Zongwu: Aspiring to be the mastermind behind the scenes

Chapter 111 Yuan Dynasty Movement, Projection Upgrade

The Emperor of Song was resting in the palace when a eunuch suddenly arrived with the news, "Your Majesty, the Eighth Sage Prince, along with Prince Kai, Prince Iron Whip, Prince Taiping, and Lady She are outside the palace, requesting an audience."

"what?!"

Emperor Song was startled and hurriedly said, "Please come in!"

Four old men and an old woman, dressed in brocade and wearing pearls and jade, walked into the hall to pay their respects.

"Hurry up and get free of charge!"

Emperor Song asked, "Eighth Uncle, why have you all come here together?"

The Eighth Sage King said, "It is precisely because the Emperor is allying with foreign tribes and attacking his allies!"

Emperor Song's expression changed.

Old Lady She said, "The Yuan and Jin are both foreign enemies, while the Ming is an ally of the Central Plains. We must not betray our allies and make friends with our enemies. Your Majesty, please revoke your order!"

Emperor Song stood up, flicked his sleeves, and turned his back to everyone: "I have made up my mind. There is no need to persuade me anymore. Withdraw!"

"Your Majesty!" King Kai said, "If Your Majesty persists in his wrongdoings, I'm afraid the country will be damaged and the people will be ruined!"

"Um?!"

Emperor Song shouted angrily, "How dare you! Come, take them out!"

As the guards around moved, the five men immediately drew out five golden weapons and engaged in tit-for-tat attacks.

"Your Majesty, please revoke your order. Otherwise, don't blame me for insubordination!"

The Song Emperor was furious: "I am the emperor and you are my subjects. How dare you disobey me?
"With the help of our ministers..."

The Eighth Wise King held up the golden mace and said, "The late king bestowed upon me the golden mace!"

Prince Taiping held up the Panlong Staff and said, "The late emperor bestowed upon me the Panlong Staff!"

The Iron Whip King held the Beating Whip and said, "The Beating Whip was bestowed upon me by the late King!"

King Kai held up the purple-gold hammer and said, "The purple-gold hammer bestowed upon me by the late king!"

Old Lady She held a dragon-headed cane and said, "Your Majesty, please look! This dragon-headed cane was given to me by Emperor Taizu himself. It can be used to strike down tyrants and corrupt officials!"

The five men stood in a row, weapons in hand, and said in unison, "Your Majesty, please make the decision!"

"you!"

Emperor Song clenched his teeth, his face turning pale and blue, looking very ugly.

After a moment, he finally squeezed out a few words from between his teeth.

"Okay, I take back...the order!"

Golden State.

Shangjing.

"Humph! The Yuan Kingdom is extremely barbaric. In order to make up for the losses in the Ming Kingdom, they repeatedly attacked our Jin Kingdom and seized a large amount of our Jin Kingdom's territory. Now, they actually want to form an alliance with me to fight against the Ming? Dream on!"

The Golden Emperor threw away the letter in his hand, snorted coldly, and said.

The major foreign kingdoms in the East are arranged from west to east in the order of Yuan, Jin, Liao, and Qing.

To the south of these four countries are the Ming and Song dynasties.

To the west of the Ming Dynasty is Zhongzhou, to the northwest are the Western Regions, to the north is the Yuan Dynasty, and to the northeast is the Jin Dynasty.

To the west of the Song Dynasty was the Ming Dynasty, to the northwest was the Jin Dynasty, to the north was the Liao Dynasty, and to the northeast was the Qing Dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty were mortal enemies and attacked each other, but the Ming Dynasty often won and the Yuan Dynasty lost.

After the Yuan Dynasty was defeated, it would often attack the Jin Dynasty in order to divert conflicts and recover losses.

When the Jin Dynasty suffered losses, it would often attack the Liao Dynasty.

When the Liao Kingdom suffered losses, it would often attack the Song Kingdom.

The State of Song... The State of Song could not defeat anyone.

As for the Qing Dynasty in the far northeast, it has always adopted a strategy of closing its doors to the outside world and strictly defending itself, and has never launched an external attack.

Therefore, the Jin Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty had a great feud.

The Jin Emperor could never have imagined that with such a relationship between the two sides, the Yuan Emperor would actually invite him to join in attacking the Ming Kingdom.

What are you thinking?

Don't say that China is strong and not easy to defeat.

Even if they could win the war and divide the profits after the war, given the attitude of those barbarians in the Yuan Dynasty, they would take most of it for themselves and would not give it to the Jin Dynasty.

Therefore, the Golden Emperor had no intention of agreeing at all.

The minister below picked up the letter and said, "Your Majesty, even so, you should still write back to the Emperor Yuan and explain your reasons in a friendly manner."

"Do I need to write him a reply? Do I need to explain my reasons in a pleasant manner?"

The Golden Emperor was furious: "Wouldn't that make me a beggar on my knees?!"

