Chapter 9 Echo of Empty

"You guys get ready and set out for Zhangguo." Zhou Xing said.

"When will we set off, princess?" Zhou Wutian asked.

However, Zhang Ling did not respond at all, and was still stunned and did not make any moves.

"She has been hit hard. Go and get ready to go and leave science." Zhou Xing said.

Zhou Wutian pulled Zhang Ling away from the congress hall and returned to the mansion. He just told the maid to send Zhang Ling back and asked them to pack up their things and prepare to set off.

During the period when they were packing up their things, Zhang Ling finally came back to his senses.

"My father...he..." Before Zhang Ling could say a few words, tears flowed down his face. The maids around him were startled. He didn't know what else to say, so he hurriedly held up his handkerchief.

"Precautions that you didn't see it, don't make a statement. Once it's heard, you will be under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Justice." Zhou Wutian took the handkerchief and said to several maids.

Several maids had never seen Zhou Wutian treat them like this before. They responded in a hurry and vaguely guessed the pros and cons of the matter.

"Little Prince, everything is ready and you can set off at any time." Yun'er stepped forward and said.

"Then let's go." Zhou Wutian said after hearing the maid's reply.

During this trip, due to the urgent situation, there were only two main followers of Zhou Wutian, Zhang Ling, Li Ming and Yun'er, and then dozens of elite guards transferred from outside. Due to the necessary safety protection of the group, it was said to be escorting Zhang Ling back to Zhang State.

Although there were only dozens of imperial guards, the troops stationed in various parts of the Zhou State received instructions to focus on protection, and a group of people rushed to Zhang State without stopping.

Zhou Wutian and Zhang Ling were sitting in the carriage, and Zhang Ling kept sobbing. Zhou Wutian didn't know how to advise him. After thinking, he could only watch Zhang Ling crying. There was nothing he could do. He felt helpless. Although they had known each other for a while, the fate they had already settled was written there, and those relationships happened between them. The two people who had never met before suddenly got together because of the farce, avoiding a lot of embarrassment.

Now, Zhou Wutian is heartbroken when facing this friend who is close to him and his fiancée. After all, he is not able to heal Zhang Ling's pain.

The group of people walked to the border of the Zhou Kingdom. Under the protection of the border troops, they were about to reach the neutral zone on the west side of the five countries. The countries have been in disagreement since ancient times, and there were few alliances, but the five countries had to trade to promote the development of the country. Therefore, the five countries were divided into a neutral zone called "empty" on their western border, facing the area within the mainland. According to the agreement, the five countries were not allowed to send troops here because the Zhou Kingdom and Zhang Kingdom were not connected, so Zhou Wutian and his group had to transfer to Zhang Kingdom through "empty".

After sending Zhou Wutian and his party to the "empty" border, the Zhou army did not leave for a long time, waiting for Zhou Wutian and his party's back to disappear.

"This trip is dangerous. I don't know if the elm heads of the guards can protect them," said Zhou Zhuo, the general stationed in the border.

"Brother, what's the danger of just sending Princess Zhang back?" Zhou Yu asked in confusion.

"You don't understand. If it were normal, how could you be willing to let Wu Tian go so far? Now it's probably the arrangement above." Zhou Zhuo said.

"I seem to understand." Zhou Yu also turned around and watched Zhou Wutian's back disappear at the boundary of "empty".

"Let's go too. There are so many troops here, and staying here for a long time will make people suspicious. You secretly send someone with the surname Zhou to keep up and protect them at all costs." Zhou Zhuo approached Zhou Yu and whispered.

"Well, brother, don't worry." Zhou Yu replied, looking at the place where Zhou Wutian and his party disappeared again.

"Empty" area, Zhuanxing Town.

Zhou Wutian comforted Zhang Ling along the way, and Zhang Ling's condition improved.

"I went on a long trip for the first time, but I didn't expect to come to such a lively place." Seeing that Zhang Ling was less sad, Zhou Wutian took the initiative to talk about the topic.

"The Kong area is the place with the largest flow of people in Zhuan Country, and the flow of people is three times that of capitals in various countries." Li Ming said.

Zhang Ling, who was beside him, just stared blankly outside the carriage without saying a word.

