Chapter 2321 - 2060: An Explanation Is Needed

Seeing two members of the Kushan diplomatic mission repeatedly retreat after the other side spoke, Liu Tong ordered with a sullen face, "Capture them all for me!"

Immediately, the military generals Ma Chao, Zhang Xiu, and Xu Huang rushed outside.

"Capture them alive." Cao Cao turned his head and instructed Dian Wei, who had rushed out, as a large group of Inner Qi Manifestation individuals already charged out from the main gate of Weiyang Palace.

With Liu Tong’s command, the Imperial Guards stationed at the palace stormed in through Weiyang Palace gate. A large number of identically sized individuals, wearing black armor, quickly surrounded the Kushan diplomatic mission with a Dual Talent Imperial Guard. The leading officer happened to be Zhao Yue, the former commander of the Jingling Guard.

"Is this the guard that Grand Commandant Liu gave to Her Highness the Grand Princess? Such astonishing quality!" Xun Yu said with a face of shock, "Is this a Dual Talent Legion?"

"Yes, a Dual Talent Legion. I have observed them for a long time, but Her Highness the Grand Princess only used them as Imperial Guards. One talent is for escorting, the other probably for disorder formations; one for protecting important figures, the other for helping important figures break out of encirclement." Cheng Yu quietly replied.

"Liu Xuande is indeed generous to have given such elite troops to the Grand Princess," Cao Cao picked up the conversation with a hint of seriousness, for many powerful aspects can be seen from the details.

Actually, Cao Cao guessed wrong. Liu Bei did indeed send a legion to protect Liu Tong, as the previous chaos in Chang’an really shamed the Han Imperial Clan. But to say Liu Bei sent a Dual Talent Super Elite to Liu Tong is truly overthinking it.

The Jingling Guard, within the city that has performed sacrifices, is equivalent to the Military Spirit Legion, but outside the city, they are merely a single talent elite troop with dual talent physical quality.

Liu Bei merely handed five thousand soldiers of the Jingling Guard to Liu Tong, without even a formal Inner Qi Manifestation commander. Growing into a Dual Talent was a matter of fortune.

No matter what, the soldiers of the Jingling Guard possess Military Spirit attributes. Although this attribute gradually dissipates outside the city, as a spirit inheriting the will of fallen heroics, it seems normal that no strength can be shown in places without sacrifices, but Chang’an is an exception.

In this place are buried too many heroes, too many Military Spirits, outside Weiyang Palace’s outer gate, where the Flying Bear perished, the final wails of Feathered Forest Guards in Weiyang Palace, and stepping out is where Huo Qubing and Weii Qing’s tombs are.

If any place in this world has the most dissipated Military Spirit, it has to be Chang’an. Other legions might not feel anything here, but this place is almost brimming with various fragmented yet unyielding wills for the Jingling Guard.

As a special Military Spirit Legion that can sense will from ordinary deceased heroics and gain strength, their quality, honed through battlefields and survival of countless wars, had already reached a certain limit.

In Chang’an, a place mixed with various unyielding wills, only comprehending one of them can consolidate past learnings to break through the barrier of Dual Talent, and as the Jingling Guard selected by Liu Bei, their quality, and will have reached a standard.

The will entwined for hundreds of years in Chang’an City was entrusted to the Jingling Guard as they entered, resulting in an unowned legion achieving Dual Talent within just a few months, inexplicably inheriting a portion of Feathered Forest Guards’ attributes.

Naturally, not knowing all these things, Cao Cao, upon witnessing this scene, found it somewhat terrifying. Liu Bei was generous enough to present Liu Tong with a Dual Talent Super Elite Legion, showing a deep foundation. Evidently, the opposite side never regarded them as opponents; from the start, the goal might have been to extend their reach beyond the nation’s borders.

"Your Highness, please calm down. Results will be achieved within one incense stick’s time." Seeing the swift capture of the Kushan diplomat by the Imperial Guard, Cao Cao calmly stepped forward and said.

"Hmph!" The Kushan diplomat coldly looked at Cao Cao, "Results within one incense stick’s time? Though you have more Inner Qi Manifestation, can your experts stop us if we are determined to leave?"

Cao Cao couldn’t be bothered to respond to the Kushan diplomat. After saluting, he returned to his seat, sitting quietly with eyes looking down and maintaining a calm posture. Those two Kushan Inner Qi Manifestation individuals must be captured alive today; how can they let a small country roar at the Han Empire’s court?

Meanwhile, as the two men flew out from Weiyang Palace gate, Liu Tong, being unfamiliar with military matters, always treated the Imperial Guards as ceremonial guards and didn’t react to activate Cloud Qi. Moreover, since the last Northern Frontier battle, Chang’an’s city Cloud Qi hadn’t been activated, so the two Kushan Inner Qi Manifestation instantly headed southwest upon leaving Weiyang Palace.

"Stay!" Ma Chao laughed wildly, intercepting the two Kushan Inner Qi Manifestation individuals with a flash of electricity at an even higher speed.

"Die!" The two Kushan Inner Qi Manifestation, upon witnessing the blue-purple lightning flash, manifested as Gods and Buddhas, unleashing all their power, prepared to forcefully push through.

