Shennong Dao Master
Chapter 444 - 44: Aftermath, Re-entering the Dream Palace! (6K)_2

Chapter 444: Chapter 44: Aftermath, Re-entering the Dream Palace! (6K)_2

He also called upon King Lingde and King Heavenly Destiny to co-sign it, directly deciding it as the final result.

King Lingde teased, "I thought King Luo Hou would support punishing battle merits. After all, if Zhao Xing were penalized, Luo Hou’s chances of winning would increase."

King Heavenly Destiny waved his hand and said, "You’re underestimating Luo Hou. How could he care about such matters?"

King Luo Hou said, "Public matters are public, private matters are private. A strong army bullying a weak one, this trend must not be allowed to flourish in the military."

"Qian Shougang mobilized a Fifth Order Earth Fire Lotus without orders and was counterattacked by the Divine Might Army. This can serve as an example, a warning to those arrogant soldiers."

Originally, under normal judgment, Zhao Xing and Long Xiao would have had some battle merits deducted. King Heavenly Destiny’s approach was more conventional, but the second round of penalties showed excessive favoritism towards Prince Liang’s Black Dragon Army, with the Supervision Department personnel acting accordingly.

After King Luo Hou found out, he simply decided on neither guilt nor punishment.

King Heavenly Destiny and King Lingde were also convinced by Luo Hou, thus the final result became what it was now.

....

The incident of Qian Shougang’s death quickly spread across various war zones.

Using the Ten Suns Cave Heaven as a warning, the commanders of the other four major Grotto Heavens were all taken aback. After many easy victories, a sense of arrogance had grown, and many weaker armies had been oppressed by stronger ones. But with this incident, there was collective restraint.

Accompanying this event, Zhao Xing and Long Xiao also became famous.

Especially Zhao Xing.

Originally, he was unknown. Even growing the Earth Fire Lotus had only made him famous in a few specific regions and among a few armies.

There were one or two hundred people in the five major Grotto Heavens capable of cultivating the Earth Fire Lotus to the Fifth Rank, which was not enough to become famous across all war zones.

But this incident made Zhao Xing much more famous than Long Xiao.

First, Zhao Xing’s battle merits were much higher than Long Xiao’s, exceeding a million. A seventh-rank Military Minister of Agriculture Officer with more than a million battle merits was exceptionally rare.

Secondly, Zhao Xing was the one who directly killed Qian Shougang. Below the genuine seventh rank, being able to kill someone in the genuine sixth rank frightened many people.

After this incident spread, both the Divine Might Army and Zhao Xing became famous together.

"Zhao Xing is incredible, he actually killed a genuine sixth rank?" In the Tiger Flood Dragon Army, Zhuang Ziqing widened his eyes as he read the report. "And it was Prince Liang’s private army he killed, yet he ended up without guilt and without losing any battle merits?"

"He can fight a sixth rank now?" Li Feng and Feng Qiu stared blankly at the report. What they focused on was the fact that Zhao Xing could kill Qian Shougang.

Feng Qiu and Li Feng had both suffered under Zhao Xing and had always seen him as a target to catch up with.

But it hadn’t been long since they last saw him, yet now he had a million battle merits and could slay a martial officer in the Heavenly Gang Realm Perfection.

In another camp within the Tiger Flood Dragon Army.

Wei Hong was looking at a report on a sand table map.

"Father should have tried harder to recruit him into the Tiger Flood Dragon Army back then." Wei Hong sighed.

He knew that Wei Yuan had tried to recruit people from the Geography Institute and had almost succeeded. "He’s a lot more useful than Shi Yong."

Shi Yong was currently working under Wei Yuan, but in all aspects, Shi Yong was far inferior to Zhao Xing.

Yes, nowadays Shi Yong no longer had any advantage in combat power, as Shi Yong couldn’t possibly kill a genuine sixth-rank martial officer of the Black Dragon Army. Qian Shougang was also a rare martial artist.

....

"Hahaha, this is great, great!" In the Xuanjia Army, Cao Shuang laughed out loud as he read the letter.

"What’s going on? Why are you so happy?" Jiang Tianming came over to ask. "Let me see."

Jiang Tianming and Cao Shuang were both from the Xuanjia Army but were not with Xia Jing at Fire Dragon Pass. Instead, they were working with the main force in the north.

Both were top-level talents from the Geography Institute and had close ties with Zhao Xing.

"Hiss, he killed Qian Shougang?" Jiang Tianming exclaimed after reading the letter. "Him and Long Xiao had only five hundred men, yet Qian Shougang, a genuine sixth rank with a thousand Black Dragon Guards, was killed just like that?"

"I wish I could follow Xia Jing to Fire Dragon Pass." Cao Shuang slapped his thigh.

The letter made his blood boil; he wished he could find a sixth rank to fight himself.

"Why are you so excited?" Jiang Tianming said, "The Xuanjia Army is a strong force. If you appeared in such a report, you’d be the villain."

"..."

...

Fierce Sun Army, camp.

"It’s him?" Helian Lie recalled the first time he met Zhao Xing.

"Two years ago at the Li Fire Taoist School, and now he’s almost caught up to me."

Helian Lie remained silent.

He was ranked twentieth on the seventh-rank battle merit list, but now Zhao Xing was ranked sixty-ninth.

Helian Lie had also chosen a new recruit named Zhuo Li at that time, but now, Zhuo Li was merely an eighth rank.

Completely incomparable to Zhao Xing.

...

Fire Demon Territory, northern region.

The commanders of the Zhao Yuan Army ’Qi Yuan Army,’ Yuanhua Army ’Yi Yue,’ and Huan You Army ’Nangong Ye,’ and the Zhao Yuan Army ’Pang Zheng’ were discussing in the Marching Hall.

"Zhao Xing of the Divine Might Army killed Qian Shougang in the West Xian Territory, leading to a confrontation between tens of thousands of Liao Rulong’s Unit and the Black Dragon Army."

"Our Alliance Army originally retreated three hundred miles to target the Fire Demon Clan’s garrison at Xixian Pass."

"Now, the Xixian Pass garrison commander is scared to death and won’t come out at all."

Qi Yuan Army’s commander, ranked first on the seventh-rank battle merit list, pointed at the map with a speechless expression.

Yi Yue, ranked second on the seventh-rank battle merit list, was equally annoyed. "What’s wrong with that Qian something Gang? Why steal the Divine Might Army’s rations for no reason!"

"I held back from attacking Xixian Pass for a month, just to let the garrison commander drop his guard. Everything was prepared... damn it, that guy picked the worst possible time to get himself killed!"