Chapter 32 Miguel's Feud with the Heavenly Dou Empire and the Star Luo Empire
When Miguel was one year old, his father, Ling Bing, was conscripted into the Heavenly Dou Empire. According to the information his grandfather gave him, Miguel learned that his father was serving under a general named Steve.
Miguel then told Sipour the information he knew. With Miguel's prompting (Miguel did not mention that his father was under General Steve's command), Sipour remembered who Steve was. Seeing that Miguel only had a vague understanding of General Steve's deeds, Sipour began to give Miguel a brief account of Steve's exploits.
Based on Sip's account and the information he had obtained, Miguel learned about Steve's relationship with his father, Ling Bing, and their deeds.
General Steve was also of commoner origin. Not long after his martial soul awakened, he was recruited by the Heaven Dou Empire and secretly trained by the Heaven Dou Empire until he became a very famous general in the Heaven Dou Empire.
The Star Luo Empire invaded the territory of the Heaven Dou Empire, so Emperor Xue Ye dispatched General Steve to resist the Star Luo Empire's small-scale invasion. Miguel's father, Ling Bing, was also conscripted by the Heaven Dou Empire during this period.
Steve led the hastily assembled army of the Heavenly Dou Empire to the front lines, leading the Heavenly Dou Empire to victory against overwhelming odds, capturing three cities of the Star Luo Empire, and killing an enemy general of the Star Luo Empire.
The Heavenly Dou Empire was preparing to reward those who had contributed to the victory, and Miguel's father was about to return to reunite with Miguel and his grandfather. However, due to a defeat, General Steve and Miguel's father, Ling Bing, both died on the battlefield, and neither Miguel nor Dagles's father returned.
When Xipu recounted how General Steve's command errors led to the defeat of the Heavenly Dou Empire, Dagles immediately flew into a rage, exclaiming, "My father was not defeated! That's a false accusation, a false accusation!"
Seeing Daglas's agitated state, Miguel calmed him down and asked, "Daglas, do you know the truth?"
“I do know that Uncle Jesse was my father’s confidant, and if it weren’t for Uncle Jesse, I would have died too.” As he said this, Daglas’s tone became low again, and his voice was filled with sorrow.
"Are you going to Tiandou City?" Daglas asked.
"We're going to the Spirit Temple, what's wrong?" Miguel asked, puzzled.
"If you think my words carry little weight, you can ask the people of the Spirit Temple and you'll know whether what I said is true or false. According to outsiders, when my father was defeated, he was no longer on the frontier battlefield, but in Heaven Dou City, and I was by his side at the time."
According to my uncle Jesse, my father had become a thorn in the side of the Star Luo Empire because he killed a general of the Star Luo Empire and seized three cities from it. Emperor Dai Lümao of the Star Luo Empire was very angry about the defeat of the Star Luo Empire, so he sent an envoy to the Tian Dou Empire.
The Star Luo envoy brought the decree of Emperor Dai Lümao of Star Luo, ordering the return of the three cities belonging to the Star Luo Empire, as well as my father's head, or else the Star Luo Empire would send troops to attack the Heaven Dou Empire.
At first, Emperor Xueye was furious and very firm in his stance, stating that he would never return the three cities or give them his father's head. However, for some reason, after the envoy spoke to Emperor Xueye about something, Emperor Xueye agreed to the Star Luo envoy's demands.
My father realized the situation was dire, so he had his trusted confidant, whom he had secretly trained, take me away through a secret passage. As for himself, because the Heaven Dou Empire had made him swear an oath with his martial soul to be forever loyal to the Heaven Dou royal family, never to betray them, and to always obey the Heaven Dou Empire's arrangements, my father didn't run away. He knew he couldn't escape; running away would mean his martial soul would be shattered, and I would be implicated by my father. Besides, he still harbored a sliver of hope for the Heaven Dou royal family.
But the Heavenly Dou Empire shattered his illusions. Emperor Xueye wiped out my entire family, except for me, whom my father had sent away. Afterwards, fearing that my father's subordinates would disobey, he plotted to have the Star Luo Empire destroy the army my father commanded and spread rumors about him, saying that he had been defeated and died in battle. "Dagles said through gritted teeth.
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