Traveling through the heavens from swallowing

Chapter 423: The Xiao family is heading east, so we need you to break through quickly! Medusa: ???

"You can go back. The Soul Palace won't come." Liu Mang said to Yun Yun with a grim look on his face.

Yun Yun was stunned: "Are you sure?"

Boom!
Liu Mang slammed his fist on the table and gritted his teeth, "I'm sure! I carefully checked the Northwest Branch Hall you brought back, and surprisingly, there was no tracking method left! Insult, this is a huge insult!!"

One year, a full year! He had been prepared and waited for the Soul Hall for a full year, but in the end, they didn't even know who had carried away their entire branch hall, so naturally they couldn't find them.

He overestimated the Soul Palace's defense and monitoring capabilities and underestimated the Soul Palace's arrogance.

As one of the branch halls, it didn't even have any tricks left. It only needed to deal with two Dou Zuns and a few Dou Zongs. This is too disrespectful!

Faced with the boss's unwarranted anger, Yun Yun drank her tea calmly, unable to resonate.

This attitude really upset the boss Liu Mang: "What's your attitude? The rubbish Soul Palace is arrogant, aren't you angry?!"

The hot tea took a sip, and the wonderful taste exploded in her mouth. Yun Yun narrowed her eyes slightly and said lazily: "I'm not angry. On the contrary, I'm very happy."

In order to defend against the attack of the Soul Palace, she stayed in the Xiao family for a year. Every day she no longer had to do the chores ordered by her boss. She only had to follow him around, which was extremely easy.

Whether it is food, drink, supplies or accommodation, they are all top-notch, luxurious and comfortable, relaxing and enjoyable.

Compared with the previous two years of experience as a social animal worker, this is how life is!

Unfortunately, these days are over. Since Soul Palace didn't come, she had to go back to Yunlan Sect to continue working and return to her previous hard life.

"Humph!" Liu Mang was even more dissatisfied. "As a boss, I work very hard, but as a subordinate, you are so relaxed?"

"I'll give you a mission. Go out and find other branch halls to take them down, and bring them to the Xiao family. If you can't find one, I'll temporarily withhold your annual salary this year. It will be the same every year from now on. The target of one branch hall of Soul Palace per year, if you fail to meet it, you'll be deducted money!"

Yun Yun was stunned. How could you say such a thing? Is this how you act as a boss?

If the Soul Hall branches were so easy to find, there wouldn't have been 24 branch halls for so many years.

This force is basically hated by everyone in the whole continent, but it can still thrive and cause trouble everywhere. You can imagine how deeply they are hiding.

The Northwest Branch Temple happened to catch the Scorpion Guardian who knew the way, but they may not be so lucky in the future.

She is alone, so looking for a branch of the Soul Palace is nonsense!
"How can this be possible? You use such uncertainties as indicators for me. I don't accept it!" Yun Yun quit on the spot. You want the horse to run but you don't want to give it grass. Do you think I'm a perpetual motion machine?

Liu Mang was furious, slammed the table and stood up: "How dare you refute me? I'm the boss! You're just a running dog, just listen to me!"

Yun Yun also put down her teacup with a clang and stood up: "Running dogs also have dignity and need to eat!"

Xiao Xun'er stared at the two quarreling adults, her little feet dangling freely under the chair, looking as if she was enjoying herself.

"Let's fight! Let's fight! The one who wins has the final say!" Well, not only are they spectators, they are also adding fuel to the fire.

In the end, Liu Mang still failed to successfully implement the Soul Hall's division plan, because Yun Yun told him to do it if he could, but he really couldn't.

He is a boss with conscience, responsibility and accountability. He won't say nonsense like "I can do it, why do I need you to do anything else?" Everyone knows what she is supposed to do.

The day she left the Xiao family, Yun Yun was filled with reluctance.

Once you have experienced high-end life, it will be difficult to go back to the old days.

To her, life in the Xiao family was heaven, while life in the Yunlan Sect was, if not hell, at least dire straits.

But there is no way, she is just an employee, she can't just lie in the office like the boss and wait for the employees to make money for her, right?
Besides, the boss didn't even lie down.

After Yun Yun left, Xiao Xun'er was also driven to Luo Shan by Liu Mang.

It was fine that I had kept it with me before in order to guard against the Soul Palace’s attack, but now that the Soul Palace is not coming, I just have to do what I have to do.

After the acceleration effect of Huitian Realm, Xiao Xun'er is now very powerful. Not only has her cultivation reached Douhuang and is close to Luo Shan, but her academic performance is also incredibly higher than Xiao Yan.

