Please be my partner.

Just when the atmosphere was about to reach freezing point, the Ninth Prince's voice came from the room: "It's Xiaoqu, come in."

Gongyang Qu glared fiercely at the guarding Yuelang Army, then carefully opened the door and walked in respectfully.

When the door was closed, isolating the inside and outside, Gongyang Qu knelt on the ground and reported: "Your Majesty, the Fengshan ceremony is ready."

The Ninth Prince was a handsome young man, showing none of the brutality of battlefield life. Instead, he exuded a gentle nobility. He held a scroll in his hands and said with a casual "hmm," "Then we'll conduct the Fengshan ceremony tomorrow morning."

Gong Yangqu hesitated for a moment. He turned back, as if to confirm whether the door was closed tightly. Then he knelt down and approached the Ninth Prince, whispering, "Master, do you really want to... perform the Fengshan ceremony?"

The Ninth Prince glanced at Gongyang Qu. Although his eyes were calm, Gongyang Qu was frightened and broke out in a cold sweat. He immediately knocked his head heavily to the ground.

The Ninth Prince closed the scroll in his hands and seemed to let out a silent sigh. His eyes seemed to peer through the room and see the invincible Moon Wolf Army outside. He said softly, "What can we do now? Others may not know, but don't you? From the very beginning, I had no choice."

Gong Yangqu's eyes turned fierce, and he kowtowed three times, saying firmly, "Master, if you give the order, I will do it even if it means sacrificing my own life."

A hint of tenderness flashed across the Ninth Prince's eyes as he looked at Gongyang Qu. He naturally knew what Gongyang Qu meant. It was nothing more than the 100,000 elite soldiers at the foot of Dayu Mountain.

but……

The Ninth Prince's eyes suddenly turned cold, and he casually picked up the inkstone on the table and smashed it at Gong Yangqu. Although the latter had excellent martial arts skills, he did not dare to dodge at all, and even restrained his blood and qi, actively reducing his own defense.

Suddenly, the inkstone made by the famous artist was broken into pieces, and Gongyang Qu's head was also beaten to a bloody mess. Ink drops were spilled, and the red and black were mixed together, making him look quite embarrassed.

The Ninth Prince said indifferently, "Go get ten lashes later."

Gongyang Qu responded immediately.

After a moment's silence, the Ninth Prince asked, "Has everything been arranged for Concubine Hua?"

Gong Yangqu said succinctly, "Your Majesty, everything has been arranged."

The Ninth Prince nodded slightly, then waved his hand, and Gongyang Qu respectfully withdrew.

Concubine Hua is the granddaughter of General Meng. Marrying Concubine Hua was one of the key factors in the Ninth Prince's ability to integrate military forces so quickly. Now Concubine Hua is pregnant with a dragon seed, and through secret investigations, it has been confirmed that it is a prince.

To be on the safe side, the Ninth Prince made arrangements in advance, so that even if something happened to him, his bloodline could grow smoothly under the protection of General Meng. At most, it was just because his in-laws were powerful.

The Ninth Prince gazed at the birds in the treetops outside the window, gradually lost in thought, muttering to himself, "My father hates me, my brother is wary of me, and the mysterious man treats me like a chess piece. Do I have any choice?"

The next day, the Fengshan ceremony officially began.

However, this Fengshan ceremony was different from previous ones. In addition to the regular rituals, many special ceremonies were added.

This was the only condition the mysterious man put forward when he agreed to help the Ninth Prince gain supreme power.

Today, Datian is the only empire in the world, and the ninth prince Tian Feng is the emperor of the Datian Empire. It is not an exaggeration to say that he is the protagonist of this world. His every word and action gathers the destiny of humanity, and to some extent, is enough to affect the operation of the world itself.

When the Ninth Prince, as the Lord of the Datian Empire, appointed Melen as his Imperial Master and promised that Melen and his subordinates would be able to move freely in the current world...

The heaven and earth are in sync. In the current world, the exclusive rules of the mountain and sea world itself have undergone some changes, causing unusual changes in the celestial phenomena.

