Martial Conquest of the Nine Desolates-Chapter 469 - 455: Challenging Xiao Ye

The fief that East Emperor bestowed upon Xiao Ye was in a fertile area of East State.

Originally, this place belonged to a kingdom known as Sky Blade Kingdom. Due to a grave mistake committed by the Sky Saber King, he was killed by East Emperor, causing the downfall of Sky Blade Kingdom. The vast territory became unclaimed land, which was then granted to Xiao Ye by East Emperor.

Xiao Ye is now the first among the younger generation in the southeast, northwest, and four great states. He is about to enter Central State, and his fame is enormous. The fact that he was bestowed a kingship without having ascended to King Martial is already widely known.

Now as Xiao Ye headed towards his fief, it immediately attracted attention from all sides. Not only did King Xingyun personally come to assist, but some neighboring kingdoms also sent envoys to help out.

Upon seeing this, Xiao Ye sneered.

When the Ye Alliance was attacked by King Martial Realm experts, aside from King Xingyun, none of these kingdoms stirred a finger. Now that they saw the crisis of the Ye Alliance was over, they all flocked to add icing to the cake.

It was only during a crisis that the true nature of these opportunists was revealed.

Of course, Xiao Ye did not reject them, but his attitude was obviously different from that towards King Xingyun.

The Ye Alliance quickly made preparations and, together with the clansmen of the Xiao Alliance, began to migrate in full to Xiao Ye’s fief.

From Starfall Royal City to resist Sky Blade Kingdom was quite a distance. Fortunately, King Xingyun took out his Royal Artifact war chariot, pulling several large ships. In just two days, he brought the people of Ye Alliance to the territory of Sky Blade Kingdom.

"Is this Xiao Ye’s fiefdom?"

Long Chen and other high-ranking members of Ye Alliance stood on the giant ship, overlooking the vast expanse of land below. Their blood boiled with anticipation for the future.

From today onwards, Ye Alliance would leap from being a subsidiary force of Xingyun Kingdom to a kingdom-level force, capable of having its own army and truly establishing a foothold on True Spirit Continent.

Many martial artists from the Ye Alliance, who came from the Endless Sea, wept with joy.

Throughout the many years of history in the Endless Sea, this was the first time they could hold their heads high without being oppressed by others.

Soon, a colossal royal palace appeared within everyone’s sight.

These were the ruins of Sky Blade Kingdom’s Royal City. Behind the tall city walls, luxurious palaces stood tall on the ground, exquisitely beautiful, including various palaces, houses, towers, pavilions, and everything in between, hardly smaller than the scale of Starfall Royal City.

However, the martial artists of Sky Blade Kingdom had been driven out by East Emperor. Now, the city was empty and extremely quiet, like a ghost town.

"Ha ha, who would have thought that the Royal City of Sky Blade Kingdom would still be standing? It saves us the trouble of having to build a palace, we can just move right in," Xiao Ye saw the Royal City, his eyes blazed with excitement, and he burst into laughter.

With a rumble!

As King Xingyun’s Royal Artifact war chariot descended, several large ships carrying the people of the Ye Alliance and some clansmen of the Xiao Alliance sailed towards the palace.

The group jumped down from the giant ship, excitedly looking around, filled with curiosity about everything.

"Xiao Ye, managing a kingdom is not a simple matter," King Xingyun came before Xiao Ye and said with emotion.

Xiao Ye thought about this deeply.

The territory of Sky Blade Kingdom was actually much larger than that of Xingyun Kingdom; naturally, it would be troublesome to manage. Still, here was a King Martial Realm expert alive and well, fully capable of imparting management experience.

Thinking of this, Xiao Ye quickly pulled Long Chen over and asked him to seek advice from King Xingyun on management issues.

Long Chen rolled his eyes involuntarily, his face filled with helplessness, seemingly thinking that Xiao Ye, as the king, intended to be a hands-off ruler, leaving the management of the vast kingdom to him.

However, considering that Xiao Ye was about to set off for Central State, and could not truly act as a king, he did not fuss and began earnestly seeking guidance from King Xingyun.

As for Xiao Ye, he took the people to settle in the Imperial Palace. He moved around the palace by himself, wanting to see if the Sky Saber King had left behind any treasures before his death.

He released his Void Martial Thought, enveloping half the palace and began to search carefully. He discovered that the National Treasury and the Treasure Hall had been emptied—even not a single hair was left.

"Ah, Lord East Emperor has been thorough," Xiao Ye sighed helplessly with a bitter smile. Anyway, he still had plenty of Martial Arts Secret Manuals and treasures sufficient to allow his kingdom to rise.

Just when Xiao Ye was about to give up, he caught a glimpse of a line of writing on the wall of the Treasure Hall. He walked over with curiosity.

"To cultivate Martial Arts is to go against Heaven. Although I have ascended to King Martial, I have always considered Emperor Martial my lifelong goal. Feeling that my talent was limited, the hope of advancing to Emperor Martial in this life was slim, but I was willing to take a risk and try."

These characters were engraved into the wall by someone’s finger strength, vigorous and potent, each stroke like a dancing Qiu Long, a sense of King Martial Realm’s oppression surged forth, making Xiao Ye inhale a breath of cold air.

It goes without saying, the one who left these characters, must be the Sky Saber King whom he had not yet met face to face.

