Chapter 229: Three Years of Respite

If Zhengyang does not have the previous series of things as a premise, if it is still in a situation of internal and external troubles, there are still Northern Barbarians eyeing the north, and the Nanhai Shi clan is dragging down in the south.

Then now in the face of the invasion of the Holy Roman Empire, it will not be so confident, and it will not have enough strength to deter this expeditionary force.

But for now, the threat from the West is only temporarily lifted, not permanent.

The real threat is still to come, if Zhengyang can't rise in a short period of time, once the Westerners are fully prepared, Zhengyang will fall into a very, very dangerous situation even more dangerous than now.

Now, through the external game of the Zhengyang Imperial Court, as well as the victory won by Zhengyang Wubi Shangliu Xin, Zhengyang has been calm for three years in the following time.

In the past three years, the situation in the world has undergone many changes.

The rebellion of the Duke of Shu was resisted by the people of Zhengyang, and the people of the land of Bashu moved en masse, and neither the Westerners nor the Duke of Shu stopped it.

Of course, the Holy Roman Empire did not stop its footsteps, and they built it into a western fortress through the transformation of the land of Bashu.

There are also people in the land of Zhengyang who worship foreign flattery and move their families into the land of Bashu.

Of course, these are some small things, and on top of the overall situation, the imperial court has vigorously developed firearms, and has already achieved initial results.

The training of cavalry is also being intensified, but the total number of iron cavalry has been reduced from 400,000 to 300,000, and the combat power is even better, and the cavalry ranks are equipped with firearms.

At the same time, the imperial court is also constantly cleaning up the stubborn diseases within the country, and the grain output and tax and silver payment in the South China Sea have increased year after year.

With external enemies on the side, Zhengyang is much calmer and more united than before.

And Zhengyang's young Tianjiao are still growing rapidly.

There are more and more top-grade Dacheng realm masters under the age of thirty!

However, Liu Xin has always been considered to be a high-grade Dacheng realm's cultivation, but in fact, three years later, his cultivation is still a medium-grade Dacheng realm!

Because of the relationship between "Star Change", Liu Xin's breakthrough was extremely difficult.

Because he not only has to break through his internal strength, but also break through "Star Change".

This is also one of the things that makes him quite emotional.

"Star Change" gave him extremely strong strength, even the strength of the cross-border border.

But it gave him a huge obstacle when he broke through the level and upgraded.

In this way, it is difficult to break through the realm of Zhongpin Dacheng.

In order to seek an opportunity for a breakthrough, Liu Xin took the initiative to resign from the position of the commander of the Jinyi Guard, and walking the rivers and lakes finally did what he originally wanted to do.

The brothers and sisters of the Holy Sect increasingly held important positions in the imperial court.

Although the world is peaceful, there is always a strange haunting in the rivers and lakes.

Don't think that the source is from the mysterious True Demon Sect.

Until now, Liu Xin still believes that the True Demon Sect and Roselle Mountain Villa are inseparable.

And he's been secretly investigating.

Even the imperial court and the Holy Sect made a vague reminder. Of course, it is unknown whether these two sides will send people to investigate Roselle Villa.

Today, the three powerful forces of the Righteous Path Sect are on an equal footing.

Luoshen Villa has regained the recognition of the imperial court, coupled with the fact that it has the only master of the Grandmaster Realm in the world, it has risen from the original decline and adversity, and now it has even faintly surpassed the Holy Sect and the Martial Emperor City.

The Holy Sect has more and more disciples joining the imperial court, and the talents displayed by these disciples are extremely amazing. Therefore, the Holy Sect has the support of the imperial court, and its influence in the rivers and lakes has gradually recovered, and the original first sect of the righteous path is especially there!

In addition, Emperor Wu City has gradually become mediocre, but this is also due to the fact that the power of the sect has developed to a bottleneck, coupled with the frequent accidents of the Eight Auxiliary Sects, which has also caused a lot of turmoil in Emperor Wu City, and it has been more low-key in the past three years.

However, as long as Shangguan Ba is there, Emperor Wu City will not show any signs of regression at least in the hands of this generation of emperors.

Not to mention that Emperor Wu City still has many disciples who join the imperial court every year and do things for the imperial court.

And the main development direction of Emperor Wu City is the army.

Shangguan Ba is actually the third commander in the army after Wu Guogong and Qin Guogong.

