Chapter 160: What a Waste of a Precious Resource!

The Heir Apparent of Zhao Kingdom and his entourage returned to the inn.

The Heir Apparent of Zhao Kingdom slammed his palm on the table: “If the Chu State isn’t taught a lesson, they won’t know their place! Send a message back to my Father Emperor, tell him to mobilize one hundred thousand troops to suppress the Chu State’s border. This Heir Apparent doesn’t believe they’ll dare to refuse to hand over the person then!”

“Yes!” A guard responded.

Yang Xie sneered: “Since the Heir Apparent of Chu State refuses a toast only to be forced to drink a forfeit, naturally, they need to be taught a lesson! Heir Apparent, this time we send troops, let’s seize the opportunity to capture one or two cities. Then demand two hundred million taels of silver in compensation from the Chu State, and increase the annual tribute to one million taels, without any time limit, year after year! Otherwise, they won’t know fear!”

The Heir Apparent of Zhao Kingdom glanced at him and laughed: “That’s a good idea!”

To conquer the entire Chu State, the Yan Kingdom and the Jin Kingdom wouldn’t stand idly by, but capturing one or two cities was still possible.

They wouldn’t interfere, nor could they, after all, this time it’s the Chu State that’s in the wrong.

The Heir Apparent of Zhao Kingdom suddenly thought of something and looked at Xu Yan: “Old Master Xu, this time, none of the Chu State’s young formation masters will be allowed to participate in the Four Kingdoms Formation Master Competition.”

Xu Yan frowned: “The Chu State’s young formation masters are barely qualified to participate anyway, but I’m afraid of that so-called Master Shen stepping in.”

A formation master who could break through the Three Great Formations must have real skills.

Even if someone had guided her, she still needs to have the ability to comprehend it.

He had also guided the Princess, but she still spent so much time and couldn’t even get out of the first Peach Blossom Formation.

Yang Xie thought of something and said: “Shopkeeper Qian said she might be a formation master from the Jin Kingdom.”

In fact, the formation masters from the Jin Kingdom were the most skilled among the Four Kingdoms.

The reason why the Princess of Prince Xiang won the first place in the previous Youth Formation Master Competition was that the people sent by the Jin Kingdom to participate in the Formation Master Competition every year were not the most skilled.

They preserved their true strength and didn’t reveal it to others.

It was said that the Jin Kingdom had a very powerful young formation master, but no one knew who it was, or whether it was a male or female.

Yang Xie continued: “Actually, I have some doubts that the so-called Master Shen is that most powerful formation master from the Jin Kingdom. She also has the surname Shen. Isn’t that a bit of a coincidence?”

As Yang Xie said this, the Heir Apparent of Zhao Kingdom finally remembered why he found the guard beside that “Master Shen” familiar!

He was the guard beside Shen Hanyu!

Shen Hanyu was a wealthy merchant from the Jin Kingdom. There were rumors that he was a prince, and there were also rumors that he was the Heir Apparent of some prince. Anyway, there were many rumors about his identity.

He didn’t know his true identity, after all, the Jin Kingdom Emperor had so many sons, and all of them were sons, without a single princess.

The Jin Kingdom Emperor longed for a princess, even saying that whoever gave birth to a princess, he would make her the Empress.

Besides Shen Hanyu, there was also Zhao Kuo, a wealthy merchant from the Yan Kingdom, the owner behind Welcome Inn, whose identity was also mysterious!

The Heir Apparent of Zhao Kingdom frowned: “But how could a formation master from the Jin Kingdom be involved with the Chu State?”

He still wanted to kill her.

Such a powerful formation master couldn’t be left alive!

But if she was a formation master from the Jin Kingdom, then they had to be cautious.

The Jin Kingdom was not something their Zhao Kingdom could afford to offend right now.

Yang Xie: “She’s probably just seeking wealth. It’s obvious that those who won silver were all her people. Whatever she said, everyone echoed her. If she didn’t want to expose her identity, wouldn’t it be very convenient to use the Chu State to get the silver back?”

Xu Yan: “This person has a remarkable talent for formations! She can’t be left alive!”

Yang Xie was startled: “But, she’s a formation master from the Jin Kingdom.”

Xu Yan: “If she dies in the Chu State, then it’s the Chu State that killed her. What does it have to do with us?”

