Zhang Ruochen walked out of the Silver-robed Elder Pavilion and stood on top of the stone steps, looking up at the long sky with a hint of a smile at the corner of his mouth, “The Four Direction County Kings are considered to be completely finished, and the pattern of the Nine Counties of the Western Ridge is probably going to undergo a sea change as well.”
The sky was dark, and the night was like pitch-black silk, covering the Heavenly Demon Martial City, making this city built in the midst of sublime mountains seem particularly mysterious.
Walking through the verdant streets, Zhang Ruochen came to the outside of Huang Yichen’s cultivation mansion.
Before he even bothered to knock on the door, the gate was already open.
“Greetings, Your Highness the County Lord has been waiting for you for a long time.” A sixteen or seventeen year old, rather good-looking maid, carrying a colourful lantern, opened the gate and welcomed Zhang Ruochen in.
Zhang Ruochen glanced towards that one maid and realised that she unexpectedly possessed a cultivation level of the Great Circle of the Yellow Extreme Realm. At her age, to be able to reach the Yellow Extreme Realm Great Circle was already quite remarkable, and she would surely become a student of the Martial City Academy Palace in the future as well.
That one maid, who led Zhang Ruochen to the living room, poured Zhang Ruochen a full cup of hot tea, and then retreated with a flourish, closing the door to the room.
Huang Yichen had already waited inside the living room, originally cultivating, when Zhang Ruochen took the first step into the living room, she stopped cultivating, opened her eyes, and coldly said, “Please sit.”
Zhang Ruochen was not courteous, finding a chair and sitting opposite Huang Yichen, he carefully observed Huang Yichen for a while and said, “Elder sister’s cultivation speed is so fast, she should have already reached the middle extreme position of the Earth Extremity Realm, right?”
“My cultivation speed can compare to yours? You’re a great expert, you can even kill a strong person in the Heavenly Extreme Realm, I’m far behind compared to you!” Huang Yichen rolled his eyes and did not have a good look for Zhang Ruochen.
Zhang Ruochen said, “There’s no need for Senior Sister to be modest in front of me, when I was in the Western Academy, the Vice Academy Master told me that Senior Sister has strength in hiding. The Vice Academy Master shouldn’t have lied to me, right?”
Huang Yichen ground her teeth and said in exasperation, “That talkative old woman.”
The corners of Huang Yichen’s mouth hooked, revealing a beautiful smile like a lily in bloom as she said, “You didn’t make Pavilion Master Lei angry by posing as Pavilion Master Lei’s secret disciple, did you?”
Zhang Ruochen rarely saw Huang Yichen smile, but at this moment, she smiled in a strangely beautiful way, like an iceberg melting, giving people a pleasing feeling.
At the same time, Zhang Ruochen also had an odd feeling, he always felt that there was something wrong with Huang Yichen today, it was too abnormal!
“Pavilion Master Lei was indeed very angry, but this matter has been resolved, Senior Sister, there’s no need to worry about me.” Zhang Ruochen said.
On the way back, Huang Yichen took into account the presence of Si Xingkong and Chang Qiqi, so there were some things that he did not say. To ask Zhang Ruochen alone to talk tonight, there must be her purpose.
Zhang Ruochen opened the door and asked, “Senior sister, what exactly is the important matter you have that we must discuss alone?”
Huang Yichen nodded, put away her smile and said, “I already know a bit about what happened in the Four Direction County Kingdom and the Poison Spider Chamber of Commerce. Once Lei Pavilion Master sends the evidence to the Eastern Region Saint King’s Palace, the Four Directions County Kingdom will definitely suffer sanctions, and at that time, all the neighbouring counties can attack the Four Directions County Kingdom and seize its territory, population, wealth, and resources.”
Zhang Ruochen seemed to understand the reason why Huang Yichen had invited him over, but still pretended not to be too clear, “Senior sister, what does it mean?”
“My meaning is simple, I just want to know, does your Yunwu County Kingdom want to annex the Sifang County Kingdom and become a medium county kingdom?”