The rolling thunderclouds gathered, as if to annihilate the new rules, but with the blessing of the humanitarian power of the Datian Empire, this new rule survived tenaciously, and quickly took root and grew vigorously.

Everyone was shocked, and the Ninth Prince evacuated quickly under the protection of his guards. But what was strange was that the Moon Wolf Army, which used to have at least a hundred men guarding the Ninth Prince closely, now all stayed on the top of Dayu Mountain.

"Ouch!~"

As the first wolf howl sounded, more and more wolf howls followed.

Under the horrified gaze of the crowd, the three hundred Moon Wolf soldiers actually grew sharp fangs and claws and transformed into werewolves.

Strands of moonlight rose from the Moon Wolf Army, condensing into a bright moon in the sky. Above the moon, a silhouette of a giant wolf suddenly appeared, and its long howl resounded throughout the world.

“Ah!~Woo!~”

Above the bright moon, countless silver threads slid down like a river bursting its banks, but if you look closely, you will find that each of these threads is a giant silver wolf.

Everyone who saw this scene fell into panic.

Including the Ninth Prince who created all this.

The rules belonging to the 'wolf' grew rapidly, slowly overwhelming the resistance of the world itself.

Thus, the offense and defense were reversed.

At the same time, similar things are happening in more than one-tenth of the worlds in the entire Mountain and Sea Realm community.

This is enough to slightly shake the foundation of the rules of the Mountain and Sea Realm!

Chapter 581 Dilemma and Choice

Transforming the world of mountains and seas is a war!

This was a clear understanding that Mellen had from the beginning, so his plan never included fighting alone. His previous actions alone to stir up trouble were just to make some quick arrangements while the Mountain and Sea Realm was still not reacting.

Now, the struggle between Melen and the Mountain and Sea Realm has entered the middle stage, and it is time to reveal the cards and show the fangs.

There are a total of three thousand large, medium and small worlds in the Mountain and Sea Realm community. Now, nearly one-tenth of the worlds have encountered changes. Not only have they recognized Mellen and his subordinates at the rule level, creating a contradiction in the rules, but they have also used the power of the world itself to open a portal, and a steady stream of wolfhound armies have been summoned.

With the help of these three hundred worlds as a fulcrum, the dogs turned into torrents and began to invade other worlds.

It's just that the dogs' invasion is to spread Mellen's rules and accelerate the transformation of the mountain and sea world, so the main goal is to infect the wolfdog species in the invaded world, and the secondary goal is to transform other excellent tribes into dogs. Usually, they will only launch a fierce counterattack when they are attacked.

Of course, this is not because Melen is soft-hearted. War is not a game. People will die.

However, Melen's goal is to transform the Mountain and Sea Realm. In this process, he naturally has to reduce the resistance of the Mountain and Sea Realm as much as possible and unite all forces that can be united.

Wantonly slaughtering life in the mountain and sea realm is undoubtedly contrary to the right path, so of course it should be avoided as much as possible.

It is actually a technical job to suppress the Mountain and Sea Realm while not provoking excessive resistance from the Mountain and Sea Realm.

As numerous dogs spread throughout the mountain and sea communities, hundreds of worlds were invaded in just a few days.

These invaded worlds are mainly small worlds. Because their own extraordinary upper limit is very low, many of them have reached the top of the legend level. There are no saint-level existences at all, and they are easily conquered by the dogs.

Under absolute force, it is easy to gather a large number of traitors. Afterwards, the dogs implemented a high-pressure system in the ruled area where they had to work three days a week, four hours a day, and could only drink a glass of milk at noon. Each meal consisted of three meat dishes, three vegetable dishes and one soup, and they only had two months of paid annual leave each year.

For those who are disobedient, they will be punished by being forced to comb the dog's hair.

Under this "cruel" management, the cattle and horses soon became obedient.

The turmoil in the periphery soon attracted the attention of the four forces in the Mountain and Sea Realm. After several days of investigation, they confirmed the seriousness of the matter.

After all, before this, the Mountain and Sea Realm was a secluded place with almost no outsiders.

