Chapter 1137 - 8: Defeated by a Clone? The Shocked Prince and the Happy Ji Che!
As soon as they left, Emperor Wu changed from kneeling to sitting cross-legged, grabbed a cushion and reclined back, took off his pearl and jade crown, casually tossed it to the side of the mat, loosened his collar, and let out a long sigh.
"Phew~ it’s really annoying. I’m just going out to have fun with my sister, and the Minister of Rites has to bring people to record my words and actions."
Zhao Xing also felt more relaxed; he switched back to his private mode with Ji Che: "The Minister of Rites, you know, that’s their job, can’t let them starve. By the way, Fifth Brother, did you come with the elder princess?"
Ji Che shook his head: "Not the eldest sister, it’s the Seventh Sister."
Seventh Sister, that is Ji Yingluo, who later created the ’Demons’ Insect’ and became the ’Thousand-year-old Princess.’
Ji Yingluo is already eighty years old, but for the emperor’s own sister, she is bound to live long, so she is actually quite young now.
"Seventh Sister is playing in Doucao Hall with Duke Yang’s and Duke Wei’s granddaughters."
Zhao Xing nodded slightly: "What is this about the Prince of West Sea Moss State? How arrogant was he for you to insist on giving him a lesson?"
Emperor Wu has a broad mind and generally wouldn’t care about a mere prince from a vassal state.
The West Sea vassal state is a tiny place. Let alone a prince, even a king wouldn’t matter much to Ji Che.
"Palakinko wants to marry the Seventh Sister! A tiny state, a barbarian official, and he dares to have such an idea!" Ji Che exclaimed excitedly, "Big Brother, isn’t he arrogant enough?!"
"Oh? Did he submit a national letter, an official proposal? Why haven’t I heard about it?" Zhao Xing was puzzled.
"No, he hasn’t."
"Then has he spoken arrogantly or acted boldly?"
"Not exactly, he just showed diligence for several months, even following here to Dao Yuan Continent... Isn’t that obvious enough!"
Zhao Xing: "..."
It seems the past incident with Princess You Ruo still left a psychological shadow on Emperor Wu.
The man did nothing but show some diligence a few times, and Ji Che already blew his top, finding the Prince of Moss Country completely disagreeable.
In Grand Ancestor’s period and Emperor Wen’s period, such courtesies were common, not a big deal even if officially proposed.
The vassal states of West Sea are different from the Four Great Royal Courts of the Southern Desolate; they have always been submissive and have been paying tribute.
Just the thought of it, Zhao Xing felt that it couldn’t really be called ’arrogant.’
But for Emperor Wu, it just wouldn’t do.
Just thinking about it? Damn right, it wouldn’t do!
"Big Brother." Ji Che straightened his body, "You came at the right time; I can’t hit him personally, can you help me teach that Prince Jin Ke a lesson, and dispel his foolish ideas!"
Zhao Xing nodded: "How do you want me to do it?"
Seeing Zhao Xing agree, Ji Che immediately smiled: "The Prince Jin Ke is in the Middle Stage of Heavenly Destiny Realm, and he carries five domestic experts, all of whom are Perfect Heavenly Fate Realm, constantly boasting about the achievements of his five experts."
"I can’t refute it because the father just praised them. Those five experts indeed achieved some merits in the war with the Sith Clan."
The Moss Clan is a vassal state of Great Zhou, but the Sith Clan is not. They do not submit to Great Zhou and even often attack the vassal states of Great Zhou, constantly expanding in the West Pole Zone, with great ambition.
That place is too far, and extremely cold, unsuitable for agriculture and development.
If farming is necessary, it will require Li Boqian, the Grand Minister of Agriculture, to bring the Twenty-four Solar Terms Order, spend several hundred years, and melt part of the glaciers.
However, melting glaciers can have uncontrollable consequences, such as possibly releasing ancient frozen viruses.
So Great Zhou has never considered occupying that place, only supporting a few vassal states and planting a few flags.
Great Zhou is currently in a period of transition, the Moss Clan has made contributions in resisting the Sith Clan, and Emperor Jing just praised Prince Jin Ke. Ji Che couldn’t publicly express his dissatisfaction.
It wasn’t possible to send his own experts to beat Jin Ke either, so he could only find someone else.
Of course, Zhao Xing was happy to help with such a small matter since his little brother asked.
He came precisely to find experts to spar with; it was a convenient task.
However, it still required careful investigation into the opponent’s background.
"Fighting is fine, but you have to tell me about those warriors’ approximate combat power."
"I only brought a clone crafted from Eighth Rank Top Quality materials, can’t afford to make a fool of myself."
Using just one clone, the spells of the Self Sect couldn’t be utilized, nor could the Hou Transformation Technique; it would only be possible to use the Heavenly Time Technique and Geographical Advantage Skill.
This clone was slightly refined, but the spell insights were only approximately eighty percent of the original.
"If they are too strong, I’ll have to call the original over." Zhao Xing said.
After all, they’re all on Dao Yuan Continent; it wouldn’t take the original too many days to come over, missing ten days or half a month for comprehension of the ’Soldier God Decision’ wouldn’t matter.
The most important thing was to give Emperor Wu a helping hand and improve their relationship!
"I’ve already prepared." Ji Che waved his hand, and immediately an Earth Mirror floated over from the side.
"Big Brother, look, these are the battle records of Jin Ke and his five warriors."
"Jin Ke himself only fought once, but his five warriors have already fought more than a dozen times here."
Zhao Xing took over the Earth Mirror, barely had time to look, when there came cheers and groans from outside.
"His subordinate ’Bing Tu King’ won again." Ji Che snorted.
Listening closely, Zhao Xing could hear some young lords and noble ladies betting in distant halls.
It seemed this Bing Tu King had won many times, causing them to lose quite a bit of money.
Though losing money wasn’t a big deal, it was mainly about losing face.