Journey to the West: From the Primordial Era

Chapter 145: The Divine Embryo Avatar Xuankong Arrives at Chaoge Imperial City

Wandering Soul Pass.

Soon, all the people from the Qingzhou Xuan Clan arrived at Youhun Pass.

Youhun Pass, with thousands of feet of mountains on the north and south sides, has a wall several dozen feet high, as if it were a mountain wall, extremely majestic. There are also a lot of dark red bloodstains on the wall, which have not been washed away for thousands of years.

For the human dynasty, the eight hundred vassal states scattered in all directions were merely dependent forces, and only the territory within the Great Shang Dynasty was the core area.

The eight hundred princes nominally submitted to Chaoge, but in reality each of them was a vassal state with its own territory divided.

If the power of the human race declines, some princes will become ambitious and disobey the rule of Chaoge.

Just like Yuan Futong of Beihai who rebelled against Chaoge in the future, he won over the princes of the 72 towns in the north, and even suppressed Beibohou, becoming one of the external threats to Chaoge.

In order to guard against the princes from all directions, Chaoge built checkpoints in the dangerous places of its home territory just in case.

The pass to guard against two hundred princes in the east is Youhun Pass!

"It is indeed a dangerous and impenetrable fortress. If we only use soldiers to attack the city, even if a million soldiers are killed or injured, it will be difficult to break through..."

After Qin Hua controlled Xuankong's divine clone and saw Youhun Pass, he felt a sense of emotion in his heart.

Although the reputation of Youhun Pass cannot be compared with the Three Mountains and Five Passes in the west, as the gateway to the east of the Shang Dynasty, it was able to resist millions of troops from two hundred princes in the east for decades.

If a powerful general with good fortune were placed at this pass, Qin Hua thought that even if he tried his best, he would be helpless against such a dangerous pass. This world is all about the strength of fortune. The stronger the fortune, the more recognized by heaven. People with good fortune blessed by heaven will be a little feared even by saints.

Youhun Pass has stood for many years. In the beginning, the land outside the pass to the east was basically the territory of the Dongyi people. The indistinct bloodstains on the wall of the pass were the traces of the years of fighting between the Xuan Clan, the Shang Central Army, and the Dongyi.

Later, the Shang Dynasty became increasingly powerful. Relying on Youhun Pass as its foundation, it continued to expand its territory eastward and gradually developed a total of two hundred towns and vassal states.

With the princes acting as a buffer to the mainland, Youhun Pass developed from a heavily guarded military town into a semi-military and semi-princely territory, attracting a large number of people to settle nearby.

Among them, the Dou family is the most famous family in the territory near Youhun Pass. The head of the family, Dou Rong, is now the general of Youhun Pass and one of the most famous generals in the court of the Shang Dynasty.

Chen Qi tried his best to rescue those Dou family members from the monsters, just because he wanted to establish a relationship with Dou Rong of Youhun Pass, so as to skip the stages of ordinary soldiers and generals of a hundred men and directly become the leader of a thousand men.

Of course, this was Chen Qi’s previous thought.

After being rescued by the Xuan clan on the road and witnessing the strength of Qin Hua's clone, Chen Qi was subtly stimulated to follow the Xuan clan's ideas.

Starting from Qingzhou, Qin Hua’s personal idea is that if he recruits a master and talent, the strength of Qingzhou will increase by one point.

Qin Hua still followed his own plan to develop the Xuan clan into a super power in the eastern part of the Shang Dynasty. He wanted to delay the time of conferring gods so that his original body could retreat in the prehistoric sea.

Without his father Xuankong's reminder, Xuanzong kept talking to Chen Qi on the road, intentionally or unintentionally proposing to recruit Chen Qi, and even implicitly stated that as long as Chen Qi was willing to surrender, he could directly appoint him as a deputy general. His status in the Qingzhou Marquisate was only lower than that of a few people.

Becoming a general of 1,000 men through Dou's connections or joining Qingzhou and becoming a deputy general directly, which of these two options is better? There is no need to consider this at all.

Chen Qi hesitated for just a moment, then immediately expressed his willingness to join Qingzhou and serve the Xuan clan and Qingzhou!

After recruiting Chen Qi, everyone ignored the invitation to a banquet from Dou Rong, the general of Youhun Pass, and hurried on their way.

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Shang Dynasty, Chaoge City.

