Chapter 2159: The Four Lords Greet the Emperor, the Son of Heaven Pulls the Coffin

If Xu Wang were to come alone, even if he possessed earth-shattering abilities, it would still be manageable. At most, it would just block Fu Huan and delay the progress of the Cold Cicada Winter Recite Immortal Array. There would always be a solution.

But Xu Wang also commanded the Split Deer Army, and until today... everyone thought Xu Wang was still leading his army on the front lines of the Yu Abyss, still locked in a bloody battle with the Asura!

"Taking over the Snow Domain?" Fu Huan asked calmly, "How does Qin Country plan to take over?"

"Ideally, we can take over peacefully, but it's very likely we'll have to use a method you all would least want to face."

Xu Wang said slowly, "Are you sure you're not going to Raging Winter City? The Dry Battle Army and the Split Deer Army should already be closing in."

Raging Winter City is a major city built by Snow Country at the Yu Abyss, serving as Snow Country's front line against the Asura. Snow Country's two major elite armies, the Snow Blade and the Raging Edge, rotate here year-round.

And the Dry Battle and Split Deer armies both come from the famous Qin Ten Soldiers.

Qin Country actually managed to carve out a transport channel through the difficult terrain of the Yu Abyss, transforming this absolute fierce land into a bridge connecting to the present world. They sent out troops in a way the world never thought possible, using the Yu Abyss channel to connect Qin and Snow countries!

Qin has Ten Soldiers, beginning with the Dominate Rong and ending with the Split Deer.

They are: Dominate Rong, Roaring Dragon, Phoenix Sparrow, Fierce Tiger, Town Fierce, Great Wind, Long Peace, Heaven Que, Dry Battle, and Split Deer.

This ranking represents the names of the earliest established Qin Ten Soldiers, not their current strength order.

The Asura are born for killing and are incredibly fierce. However, the Qin people never retreat and always meet killing with killing.

This also led to an extremely fierce competitive environment within the Great Qin military. Five branches of the Qin Ten Soldiers established during the time of the founding emperor, Qin Tai Zu, have already changed their flags, some more than once.

Only the flags of the Dominate Rong, Roaring Dragon, Phoenix Sparrow, Fierce Tiger, and Split Deer armies have been consistently maintained, representing their continuous glory from the founding of the country. However, even the Fierce Tiger and Split Deer have experienced being disbanded and re-established.

In terms of military strength, there is currently one undisputed strongest branch—the Split Deer Army under Xu Wang.

Xu Wang gained his illustrious reputation precisely with this army in the Yu Abyss. And it was precisely with the Split Deer as his main force that he frontally defeated Xiang Long Xiang in the River Valley War, greatly breaking the strong Chu!

And the other powerful army approaching Raging Winter this time, the Dry Battle, is led by True Person Wang Zhao. The Wang family is considered a rising star in Qin Country, and the Dry Battle army only successfully replaced its flag in recent years. It is precisely at a time when they are full of energy and eager to prove themselves, so their fighting spirit is imaginable.

Xu Wang's one word stirred up a thousand waves.

Even though Jiang Wang was only a spectator, he was moved by the grand actions of these "seniors." Hong Jun Yan and Fu Quan had been accumulating strength, preparing to contend for hegemony in the future. Wang Xi Xu and Xu Wang, on the other hand, directly broke through the Yu Abyss, traversing a distance of tens of thousands of li, making Qin and Snow allies from now on. These moves, with the world as their board and transcending time and space, truly opened his eyes.

It was only now that he understood why Qin Zhi Zhen had been so eager to come to Snow Country initially, and why Wei Yu acted as a military advisor in Cold Flower City—Qin Country's influence in Snow Country was certainly far more than just these.

This game, up until now, had likely only revealed the tip of the iceberg.

And that Dou Zhao's intuition was truly accurate!

Even the experienced Jiang True Person was shocked. Beside him, Zhong Xuan was even more fully concentrated, unwilling to miss a single word, his hand holding a knife and pen, carving and writing non-stop.

Who could not be shocked by Qin Country's grand moves?

On the Everlasting Holy Winter Peak, Fu Huan still calmly asked, "You came here first, so who is leading the Split Deer?"

Xu Wang laughed, "Wang Xi Xu."

He had an expression that seemed to say, 'You asked the right question,' and that light laugh was clearly asking—how long do you think Raging Winter City can hold out?

It won't hold out for long.

Xu Wang understood this outcome, and so did Fu Huan.

