While Nangong Third Miss was speaking, the other three women stopped talking, because they all knew that while they were the main force in martial power, Nangong Third Miss was the main force in intelligence.

"You'll help us? How?" Luo Yunqing was very surprised. He hadn't expected these young ladies to want to cooperate with him. He was now speculating what force Guxing's group of four belonged to. Regardless, having one more force to cooperate with was always good.

"You don't need to wonder what forces are behind us. If you know Xiaoyao's identity, then you should also understand where we belong. We have no forces here," Nangong Third Miss said.

"I know this. Then how will you help us?" Luo Yunqing indeed knew Xiaoyao came from the Divine Martial Continent. This matter had been asked about from Luo Yuntian afterward.

Now that Nangong Third Miss said this, he also understood where these young ladies came from. In that case, they could only rely on their own strength.

But speaking of it, their strength was indeed very strong, three Saint Levels. This combination would indeed be very helpful. Moreover, they were only this age now. Maybe they could become God Level before thirty. The possibility of these three becoming God Level was too great.

Wasn't it said that the heaven and earth essence qi over there was very sparse, and producing one Saint Level would be quite good? Was this information wrong? Luo Yunqing was somewhat doubtful.

"If you trust me, we'll help you take over the military and help you expand territory," Nangong Third Miss said. They were going back to their old profession. They could use the shortest time to expand territorial power for Flowing Stone Kingdom.

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Military campaigns and warfare, there was no difference between this world and their original place in such matters. When the three of them could achieve such accomplishments in the Great Tang Empire, the military forces of a small country like Flowing Stone Kingdom were like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut for them.

Nangong Third Miss wanted to use this point to control certain power, cultivate their own forces, then go sweep away Shadow Moon Valley.

"What degree of takeover are you talking about?" Luo Yunqing frowned. He wasn't very skilled in military matters, and the Luo family didn't have many people in the military either. Now the young lady before him seemed to want to control the entire military, but could they be trusted?

"We want complete takeover," Nangong Third Miss said.

"This seems somewhat difficult..." Luo Yunqing frowned. As expected, it was like this, but she really dared to say it.

"We must have this. Please trust us, we won't do anything harmful to you. On the contrary, cooperating with us will only benefit you. Of course, we also need to cultivate our own power to eliminate Shadow Moon Valley. If you're also prepared to do the same thing, this power also belongs to you," Nangong Third Miss said.

"I understand your meaning. However, this matter needs careful consideration," Luo Yunqing frowned. Although the young ladies across from him all had relationships with Xiaoyao, currently it was only their own word, and Xiaoyao was no longer here.

Also, precisely because Xiaoyao was no longer here, could their relationships remain stable? This was also a point that needed consideration.

"I want to explain to you that we're only helping you. If you don't agree, we can find other forces or establish new ones. At the same time, I can tell you that within one year, we'll have results to show you. If not, you can terminate our cooperative relationship," Nangong Third Miss frowned slightly.

Cooperating with the Luo family was just for convenient startup, and also to help Xiaoyao. She believed Xiaoyao would also want to see the Luo family become powerful. But if the Luo family didn't trust them and wouldn't hand over complete military authority, then this matter would end here, because this would drag down development and wouldn't be as fast as starting from scratch.

Now it could only depend on what Luo Yunqing thought. Anyone would hesitate about this, even if it were any leader more capable than Luo Yunqing, they would all have to consider these problems.

But at this time, Luo Yunqing suddenly had a feeling. He felt he should bring these young ladies in, not only because of their potential, but also because of his previous feeling about Xiaoyao. He felt the Luo family's rise was vaguely related to Xiaoyao. Weren't these young ladies Xiaoyao's connections?

It was just complete military authority? He'd gamble on this. Anyway, the current Flowing Stone Kingdom was just a small country, and the military force was very weak, possibly weaker than even the Luo family's martial power. If he handed it over to them, so be it. Maybe this was an opportunity.

"Good, I agree with you, and I support you going to eliminate Shadow Moon Valley. Such face-slapping matters are very hard for our Luo family to bear too. If we can wash away this previous humiliation, then naturally we support it," Luo Yunqing said. Regarding Qi Bupo and Shadow Moon Valley, it would be strange if he said he didn't hate them. They were the ones who brought unhappiness to his enthronement ceremony and also caused him to lose Xiaoyao.

The pills Xiaoyao refined could now only be used for two or three years. After using them up, there would be no more. But he believed that in these two or three years, the Luo family's strength could rise several levels and have the foundation to become a great nation.

