The Great Qin: Starting with marrying Jingni, I began my quest for immortality.

Even so, Ru Shuang did not relax.

Even though Jiang Chuan had a high opinion of the King of Qin, and he explained that he had received divine revelation and knew a lot about the future, so he could be sure that the King of Qin had a bright future, for Ru Shuang, that was still a matter for the future. Before those things happened, she was actually at a loss.

Especially since the King of Qin was in a really bad situation at the time.

Not only was he in a difficult situation in Qin, but after leaving Qin and arriving in Xinzheng, he was also assassinated by the Luo Wang organization.

It wasn't until now, after learning about the latest situation in the Qin state from Jiang Chuan, that I understood.

Just then, Ru Shuang felt a sense of relief, as if she had finally seen the light at the end of the tunnel.

"Of course, although the King of Qin has made a promise to us, we cannot place all our hopes on him. In Xinzheng, we must also strive to improve our own strength. Only by being strong enough can we be fearless," Jiang Chuan added.

Ru Shuang nodded gently.

The last man in the straw raincoat surrendered.

Jiang Chuan, posing as Bai Yifei, completely took over everything concerning Ji Wuye.

He manipulated both the South Korean military and the night.

After acquiring everything from Ji Wuye, he also learned many secrets that only Ji Wuye knew.

"Ji Wuye, you are truly a traitor to the nation!"

After reviewing the account books, Jiang Chuan uttered this remark.

Previously, he was a rising star in the Nightfall organization, replacing Emerald Tiger, and was in charge of managing Ji Wuye's finances. Naturally, he knew a lot about Ji Wuye's businesses and thought that was all. But now, after taking over everything from Ji Wuye, Jiang Chuan realized that his vision was too narrow.

Ji Wuye has held immense power in the Korean court for decades; how could he possibly only have a small amount of business under his control?

His hand went directly into South Korea's tax system.

A large portion of South Korea's taxes ended up in Ji Wuye's pocket.

You have to understand, this is a country's tax revenue, and it's not a small amount.

Even so, Ji Wuye was still not satisfied and even set his sights on the border army's pay.

After reviewing the account books, Jiang Chuan felt even more strongly that Ji Wuye deserved to die.

Of course, now that he has taken over everything from Ji Wuye, he obviously cannot continue to stop such behavior.

South Korea doesn't know how many more years it can hold out, so it must seize the time, use the resources of the entire nation to support itself, and strive to improve its strength.

After putting down the ledger, Jiang Chuan picked up a scroll of animal hide illustrations. It was a manual for body tempering, and Ji Wuye had used this manual to become a master of external martial arts.

Chapter 172 External Kung Fu is not truly external, and internal Kung Fu is not truly internal!

Ji Wuye's external martial arts techniques have nothing to do with the Armored Sect, although the Armored Sect's external martial arts are indeed very powerful.

However, the fact that the Armored Sect's external martial arts are powerful does not mean that there are no external martial arts techniques in the world that can rival them.

Ultimately, all paths lead to the same goal. In the cultivation of external martial arts, besides honing one's physique, the most important thing is some secret medicinal formulas. Through unique medicinal formulas, one can take medicinal baths to improve the body's resilience. Then, through further cultivation, one can gradually make one's physique comparable to armor.

In external martial arts practice, the distinction between whether one has reached the innate realm lies in whether one has generated vital energy.

Unlike internal energy cultivation, which connects the bridge between heaven and earth and draws upon the power of heaven and earth with one's own internal strength, external energy cultivation is based on innate qi.

This is a power that exists within the body, or more precisely, a power that exists within the blood.

Internal strength is the power drawn from the outside, the power sought from the heavens and earth. External strength, though called external strength, is actually the power discovered from within one's own body.

Upon closer reflection, Jiang Chuan found it quite interesting.

Internal strength is not internal, and external strength is not external.

Of course, all of this happens after one reaches the innate stage.

Moreover, although it is called internal skill, it is not truly internal. Internal strength does exist within the body. External skill is not truly external, but in the process of practicing the 310 external skills, there is also a process of using the power of heaven and earth to temper the body.

All I can say is that, regardless of the cultivation method, in the end, one must connect with heaven and earth and with oneself.

Especially when breaking through from the Grandmaster realm to the Great Grandmaster realm, there are three major hurdles: seeing the world, seeing all living beings, and seeing oneself.

Seeing the heavens and earth is to understand the way of the heavens and earth; seeing all living beings is to understand the myriad aspects of the mortal world; seeing oneself is to understand one's own path.

However, all of this has little to do with Jiangchuan at present.

He's just a weakling in the late stage of innate deficiency.