In addition, the fourth commander is also gradually revealed, that is, Jiang Chong, the personal disciple of Wu Guogong.

Wu Guogong did not even teach his own commander's talent to his own son and grandson, but passed on this ability to an outsider.

In fact, only they understand why.

Wu Guogong was the founding of the country, and then experienced the great merit of overthrowing the kingdom of heaven and restoring the country.

The Zhu family was already the most powerful family in the entire Zhengyang, even surpassing those princes.

But such an interpretation is not a good thing.

Boom and bust!

Wu Guogong wanted his family to continue, not to be strong, and after reaching a peak, it began to slowly decline.

There is no change in the Wencheng group above the court. This is originally a profession that the older you get, the more thoughtful and scheming you are.

The imperial court now needs to stabilize the overall situation and forge ahead steadily, so it must rely on these old ministers.

Zhengyang's national power is rapidly developing and transforming into a potential crisis of the Holy Roman Empire. It has also brought a strong impetus to the development of Zhengyang. I also gained a lot of inspiration from my brief encounter with Westerners.

However, although Zhengyang's national strength and military strength have been greatly improved, the Holy Roman Empire has also continued to have troops replenished from the West in the past few years.

Although there are not many young Western geniuses, because most of the young geniuses of the Holy Roman Empire have already come over in the first batch.

But among the following groups of Holy Roman Empire troops, there were indeed many powerful demon families within the Holy Roman Empire who came here with their group army and their entire family, and the purpose was obvious, that is, to compete for merit.

What the Eastern Caesar wanted to do now had spread throughout the Holy Roman Empire, and the Western Caesar had already begun to set out these schemes against the Eastern Caesar.

For East Caesar, what he had to do had to be accelerated.

That's why so many powerful families came here with their family strength, and Zhengyang also saw the momentum of the storm coming from such behavior.

In any case, this battle between them and the Holy Roman Empire must be fought.

If they lose, they will cede the land, and let the Holy Roman Empire in the West enter the land of the East and occupy their land.

Even for many years to come.

Either it is a complete defeat, a complete ruin, and a complete slave to the Holy Roman Empire, but this kind of thing is definitely not what everyone wants to see.

For the upper echelons of the Zhengyang court, the only option they could do was to rise up and open up the Holy Roman Empire in the West to make them realize that Zhengyang was not something they could humiliate.

Although it is said that Zhengyang's national strength has increased a lot in three years, the Holy Roman Empire has also supplemented its military strength, and now judging from the intelligence obtained through various intelligence forces, the Western Holy Roman Empire has continuously sent troops and horses from the West in the past three years, and the number of its main battle corps has exceeded 300,000.

And that number was reached a year ago.

The reason why it did not rise was that the Manchu civil and military believed that it was also related to the internal situation of the Holy Roman Empire, and secondly, Westerners believed that an army of 300,000 might be enough to rule the whole of Zhengyang.

In the past three years, Zhengyang naturally could not be idle, and he had already sent people to cross the desert and come to the Holy Roman Empire.

But because of the huge gap in the faces of Easterners and Westerners, the progress of the work is actually not smooth.

But there has been some progress in the past three years, and what shocked Emperor Xuyang and Mi Yusong the most was that there were already Orientals within the Holy Roman Empire.

And it's the one they are going out of.

And this group of people came to the Holy Roman Empire only a dozen years ago.

At first, Emperor Xuyang thought that these people were sent out by the Duke of Shu.

Because from the current point of view, it is estimated that the Duke of Shu and the Holy Roman Empire have already colluded.

But through the clues found by several senior intelligence officers, a shocking fact was finally obtained.

The Duke of Shu has never sent people to this western country.

I don't know what his considerations were, but he didn't send anyone there.

For a long time, the Duke of Shu has been a one-way liaison with this group of Westerners, and the Westerners have a priest in the Mansion of the Duke of Shu.

All communication came through him, so what was the way for these Orientals within the Holy Roman Empire?

Who are they, and what forces have sent them?

Because the time is too short, only three years is not enough to find out any useful information.

And now that the storm is coming, the Westerners may launch an offensive at any time, and the role of intelligence work is no longer very good.

But combined with Liu Xin's reminder, Emperor Xuyang and Mi Yusong both realized that they were likely missing something. And this omission is likely to be fatal.

Regarding Liu Xin's rather mysterious personal situation, Emperor Xuyang and Ming Yusong are also well aware.

