Chapter 317.
At this moment, in the midst of this dimly lit room, everything was so quiet that it seemed like a dreary summer day.
And in this quiet room, the long box made of pure metal was handed over by the Barbarian Emperor to Supreme Master Grass Cultivator.
Grass Cultivation Master looked at the box made of pure metal, listened to what the Barbarian Emperor said, and after thinking for a moment, he raised his hand and picked up the metal box.
After he took the metal box into his hands, he immediately felt a heavenly aura spreading towards his entire body along with this metal box.
He was a Peak Ascension Realm expert, and one of the few supreme people in this world, but when the aura from the long box came rushing in, he felt a touch of terror spreading from his heart.
“This sense of terror should not come from me.”
Supreme Master Grass Cultivator thought in his heart, “I am already the pinnacle of this world, how could anyone possibly make me feel fear?”
With such a strange thought in mind, Supreme Master Grass Cultivator looked at the long box in front of him, back and forth, carefully.
The more he looked at it, the more the Grass Cultivator Superior felt his heart skip a beat.
There is not the slightest gap on it, can not see the place to open, if not shaking can feel the things inside, he even thought that this is just a long strip-shaped metal block.
After studying it for a while, Supreme Master Kusuo suddenly showed a surprised look on his face, “Your Majesty, you built this box to isolate the terrifying aura of the things inside, right?”
The Barbarian Emperor heard this and nodded, not denying it, “That’s right, this is exactly what I’ve built, without this box, I’m afraid that if the aura inside is exposed, even if it’s separated by thousands of miles, it will be sensed by others.”
Senior Grass Cultivator could no longer control the expression on his face, his face was filled with shock.
Even with this box to isolate it, one could still feel the terrifying things inside, thus showing how terrifying the things inside were.
“Your Majesty, what exactly is inside?”
Obviously, this metal box with no seams was built with such a skillful means that even when the Grass Cultivation Venerable Master saw it, he felt that its skillfulness was so terrifying that it was terrifying.
“This handiwork, it should have been forged by the Barbarian Kingdom’s most skillful foundry.”
“And this metal, is by no means ordinary.”
Even the Grass Cultivation Upper Master couldn’t tell its composition.
Hearing the Grass Cultivation Elder say this, the Barbarian Kingdom Emperor slowly said, “Inside this thing, it contains a key.”
“Key?”
Upon hearing these two words, the Grass Cultivation Adept felt that the more he heard, the more confused he became.
“What key?”
He didn’t shy away from asking directly.
Because by this moment, they were already in a desperate situation, any method that could solve the problem could not be spared.
The Barbarian Emperor brought the rectangular box over and gently rotated it on the table, “Back then, the Great Domain Dynasty unified the world, but then, in order to deal with that horrifying weirdness, the Emperor of the Great Domain Dynasty brought all the civil officials and military generals at that time to fight against the enemy.”
“Subsequently, although the Great Domain Dynasty did not fall into pieces, it ultimately ended up in a situation where not a single one of the ten survived, something that you all know.”
Supreme Master Grass Cultivator nodded, indicating that he was aware of these circumstances.
For people at their level, this was no longer a big secret.
At best, it was just common knowledge.
The darkness of that era was extremely terrifying.
And the people in the lineage of that era were dead, wasted, and had almost reached the point of exhaustion.
But what, thought Master Kussho, did these things have to do with this box?
He didn’t bother to ask, because he knew that since the words had already been said, there must be a follow-up.
As expected, before Supreme Master Grass Cultivator could show his curiosity, the Barbarian Emperor continued to speak.
“A dynasty of one out of ten, again in that era, slowly lingered on for many years with the last of their reserves, they alternated from generation to generation, but ultimately were unable to recover in a short period of time due to their previous losses.”
“But at that time, the cracks in the sky were blocked, and the cracks on the ground, with the psychic space to buffer them, humanity was no longer plagued by weirdness, and at most, there would only be some weirdness from time to time.”