The Heir Apparent of Zhao Kingdom’s eyes lit up: “That’s right!”

This way, they could also sow discord between the Jin Kingdom and the Chu State!

The founding emperor of the Chu State had once saved the life of the founding emperor of the Jin Kingdom. The ancestral teachings of the Jin Kingdom stated that the Jin Kingdom would never take the initiative to attack the Chu State!

However, while they couldn’t take the initiative to attack, if the Chu State killed their most promising formation master, the Jin Kingdom wouldn’t stop them, the Zhao Kingdom, from destroying the Chu State.

As for the Yan Kingdom, since the Jin Kingdom wouldn’t interfere, the Yan Kingdom’s interference wouldn’t be that important!

“Do you know where she lives?”

“I don’t know. Shopkeeper Qian said he sent people to follow her, but a few people came out to block them and they lost track of her! Later, he didn’t dare to send people to follow her, lest they expose themselves.”

The Heir Apparent of Zhao Kingdom nodded, not saying anything.

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It was normal for such a promising formation master to have a few people protecting her.

Especially since he had just probed her and found that she had almost no internal energy, just a beginner. That little bit of internal energy was practically useless, and her lightness skill wasn’t very developed, she could only run faster than others!

However, this was normal. At such a young age, with such high achievements in formations, she must have had no time to practice martial arts.

But she had already started practicing martial arts now, he didn’t know how her martial arts talent was? If it was good, it would be troublesome!

Many great formation masters were also skilled in martial arts!

Therefore, they had to eliminate her before she grew stronger.

~

Xingnong and Chu Tiankuo returned to Star Garden.

Xingnong was about to continue researching the formation for farming, but Chu Tiankuo said: “It’s still early, let’s practice your lightness skill? I’ll be going to the military camp to train soldiers starting tomorrow.”

Although there were many people secretly protecting her, he would also do his best to protect her.

However, he felt that one could only truly protect oneself.

Him protecting her was not as good as her having the ability to protect herself.

After all, no one could be by someone’s side all the time.

Moreover, he would be going to the military camp soon, and he would be going to the battlefield in the future.

Xingnong thought of the killing intent that flashed in the Heir Apparent of Zhao Kingdom’s eyes today and nodded: “Okay.”

Chu Tiankuo took Xingnong to the training room and told Songbai and Shen Nan to guard outside and not let anyone disturb them.

Inside the training room

Chu Tiankuo pointed to a cushion and said: “Sit down.”

Xingnong obediently sat down: “Are we practicing internal energy?”

Chu Tiankuo sat down behind her: “I’ll transfer some internal energy to you, you feel it, maybe you’ll have some insights into cultivating internal energy. This is a new cultivation method.”

Xingnong said in surprise: “You can do that?”

“Mm.” Chu Tiankuo didn’t explain too much: “Let’s begin. Do as I say!”

“Oh.”

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An hour later, Xingnong and Chu Tiankuo walked out of the room.

Songbai glanced at the two of them and his jaw dropped in shock!

Shen Nan’s expressionless face also showed a hint of surprise.

Songbai saw that Chu Tiankuo’s aura was obviously unstable, had he transferred half of his internal energy to Miss Xingnong?

But Miss Xingnong…

…had only absorbed less than one-third!

Less than one-third!

Miss Xingnong was indeed a waste of martial arts talent.

What a waste of a precious resource!

What a waste of a precious resource!

Master’s internal energy was so profound!

If it were transferred to him, he could directly fly and burrow into the ground!

Xingnong didn’t know that Chu Tiankuo would actually do this, and she couldn’t stop him after she found out.

Actually, without internal energy, she had modern fighting techniques and other self-defense abilities. Even if the Heir Apparent of Zhao Kingdom wanted to kill her, it wouldn’t be that easy.

So if Chu Tiankuo had told her that he wanted to transfer internal energy to her, she would definitely not have agreed.

But he was too cunning! Too overbearing! In a way that couldn’t be stopped, he just transferred half of his internal energy to her.

“I’ll teach you how to use your lightness skill to move faster.”

In a fight, she couldn’t win against too many people, but if she couldn’t win, she could run.

With one-third of his internal energy, running fast would definitely not be a problem.

She could run back and tell him, and he would go and fight for her!