Hua Zichen waited for half an hour in the Family's Secret Realm. He knew that the other party would not waste too much time on him.
When he got out of the secret realm, he saw the battlefield moving towards the south. He knew that Qi had lost. He rode the Sky Dragon Colt towards the south and went around the battlefield until he was 30 miles away from where Qi's army retreated. At this time, some Qi's soldiers had already abandoned their armor and ran towards him.
"Lieutenant General Hua, you're not dead?" A soldier on the right wing said happily when he saw Hua Zichen.
"What happened? How did they lose so quickly?" Hua Kai asked. The Hua family's contribution would determine the outcome of this war.
"What's the point of fighting a war with such a general?
Even if we win, what can we do? We might as well go home, "the soldier said angrily.
Hua Zichen shook his head. Things were not that simple. If they lost Leling City this time, the entire northern gate of the State of Qi would be opened to the Yan Kingdom. The core region of the State of Qi would be exposed to the Yan Kingdom.
The Tian family had screwed up this time!
Even with the combined forces of all the families in Qi's core region, they still could not chase away Yan Kingdom's cavalry. What would the other counties and counties of Qi think of them?
Was this still Qi, one of the Seven Heroes of the World?
More than 10,000 Yan Kingdom's cavalry had arrived at their doorstep!
After half an hour, more and more Qi's soldiers had escaped. Many of them had already abandoned their armor. Some of the families that had good relationships with each other formed groups to fight against the Yan Kingdom's cavalry.
"Did you see anyone from the Hua family?"
Hua Zichen asked after he saw the leader of the Li family and more than 10 Guang County's city guards being chased by a few Yan Kingdom's cavalry.
"They're behind us!" The leader of the Li family wiped the sweat off his forehead and pointed behind him.
Hua Zichen rode the Heavenly Dragon Colt north for one mile and killed more than ten soldiers of the Yan Kingdom. Only then did he see Qing Geertai and his nine family members fighting with dozens of Yan Kingdom cavalry.
It seemed that the Yan Kingdom wanted to seize the opportunity to leave behind more troops from Qi. However, the heavy cavalry could not do much to chase after them. They could only rely on the light cavalry and could not take down all the deserters from Qi quickly.
"Fifth Lord!"
"Fifth Lord, are you alright?"
"This is great!"
Seeing that Hua Zichen was fine, Qinggeer, Tai, and the others finally let out a sigh of relief. They had stayed behind to wait for Hua Zichen's news. Seeing him appear behind them, everyone was extremely excited.
After all, their mission this time was to protect Hua Zichen. If something happened to Hua Zichen while the ten of them were unharmed, what would Hua Kai think of them?
"What can happen to me?
Let's get rid of them quickly and retreat! "Hua Zichen said as he raised his spear and killed more than ten light cavalry soldiers from the Yan Kingdom.
They rode on their horses for 20 miles. Then, they saw some soldiers of the Qi State lying down and resting on the hillside by the roadside.
When they were escaping, they did not think too much. What should they do now?
If they fled back, they would definitely be punished. If things went wrong, even their clan would be implicated. It would be best if they could find someone important in the Kingdom of Qi to lead them back to Linzi City. At that time, they would have nothing to do with any of the blame. Even the defeat of this battle would have nothing to do with them.
"Fifth Lord, what should we do next?
You are our right wing deputy general. You have to make the decision. "The leader of the Li family came to Hua Zichen and said.
"Let's wait first!
If the Tian family's general can come back or if there are Connate cultivators from big families, we will have no problem returning to Linzi City. The Tian family's general is a Foundation Establishment cultivator. He will not be in any danger, "Hua Zichen said.
Everyone agreed. Now, they could only regroup and wait for the people behind them to catch up. When there were more people, the possibility of Linzi City punishing them would be smaller. If the Tian family's general could come back, then everything would be fine.
