âGeneral, this is a letter from the Family Head for youâ¦â
After the servant entered the tent,n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om
he immediately knelt on one knee and presented an unopened letter with both hands.
Luo Yong took the letter from the manâs hands.
He then opened it and read in silence.
But the more he read, the more surprised he became, and he felt it was somewhat incredible.
âAlright, I got it.â
âYou may leaveâ¦â
After Luo Yong finished reading the letter, he waved the servant away.
Following the departure of the Luo Family servant from the tent,
the grand hoaxer Tang Jian, holding a Feather Fan, followed suit and quietly approached.
His face displayed a hint of curiosity.
He asked Luo Yong, âWhat happened? Whatâs going on?â
Luo Yong glanced at Tang Jian beside him and spoke in a low voice, âWhy donât you take a guess?â
Tang Jianâs corner eye twitched slightly.
His face was full of black lines.
What do you mean, why donât you take a guess?
Although Tang Jian was often mysterious and could deduce many unknown matters through various calculations,
such actions usually required giving up something.
If possible, he naturally would not abuse his abilities recklessly.
âJust kidding.â Realizing Tang Jian looked somewhat distressed, Luo Yong, while walking toward the outside of the tent, said in a low voice, âAnyway, the gist of the Family Headâs meaning is that Patriarch Changfeng took a walk outside and conveniently killed all the Viscera Refinement practitioners from the Chen Family, Feng Family, and Tang Family.
âAh?â
Upon hearing this, Tang Jian looked incredulously towards Luo Yong, âJust took a walk outside and conveniently killed all the Organ Refinement Realm practitioners from the Chen Family, Feng Family, and Tang Family, these three major families?â
Luo Yong nodded silently, his expression very serious, âYes, thatâs roughly what the letter said.â
âThen, the Family Head asked me to dispatch troops as soon as possible to take over the territories and the entire production chains of those three powers.â
âOf course, the most importantâ¦â
âis the items within the clan grounds of the Chen Family, Feng Family, and Tang Family.â
âAccording to the description in the Family Headâs letter, because there were too many items, Patriarch Changfeng couldnât take them all, so we have to wait to clean upâ¦â
â¦
As the conversation ended,
the atmosphere in the tent gradually became more and more silent.
Only after quite a while did the grand hoaxer Tang Jian, dressed in a Taoist Robe with the Feather Fan fallen on the ground, finally snap back to reality.
He squatted slightly to pick up the White Feather Fan from the ground.
Afterward, with a somewhat helpless look on his face, he muttered to himself, âI originally thought that this war would last at least three to five years. I didnât expect⦠in just less than a day, the three major families of the Huai Shui Countyâthe Chen Family, Feng Family, and Tang Familyâwould be annihilated.â
âAnd if this matter is trueâ¦â
âJust how profound has the old patriarch of the Luo Familyâs cultivation reached?â
âAbove Viscera Refinement, the Blood Cultivation?â
âIt must be so,â he thought.
In the tent, seeing the grand hoaxer Tang Jian deep in thought, Luo Yong asked, âSo, what are your thoughts? Shall we divide our forces into three and directly take down all the territories under the three powers, or do we go one by one?â
After pondering for a moment, Tang Jian spoke in a low voice, âLetâs do it one by one, thereâs plenty of time, no rushâ¦â
âOf course, thereâs another very important reasonâ¦â
âThat is, after unifying Huai Shui County, the enemies we, the Luo Family, will face next are surely going to be stronger than the Chen Family, Feng Family, and Tang Family.â
âWe should minimize our soldiersâ losses whenever possible.â
â¦
After the exchange inside the tent came to an end,
the 150,000 armored elites under Luo Yongâs command
began a fierce attack on the Feng Family.
Yes, the Feng Family was the first target Luo Yong and Tang Jian chose.
Not only because the Feng Familyâs territories were the largest,
but also because the Feng Family had fewer soldiers stationed on the border for defense compared to the Chen Family.
Without Organ Refinement Realm cultivators to defend them,
without those family elders,
the gradual fall of the territories under the three familiesâFeng, Chen, and Tangâhad already become a foregone conclusion.
â¦
Time flew by, and in a blink of an eye, another month had passed.
In fact, over twenty days ago,
the Luo Family had already succeeded in completely unifying Huai Shui County.
During the following time, the Luo Family spent most of it governing their newly acquired territories.
Winning them over was not a difficult task.
But governing them well,
that was the challenging part.
â¦
Similarly, as the month passed,
the climate within the Da Feng Dynasty grew increasingly hotter.
In several northern prefectures, the locust plague grew worse by the day.
The number of locusts continued to increase, and the scale of destruction they wrought grew ever larger.
Grains had completely failed to produce.
And after the locusts had stripped clean the grains in the fields,
they turned their appetites toward any living being they could find,
not sparing even humans.
As for the southern prefectures,
although they were somewhat better off than the northern ones,
that was only by a margin.
As time went on, the locust plagues began to erupt in the southern prefectures as well,
although their number and scale couldnât yet compare to those in the north.