“Subsequently, a long time passed, and humanity was able to catch its breath and gradually grow, the various geniuses were countless during that time, and could almost be described as coming out of nowhere.”
“Then, the remaining great domain dynasties couldn’t be subdued.”
Elder Grass Cultivator froze slightly, then reacted and said four words in a low tone, “The Battle of the Hundred Kingdoms.”
To say what happened afterwards was also a magnificent and epic piece of writing.
At that time, the Great Domain Dynasty had almost run out of ways to suppress those heavenly prides that came out of nowhere, as well as the amazing geniuses, and so, one country after another, surprisingly, popped up during that time period.
Hundreds of countries, also at that time, began to seek the Great Domain Dynasty’s land.
Because of this, that period of history was extremely tragic.
The Great Domain Dynasty was gone, and the remaining hundred countries, too, fought madly against each other in order to compete for the number one spot in the world.
Sometimes, people are like this, when there is no enemy, always have to make some chaos out.
Infighting is the biggest mess of all.
Where there is a jianghu, there is also chaos.
This saying was most appropriate when applied to the Hundred Kingdoms War in the first place.
“Your Majesty means that the key in here is related to the Battle of the Hundred Kingdoms?” Elder Grass Cultivator asked.
The Barbarian Emperor nodded and said, “That’s right, it is indeed related to the original Battle of the Hundred Kingdoms.”
He stood up, went to the door and closed the window, at the same time, a powerful aura surged from his body, isolating everything around him.
The next words, other than the Grass Cultivation Elder could hear, no one else could hear them, and if they did, their heads would fall to the ground.
Grass Cultivation Master saw that the Barbarian Emperor was so cautious, he also knew that this matter was definitely not simple, and sat in his position without smiling, waiting for the following.
After the Barbarian Emperor had done this, he then sat back in his original position, sitting face to face with Supreme Master Grass Cultivator.
“When I first brought everyone from the Barbarian Kingdom, I ran all the way and ended up in a land of bitter cold, although the days were hard, but in the end, I was never exterminated.”
“And during that time, I accidentally found this key in a deep mountain.”
“I know that what’s inside is by no means simple, so I used this metal box to enclose it, not letting outsiders know about it.”
“But I have gone out from time to time to pry into its secrets.”
Upon hearing this, Supreme Master Grass Cultivator came to a sudden realization, “No wonder Your Majesty always goes out for a few days every month, and no one knows what exactly Your Majesty is going for.”
The Barbarian Emperor nodded and said, “I have been searching for it throughout these long years, and finally I really did find it.”
“Found what?”
Supreme Master Grass Cultivator was incomparably curious in his heart.
To say that at their level, there were not many things that could make them curious.
But this secret of the Battle of the Hundred Kingdoms was the most important point.
“I’ve discovered a secret place, it’s a door that doesn’t seem to have been repaired for a long time.”
A hint of reminiscence appeared in the eyes of the Barbarian Emperor, “There was a keyhole on top of the door, and through this keyhole, it was able to open that stone door, but I didn’t open it.”
“Why?” Supreme Master Grass Cultivator asked, “If that’s the case, actually opening it and discovering the secrets and benefits of the Battle of the Hundred Kingdoms should be better for us.”
The Barbarian Emperor shook his head and shook his head, “What you are considering is too shallow, I was using my country’s fortune as a foundation, and then I separated a strand of air, and thought of all the ways to drill a small hole only the size of a hair on the stone door, that I spent a lot of time to get out, and through this small hole, I saw the scene inside.”
“What’s inside?” Supreme Master Grass Cultivator asked.
In the eyes of the Barbarian Emperor, a touch of gravity appeared, “Inside, there are people in large numbers, each of them carries the aura of age, they opened up a space alone, and surprisingly survived inside.”
“People from the Battle of the Hundred Kingdoms! I was inside, and I sensed so many experts of the Ascension realm, and I passed through that small hole, and I finally realized why they stayed inside.”
