Chapter Twenty: Disappearance

  Qin Yu returns, and Qin De also orders someone to pass on the news to Qin Zheng in "Wu Xue Town". In Xi Yang Town, the Qin family is together, warm and harmonious.

  At this moment, inside the Weiyang Palace of Baochu County.

  "Pass down the order, the 200,000 iron cavalry of our family will move out. Any Qin army that is wandering outside the city will be directly defeated, either killed or captured, it doesn't matter." A voice came from behind the pearl curtain, it was Xiang Yang's voice.

  Mr. Lan was puzzled and said: "Master, you say we will take out the trump card army to attack the Qin family's army?"

  "Right." Xiangping replied calmly.

  Mr. Lan immediately bowed and said, "Master, the Qin family is now surrounded by three armies in Ba Chu County, at this time our defensive forces are not enough, and we still need to mobilize the most important 200,000 iron cavalry? This..."

  "Xuemu, how long have you been following me?" Xiang Yang asked back.

  Lan Xue said respectfully: "I have been following Master for nearly a hundred years."

  "For nearly a hundred years, I originally thought you were one of the most intelligent among my several disciples, but now it seems... You really disappoint me." Xiang Yang sighed and said, and as soon as he heard the sighing sound coming from inside the bead curtain, Lan Xue's mind immediately spun rapidly.

  Suddenly, Blue Snow thought of something - Master's martial power.

  "Could it be that Master and Qin De have some sort of agreement?" Lan Xue asked cautiously.

  Xiang Yang burst out laughing: "It seems you're not too stupid after all. Qin De and I have already reached an agreement. As long as I don't personally take action against him, his three armies won't be able to attack. We'll maintain the current balance between us."

  Lan Xue's eyes widened in confusion: "A stalemate? Is it going to remain like this forever?"

  "Absolutely not!" Xiang Yang's voice became stern, "No matter what, the Xiang family's prosperity was built by my father and me. For nearly a thousand years, I have been watching over the Xiang family's prosperity. No one can take it away from me."

  Lan Xue Mou said: "Does Master have any plan for the current situation?"

  Xiang's expression calmed down, and he smiled faintly: "I just need some time now, a transitional period. I have already ordered your fourth junior brother to take dozens of royal children with potential from the Xiang family to a secret location."

  Lan Xue furrowed her brow, thinking that her own master had now left behind the Item family's bloodline, and might even take drastic action.

  Within a year, the leaders of various forces from the Qin family will all be threatened with their lives to surrender to me. This method is easy for me. Of course, on the eve of the counterattack, I must boost the morale of my Xiang family's army! Item Xiang said calmly.

  Lan Xue also nodded secretly.

  Right, morale.

  The morale of an army is very important, and during this time, the Qin family's army has taken three counties from the four counties of the Xiang family with a nearly sweeping momentum. Now the morale of the Xiang family's army is almost exhausted, so the top priority is to restore morale.

  "Whether it's the Wooden House or the Upper Official's House. Even if the highest level has defected to the Qin House, those generals or deputy generals, I don't believe they are 100% loyal to the Qin House. As long as I threaten them with death, humph, believing they would defect to my Xiang House is normal."

  Xiang's voice turned icy: "At this critical moment, I can only use extreme measures. The Qin family is powerful, we must disrupt their military morale and lower their fighting spirit. When the time comes, my Xiang family army will take action, plus the leaders of the forces threatened by me, how can the great army not win?"

  Lan Xue now completely understood.

  "Now let the Iron Riders attack those scattered troops, it's to boost the morale of my Item family. The Qin family doesn't dare to attack and can only defend passively. Haha, Master is indeed brilliant." Lan Xue also completely understood at this moment.

  At first, Xiang Yang was at a disadvantage in his conversation with Qin De, but he was no ordinary person and had already thought of a series of follow-up plans in the blink of an eye.

  After all, Xiang Yu was indeed the first emperor of the Chu dynasty in substance.

  Moreover, the Xiang family had a second plan in place. Even if the first wave of attack failed, the Xiang family still had children who were secretly placed in safe locations early on, plus the Xiang family's wealth, secret power, and Xiang Zhong's existence, it wouldn't be difficult for the Xiang family to rise again.

  "Alright, Xue Mou, do as I say. The Item Family Iron Cavalry is also overkill for these small tasks." Item Zhong said with a faint smile, the Item Family Iron Cavalry, the Item family's absolute elite troops, every warrior was a qualified warrior who had been through bloody battles.

  The Xiang family iron cavalry, in the era of the Western Chu Emperor, had a great reputation. Over the years, with Xiang's persistence behind him, the training of the Xiang family iron cavalry has not relaxed at all.

