Dragon's Origin

Chapter 561: Something Happened (Part 1)

Something happened!

The team led by two elders from the Dai Kingdom, heading to the capital to attend the Royal Grand Theater's Grand Master performance, was ambushed on the way, suffering heavy casualties.

A group of nearly a hundred experts, traveling through the Song and Shi Kingdoms to reach the capital, ran into trouble just after leaving the Song Kingdom and entering the territory of the Shi Kingdom.

When the problems started, everyone initially thought it was just acclimatization issues, so a group of people experienced vomiting and diarrhea. Therefore, they decided to rest for a night and continue the journey after these companions felt better. After all, it was only two or three days away from the capital, so there was no need to rush.

As for safety concerns, because of the large number of people traveling and the Dai family's usual overbearing nature, they didn't think anyone would dare to cause trouble for them. Even if they were just camping in the wilderness, the Dai family was well-prepared with excellent equipment. Setting up camp was like creating a small village, which was indeed very safe.

But precisely because everyone thought there wouldn't be any problems, problems arose.

At night, the Dai family's campsite was attacked. The attackers' cultivation levels weren't high, but they were enough to kill several Dai family disciples who were weakened and paralyzed by vomiting and diarrhea.

An enraged Dai family elder led four legendary realm experts and twenty-odd peak eighth-level experts in pursuit, and then... there was no then.

None of those who went out returned, including the Dai family elder. After dawn, the Dai family team sent people out to search again and found the bodies of all the Dai family experts who had gone out in a valley a dozen miles away from the camp.

This immediately caused the Dai family's losses to bring the Dai family elder leading the team to tears. Not to mention an important figure like an elder, the four legendary realm experts were originally planning to break through to the peak of the legendary realm, and the twenty-odd peak eighth-level experts were supposed to advance to the legendary realm during the concert. Overnight, more than thirty of the most promising experts in this group were completely wiped out.

In addition, there were also the dozen or so disciples who had vomiting and diarrhea. Although their cultivation levels weren't high, they were all promising disciples of the Dai family and were also all killed in this attack.

A messenger bird sent the news back to the Dai Kingdom, and the Dai Kingdom's ruler was furious on the spot. A national letter was sent directly to the Shi Kingdom, demanding an explanation.

While the news was being transmitted, the Dai family's traveling team also investigated and found out that the reason why that group of people had vomiting and diarrhea was because there was a problem with the water they drank when passing through a Shi Kingdom town earlier, and they had been drugged.

Because some people had brought water pouches and refilled them at the water well there, the evidence was conclusive. This immediately enraged the Dai Kingdom's elder, and the news was sent back to the Dai Kingdom's capital. The ruler's second, very strongly worded, national letter was sent to the Shi Kingdom.

The Shi Kingdom was wronged! Sitting at home, disaster came from the sky. What does your Dai family's trouble have to do with my Shi Kingdom? Besides, your Dai family drew water from the well yourselves. Who knows if it was a trick you played yourselves?

The two families immediately started a war of words from afar, and the conflict between the two sides quickly escalated. If it weren't for the Song Kingdom in between, the two countries might have already started fighting.

The Dai family certainly couldn't risk staying in the Shi Kingdom's territory any longer, so they took a detour into the Thousand Mile Forbidden Zone and then traveled from there to the capital.

Wang Sheng received the news half a day after the incident. It was the Dai family elder in the capital who came to discuss it in person. He informed Wang Sheng of the Dai family's accident on the road and also requested Wang Sheng to postpone the date of the concert by a few days so that the Dai family could find suitable personnel to send over.

"This isn't a problem on my end," Wang Sheng immediately agreed. Those grand masters had been performing continuously for more than five days and hadn't recovered yet, so Wang Sheng certainly didn't mind postponing it for a few more days and was happy to watch the show. However, he couldn't let the Dai family off so easily, so he put on a troubled expression: "The key is the other families. You have to get them to agree. You can't make thousands of experts from other families wait here just for your family."

The Dai family elder certainly knew what to do. As long as Wang Sheng nodded, they would be confident in getting the other families to wait a little longer, it would just take paying a little bit of benefits, which wouldn't be too difficult. As for the Shi family, that was even less of a concern. As long as the other families agreed, the Shi family wouldn't be able to disagree even if they wanted to.

The Emperor quickly received the news and, while secretly laughing, didn't forget to show his presence. He directly issued a statement, telling the Dai and Shi Kingdoms to exercise restraint and slowly investigate the matter clearly.

Because of the sudden tension between the Dai and Shi Kingdoms, other countries saw an opportunity. The benefits offered by the Dai family elder were certainly accepted without hesitation. It was just a matter of postponing it for a few days, so what did it matter? As long as the fire didn't burn them, everyone was happy to watch the show.

However, everyone was happy a little too early. While the Dai family elder was giving out benefits everywhere, that is, on the morning of the third day after the Dai family's accident, something happened to the Tang family.

However, this time it wasn't that the Tang family's experts on the road were ambushed, but that one of the Tang family's cities was attacked, and the Tang family disciples suffered heavy casualties. Judging from the other party's methods, it was clearly the work of the Shanyue Kingdom.

Silently, suddenly, and irresistibly, they disappeared without a trace afterward. Other than flying mounts, there was no other possibility.

Especially in a hidden battle corner in the attacked city, there was also half of a fresh severed arm left behind. It could be seen at a glance that it belonged to those barbarians from the Shanyue Kingdom. The tattoos on it were decades old. According to the analysis of the severed arm, the owner of the arm was at least a peak eighth-level expert.

Basically, after discovering this severed arm, coupled with the many identical attack methods that had already occurred in the Qiu and Xia Kingdoms, this matter was completely placed on the head of the Shanyue Kingdom, and no one could shake it.

As soon as the news came out, everyone was surprised. Did the people of the Shanyue Kingdom eat shit? While simultaneously fighting against the Xia and Qiu Kingdoms, they dared to provoke the Tang Kingdom, which was even more powerful than the two countries? Was it because they had been gaining the upper hand for a while, so they felt that they were invincible and could challenge all the vassal states?

The Tang Kingdom had been developing quietly these years, and although it seemed that there was nothing outstanding, in fact, all the vassal states knew that the Tang Kingdom was not to be trifled with. The last time the Tang Kingdom joined forces with the Xia and Feng Kingdoms to destroy the Kaixuan Kingdom in the blink of an eye still made people feel lingering fear. Did Zhu Xingsheng of Baoqing Yutang have water in his brain? He dared to attack the Tang Kingdom at this time?

As soon as the news came out, the happiest people were not the Emperor and Wang Sheng, but the Qiu and Xia Kingdoms, which had been suppressed by the Shanyue Kingdom all along. Now it was good, Zhu Xingsheng was arrogant and dared to attack the Tang Kingdom, the Shanyue Kingdom was dead!