222 Taking Action (1/2)
”The Da Qian Empire stretches thousands of miles. There are 99 regions in the whole empire and 587 counties. The capital of the empire is Jade City!”
”The Qin Family is based in the desert region Northwest of the capital, in Dongyi County. Our ancestors wanted to start our own country and fought battles in the desert. After a hundred wars, we have finally won. From then, the next heir would be the sons of the previous master of the family...”
...
The flames were flickering.
As night came, Qin Qing sat next to the fire and was speechless.
As she slowly described, a powerful family, many times more powerful than Yang Fan's family, appeared in Fang Yuan's mind.
”If what you say is true, then the Qin Family must be the most influential family in Dongyi County! The family master would automatically pass down his power to the next generation, and they would have 500 soldiers each at their disposal... Because of this, the few most powerful people in the family would be the elders, who would be either Meridian Opening Wu Zongs or Elemental Opening spiritual knights.”
”And your main enemy is the First Wife, Lady Xu? She is the eldest daughter in the Xu Family and has a strong influence. Is it true that one of her ancestors is a spiritual array master at the Elemental Opening Stage?”
Fang Yuan asked casually without any respect.
Once a dream master achieves the Illusionary Divine Stage, his power would multiply by many folds, and he would give no regard to normal spiritual knights in the Elemental Opening Realm or Wu Zongs in the Meridian Opening Stage.
Spiritual array masters would still give him a little trouble but that was all.
”Look at Da Qian Empire! Even a small county like Dongyi County would have so many spiritual knights in the Elemental Opening Realm! Of course... any county in Da Qian Empire would be as large as a country in the mainland, like Yuan Country or Wu Country...”
Fang Yuan shook his head and took in a deep breath.
This was still the desert between Three World Mountain and the Ten Extremes, and hardly and life was seen here. However, he could already feel the elemental energy building up in the surroundings.
It was impossible to breed a dragon in a tiny pond!
Although this was only the boundary of Da Qian Empire, it was already filled with elemental energy, which was enough to convince Fang Yuan to stay.
”This is only the desert plains. If this was Da Qian Empire, I'm sure the spiritual energy and elemental energy would be many folds of what I have at Green Peak spiritual land!”
Fang Yuan sighed in his heart.
After thinking to himself, he saw Qin Yun gobbling the snake which they just cooked, which made him laugh to himself.
...
The moon and the stars were bright in the night sky.
Fang Yuan crossed his legs and appeared to be sleeping.
As he linked his consciousness to his actualised dream world, the Fang Yuan figurine appeared serious. One of his hands was pointed up to the sky while the other was pressing against the ground. His dream elemental force was surging as it pushed outwards on the limits of the actualised dream world.
”The cultivation of Illusionary Divine is to find out one's true power and embark on the process to slowly advance to the peak...”
Fang Yuan focused as his dream elemental force began to condense.
Although it was hidden, he could detect a hint of red-coloured dark force among his dream elemental force; it was like a leech, impossible to get rid of.
”It seems like I'm really possessed...”
Controlling his dream elemental force, he continuously tried to use up all of it to wash the dark force out, but to no avail. ”Fortunately, I was able to walk out safely from the Three World Mountain. This must be an accident... Regardless, it is still not a good thing for the dark force to linger about in my body!”
He could feel that he had brought trouble to himself.
Suddenly, there was a tremor.
In the real world, on the desert plains, the crossed-legged Fang Yuan opened his eyes as they glittered. ”Get up!”
The Qin siblings clumsily got to their feet. Their sleepy faces turned into a serious one. ”Are these... cavalry units?”
”Don't worry. The Xu Family and Lady Xu, both of them do not have such influence to make the guards of the Ten Extremes work for them. Those killers who would go after you two would only be found in Dongyi County.”
Fang Yuan looked ahead. ”This should be their routine patrols to catch fugitives!”
Qin Qing and Qin Yun both shuddered.
This was a message from the Da Qian Imperial Family! Any citizens from Da Qian Empire who escape would become a fugitive and would be killed on sight!
Not just that, but the guards of the Ten Extremes were the best guards of Da Qian Empire. They would go on patrols often and would actively attack those they deem guilty. If they were to come across both of them, they would surely not let them go.
”No! We can't let them spot us!”
Qin Qing clenched her teeth.
No one would know that they had escaped.
As long as they could go through the guards of the Ten Extremes undetected, no one would know that they were fugitives! They wouldn't send people to Desert City to check on their background.
The crux was this; they could not let the guards hold any evidence to prove that they were seen in the desert plains!
Therefore, the first reaction of Qin Qing when she saw the incoming cavalries was to run.
”I'm afraid it's too late!”
Fang Yuan shook his head. ”Furthermore, there's another way for them to not know of your existence here. We can kill all of these guards! Isn't that a solution too?”
”What did you just say?”
Qin Qing and Qin Yun were stunned. Slowly, they realised that the master which they have placed all their hopes on was a madman.
...
”Hurry up! Catch them!”
Under the moonlight, a group of people was escaping. All of them had strong spiritual auras and the leader among them was an old man, who was a Wu Zong. He was guarding a few young men.
”The heavens are not fair! It was obvious that Nishui Sect was the one colluding with the governor, wrongly accusing us, the Nine Suns Sect as traitors, causing our sect master to be locked up in jail and tortured to death. We have already tried our best to appeal, but the officials and the governor would surely protect each other, which ultimately forced us out of Da Qian Empire...”
The old Wu Zong exclaimed as tears welled up in his eyes.
”Kill!”