After waiting for an entire afternoon, more and more soldiers from the State of Qi returned. Hua Zichen did a rough count and estimated that there were more than 6,000 of them. After the battle in the morning, there were less than 10,000 soldiers who had survived. These should be the majority of the remaining soldiers of the State of Qi.
At this time, someone called the Xie family back.
The Xie Clan was a fourth-rank clan in Linzi City. This time, they had sent two Xiantian Realm cultivators. One of them had died today, and the other one had fled here. He didn't even care about the people around him as he rode his horse towards Linzi City.
The Xie family did not want to be the scapegoat. After a while, the Tian family's general came back. Everyone started to organize themselves.
However, the other party only glanced at them and ignored them. He walked past them and returned to Linzi City.
The Tian Family and the other aristocratic families of Linzi City were not willing to take on this responsibility. Everyone could only return home first. However, they needed to eat and drink on the road. Many of them had escaped by themselves. Without provisions, this was a big problem!
Hua Zichen saw this and did not care about the others. He left with Qing Geertai and the other 10 people and rode towards the south.
He couldn't go in the direction of Linzi City anymore. Hua Zichen decided to go around Linzi City and head towards Liao City, Shouguang County, Opera County, and Le 'an Prefecture. Even though the journey was longer, it was definitely safer than going through Linzi City.
It was very difficult for the soldiers who stayed here to survive. There was no place to stay and no food. It would be very difficult for them to return home. Hua Zichen did not want to care about the fate of the Qi soldiers. He only wanted to return to Fort Wah Ka.
This time, the Han Clan's attitude towards the Hua Clan had clearly changed. They completely viewed the Hua Clan as an opponent. Moreover, in order to suppress the Hua Clan, they did not hold back at all. After returning home, the Hua Clan did not need to follow behind the Han Clan anymore.
The Hua family already had 13 Mortal Realm cultivators. Moreover, he was already at Mortal Realm Stage 9. The Han family had also lost a lot of Mortal Realm cultivators this time. Now, the Hua family's battle strength should not be weaker than the Han family.
In one day, the eleven of them traveled 300 Li on horseback and arrived at Liao City in Le 'an County. The people here still didn't know that the Qi Kingdom had been defeated in Leling City. All the citizens of Liao City were discussing the wolf disaster. Hua Zichen heard that the Dai Kingdom's Shengle City was surrounded by millions of red wolves.
They did not dare to stay any longer. After resting for a night in Liao City, they continued their journey.
Shengle City was only a thousand Li away from Guang County. In less than ten days, the red wolves would enter Guang County. The main force of Fort Wah Ka had not returned yet. He had to return as soon as possible. Hua Zichen was not afraid of the wolf disaster. Instead, he was afraid that the Han family would cause trouble again!
When the news of Qi's defeat gradually spread, the Tian family's reputation was instantly ruined. Perhaps the Qi family could not punish the Tian family now, but the Tian family's reputation would definitely be damaged.
The entire Qi family began to call for the Monarch to come out. The voices were getting louder and louder.
Especially the six countries and five counties that were affiliated with Qi. They were all discussing the Tian family's defeat in this battle.
Hua Zichen's bravery was also dug up in the process of the battle. It began to spread throughout Qingzhou. The entire Qingzhou knew that the Hua family in Guang County had a genius who could kill an Innate Expert while in the Qi Refining Realm.
There began to be a voice in Linzi City. Everyone said that even if the Qi family had no successor, it would be better to choose a direct descendant than to give the throne to an outsider.
This voice became louder and louder as the news of the Tian family's defeat spread.
Hua Kai learned about Qi's defeat in Leling City after communicating with his Fifth Uncle in the [Family's Secret Realm]. He did not expect this result at all.
In terms of high-end combat power, Qi was more than twice as strong as the Yan Kingdom. It was quite a miracle that they were defeated even when they had the upper hand in terms of military strength.