Because of Liu Xin's rise and the trend of his growth and progress, he has surpassed the level of an ordinary disciple of the Holy Sect.

Even if the other party is the sect master's personal lineage, although the rest of the personal disciples are also perverted, they are not perverted to this extent.

However, with the eyes of the two of them, they can clearly judge that Liu Xinxin is facing Zhengyang.

Otherwise, there is no need for him to come out during the Zhengyang martial arts competition.

You must know that at that time, Emperor Xuyang and Mi Yusong were already mentally prepared for the doomed defeat of this battle.

There were even some other schemes.

But I didn't expect Liu Xin to win and give Zhengyang such a good opportunity to boost morale.

Without hesitation, it is not stingy to say that the effect of Liu Xin's victory will not be worse than that of a victory with an army of 100,000.

On this day, Liu Xin was traveling in Gunzhou, Shandong.

He was walking alone on the official road, but there was billowing smoke and dust in front of him in the direction where he was.

When the smoke and dust first rose, it was still five or six miles away from Liu Xin, and it was already close in the blink of an eye, which showed that this group of knights had used all their strength.

Liu Xin opened the attribute panel and swept over, but there was a slight surprise in his heart.

The first person turned out to be Liu Xin's old acquaintance.

It's not that he is very familiar with Liu Xin, but that this person used to be the one who Liu Xin could only watch when he looked up.

And it has something to do with the old incident more than ten years ago.

[Name: Xu You.]

Age: 59

Cultivation is: the middle stage of the high-grade Dacheng realm

Good at: Swordsmanship

Root bone: 9.0

Stamina: 9.5

Intelligence: 8.5

Combat ability: 1.2

Overall ability (combat power): 726.75

Final Combat Power: Medium Coefficient of Top-grade Dacheng Realm *78;

Combat power: .8

Character Rating: Upper

Qualification: Qimai [Speed Pulse]

Good at exercises: Red Gold Tiger Sword (Top, Perfection), Tiger Roar Sword (Top, Perfection)

Evaluation: The golden tiger, the tiger is no longer powerful, and there is a faint trend of the tiger going down the mountain.

Faction: Hostile

It's not that the Golden Tiger has been defeated by the Red Flame Tiger, the entire Golden Tiger Gang has fallen apart, how can this person still be in Shandong.

He swept over the attribute panels of the knights behind the Golden Tiger.

The Five Tigers of Gold, Wood, Water, Fire and Earth, I heard that they are the disciples of the Golden Tiger, and the weakest ones also have the cultivation of the medium-grade Dacheng Realm.

The factions are all hostile!

Liu Xin's first reaction was that they were people from the True Demon Sect, and at the moment, there were hostile camps in the Zhengyang world, either the True Demon Sect or the Westerners.

But if you think about it carefully, there are no traces of the True Demon Sect on their attribute panels.

But why are their camps hostile, have they already taken refuge in the Duke of Shu?

Just thinking about it, this group of knights had already rolled up smoke and dust and passed by Liu Xin's place.

Liu Xin thought that he would catch up and take a look later, but he was idle.

But unexpectedly, Mu Hu, the disciple of the Golden Tiger who was lagging behind, suddenly slowed down his horse speed and swung out a knife when he approached Liu Xin!

Judging by their proficiency, they must have done many such things along the way.

More importantly, why would they do such a thing?

Is there some secret?

Everything was in a thought, Liu Xin simply dodged a knife sideways, and at the same time, with a movement of his hand, a phantom flashed.

Mu Hu only felt a blow to his waist, and the huge pain made him fall off the horse directly, smash it to the ground, and roll several times in a row before stopping.

For a mid-grade martial artist, such a situation is simply a ghost.

Therefore, the Golden Tiger and his disciples in front ran out for several miles to find out about this situation, and when they turned their horses' heads and rushed back, Liu Xin had already stepped on Mu Hu's face with one foot.

Although the Golden Tiger was defeated by the Red Flame Tiger, the Golden Tiger Gang also fell apart and ceased to exist, and he himself fell into Pingyang.

But a body of power has been cultivated in the past ten years, sitting on a high horse overlooking Liu Xin, really like a tiger looking down on its prey.

"Master!"

The wooden tiger wailed.

During the time when the Golden Tiger and the others turned their horses' heads and came back, he endured the pain in his waist and got up to give this kid a little color.

I didn't expect to see how the other party moved, and I was pushed down again.