Read Novel Full Chapter 2121: Politics Is Like Chess, Victory or Defeat Hinges on Strategy!
Chapter 2121: Chapter 2121: Politics Is Like Chess, Victory or Defeat Hinges on Strategy!
The entire Banan Divine Kingdom is now plunged into a chaos.
"Your Majesty, tens of thousands of people have gathered outside the city, not counting those still on the way."
"Currently, in every city within the domain of the Divine Kingdom, there are people protesting and causing disturbances. Those city lord manors are already surrounded... The most serious situation is those cities on the border."
"Your Majesty! Even within the Imperial City, ministers are beginning to discuss fervently. If this continues, it won’t do! Shouldn’t we destroy the Memory Stone first?"
Listening to one bad report after another from outside, Ba Tianque sat cross-legged inside, by the chessboard, deep in thought. He hesitated to place a black piece, as if the chaos in Banan Divine Kingdom had nothing to do with him.
Sitting opposite Ba Tianque was an elderly man with white hair.
The old man sipped tea slowly, in stark contrast to Ba Tianque’s contemplation, unhurried and leisurely.
"Your Majesty, sometimes playing a piece too slowly, instead, makes it easier to fall into a trap."
There was a hint of deeper meaning in his words.
Ba Tianque, holding the black piece, stared at the board and said, "It seems the Imperial Preceptor has an assured victory in this game."
After speaking, he placed the black piece.
The Imperial Preceptor set down his teacup and pointed at the board with a light laugh, "In the earlier stages, Your Majesty’s play was incredibly ruthless, laying traps across a thousand miles, putting the old me at a definite disadvantage by mid-game...
But such a strategy walks a treacherous path. Hidden mines were long buried within that, and once they explode, regardless of your advantage in the early or mid-game, it leads to certain death.
I was merely waiting for such an opportunity."
With those words, the Imperial Preceptor placed a white piece on the board.
Ba Tianque’s expression changed slightly. He set down the black piece in his hand.
He lost.
The Imperial Preceptor smiled and said, "This game wasn’t won by the old me through plotting. The old me just needed to wait, to wait for Your Majesty to make a mistake with the black piece... After all, humans are not saints, how could one possibly never make a single mistake throughout their life?
Just like Ba Tiance, who allied with the Holy Realm to push Ba Tianxuan to feign madness, securing the position of Crown Prince thereafter."
"Although it seemed like the plan succeeded, the hidden turmoil ultimately erupted, rendering all previous efforts in vain and plunging him into an irreversible predicament."
Hearing these words, Ba Tianque shook his head and smiled, "Ba Tiance lost, but the Banan Divine Kingdom won, and I did not lose."
The Imperial Preceptor bowed with joined hands, "This scheme selected a more suitable heir, and also allowed Ba Tianxuan to win the people’s favor. Congratulations, Your Majesty."
Ba Tianque stood up, pushed open the door, and walked past the anxious ministers, loudly declaring to the sky, "Remove Ba Tiance from his position as Crown Prince, banish him from the Divine Country, never to return!
Fourth Prince Ba Tianxuan, for his meritorious exposure, shall assume the position of Crown Prince."
The dragon qi filled the air, his voice resonating throughout the Banan Divine Kingdom.
Only then did the protests inside and outside the cities and Imperial City gradually subside.
Meanwhile, Ba Tiance’s old faction either began networking vigorously, trying to strip away the label of Ba Tiance off of themselves.
Or they prepared to flee Banan Divine Kingdom overnight.
When the tree falls, the monkeys scatter, that’s all it is.
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A divine country, with dragon qi nurtured over millions of years, far more than just a little.
The Heavy Mountain Emperor Seal had long been nurtured by dragon qi and the emperor’s intent over the years.
The dragon qi and emperor’s intent within it is naturally beyond what Hong Ying can rival.
This is the so-called gap in foundation.
When the golden Holy Dragon formed by the fusion of dragon qi and emperor’s intent occupied a full half of White Pond, Hong Ying decided not to clash with the emperor’s intent head-on.