And now, those wolf-like monsters that appeared inexplicably are undoubtedly outsiders.

Although they were puzzled by the actions of these wolf-like monsters, they knew without thinking that it would definitely not be a good thing for them, so they should stop them first.

Of course, while understanding this, the four forces did not take the attacking wolf-like monsters seriously.

After all, what has fallen so far are only some weak peripheral worlds.

After all, the four forces have a deep foundation, and there are endless semi-immortal strongmen. Even if they have the means to resist the true immortals, they are not without them.

After all, this is the world of mountains and seas!

However, the news from the outside world soon slapped the faces of the four forces. The reinforcements they sent not only failed to recapture the occupied world, but also fled back in embarrassment.

According to the reinforcements, the invading wolf-like monsters are much stronger than they appear. More importantly, when the reinforcements arrived at the invaded world, they actually felt that the world was suppressing and rejecting them, which was a bit scary.

You must know that due to the particularity of the rules of the Mountain and Sea Realm, it has formed a self-contained cycle and will naturally reject rules outside the Mountain and Sea Realm community. This is not only felt by the strong people in the Mountain and Sea Realm, but also clearly recorded in relevant ancient books. It was said by the two True Immortals of Creation themselves, and it cannot be false.

But now, those worlds invaded by foreign wolf-like monsters not only did not reject these invaders, but instead suppressed these "locals"?!

As a result, a second, larger rescue team was quickly formed and set off.

For this reason, the intensity of the attack on Jinding Mountain was even slightly reduced.

This second batch of reinforcements included many wolf demons from the demon clan, in order to see if they could discover some key information about the invaders.

Unfortunately, half a month later, the second batch of reinforcements also returned in disgrace, and the danger posed by the invaders increased again. Even the three semi-immortals in the reinforcements were repelled by the invaders.

Among them, the wolf demon half-immortal almost lost his life. After returning to the mountain and sea world, he didn't care about other people's reactions and went back to his nest to recuperate without saying a word.

Now, the four forces are caught in a dilemma.

On the one hand, continuing to attack Jinding Mountain may lead to the overall corruption of the outside world. It will take them three months just to break through the outer protective formation of Jinding Mountain. There are more traps and defenses after entering Jinding Mountain. God knows how long it will take to completely capture Jinding Mountain.

What is more disturbing is that they will be rejected by the outside world.

On the other hand, if more manpower is deployed to solve the problems in the outer world, it will take a long time to clean up so many worlds one by one, and it may also ruin the good situation here.

The reason why Jinding Mountain can be blocked now is mainly due to the advantage of being the first to take the initiative and the unsparing investment of the four forces. Once they relax, Jinding Mountain will have the possibility of escaping. At that time, the four forces may not be able to work together again and spend another two years, plus huge manpower and material resources, to build another traction altar.

After a brief discussion, Emperor Huanglong and his men finally reached an agreement to continue attacking Jinding Mountain and intensify their efforts.

After all, they have invested too much sunk cost in order to break through Jinding Mountain. It would be a huge loss if they gave up. Moreover, Jinding Mountain is the place of true immortals. The interests involved are too huge. In comparison, the losses in some outside worlds are nothing. Moreover, those wolf-like monsters did not destroy or slaughter, but instead acted as if they were ruling by doing nothing, didn't they!

Melen observed the situation outside in Jinding Mountain and found that the intensity of the attacks was getting stronger day by day. He immediately understood the plans of the four forces.

Mellen was happy to see this happen and even wanted to laugh.

The four forces did blockade Jinding Mountain, causing it to lose contact with the outside world, making it impossible to replenish the consumption of the mountain protection formation.

However, this blockade cannot sever Xiao Liuli's connection with the Mountain and Sea Realm.

During this period, Xiao Liuli continued to instill the concept rule of "wolf" into the Mountain and Sea Realm. This was a change from the inside out.

The power of heaven and earth in the mountain and sea world also continued to gather through this connection. Although this part of the power of heaven and earth was a drop in the bucket compared to the throughput of the Jinding Mountain protection formation itself, it was still a supplement.