As Supreme Master Grass Cultivator sniffed, he only felt that today, he had had his eyes opened.
Just this secret alone, all made the Grass Cultivator Superior Master feel shocked enough.
“Then your majesty, for what reason did they stay inside?” The Grass Cultivator Supreme Master asked.
Since it was talked about here, the biggest secret should be completely revealed at this moment.
The Barbarian Emperor sighed, gripped the long box in his hand tightly, and slowly said, “To stay alive.”
To live?
The Grass Cultivation Walker listened even more strangely.
He felt that it was fine to do it for any reason, but to do it for being alive was too strange.
“In that battle back then, only a few countries survived.”
“But it doesn’t mean that all the other countries were completely destroyed.”
“They are still alive, but have to be careful of the siege of those few countries.”
The Barbarian Emperor began to narrate.
“So these people, surprisingly, banded together, and they ended up utilizing the power of all of them to open up such a small space alone.”
“They’ve been lingering on, in order to prevent someone from being unable to endure the loneliness and going out from inside, and then harming everyone, that door can only be opened from the outside through a key, and they existed the key outside because they wanted to think that just in case someone got a hold of the key, they might be able to open up the stone door one day, allowing them to go out.”
“And because of that, when I got the key, I have been thinking that it might be the only card in the deck.”
Senior Grass Cultivator was silent for a long time before he finally raised his head and said, “Your Majesty means to let them out?”
“That’s right.” The Barbarian Emperor nodded and said, “The peak Ascending Heavenly Realm experts inside have fallen after a long time, but there are still a few of them, and there are just as many ordinary Ascending Heavenly Realms, so if I really reach the point of being at the end of my tether, I’ll release them, and let them come to me to help me solve these troubles.”
After hearing the Barbarian Emperor say this, Supreme Master Grass Cultivator fell into silence.
The Barbarian Emperor saw this and turned his head, “You don’t think it will work?”
A look of difficulty appeared on the face of Supreme Master Grass Cultivator, “Your Majesty, have you thought about it? If you release them all, then when the time comes, will even the Barbarian Kingdom, together, be affected?”
If it really was according to what the Barbarian Emperor had said, that there were remnants of the Battle of the Hundred Kingdoms hidden there, then at that time, I’m afraid it wouldn’t be that simple.
There were quite a few peak Heavenly Ascension Realms in there, as well as many ordinary Heavenly Ascension Realms, and a number like that would be enough to overturn the current situation today.
The Barbarian Kingdom, too, was part of the current situation.
If that were to be the case, I’m afraid that the first to be harmed would be the Barbarian Kingdom.
The Barbarian Kingdom’s Emperor shook his head as he slowly said, “Have you ever thought of a question?”
“What question?” Senior Grass Cultivator was filled with doubt.
The Barbarian Emperor continued, “I am now, there is no other way, to put it bluntly, I now want to surrender, I want to keep the country I have today, but will they let me surrender?”
Grass cultivation master shook his head, “No, because we already have no way back, if it is the Feng Teng Emperor of the Da Qi country, maybe there is still this road, but we …… are absolutely impossible to live, because no one will let the barbarian country live.”
“Since there is no possibility of surrender, then why don’t I let go of the fight?” The Barbarian Kingdom’s Emperor said indifferently, “Even if after releasing them, I immediately surrender, submit to them, and give them a vassal state, I will be the same emperor.”
“I’m not as rigid as Emperor Feng Teng, Emperor Feng Teng wants to be the first person in the world, I don’t want to be the first person in the world, what I want is just to live.”
In this world, there are people who like to live out their lives fiercely, and there are people who like to live out their lives meticulously, just wanting to live.
When these words were said, Senior Master Grass Cultivator also fell into silence.
He understood the meaning of the Barbarian Emperor, in fact, in the beginning when they were being hunted down, if there was no cover of this bitter cold land, if the other party was willing to let them live, maybe they would have really surrendered.
Because the Barbarian Emperor, was not as death-like as imagined.