"His Majesty!"

The minister said, "We know Your Majesty is unwilling to do this, but if we don't do this, I'm afraid the Yuan Dynasty will use this as an excuse to attack our country!"

"How dare Yuan Guoan bully me like this?!"

The Golden Emperor was furious. He pushed everything off the table in front of him and shouted, "Give me a pen!"

Yuan Kingdom.

Most.

"Your Majesty, the Kingdom of Jin replied with a polite refusal, and the Kingdom of Song has yet to respond, so I'm afraid they also rejected it."

"Humph!"

The Yuan Emperor slammed the table and stood up: "If neither of these two countries agrees, then I will raise an army myself and attack the Ming Kingdom!"

"Your Majesty, calm down!"

"Your Majesty, you must not do this!"

The ministers stopped him immediately.

Emperor Yuan himself had no intention of raising an army. He simply waited for his ministers to stop him. He then sat down and said, "An alliance is impossible, and raising an army is not an option either. Am I going to let Zhang Sanfeng bully such a huge country like mine?"

A bearded man with a military air stepped out and said, "Your Majesty, I have something to say that may calm your anger."

"Oh? What can Prince Ruyang do?"

King Ruyang said, "Since it is not appropriate to raise an army, we can start from the rivers and lakes."

"Starting from the Jianghu?"

Emperor Yuan nodded: "Go on..."

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The conspiracies and disturbances among the countries did not affect Zhou Ming.

Standing on a huge rock, you can see the sea and sky merging into one in the distance, the tides rising and falling, and the wind and waves rolling and hitting the rocks.

Zhou Ming couldn't help but recite a poem and sighed: "Oh, sea, you are all water!"

"Ha ha ha ha……"

Zhou Ming looked back and saw Li Mochou laughing wildly behind him.

"why are you laughing?"

"Why am I laughing? Hahaha, what was that thing you just read?"

"Of course it's poetry! I'm known throughout the world as the Poet Master and the King of Dirty Talk. How dare you laugh at me?"

"What's there to be afraid of?"

"Then do you dare to come over?"

"Let the past be the past!"

Li Mochou walked over, but was pulled into Zhou Ming's arms.

a long time.

"Do you still dare to laugh at me?"

"No...don't dare..."

Li Mochou was in a daze for a moment, then suddenly remembered: "Lunch is ready, I came to call you..."

"it is good!"

Since we are at the seaside, we naturally eat seafood for lunch.

Chunhua looked at the two of them suspiciously: "Master, Mochou, why are you so happy? You guys are not at the beach..."

"No! Sister Chunhua, don't talk nonsense!"

Li Mochou's cheeks turned red and she quickly stopped the other party from continuing.

"No? Then why does the young master have a smile on his face?" Zhou Ming said, "I remembered something happy."

"whats the matter?"

"Don't tell you!"

The happy thing is... since the Seven Heroes Town, Zhou Ming has traveled all over the country. After several months, his soul power has continued to grow, and finally when he arrived at the seaside, he was promoted to the next level.

Observe the world and study in this environment!
Although it is limited to spiritual power.

His own realm is still at the level of Heavenly Eye.

But according to tradition, when his spiritual power reached this level, he naturally gained a new awakening.

This awakening upgraded his ability 'Projection'.

First, the quality of the projection itself is improved from 20% to 30%.

The second is the new ability: overlapping projection!

Projection·Overlapping Projection: You can overlap the projection with the real object, making the real object have 60% of the quality and characteristics of the projection!
After dinner, Zhou Ming went to the beach to experiment with his new abilities.

The most basic thing is to use two swords of similar quality, one in reality and the other in the portable space.

Project the sword in the portable space and overlap it with the real sword.

In this way, the sword in reality has the mass of its own sword plus 60% of the projection.

A bit more advanced...

Zhou Ming broke the sword in his hand into seven or eight pieces, and then projected the chain in his personal space onto the sword.

With a flick of his hand, the entire sword flew out.

With a pull of his backhand, the swords were pulled back.

It seems like something is pulling at these broken swords...

"After projection, this sword has the effect of a chain!"

Zhou Ming thought.

Then he took action again, breaking the entire sword into hundreds of pieces. With a swing, all the pieces were thrown away. With a pull, the pieces were pulled back and naturally combined into a complete sword at the front end of the hilt.

But the sword was full of broken cracks.

"Isn't this the Demonic Sword Thousand Blades?

No, there is a difference. Each fragment of the original Demonic Sword Thousand Blades can be controlled at will, but the fragments of this sword are bound by the chain projection and can only be used like chains...similar to a whip..."

Moreover, Zhou Ming discovered that when using this ability, he seemed to be able to control the characteristics of the projection.

Such as strength, toughness, quality and the like.

This kind of regulation can even be targeted.

For example, the weight characteristic can be zero for yourself and 100% for others.

