Late June, the twenty-eighth year of the Han Dynasty.
Chang'an City.
The weather was scorching hot.
"Divine Emperor, regarding the thirty Daozhou territories of the Thunder Cloud Hall, after discussions with my fellow officials, we still largely agree to temporarily assign them to the Daozhou region."
"Divine Emperor, according to reports from the front lines, General Meng Tian, leading the Qiongqi Legion, has advanced into the territory occupied by the Sea Demon Lord. General Jie Luguang has begun to attack the southern border of the Sea Demon Marsh. The military report states that General Meng Tian is confident of sweeping away the Sea Demon Lord's forces within five days and annihilating the Sea Demon Marsh!"
"Divine Emperor, front-line military report: General Cao Wei, leading the White Tiger Legion, has captured Tianlan City of the Tianyuan Divine Dynasty. Within three days, they swept across four Daozhou territories. The Nalans of the Tianyuan Divine Dynasty have surrendered, and their seven hundred thousand troops have been incorporated into the third army of the White Tiger Legion. Nalanshun has been provisionally appointed as Deputy General. We request the Divine Emperor's decision!!"
"Divine Emperor, front-line military report: General Gao Xianzhi, leading the Qilin Legion, has reached the border of the Taiyuan Palace and has begun their assault!"
"Divine Emperor, a total of nine thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven Dragon race beings were apprehended at Wolongyuan and have been secretly transferred to the Daozhou region, handed over to Zhang Jiao. A series of arrangements are being progressively implemented!"
...
One by one, officials emerged, reporting to Yang Hao.
In just over ten days, it seemed as if a year's worth of administrative matters that had not been handled were directly presented before Yang Hao.
However, all administrative matters had detailed handling measures, neatly arranged before Yang Hao, awaiting his decision.
In more than ten days, the Thunder Cloud Hall was annihilated under the assault of the Vermilion Bird Legion. Meng Tian also hurried to lead his army to the territory occupied by the Sea Demon Lord.
The marching routes of all armies and the battle results achieved precisely fulfilled his decree of declaring war on the four major powers over ten days ago.
"Ding! Congratulations to the host, the Vermilion Bird Legion's offensive against the Thunder Cloud Hall has resulted in the killing of five Saint Lord powerhouses of the Thunder Cloud Hall, the annihilation of one million troops, and the destruction of the Thunder Cloud Hall, fundamentally occupying thirty Daozhou territories of the Thunder Cloud Hall."
"Ding! Congratulations to the host, the White Tiger Legion has captured Tianlan City of the Tianyuan Divine Dynasty, annihilated five hundred thousand troops, captured over seven hundred thousand, and the Nalan family has surrendered!"
"Ding! Congratulations to the host, the Qiongqi Legion and the Jinni Legion swept through the four Saint Lords of the Sea Demon Marsh in a single battle, annihilating a million troops in total!"
"Ding! Congratulations to the host for gaining a total of two hundred and sixty-one million six hundred thousand Killing Points and two hundred million Destiny Merit Points (the Sea Demon Marsh and Tianyuan Divine Dynasty have not been completely destroyed, so these two major forces are not included in this count)!"
"Ding! The Destiny Nine Cauldrons, the Nine Dragon Emperor Seal, the Xuanyuan Sword, and the Heavenly Emperor Divine Tablet have automatically drawn half of the Destiny Merit Points to consolidate the national destiny!"
"Ding! Reminder to the host, the remaining Destiny Merit Points are one hundred and seventy million!"
"Ding! Reminder to the host, a new main mission has been issued. Please check it!"
Flipping through the memorials on the desk, Yang Hao thought, "View!"
"Ding! Main missions have been activated: One, upgrade the Destiny Nine Cauldrons to Level 5. Upon completion of this mission, the host will be rewarded with a major realm advancement, summoned heroes will be advanced by six minor realms, and summoned soldiers will be advanced by three minor realms. The host can use Destiny Merit Points to advance their own realm to the Saint Lord realm!"