"Too slow." Ma Chao’s whole body transformed into a form of lightning, erupting electric sparks all over, coldly sneering at the changes, "Kicking one of them, his voice resonated in the person’s ears only after the attack was executed."

Intense lightning erupted the moment Ma Chao kicked his opponent, the pale blue sparks suddenly engulfing the target attacked by Ma Chao, and then Ma Chao, like a power source, frantically shot out various types of lightning.

The tree-like branches of lightning electrified the guy hit by Ma Chao’s kick halfway to death, and then the explosion caused by the air being pierced spread the lightning to another Inner Qi Manifestation nearby Ma Chao, even though this person entered the state of God and Buddha, Ma Chao’s lightning numbed their arm.

"Whew! Refreshing!" Ma Chao exhaled as he converted one-third of his Inner Qi into lightning and released it, directly electrocuting the opponent he was fighting halfway to death. Fortunately, the powerful recovery ability of the Inner Qi Manifestation guaranteed the attack only stunned him, not turned him into ashes.

Just as Ma Chao was delightfully catching his breath, the other Inner Qi Manifestation affected by Ma Chao’s attack also encountered an opponent. However, compared to the Inner Qi Manifestation captured alive by Ma Chao, this one displayed combat power that obviously did not lose to such a master as Hua Xiong, yet his opponent was Dian Wei.

The Kushan master affected by Ma Chao’s attack instantly knew something was wrong when his limbs went numb, and immediately burst out all his Inner Qi, using self-harm type moves to form powerful attacks aimed at the burly figure appearing ahead.

Dian Wei neither dodged nor avoided, he took the opponent’s attack head-on, then punched the God and Buddha avatar revealed by the opponent, the combination of ferocious speed and power effortlessly pierced through the air, the air around pushed away by great force, even formed a flame-like color due to friction, the visual was distorted by high temperature at the moment Dian Wei struck.

At that moment, a muffled crunch echoed, and the God and Buddha avatar formed by the Kushan Inner Qi Manifestation was blown away by a punch from Dian Wei before the remaining force unreservedly smashed into the Kushan Inner Qi Manifestation’s face.

"Won’t die, right?" Dian Wei awkwardly shook the neck of the Kushan Inner Qi Manifestation master, his punch sunk the opponent’s face.

"..." Ma Chao silently pulled apart from Dian Wei with his trophy, and at this time, Xiahou Yuan and others finally rushed over, looking regretfully at the spoils of the two.

"One punch?" Zhang Xiu twitched at Dian Wei, he just refocused his Inner Qi to rush over with stronger strength, but Dian Wei and Ma Chao had already finished the battle, Ma Chao’s opponent was a weakling, having trouble even against Li Tiao, yet Dian Wei’s picked one was a master, shockingly solved with just one punch.

"It hurt quite a bit." Dian Wei rubbed his chest muscles, having taken a full-strength blow from an Inner Qi Manifestation Perfection master, though there was no Cloud Suppression, it indeed hurt.

Speaking of the normal situation, the physical quality of a Refined Realm Breaker shouldn’t be so exaggerated. The fact that the Kushan Inner Qi Manifestation was hammered to death by one punch from Dian Wei is largely due to Dian Wei’s exaggerated muscle defense stunning him, his attack didn’t even break the skin.

"Can lightning really temper muscles?" Xiahou Dun looked at Dian Wei with a bizarre face, heard that Dian Wei often used Ma Chao as a power source to massage his muscles.

"It really can." Dian Wei effortlessly carried the Kushan Inner Qi Manifestation back, and the group followed suit, though their eyes towards Ma Chao were very interesting, as for real lightning, come on, Dian Wei wasn’t sure he could withstand it.

From a certain standpoint, Lyu Bu is now a monster capable of creating plasma by hand, a single plasma cannon, once hit, it definitely kills whoever it hits, not just the power of the plasma itself, but the attached thousands of degrees of temperature are enough for instant kill.

A number of people quickly returned, basically after the Kushan diplomat finished speaking, Cao Cao ignored and returned to his seat, Dian Wei and Ma Chao had already brought back two comatose Inner Qi Manifestations.

"Mission accomplished!" Ma Chao respectfully saluted Liu Tong.

Liu Tong satisfiedly glanced at the already comatose Kushan masters, this was exactly the effect desired, as for the Kushan Diplomatic Mission was already terrified by this moment.

The group soon returned to their seats, only tossing those two Kushan Inner Qi Manifestations like garbage back to where they were.

"Alright, previously you left your words here, we brought back the people, Grand Herald, foreign envoys openly insult the Han Empire, insult the Grand Princess, how to deal with it." Liu Tong was too lazy to bother with Kushan, avoiding them saying anything more disgusting.

"Only by killing them!" The Grand Herald at this moment hated this group of Kushan envoys, a big affair like marrying the princess didn’t even inform him, now it’s a mess in court, well, he probably won’t be the Grand Herald anymore, this might be his last appearance.

The Han Dynasty never faced such situations, nor had any precedents, but without policies to rely on, according to Han Dynasty’s regulations, it’s all great disrespect, wipe them all out.

"Take them away, send to the Minister of Justice’s Prison, notify the Governor of Yizhou, inform of this matter, Cao Sikong prepare state documents to deliver to the King of the Yuezhi, let the King of the Yuezhi personally give an explanation." Liu Tong coldly said.