This matter is also very normal, even if he is the emperor of the barbarian country, even if he is one of the most powerful people in the world today, but he is always a person.
As long as one is a human being, there are all kinds of emotions.
Some people weren’t afraid of death, and some people were afraid of death.
The Barbarian Emperor was afraid of death, so he didn’t want to die.
If you really put it that way, Supreme Master Grass Cultivator didn’t want to die either.
In this world, no one wants to die.
And the Barbarian Emperor, gave them a chance to not want to die.
Grass Cultivating Elder Master thought for a moment and said, ”Can it really be done? If they wipe out even us, then at that time, we would be digging a hole and jumping into it ourselves.”
The Barbarian Emperor shook his head, “If we don’t release them, then the ones who will die, will be us, we will absolutely die, without a single possibility of survival, if we release them, we still have some hope.”
“Because they are unfamiliar with this world, all of this requires us to guide them, then in the meantime, we will have an extremely long buffer time.”
“And this buffer time happens to be the time for us to think of a solution, if we really can’t think of a solution, then we will fight to the death, and if we do think of a solution, then that will be an opportunity.”
Supreme Master Grass Cultivator lapsed into silence, then nodded, “Everything is at Your Majesty’s command, so when, do we release them?”
The Barbarian Emperor thought for a moment and said, “Nowadays, it will take at least a month for them to want to sweep away the Da Chu Kingdom’s aftermath, as it involves some stubborn partisans, as well as some of the Da Qi Kingdom’s jianghu forces.”
“It’s hard to wrap these up, and it’s impossible for them to make a move against us first.”
“Because if we make a move first, there will be problems at the back, so this month, we have to think about whether there are any other methods.”
“If there’s really no other way, then we’ll release them again.”
Senior Grass Cultivator sniffed and agreed.
The two of them said no more, and the Grass Cultivation Upper Master, had already left the room.
After the Grass Cultivation Elder left, the Barbarian Emperor looked at the metal box in his hands and fell into deep thought.
A moment later, he stood up, his tone becoming extremely grave.
“I also don’t want to be subordinate to others, but you all insist on pushing me towards death, since this is the case, then no one wants to live.”
Inside the imperial study, it fell into silence, with only the sound of the Barbarian Emperor striking the desktop remaining, constantly resounding.
Time was gradually passing, on the Barbarian Emperor’s side, he was carrying out his plan, while on Zhou An’s side, he was also frantically livering proficiency.
Nowadays, he still had three skills left, namely Reading a Thousand Scrolls, Sneaky Fishing, and Xing Feng Zhuo Wave, which needed to reach level nine.
With these three skills, as long as they reached level nine, Zhou An would be able to usher in a true qualitative change and reach the All Saints realm.
Therefore, during this period of time, Zhou An had been constantly reading the Thousand Scrolls, using the proficiency of the Thousand Scrolls to raise the Storage Proficiency.
Of course, the storage proficiency was zero at the beginning, so even if Zhou An livered this Thousand Scrolls to the ninth level, he could only have seventy thousand points of storage proficiency.
But that wasn’t a big problem.
When the time came, he would be able to reverse his liver to other skills, and his stored proficiency would be able to have a bonus.
Every day, Zhou An’s days began to become very regular.
He would go into the psychic space to liver proficiency, and after entering the psychic space, he would come out and continue to liver proficiency in the outside world.
The method of reading a thousand scrolls of liver also made the crowd wonder if Zhou An was changing his profession.
This was because Zhou An was reading books every day, reading still the Miscellaneous Hundred Skills.
And not just reading, he would also write with his feelings about the Hundred Techniques of the Miscellaneous Doors.
Not only that, Zhou An even felt that if he really put his heart and soul into practicing this Hundred Techniques of the Miscellaneous Doors, he might be more fierce than even Black Jade.
What Reading a Thousand Scrolls provided, the understanding of the book, was simply too strong.