Nearby, Ba Tianxuan proposed, "My dragon qi and its dragon qi both belong to the Banan Divine Kingdom. Let me hold off that golden Holy Dragon, while you deal with Ba Tiance, how about it?"
Hong Ying glanced at Ba Tianxuan, transforming into text, rather than the true body.
Ba Tianxuan understood Hong Ying’s meaning, looked at the golden Holy Dragon, and stepped forward, "Pretending to be mad these years, though unable to freely break through, doesn’t mean I did nothing."
Saying that, he stepped lightly.
A dragon roar erupted from the center of Ba Tianxuan!
Dragon qi spread, dragon patterns climbed up Ba Tianxuan’s body, converging at the center of his brow!
Another golden Holy Dragon’s phantom soared into the sky!
Although smaller compared to the golden Holy Dragon released by the Heavy Mountain Emperor Seal, the dragon qi released was no weaker.
Seeing this, Ba Tiance’s face turned gloomy, growling, "In just over ten years, how did you absorb dragon qi to such an extent?"
A nation’s dragon qi is its lifeline.
How easy is it to absorb and refine?
Even Ba Tiance could only absorb gradually, little by little.
Even forming the dragon qi within his body was impossible.
But Ba Tianxuan could condense it into a dragon!
"A nation’s luck, using the mountain and river forms as the base points of the dragon vein, and the ruler as the gathering place of fortune." Ba Tianxuan looked at Ba Tiance calmly, "Tell me why the emperor gave the crown prince position to my newborn self at that time?"
Ba Tiance’s face grew even darker.
"It’s simple. The Imperial Preceptor divined the heavenly secrets, I was born as the manifestation of national dragon qi. So I refine dragon qi much faster than you all."
With that, Ba Tianxuan charged headlong toward the golden Holy Dragon, and the two golden Holy Dragons began to clash.
Ba Tiance gritted his teeth, "It’s that Imperial Preceptor again... When this is over, once I return, I will definitely bring him down!"
"Can you even return?" Hong Ying, wielding the Sacred Willow Phoenix Fire Gun, showed no concealment of the detest in her eyes.
Being an Empress of a nation, she regarded someone who treats his own country’s citizens as disposable pawns for throne and conspires with evil cultivators for status as better off being killed.
Ba Tiance’s eyes twitched, his expression contorted, "Do you really think you are my match?"
Hong Ying remained silent, gripping the tail and front end of the spear, stepping forward, her body disappeared from the original spot.
In place of her was a long arc that could split White Pond in two, piercing straight through Ba Tiance!
Will of Reincarnation.
Spear Dao Rules.
The person pierced through cannot even enter reincarnation.
While the number of people who can cultivate the Dao Law of Reincarnation is rare, it doesn’t mean Ba Tiance doesn’t know this.
Despite being infuriated and having a contorted face, his mind remained clear.
He must not be harmed by this spear at all.
Once the Dao Law of Reincarnation invades the body, it becomes troublesome.
Ba Tiance wielded a sword, sidestepped, and took a step forward.
Shrinking Earth into Inches, avoiding the spear in an instant, he appeared behind the arc, then slashed with the sword.
A golden slash swept across, causing the seawater to retreat.
Hong Ying forcibly twisted her form in mid-air; with a whirl of the Sacred Willow Phoenix Fire Gun at her waist, she pushed the gun tail with her palm, launching the spear like an arrow out of the bow, clashing with the golden slash.
Boom—!
In an instant, the seawater surged as though a fracture formed a water curtain, disappearing from each other’s sight.
Yet it seemed like the two shared a telepathic link.
One wielded a spear, the other a sword, and charged forward!
Within the water curtain, spear and sword clashed.
Rumbling noises echoed—!
The water curtain shattered.
Ba Tiance fixed his gaze on Hong Ying, "Were it not for the Sovereign Sword, I truly might not be your match in a realm-suppressed place like this."
Hong Ying raised an eyebrow, "So, you think your sword is better than my spear?"
As the words fell.
The Sacred Willow Phoenix Fire Gun blazed with brilliant red light!