Now that he has taken over the General's Mansion and become the Great General of Han under the name Bai Yifei, he naturally has to take advantage of this opportunity to improve himself. In fact, it has been a long time since he has improved his strength.

First, he read through Ji Wuye's body-refining techniques, and then he began to read through the other manuals.

Ji Wuye possessed far more than just a single body-refining technique.

Night fell over Korea. Ji Wuye, ambitious and having collected many secret manuals, could send them to Jiang Chuan with a single command.

Jiang Chuan was well aware of the nature of his cheat ability. For him, no matter how complex the martial arts manual was, as long as it involved techniques, he could quickly master it with the help of his cheat ability.

Of course, some martial arts, even if mastered, are difficult to use because they have strict requirements on internal strength and realm.

Even so, Jiang Chuan didn't mind learning more techniques and methods. As the saying goes, one can learn by analogy. By mastering more similar techniques, he could extract their essence and discard their dross, and then innovate.

Time passed, day after day.

Xinzheng City remains under martial law.

Unfortunately, Wei Zhuang, the murderer of the former general, has still not been brought to justice.

However, the martial law imposed on the city was merely a formality.

At least in the eyes of many ministers in South Korea, Bai Yifei, the new Grand General, did not seem to have any intention of avenging the former Grand General Ji Wuye, because after taking over the General's Mansion, Bai Yifei stayed at home all day and no one knew what he was doing.

This is quite in line with Bai Yifei's past personality, because in the past, Bai Yifei was a reclusive person.

But King Han, who was in the palace, did not think so.

In the eyes of the King of Han, Bai Yifei's eccentric personality was not a good thing.

Because of his withdrawn personality and the lack of relatives, Bai Yifei naturally had no one he cared about.

Now that Ji Wuye is dead, Bai Yifei is the only general that Han can rely on. We must make sure that Bai Yifei is treated with more human touch.

Therefore, on this day, the King of Han issued an imperial edict.

"Since Marquis Bai Yi has not only made great contributions, but is now the descendant of a great general, he has been working diligently to protect the state of Han. Considering that Marquis Bai Yi is all alone, we hereby bestow Princess Honglian upon him in marriage, and the wedding will take place on a chosen date!"

The specific imperial edict was certainly not of this format, but the meaning was roughly the same.

When this imperial edict was issued, the entire court was shocked.

No one expected that not long after the funeral of Ji Wuye and his son ended, the King of Han would once again bestow a marriage upon them.

How did Ji Wuye and his son die?

It was because the King of Han betrothed Princess Honglian to Ji Yihu that so much turmoil arose. In order to prevent Princess Honglian from marrying Ji Yihu, Wei Zhuang took action and killed Ji Yihu.

Afterwards, Ji Wuye concluded that Han Fei and Zhang Kaidi had instigated Wei Zhuang to do it, and arrested the two men. However, he did not expect that this would bring disaster upon himself.

Wei Zhuang struck again and killed Ji Wuye as well.

Although some speculate that Ji Wuye's death may be related to Xueyi Hou Bai Yifei, since Bai Yifei was the biggest beneficiary.

However, most people still believe that the deaths of Ji Wuye and his son were caused by Wei Zhuang, and the cause was Princess Honglian's marriage to Ji Yihu.

Similarly, it was because of this incident.

Han Fei and Zhang Kaidi have not been released to this day.

Although there is no evidence to prove that they instructed Wei Zhuang, they are highly suspected.

Even if the King of Han couldn't convict them, he couldn't release them before the mastermind, Wei Zhuang, was executed.

This time, King Han is once again preparing to marry Princess Honglian, which makes people wonder if King Han wants to kill Bai Yifei.

Princess Honglian is a jinx!

She was responsible for the deaths of Ji Wuye and his son.

However, only a few people think this way.

However, many people began to ponder the political implications of it.

This question is not hard to guess; the King of Han's purpose is very simple.

Bai Yifei was a loner, had no relatives or friends, and was the only one left in the Bai family.

If Princess Honglian is married to him, Bai Yifei will become the son-in-law of the King of Han.

King Han could now more confidently rely on Bai Yifei.

In fact, marrying Princess Honglian to Bai Yifei would bring even more benefits than marrying her to Ji Yihu.

Chapter 173 The Powerlessness of Quicksand

"It's all about power politics!"

"In order to consolidate his position, he did not hesitate to give away his own daughter to others time and time again. Is this what it means to be an emperor? Is this what it means to be a lonely ruler?"

As Princess Honglian was once again betrothed, Zhang Liang couldn't help but sigh in the Zhang residence.

Zhang Kaidi has not yet been released.