Deep in a mountain, inside a man-made cave, a beautiful woman opened her jewel eyes and exhaled a deep breath. She had a pale complexion, however, this fact did not diminish her sacred and divine temperament.
This woman was of course Fang Lijuan who was secretly healing her injuries after her defeat at the hand of Li Jun.
That last spear almost killed her despite the fact that she used a powerful talisman to defend herself. However, right before she was about to die, her bloodline activated itself and saved her life.
However, this further aggravated Fang Lijuan's injury. As a result, she could no longer use her bloodline powers. As a matter of fact, she feared that if she did not treat things seriously that her bloodline might be disabled.
After sighing at her misery, Fang Lijuan stood up and took out a token to deactivate all the formations she placed in the cave.
Afterward, she spent a few seconds to determine where she was, then headed back to the Fang Divine Dynasty's capital.
Inside the Imperial Palace, Fang Lijuan was sitting on her Dragon-Phoenix Throne looking at all the excited faces of her officials.
"It is good to see you back, Goddess Empress," said the Left Prime Minister in a sweet voice.
Fang Lijuan nodded and asked directly, "What happened during the time that this Goddess was gone?"
The room instantly became quiet after hearing this, so a deep frown appeared in Fang Lijuan's indifferent face and she said, "Right Prime Minister, you say?"
"It's been a few weeks since the Goddess Empress left, and in that time, another quarter of our territory has been lost."
Fang Lijuan further frowned after hearing this. It was not because a quarter of her territory was lost, but because the number was smaller than expected. With Li Jun there, the Great Xia army should have already reached the capital by now.
"How did you slow down the advancement of the Great Xia Army?" asked Fang Lijuan.
"We used the Suicide Squad," responded the Minister of War, who was actually an attendant that Fang Lijuan brought to this world. Just like Li Jun, she has grown up and served Fang Lijuan ever since she was a baby.
"Suicide Squad?"
"By implanting an exploding talisman talisman among the soldiers, we send them into suicide mission against General Li Jun, thus preventing him from interfering too much into the battlefield."
"However, as a result of this, the finances of our dynasty is dangerously low."
Fang Lijuan's eyes lit up after hearing this as she realized that this was a great method. Although this was a temporary solution, it was the best they could do during such a situation.
"You do not need to worry about the dynasty's finances, as long as we recaptured our territories back, we will have plenty of wealth. How is the casualty of our soldiers?"
"The casualties were extremely high, but all of them are happy to die for you, Goddess Empress," replied the Minister of War.
Fang Lijuan nodded, then started discussing the affairs of the dynasty before dismissing all the officials.
Afterwards, she took out her Conferred God List and Imperial Seal and connected to the Dynasty's Qi Luck.
Fang Lijuan observed how the Qi Dragon of the Dynasty was crawling and resting while licking the wounds all over its body. After closer observation, she also noticed how the dragon was on the verge of turning back to a flood dragon.
Fang Lijuan sighed after seeing this, then a firm look appeared on her face. She headed to a secret room of the palace and activated a formation.
Immediately afterwards, a handsome man holding a wine jar appeared in front of her. The young man had listless eyes, and he gave the feeling that he has not slept for countless years. And yet, he still remained extremely handsome.
"Oh, Juan'er my love, why have you called me at this time of day?" asked the handsome man with a smile on his face.
"Huang Min, do not call this Goddess Juan'er as we are not that close," responded Fang Lijuan with a look of disgust on her face.
"Well, technically speaking, you are my fiancée."
"This was the decision of our Divine Clans, the Goddess never accepted such an engagement."
"Haha, that's fair. So, for what reason have you called me?" asked Huang Min after taking a sip from his jar.
"I'm calling you to form an alliance together," responded Fang Lijuan after taking a deep breath.
"Hmmh, I have heard of your defeat at the hands of the bloodline-less successor of the Li Family. Is that true?"
"Are you trying to mock this Goddess?"
"Of course not my love. I'm merely trying to ascertain the reason for your change of mind regarding our Dynasty's Alliance."
"Just answer yes or no!" replied Fang Lijuan with gritted teeth.
"I have no problem with forming an alliance, however, regarding our engagement…"
Fang Lijuan sneered after hearing and answered decisively, "You are dreaming if you think you can use this situation to force this Goddess to agree to our engagement."
"Even if this Goddess lost in this trial, the Fang Divine Clan can still find another Small Thousand World to send me to conquer. And if worse comes to pass, I would rather use Luck Stone to attain a Purple-Gold Qi Luck."
After saying this, Fang Lijuan secretly clenched her hands. If it was up to her, she did not want to use either of these methods.
If she uses the first method, then she will have to waste a lot of time. Not to mention how long her family will spend to find the appropriate world to send her--after all not all worlds can be used to gather Qi Luck.
Even if they did, she will have to spend a great deal of time in order to conquer it. She has already spent more than 10 years in the Warring Kingdom World. And if she has to conquer another world, the time spent will be more than triple.
Of course 30 years is nothing to a cultivator like her who is in the Divine Altar Ream and has more than a 1000 years of life span--not to mention the extra life spans that her bloodline offers her.
Unfortunately, in this Glorious Age where all the Heaven Chosen are growing at an alarming rate, wasting more than three decades is more than enough time to allow other people to advance by leaps and bounds, thus creating a large gap between her and them.