  Within the borders of Leixue County, with the Item Family Iron Riders' attacks everywhere, almost no army dared to wander between cities. Once there were idle troops, they would be destroyed by the Item Family Iron Riders in one fell swoop. The armies within Leixue County were all hiding in the city pools.

  For a time, the morale of Xiang's family increased greatly. The army of Xiang's family roamed between cities and often called for battle outside the city walls, but the army of Qin's family could only hang up a sign of surrender in distress. The army of Xiang's family became even more arrogant.

  The warriors of the Qin family were furious, but military orders were like mountains, and no one dared to disobey.

  However, there is an army that dares to go from one city to another. This is the Liehuo Army. The 500,000-strong Liehuo Army, although the Liehuo Army has only 500,000 people, but the soldiers of the Liehuo Army are all elites of the Qin family army.

  In terms of quality, the generals and soldiers of the Lietu Army are even stronger than those of the Xiangjia Iron Cavalry. The attacking power of the Lietu is far superior to that of the swift horse. The combination of the Lietu Army's generals and soldiers with the Lietu itself is a strong alliance. Moreover, if the 50,000 Lietu in the Lietu Army let out a single tiger roar, the momentum would be enough to make the iron cavalry's swift horses lose their courage.

  The Fifty Thousand Fierce Tiger Troops; even two hundred thousand of the Item Family's Iron Cavalry dare not attack.

  But it was only the 50,000-strong Liehuo Army that dared to do so, while other troops in Leixue County could only shrink one by one due to military orders. And such days didn't know how long they would last.

  Inside Xiyang Town

  "Cheers, big brother, second brother."

  Qin Yu, Qin Feng and Qin Zheng, the three brothers sat around a stone table under the willow tree in the courtyard, drinking and chatting. When Qin Zheng received news of Qin Yu's return, he immediately rushed from Wuxue Town to Xiyang Town with great joy.

  The three brothers reunited this time and talked about their experiences with a sigh of relief.

  In those years, Qin Yu was still young in Yunwu Mountain Villa. The three brothers were still frolicking with each other in the hot spring, and that scene seemed to be still before my eyes. However, more than a decade has passed since then, and the three brothers have all achieved their own accomplishments.

  Qin Feng, a military commander, was the first to break through the Lei Xue County. He is now only twenty-eight years old and has already reached the Late Stage of the Pre-Heaven Realm.

  Qin Zheng, the next generation of the Qin family, will even become the emperor of a new dynasty in the future.

  Qin Yu, although the youngest, was also previously unremarkable, but now he's making everyone take notice. A twenty-year-old youth has already surpassed Feng Yuzi, an Upper Immortal, and can even contend with Wu Du.

  The three brothers of the Qin family were indeed each exceptional in their own way.

  "Just as he was about to unify the entire Chu kingdom, who would have thought that an old geezer from the Xiang family appeared, a super master at the early stage of Yuan Ying." Qin Feng downed the wine in his cup in one gulp, and then slammed the cup down, looking very indignant.

  Qin Zheng sighed and said: "Father King has said it, this item is too powerful. Even if Father King and Feng BoBo join hands, they can't even take one move from this item."

  "Qin Feng looked at Qin Yu and said, 'Xiao Yu, remember, the hope of our Qin family is now on your shoulders. You must remember that no matter what, we cannot afford to lose. Our Qin family cannot afford to lose. Once you fail, our Qin family will be finished. So you must endure, endure until you are fully confident before making a move.'"

  Qin Feng looked at Qin Yu's eyes full of expectation.

  "Xiao Yu, you must endure." Qin Zheng also looked at Qin Yu.

  "Big brother, second brother." Qin Yu thought of many things in his heart for a moment, but facing the expectations of his big and second brothers, what could he do? He could only nod.

  ……

  At night, in Qin De's room.

  "Your Highness, the Xie family is now recklessly attacking our scattered troops everywhere. Some cities are running out of food, and even the Lietu Army has to personally transport grain, it's really..." Xu Yuan sighed.

  Letting the elite troops of the Lietu Army transport food was something that Xu Yuan found unbearable.

  Qin De looked out of the window, but his brow was deeply furrowed.

  "Xu Yuan, the current situation is very unfavorable to us, extremely unfavorable. Although it seems that Xiang Yu is intimidated by our large army and does not dare to do anything. But... who is Xiang Yu? How was the Chu kingdom established in the first place, and how did it become the strongest of the three major kingdoms?" Qin De said with a sigh.

  Xichu Hegemon died, the Xiang family became the target of public criticism. Under such circumstances, Xiang Liang was able to lead the Xiang family to establish the Chu Dynasty and even make the Chu Dynasty the strongest among the three major dynasties. Some strategies used by Xiang Liang at that time were even recorded in books and passed down through generations.

