Divine & Bizarre: Increasing Points to Invincibility-Chapter 877 - 238: Arrival at the Shangwu Dynasty! Demons and Devils State Preceptor?_3
"We can only make a quick trip; once we’ve delivered these three cultivators to the Shangwu Dynasty, we must immediately return. While the other sea beasts are still intimidated, we should hurry back to the Great Yan Dynasty. That way, we might be able to return safely."
"Is it possible... that the enormous sea beast we saw earlier is actually the king of the sea beasts? Now that their king has been killed, the others might just scatter."
"Hiss... That’s a possibility, but the problem is, this is all just your speculation!"
"Damn it, not going to encounter the same thing again, right?"
"Who knows..."
"..."
The sailors on the ship, who had just breathed a sigh of relief, once again had their hearts in their throats, because no one knew if they would encounter sea beasts on the return journey. They had to remember that on the way back, they would not have the protection of the cultivators! Nor would they have the protection of Daoist Fan Wu! If they met a sea beast identical to the one they encountered tonight, wouldn’t they be doomed?
Many sailors felt that although they were law-abiding, they were living like fugitives, and even more dangerously at that. After all, if a fugitive had a bounty on their head by the Imperial Court, they could still find a place to hide. But where could these sailors hide from sea beasts? Hide on the ship? Wouldn’t that just be an instant death at the hands of the Sea Beast?
With this anxious mindset, the merchant ship continued to sail through the vast seas, and time elapsed by the minute. Before long, it was already three days later. Fortunately, during these three days, they did not encounter any Sea Beasts or Demons and Devils.
This merchant ship ultimately entered the territorial waters of the Shangwu Dynasty safely, arriving at a hugely bustling harbor dock, teeming with people as far as the eye could see!
When Huo Zhijin saw the familiar docks, he couldn’t hide the wistful expression on his face as he murmured, "We’re finally here. It took almost seven days. This voyage was anything but smooth."
How could it not be full of hardships when they had come close to losing their lives several times?
But fortunately, they had Daoist Fan Wu and the others.
Otherwise...
Huo Zhijin felt... even if he had nine lives, he wouldn’t have been able to reach this sea port of the Shangwu Dynasty.
"This... is this the Shangwu Dynasty?" As Yun Jiuqing looked at the enormous harbor and the massive ships docked at the pier, her jaws dropped, "The ships docked there are several times the size of ours! And those ships, they don’t look like merchant ships? Why are there soldiers in armor on those huge ships?"
Huo Zhijin hurriedly explained, "Miss Yun, those big ships are not merchant vessels! Those are the naval warships of the Shangwu Dynasty. They are Shangwu’s naval forces!"
"Naval forces?" Yun Jiuqing had a sudden realization, "So these sea ships are for warfare? No wonder each one is so huge, they seem capable of carrying several hundred people easily."
"Not just several hundred people," Huo Zhijin said, "I’ve heard that these naval warships can accommodate a thousand naval soldiers!"
"Hiss! Thousands of people!" Yun Jiuqing stared at the thirty-something massive wooden warships docked, unable to believe her eyes, "If these ships were all filled, wouldn’t that mean over thirty thousand soldiers? Just one dock has so many naval forces?"
You should know that in their entire Great Zhou Dynasty, the army maintained was only about three hundred thousand men. This number might seem large, but spread out across the entire Great Zhou, the soldiers in each location were actually not many.
And here in the Shangwu Dynasty, just the naval forces alone... and it’s only one location within the Dynasty... they actually have over thirty thousand men?
That’s nearly one-tenth of the entire Great Zhou? Goodness!
Yun Jiuqing had heard that the people of the Shangwu Dynasty were very warlike, and that the Dynasty maintained a very large army. At first, she didn’t have a clear concept of it. But when she saw these thirty-something enormous warships, she finally understood that the Great Yan Dynasty and the Great Zhou Dynasty seemed like mere infants in comparison to the Shangwu Dynasty.
If the Shangwu Dynasty decided to cross the vast strait and attack the Great Yan and Great Zhou Dynasties... it was likely that even if these two Dynasties joined forces, they wouldn’t be a match for the Shangwu Dynasty, and they would probably not last long before being directly annexed by Shangwu.
But it seems that the resources required to annex these two Dynasties might be too great, and the benefits too little... hence the Great Zhou Dynasty, the Great Yan Dynasty, and several small neighboring Dynasties have survived for thousands of years beside a fierce tiger.
It’s unclear whether this is a blessing or a sorrow, for after all, being too weak to even be worth hitting is a strange thing. With one punch from another, they might worry about sullying their own hands, so they simply ignore you. 𝐟𝕣𝗲𝕖𝕨𝗲𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝗲𝚕.𝗰𝚘𝐦
Deeply shaken from these reflections, upon arriving in such a Dynasty, Yun Jiuqing felt as though she was someone of incredibly shallow experience.