As for the Luck Stone, well, unless she was desperate, Fang Lijuan would probably never use these things to increase her luck.
Huang Min laughed after hearing Fang Lijuan's response, then said with a smile, "Juan'er, I'm just kidding around. I am more than happy to form an alliance with you. Just send a delegate to discuss the details."
Fang Lijuan nodded after hearing this, then cut off the communication array without hesitation.
Meanwhile, in the west of the Fang Divine Dynasty lies the Huang Divine Dynasty.
Inside an Imperial Palace, Huang Min smiled and faded after the communication array was shut down.
"Damn slut, sooner or later, I will have you under my crotch!" muttered Huang Min with a sinister look on his face.
"Did you say something, your majesty?" said a charming voice full of temptation.
Huang Min looked at all the women around him dancing and singing while dressed in revealing clothes, then waved his hand to dismiss them.
After that, he took out a map of the entire Warring Kingdom World and looked at it while thinking.
The map was divided into five regions. In the Eastern Region, there was the Great Xia Dynasty along with the Fang Divine Dynasty. Further west was his Huang Divine Dynasty, which also bordered the Fang Divine Dynasty in the eastern side.
On the western side was the Savior Coalition, which was a dynasty made up of many native kingdoms of this world. They banded together under the idea that they needed to save this world from Extraterrestrial Demons that have invaded.
One of the reasons that Huang Min agreed so easily to this alliance was because he himself was having trouble with the Savior Coalition. To be precise, he was having trouble with their leader.
This guy was like a cockroach. Every time Huang Min meets him, he will defeat him to the point of almost killing him. However, somehow, he always managed to escape. Afterwards, this guy will still return to fight with him again and again.
What's worse, Huang Min has noticed that this guy has become more and more difficult to defeat. In the last battle, he was forced to activate his bloodline to defeat his opponent.
However, Huang Min did not really care about the Savior Coalition. What worried him the most was that on the western side of the coalition lay the Central Region where the three central dynasties occupied the majority of the territory.
Huang Min knows himself best and he realized that he could not fight alone against the people of the central dynasties or the Heaven Chosen of Great Xia. So, he accepted Fang Lijuan's alliance in order to team up with and fight these giants.
Huang Min then continued to look at the map in order to see whether he had better options. In the Northern Region, there is a vast frozen piece of land. However, due to the terrible temperature, few people or things can actually survive there.
In the Southern Region, there was a vast forest where the majority of demonic beasts lived. This place was no place for humans to live as it was designated as the demonic beast territory.
In the Western Region was a large desert. Although this place had many Desert kingdoms or dynasties, there was little to no resources there. As a matter of fact, the living conditions there were probably worse than even the frozen north.
As a result, the majority of cultivators there are extremely weak. As far Huang Min was aware, there probably was no Heaven Chosen who picked the Western Region as their starting point.
After thinking about this, Huang Min sighed and put away the map, then continued drinking while pondering about the future.
Meanwhile, in a city located in the Great Xia territory, a man had just finished drinking and was walking home.
His head was spinning resulting in him wobbling while walking. However, the man still fumbled his way home.
Suddenly, a grey light flashed from his eyes and he fell into the ground.
By the time he woke up, he had a terrible headache, so muttered, "Did I drink that much last night?"
However, the man soon noticed that he did not recognize where he was. So he looked around to discover to his horror that he was in a dimly lit room with many statues around.
The man suddenly sober up and looked around him while being on alert for any sudden movement. After noticing that nothing happened, he became bold and started observing these statues.
He realized that they were not statues, but more like puppets. The man had come into contact with cultivators' puppets before, so he recognized them. He also realized that these puppets may be dangerous, so he decided to immediately leave here as soon as possible.
However, he suddenly smelled a very enchanting smell in the air and looked in the direction that the smell came from, and it was in the opposite direction of the exit.
Despite the fact that his heart warned him to leave, his greed told him that a tremendous opportunity was awaiting him, so he followed the appetizing scent.
There, the man entered a room filled with countless gold, silver, origin stones, and countless bottles of pills. He opened one and he realized where the smell came from.
The man immediately became excited as he realized that he encountered an adventure that would change his life. Suddenly, the man noticed a golden book located in the middle of the room.
Realizing that this book was probably the most important item in the room, he rushed towards it. Unfortunately for him, as soon as he arrived a few meters from the book, countless patterns appeared around the book, then they spread out all over the room.
The man looked at the shining book with yearning. Although he could not see the whole title of the book, he still saw a few words that read [Longevity Art].
The man hesitated whether to try to take the book, however, after seeing the formation array that was about to activate, he did not do so. However, he still took a token that was near him before rushing out there.
While running away, the man could see that all the puppets were starting to be activated, so he hurried to the exit. After leaving the weird place, the man sighed to himself then left the mountain area he found himself in.
A few days after this incident, inside the Zheng Family Manor in the Great Xia Capital.
Patriarch Zheng Yong was holding a token in his hand with a look of excitement and said to his servant, "Are you sure that it was a Secret Realm!"
"Yes, patriarch. One of our servants discovered it by accident a few days ago after drinking too much."
Zheng Yong nodded before asking back, "How many people know about this?"
"Currently, only me and you, Patriarch."
Zheng Yong nodded and waved for his servant to leave. Then, he looked at the token in his hand with excitement. He finally discovered a way for their family to rise again.