Volume 1: First Arrival at Longevity Chapter 139: Ye Chen's Plan

  "Hmph! Arrogant!" The general sneered, "Your Haxi tribe isn't just relying on the Wolf Beast's backing, is it? I'd like to see what makes your Haxi tribe's Wolf Cavalry so formidable!"

  "Hey, General Valoric. Your Valoric Guard's combat strength is indeed not low, but in front of the Wolf Riders, it's like paper paste, unable to withstand a single blow. In my opinion as an envoy, it's you who are arrogant!" Haot said disdainfully.

  "This general will first behead you, then annihilate your Wolf Cavalry Regiment!" The brave general was enraged, and at this moment, he had already moved to kill.

  "Clang!"

  The sword flashed out of its scabbard, a cold light flashing by, and a burst of murderous energy surged out from the battle-scarred battlefield.

  "General, no!" Blue Rain King intervened and stopped General Xiaoyong, saying: "We won't behead the messenger, let's throw him out instead."

  "Yes, Your Majesty!" General Xiong grabbed the Khachar envoy with one hand and lifted him up like a small chicken, took big strides to walk out of the main hall, and threw him several meters away with a loud crash, knocking him blue in the face.

  "Blue Rain King, you will regret this! In no time, my Ha Chee army will be at your gates!" The Ha Chee envoy scrambled to his feet and spoke hatefully before quickly departing.

  In the great hall.

  "Father King, I didn't expect that because of me, disaster would be brought upon the people of the Blue Rain Tribe." Hou Yu said with some self-blame.

  "Eh, you are my daughter, the princess of the Blue Rain tribe, and more importantly, you are the Holy Girl of the Blue Rain tribe. The Blue Rain tribe will not allow anyone to desecrate you, even if it means using all our strength to protect you." The Blue Rain King said, but the deep-seated worry hidden in his eyebrows was seen by Hou Yu.

  "Princess, you are the faith of our Blue Rain tribe's tens of millions of people. Even if we exhaust every last drop of blood from our Blue Rain tribe, no one will be allowed to desecrate you!" The group of high-ranking officials and several generals in the grand hall said.

  "Thank you, but I don't want to be the sinner of the Blue Rain Clan. I won't let millions of Blue Rain Clan members shed blood because of me." Hou Yu shook his head.

  "Princess, you mustn't think that way. The Ha Zhe tribe's wolf cavalry is not as fearsome as all that, my Rui Xiong army will definitely defeat them and keep you safe, keeping the Blue Rain tribe at peace!" General Rui Xiong said with a loud clang, kneeling on one knee.

  "General Xiong is right." Blue Rain King nodded, looking at Hou Yu and said: "Yu'er, don't worry, if the Halahe tribe really comes to offend us, the Xiong army will definitely be able to defeat them."

  "Alright, let's wait until General Xiong and the wolf cavalry of the Hei tribe clash, I hope General Xiong can defeat them and protect the millions of people of the Blue Rain tribe." Yu said with a nod.

  "Your Majesty, Princess, the Brave Troop will not let you down. I'll go and deploy the troops now to strengthen the defense of Blue Rain City!" The Brave General said as he took big strides out of the grand hall.

  "You all go down, each to their own duties. The military generals will assist General Xiong in strengthening the city's defenses and repairing war equipment. Dismissed!" King Lan Yu waved his hand and stood up to leave. Hou Yu followed behind King Lan Yu and disappeared into the great hall, and the other ministers also left one after another.

  In the study of Lan Yu Wang's residence, Lan Yu Wang turned around and looked at Hou Yu, saying: "Yu Er, is it true that a mysterious stranger has taken up residence in your Ting Yu Xuan?"

  "After a moment of shock, he nodded and said: 'Your Majesty, how did you know?'"

  "What can be hidden from my eyes within this palace!" Blue Rain King said with a hint of anger.

  "Father King, don't be angry. Ye Chen is not of unknown origin, and due to special circumstances, I must let him stay in Tingyu Pavilion." Hou Yu explained.

  "I'm not angry, can I be angry?" Blue Rain Wang looked at Hou Yu and said in a low voice: "You are the princess, you are the holy girl, with a stranger living in your Tingyu Pavilion, what kind of thing is this? If it gets out, how will we deal with it?"

  "Saintly girl! Hehe, Father King, do you know that this saintly girl has taken away my daughter's breath, and the name of this saintly girl has deprived my daughter of her right to happiness..." Hou Yu said with a complex expression.

  "Yu'er!" Blue Rain King's eyes were blazing as he stared at Hou Yu, and it wasn't until after a long while that he spoke: "You never had such thoughts before, but now... you, have you taken a liking to that little brat?"

  "No." Yu Hou denied, locking eyes with Lan Yu Wang, saying: "Everyone has the right to pursue happiness, but I don't!"

  "Yu'er, you do have the right to pursue happiness. If one day your bloodline awakens, all pressures will disappear, and then you can pursue happiness in any way you want." Lan Yu Wang comforted.

  "Bloodline awakening?" Yu Yu smiled bleakly and said, "The Blue Rain Clan has had countless generations of saintesses since ancient times. By the time it got to me, it was already tens of thousands of generations. But how many have awakened that so-called bloodline? A few thousand years ago, one generation of saintess did awaken, but the bloodline she awakened was too weak. So wanting to awaken the bloodline spoken of in our ancestral records is definitely an impossible task. Am I also destined to spend this life as lonely as all the previous generations of saintesses?"

  "Yu'er, this is the mission of our Blue Rain Clan's existence." The Blue Rain King shook his head and sighed, he also knew how slim the hope was to awaken that bloodline.