This made her understand that although the God of Learning was unattainable, the King of Papers was also invincible.

Xiao Yan's day has only 24 hours, but for her, it has more than 2400 hours!
When she spends a lot of time on studying, she is no longer at her peak.

The wavering emperor's heart was reunited again and was more determined than ever before.

Xiao Xun'er is certain that she is the chosen one, and she will be invincible on the road to becoming the emperor in this life!
Xiao Yan also went crazy. His only advantage was actually surpassed by his sister. Isn't this a lesson for him?
But just like when Xun'er was chasing him before, he also felt powerless and desperate when facing Xun'er's back which was getting farther and farther away.

He couldn't learn it, no matter what he did, he couldn't learn it! He almost suspected that Xiao Xun'er had turned on the accelerator!

At this point, Xiao Yan fell into depravity again. His only pride was torn to pieces, and he almost became a salted fish.

Liu Mang secretly observed and found that the training of Xiao Yan still had not reached perfection, so he decided to increase his efforts.

The clan discussions that he had isolated himself from gradually reached Xiao Yan's ears, and he would be ridiculed if he went out.

Once Xiaoyan attempts to overtake by changing the track, a peerless genius will emerge in the corresponding field to make him realize that he cannot overtake at all.

This happened hundreds of times, causing Xiao Yan to continue to doubt his life, and the light in his life gradually faded.

But there is a lot of love from father, mother, brothers and sisters, so home is still warm, but the world is cold.

To the 11-year-old Xiao Yan, the world was cruel and cold, but to the other members of the Xiao family, the world was gentle and sweet.

After years of construction by the Xiao family, 26 new large cities in the northeastern region of the empire were finally completed. A large number of people who had been eagerly waiting and had already applied for residence quickly poured in, filling up the 26 cities in a short time.

At the same time, the expansion of the Black Mountain Fortress, and the construction of another border fortress and an internal mobile fortress were also completed, with a total of 30 Black Armored Knights stationed there, with a strength even greater than the previous three million troops.

排除掉王都乌坦城，另外40座城池每座的玄甲骑士驻军从1万增加到2万，乌坦城驻扎20万，乌坦城外8座大型军事堡垒作为乌坦城的外围防御圈共计驻扎32万部队。

The number of Black Armor Knights in the entire Northeast region has reached a staggering 162 million!
Judging from the military strength alone, these 162 million Black Armor Knights are enough to take down the four major empires in the northwest of the continent, including the Gama Empire, the Izumo Empire, the Luoyan Empire, and the Mulan Empire.

This is not the Black Armor Knight when it first appeared. After years of development and training, the Black Armor Knight has reached the terrifying level of a Grand Fighter Master.

The mount, the scaly-horned horse, has also been updated to the latest generation. They are all dragon-blooded scaly-horned horses cultivated by Liu Mang with his powerful technology. They are real third-level magical beasts.

In terms of weapons and armor, the Xiao family forge has been upgraded to the Xiao family forging factory, relying on the advanced alloy formula provided by Liu Mang to produce more powerful standard weapons and equipment, and the cost is even lower.

After improving his skills and replacing his equipment, the Black Armor Knight has been reborn.

With such great progress in the overall team, it is natural that the pillar masters will also make great strides.

Except for the 162 low-star Dou Wangs who serve as the commanders of the 40-man army, the 4 city lords are all standard -star Dou Wangs with Dou Ling Dan + Dou Wang Dan.

The occupants of the three large fortresses are all 9-star Dou Wangs who have Dou Ling Dan + Dou Wang Dan + Wang Ji Dan + Xuan-level advanced skills. With the right equipment, they can fight against Dou Huang.

In the Xiao family, in addition to Luo Shan, the 8-star Dou Huang, the three elders and Xiao Xun'er also became Dou Huangs.

The Xiao family had nothing to say about the three elders becoming Dou Huangs. They had indeed worked hard and made great contributions, so it was normal for them to receive rewards from the clan leader.

But what about Xiao Xun'er? She is only 10 years old, why is she so awesome?

According to their simple thinking, no matter what training method or resource accumulation is used, it is not enough to make a 10-year-old child become a Douhuang.

Therefore, the way everyone in the Xiao family looked at Xun'er gradually changed to looking at God. If she wasn't the reincarnation of the Dou Emperor, would they dare to eat the script in their hands!

In addition to the four newly added Dou Huangs, the number of Dou Wangs in the Xiao family has also exceeded 200. Of course, many of them are repeated with the legion commanders mentioned above, so I will not go into details.

