TO ACHIEVE IMMORTALITY, I CULTIVATE USING QI LUCK

Chapter 962: Chapter 400 Earthquake and Sea of Fire_3 Chapter 962: Chapter 400 Earthquake and Sea of Fire_3 Aside from a few scholars who either truly had exceptional insights or were trying to make a name for themselves by deliberately being different and making alarming statements, most other scholars in Chu State quickly shifted their attention back to the thirty-mile long river that connected to Jiang, to the recently famous courtesans, and to the scholars who had gained prominence at the literary gatherings.

It was the age of prosperity—who cared about those senseless killings?

Constantly thinking about death was a sign of a sick mind.

Why bother when you could enjoy life at leisure and gain fame through the imperial examinations?

After all, being successful in the imperial examinations and obtaining wealth and beautiful women was the proper way of the world!

Of course, not all wars were ostracized amidst the enticement of Mortal Dust.

For instance, in October, when the True Person who protected the nation, the Governor of Hanzhong, and True Person Huang Xin led an army of two hundred thousand out of Longshan and greatly defeated five hundred thousand barbarians raiding the border in Longxi, taking over two hundred thousand prisoners.

The nomadic barbarians who had migrated south were so frightened by this battle that they trembled at the mere sound of Chu’s music or the sight of Chu’s banner.

Following this, Huang Xin pursued the victory, and within two months, he had swept through the five prefectures of Yong West, capturing a million barbarians and ten million cattle and sheep.

The entire Baling was cheering for this news.

Lu Yuan was also very pleased.

Not only was he pleased about defeating the barbarians, but he was also happy for the performance of his two sons in this war.

In this battle, Lu Hao and Lu He, the two brothers, had set out with the army and were each assigned ten thousand soldiers, taking on significant responsibilities.

And they had indeed lived up to the years of cultivation that Lu Yuan had invested in them.

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In this war, although the two did not display particularly dazzling performances, everything they did was according to the rules, without any mistakes, fulfilling their duties well.

The above might sound mediocrity and perhaps not quite as impressive as one might expect from their princely status.

But Lu Yuan did not need Lu Hao and the others to be impressive.

Given the depth and size of Chu’s foundation, unless something unexpected happened, even if they had to push through with brute force, they could pacify the Central State and unify the world.

Under these circumstances, the best strategy was simply to follow the righteous path and push forward openly.

In the face of overwhelming strength, as long as one does not make mistakes, the enemies would not stand a chance and would ultimately be unable to escape their doomed fate.

Engaging in fancy schemes and tactics would mean giving up one’s greatest advantage to compete with the enemy in the one area where they may have the advantage.

Isn’t that simply asking for trouble?

Therefore, for Lu Yuan, the most important thing was to be steady and secure.

As long as his subordinates, including his sons, were competent and able to carry out the right orders, that was all that was needed.

Other so-called geniuses and talents—even if extremely outstanding, if they did not follow commands and affected the overall situation, they were inferior talents that had to be discarded.

Lu He and Lu Hao passed this trial, naturally bringing joy to him.

Therefore, to continue training his two sons, Lu Yuan directly ordered them to stay with the army in Hanzhong and to keep up with the campaign against the barbarians in Longxi, honing their abilities on the frontier.

Indeed, the war against the nomadic barbarians was not over.

This time, though Chu State had crushed the barbarians, almost completely clearing the barbarians from Longxi and Hexi and achieving an unprecedented victory, it was only a victory over the barbarians from those two prefectures.

As time passed, as long as the cold weather in the North did not end, a continuous stream of nomadic barbarians would migrate from the grasslands into Helong, and continue to harass Chu State’s border.

Even after the cold wave in the West, it seemed that changes had occurred as well.

Some tribes from the Western Gobi began migrating towards Yong State.

This time Huang Xin swept through the five prefectures of Yong West and found many people who had migrated from the Western Gobi within the territory that used to be part of Western Liang.

These people talked about terrifying earthquakes in the West, where vast tracts of mountains and rivers were torn apart, and the ground was webbed with cracks.

Furthermore, this fracturing was not a one-time event, but a continuing, relentless fragmentation and upheaval in some regions.

Many tribes living in the West were greatly affected by this disaster and began migrating eastward for survival.

They were among the first wave of migrants to reach Yong State, affected by this migration.

Following the cold wave from the North Pole, earthquakes from the West Pole finally became imminent.

The situation did not unfold as Lu Yuan and the cultivators of the Nine Provinces had speculated, with the natural disasters occurring sequentially from the North Pole to the South Pole, followed by the East and West Poles.

It seemed that the four poles of Heaven and Earth were interconnected, and with problems arising at the North Pole, the other three also began to collapse.

Chu State’s victory in clearing Longxi of the barbarians was only a temporary reprieve.

More barbarians would keep coming from the North.

Even now, from the West, a continuous stream of people seeking survival began to arrive.

It was foreseeable that for a long time to come, until the disaster spreading from the four poles reached the edges of Central State, the border warfare in Hanzhong and Longxi would not cease.

Chu, like Wei, Zhao, Xu, and other states, would face a long, protracted, and unending war.

This was the forecast that Lu Yuan made after receiving news of the changes in the West, and he was also prepared for a prolonged war.

But before he could take a breath after the Northwestern border conflict ended, in late December, near the New Year,

news came from Jinghai Country, which Lu Yuan had ennobled from the original Coastal Family Mu to its current title.

They reported that a vast fleet of enemy ships had appeared off the coast of Southsea and invaded Jinghai Country.

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Not long after, Lu Yuan received reports from the small coastal states in Lingnan that he had ennobled, all claiming invasions by sea raiders.

Some time passed, and the states in Lingnan managed to fend off the sea raiders’ invasions with the help of Chu State, capturing numerous prisoners and ships.

Lingnan sent another report.

The captured sea raiders revealed that they were the navy of a small country in Southsea, forced to flee by boat because large areas of their country were ravaged by wildfires and even the seabed was spewing fire, turning most of the country into a sea of flames.

With no other choice, these people took to the seas to escape their homeland in search of a new place to settle.

Eventually, they followed the Commercial Route and arrived at Yangzhou in Chu State.

Not just the earthquakes in the West Pole but also the sea of fire at the South Pole began revealing their signs twenty years after the cold wave first appeared.

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