The army currently guarding Raging Winter City is the Snow Blade Army. The general leading the army is the bishop of the Raging Intent Diocese. This configuration is considered a strong city, a strong army, and a famous general.

But how can they block Wang Xi Xu, who is called "Cloth-Clothed Planner" and personally took charge this time? And how can they block the exceptionally well-coordinated Split Deer Army?

Moreover, there is the sharp and advancing Wang Zhao and the Dry Battle Army, eager for merit.

When Xu Wang appeared here, the fate of Raging Winter City was already sealed!

Fu Huan did not move, only saying, "Qin has Ten Soldiers, yet only two armies came to attack. Do you underestimate me, Fu? Can your appetite swallow Snow Country?"

Meng Ling Xiao, who was in the sky above Winter City, was praised for his keen judgment of situations back then. Today was his first appearance in public after achieving True Monarch status—although it was many years late.

He completely agreed with the view that "the present must surpass the past," and completely agreed that he had missed his time. Although he was at the peak of the True Person level in the past, there might still be a gap compared to the contemporary limit of True Persons. But he also had complete confidence that he would not fall out of the first tier.

Having already stepped onto the Derivation Path, he was undoubtedly one of the absolute peaks in the present world. He just needed a little time to familiarize himself with the new era; he would not lose to anyone.

At this moment, he also spoke, "Transporting soldiers through the Yu Abyss to the present world is indeed a bold and crazy move, daring and ambitious. But Qin Country schemes against Snow Country, have you thought about how to govern this flying land?"

"The Yu Abyss has been dangerous for ten thousand years. How can this temporary transport channel opened within the Yu Abyss be eternally stable? From your Wu Yang City to our Raging Winter City, there are at least tens of thousands of li in between! Amidst the rugged and difficult terrain, you pass through how many Asura tribes? How can you maintain such a long battle line? Ten days or half a month is possible, but three or five years, how can you?"

"Even if you are given the Snow Domain today, it will become Qin Country's biggest wound, bleeding you to death!"

"I laugh at your eagerness for quick success and your shortsightedness, how shortsighted, how foolish!"

Xu Wang is a very methodical person. First, he answered Fu Huan's question: "When did I say that Qin Country would swallow the Snow Domain with only two armies?"

Then he lightly swept his gaze over Meng Ling Xiao: "Of course you can laugh. After all, you've been buried in a coffin for so many years and have only recently woken up. This short time is not enough for you to understand today's Qin Country. This era has already surpassed your cognition!"

He and Fu Huan were confronting each other at the top of the Everlasting Holy Winter Peak, yet he had a sense of being the master of the Snow Domain. He turned his head, overlooked the snowy plain, and said in a loud voice, "I want to declare a piece of good news to everyone—Great Qin's great strategy of forever suppressing the Yu Abyss has taken a firm step. Killing the Asura King A Ye Ji and breaking the three hundred thousand strong Asura army is just a trivial matter, not even counting as a military achievement. What we are truly doing in the Yu Abyss is building a Great Wall!"

The people on the Snow Domain were unclear and exchanged surprised glances—what Great Wall?

Xu Wang's gaze, as if passing through the sky-mirroring snow, fell on everyone's face, with a dazzling golden radiance: "The so-called Great Wall is a great man-made trace, a long river of gold and stone!"

"Yi An Earl personally led the Phoenix Sparrow Army to roam the Yu Abyss, and also sent a million county soldiers, building camps, setting up strongholds, solely to ensure the smooth progress of the work."

"This is a war more important than the River Valley. All the skilled craftsmen of Great Qin are out of Wu Guan! Ten million laborers have been conscripted, beast fields emptied for transporting oxen, the wealth of few mansions exhausted, the array masters of the Technique Institute exhausted."

"Set up one magic array every ten li, one signal platform every hundred li, one military fort every thousand li... and one permanent major city every ten thousand li, comparable in scale to Wu Yang!"

"This stretch of Great Wall starts from Wu Yang City and ends at Raging Winter City, a total distance of over thirty thousand li! Every inch of brick and every inch of tile is carved with array patterns, one every ten li..." At this moment, Xu Wang, standing with his hands behind his back, seemed to represent the grand vision of that western empire. He said in a magnificent voice, "The day the ten thousand li Great Wall is completed, the Asura will forever cease to be a problem! And we will be free to sally forth from the fortress and attack them at will!"

