The Beautiful CEO's Dragon Blood Bodyguard-Chapter 1408: Shadow of Mount Tai

Long Fei stayed in the South Yangtze Prefecture for over a month, helping Ji Wanrong completely stabilize the military and political affairs of the four states in the South Yangtze.

Now, Ji Wanrong has military support from Wang Xun and civil support from Liuu Jiangnan, and her position has been basically consolidated.

No matter how the Imperial Court changes, it can no longer shake her.

Liuu Jiangnan, leading the Liuu Family, completely switched allegiance to Ji Wanrong, compensating for many deficits in the South Yangtze Prefecture for her.

Back when the four states of South Yangtze had only a bit of surplus money in the Wu and Yue states.

Gan State and Hui State’s treasuries were in deficit, their reputations declined, and economic management was a mess.

Ji Wanrong was short of people, so she recruited a large number of merchant sect students from Chang’an Academy and Southern Capital Academy.

Although in the past this world was founded by the Daoist Sect, merchant sect disciples were not highly valued.

After all, this world was fundamentally agrarian.

Merchants, though wealthy, did not hold high status.

Ji Wanrong focused on changing this, initiating reforms by emulating external governmental systems, supporting the development of small workshops around her.

She first established the South Yangtze Bank, which has already provided credit loans to the first batch of workshops needing expansion.

The South Yangtze Prefecture began transitioning to capitalism incubation, with the streets bustling with prosperity.

At the end of the month, the two armies originally sent to subjugate the Southern Ridge on the left and right paths returned.

The main forces of the mountain bandits in the Southern Ridge were completely eliminated, with only a small remnant left that posed no threat.

Lei Shicheng received military reports from here every day, and after seeing the changes in the South Yangtze Prefecture firsthand, he was greatly shocked.

He could hardly believe it; over twenty thousand elite forces of the two armies, plus the water bandits bragging to be a million strong, were all eradicated by Princess Ji Wanrong.

Moreover, the two armies have now restored their original system, looking completely different from before.

He specifically went to the new army’s camp and nearly turned to stone when he saw soldiers holding assault rifles sweeping the targets wildly.

According to Long Fei’s plan, the modernization of the new army’s infantry is only the first step.

Currently, the only thermal weaponry in use is assault rifles, but soon, armored tank units will be installed.

In the future, there will be expansions for the navy and air force, which are the big moves, the trump card against the Demon Race.

The Great Xia Army of this world was never Long Fei’s target from the beginning.

Now, Lei Shicheng’s clan grandson Lei Baiyuan has already become a brigade captain of the Vanguard Army, commanding a brigade of five thousand soldiers.

Coming from the Southern Capital Academy’s military strategist sect, most of those who first joined the new army hold this position.

Originally, Lei Shicheng didn’t even rank among the Lei Family’s key figures, being from a branch family, while direct descendants were plenty.

Now, he stands tall and firm, and upon his return, it was Lei Baiyuan who hosted his visit to the new army.

This young man is too young, and his scheming still a bit shallow.

In front of Lei Shicheng, he deliberately wanted to show off.

He had people bring in the latest model of the tank, and nervously said to Lei Shicheng, "Grandfather, see this? Our brigade is about to get new equipment. This thing is called an Ironclad War Chariot, made of pure steel, with a hardened exterior, doesn’t eat grass or drink water, can be driven using Spirit Stones, and runs faster than a warhorse. The key is, its power is massive. One shell can level a hill."

"Can I try it?"

Curious, Lei Shicheng went over and touched it.

He could sense the change in his clan grandson, who used to be lackadaisical, but now handled affairs seriously and had developed a sense of pride.

Soldiers should be proud; without pride, they’re useless saps.

Though obedient, they’re not much use.

"Can’t say for others, but since grandfather’s here, of course you can try!"

Lei Baiyuan received instructions from above to entertain Lei Shicheng well, so he had no intention of hiding anything from the old man.

