Chapter 204 Three Heirs
It took Zhang Yang a whole month to replenish his lost energy and blood, but he could not get back his lost lifespan.
So after eleven months of seclusion, he finally came out.
The world outside doesn't seem to have been as many thousand years as it was in the cave, just a little more prosperous.
In addition, the royal palace has been basically completed. This was a collective decision made by Zhang Liang, Wu Ya and Zhao Zhou. Ever since Zhang Yang confronted them, they have been more than just taking active actions.
Zhang Liang is in charge of internal affairs. In the past year or so, he has managed to register nearly 160,000 refugees, and divided them very meticulously into five categories: farmers, artisans, hunters, merchants, and military households. However, the rights are not hereditary and there are no restrictions, so people are free to move around.
In addition, he traveled through the mountains and forests surrounding the royal city, and finally demarcated three county towns 300 miles northeast of the royal city. Taking advantage of the convenience of official roads, he extensively reclaimed farmland and built villages and towns there.
In short, no matter how much grain is stored in the granary in the royal city, Zhang Yang has one thing in mind: he has land in his hands, so he is not worried.
As expected, Wu Ya spit out the five hundred exotic beasts Suanni that he had hidden, forming a thousand iron lions, plus 3,500 deer-horn light cavalry. Ten months ago, he set out with baggage and food without hesitation. This was indeed in line with his spirit of foreign conquests.
Now that the expedition has been going on for ten months, no news has been sent back, and there is no information on the village construction order.
However, it is an indisputable fact that the durability of Zhang Yang's civilization has increased by 100 points in these ten months.
In addition, he also gained an additional five points of royal energy, which is enough to show that Wu Ya is developing very well now.
Old man Zhaozhou is a master craftsman and he also has his own army of craftsmen, a total of 5,000 people, and he also has the power to allocate materials. In the past year, he has been in charge of the construction of the royal palace while cooperating with Zhang Liang's internal construction, the most important of which is the construction of roads and official roads.
In addition to the existing official road in the north, a total of 1,000 miles has been built.
What is being built now is the southern official road. This official road is very important and difficult to build, as it requires cutting through mountains and crossing rivers. But once it is opened, it will be connected to the huge plains in the south of the mountains. This was originally a huge granary for the six southeastern counties. As long as this place is captured, the foundation of the dynasty will be stable.
Then there are Wu Lei and Lei Ming.
The two of them were specialized in training special forces. So far, Wu Lei had trained 1,000 Rock Heavy Infantry, Lei Ming had trained 500 Flying Cloud Arrow Guards, and 500 Heavy Armored Mo Dao Lieutenants. The extra 300 were because Lei Ming had a breakthrough for some reason.
These two thousand special troops are now assigned to the four major passes in the north, south and west.
Lei Ming and Wu Lei have already started the third round of training. It is expected that in another six months, another thousand special forces will be trained.
This is the internal situation, while the external struggle for supremacy among potential dragons has turned into an extremely brutal fight.
In less than four years, the number of latent dragons has been reduced to 560.
There are only 54 human latent dragons left, including three indigenous latent dragons and only 12 Earth latent dragons. They are currently squeezed in Wuwei County on the west side of the Tianliang Mountain Great Wall.
After understanding all this, Zhang Yang came to the empty palace that had already been built. He wanted to open the complete mode of the level 6 royal city. Because of the ten major features currently possessed by this level 6 royal city, only one was opened.
That means everyone is of one mind.
"Now, it's almost time to announce it to the world."
"Activate the Royal City's characteristic: Dragon Vein Guards the City!"
"Do you want to input spiritual energy? The current amount of spiritual energy is: 1000/10000."
"Sure!"
Zhang Yang injected all of his remaining first-grade foundation-building pills into this powerful feature of the level 6 royal city without hesitation.
A few seconds later, with a roar, all living beings within a thousand miles of the level 6 royal city could hear the dragon roar that resounded deep in their hearts!
At the same time, nine purple dragon shadows shot up into the sky and circled around. Three of them flowed into the royal city, and six flowed into the six mountain ranges surrounding the royal city.
From then on, the dragon vein took shape.
In an instant, everyone could feel as if a strange force field was enveloping them. Their bodies became lighter, their tiredness disappeared, and they felt full of energy and joy in an indescribable feeling.
"Kaiwang City features: outstanding people and beautiful scenery. I choose the tenth generation mode."
One generation is twenty years, and ten generations are two hundred years, but these ten generations of talents can leave blessings for thousands of years. So no matter how you look at it, Zhang Yang is bound to win based on the characteristics of this place with outstanding people and beautiful scenery.
"Open the Royal City feature: Super evil-repellent."
"Activate the Royal City's characteristic: endless life."