Coupled with the presence of Nasus and Xiaoyin, the formations controlled by people and those without people are completely on two different levels.

Under the precise control of Nasus and Xiaoyin, the Jinding Mountain Protection Array can exert more than 120% of its effect, while the consumption is reduced by 20%~30%.

As one side gained strength while the other lost, the Jinding Mountain protective formation could hold out for far longer than the four forces had originally expected.

For Mellen, time is on his side. As long as he delays long enough, the balance of victory will sooner or later tip over to his side.

Three months later.

The strongest people from the four forces gathered together. Among them were not only Emperor Huanglong, Lord Catastrophe and others who had besieged Mellen, but also more than a dozen others. All of them were at the top of the pyramid of the Mountain and Sea Realm.

At this moment, they who should have been dignified and composed seemed to be in a mess...

"I've already said it before, the calculations were wrong. It's absolutely impossible to break through the Jinding Mountain protective formation in three months. Who gave us that wrong data?!"

"Humph! The original calculation was definitely correct!"

"How do you explain the current situation?! The Jinding Mountain protective formation has only suffered minor damage. It will probably take another year to truly break through it! This is the result of us intensifying our offensive midway. If we had continued with the initial intensity, I would even suspect that it would have been a futile effort!"

"There must have been some unknown accident in the middle."

"..."

"Dong dong dong!~"

A white-bearded old man suddenly stretched out his fingers and tapped the air in front of him, making a dull sound. After attracting everyone's attention, he spoke slowly, "Perhaps, I know the reason."

"According to my observation, there are signs of human manipulation in the protective formation of Jinding Mountain."

A word stirred up a thousand waves.

"Impossible! That 'Hunter' is just a core disciple of Jinding Mountain. How could he possibly have the authority to control the formation?"

"That's right. According to the records left by our ancestors, although the status of a core disciple of Jinding Mountain is noble, it does not have too much authority, unless he is personally taught by the Jinding Immortal."

"The authority for daily control and maintenance of Jinding Mountain is usually in the hands of elders, guardians, deacons, and the like. Each task is coordinated by a dedicated affairs hall. Authority also means responsibility. The core disciples' main goal is to cultivate, so their authority is not high."

"..."

Emperor Huanglong suddenly shouted, "Enough! Since Old Bai said so, he must have investigated everything thoroughly. Are you questioning Old Bai's judgment?!"

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone suddenly quieted down. As the recognized number one in formation in the Mountain and Sea Realm, everyone was still convinced. The instinctive rebuttal just now was just a momentary disbelief.

Everyone focused their attention on Old Bai. Emperor Huanglong asked in a deep voice, "Old Bai, have you figured out how to crack this? Don't keep us in suspense!"

Old Bai stroked his beard slowly and said leisurely, "Please be patient, everyone. I have indeed found a solution to this problem. However, before that, I would like to ask you for a favor."

Old Bai slowly stood up, bowed to everyone, and said, "When I break the protective formation of Jinding Mountain, I hope you will not hesitate or be stingy with your methods. You should eliminate this beast with a thunderous force and save our Mountain and Sea Realm from a great disaster!"

Emperor Huanglong: "Agreed! The Hunter's actions have seriously disrupted the order of the Mountain and Sea Realm. He deserves death."

The Lord of Catastrophe: "My demonic sect and the 'Hunter' will never reconcile!"

Tianyu Divine Emperor: "That's exactly how it should be."

Changshengxian: "The evil deeds done by the 'Hunter' to the demon tribe must be settled."

After the leaders of the four forces expressed their opinions in turn, Old Bai nodded slightly, then waved his hand and summoned a chessboard out of thin air.

The chessboard is as crystal clear as jade, sparkling with brilliant light. On both sides of the chessboard, there are black and white chess pieces.

Old Bai held his beard with one hand and picked up a black chess piece with the other, placing it on the Tianyuan position without hesitation.

The chessboard is square in shape, with nineteen parallel lines written on it, forming three hundred and sixty-one intersections, the very center of which is called Tianyuan.