Xiao Feng, Xiao Huo, Xiao Shan, and Xiao Yan, the four old Dou Wangs, are not far from Dou Huang. A 9-star Dou Wang who has mastered earth-level advanced skills can be as good as an ordinary Dou Huang with profound-level advanced skills even without equipment. With equipment, they are comparable to a mid-star Dou Huang.

The advantage of being rich is fully demonstrated. The equipment alone can greatly improve one's strength, not to mention that one can always have a large number of elixirs and props for healing, restoring energy, and bursting out. The poor Dou Huang cannot even beat the Dou Wang of the Xiao family.

At the same time, the Douwang Pill, which plays an important role in the development of the Xiao family, can finally be produced.

Relying on the rich energy of heaven and earth brought by the Soul Gathering Array + Tianyuan Soul Gathering Seal, as well as the large elixir furnace that has been upgraded to version 2.6, this medium-sized underground fire node under the Xiao family can finally support the production of Douwang Great Pills.

Liu Mang relied on his great magic power to guide the rich energy of heaven and earth into the ground, upgrading the earth fire node from medium to large, and the intermittent production of Douwang Dan was no longer a problem.

If it is just used to support a small number of pillar Dou Wang for cultivation, it is enough.

Although Liu Mang's latest developed Wang Ji Dan can improve the cultivation level of Dou Wang by 5 stars, it is expensive after all. It is more cost-effective to use Dou Wang Da Dan to cultivate.

According to his calculations, if a 1-star Dou Wang used the Dou Wang Great Pill to practice, if he was a little diligent, he could reach 6 stars within 9 years. If he was ruthless and practiced 24 hours a day, a little more than a year would be enough.

What is the cost of Dou Wang Da Dan? In addition to the low-level medicinal materials used as carriers, there are also free heaven and earth energy and earth fire.

Excluding the technical expenses and time costs that Liu Mang would never charge for himself, the price is basically very low, which is almost the same as free for Liu Mang.

Compared to the Wangji Pill, which costs nearly a million gold coins per pill, the Douwang Pill is ridiculously cheap, and normal people know how to choose. What makes Liu Mang envious is that Yun Yun discovered a large underground fire node under the Yunlan Sect. Naturally, it can produce Douwang Pills by placing a pill 2.6.

When Yun Yun asked for an alchemy furnace, Liu Mang was jealous of her luck but still built one for her.

After all, although it is the territory of the Yunlan Sect, if you really want to count it, it is actually his own territory. If he doesn't have enough Douwang Dan, he can also ask Yun Yun to produce some and send them to him.

At this point, the Xiao family's strength in the northeastern region of the empire has basically reached its peak. If they do not expand outward, they will begin to roll back inward.

So, when Xiao Yan was 12 years old, Liu Mang ordered the Xiao family's influence to extend to the eastern part of the empire, starting with business and gradually eroding the entire east.

The eastern part of the empire is much larger and stronger than the northeastern part.

There are a total of 100 large cities in the entire eastern region, and there are five cities of the same level as Black Flame City, including Yancheng, which is dominated by the Mohist school in the original novel and is known as the largest city in the east.

Previously, Mo Cheng of the Mo family relied on the Yunlan Sect as his backing and occupied nearly 60% of the city's industries, almost catching up with the Xiao family's share in Wutan City. Even the city lord's words were not as effective as those of the Mo family.

However, because Mo Cheng died in Yunlan Sect, Yunlan Sect no longer supported the rebel's family, causing the Mo family to lose its strong backing and be divided up by other forces in the city in a short period of time.

Among them, the one that took the biggest piece of the Mo family's pie was the trading company and mercenary group established by the Xiao family in Yancheng.

As for the other 99 large cities, the Xiao family also has its own power, and there is at least one mercenary group led by Dou Ling stationed in each city.

Liu Mang had already started planning for the east. After Xiao Ding became a Dou Ling last year, he was sent out to Shimo City to serve as the leader of a mercenary group.

In the original novel, he was the leader of a mercenary group in Shimo City. Liu Mang's sentimentality got the better of him, so he arranged him to this place.

However, Shimo City is the largest city on the outskirts of the Tagor Desert. It is a bridgehead for contacting the snake people deep in the desert. It has great strategic significance, and it does need a person of sufficient weight from the Xiao family.

As the eldest son of the Xiao family, Xiao Ding naturally has this weight.

