Xie Baochai chose to wait for Dai Shi to suffer a setback and come to her for cooperation, without showing any intention of contacting Zheng Ya.
This angered Zheng Ya, who responded with a cold laugh.
Zheng Ya had considered pressing Xie Baochai and the other two for answers about the whereabouts of the key, but he didn't think it was a good idea.
So what if we get the key?
In the current situation, everyone in the world is involved in the struggle for the seal. Whoever obtains the key to unlock the secret realm of the seal is in the eye of the storm.
If you can stand by and watch, waiting for an opportunity to profit, why become the target of public criticism? That's foolish.
Just as Zheng Ya was lost in thought, monitoring Xie Baochai and the other two, the elite squad of the Dai family was ambushed by Prince Rong's secret guards, suffering more than half of its casualties.
Having narrowly escaped the pursuit of the secret guards, Earl Dai led his half-crippled elite squad and sped towards Jiangnan.
Coincidentally, the retired emperor, far away in the northern border, was kidnapped by Fu Zhen and his gang.
Wu Wei's Flame Dragon Iron Cavalry arrived too late to rescue them, but they still launched a pursuit.
Relatively speaking, there are more people investigating secrets.
Overnight, the Xie clan spread rumors that Zheng Ya had stolen the Xie clan's secret key and fled.
Liu Yuan found Zheng Ya the next day at noon.
The master and servant were in the VIP room of Wangjiang Tower, north of Linjiang Tower, talking at the drinking table: "Master, last night someone spread a rumor that you stole the key. The rumor is getting more and more exaggerated. I'm afraid it will soon spread to the whole world and you will become public enemy number one!"
"Yeah, I know. Ignore them and let them make a fuss. Isn't it better to just live our lives as usual?" Zheng Ya calmly played with the imperial jade wine cup, not taking it seriously.
The Imperial Jade Wine Set was tableware brought back by Liu Yuan.
This includes more than 1.37 million crystals, 20 to 30 tons of various minerals, as well as some gold and silver jewelry and medicinal seeds.
This allowed Zheng Ya to replenish his supernatural small world with some more spiritual plants, giving it the initial form of a spiritual world.
It currently possesses thirty-eight kinds of spiritual plants, including ginseng, lingzhi, peiyuan grass, snow pear, spiritual fruit, and spiritual rice, which basically satisfy Zheng Ya's appetite.
As for ordinary ingredients, they were all available, but Zheng Ya simply changed his taste and didn't eat them much.
After all, consuming spiritual materials helps with cell development.
It should be noted that the cells within Zheng Ya's body are evolving towards the myriad realms of the starry sky, arranged according to the Five Elements Yin-Yang Array, nurturing and operating cultivation techniques, and urgently need a massive amount of spiritual materials for cultivation and evolution.
Ordinary ingredients can only satisfy one's appetite and have no effect on cell evolution and growth.
This left Zheng Ya with no choice but to consume spiritual energy to cultivate spiritual materials for consumption.
At times, Zheng Ya couldn't help but sigh. Although he possessed the three superpowers of planning, time, and space, and was able to accumulate spiritual energy to aid his cultivation, the cultivation method he used to create countless worlds within his body was undoubtedly building a bottomless pit.
How many resources would be needed for it to evolve and grow?
The sheer volume is beyond description.
Cultivation is difficult, but Zheng Ya is getting stronger every moment, and he soon felt relieved.
Take it slow, there's no rush.
Liu Yuan said with a wry smile, "Master, you've gotten so used to being a hands-off manager that you don't know the hardships your subordinates endure!"
Just now, intelligence gathering teams from various locations have sent back the latest news: people in different places are eyeing our mines and intelligence teams again.
I'm afraid disaster is about to strike!
"Yes, the supply chain being targeted is indeed a problem!" Zheng Ya was a bit troubled. He put down his wine glass and frowned in thought. He couldn't just passively take the hits anymore.
This was thanks to the efficiency of their intelligence team, which had gotten ahead of the curve by information about the various forces targeting them and sent it back for instructions.