  "Father, I only hope you won't interfere with the matters between me and Ye Chen. In two months, his remaining poison will be cleared and he'll leave. For these two months, I hope Father can let me and him spend it peacefully."

  "Alright, I'll agree to your terms, and won't interfere with your affairs," King Lan Yu sighed.

  "My daughter thanks you, Your Majesty."

  Hou Yu left Blue Rain King's study and walked quickly back to Tingyu Pavilion.

  Arriving at the small woods, Ye Chen was sitting by the lake, lost in thought. Looking at his back, Hou Yu's eyes flickered with a hint of confusion. She quietly walked to his side and sat down, saying: "You're so deep in thought, what are you thinking about?"

  "Nothing." Ye Chen came back to his senses, shook his head and said: "What happened when your father called you?"

  "My father must have thought of me, so he called me over; what could it be about?" Hou Yu smiled and said.

  "You deceived me." Ye Chen said calmly, his eyes falling on the lake surface.

  "After 'I...' a flash of panic flickered in her eyes, 'I didn't deceive you, really nothing's wrong.'"

  "I heard everything." Ye Chen shook his head and said in a low voice, "Just now when I was cultivating, my divine sense spread out and unexpectedly overheard your conversation in the great hall."

  "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to deceive you. You're not a member of the Blue Rain tribe, and I don't want you to worry about the affairs of the Blue Rain tribe."

  Ye Chen turned his head and looked at Hou Yu, "You saved my life, I have no way to repay you. If the Blue Rain Clan is in trouble, how can I stand by and do nothing!"

  "Ye Chen, I know you're very powerful, but the Ha Chi tribe has tens of millions of soldiers, among whom are not a few powerful warriors from the Secret Realm of Fate. Your strength alone cannot change anything!" Hou Yu shook his head.

  Ye Chen's eyes sparkled as he looked at Hou Yu, saying: "What did you mean by what you said in the grand hall? Don't you want to be a sinner of the Blue Rain Tribe? Is it that you have thoughts of marrying into their family in your heart? In times of crisis, would you rather sacrifice yourself to marry that Hamontor Prince just to save the Blue Rain Tribe?"

  After the rain, he shifted his gaze elsewhere, not daring to meet Ye Chen's eyes. He said helplessly: "If my Blue Rain tribe's cavalry is no match for the Ha Chi tribe's wolf riders, when the time comes and Blue Rain City falls, it will be a river of blood. I cannot watch my people being slaughtered, and an alliance by marriage is the only way."

  "Hou Yu, do you know that you shouldn't bear all this alone. Don't worry, with me here, even if the Ha Chi tribe has an army of a million, what's there to fear?!" Ye Chen said confidently, his eyes flashing with intense killing intent. "Hou Yu, find me 1,000 soldiers in the army who are above the seventh rank, bring them here tomorrow, and one month later I will help the Lan Yu tribe defeat the Ha Chi tribe!"

  "A thousand soldiers above the seventh rank?" Hou Yu didn't understand what Ye Chen was going to do, but looking at his confident eyes, he finally nodded, "I agree with you."

  "Also, bring me a thousand soldiers skilled in engineering. I have great use for them." Ye Chen said again.

  "Alright, I'll bring someone tomorrow. Now I'll personally go give you some people." Yu Nian then nodded and stood up to leave.

  After Yu Zou left, Ye Chen let Xiao Qi call some servants and set up a training ground on a large empty space by the lake.

  This training ground was several miles in size, and on the edge of the field, Ye Chen had set up thousands of targets, each with a steel plate the size of a face mask and five millimeters thick.

  Having done all this, Ye Chen returned to the west wing room and let servant girl Xiao Qi grind ink. He then spread out a piece of Xuan paper and painted an arch shape with a brush. Xiao Qi watched from the side, her mouth wide open in surprise.

  "Yè dàgē, what kind of bow are you drawing? Xiao Qi has never seen a bow like this before." Little Seven asked curiously.

  "This is a composite bow, a type of bow from our hometown. It's light to hold and easy to control, and its power far surpasses that of an ordinary bow." Ye Chen explained as he drew.

  "Is it really that amazing?" Xiao Qi's eyes were filled with curiosity.

  Ye Chen drew the shape of a composite bow with each part labeled with its manufacturing principle, and then drew the shape of an arrow on another piece of rice paper. The arrowhead was very peculiar, which Xiao Qi had never seen before. Ordinary arrowheads are rhombus-shaped, while Ye Chen's drawing was spiral-shaped.

  Not bad, the arrow drawn by Ye Chen is indeed spiral in shape, similar to that of a drill. With this kind of arrow and special shooting techniques, the rotating arrow can have a terrifying penetrating power.

  He had previously heard from those lower-ranking mouths about the ferocity of the Hachi tribe's Wolf Cavalry Regiment, which was originally a heavy infantry unit. They wore thick armor that was unmatched in weight, and their shields were four inches thick. Ordinary swords, guns, and arrows couldn't penetrate them at all. And after having wolves as mounts, they became even more fiercely powerful.

  Ye Chen's designed composite bow, with spiral arrowheads on the arrows and the torsion string shooting method he was about to teach, would be a nightmare for the wolf cavalry. However, this also required good materials to make bows and arrows, and the Black Chen wood in Ye Chen's storage bag could probably make over a thousand sets of bows and arrows.

  These thousands of bows and arrows are obviously unrealistic to counter the hundreds of thousands of wolf riders of the Hachi tribe, but Ye Chen is not worried. With a thousand archers holding the Black Arrow Bow, a distance of 2,000 meters can inflict heavy casualties on the wolf cavalry, and the Hachi tribe cannot deploy all its wolf cavalry at once either.