For his safety, 40 Dou Wangs from the Xiao family came together. With such strength, even if the Snake People came out in full force, they would not dare to move.

Nearly one-fifth of the eastern part of the empire is the Tagor Desert. There are no imperial cities in the desert to avoid conflict with the snake people.

It can be said that the Empire had long since tacitly accepted that the Tagor Desert was the territory of the Snake People.

But the empire recognized it, but Liu Mang did not.

The Tagor Desert is of strategic significance to the development of the Xiao family and must be controlled in our own hands.

The snake people are quite powerful and tend to be violent. They will start fighting if they disagree with something.

Liu Mang didn't want to fight with the snake people, not only because Queen Medusa might become one of his agents and because of the sentimentality of the original novel, but also because he didn't want to provoke the Nine Netherworld Python clan.

So he needed to flex his muscles in front of the Snake People, make the difficult-to-talk Snake People easier to talk to, and then gradually recruit them to his own use.

According to the information Liu Mang already knew, the leaders of the eight tribes of the Snake People are all Dou Wang, and Queen Medusa and the four elders are all at the peak of Dou Huang. Their strength should not be underestimated.

There is no need to worry about the Dou Wang. Anyone would know that the Xiao family is far stronger than the Snake People. Snake People are also human beings.

As for Dou Huang, although the Xiao family now has 5 Dou Huangs, only Luo Shan is a high-star Dou Huang, and the other four are 1-star Dou Huangs who have just broken through.

This kind of paper strength is far inferior to that of the Snake People. They don't know the improvement brought by the high-level earth-level fighting skills and equipment. They have bad tempers and it is impossible for them to take the Dou Huang of the Xiao family seriously.

Even though the Xiao family has Liu Mang, a Dou Zong in the open, who can defeat the entire Snake People tribe by himself, it still cannot make up for the Xiao family's disadvantage at the Dou Huang level.

This will give the snake people some courage to resist.

Liu Mang didn't want to start a real war, so he had to eliminate their courage in this regard.

Xiao Feng and the other three are almost reaching the Dou Huang level. They don't have much potential to begin with, so they don't mind relying on elixirs to improve their cultivation, and the same goes for the elders.

The only elixirs Liu Mang has on hand that can improve his Dou Huang cultivation are the sixth-grade Huangji Pill and the self-developed Huangtian Pill. The Huangji Pill increases cultivation by 2 stars, and the Huangtian Pill increases cultivation by 3 stars, which adds up to 5 stars.

Each person can only use one of these two kinds of elixirs in their lifetime. Even if they are refined by the Qingjing Ding, it is difficult to make them effective again. The Qingjing Ding only fixes the improvement of the Huangji Pill from 1 star or 2 stars to 2 stars.

At this point, he is still 3 stars away from the peak of Douhuang. There is no need to think about cultivating on his own. The potential of the three elders and Xiao Feng has been exhausted. Without the Douhuang Pill, they may not be able to improve their cultivation by 1 star even in ten years.

Therefore, Liu Mang decided to build a Xiao Family Spiritual Pond in imitation of the Tianshan Blood Pond, relying on the strange fire, the Azure Sky Fire, to smelt a large amount of energy from heaven and earth and medicinal liquid, eliminating all the poison in the medicine and turning it into refined spiritual liquid to help people improve their cultivation.

Now that Liu Mang has grown to the Dou Zun level, the Blue Sky Earth Fire has infinite power and infinite uses. The flame, which is already full of vitality, can not only greatly enhance the effect of the essence of the spirit liquid for those who enter the pool, but also help people absorb it.

Liu Mang estimated that the average cost of upgrading a 6-star Douhuang to a 9-star peak should be around 400 million gold coins.

This is an extremely cost-effective deal for any family with a Dou Huang. 400 million gold coins can increase the Dou Huang's cultivation by 3 stars. The auction price of the Huangji Pill that increases the cultivation by 1 to 2 stars is almost the same.

But for the Xiao family, 400 million gold coins is just a drop in the bucket.

Each of the above seven people receives dividends of more than 1 million gold coins each year, so they can spend the money at will.

So Liu Mang gave Xiao Feng and the other three a death order, requiring them to break through to the Dou Huang level within three months, then take Huangji Pills and Huangtian Pills to upgrade to 6-star Dou Huang, and then soak in the Xiao family's spiritual pool together to upgrade to 9-star peak Dou Huang.

After that, you can go to the Snake People to discuss cooperation and submission.

