Chapter 7

After walking out of Dama Village, Xia Zhuyuan looked at Zhang Mu, “The senior said that the Wu Dynasty’s troubles will be resolved in seven days. What do you think?”

Zhang Mu recalled everything that he had experienced today and said without any doubt, “Senior Chen is a God. If he says that the problem will be resolved in seven days, then it must be so.”

“Why do you believe in a quack?” Nightingale could not help but ask.

Just as Xia Zhuyuan was about to scold her, she saw Zhang Mu’s face turn gloomy as he asked, “Nightingale, you still can’t sense the Dao rhythm?”

Only after hearing this did Xia Zhuyuan remember that Nightingale couldn’t feel the Dao rhythm and had no Dao heart. She was a pure body cultivator.

No wonder she couldn’t sense senior Chen’s power.

“Alright, let’s go back and prepare for the great battle with Tianmo Sect!”

Xia Zhuyuan no longer blamed Nightingale. She boarded a cloud boat and flew back to the imperial capital.

However, Nightingale thought to herself, “It is true that I don’t have a Dao heart, so I can’t feel the Dao rhythm. However, I can feel the pressure from real experts, such as Her Majesty and Zhang Mu. Yet, I can’t feel even a single ounce of pressure from that senior Chen at all. I can’t let Her Majesty be deceived by him!”

…

In Tianyou County, Dugu Sheng stood proudly at the top of a pavilion, his Daoist robe fluttering in the wind as he waited for the Empress.

The wind is blowing, and the water is cold. If the Tianmo Sect comes. he would make sure that they would never return.

“Where is the Empress?” Dugu Sheng asked.

He had been in seclusion for a hundred years. He had been lonely for too long and wanted to fight very badly.

Participating in the war was also in line with responding to the Heavenly Dao’s calls.

Responding to the Heavenly Dao was a celestial opportunity where one would gain a chance to ascend.

“Reporting to the patriarch. The Empress, she…” The clansman who came to report was a little hesitant.

“Has the Empress arrived? Let her come in to see me. ”

Dugu Sheng sat still.

As a Celestial God who had already reached the Dao Entry realm, he didn’t need to bow even to the Emperor of a kingdom.

On the contrary, the Empress had to bow to him.

“No, the Empress… She has returned to the imperial capital,” The clansman said.

“What? She has returned to the imperial capital? Did you see it clearly?” Dugu Sheng frowned and said angrily, “The Empress should’ve come over to ask for my help in defeating the enemy. Why is she returning before she even arrived?”

“Patriarch, I saw it clearly. It was the cloud ship of the Empress. It has indeed returned to the imperial capital,” The clansman said carefully.

Dugu Sheng frowned.

What the hell was the Empress doing?

Why had she gone back to the capital before she even came to ask him for help?

Wasn’t she afraid that he wouldn’t come out to help her when Tianmo Sect attacked?

Or did the Empress have something more important to do?

Dugu Sheng was lost in thought.

Boom!

Dark clouds rolled in the sky to the west of the Wu Dynasty as countless warships approached.

Tianmo Sect’s army was pressing forward.

The chaos of war was on the verge of breaking out.

“Patriarch, what do you think?”

“The Empress must have panicked when she learned that Tianmo Sect’s army is approaching. She’s a woman, after all. At such a critical moment, it’s understandable that she can’t grasp the main point in her panic,” Dugu Sheng said, “How about this? You, go and see the Empress in person. Tell her that I know she has something urgent to attend to and thus returned to the imperial capital. Tell her that I also know that the Wu Dynasty is in danger. If she needs my help, she can send a Minister to invite me.”

“Yes.”

When the clansman heard this, his admiration for Dugu Sheng reached its peak.

As expected of the patriarch.

He was concerned about the safety of the Wu Dynasty.

Such breadth of mind and magnanimity.

It was simply beyond ordinary people.

…

In the imperial capital of the Wu Dynasty, Xia Zhuyuan took a sip of the brown sugar water that Chen Xuan had given her, and her blood started to boil.

She immediately felt her blood qi gush out, and her blood was boiling.

“The devils from Tianmo Sect have come at the right time. Let’s settle the hundred-year-old grudge today,” Xia Zhuyuan waved her hand, “Gather the cultivators of the Wu Dynasty and prepare to start a war with Tianmo Sect!”

With that, Xia Zhuyuan boarded the cloud boat and headed for the western border.

“Are we starting the war now? Are we not going to discuss it any further?”

All of the officials looked at the energetic Empress and felt that she seemed to be in a different state.

Zhang Mu’s blood was boiling from enthusiasm, “As the Empress, this is how she should be.”

Boom!

The hundred cloud boats moved in unison.

The cultivators and army of the Wu Dynasty quickly assembled.

Seeing this, Prime Minister Qin Gang shook his head and sighed, “the Empress is acting so rashly. The Wu Dynasty is finished.

When the four Holy Lands, the eight ancient kingdoms learned the Wu Dynasty had no intention of making peace with the Tianmo Sect, they sent people to watch the battle.

This was the first major war in a hundred years since the Holy Lands’ Dao discussion.

The various Holy Lands and ancient kingdoms were paying close attention.

…

In a neighboring kingdom of the Wu Dynasty, the Yan Kingdom.

