Pursued by the Top Grade Saintess after Engagement Annulled-Chapter 284 - 282: Secrets of the Li Huo Empire, Deployment Begins Across Two Continents

Chapter 284: Chapter 282: Secrets of the Li Huo Empire, Deployment Begins Across Two Continents

Feng Yu chuckled sarcastically after hearing this: "The Emperor’s Son is right, the Li Huo Empire has almost become an unremovable thorn in the side of the Great Li Empire."

Xia Feng sensed some gossip in the air, and with a curious expression, he spoke: "Tell me more."

Feng Yu thought for a while: "I heard it was something from the time of the fourth Emperor Li."

"He had a weak disposition, with two sons—one with extraordinary talent but unwilling to inherit the empire, and the other with mediocre talent but skilled in scheming."

Hearing this, Xia Feng couldn’t help but raise his eyebrows. How come this sounded so much like his grandfather’s experience?

Could it really be as he thought?

Feng Yu seemed to have connected the dots too, paused for a moment before continuing: "It’s a bit different from your situation."

"The fourth Emperor Li wasn’t so benighted; he passed the empire to his extraordinarily talented son, who became the fifth Emperor Li."

"The other son, unwilling to inherit a small royal city, took his followers and sailed out to sea."

Xia Feng, with a look of surprise, asked: "You mean the first Emperor Li Huo was that mediocre son?"

Feng Yu coughed lightly: "You could say that, but not exactly."

Xia Feng became even more curious: "Don’t keep me in suspense, you’re telling a story here."

With a bit of helplessness, Feng Yu had originally intended to present this secret with more allure, but Xia Feng suddenly interrupted him.

After reorganizing his words, he continued: "The first Emperor Li Huo wasn’t particularly talented, and before he reached the sea, he encountered trouble and was saved by a princess of the Vermilion Bird Empire."

"That princess was very favored and had her own fiefdom, so she returned with him."

Xia Feng coughed twice: "Even if she was favored, a princess’s fiefdom couldn’t possibly establish a new empire, right?"

Feng Yu smirked: "That’s why he was so cunning. The princess was smitten with him, but he acted unyielding and said a lot of nonsensical things."

"In the end, he insisted that the princess looked down on him, which led the princess to be so smitten that she carved out her whole fiefdom to establish a new dynasty."

"Then she made the first Emperor Li Huo the emperor, and she became the queen."

Xia Feng couldn’t help it and turned his head to cough violently.

This is too much information, he needed to let it sink in.

Feng Yu continued: "The Vermilion Bird Empire was nearly infuriated to death, but since it was only a small piece of fief, and the princess was truly favored, they turned a blind eye to it."

"However, this act left a bitter taste; the Vermilion Bird Empire once suspected it was a conspiracy by the Great Li Empire to conquer the Southern Continent."

Xia Feng nodded, thinking that if he were in their place, he would have the same suspicion: your son ended up over here and even established a Li Huo Empire, isn’t this a slap in the face? 𝑓𝑟ℯ𝘦𝓌𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝑐ℴ𝓂

Moreover, once someone becomes a Martial Sovereign, they have a long lifespan.

The fifth Emperor Li was still around, the first Emperor Li Huo was still around, and the Vermilion Bird Emperor who granted the fief was still around.

This stalemate continued.

Xia Feng unfolded the map, looked at the terrain, and his expression had some indescribable nuance.

"This princess was truly favored, the fief’s area is quite large."

Feng Yu leaned over for a look: "But you can’t look at it that way, if you ignore the coastal area, and also neglect that useless mountain range."

"Hey, looking at it this way, it’s only about the size of four or five cities, which is already small compared to the fiefs given to princes."

Xia Feng scratched his head, his gaze constantly on the Li Huo Empire, feeling a bit curious about the first Emperor Li Huo.

People from the Southern and Western Continents didn’t want Xia Feng’s kind of curiosity; they wished Xia Feng would just forget these two continents altogether.

Seeing the Eastern and Northern Continent empires, it was clear Xia Feng’s intentions were not good this time.

The empires couldn’t decide whether to surrender or unite to fight against Great Xia.

The Great Chu and Celestial Wind Empire became provinces and managed to preserve themselves intact, simply because they could see the bigger picture; knowing they couldn’t win, they joined in.

Now the leaders of these two countries were by Xia Feng’s side.

Especially Feng Yu, a Celestial Tier Ninth Layer Martial Sovereign, who was on the verge of breaking through to the next step, to be with a demigod learning directly, where else in the world could you find such an opportunity?

But to really surrender, all these former emperors felt reluctant.

Currently, they were above ten thousand others, but once they surrendered, they would be under Great Xia’s constraints.

Other countries were uncertain, but the Death Empire and Demon Empire were ready to fight to the end.

In response, they gathered their subsidiary empire, the White Tiger Empire, ready to defend.

They had deployed heavy troops near the northwestern coastline to prevent Xia Feng from freezing the strait and leading an army across.

The opposition was prepared, and as soon as Xia Feng made a move, they would lead a combined army of three nations to encircle and annihilate him.

Seeing this scene, the Southern Continent hesitated and began mutual consultations.

The relationship between the Vermilion Bird Empire and the Li Huo Empire was rather delicate. Although they were forced together to face outward due to this issue, there was still some friction and discomfort between them.

The Southern Barbarian Empire’s ruler was not called an Emperor, but a Clan Leader.

He smirked at the unseemly bickering of the two empires, finding their behavior bizarre, but he didn’t think much of it, only assigning a part of his people to guard the southeastern coast together.

Even the closest points between the Southern and Northern Continents were separated by the vast Endless Sea.

Hence, no one thought Xia Feng would attack the Southern Continent directly from the Northern Continent.

To freeze that sea, not even a demigod like Xia Feng, nor a genuine Martial God, could achieve such a feat.

So the Southern Continent kept an eye on the coastline near the Eastern Continent from the Vermilion Bird Empire.

There were at least three million soldiers stationed there, and if Xia Feng brought an army of a million over, it would be a complete annihilation.

He pondered with his finger on the map for a while before making up his mind.

Freezing the coast was indeed troublesome, but now with the Spirit Light Flying Boat, which could accommodate an army of a million, there was no need to worry about these problems.

He tapped his finger on the Li Huo Empire location. After the Great Xia Army experienced such a setback, they urgently needed a grand victory to rectify their current mindset.

Xia Feng also wished to see if, based on his hints, Gu Sha could correct the Great Xia Army’s pathological thinking.

If it couldn’t be completely corrected, he would truly consider no longer intervening in the future.

Outside, Gu Sha, who was training soldiers, felt a shiver and suddenly felt something was wrong.

Looking around and not finding anything unusual, he quickly brushed off this strange feeling.

"Hurry up, reflect properly on where you went wrong!"