"Who knows what grave error the Sky Saber King committed in his attempt to break through to the Emperor Martial Realm that led to the East Emperor personally taking action to annihilate him—could it be because the East Emperor felt threatened?" Xiao Ye trembled at the thought.

His guess was not improbable; in a place like the True Spirit Continent that revered the powerful, such incidents were all too common.

"Nevermind, thinking more about it now is useless. In this life, I, Xiao Ye, must not only advance to the Emperor Martial, but I also aim to become an unprecedented Great Emperor. Only by doing so can I entirely free myself from the restraint of others!" Xiao Ye clenched his fists, his goals for the future became clearer.

Do not be fooled by his currently esteemed status. Having not yet ascended to the rank of King Martial but already being granted kingship and endlessly glorious, it was essentially the East Emperor’s way of wooing him, wasn’t the Xiao Alliance along with the Ye Alliance still under the control of the East State Heavenly God Dynasty?

Afterwards, Xiao Ye left the Treasure Hall and began his cultivation in one of the palaces within the Royal City, waiting for the envoy from Taiyi Palace to arrive, entrusting all affairs to Long Chen.

Although Long Chen had been incessantly complaining, he was extremely dedicated and responsible, tirelessly tending to the kingdom’s matters.

One month later, the martial artists of the Ye Alliance and the clan members of the Xiao Alliance finally got used to this way of life. Xiao Ye’s fief was officially named Tianjiao Kingdom. Leveraging the experience learned from the Starfall Royal City, Long Chen instituted a series of measures, leading the kingdom onto the right track.

On the day of the founding celebration, various forces arrived to offer congratulations.

Xiao Ye just came out of seclusion to meet with over a dozen King Martial Realm experts, taking out Martial Arts secret manuals, High Grade Essence Stones, and various treasures from his Space Ring, handing them over to Long Chen as the foundation of the kingdom.

Long Chen immediately became excited.

Now the Tianjiao Kingdom was not like the Ye Alliance. If one wished to firmly grasp this land, relying solely on the previous martial artists of the Ye Alliance was far from enough; recruiting soldiers and buying horses was necessary.

Just consider the few hundred High Grade Essence Stones that Xiao Ye had taken out, which were beyond Long Chen’s imaginations. Using them for recruitment, it was more than sufficient to form an army of their own.

With so many treasures and Martial Arts secret manuals as the foundation of the kingdom, he could already envision the future prosperity of the Tianjiao Kingdom.

As the three-year agreement with the Taiyi Palace Elders was drawing near, Xiao Ye’s cultivation grew even more diligent, his cultivation level was advancing with each day, and at the same time, he was keeping an eye on the movements within Tianjiao Kingdom to guard against another disruption from the South Emperor.

However, in the blink of an eye, five months had passed, and the South Emperor showed no reaction.

But Xiao Ye did not dare to let his guard down, after all, the revenge of an Emperor Martial Realm expert could be terrifying, one carelessness and the Tianjiao Kingdom could be annihilated.

Time flowed like water, and in the blink of an eye, the winter season came. By now, Tianjiao Kingdom already bore the appearance of a kingdom, with armored soldiers guarding the gates of the Royal City, the inside bustling with carriages and horses, martial artists aplenty—a sight of prosperity.

On this day, suddenly the sky changed as winds and clouds shifted, a blue-robed youth with long hair and carrying a longsword appeared in mid-air. His eyes emitted two Divine Lights that penetrated the void, looking down at the Tianjiao Royal City below.

"Quite interesting." A subtle smile arose on the face of the blue-robed youth. With the longsword on his back, he stepped through the void, moving step by step towards the Royal City.

"Who is it?"

"This is the Royal City of Tianjiao Kingdom, unauthorized entry is not allowed!"

Very soon, the soldiers guarding the Royal City spotted the blue-robed youth and shouted.

Yet the blue-robed youth merely gave them an indifferent glance, and instantly, the soldiers trembled in place, slumping to the ground, speechless with intense fear on their faces.

"Merely ants." The blue-robed youth shook his head, easily crossed over the tall city walls, and entered within the Royal City.

The disturbance at the city gates quickly caught the attention of the City Guard Team. The leading general held a spear, behind which arose an imposing Grotto Heaven.

He was a Virtual Martial Eighth Level expert whom Long Chen had lured over from another kingdom at great cost, appointed as the City Guard Great General, Shen Tao.

"Come down from there, how dare you be so reckless in the Royal City!" The general leaped up, his spear striking like lightning towards the blue-robed youth.

"Hmph, like the light of grains of rice daring to contend with the bright moon!"

With a cold snort from the blue-robed youth, he flicked a finger and immediately, the spear vibrated and bounced back faster than before, pinning Shen Tao directly onto the street; a piercing scream came from his mouth as his blood stained the heaven.

The streets of the Royal City instantly fell into dead silence, disbelief surged on the faces of all the martial artists.

Shen Tao, a Virtual Martial Eighth Level, was actually defeated by a flick from this blue-robed youth. It was terribly frightening—when had such a young talent emerged in the East State?

"I’ve heard that Xiao Ye is a genius who was granted kingship before ascending to be a King Martial. Happening to pass by, I’ve come to witness for myself." After speaking, the blue-robed youth walked on air towards the depths of the Royal City.

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