The Yan Emperor stroked his beard and stood in front of a mirror that showed the scene at the Wu Dynasty’s border, “Look at Tianmo Sect’s formation. They’ve sent out almost all of their forces this time. With the Devil Emperor Jing Daotian holding the fort, the Wu Dynasty is indeed in danger.”

In the Tang Kingdom, a monk stood next to the Tang Emperor.

“Holy Monk, I wonder if you’re willing to go forward and mediate to stop this war. After all, the loss of lives will damage the overall fortune of the Central Region.”

“I am willing to give it a try.”

The monk named Sanzang quickly set off and flew toward the western borders.

…

Eastern Region, Fuyao Holy Land.

The white-haired Holy Mother Yaochi sighed at the clear water of the Jade Lake, “Xia Longwu, you’ve done me a favor in the past. However, now that the Wu Dynasty is in danger, I can’t rush over in time to help because of the great distance. But don’t worry, if the Wu Dynasty is destroyed, I’ll at least ensure that the bloodline of the Xia family still exists. I’ll make sure that your daughter, Zhuyuan, is safe.”

…

All the forces were paying attention to this battle.

The clansman of Dugu Sheng, the first Dao Entry realm celestial in the Wu Dynasty in a hundred years, had also arrived in the imperial capital.

He met the Empress and knelt, relaying the message from the patriarch, “Your Majesty, the patriarch of the Dugu clan has come out of seclusion. If your Majesty needs anything, you can just ask a minister to go to my clan and ask for my patriarch’s help. My patriarch has promised to come and help.”

The Empress looked at the mighty army that had just been assembled.

“There’s no need for that. Just ask your family’s patriarch to look after his family and protect Tianyou County,” She replied indifferently.

She didn’t know who Patriarch Dugu was.

However, there were many families like the Dugu clan.

All of them sent envoys, saying that they were willing to support the imperial court in resisting Tianmo Sect.

But in fact, all of them wanted to get some benefits from her.

Xia Zhuyuan was extremely disgusted with these people.

She believed that those who wanted to help her would be like senior Chen, who would simply help her plan everything. People who didn’t want to help would only be all words.

“Your Majesty?” The clansman from the Dugu clan was stunned.

He didn’t expect the Empress to have such an attitude. He immediately said awkwardly, “Your Majesty, you may not know, but my family’s patriarch has already become a Dao Entry realm…”

Before he could even say the word “celestial”, he heard the word “fight”, and with that,

millions of soldiers moved out towards the battlefield at the borders.

The sound waves shook the sky and drowned out everything else.

Nightingale looked at the Dugu clansman and shouted, “This place is about to become a battlefield. Why don’t you leave quickly? Oh right, go back and let your family’s patriarch know about the Empress’s orders.”

How dare the Empress do something like this?

The clansman of the Dugu clan was furious.

He was enraged at the Empress’s attitude. With a wave of his long sleeves, he turned around and left.

Back in Tianyou County, the clansman told Patriarch Dugu what had happened and added, “Patriarch, the Empress doesn’t know what’s good for her. In my opinion, we should let them fight first. When the Empress can’t defeat Tianmo Sect, she will personally come to you for help.”

“Bastard, what are you saying?! You’re too narrow-minded!” Dugu Sheng rebuked, “You’ve just returned from the battlefield. You should know that it’s a slaughterhouse right now. How many people will die if we delay for a day? The Empress is, after all, still a little girl. In the face of war, it’s understandable that she doesn’t understand the ways of the world. As an elder, how can I hold a grudge against her?”

“Moreover, the previous emperor, Xia Longwu, and I had a life-and-death friendship. Now that the Wu Dynasty is in trouble, how can I just stand by and do nothing?”

“How about this? Go back and tell the Empress that as long as she agrees, I’ll go to the battlefield to help her. Also, tell the world that I’ve already reached the Dao Entry realm and come out of seclusion. Make it so that the people of the Wu Dynasty don’t have to be afraid of Tianmo Sect. With me here, I’ll take care of everything. Tianmo Sect’s devils can just wait to die.”

Dugu Sheng stood proudly with an extraordinary temperament.

The clansman was stunned.

Had the patriarch become so lowly?

No!

The patriarch was not being lowly.

The patriarch was doing this for the greater good.

For the living beings of the world, the people of the Wu Dynasty, and his friendship with the previous emperor, the patriarch had disregarded his dignity. As long as the Empress nodded, he would immediately head to the battlefield.

What kind of breadth of mind and magnanimity was this?

“The patriarch is so noble and unquestionable. What’s the little bit of anger I suffered from the Empress?”

The clansman’s eyes were filled with tears.

Once again, he headed towards the battlefield.

At the same time, he tried his best to spread the news that Patriarch Dugu Sheng had come out of seclusion, telling the world not to be nervous.

The Wu Dynasty would not lose this battle as long as the patriarch was here.

“Senior Dugu has come out of seclusion.”

“Heavens! Senior Dugu has become a celestial!”

“Haha, Wu Dynasty is destined to live on.”

“With senior Dugu, the Wu Dynasty will be able to overcome this crisis easily!”

When the people of the Wu Dynasty heard the news, they felt relieved.

Many even set off in advance to pay their respects to Patriarch Dugu and thank him for saving the Wu Dynasty!