The Strongest Mythical Emperor
Chapter 221: Dominance

Chapter 221: Chapter 221: Dominance

Ten days passed like a fleeting white steed, gone in a flash.

Qin Jun and his Dragonrise army had already taken down more than a dozen cities, leaving thousands of soldiers and several Golden Elixir Realm generals to garrison each. Among his army of three hundred thousand, there were at least nearly ten thousand people in the Golden Elixir Realm, which was the foundation of the Nanzhuo Dynasty.

In most kingdoms, there might be at most several dozens of cultivators at the Golden Elixir Realm, but in an Imperial Dynasty, they were as common as dirt.

Nearly ten thousand Golden Elixir Realm cultivators within an army of three hundred thousand, and the Nanzhuo Dynasty had a starting army count in the tens of millions. Could it be possible that the number of Golden Elixir Realm cultivators exceeded a million?

While Qin Jun’s thoughts ran wild, the Dragonrise army drew ever closer to the capital of Canglan Kingdom.

Lately, the entire Canglan Kingdom had been plunged into panic. The consecutive fall of more than a dozen cities was an event not seen in a century, and the specter of national collapse and family ruin seemed to beckon to all in the Canglan Kingdom, causing even the cultivator sects within the kingdom to grow restless.

Of all this, Qin Jun was unaware.

At present, he was practicing with his spear atop the Fate Machine, with Red Boy himself as his instructor.

Red Boy wielded an Eight-Foot Fire-Tipped Spear; to use a spear was surely not a spur of the moment decision but born from formidable skill.

The world only knew of Red Boy’s Samadhi Real Fire, oblivious to his other talents. In the ’Journey to the West’, he could only attempt to drive away Sun Wukong with Samadhi Real Fire; after all, his parents were both first-rate powerhouses, the Heaven-Equalling Great Sage, Demon King of Bull, and Princess Iron Fan!

"Your Highness’s spear technique is indeed improving rapidly, and Red Boy is teaching well,"

Evening Star stroked his beard and smiled. Red Boy beamed at the praise, enjoying the old man’s words.

It was comforting to the ear!

Qin Jun, however, didn’t take Evening Star’s compliments to heart and continued to focus on practicing his spear technique.

As his spear technique became more proficient, he felt as if he was touching upon an ineffable barrier. This sensation was mysterious, yet it firmly existed.

He had a hunch that if he could break through this barrier, his spear technique would advance by a large margin. Therefore, he had been even more diligent with his practice lately, earning the admiration of the soldiers beneath the Fate Machine.

To wield such immense power yet remain diligent, he understood that luck indeed favored the prepared.

"Your Highness, we should reach the capital of Canglan Kingdom in no more than half a day,"

Jia Xun reported as he approached. Their march was swift, twice the speed of an ordinary person, otherwise, it would have taken half a month to reach the capital of Canglan Kingdom.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh...

Qin Jun continued to practice his spear technique, nodding as his five-thousand-pound Silver Dragon Soul-Cleansing Spear felt as light as a feather in his hands. After the Sanctified Body reached the third tier of the Vajra Indestructible form, his physical strength far surpassed his peers, and his power was unimaginable, although still not comparable to a freak of nature like Li Yuanba.

Recognizing Qin Jun’s nod, Jia Xun tactfully withdrew.

Faced with one of the nine esteemed beings of the Demonic Dao, the Abyss Sect, Qin Jun was under great pressure. Naturally, he couldn’t take Canglan Kingdom seriously, and the initial excitement had faded over the ten days.

"Your Highness, I have completely lost contact with the Cangjun Wolf,"

Just then, Roaring Sky Dog’s voice suddenly reached Qin Jun’s ears, causing him to frown. He then set down his Silver Dragon Soul-Cleansing Spear and looked over at Roaring Sky Dog, who lay in the corner, not daring to lift his head.

"What exactly is going on? You had assured me before that this wouldn’t be a problem," Qin Jun transmitted his voice to Roaring Sky Dog, as other people went about their business, not noticing his disturbance.

