Chapter 1420: Chapter 1420 - 1405: Congratulations

"Flood the seventy-three counties across the five northern states of the Great Zhou?"

Hearing the threat from the Blue-scaled Dragon King, Ye Zhen suddenly smiled, "Your Majesty, the Dragon King, may I suggest you flood faster? Better yet, flood immediately. I wholeheartedly support it!"

The Blue-scaled Dragon King’s face instantly turned a shade of purple-red, as he slowly drew out an ancient mother-child magic conch and spoke with an extremely solemn tone, "Do you really think that I dare not?"

Yet Ye Zhen casually shrugged, "I didn’t mean that, I just purely feel, if you’re going to flood, you should do it quickly, the sooner the larger the scale, the better!"

"You know, in our Great Zhou, military merit is used to confer titles. For so many years, the southern Barbarians have been driven into the deep mountains, and even if we want to kill, there aren’t many heads to earn military merit!

As for the Demons in the west, their bones are too hard to chew on!

In other worlds, relying on the strength of each state, we don’t have the capability to conquer them.

As a result, the various military leaders of our Great Zhou have been hungry and thirsty for thousands of years.

Flood quickly, feel free to flood!

As long as Your Majesty the Dragon King floods, I can assure you, the military leaders of these five northern states and seventy-three counties won’t even bother to report to Luoyi. They will definitely march their troops to fight, collect enough heads of the North Sea Aquatic Race as military merits, and only then report to Luoyi!"

"Oh, right, actually not only the military leaders of these five states and seventy-three counties will send troops, the military leaders of the neighboring eight states and one hundred and one counties will also get involved!"

"Additionally, Your Majesty the Dragon King might have stayed in your lair for too long and might not be aware of the current military strength of the Human Clan! Well, although Lingzhou, where our North Sea County is located, is not very strong, it still has two million troops! As for the stronger Haiyuan State, three million troops, that’s standard!

Oh, I forgot, currently Haiyuan State has established the Marquis Haiyuan Kingdom, according to the laws of Great Zhou, Dukes in enfeoffed nations can expand their military forces at will, as long as they have the financial resources!

It’s said that the Marquis Haiyuan Kingdom is planning to double its military force!

So many military leaders need to have their titles sealed, and without enough military merits, it is impossible!

Your Majesty the Dragon King can feel free to flood, I believe the numbers of the North Sea Aquatic Race is sufficient, creating a prince isn’t impossible either!" Ye Zhen’s words made the water demons behind the Blue-scaled Dragon King change color, but the Blue-scaled Dragon King just sneered.

"Do you think I was frightened? My North Sea Aquatic Race is not made of mud; if you want to kill the North Sea Aquatic Race, you have to fill it with human lives. With these local military leaders alone, if you want to kill ten million of my North Sea Aquatic Race, your Human Clan will have to pay with at least twenty million lives!

Hmph, can you afford a loss of twenty million human fighters?" After finishing, the Blue-scaled Dragon King sneered again.

"Twenty million....."

Ye Zhen shook his head speechlessly, "Your Majesty the Dragon King, our North Sea County is incredibly desolate, with a small population! But, do you know earlier Haiyuan State, now the Marquis Haiyuan Kingdom, how many people it has?

The Marquis Haiyuan Kingdom encompasses fourteen counties, with each county having a population of over a hundred million, in total, just the Marquis Haiyuan Kingdom alone has fourteen hundred million, and what about the dozens of other states?"

"Regarding lives, the nature of those military leaders in the Great Zhou, what won’t they do for military merit?"

"So, feel free to give the order to flood, hurry up! By then, this Viscount won’t need to do anything else but just provide them with some intelligence about the North Sea, and that’s enough to earn a million military merits, achieving a marquis title won’t be too hard either!"

Ye Zhen spread his hands, with a look that said as you please, appearing impervious, infuriating the Blue-scaled Dragon King to the point of almost spitting blood.

However, the Blue-scaled Dragon King also understood clearly that what Ye Zhen said was absolutely true, with even some data being understated!

Certain laws of the Great Zhou Empire made them hate it to the core!

Not to mention anything else, for instance, the subjects of the Human Clan of Great Zhou.

Within the Great Zhou, every day, the princes and nobles of the Great Zhou kill human subjects for various reasons, if not a million, then at least hundreds of thousands, tens of thousands.

Yet, nobody manages this.

Those princes and nobles kill some subordinates or even ordinary citizens, like playing.

But, for us foreign clans, this doesn’t apply!

If the Barbarian Clan, Demon Race, Demon Clan secretly kills a few human citizens, even if eaten or captured, it’s not a big problem.

But if the number is a bit more, especially systematically, Great Zhou will immediately turn into a maddened tiger and will not rest until it retaliates!

This is also why the iron rule of the North Sea Aquatic Race is so important — absolutely no razing of cities or exterminating counties, you may loot outside the county, but if you dare to storm into a county, be prepared to die!

This is because the North Sea County is a border county, were it in the heartland of the Great Zhou, not to mention a county, even if just a small town were wiped out, it would provoke Great Zhou’s fury.

Of course, if the extermination of some small town’s civilians were done by some noble of Great Zhou, the matter might be resolved quietly and fade away."

Therefore, despite how fierce the Blue-scaled Dragon King sounded, he dared not actually flood the nearby seventy-three counties across five states!

If he really did so, he wouldn’t need to wait for Great Zhou to send troops to deal with him; the Dragon Lord of North Sea would be the first to come after him.

