ground beneath them rolled down, and countless mud and stones surged up, burying all the men in black in the ground. Only their heads were exposed to the ground, leaving one of them alive.
The people in the city were awakened from their dreams by the man in black. Just as the thought of 'my life is over' appeared in their minds, they were shocked by this sudden change. After the commoners came back to their senses, driven by curiosity, they followed the traces to the door of the small wine shop. However, they only saw a deep pit on the ground. There was nothing else.
The residents either asked for clues or shared their speculations, but in the end, they could not understand. After the commotion, they went home. After a long while, South Valley City finally returned to peace. However, after experiencing this matter, everyone had a huge doubt in their hearts.
At this moment, outside the outskirts of South Valley City, nine figures were standing on a tall mound.
On the mound, there were two hundred human heads, some of them were panic-stricken, some were frozen, and some were even muttering crazy words such as " Bodhisattva, save me " and " King of Hell, spare me ".
These 200 people buried in the ground were the men in black who had broken into South Valley City earlier. In front of those heads were ten Ice Wind Nation's Ice Ice Tokens.
Among the nine figures, Zhu Xiangyang was one of them.
He said to the other eight people,"Look, there are bandits inside and strong thieves outside the Great Duo." Since we have been bestowed with such divine powers by the heavens, are we going to stand by and watch the people suffer? Since we have such abilities, how can we waste our time? If we don't do anything, wouldn't we be ashamed of the heavens 'care for us? Instead of living a quiet life, it was better to make a grand scene! I don't want to leave my name in history, but I want to have a clear conscience!”
The eight people around Zhu Xiangyang looked at each other, seemingly moved.
Zhu Xiangyang continued," If you think that I'm doing this to fill my own pockets, or if you suspect that I have other intentions, I'm willing to swear an oath to the heavens.”After saying that, he raised his hand to swear.
A bearded middle-aged man saw this and quickly stopped Zhu Xiangyang, saying,""There's no need for this, Young Marshal Zhu. Although we are ignorant, we have heard of the renowned name of the Sharp Troop's Young Marshal Zhu and know him very well. However, with just the strength of the nine of us, it's too difficult to accomplish such a great thing.”
Zhu Xiangyang raised his arm and said,"A real man has to do something and not do something." Save the common people from fire and water, naturally know the difficulties and go up, unyielding. Even if he gave his life, he was still a man. As the saying goes,'Man plans, God disposes.' We will do our best. Whether we succeed or not, our lives will not be in vain. Moreover, we have the power of heavenly masters, so we might be able to do something!”There was a sense of righteousness in his tone and expression.
The eight Taoist masters were impressed by Zhu Xiangyang's magnanimity. They bowed to Zhu Xiangyang and said in unison,""Young Marshal, from now on, we will naturally be at your beck and call!”
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