"Enable the Royal City's characteristic: Mighty."
"Activate the Royal City's characteristic: spiritual wisdom."
"Enable the Royal City feature: Robust."
"Activate the Royal City's characteristic: Hegemony."
After turning on all the features at once, Zhang Yang discovered that the durability of the civilization had been restored by another 100 points. So far, the restoration progress has reached 420/1000. As long as he collects these 1000 points, he will have completed the task and can start the fairy village building task at any time.
"But my focus right now is not here. As a sword cultivator, how can I not cultivate my sword?"
Zhang Yang sighed and sealed the palace casually. He had no intention of meeting Zhang Liang and the others. His aura changed, and all his sharpness disappeared. His appearance, facial features and body remained unchanged, but he became a different person.
He changed into coarse linen clothes, put on straw sandals, carried a wooden sword, and left. This time he wanted to abandon everything in the past, including making wooden spears, making fireballs, and all the tricks and shortcuts.
He had to be down-to-earth, and as a beginner, he had to seek enlightenment with a trembling and fearful attitude, oh, the way of the sword. Even though he had already fully mastered the upper, middle and lower volumes of the Qingyun Sword Controlling Technique, he still had to do this.
This is not only an attitude, but also a state of mind, a level. Once you become a swordsman, you will never look back.
Zhang Yang did not go to a place with beautiful mountains and clear waters, deep in the mountains and old forests to retreat. He actually did not know how to comprehend the way of the sword, but he was definitely not willing to be locked up in a place and be in a daze. He wanted to walk through mountains and rivers, looking for their spirits and swallow them. He wanted to travel through the world's majestic cities, take their momentum and seize them. With the guidance of the wind and clouds, he forged a sword with iron bones! This sword is not a golden sword, not an ordinary iron sword, nor a magic sword, but the sword in Zhang Yang's heart, the sword of the spirit.
There is no exact destination, no specific itinerary.
They cross mountains when encountering them, wade through water when encountering it, worship the rising sun, and admire the stars and the moon in the evening. They associate with jackals and wolves, and tigers and leopards.
This departure lasted for nine years.
From south to north, from east to west, the journey was countless tens of thousands of miles, and countless mountains were crossed. He encountered demons and monsters, and the mighty power that once dominated the world became insignificant.
For nine years, the wooden sword behind him had never been drawn.
In nine years, he encountered countless enemies and countless ferocious beasts, but never fought.
At first he was a passer-by, then a hermit, and now he has returned. Although the wooden sword is rotten, the edge is already sharp.
When he returned to the Level 6 Royal City again, it would be exactly ten years as agreed upon by him and Zhang Liang, Wu Ya, Zhao Zhou and others.
But before he stepped into the royal city, several pieces of information appeared.
"The Guardian of Civilization mission has been completed, and the Return of the King mission has failed. Please choose your next path."
"A: Choose the cutscene mode. You are already a free and easy person, unwilling to participate in the secular power struggle. You have completely given up everything, including your identity as the guardian of civilization. You will receive a complete order to build a village. (Note: Because of your outstanding contribution, the civilization of this world has been restored very well, so this reward is given.)"
"B: Select the cutscene text mode. Although you are a free and easy person, you still have concerns. You will completely abandon the kingdom you built, but you will not give up your identity as the guardian of civilization, so you will be qualified to go to the fairy world to start the village building task (Note: without the fairy village building order, your village building process will encounter some setbacks)."
"C: Personal experience mode. Although you have lived a carefree life for nine years, you still have a great desire for worldly power. You have to build your dynasty yourself. You swear to fulfill the oath you once made - the return of the king is not an empty talk. So you will not get any rewards, but you will gain a powerful dynasty. You will lead an invincible cavalry, sweeping across everything and dominating the universe. In the end, you can still get a complete fairy village building order, but in the end you will lose the title of guardian of civilization."
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Zhang Yang was stunned. Is this possible?
But no matter how he chooses, it seems it doesn't matter which one he chooses.
Just as he was thinking this, he suddenly saw several familiar people rushing towards him. They were Liu Kai, Liao Zhongyuan, Duncan, and Cao Heng from Earth. It was really not easy for them to be alive.
"Zhang Yang, please don't enter the royal city!"
Liu Kai shouted from a distance with a serious expression.
"Everyone, long time no see. What's going on? You are not planning to rebel against me at the city gate?" Zhang Yang said with a smile, but his eyes were calm.
"Stop talking nonsense. We apologize for what happened before, but now, Zhang Yang, for the sake of Earth civilization, I hope you can make a reasonable choice."
Liu Kai said solemnly and sincerely.
"I'm all ears, but I'm curious as to what's going on?"