Even if the Dragon Lord of the North Sea remains silent and causes him no trouble, as long as the armies of each state attack the Blue-scaled Dragon Palace, once the battle ends, the days of prosperity for the Blue-scaled Dragon King will also come to an end due to his great loss of strength.

In the vast ocean, those Giant Demon Qiong Nies are never in short supply. Each harbors intentions beneath the surface, greedily eyeing his position as Dragon King.

"Hmph, the heavens have an inherent virtue of life preservation. I report to the Heavenly Dao, and a disaster like flooding the Five States and Seventy-three Counties will be delayed for now. However, the people of your North Sea County are not within the scope of my mercy!

Bring the captives up!"

With a wave of the hand, the team of Water Demons behind the Blue-scaled Dragon King suddenly bustled, assembling into formation with grandeur. What was most shocking was that each Water Demon had at least ten citizens of North Sea County tied with ropes before them.

Within a hundred breaths, nearly a hundred thousand captives were dragged by the immensely powerful Water Demons to the front of the array. At the Blue-scaled Dragon King’s order, swords of various extraordinary shapes, forged from assorted materials, were raised high!

"I have captured one hundred and forty thousand such captives, and more are being continuously transported here. Since you won’t release my Crown Prince, I will continue killing until you do! Until you willingly lift the restriction on my Crown Prince!" With a wave of his hand, the Blue-scaled Dragon King was about to order the massacre!

But even before the Blue-scaled Dragon King’s order was issued, a miserable scream, like that of a pig being slaughtered, suddenly echoed sharply.

The owner of the scream was none other than the Dragon Prince Ao Zheng.

When Ye Zhen activated the Divine Soul Restriction Technique, the Dragon Prince Ao Zheng let out a howl and, with a cry of agony, revealed his True Dragon form. As he wailed miserably, his four Dragon Claws seemed to act independently, crazily ripping at his own dragon scales.

Rip!

With one grip of a Dragon Claw, a large piece of azure dragon scale was torn off. The Dragon Prince Ao Zheng shuddered in pain, the area where the scale was removed was bloody and raw. Yet before the pain could fully register, his next claw had already lifted another scale, sending waves of intense pain coursing through his body, leading to shuddering screams.

This scene nearly suffocated the Blue-scaled Dragon King on the spot, as if his heart was being tightly squeezed, almost exploding with distress!

The most infuriating part was, under Ye Zhen’s control, the Dragon Prince Ao Zheng threw piece after piece of his own dragon scales towards Ye Zhen.

Unable to suppress his fear, the Dragon Prince Ao Zheng let out an anguished howl, "Father... save... me... Father... quickly... save..."

Utterly composed, Ye Zhen put away the Dragon Prince Ao Zheng’s plucked scales into his storage ring, "Very well, a few more pieces, and making a True Dragon Scale Shield will be no problem!"

"Right, True Dragon horns, Dragon Sinew, and Dragon Skin are all excellent materials for Artifact Refining..."

The Dragon Prince Ao Zheng’s piercing wails had already caused the Blue-scaled Dragon King’s heart to nearly stop in pain. Ye Zhen’s words pushed the Blue-scaled Dragon King to the brink of furious madness!

"Bastard, I will kill you!"

With a roar, an afterimage flickered through the void. In a flash, before anyone could react, the Blue-scaled Dragon King appeared in front of Ye Zhen, a spirit whip resembling a flowing water wave wrapped itself around Ye Zhen’s body, while another object like a pagoda simultaneously enveloped him!

Despite his fury, the Blue-scaled Dragon King retained some rationality, knowing that Ye Zhen needed to be captured alive, not killed!

High in the sky, the hidden Heavenly Patrol Divine General Fengg Jiumo shuddered suddenly, only for Ye Zhen’s Divine Soul Telecommunication to echo in his mind as he prepared to attack with full force, "I’m fine, do not intervene!"

Almost simultaneously, the Blue-scaled Dragon King’s spirit whip coiled around Ye Zhen’s body, emitting a burst of Spirit Light intent on binding him, when suddenly, Ye Zhen’s body crumbled into nothingness!

The Blue-scaled Dragon King, struck by a rush of fierce emotion, suddenly felt as though a basin of ice water had been poured over his head, turning his face deathly pale!

Having killed Ye Zhen so brutally, his son, still bound by the Divine Soul Restriction, might also be doomed by his actions!

Looking in horror at his son miserably howling, the Blue-scaled Dragon King discovered the spirit whip had only snared an empty set of clothes, causing him to clutch his chest and gasp desperately!

Illusory Body!

It was just an Illusory Body!

In the next instant, before the Blue-scaled Dragon King could catch his breath, Ye Zhen’s furious roar resounded from every direction.

"Blue-scaled Dragon King, you have angered me! You have successfully enraged me, congratulations!"

The long tail end of the words ’congratulations’ had barely faded when the Dragon Prince Ao Zheng’s screams suddenly became more than ten times shriller than before!

"Father... save... me..."

Amidst the tremendously piercing screams, the two Dragon Claws on the front chest of the Dragon Prince Ao Zheng lifted fiercely, his head bent down, and the claws smashed with lightning speed towards the dragon horns on his head!

The sight scared the Blue-scaled Dragon King so deeply his very soul almost flew off!

The dragon horns of the Dragon Clan symbolize the Dragon Power of the Dragon Clan and are also a source for comprehending the Heaven and Earth Laws, imbued with divine might. If a horn were to be broken, though barely recoverable, if both were snapped off, the Dragon Prince Ao Zheng could be rendered utterly crippled!

"No..."

With a furious roar, the Blue-scaled Dragon King’s figure blurred as he rushed towards his Dragon Prince Ao Zheng with utter desperation!