Otherwise, you will be caught off guard, and the consequences will be severe.
Zheng Ya has built conglomerates and other forces, but he has no ambition to dominate the world. However, he is not without the desire to create trouble and generate income from spiritual energy.
Therefore, its forces exaggerated the operation, combining it with the Azure Dragon's raids on dangerous units within the Dark Yuan Dynasty's territory to cause trouble and generate revenue.
This is essentially cutting into the hearts of various powerful families.
The addition of the key suspicion has ignited envy, jealousy, and hatred among powerful figures worldwide, making a joint crackdown inevitable.
The key issue is that Zheng Ya is considering that shrinking his power would result in the loss of many resources and a delay in his cultivation progress.
As the saying goes, ruining someone's future is like killing their parents.
Is this pushing your enemy to their death?
Liu Yuan gritted his teeth and suggested, "Master, why don't we rise up aggressively and swiftly eliminate some of the weaker forces and families?"
To intimidate the world and clarify the facts, the key is no longer with the master; thus, the unfounded burden of the key is lifted...
“You’re being too presumptuous.” Zheng Ya shook his head in denial, picked up his cup and drank the wine in it. He continued, savoring the aroma and bitterness of the wine made from the spiritual plants, “Master, I was there and did not stop Elder Xie from spreading rumors and shifting the blame.”
The idea is to show up if you want to stop them.
Once they show their faces, they can no longer hide and profit from the chaos; otherwise, it will only make things worse, and they will inevitably be forced out and drawn into the vortex of the seal-fighting, from which they will never be able to escape.
Because some people don't want your master to hide behind the scenes and profit from it, I could no longer hide after I was born!
Rather than being used as a pawn, it's better to take the blame and ignore it, let it be.
"It's not like I'm going to lose a piece of my body, so let them make a scene."
"Well, what you say makes sense, but if you don't come out of seclusion and clarify the fact that you didn't steal the key, you will be condemned by the whole world, and even your mines will be attacked."
At that time, our people will be condemned by everyone.
"Your Majesty must consider this situation!" Liu Yuan advised with a wry smile, unable to think of a way to avoid it.
You should know that the whole world has been driven crazy by certain ambitious people!
Whether it's plundering various resources, capturing people to mine minerals and waging war, or the allure of the emergence of treasures such as seals and secret realm keys, all these things motivate ambitious individuals to mobilize people from all over the world to seek profit.
The chaos of war was about to begin, and it was inevitable.
This means that no one in the conglomerate can avoid it.
Once you're besieged by the whole world, your fate won't be good.
The conglomerate grew to over 300,000 people, a small portion of whom were superhumans, but none of them possessed Zheng Ya's ability to escape into the void and traverse space. When faced with an attack from 30 to 40 billion people across the world, they were nothing.
Zheng Ya was fully aware of this, but he was at his wits' end and couldn't think of a solution.
More than 300,000 people need to be saved, but there's simply not enough to save them all. How can we resettle them?
With a "flutter," a carrier pigeon landed. Liu Yuan quickly took the letter tube from the pigeon's leg, poured out the letter, and handed it to Zheng Ya.
Zheng Ya flicked open the letter and laughed in anger after reading it: "Haha, so you're already attacking my people and seizing my resources?"
"Oh, Master, hurry up and make a decision!"
"Otherwise, our people will be in big trouble!" Liu Yuan urged anxiously, but Zheng Ya shook his head and waved his hand in rejection: "Plan, you immediately send a message throughout the world, instructing our people to retreat and go into seclusion."
They constantly kept tabs on the activities of powerful families.
A crisis has been detected. Retreat to a safe area to avoid unnecessary conflict with powerful families. Hmm…
"Master, what have you discovered?" Liu Yuan followed Zheng Ya thoughtfully and looked in the direction of Linjiang Tower. Could it be that the Dai family had approached the Xie family and the other two?
Zheng Ya immediately changed the subject: "Alright, our most urgent task is to obtain the Void Stone from Prince Rong."
Everything else, including the key, can wait...
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