Even though everyone present was from Snow Country and viewed Qin Country as a great enemy in the face of invasion, their hearts couldn't help but be stirred.

The Yu Abyss has been a fierce land since ancient times, its origin tracing back to the oath between the Human Emperor Sui Ren Shi and the ancient hundred tribes.

And Qin Country actually wants to end this trouble forever!

If this step truly allows Qin Country to succeed, how terrifying a power will a Qin Country that suppresses the Yu Abyss year-round be able to unleash?

Beyond this, Xu Wang didn't explicitly say it, but it was already implied—the ten thousand li Great Wall itself is a permanent channel from Qin to Snow.

This channel runs straight from south to north, smooth and unobstructed.

The Great Wall guards against the Asura, and horses can gallop on the Great Wall.

The day the ten thousand li Great Wall is completed, the Snow Domain will no longer be a flying land!

Zhong Xuan's breathing became heavy. After the great victory in the River Valley War, Qin Country had been quiet for a long time, almost invisible in the international arena, silently digesting the fruits of its victory.

He originally thought it would be at least ten or twenty more years before he would see a major move from the Qin people.

He didn't expect that after a short nine years, the Qin people's single move would be like a dragon soaring into the sky.

This black dragon is already baring its fangs and brandishing its claws in the west, clearly having the momentum to swallow the heavens.

Breaking through the Yu Abyss to replace the Snow Domain, building the Great Wall to guard against the Asura.

Such grand moves, one after another, could it be that today they would witness such history—Qin Country forever gaining the Snow Domain, forever suppressing the Yu Abyss, and leaping to become a great empire comparable to Jing Country?

Could it be that the world's first empire, from today onwards, is actually open to question?!

Meng Ling Xiao was silent, Wei Qing Peng was silent, Xie Ai was silent...

Fu Huan was not silent.

He looked at Xu Wang, who was no longer making eye contact with him, and said calmly, "The ten thousand li Great Wall is a very grand plan. Snow Country is willing to join hands with Qin Country to complete it. This is a great immortal achievement for the human race. Snow Country will send people and effort, shed blood and sweat, and spare no effort!"

Xu Wang looked back at Fu Huan, surprise in his eyes: "You still think you have time?"

Fu Huan said softly, "Time is not given by others from the beginning, but is fought for by oneself. Xu Wang, how can Snow Country stand on this land for three thousand eight hundred years, is it because Jing Country is willing to give us time?"

"How do you plan to fight for it?" Xu Wang asked.

"It seems that defeating Xiang Long Xiang, winning the River Valley, plus breaking through the Yu Abyss this time, has made you unprecedentedly arrogant." Fu Huan gazed at the Great Qin Marquis in front of him, ice flames flickering in his eyes: "For these three thousand eight hundred years, they were asleep, but I was not idle."

"Oh?" In terms of cultivation years, Xu Wang was naturally a junior who was many generations younger. But to stand at the absolute peak of the extraordinary, the accumulation of time was not worth mentioning.

He said with interest, "You want to block my Karma Blade and then push that outdated immortal array of yours?"

"If we don't leave ourselves any room for error, then rashly opening the 'contending for future hegemony' plan means our ideal is indeed just a castle in the air!" Fu Huan did not actively make a move, nor did he try to escape Xu Wang's gaze. He just said, "Whether this Cold Cicada Winter Recite Immortal Array is outdated, let the era prove it—but who says this array is dispensable to me?"

With these words, heaven and earth changed.

That sky-mirroring snow, this time was like a pool of water. Ripples appeared in the water, and someone fell down!

On the ground, the sudden appearance of this human figure shattered space itself, creating a sense of emptiness. And he landed heavily above Cold Feather City, stepping on the Cold Feather Coffin!

Like a meteorite, like a heavy weight, like the most silent and hard thing in the world, suddenly descending from the high sky to the snow. This time, his appearance just entered people's vision.

All his hair was shaved off, only a path left in the middle, like a field ridge. Both ears hung large iron rings, on which were carved some tadpole-like characters. He wore thick fur clothes, but his arms were bare.

His bare arms were like two large iron hammers. Blue veins crawled over the grave muscles, like snakes coiling around trees.

His face had wrinkles, but the wrinkles were also like cast iron, having a hard texture.

The old ancestor of the Iron Country True Monarch, Guan Dao Quan!

A strong man who truly supported the alliance of the five northwestern countries with his own power! His toughness, stubbornness, and coldness were said to surpass steel!