With a wave of his hand, he had the instructor lock the tank’s sights on a stone house a kilometer away.

There was a loud bang, followed by an explosion.

A jet of flame shot out from the barrel, and the stone house a kilometer away was blown to smithereens.

Lei Shicheng clenched his fists and his beard trembled with astonishment.

He paused for a long time, unsure of what to say, finally just uttering lowly, "Oh, shit."

Lei Baiyuan chuckled and asked if Lei Shicheng wanted to see anything else.

Lei Shicheng waved his hand and had someone take him directly to the Prefecture Princess Mansion.

He understood the Commandery Princess’s intention in letting him visit the new army, and also realized that his own forces were fundamentally outdated.

If he clung to old practices now and refused to adapt.

One misstep leads to another.

His left-wing army would just be left behind by others.

Having completed these for Ji Wanrong, Long Fei left with several others, including Chu Feng.

He no longer had to worry about the South Yangtze Prefecture for the time being, and news from Murong Chong of Mount Tai Divine Sword Sect indicated that something had indeed happened there.

A mirage-like phantom appeared above Mount Tai, with sounds of ritual emanating from it constantly.

This place, like Ghost Emperor City, seemed to be a small world.

The small world’s location was right above the Divine Sword Sect’s Sword Mountain. 𝒻𝘳ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝒷𝘯ℴ𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝑐ℴ𝑚

So, back then when the dragon and phoenix mirage appeared, it was all triggered by the emergence of this small world.

The various sects in the Cultivation World have now sent disciples over, ready to enter this small world to seek opportunities.

Even though the small world appeared in the territory of the Divine Sword Sect.

But the Divine Sword Sect did not stop other forces, knowing they couldn’t organize it, so they simply allowed the commotion to happen.

The Divine Sword Sect also dispatched disciples to actively maintain order on the scene.

Even so, many bizarre incidents have occurred in these days.

Disciples from major sects have gone missing, some male disciples were found shriveled like dried corpses.

The Divine Sword Sect and other sects investigated, but found no results.

In the end, they only reminded everyone, to ensure the disciples of each sect were safe and to watch out for disciples of the Heterodox Path.

Some ill-intentioned people deliberately targeted three girls in this matter.

The three being Wang Xiaoya, Yu Ping, and Jiu Ge.

They had arrived at Mount Tai early, waiting for the small world’s portal to fully open to explore its opportunities.

Who knew, someone wanted to harm them.

This person was Yi Qingyun, who knew Wang Xiaoya and knew she was Long Fei’s woman.

With Long Fei’s life or death in the Cultivation World currently unknown, and after a big fuss in the South Yangtze Prefecture, he hadn’t shown himself in the North Yangtze.

So, the disciples below didn’t know he was still alive.

They thought Long Fei had already died in Ghost Emperor City.

Yi Qingyun, with a group, surrounded the three of them, and shouted to the crowd, "Everyone, take note, I’ve investigated thoroughly, the Disciple of Mount Shu who went missing the other day was indeed harmed by this woman."

The talent of Mount Shu, Zichuan, stood nearby, watching the spectacle.

The talents from each major sect gained something after entering Ghost Emperor City.

After coming out, many had breakthroughs, and compared to before, their auras were completely different.

He said nothing, looking like he was enjoying the show.

More and more disciples from various sects gathered, over a thousand people surrounded Wang Xiaoya and the other two.

Wang Xiaoya raised an eyebrow, with anger marring her gentle face, she sternly said, "What nonsense are you spouting?"

Yi Qingyun snorted softly, "Nonsense, don’t think I don’t know, you’re disciples of the Mount Hua Mystic Yin Sect. Everyone knows what kind of people the Mystic Yin Sect are, they were besieged by the Four Major Sects of the South, exterminated wherever they went. Isn’t it because you’ve cultivated demonic skills that can absorb the essence of men? The deceased Mount Hua disciples all looked like withered corpses, if it wasn’t you, who else could it be?"