"Two, upgrade weapons to Level 6. All summoned soldiers will enter Level 6 barracks and advance their realms to the True God realm. Upon completion of this mission, summoned heroes with realms below the Saint realm will all be promoted by five minor realms!"
"Three, upon completion of the above two missions, the Reincarnation Profound Yellow Tower will automatically unlock its sixth floor. The host can use the power of reincarnation to summon the peerless heroes sealed on the sixth floor!!"
"The return rate is quite good!"
Yang Hao looked at the prompts, but unfortunately, the sixth floor was not the place where peerless heroes were sealed. Apart from this point, which brought him some disappointment, Yang Hao temporarily considered the rest to be quite satisfactory.
However, he quickly understood that after all, in the long river of history, there were not many individuals who could be called peerless.
Only a select few had suppressed the ages!
After closing the system, Yang Hao closed the memorials and swept his gaze across the civil and military officials in the hall.
"Regarding the thirty Daozhou territories of the Thunder Cloud Hall, I approve. They will be temporarily assigned to the administration of Daozhou."
"Issue an imperial edict, ordering Meng Tian, Cao Wei, and Gao Xianzhi to accelerate their offensives. I want the three major powers annihilated within a month!"
"Command the Crown Prince Yang Chen to represent me in inspecting the realm!!"
"Long live the Divine Emperor, long live, long live, long live!!"
...
Half an hour later, Yang Hao walked out of the Xuanzheng Hall, with Yang Chen closely following behind him. Some words were stuck in his throat, and he couldn't speak for a long time.
"If you have something to say, say it!"
After waiting for a long time, Yang Hao was truly helpless.
"Father Emperor!"
Yang Chen thought for a moment and looked at Yang Hao, saying, "Our Great Han has ten major legions, with strong soldiers and horses, enough to sweep across Purple Cloud Mountain and Sword Palace. Why don't we send out our armies and conquer them in one go? Wouldn't that be better?"
Yang Hao listened, smiled gently, and did not get angry. In front of him, Yang Chen was still a child.
Looking at Yang Chen, he thought back to when he first arrived in this other world. Even though he had a deep understanding of history, when various administrative matters appeared before him, his shortsightedness was evident.
He still remembered that year, when Cheng Yaojin had just emerged, he faced suppression from a half-step Grandmaster of the Sword Gate.
He knew he had Zhang Jiao's talisman, but when he first faced an overwhelmingly powerful enemy, he was still somewhat fearful.
Having lived in an era of peace, most things were merely idle talk, but when he personally experienced them, he found he was not as powerful as he imagined, and sometimes he even performed worse than the protagonist in the melodramatic plots of television shows.
Like an outsider, opening his heavenly eye, as if knowing everything that happened before and after...
In reality, when truly faced with the situation... one often had to endure both physiological and psychological blows.
Nothing was as simple as it seemed!
"Chen'er!"
"You must know your own strength, but also clearly understand the strength of your opposing forces. You must also take a step further and investigate the strength of those who might become your next enemy."
"Although the Great Han is powerful, with more than twenty Great Saint realm experts, each of whom is a heavenly prodigy of the human race and can fight across realms!"
"Therefore, the current Great Han, with more than twenty Saint Lord powerhouses, would not expend too much effort to sweep away a second-rate force like Purple Cloud Mountain. However, Chen'er, the Great Han dispatched troops to the Sea Demon Marsh, Thunder Cloud Hall, Tianyuan Divine Dynasty, and Taiyuan Palace, and we had justifiable reasons for doing so. The Great Han's actions were righteous!"
"Purple Cloud Mountain and Sword Palace have no grievances with our Great Han. If we act decisively now, it will only expose our powerful ambitions. Is this what the Qingxuan Immortal Dynasty, the Hengtian Immortal Dynasty, and the Zhulu Sacred Sect want to see!"
"What we need is a pretext for sending troops, and this pretext must be personally given to the Great Han by Purple Cloud Mountain and Sword Palace!"