His appearance at this moment indeed represented an extraordinary meaning.

But in the eyes, his appearance meant that the last missing corner of the Cold Cicada Winter Recite Immortal Array had been filled.

It was Wei Qing Peng, Meng Ling Xiao, Xie Ai, and Guan Dao Quan, four Derivation Path powerhouses!

Guan Dao Quan did not say a word. He came with a single thought, and as soon as he arrived, he exerted his power.

Boom! Boom!

Four beams of light shot into the sky, like pillars supporting the heavens, holding up this divine palace.

To Winter, Freeze Spirit, Snow, and Cold Feather, the four cities acted as power sources, urging the entire immortal array to its limit.

The power of contemporary absolute peaks resonated in four directions.

At this moment, everyone present, almost simultaneously, heard a ringing in their ears.

Their vision suddenly turned white, and golden light leaped out. On this "white paper," it painted, and within the lost vision of the people, it redrew perception.

Simultaneously with the recovery of vision, the contemporary ruler of Snow Country, Hong Xing Jian, finally relied on the power of the country to add his support, pulling that huge chain to its limit—

Clang clang clang clang clang, pulling out a huge Coiled Dragon coffin!

A golden dragon's body coiled around that jade coffin, noble beyond words. That chain was precisely spat out from the open dragon's mouth.

Hong Xing Jian was surrounded by dragon qi, and he majestically declared, "Four monarchs welcome the arrival, the emperor pulls the coffin, ten thousand people kneel and prostrate, welcoming back the great ancestor!"

Above Extreme Frost City, all the soldiers simultaneously knelt on the ground. This neat sound was like a peal of thunder.

The common people within the city all prostrated.

This scene in one city was a microcosm of the entire Snow Country.

An ancient country with a history of three thousand eight hundred and ninety-two years was welcoming its creator.

And that golden dragon opened its eyes and roared!

The jade coffin shrank sharply, transforming into a flat heavenly crown.

The golden dragon, however, turned its body and coiled into a magnificent dragon chair.

Beneath the jade flat heavenly crown appeared a face full of heavenly majesty, majestic and serene, as if woven from the power of the country. He wore a snow dragon robe and sat proudly on the dragon chair.

The contemporary king of Snow Country immediately removed his crown and knelt down: "Later descendant Hong Xing Jian, pays respects to ancestor emperor!"

The entire court of civil and military officials, the common people of the entire country, all paid respects! All called out "ancestor emperor"!

Snow Country was still that Snow Country, but everything was already different.

All things within the vast Snow Domain seemed to have a constant will at this moment. The ground thundered and the heavens drummed, all emanating from one sound. The mountains and rivers, the winds and clouds, even the Yuan force here, all belonged to the surname "Hong"!

On the Everlasting Holy Winter Peak, Xu Wang, wearing the clothes of a Great Qin Marquis, was directly pushed off the peak, pushed back into the sea of thunder!

Although the strong Qin was a hegemonic country, how could the order of the Great Qin Emperor be transmitted to the Snow Domain?

Xu Wang twisted his back foot and immediately stood firm in the sea of thunder, his steps scattering electric light for tens of thousands of li. He lowered his head and looked at his black Marquis clothes, lifted his hand and lightly brushed away the ripples of electric light.

His gaze crossed over the sea of thunder and fell on the Snow Country ancestor emperor. He said softly, "See this body of clothes on Ben Hou? You are resisting not me, Xu Wang, but the Great Qin Empire. Do you really—know what you are doing?"

The sea of thunder divided open. He bent his body down.

Despite the great distance, he lifted his hand and erected his palm like a knife. Then he chopped down with one strike.

Crack!

His palm knife was chopping down, while the sky-mirroring snow covering the Snow Domain cracked first.

This one knife was remote and unreachable, yet it was everywhere. He chopped towards the entire Snow Country, and from there, it spread to the Snow Country ancestor emperor named Hong Jun Yan!

Fu Huan just stood at the peak of the Everlasting Holy Winter Peak behind Xu Wang, yet he did not move. He just remotely exchanged a glance with Hong Jun Yan.

After this glance, flames burned in the snow. All the known information about Xu Wang was then known to Hong Jun Yan.

Hong Jun Yan still sat upright. He had opened this empire, and he was the king of the Snow Domain, deserving of this nobility. He sat upright and brought two fingers together, suddenly raising them in front of his brow, clipping a knife that originally shouldn't exist—

He clipped the karma!