Wuxia: The Super Slave Master

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"Hmph, don't think I don't know. Weren't those people you called over just now?"

Upon hearing this, Zhou Yu immediately knelt down.

"My lord, I...I'm innocent!"

Just then, a junior officer stepped forward; he was one of Gan Ning's men.

"My lord, this is the original letter!"

As he spoke, the young general took out a tattered cloth, on which were recorded the good deeds that Zhou Yu had done.

"What explanation do you have?!"

It turned out that after receiving Zhou Yu's letter, the young general did not immediately deliver it to Gan Ning, but instead wrote one himself before handing it to Gan Ning.

Zhou Yu burst into laughter: "I never expected that I, Zhou Yu, who have been so clever all my life, would be defeated by you!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhou Yu pulled out a dagger and tried to pounce on Luo Chen, but Luo Chen immediately used a dislocated wrist technique to break Zhou Yu's wrist.

Upon seeing Zhou Yu captured, the three thousand men hidden in the woods suddenly rushed out.

Zhou Yu smiled and said to Luo Chen, "Speaking of intelligence, I haven't truly lost to you. I've only lost to my own lord. But soon, you will be buried with me."

As he spoke, Zhou Yu became even happier. Gan Ning led his men out and surrounded them.

"Do you think that just because I saw through your scheme, I didn't come up with any countermeasures?"

Suddenly, the ground shook violently, and the vast land split in half. Countless people rushed out from underground and slaughtered the three thousand soldiers, leaving them bloodied and battered.

"Ever since you revealed this plan, we've gathered three thousand men and dug tunnels all the way here. If you surrender, I won't kill you, how about that?"

Luo Chen still wanted to give this super general one last chance. If he really just laid down his weapon, Luo Chen would not kill him.

"If you want me to submit to you, fine, you'll have to beat me first!"

After saying that, he quickly attacked Luo Chen, but in less than three rounds, Gan Ning knelt on the ground.

Luo Chen looked at him: "As the saying goes, a word spoken is a word kept, you won't go back on your word, will you?"

Gan Ning threw his longsword to the ground and immediately knelt down.

"Your Majesty, I have seen you!"

Luo Chen pulled out two bottles: "Drink them both, they'll help with your injuries!"

After speaking, Gan Ning took the two bottles from Luo Chen and drank them down.

Chapter 172 Sun Xiaomei's Difficulties

Zhou Yu glared fiercely at Gan Ning, but Gan Ning seemed not to see him at all and turned his head away.

Luo Chen understood that as long as this guy was alive, many generals of Eastern Wu would still have a glimmer of hope for him. But was Luo Chen such a good person?

Luo Chen sneered, and his long sword swiftly fell upon Zhou Yu's head. The officials who had come to offer sacrifices were stunned. At the same time, the story of Luo Chen beheading Zhou Yu quickly spread to the remaining lords.

What followed seemed to happen naturally. Luo Chen and Sun Shangxiang's wedding proceeded without any obstruction until Luo Chen arrived at Sun Shangxiang's residence.

A few girls came out. They probably didn't come to serve their master in bed, did they?

Thinking about it carefully, there's nothing strange about it. Didn't people in ancient times have this kind of custom?

Alright, I'll do as the Romans do. Just as I was about to embrace the women in armor, they all shyly took a step back, their faces flushed red, looking quite beautiful.

"Young master, the young lady specifically instructed us to wait here."

Luo Chen nodded: "I wonder what Miss means by this?"

“Our young lady said that the man who can be her husband must be both a man of great literary talent and a man of unparalleled martial arts skills! I wonder if you would like to test his martial arts skills or his literary talent first?”

The speaker was a girl of about seventeen or eighteen years old. Luo Chen gently touched her nose, which made her blush again.

"Tell me, what do you think of its literary quality?"

The little girl looked around and saw a lotus flower blooming in the pond in the distance.

"Young master, look, these lotus flowers are in full bloom. Please compose a poem on the theme of lotus flowers!"

This was no problem for Luo Chen, who was a person who had transmigrated from the modern world. So Luo Chen snorted a couple of times, while Sun Shangxiang pricked up her ears in the house. If this guy said any unpleasant poems later, I would refuse to marry him. Even if he was my brother, he couldn't say anything to me.

She secretly made up her mind, but when she thought of Luo Chen's frivolous behavior in the main hall, her face flushed red with embarrassment. Damn it, what's wrong with me?

"Among the flowers of land and water, there are many that are lovely. Zhou Jiang Ziya alone loved chrysanthemums, and since the Spring and Autumn Period, people have greatly loved peonies."

I love the lotus for its purity, rising from the mud unsullied, washed clean by the clear ripples without becoming seductive, its stem straight and hollow, neither creeping nor branching, its fragrance growing more pure as it spreads, standing tall and clean, to be admired from afar but not to be trifled with.

What kind of poem is this? Sun Shangxiang had never heard of it before, but recalling the imagery in the poem, she felt that Luo Chen had a sense of cold indifference, as if he were the only one in the world.