The drizzle was falling, dark clouds covered the sky, and on the road, countless people were heading towards a magnificent city ahead. Among them were woodcutters carrying firewood, farmers carrying vegetables, and merchants driving horse-drawn carriages.

The huge city ahead stretches as far as the eye can see. On the city walls, there are extremely elite soldiers patrolling and guarding. On the four sides of the city, there are hundreds of gates for the people inside and outside the city to enter and exit.

Every morning, hundreds of thousands of people enter the city to make a living.

The number of common people and dignitaries living in the city was almost incalculable. The huge crowd made the city look extremely prosperous.

"finally reached!"

Qin Hua saw the majestic city in the distance. This majestic city was the center of the Shang Dynasty and the capital of the human dynasty, Chaoge.

Qingzhou is located on the eastern frontier of the Shang Dynasty. It is not an easy task for his men to rush to Chaoge from the frontier. Many elite soldiers of the Xuan clan are not yet immortals who have entered the fairyland, nor do they know the magical power of escape. They can only travel step by step by mount.

Needless to say, their experience on the road was dry and boring.

Qin Hua took his son Xuanzong to observe the local customs and habits of Da Shang with great interest, but after watching for a few days, he got into the carriage directly to practice.

After traveling for such a long time, we finally reached our destination.

Looking from afar, one can see endless destiny coming from all directions, forming a pillar of heaven that reaches from heaven to earth. In the pillar, a black bird spreads its wings, protecting all living beings in the territory of tens of millions of miles.

After seeing the black bird transformed from the fortune of the Shang Dynasty, Qingzhou Hou Xuanzong subconsciously compared it with the real dragon of Linzi's fortune and found that the two were not on the same level at all.

"Compared to Chaoge, Linzi is now like a loach in a pond... It will take a long time to become a true dragon that can strike across the sky!"

Qin Hua's second son Xuanzong shook his head slightly.

"Let's go! After we enter the city, we will go to worship the late emperor first!"

Qin Hua's other divine clone, Zhang Jun, had been to Chaoge and was familiar with the situation in the city. He immediately led everyone into the city.

After seeing the flag of Marquis Qingzhou, the soldiers guarding the city gate hurriedly led their men to disperse the people at the city gate and cleared a way into the city for the convoy.

Inside the city, the streets were wide and the buildings were numerous. The overall look was similar to the prosperous cities that Zhang Jun, the divine fetus clone, had walked through in his memory.

Qin Hua felt that it would be good to have two divine clones. One, Xuankong, could slowly control the eastern part of the Shang Dynasty, and the other divine clone, Zhang Jun, could join the saint sect later. In this way, his two divine clones would be much more stable, and he would feel more at ease about the future great catastrophes of the Conferred Gods, the Journey to the West, and the Precious Lotus Lantern.

Now, Crown Prince Yin Shou has moved from the East Palace into the Imperial Palace and is in mourning for the deceased Emperor Yi. Only when the four great marquises and the nine marquises of the states gather together, will he hold the succession ceremony and officially ascend the throne of the Human Emperor.

"Xuan clan leader, Lord Hou, you are finally here!"

When Qin Hua took his second son Xuanzong to the palace to pay homage, shortly after he reported his name, he saw Huang Feihu and Xuan Lin walking out quickly.

The two men were wearing armor and served as his personal guards before Yin Shou ascended the throne.

After seeing Xuanzong, Huang Feihu, who had been stern-faced, also smiled.

When they went east to conquer the Yi people, the two sides fought together and formed some friendship. Huang Feihu also admired the ability of Qingzhou Hou Xuanzong.

"Brother Huang! Brother, we haven't seen each other for a long time!"

Qingzhou Hou Xuanzong also greeted him with a smile. Xuanlin was a natural friend, and the two sides had a blood relationship. Huang Feihu was the future King Wucheng, and was even more worthy of being won over.

It would be great if in the future when this King Wucheng, the guardian of the country, had no other choice but to betray the Shang Dynasty, he would not go to Xiqi but choose to seek refuge in Qingzhou!

Of course, these are things for the future.

Xuanzong also had great ambitions. Although his father did not care about things, as the Marquis of Qingzhou, he also wanted to gain more luck and make a breakthrough to the Taiyi Golden Immortal realm. Xuanzong also wanted to become a Daluo Golden Immortal like his father Xuankong.

Now I only want to build closer relations with the other party, so that when conflicts arise between Qingzhou and Donglu in the future, I can use the relations to resolve Donglu’s relationship network in Chaoge.

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