Previously, when they halted in Luoyan City, Qin Jun had sent Roaring Sky Dog to find the Cangjun Wolf. After all, it was his first mount and had the cultivation of the Golden Elixir Realm. How could Qin Jun possibly forget?

But until they left, Roaring Sky Dog had not been able to bring the Cangjun Wolf back.

"Logically, since it signed a Servant Soul Contract with me, it should not be able to flee. There’s only one possibility, and that is if a being more powerful than me forcibly tore apart the soul contract I had with Cangjun Wolf," Roaring Sky Dog said with a tone of helplessness.

More powerful than Roaring Sky Dog?

Qin Jun’s expression turned somber. Damn, why did it feel like someone had stolen his crops?

"Right, at the last moment when the soul contract was severed, a vague figure appeared in my mind, resembling a bull demon," Roaring Sky Dog continued to transmit his voice.

A bull demon?

Qin Jun’s thoughts subconsciously drifted to the Demon King of Bull, as he had just been thinking of Red Boy.

But how could it be possible?

There are so many bull demons in the world!

Yet, he recalled that the system had mentioned that when he arrived in this world, no more than five god and demon spirits had descended early, among them Fa Hai and Li were two.

With this thought, he shuddered, then asked inwardly, "System, has the Demon King of Bull already descended to this world ahead of time?"

"I don’t know!"

Fuck!

How could you possibly not know?

A vein throbbed on Qin Jun’s forehead as he struggled to contain the impulse to rage, and he continued to ask inwardly, "If I did not summon the Demon King of Bull and he has descended early, if we meet, would he still submit to me?"

"Based on the host’s assumption, if the gap in your strengths is still vast, he naturally will not submit to you; he might even crush you to death," the system responded.

Qin Jun’s mouth twitched—couldn’t you spare me some dignity?

Now, he could only comfort himself that it wasn’t the Demon King of Bull.

After all, the Demon King of Bull was Sun Wukong’s elder brother and Red Boy’s father; such an aloof being, even if he truly had descended early, wouldn’t be loitering around the Nanzhuo Dynasty, right?

Fortunately, Red Boy’s memories had been reset; otherwise, Qin Jun would have indeed feared that the Demon King of Bull might lure Red Boy away.

"Forget it, perhaps this is an opportunity for the Cangjun Wolf," Qin Jun said, feigning calmness as he comforted Roaring Sky Dog via voice transmission, for compared to Roaring Sky Dog, Cangjun Wolf was vastly weaker.

As for why Cangjun Wolf was captured by the mysterious bull demon, Qin Jun had no doubts—the wolf possessed a trace of the ancient Cangqi King Wolf’s bloodline, which was of an ancient demon species.

Roaring Sky Dog, feeling ashamed, nodded his head, and they moved on from the matter.

Because it might concern the Demon King of Bull, Qin Jun hadn’t completely banished the thought from his mind.

In "Journey to the West," the Demon King of Bull was an absolute top-tier powerhouse, and none under Qin Jun’s command were a match for him. Of course, this was just a conjecture— even if the Demon King of Bull had descended early, there was no enmity between them, and they wouldn’t come to blows.

The Dragonrise army continued to advance.

The sun set behind the mountains.

The silhouette of Canglan Kingdom’s capital gradually appeared before Qin Jun and the others.

Sitting on a wooden couch, looking at the outline of Canglan Kingdom’s capital emerging between the mountains, Qin Jun’s face showed a meaningful smile.

"Tomorrow, this place will belong to me!" Qin Jun murmured to himself; Daji and Li, sitting beside him, couldn’t help but reveal enchanting smiles upon hearing him, thrilled to see Qin Jun’s increasing assertiveness.

They wanted their man to reign supreme!

"Your Highness, let me join the battle!" Li Yuanba, holding the Golden Peng God Hammer, approached Qin Jun excitedly. Red Boy and Li Bai also gathered around, clamoring to fight.