A week passed in the blink of an eye. Empress Lü, leading her army of resurrected beings, had conquered most of Goguryeo. However, instead of immediately seeking out people to cross the line with all the men of Goguryeo, she turned all the prisoners and men into slaves, branding their faces and forming them into a slave army. She first began by gradually and subtly trampling on the self-esteem and humanity of these men, turning them into slaves without dignity from the bottom of their hearts. She then used the spoils of war as an invisible poison to slowly corrode the hearts of these men.
"Empress Lü is indeed more adept at manipulating people's hearts than Liu Bang!" Wang Han, who had been observing from the shadows, couldn't help but marvel at Lü's methods. Liu Bang was like a cold-blooded emperor, using and then killing his slaves, while Lü was like an empress manipulating hearts and minds in the harem. These two were truly a match made in heaven. A destined imperial couple.
However, this was not the result Wang Han wanted to see. What Wang Han wanted to see was that she would unleash a bloodbath in Goguryeo until the planet's will intervened.
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In the Goguryeo royal palace, facing the immortal army led by the immortal's disciple, and witnessing the daily loss of vast territories, the envoys sent to sue for peace—whether to the Qin Dynasty or to plead with Empress Lü—never returned. The Goguryeo king was utterly devastated, losing half his hair in despair, utterly helpless and with no way out. He could only watch as his country was gradually and completely enslaved by the Qin Dynasty, for the immortal army was simply invincible; even with most of his country lost, he couldn't annihilate a single Qin soldier.
Just when everyone was at a loss and the entire country was shrouded in gloom, things finally took a turn for the better. A hundred-strong Qin army was annihilated by a highly skilled master while attacking a village. Moreover, the annihilated Qin soldiers were not resurrected; they were truly wiped out. This news overjoyed everyone. The King of Goryeo immediately summoned the master who had destroyed the hundred Qin soldiers and ordered the fragments of the annihilated soldiers to be collected to study how to counteract the evil influence.
At the gates of the Goryeo palace, the Goryeo king, who had personally come out of the palace to greet the old man in a gray robe with white eyebrows and beard walking in front of the oxcart, quickly went up to him and said, "Master."
Upon seeing the King of Goryeo, the old man in gray robes said, "I have come here to help you fight against the disciple of the immortal from Qin."
"Please, Master, save the people." Upon hearing the master's straightforward words, the King of Goryeo quickly expressed his attitude: "I am willing to appoint you as my national advisor."
“Hmm. Dealing with the disciples of the Qin immortal and the immortal Qin army is not difficult.” The old man nodded to the King of Goguryeo, but said with some difficulty, “But that immortal from Qin is about to ascend to become a true immortal. With my abilities, I cannot fight against him, and he will not let Goguryeo go.”
"What should we do?" Upon hearing this, the King of Goryeo panicked, and his ministers also became flustered. They were already at a loss with the disciples of the Qin immortal, but what would they do when the Qin immortal took action himself? Was Goryeo really doomed?
"Master, please save Goguryeo, save the people of Goguryeo!" the King of Goguryeo pleaded. "Whatever you ask of me, Master, I will grant it."
“There is indeed a way,” the gray-robed elder said, “but it’s not something I can do alone.”
Hearing that there was still hope, the King of Goryeo said eagerly, "Master, please tell me. As long as I, no, only Goguryeo can do it, I will do my best."
"Whether we can accomplish it or not, we must give it our all. Otherwise, once that person from Qin becomes a true immortal, the whole world will be powerless against him," the old man said, then asked rhetorically, "Do you know why the immortal from Qin ordered his disciple to attack Goguryeo?"
"Please enlighten me, Master," the King of Goryeo quickly said.
As the King of Goryeo and his ministers listened attentively, the old man continued, "He sent his disciple to lead the immortal Qin army to attack Goguryeo because he was missing two essential things to become a true immortal, one of which was in Goguryeo."
"What is it?" Upon hearing this, the King of Goryeo immediately asked.
“Every five hundred years, a woman with a glowing pattern on her chest will appear in the world. That is an essential elixir for the Qin immortals who want to become true immortals,” the old man said. “However, the Qin immortals do not know the exact location of that woman, only that she was born in Goguryeo. They do not know what she looks like or how old she is. Therefore, he has sent his disciples to attack Goguryeo in order to find that woman.”
"Master, do you know where that woman is now?" Upon hearing this, the King of Goryeo quickly asked, and the ministers also pricked up their ears, waiting for the old man's answer.
"I don't know." Upon hearing this, the old man shook his head and said, "Even the immortals of Qin, whose cultivation is far superior to mine, failed to calculate the exact location of that woman. I know even less. It was only after his disciples attacked Goguryeo that I learned that the woman was born in Goguryeo. I know nothing else."
"What are we going to do!" Upon hearing this, the King of Goryeo frowned. If they could find the person, there would still be hope for negotiation; but if they couldn't find this person, there was no hope at all.
"Although we don't know where she is, it's not like we have no way out." The old man said with a smile, "The immortal of Qin cannot easily leave the territory of Qin, nor can he act arbitrarily. At least for a certain period of time, he cannot act arbitrarily. So our main task is to deal with his disciple. Only by defeating his disciple can we have more time to search for the woman with the glowing pattern on her chest."
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