"What else could have happened? You won. When your general Wu Ya led a large army to Wuwei County nine years ago and annihilated a 100,000-man army of demons and five latent dragons in three battles, we knew you were going to win. So all of us in Wuwei County immediately surrendered to Wu Ya and cooperated with him to start a mass migration of one million people."
"This migration took a total of five years and involved 300,000 troops. During this period, your other general Lei Ming also came to support us in person, and we were able to successfully migrate one million people from Wuwei County."
"And now, you have a level 6 king city, a level 5 county city, two level 5 state cities, 12 level 5 county cities, 32 level 5 passes, a population of nearly 1.5 million, and occupy a land area of 3,000 miles. You have king-level internal affairs talents, and invincible generals and invincible cavalry. Now even other human potential dragons have come to you, and you have already won the battle for world hegemony."
"But the most important thing now is your choice. Did you promise to leave the position of successor to Zhang Liang, Wu Ya, and Zhao Zhou? Now there are three choices. The seven human latent dragons from Earth support Wu Ya, the other nine human latent dragons support Zhang Liang, and the local indigenous latent dragons support Zhao Zhou."
"Although it doesn't matter who you choose as your successor, you actually have the identity of a civilization guardian. This identity can be merged with our Earth civilization, and then the cracked civilization code of our Earth civilization can be repaired. Therefore, we hope that you will make a choice from the perspective of Earth civilization."
After Liu Kai finished speaking, Zhang Yang did not express his opinion, but just looked at a group of people rushing out of the royal city. Among them were Zhang Liang, Wu Ya, Zhao Zhou, Wu Lei, Lei Ming and others.
It seems that these guys couldn't bear it anymore. Maybe Zhang Liang and Wu Ya won't fight for it, but those human potential dragons who surrendered will not be at peace.
At this time, a man standing behind Zhang Liang said:
"Earth civilization cannot give you a complete immortal village building order. Zhang Yang, as a fellow human, I have the need and obligation to remind you that Earth civilization can only be regarded as a civilization carrier in the second-order civilization hegemony battlefield. You are now qualified to move to the third order, but this qualification is limited to you. Don't expect that if you achieve enlightenment alone, everyone else will benefit."
"The Xianxia Village Building Order is a brand new beginning. You need to travel light, so please leave the selection of successor to Zhang Liang, your great-great-grandson. Then we will promise that we will definitely let you get a Xianxia Village Building Order."
"Obtaining a complete Xianxia Village Building Order will be of great benefit to your next Xianxia Village Building Mission. On the contrary, if you choose Wu Ya as your successor, you will only be qualified to build a Xianxia Village and lose all the advantages of being the first to do so. This may affect your personal life and death. Are you sure?"
After hearing this, Zhang Yang compared the information reflected in the village construction order, then smiled and glanced at the expressionless Wu Ya, Zhang Liang, and the confused old man Zhaozhou.
"My Lord, this has nothing to do with me!"
The old man Zhaozhou cried out in injustice, and the several indigenous human dragons behind him were also speechless.
"What do you two think?"
Zhang Yang asked Zhang Liang and Wu Ya.
"If you don't move forward, you will move backward. I have nothing to say."
Zhang Liang is single.
"In a world of great contention, there is contention for everything." Wu Ya said in a deep voice.
"Then I understand. Of course I choose Earth civilization and Wu Ya as my successor. Zhang Liang, will you rebel?" Zhang Yang didn't even think about it. Having a complete order to build a fairy village is good, but the foundation he has laid now is not bad, so as long as he has the qualifications to build a fairy village, it will be fine.
In this case, if the identity of a civilization guardian can repair the progress of the deciphered code of Earth civilization, then why not do it? "No, I will be the prime minister, Wu Ya, will you let me and my descendants have a good beginning and a good end?"
Zhang Liang was not surprised, as if he had guessed the result long ago, and just said lazily.
"Yes, I'm not as sinister and suspicious as you. If you sit on the throne, I'll worry about whether my descendants can survive, so this is the best outcome." Wu Ya said coldly, but without murderous intent.
"Well, that's great, everyone is happy!" Old man Zhaozhou also wiped his sweat, feeling extremely relieved.
"What about you guys? Do you have anything else to say?"
Zhang Yang looked at the nine human hidden dragons who supported Zhang Liang.
"We are all human. Since you have made your choice, we will not hold you back. Moreover, we do not have the ability to hold you back. Wu Ya has the strongest army in his hands. Your choice is stable. I wish you good luck. To be honest, even if you have been to the third-order battlefield, you will not really understand its cruelty. Remember, you can only fight alone. You cannot take away any of the foundation you have laid."
"But until then, you can enjoy at least three years of quiet time."
“I hope we’ll have a chance to meet again.”
(End of this chapter)
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