  Xiang Yang's wisdom is absolutely not to be underestimated.

  Moreover, which of these old guys isn't extremely cunning? This thousand-year-old genius from the Xiang family back in the day, his methods are absolutely ruthless and not to be underestimated.

  "We can't even touch him, and what means he's using, we have no idea. And this item... is just too powerful. In the early stages of Yuanying, we can't even threaten him." Qin De sighed.

  Xu Yuandao said: "Little Feather and that black eagle, aren't they both capable of dealing with late-stage Golden Elixir experts? If they join forces, maybe they can even take on Xiang Yang."

  Qin De heard Qin Yu's name and smiled with relief: "Fortunately, my Qin family still has Qin Yu. At first, I was the least concerned about him, but now he is the one who will determine the future of the Qin family."

  "But...now it's absolutely not possible to let Yu'er take action. You're not a cultivator, you can't imagine the difference between two levels, the gap in cultivation is really hard to make up for." Qin De's eyes shone with a firm light.

  "Why? Your Highness, we can't drag it on any longer. The more we delay, the more dangerous it becomes. Who knows what kind of trick that Xiang Yang is preparing." Xu Yuan also had some fear towards that Xiang Yang, this old man who had lived for nearly a thousand years, not only was his method formidable, but his own strength was also strong, indeed difficult to deal with.

  "Ten years, or twenty years, at the current rate of Yu'er's cultivation, as long as we wait another ten or twenty years, by then Yu'er will have a hundred percent chance of killing Xiang Yang. Only then can we let Yu'er take action. Our Qin family cannot afford to fail!"

  "A decade or two? So many things will happen in a decade or two, enough for Xiang Yang to turn the tables." Xu Yuan said hastily.

  "Turn the tables?" Qin De said coldly, "The current situation can't last for long. I, Qin De, won't be incompetent to the point of letting Ye Mian turn the tables in such a situation. At least I need to maintain military power. Ye Mian can at most threaten individual military leaders personally. Fine, then I'll reduce the influence of military leaders and increase the influence of the Qin family."

  Qin De is also a remarkable person and not someone who can be bullied by Xiang Yu at will.

  "Your Highness, once things have reached a certain point and the Xie family has stabilized, who knows, that Xie Zhong might even assassinate the young masters of the Qin family." Xu Yuan said worriedly.

  "Assassination?" Qin De sneered, "He can kill a few, I die and that's it. As long as Xiao Yu doesn't die, we'll kill Xiang Yang later. The Xiang family won't be worth fearing then. Otherwise... even if we get the world, with Xiang Yang around, our Qin family won't be able to sit securely on the throne."

  Xu Yuan sighed and had no choice but to admit that this was the most helpless solution.

  Qin Yu was in his room.

  Qin Yu's eyes opened as he sat cross-legged on the bed, as if a layer of mist had cleared from his eyes.

  "Father...” Qin Yu's spiritual awareness had fully understood everything that had just happened. A flash of light flickered in his eyes, "Father, rest assured. No matter what, I will not disappoint you. Twenty years is too long, long enough for many things to happen. I cannot bear the pain of losing my father and brothers."

  Qin Yu's mouth suddenly had a hint of a smile: "Master, this time it may be necessary to use that move."

  ……

  These days, Qin Yu has been having a great time in Xiyang Town. The three brothers often gather together, and Qin De also spends time with his three sons. It's rare for the four of them to be together like this after all these years.

  One morning, Qin De had just gotten up and walked out of his room when suddenly ——

  "Father King, Father King, Little Yu is gone. He left this jade box behind and I couldn't open it." Qin Zheng rushed over with a jade box in hand.

  "It's gone!" Qin De's face changed, and he immediately took over the jade box. At a glance, he saw that this was a most basic sealing technique, which any cultivator could generally open, of course, if it wasn't a cultivator, it would be impossible to open.

  Qin De lightly and easily opened the jade box, inside which was a letter and three ancient books. The letter had the four characters "Father King respectfully opens".

  Qin De's heart skipped a beat as he had a very bad premonition. He immediately opened the envelope and unfolded the letter.

  "Father, when you open this letter, I estimate that I have already arrived in Baizhou. You must know my speed, Father. All I can guarantee is that in this battle, no matter what happens, Xiang Yang will surely die."

  "The Ancestral Dragon Scripture" was left behind by the First Emperor, and it's only a cultivation method for the Golden Elixir stage. The three secret books I left are the top-level cultivation methods for cultivating truth, with detailed descriptions from the Golden Elixir realm to the Great Completion realm. This cultivation method is different from those of the overseas immortal islands, so don't worry about others causing trouble, this is all you can do, child.

  "Feathers remain, words stay!"