As for the military aspect, he also wanted to let it develop freely. Now handing it over to the Young Miss and others didn't matter, because this was only one year. In one year, he also felt they couldn't accomplish much. Even if they were wrong, it could be corrected in time.

After several months, he would understand this decision was correct, incredibly correct. Only then would he understand what was called military genius. Unbelievably, this military genius was also a young lady.

Guxing, the Young Miss, and Nangong Suxin, these three didn't participate in the military's reorganization and construction. They were generals. Guxing had always been cultivating, while the Young Miss and Nangong Suxin occasionally participated in training, of course, leading troops in training to establish their authority.

While Guxing had never led troops, she had experienced battlefields. What she did in the Huangpu Family was being a foot soldier, although she was a very terrifying foot soldier. At first, everyone didn't know about her, but over time, they discovered this super foot soldier.

Their current combination was very interesting, one military genius, one super foot soldier, and two female war gods. One could imagine how much territory they could expand.

However, if they expanded blindly, it was unknown whether the Luo family had the ability to digest it all. Nangong Third Miss had already thought of countermeasures for this point. They would only focus on expansion, and for places the Luo family couldn't digest, she would use military management methods to temporarily supervise.

This expansion would continue until she felt it was about right.

During their expansion period, they also kept gathering information about Xiaoyao, but never obtained useful intelligence. The location where the Demon Sect was situated belonged to Demon Sect territory. Except for Demon Sect people, few would set foot in that place. Even God Level martial artists might not be able to get out once they went in, let alone others.

The place where the Demon Sect was located was commonly called the Demon Domain by everyone. The Demon Domain wasn't a small place, even the Azure Dragon Empire wasn't half the size of the Demon Domain. The reason the Azure Dragon Empire could be called the largest country was also because the Demon Domain couldn't be called a country.

The Demon Domain was an extremely chaotic place with no management hierarchy, only the strong ruling. Each region might have certain faction strongmen governing themselves, rarely expanding but not allowing others to invade their territories. People in the Demon Domain never needed any identity proof, wouldn't ask about your past, and wouldn't care whether you were good or bad or whether you would do unconscionable things.

As long as you could survive in the Demon Domain, nothing else was a problem!

Because of this, many people entered the Demon Domain to escape for their lives, because although it was dangerous here, it was also a place to avoid pursuit.

Such a place was very difficult to infiltrate, but Nangong Third Miss was already infiltrating. To infiltrate these places, first you needed to cultivate a group of daredevil spies, second, you needed to arrange foolproof identities without any flaws, and finally, you needed time to wait slowly, only sending out messages when there were opportunities. In a place like the Demon Domain, everything had to be done with extreme caution.

Soon, everything was proceeding in an orderly manner, but there was still no news of Xiaoyao. This made those who originally held hope gradually begin losing it. Of course, this didn't include Guxing's group, they were very stubborn and absolutely wouldn't acknowledge anything without seeing the corpse.

Was Xiaoyao really dead?

This question was now puzzling Qi Bupo too. He had originally thought Xiaoyao was completely dead. After taking his palm strike, even someone of the same level would be injured, let alone Xiaoyao who was just Emperor Level.

He took away Xiaoyao's "corpse" only to make Luo Yuntian suffer, and also so he could conveniently pay respects. He also felt bad about wrongly killing Xiaoyao, because Xiaoyao was her child!

But later he discovered something was wrong. He had originally wanted to use Ice Soul Pearls to keep Xiaoyao's "corpse" from decaying, but soon he discovered that Xiaoyao's body was actually maintaining temperature all along, which completely contradicted common sense.

At first it could be explained as residual warmth, but after a whole day passed and that temperature was still there, it meant this wasn't just residual warmth, Xiaoyao might still be alive.

However, Xiaoyao's aura had been absent all along. If he was alive, how could this be explained?

But soon Qi Bupo discovered that Xiaoyao wasn't completely without aura, it was just that his aura only appeared once after very long intervals, making people feel he had no aura.

Although this proved Xiaoyao should still not be dead, this matter seemed to violate the rules, something everyone thought was impossible.

When they reached Shadow Moon Valley's location, Qi Bupo discovered that the obvious depression in Xiaoyao's chest had completely recovered. At this time, Xiaoyao should be similar to someone sleeping, just that his breathing rhythm was rather different from ordinary people.

(End of Chapter)