Sun Shangxiang hesitated for a moment, then knocked three times inside her house.

"Has the young master explained?"

Luo Chen knew that Sun Shangxiang inside was rubbing her ear and eavesdropping by the door, so he simply opened his mouth wide.

"This is not actually a poem, but a lyric, and this lyric is precisely about Miss Sun, who stands alone in the world and is different from ordinary young ladies from wealthy families!"

So this was actually referring to herself? Sun Shangxiang had received instruction from many famous teachers since childhood, so she naturally knew what a double entendre was.

Okay, so he knows these things too.

Just then, Sun Shangxiang pushed open her door.

"So you're saying I can go in now?"

To everyone's surprise, Sun Shangxiang did not make an invitation, but instead came directly to Luo Chen, holding a long sword in her hand.

“Miss, we already clashed in the council chamber last time. Is there any need for another fight?”

No sooner had Luo Chen finished speaking than Sun Shangxiang thrust her sword at him, forcing Luo Chen to stumble backward and crash into a weapon rack.

Luo Chen turned around and picked up a sword. But as soon as the sword fell, it split in two. Sun Shangxiang, with her eyes wide open, thrust out another sword.

Originally, she thought the sword would stop when it reached Luo Chen, but unexpectedly, Luo Chen raised one hand and the sword pierced through.

She had fought with Luo Chen before and knew that if Luo Chen wanted to dodge this sword, it would be an easy task. Why was this person so stupid?

In fact, Luo Chen wasn't stupid; he just didn't want to hurt her. It's just that Sun Shangxiang didn't understand why Luo Chen would do this, which is why she acted this way.

"Why...why didn't you dodge just now?"

Luo Chen said calmly, "You are my wife, why should I hide?"

As the saying goes, a moment of spring night is worth a thousand pieces of gold. Luo Chen no longer wanted to waste any more time. Sun Shangxiang's sword slowly fell down. Luo Chen smiled calmly, picked her up, and walked into the room. He used his inner strength to close the door in an instant.

Luo Chen gently placed Sun Shangxiang on the bed, revealing a tender expression.

"Madam, it's time for us to retire for the night!"

Sun Shangxiang nodded, and Luo Chen raised his head, blew out the candle, and was about to pounce on her when Sun Shangxiang placed her slender hand on Luo Chen's lips.

"You... no, Young Master Luo... not... husband, would you be willing to compose another poem for me?"

It seems this young lady from the Sun family is quite the riddle-solver of poetry. Luo Chen gently took her hand in his.

Looking tenderly at the proud and pitiful woman before him, he murmured, "My heart is not a stone, it cannot be turned. My heart is not a mat, it cannot be rolled up. My dignified bearing is unmatched."

It was as if a critical hit of ten thousand points had struck Sun Shangxiang's heart. So she gently closed her eyes, and Luo Chen also grasped something ungraspable from bottom to top, and even slid it gently a few times.

Yu Lian beneath him let out a soft moan, and a terrifying rage directly assaulted Luo Chen's will. In a few swift movements, Luo Chen used both hands to unleash the peerless martial art of "Except for Your Weapon".

That night, none of the servants in Sun Xiaomei's mansion could sleep peacefully, because Sun Xiaomei's voice was too loud and too alluring.

After waking up the next day, Luo Chen took his wife and prepared to leave Jiangdong. After meeting Madam Wu and Sun Quan, they set off.

However, there were many people in Jiangdong who opposed him, including Lu Su and others. But Sun Quan rejected them one by one, and they could not appeal. The group left indignantly. Even after leaving the city lord's mansion, they still couldn't understand why their lord listened to Luo Chen so much.

Meanwhile, Cao Cao's vanguard was defeated, and in a fit of rage, Cao Cao devoted all the troops he needed to conquer the north to Luo Chen.

Luo Chen appointed Zhuge Liang as his operational advisor, placing all troop movements under his control. He also dispatched Pang Tong directly to the northwest to find Ma Teng and others, and to join them in launching a campaign against Cao Cao.

Chapter 173 Pretending to be Ambushed

When Luo Chen returned to Xiangyang, Diao Chan and Cai Yan came out to greet him with great joy, but their expressions seemed strange.

Luo Chen immediately focused his divine sense on the two women. It turned out that after following Luo Chen around for more than ten years, the two women had begun to enter middle age. Naturally, Luo Chen was unwilling to accept the thought that they would only become middle-aged women in the future.

So he searched around in the system and found a dozen or so Youth Preservation Pills. These were far superior to the age-freezing needles of later generations. Luo Chen himself had absorbed the fortune of multiple worlds, so not only would his life be incredibly long, but his appearance would also remain unchanged for a thousand years.

"So my husband has such a treasure. Why didn't you bring it out sooner?"

Madam Mi was always fond of taking advantage of small things, so she secretly took one more than others.

Although Cai Yan was the leader of all the women, the sisters usually showed the most love and respect for Lady Gan, so she handed over her youth-preserving elixir to her.