Liu Mang has developed a elixir in recent years that can help Dou Wang break through to Dou Huang. It is a downgraded version of Po Zong Dan, called "Po Huang Dan". The name is as simple and clear as ever and can be understood at a glance. Similar to it is the lower-level "Po Wang Dan".

As for the more advanced "Break the Zun Pill", it has not been developed yet, because the breakthrough of Dou Zun is not entirely a matter of cultivation, and the comprehension of the laws is essential.

Xiao Feng and his three companions were already at the peak of Dou Wang level, and they also had the Emperor Breaking Pill which increased their chances of success in breaking through. Each of them wasted seven or eight pills, and finally after more than two months, they all broke through to the 1-star Dou Huang level.

This is the disadvantage of insufficient qualifications and potential. Generally, people with decent qualifications can achieve a breakthrough in a few days after taking one Emperor Breaking Pill, but they still need seven or eight pills in the Xiao family's high-energy training room.

Fortunately, he successfully broke through to the Douhuang level, otherwise Liu Mang would have wanted to beat him up. The cost of refining the Douhuang Pill is a small matter, but the main thing is that it takes time and delays his research.

Nearly three months have passed, and Liu Mang has built a spirit pool in the Xiao family. The first batch of refined spirit liquid has been refined and cultivated, and the blue sky and earth fire below has been burning for more than a month, waiting for the seven 6-star Dou Huangs to be put into the pot.

It didn't take a few days for them to take Huangji Pills and Huangtian Pills to improve their cultivation. After they all broke through to 6 stars, Liu Mang gathered 7 people for a 5-day intensive training. Through continuous high-intensity battles, they were helped to digest their gains and consolidate their cultivation.

Then, throw them into the boiling spirit pool to cook. With the fighting spirit protecting them, there is no need to worry about them being cooked.

At the same time, the Xiao family began to expand its influence in the eastern part of the empire, and carried out transformation of the Xiao family model with Yancheng as the center.

No one can refuse the benefits offered by the Xiao family, and no one can resist the iron hoof of the Xiao family.

By this time, there was no force in the empire that dared to challenge the Xiao family, including the Yunlan Sect.

The Xiao family's actions touched the sensitive nerves of the snake people. Although the Xiao family did not step into the desert, the pressure brought by the rapid development of human cities was actually placed on the snake people.

The Snake People live in the desert and are short of resources. The reason they are able to support such a powerful force is still through trading with humans.

There is indeed a blood feud between the snake people and humans, but this does not mean that there is no contact between the two sides.

The Empire prohibits the sale of supplies and goods to the Snake People, but the profits are huge, and there are always people who secretly do business with the Snake People.

The snake people simply cannot survive without humans, and no matter how great the hatred is, they will not refuse such a deal, so this is how they have survived. As long as humans do not actively provoke the snake people and do not cause trouble in the desert, the snake people are too lazy to attack humans.

Of course, if you venture into the desert and encounter the snake people, you'd better wish you good luck. The blood feud between the two sides is real, and it's normal for them to fight to the death when they meet.

However, the Snake People are under great pressure now, not because the Xiao Family came and cut off the trading channels between the two sides, making them unable to survive, but because the Xiao Family accepted the trading channels and dumped a large amount of cheap goods and materials to the Snake People.

The snake people have limited specialties, and they don't engage in production, so they can't produce anything that can be used for trading on the spot.

But what the Xiao family provided was really too cheap. The Snake People from top to bottom were reluctant to give up, but they didn't dare to snatch it directly and cut off the trading channel, so they were stuck.

The Xiao family has taken over the trading channel for a year, and they trade once a month. This is already the tenth time. The Snake People really can’t get anything to trade.

Moreover, a large number of Snake People have enjoyed the convenience and excellence of the Xiao family's products and do not want to return to their previous wild days. With the help of these things, the major tribes of the Snake People have achieved far better development than before, and they all want to continue trading.

Or, just do what you are good at and start a war to rob people?

So, Queen Medusa had a headache.

She looked at the five tribal leaders below who were requesting war, and wanted to throw them out.

Do you think I don't want to fight if I can?
We didn’t dare to fight them before the Xiao family existed, but now they are both Dou Zong and Dou Zun, so what’s the point of fighting them?

There are dozens of Dou Wangs just outside in Shimo City, eyeing us covetously. How dare you do this?
Queen Medusa couldn't understand when her subordinates could no longer see the situation clearly.

The Snake People have never defeated the Gama Empire in a head-on battle, otherwise how could they have managed to survive in the desert?

Tell the truth, do you want me to die and take over my position?

(End of this chapter)