It was already the 1st of September. The Guang County Business Group only traveled for three hours every morning on the Linhu Grassland. The "emergency team" at the front had been paying attention to the changes of the red wolves. They followed closely behind the red wolves and did not have to worry about being attacked by the horse bandits or wild beasts.
However, as time passed by, everyone could only wait. This kind of anxiety was hard to understand. After some calculations, the red wolves should have already entered Dai Country's territory. He did not know how many of them would enter Qi's territory in the end.
Looking at the family's attributes, the prosperity and culture points of the family had been increasing rapidly. The animal husbandry points were also increasing slowly. At this speed, the family should be able to reach 5000 points by the end of the year.
After leaving Erdos Tribe for more than a month, Hua Kai had been sending everyone into the [Family's Secret Realm] to train. There were 17 new people in the Hua family who were in the Qi Refining Realm. Wei Hatou had finally reached the Qi Refining Realm and became the 14th person in the Qi Refining Realm in the Hua family.
Walking out of the main tent, Hua Kai saw the members of the merchant group happily using their new weapons. He could not help but smile bitterly.
With more and more people in the family entering the Qi Refining Realm, the grade 4 weapons that everyone used before would not be enough. Therefore, he forged a weapon for everyone who had reached the Qi Refining Realm, including those who had reached the late stage of the Qi Refining Realm.
In total, more than 10 weapons were successfully forged and more than 3000 family luck points were used up.
In order to forge a grade 4 Green Dragon Crescent Blade [Pseudo] for Tang Lei, he used up a total of 1480 family luck points, and this did not include the materials used to forge the weapon.
Tang Lei was very satisfied with this 390 kg Green Dragon Crescent Blade. Originally, this grade 7 weapon could only be used by those in the Foundation Building Realm.
However, Tang Lei was born with superhuman strength and only this Green Dragon Crescent Blade was suitable for him in the [Weapon Shop].
Hua Kai thought of how Tang Lei had danced excitedly for him for a long time after he had obtained the Precious Weapon yesterday. These moves were the ones he had learned when he was in the mountains. Hua Kai saw that there were already some shadows of martial arts in them, which meant that Tang Lei was very talented in saber techniques.
Therefore, he thought of Huang Jia's [Eighteen Gale Blades] and decided to talk to his second uncle today.
The Huang Jia merchant group had been following Hua Jia Caravan. Seeing that Hua Kai had personally come to their merchant group, a patrolling Huang Jia Household Servant quickly reported to the main tent of the merchant group.
"Hua Kai, why are you here today? Aren't you teaching the slaves in the merchant group?" Huang Guangwen asked with a smile when he saw Hua Kai.
"Second Uncle, I have something to talk to you about today. Recently, I plan to practice blade techniques. I wonder if you can teach me the [Eighteen Gale Blades]?" Hua Kai asked.
"Of course, no problem. If you want to learn, I can teach you at any time!" Huang Guangwen said happily.
Huang Jia had bought more than 60 slaves and more than 200 horses from the Erdos tribe this year. Together with the bones and furs, they were worth more than 2,000 gold.
When Hua Kai arrived, his cousins also came out. When they heard that Hua Kai wanted to learn the [Eighteen Gale Blades], they rushed to tell him the main points of their family's martial arts skills.
After learning martial arts skills with his second uncle and cousins in the morning, he returned to Hua Jia Caravan at noon and entered the [Big Dream Visualization] space to recall the main points of the [Eighteen Gale Blades]. When he went to Huang Jia's merchant group in the afternoon, Huang Guangwen found that Hua Kai had already learned the [Eighteen Gale Blades].
In the afternoon, he continued to learn blade techniques with the Huang Jia's merchant group. Everyone was shocked by Hua Kai's talent and efforts.
Hua Kai could learn the [Eighteen Gale Blades] in half a day and persist in training for a day as a teenager, which made the Huang Jia people feel ashamed. Huang Guangwen began to be stricter with the cultivation of his family members.