Chapter 1231 – Throwing Bricks to Attract Jade
Until the three hundred mile demarcation line of the Imperial City, at this location, the entire Xuan Yuan Imperial City is surrounded by extremely tight guard posts on all four sides, which is also known as the City Protector Army.
The military appearance was strict and tidy, and the guarding force of the City Protector Army at each place had reached the scale of a few thousand people.
Each and every one of them was clad in purple copper heavy armor, each and every one of them valiant and imposing.
It was worth mentioning that the leader of the city guard responsible for guarding the Xuan Yuan Imperial City was naturally the current Grand Prince.
In other words, the group of city guards in front of them were all forces under the banner of the Grand Prince.
With the Great Prince’s nature, and now that each of the seven princes and lords had set off for Xuanyuan Imperial City, in addition to the Third Prince who had been controlled by the Fifth Prince and the Fourth Prince who was secluded on the Seven Extinct Mountains, there were now a full five legions heading straight for the foot of the Imperial City.
And how could the Grand Prince, who had just been the one responsible for guarding this portal outside of the Xuan Yuan Imperial City, release the other several paths to easily enter the city so easily?
Just as the white tiger boy just mentioned that, the son of heaven without edict, also gave the great prince under the command of the city guard army, a legitimate guard duty.
If one were to let several of the princes and lords’ men easily enter into the Xuan Yuan Imperial City, then it would be a dereliction of duty on the part of the Grand Prince.
With the cautious character of the Grand Prince, this was a pot that he would never take.
Undoubtedly, it was feared that both sides would have to use force to resolve this dispute, but this was tantamount to kicking the problem back in front of the several princes and marquises.
Daring to make a move against the City Protector Army was in itself a major sin.
Exactly how to skillfully resolve this trouble would require Xu Yang’s team and the others to rack their brains in order to come up with a reasonable solution.
Xu Yang’s team of carriages gradually approached, to this City Protector Army’s stationing place, at the foot of the towering city wall, a large number of City Protector Army men swarmed out, and in a very short period of time, they pulled their manned battalion to both sides, stopping all of Xu Yang’s team members in front of them.
”The City Protector Army’s heavy ground, is it not something that you people who have not obtained the Emperor’s Edict can offend?”
The purple-bronze armored Thousand Husbandman at the head of the group spoke coldly, and as his words fell, the thousand Protectorate Army, warriors that had been brought out around them raised their weapons in their hands, horizontally towards the Xu Yang team crowd in front of them.
Although they hadn’t yet released a sufficiently terrifying killing aura, the posture of each of these City Protector Army soldiers in a strict stance gave off an inexplicable sense of oppression.
”I say, you guys don’t have to be like this, there’s something to be said, not to mention that we’re all friends of the king, even if you’re the City Protector Army, but in front of the king and the marquis you’re allowed to be so unbridled?”
As a result, it didn’t occur to me that the head of the Thousand Husbandman in front of him laughed out loud.
”We naturally respect the Fifth Prince, but the duty of the City Protector Jun is to guard the absolute safety of the Xuan Yuan Imperial City, and without an order from His Majesty the Emperor, there is no way for us to easily open the gates for anyone.”
The Fifth Prince once again stepped forward and told the general in front of him all about the purpose of the people entering the city this time.
However, the other party was going in the left ear and out the right ear on the surface, seemingly listening attentively, but after the Martial King finished his words, the other party was still unmoved.
”We only act according to orders, it’s still the same words, without the imperial decree of the Son of Heaven, we have no way to open the corresponding passageway, all of you might as well please return.”
After the general finished his sentence, Xu Yang’s face immediately turned ugly for a few moments.
”Toast to the end of the day?
You should clearly realize that the power of our people is by no means something that you, the thousand or so City Protectors, will be able to resist!”
However, the face of this Thousand Husbandman was still as calm as before, “Your strength is certainly strong, and I don’t have any certainty that I can stop you, but if you break in hard, and if we open the city gates and let you in, that would be of a completely different nature.
For those of us who eat the royal food as a servant, orders are everything far above our lives, as long as you feel the need to at any time you can show us the weapons in your hands and step over our corpses to enter the imperial city.”
Seeing this emboldened appearance of the other party, Xu Yang and the others were all of a sudden somewhat helpless.
The other party had spoken like this, which meant that even if they died, they would definitely not budge half a step.
This matter would have no room for discussion at all, if one were to go in hard, then this charge would undoubtedly be held against the Fifth Prince’s head, just hitting the Grand Prince’s fancy.
Once the great prince in front of the cloud dragon emperor raised this matter, the cloud dragon emperor absolutely impossible to let the fifth prince this kind of behavior, do not give any punishment.
This was the so-called rules of the palace, everything had to be done according to the rules.
If any party violated this bottom line, even if he was the emperor’s favorite prince, he must still be punished.
Because as rulers speak, judging unfairly is their biggest taboo.
”That’s just it, I’m going to break through this door today no matter what, but I can’t bear to hurt all of you, the warriors of the City Protector Army, you’re all the most loyal warriors of the most elite soldiers of my Yun Family’s imperial dynasty.
As I am the Yun Family’s royal son, how could I possibly take action against you all?
In my opinion, it would be better for us to choose a compromise or come to a bet, in which case the losing side is convinced.
Although we are cultivators, you guys are army fighters in the true sense of the word, and we will never use any of our cultivation in this match between you guys.”
Hearing the Fifth Prince say this, as expected, the Thousand Husbandman in front of him finally had his heart moved.
He knew very well that if he continued to fight hard with Xu Yang and these people, there could only be one possible ending, and that was the other party going in hard, and his own loyal generals giving up their lives for no reason at all.
He also didn’t want to make an enemy of these scary guys brought by the Fifth Prince, so if there really could be a compromise solution to this strife today, why not?
More importantly, hearing Xu Yang say this meant that Xu Yang and the others were not allowed to manifest their strength advantage as speakers in cultivation, which was tantamount to Xuan dropping their proudest capital.
If they were to fight on such a seemingly fair starting point, these one-in-a-million elites of the City Protector Army might not necessarily be able to lose to Xu Yang’s team.
What’s more, the City Protector’s talent pool was counted in the thousands, and no matter what aspect it was, it possessed the top talents that stood out from the rest.
And these few people from Xu Yang’s team, how do you look at them, they are all uneven and a few crooked jujubes, especially these people from the Eight Gates team who are all in strange shapes.
If all factors were taken into consideration, even if this match was really to be carried out, it was not certain that Xu Yang’s side would win.
As expected, the Thousand-Master loosened his mouth bar and raised a smile on his face.
”Then you tell us how the match is going to be conducted?
And what are the rules!”
Xu Yang swept a glance at the thousand elite city guards and opened his mouth, “The competition amongst the army is nothing more than these kinds of foot and arm strength and fighting ability.”