Douluo: The Son of Martial Soul, Deceiving All the Women

Chapter 305 Was it because I didn't embezzle enough?

The next day, after spending the night with everyone and sending them off to Tianhuo Academy, Baiyu went into seclusion to heal her injuries.

This time, it was the longest period of seclusion since Baiyu was born, lasting for almost a year.

Before this, he didn't even need to do his own cultivation, so naturally he didn't need to go into seclusion for long.

During his seclusion, the war between Tian Dou and Xing Luo continued in full swing. As expected, Xing Luo, which was being suppressed, launched a surprise attack.

Using their reduced forces, they concentrated millions of troops and set off from the Starry Sky Kingdom, crossing the right border of the Starry Sky Great Forest and heading straight into the Ancient Lei Kingdom, which belonged to the Heavenly Dou Kingdom.

In no time, the Star Dou army rampaged through the territory of the Ancient Lei Kingdom, almost destroying the capital.

Fortunately, Xingluo only wanted to use the Gulei Kingdom as a route to directly attack Tiandou; otherwise, the Gulei Kingdom would definitely have been the first Tiandou vassal state to be destroyed since the start of the war.

However, Xingluo's rapid advance did not last long. Qian Renxue, who had been prepared for this, had already stationed a surprise force within the Tiandou territory.

Upon receiving intelligence that Xingluo was attacking the Kingdom of Gulei, Qian Renxue immediately mobilized this surprise force.

Ultimately, they intercepted Xingluo's army of millions at the border between the Gulei Kingdom and the Tiandou Empire.

Meanwhile, Qian Renxue secretly mobilized manpower on various front lines to launch a flank attack on the Gulei Kingdom, intending to completely cut off the rear of Xingluo's millions of troops.

Unfortunately, due to a shortage of manpower, nearly half of these millions of people left.

After all, Xingluo gave up a lot of territory in order to gather these people, and with less territory, the defensive area will be smaller, and the number of people needed will also be smaller.

However, this wouldn't work for Tian Dou, because uprisings frequently occurred in the newly occupied territories, so there simply weren't enough manpower available on the front lines to encircle the Xingluo army.

As a result, most of the Xingluo people fled back to their homeland to continue their defense, while the Tiandou people also returned to their respective homes and went back to the battlefield they had been fighting on.

Only the Kingdom of Gulei suffered a major blow; a war caused nearly 70 percent of the civilians in the territory to flee.

Forty percent of them were taken over by the Heavenly Dou Empire.

Looking at his kingdom territory reduced to ruins, the king of the Kingdom of Gure almost fainted from crying in the toilet.

After this surprise attack failed, Xingluo changed its tactics, no longer retreating, but instead began to put up a fierce resistance.

After all, if they keep retreating like this, they'll eventually have to retreat all the way to Xingluo City.

At this time, family factions within both countries also began to get involved.

They either followed the trend of Tian Dou, hoping to reap the benefits after Xing Luo's destruction, or they wanted to take advantage of the situation and gamble on Xing Luo's ability to turn the tide.

After all, they've been observing for so long, and they've figured it out.

Although the Spirit Hall supported the Heaven Dou Alliance, it wasn't a full-fledged support; it was entirely based on burning money.

Therefore, the forces that dared to step in at this time to help Xingluo were all gambling that Tiandou didn't have that much money to burn.

But what they didn't know was that the so-called "burning money" was only on the surface.

After two years of chaotic fighting, coupled with the cooperation between Qian Renxue and Bibi Dong, it was all intentional.

At this point, the Spirit Hall personnel on the battlefield were in complete disarray, and no reliable records were kept.

Therefore, the exact number of people the Spirit Hall sent was entirely up to Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue. The records clearly stated one hundred, but on the battlefield, it was a thousand! What? Where did the other nine hundred come from? Are you dumbfounded? Those were clearly the leftovers from before!

With Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue deceiving both sides, the number of Spirit Hall personnel on the battlefield increased with each battle.

This left Marshal Goron, who was commanding from the front lines, somewhat bewildered.

Whenever the night is quiet, I wonder to myself, does the empire have that much money? Did they go too easy on me when they were embezzling all these years?

……

Nearly a year has passed since Baiyu went into seclusion.

On this day, the secret chamber door of the Heavenly Dou Imperial Palace opened once again, and Bai Yu, whose injuries had been completely healed, walked out from it.

Having not seen sunlight for a long time, he shielded his eyes with his hand and took a satisfied breath.

Then Baiyu snapped his fingers, and a curtain of water appeared, sweeping over his body and washing away the dust and grime. After sensing Qian Renxue's location, he vanished.

When he arrived at a side hall of the Heavenly Dou Imperial Palace, he saw Qian Renxue engrossed in her work and couldn't help but sigh in admiration.

This guy is really a workaholic. Most people couldn't stand this kind of boring and tedious work. He experienced it in Wuhun City for more than a year and couldn't help but want to run away.

So, don't be fooled by the high power of the emperor's job; they actually had a lot of work to do. Unless you were a tyrannical ruler, you would be exhausted every day.

"It's been a long time, my little angel. Has anything major happened outside while I was in seclusion?"

Qian Renxue, who was processing the memorials, suddenly heard Bai Yu's voice. She paused in her work and looked up with a hint of surprise in her eyes.

During Baiyu's seclusion, she was able to maintain a calm attitude for the first two months, but as time went on, she began to worry.

So much so that she would go to the entrance of the secret room almost every day to check on Baiyu's condition, fearing that he might suddenly die.

If she hadn't been able to sense that the white fish's life fluctuations were very stable, she would have wanted to break down the door and enter, since this had been going on for quite a while.

Then Qian Renxue put down the memorial in her hand, got up and came to Bai Yu's side, scanning him up, down, left and right.

"Your injuries have healed? How come you've been in seclusion for so long? Didn't you say you could come out anytime?"

Upon hearing Qian Renxue's question, Bai Yu smiled, reached out and hugged Qian Renxue, then sat down on a chair nearby.

Qian Renxue naturally wouldn't stand for Baiyu's little tricks, after all, she hadn't come to terms with Baiyu and Bibi Dong's relationship yet.

Therefore, Qian Renxue was like a pig about to celebrate the New Year, constantly struggling in Baiyu's arms.

Bai Yu naturally ignored Qian Renxue's struggles. After all, things were different now than they were back then. Qian Renxue was furious back then, and no amount of coaxing would work; in fact, it would only make things worse.

But now so much time has passed, and we've used every trick in the book; it's time to take the initiative.

We can't just wait for Qian Renxue to come and throw herself into our arms, can we?
That's impossible to even think about. If we don't take advantage of this injury to deal with Qian Renxue, it will only get harder and harder in the future.

Then Bai Yu rested her chin on Qian Renxue's shoulder, and said with a smile in her voice:
"What? You're worried about me? Don't worry, this little injury won't kill me."

(End of this chapter)