Luo Chen gently patted her small hand: "What are you doing? If you want this kind of pill, your husband has plenty of them. Why go to such lengths!"

Her face flushed slightly, and Cai Yan dared not insist any further, so she put the pill away.

As for the younger generation, Zou Xiaoqin, Zhen Mi, Sun Shangxiang, the two Qiao sisters, and Huang Yueying, they watched from the sidelines with their eyes practically popping out of their sockets. Luo Chen patted his head, realizing he had almost forgotten about them.

However, there was a price to pay for wanting it, so Luo Chen turned around and pulled all the women into his room one by one. There was a large bed specially made for them, enough for all of them to sleep comfortably.

Luo Chen didn't stand on ceremony and pulled them all onto the bed. The battle lasted for three days before it finally subsided.

Zhuge Liang received good news at this time, but seeing that his lord had fought so hard with so many wives for so long and was still able to act as if nothing had happened, he couldn't help but admire him.

However, this was a matter for the master, and Zhuge Liang dared not say more.

"Reporting to my master, Cao Cao has now been defeated by me at the Battle of Red Cliffs. I expect he will not be able to raise an army again for at least three to five years!"

Luo Chen shouted "Good!" loudly, but Zhuge Liang's expression darkened again. Luo Chen asked him what was wrong.

"But with Liu Bei appearing in Western Shu, I'm afraid Guan Yu and Zhang Fei won't be able to hold him back!"

How could Guan Yu have forgotten about this? But he didn't expect Liu Bei to survive such a serious injury. All that doesn't matter now. Luo Chen sent Wei Yan and others to personally escort Guan Yu and Zhang Fei back.

That way, we won't have to worry about this guy going through all sorts of trouble on the way again!

Seeing Cao Cao flee back to Xuchang in disarray, Luo Chen thought that if nothing else happened, he and Cao Cao would never be able to see each other again. With a sigh, he also thought of Jingzhou's current awkward position.

Fortunately, Luo Chen has now completely taken control of the Jiangdong forces. All they need to do now is fight the foreign tribes on their own land and help Luo Chen resist Cao Cao, and then they will be out of the picture.

After this crushing defeat, Cao Cao is unlikely to cause any significant trouble. The only threats to Luo Chen are the western Sichuan region and the Tujia territory further south.

As the saying goes, you should always pick the softest persimmon.

Luo Chen's gaze fell upon Shi Xie, who only possessed four territories. He then personally submitted a so-called memorial to Cao Cao, who, however, had a plan in mind.

He directly allocated the South China Sea and other places to Sun Quan of Jiangdong, hoping to use this opportunity to provoke discord between the two sides. Naturally, the Jiangdong region was already in turmoil, with everyone resenting why their lord was always thinking of sending his brothers to Luo Chen to serve.

So they all submitted memorials, but Sun Quan suppressed them all. He also invited some important civil and military officials to his residence under the guise of a banquet, and then tricked them into drinking the blood of the demon king.

With these newborn slaves, the various forces in Jiangdong were instantly subdued. This was because power is often concentrated in the hands of certain individuals. However, these individuals usually stir up trouble for their own benefit. Now that everyone is focused on Luo Chen, there is naturally no room for others to interfere.

Cao Cao was very curious as to why the once bustling Jiangdong had suddenly become quiet. Was the war over? And why were they giving up the South China Sea and other places?

Shi Xie summoned his younger brother, and a young military officer carrying a long sword stepped forward.

Ever since Shi Xie killed the former governor of Jiaozhi, no one in Lingnan dared to oppose him. At first, he was ambitious and wanted to unify the world, but the gap between reality and dreams was huge.

Years of comfortable living and indulging in sensual pleasures have been eroding his body day by day.

He is no longer the man who once rode a horse and commanded armies.

"Brother, did you drink too much again last night?"

The young military general was none other than Shi Yi.

"How can I not drink? Do you know that the useless Eastern Wu is about to lose us!"

"What do you mean by that, elder brother?"

Shi Yi couldn't understand it at all. Wasn't it agreed that as long as we submitted to Eastern Wu, we would be guaranteed lifelong wealth and honor?

Are they going back on their word? If so, then Eastern Wu should rebel against them.

"How could you be the governor of Hepu when Luo Chen has attacked!"

When Shi Yi heard his elder brother's words and looked at his brother's helpless expression, he felt extremely contemptuous.

"Brother, do not be afraid. I will go there and bring you Luo Chen's head in less than three days!"

"What does this mean?"

Shi Yi nodded, and Shi Xie said "okay," then handed over his most powerful beast army to Shi Yi.

Looking at the Lingnan region, Luo Chen saw that it was full of swamps and countless mountains. What was most infuriating was the weather, which was constantly changing, leaving Luo Chen speechless.

However, that's how it is when you're on a march. Fortunately, Zhao Yun was there to keep him company and chat with him, so it wasn't too lonely.