Huang Yichen stared tightly into Zhang Ruochen’s eyes, as if she was trying to see through Zhang Ruochen’s true thoughts.
Zhang Ruochen pondered for a moment and said, “The royal family of the Yunwu County Kingdom, although there are some experts at the Mythical Level of the Martial Dao, none of them have reached the Great Circle of the Heavenly Extremity Realm. According to the regulations of the First Central Empire, a clan must have a strong person of the Heavenly Extremity Realm Great Perfection sitting in their ranks in order to become the royal clan of a medium county state and help the First Central Empire rule that area.”
Huang Yichen said, “With your natural talent, within ten years, you will definitely be able to reach the Heavenly Extremity Realm Great Circle. At that time, naturally, you can become the township powerhouse of the Yunwu County Kingdom, who dares to talk nonsense?”
“Zhang Ruochen, this is an excellent opportunity, if Yunwu County Kingdom wants to become a medium county kingdom, we, Thousand Waters County Kingdom, will definitely give our full support.”
“Furthermore, Pavilion Master Lei also appreciates you quite a bit, as long as he gives the order, the Martial Market Money Vault will fully support the Yunwu County Kingdom. The Martial Market Money Bank is spread throughout the entire Sifang County Kingdom, so as long as we have their support, it can be said that half of the Sifang County Kingdom has already fallen into the hands of the Yunwu County Kingdom.”
“As long as the Sifang County State is annexed, the Yunwu County State’s national power will be able to become the top of the nine counties in Lingxi, and coupled with the support of Pavilion Master Lei and the Thousand Waters County State, it’s only a matter of time before the Yunwu County State unifies the nine counties in Lingxi. In the future, the Yunwu County State could even unify the entire Heavenly Demon Ridge and develop into a superior county state.”
Zhang Ruochen laughed and said, “I really didn’t see that Senior Sister had such ambition, not a small ambition, Senior Brother admires it.”
Huang Yichen blankly glanced at Zhang Ruochen, puffed out her chest, revealing her long, snow-white neck, and said, “Who asked us to be a family now, if I don’t help you plan, who will I help plan? If you are able to become a grand king of a superior county in the future, I can be the queen.”
“Stop! Stop!”
Zhang Ruochen said, “Senior sister, when we got engaged, didn’t we already agree that it was only a fake engagement.”
Huang Yichen said, “How can an engagement be fake? Zhang Ruochen, don’t think that I am the one who is not married to you, there are quite a lot of people who pursue me. It’s just that you’re now showing more and more impressive martial arts talent, so if you withdraw from the marriage, people will definitely think that it’s because you’ve become more discerning and can’t see me anymore. Wouldn’t I become that one abandoned woman, what kind of eyes will others look at me with, and what kind of eyes should they look at you with?”
“Wouldn’t all those martial artists in the martial arts world have you treated as a negative and thin-skinned man?”
“That’s why I’m afraid this marriage of ours can’t be ruined! Marrying you is a bit of an indignity, but, for the sake of our reputation, I can only admit it!”
Zhang Ruochen said, “In fact, we don’t even need to care about other people’s opinions, the most important thing is to follow our hearts. If Senior Sister really feels aggrieved, let me be that one bad guy. Two years later, I will personally go to the Thousand Water County Kingdom to withdraw from the marriage.”
“Being returned by you? Then in the future, do I still want to marry?” Huang Yichen bit her lips tightly, her heart was incomparably exasperated, feeling that Zhang Ruochen was too idiotic, he had already made his words so clear, why couldn’t she hear them?
His martial arts talent was so high, why was his emotional quotient so low?
Couldn’t he really see what was really going on inside someone’s heart?
Huang Yichen tightly pinched her ten snowy onion fingers, her shell teeth biting her lips as she secretly vowed in her heart that if Zhang Ruochen dared to bring up the matter of regretting the marriage again, she would fight Zhang Ruochen to the death.