It was good that Zhou An also knew that there were times when one could not pick up the sesame and lose the watermelon.
He was just watching, just copying those perceptions.
On Eunuch Wei’s side, he had already organized the country’s fortunes.
Nowadays, the Great Qi Kingdom had long been split into two parts.
One part, was divided into the Great Yue Country, and the other part, was the Great Qi Country.
The division of territory between the two sides was very regular, and it didn’t produce a situation of land grabbing.
After all, everyone had at least joined together to fight against the most powerful country ever, and were considered to have been born to die together.
As long as there were no major conflicts, they would all laugh it off.
Now, according to Eunuch Wei, Emperor Yunqi and Emperor Xingwu had recently begun to return to normal, and their strength had returned to its original level, and there was still the possibility of it rising, as the territory they now controlled had also become larger.
The only thing that was lacking in beauty was that there were still some remnants that were making trouble from time to time, and after a while, they would jump out and cause trouble.
Luckily, from the side of the Great Chu Kingdom and the Great Yue Kingdom, people were constantly coming in to help pacify these remnants.
Zhou An also made a trip every now and then.
When Eunuch Wei and the others were really busy, they helped out.
Of course, his help was to directly draw his sword and slice the other party into the shape of an aunt.
Every time he drew his sword, Zhou An could not help but think of his aunt again, of that reminiscent night.
He felt as if he hadn’t thought about his aunt for a long time.
So every time, when he saw some of those ashes and meat sludge, Zhou An couldn’t help but feel a little nostalgic at the sight.
As for the Great Yue Country side, he also went to help out from time to time, after all, Zhou An was also regarded as a guest of honor in the Great Yue Country.
After all, Zhou An was also regarded as a honored guest in the Great Yue Country. At the beginning, he was the one who helped Emperor Yun Qi to solve his illness.
In addition to that, he was reading a thousand scrolls every day, and he was happy to do so.
So much so that in the end, even Zhou An, the Liver Emperor who had a person living inside his liver, was a bit numb.
His epiphany, write a little too much, even to write to the end, feel that he is a little godly.
After all, after reading more books, the idea will become more.
The good thing was that although it had an effect, he was able to control it.
Today, the most important day, Zhou An held a book of Miscellaneous Hundred Techniques in his hands, still looking at it.
After reading it, he started copying his epiphanies onto it.
Today, he was only that much away from the ninth level.
Black Jade sat next to him in a well-behaved manner, but while he was well-behaved, he could feel the terrifying aura on his body.
Nowadays, Black Jade had fused another Eight Jedi Techniques, and was only that much closer to fusing all Eight Jedi Techniques.
And Black Jade’s strength was also rising upwards.
Zhou An estimated that by the time she had fused half of them, she would be able to reach the level of the Ascended Heavens Realm, and if she fused further upwards, she would reach the Peak Ascended Heavens Realm.
When she had fused them all, she estimated that she would be able to reach that level of Xiao He Yun at the beginning.
Of course, the road was still long, and it would take time for Black Jade to want to go on.
Neither of them spoke, and Black Jade kept looking at Zhou An with a silly gaze.
Every day when Black Jade rested, she looked at Zhou An with this gaze, the attachment in her eyes, much more than before.
Due to Zhou An experiencing that one time when he was in danger and almost played his life away, the more Black Jade cherished Zhou An, the more she relied on him.
Even when Zhou An walked around, Black Jade would stare at him with her eyes, oozing.
And Zhou An had long since gotten used to Black Jade’s state, the pen in his hand kept writing, and his proficiency was rising.
His proficiency, which was about to reach its zenith, and Reading a Thousand Scrolls would also usher in a qualitative change.
After he had written the last text, completely clean, before his eyes, the latest choice appeared.
Smoke curled up, this was the effect brought about by the qualitative change of Reading a Thousand Scrolls.
Zhou An was filled with anticipation, looking forward to what kind of surprises the Ninth Level’s Reading a Thousand Scrolls would be able to bring to him.