It's outrageous!
Taking advantage of this feature, Zhou Ming projected a large iron hammer onto the sword and easily made a sword weighing dozens of kilograms.

But when he held it, it only weighed a few pounds, which was the weight of the sword itself.

When attacking, the weight of dozens of kilograms can be perfectly demonstrated.

Of course, he can also turn off this feature to the outside world.

However, this control is limited to projection and does not have this capability for real objects.

After an afternoon of research, he determined that this ability required very few real-world objects.

Anything that can be touched, both solid and liquid, can be used.

Including sand and sea water.

Even water vapor will do.

However, these small and shapeless objects will directly show the shape of the projection after overlapping projection.

However, gas and energy are completely unable to use this ability.

However, there are certain requirements for projection in portable space.

It must be a 'whole'.

If you grab a handful of sand and project it onto the surface to overlap, then only one grain of sand will overlap.

But if you use a cup to hold this handful of sand, within the constraints of the cup, this handful of sand can be regarded as a "whole".

The same concept applies to water, stone, and even the human body...

Projecting the human body and overlapping it can be said to be the most incredible part of this ability.

In the previous simple projection, Zhou Ming had already used Gu Santong and Baisun Taoist to create golden wine and Sun Shou.

And now these projections can overlap with other things, so they can completely overlap with a person in reality!

Most importantly, when overlapping, the projection quality that can be inherited is 60%.

It is not the original 20%, or the 30% after the upgrade!
This means that the projection power is greatly improved!
If the body of a Grandmaster is used to project and overlap Gu Santong, then his strength must soar to that of a Second Flower or even Third Flower Grandmaster, right?

If it was Taoist Baisun, his strength would probably be even stronger!
However, Taoist Baisun has not woken up yet, and his breath is weak. Although he is a grandmaster, his strength has probably been weakened to the extreme.

"I didn't have the confidence to control Taoist Baisun before, but now..."

Zhou Ming looked at the situation in his personal space.

As his soul power grew, the range of his portable space also continued to increase, and now its diameter was three thousand meters.

Three thousand meters!
It is so vast that even if we only calculate one plane, it would be more than seven million square meters.

One acre of land is 666 square meters, so this plane is 10,000 acres of land.

Zhou Ming’s personal space is actually a sphere.

Even if he wanted to fill a mountain now, he could do it!
In this vast space, Zhou Ming not only piled up a large amount of soil, sand, gold, silver, copper and iron, but also used these things to build a steel-making blast furnace, used mechanical technology to build an entire iron forging plant, and realized a certain degree of assembly line.

The only problem is that there is only one worker here, and that is himself.

Back to the topic.

With such a vast space and so many things, it would be easy to trap a Taoist priest like Baisun.

Now that he has awakened new abilities, it is time to better utilize Taoist Baisun's strength.

Perhaps we can consider awakening Taoist Baisun and restoring his body to its peak state.

Moreover, after this period of time, the Sui forces that had come to Wudang Mountain to celebrate Zhou Ming's birthday had brought back the marks left on them by Zhou Ming to the Sui Kingdom, and gradually spread them.

It’s time for Zhou Ming to send a projection over to explore the secret of immortality.

Although his ultimate ideal is still the Dragon God Art.

But it was not written on the Jade Plate Heavenly Book.

So for now, the Art of Immortality is his first choice.

The second is the Qin Dynasty's Taoism, Yin-Yang School, and those mysterious martial arts.

But for now, Zhou Ming has not yet thought of a way to wake up Taoist Baisun.

"Perhaps we could try throwing him into a blast furnace. In a life-or-death situation, as a Grandmaster, he should be able to sense the danger and wake up, right?"

Zhou Ming fixed his eyes on several steel blast furnaces in the space and thought to himself.

"Huh? That's right!"

Suddenly, an idea struck him, and he thought, "If a handful of sand in a cup can be considered a whole, then a furnace of molten iron can also be considered a whole, right?"

Zhou Ming immediately projected a furnace of molten iron onto the sword in his hand.

It worked!
A temperature of over a thousand degrees instantly erupted from the sword, making the surroundings extremely hot.

Fortunately, he controlled the projection in advance and avoided the damage to himself caused by the high temperature.

When the sword was inserted into the ground, the sand on the ground immediately turned charred at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Hahaha……"

Zhou Ming laughed heartily: "There are so many magical weapons in this world, but which one can compare to my thousand-degree high-temperature sword!"

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration came to him.

He canceled the projection, controlled the mechanical lathe in the portable space, and forged a new sword in just a few minutes.

Made of mahogany, the square deep red hilt and the scarlet sword body look extremely bright!
Overlapping projections!

"Hahaha... Fire Dance Whirlwind Sword Technique!"

Zhou Ming then used the Quanzhen sword technique. The sword danced, red light shone, and the scorching heat swept in all directions with his movements.

The last sword energy burst out, and it actually burned directly and flew into the sea.

Water vapor is rising!

(End of this chapter)