"Well, I have also seen a lot of related content in the book. In order to trade with the central and western regions, this area is divided separately, and the five countries do not station troops here, and are managed by the Soul Stone Division." Zhou Wutian said.

"However, in this case, wouldn't the Soul Stone Master have organized a country and China?" Yun'er asked in confusion.

"The Soul Stone Master has always been arrogant and powerful, and has the reputation of establishing a country. Logically speaking, there should be many Soul Stone Master countries." Zhou Wutian said.

"Since you have it all, why are you rarely seeing the country established by the Soul Stone Master?" Yun'er asked.

"Because there is a young soul stone master, talents with this ability are disdainful to establish a country." Zhou Wutian said.

"This is even more wrong. Since there are so few soul stone masters and they are strong, they should set up their own country and demonstrate their own strength..." Yun'er said.

"If this ability is rare to a certain extent, it will not only be treated as a guest of honor everywhere, but naturally there is no need to find a fixed place to build one." Zhou Wutian said.

"This may be the case." Yun'er said.

"Although there is no direct country, there are relatively many sects and organizations." Zhou Wutian said, "For example, the Soul Stone Master Organization, the largest Soul Stone Master Organization on Hongxing, was established to ensure that the Soul Stone Masters will not be forced to be retained by power."

"How could someone forcefully retain the Soul Stone Master?" Yun'er asked.

"No matter how powerful it is, it is just a person. How to deal with a sect or country? There are many things that happen when forced retaining this kind of thing. After all, this ability is also very jealous. Even if you don't keep it hard, it will be no harm. Since you can't get it and you won't let others get it, it will still be an advantage for yourself." Zhou Wutian said.

"Since that's the case, how can the Soul Stone Master Organization protect them? The Soul Stone Master Organization's Soul Stone Master Organization cannot resist so many countries together." Yun'er asked.

"With more people, they will definitely be stronger, so naturally there will not be many people thinking about it." Zhou Wutian said.

"Your things are probably just recorded in the book. You must have never seen them outside." Zhang Ling suddenly spoke.

"What does it mean?" Zhou Wutian asked.

"The book remembers that things are all personal one-sided views, and most of them are attached with personal subjective factors and cannot be used as a normal reference." Zhang Ling said.

"For example?" Zhou Wutian saw Zhang Ling speaking, and immediately asked her a question to prevent her from falling into sadness again.

"Just talk about why the Soul Stone Master did not establish his own country." Zhang Ling said, "For a long time, it was not that the Soul Stone Master did not want to establish a country, but that the country established in this way was more likely to be hostile."

"What's the reason?" Zhou Wutian asked.

"The appeal of the soul stone master itself is extraordinary, and there are many strong people who can make friends with them, but these all depend on the power of the soul stone master itself. When this generation of soul stone master declined, the country had no main support, so the strong naturally did not want to contribute to this country anymore, and these countries gradually disappeared. Some people even kidnapped the children of the founding soul stone master and wanted to cultivate the next generation of soul stone masters. This has happened a lot." Zhang Ling said.

"So that's it. After all, the countries that have been united by their own strength are far inferior to those of the old ones." Zhou Wutian said.

"Although it is very difficult for the soul stone master to establish a country, once a soul stone master appears in the royal family of a country, the country will expand rapidly and be able to maintain a long time." Zhang Ling continued.

"It seems that the soul stone master is so important. No wonder our Zhou Kingdom can only invite two soul gold masters of the Tianquan level." Zhou Wutian said.

"The Soul Gold Master of this level is already very amazing. Under normal circumstances, he will not serve the country at all. Most of the time it is because their family is serving your Zhou family, so they also serve you together." Zhang Ling said.

"Well, if a soul stone master is produced, that's quite good. It's a pity that I am." Zhou Wutian said with a sigh.

"You can fight with people with attributes and achievements with your own strength, which is already very powerful." Zhang Ling comforted him while seeing this.

Li Ming and Yun'er didn't know what to say or what to do, but just pretended not to hear it and stared out the window.

Zhou Wutian and Zhang Ling didn't care about these two people, and they were still chatting and laughing.

Suddenly, the carriage bumped violently for a few times, "What's going on?" Zhou Wutian asked hurriedly.

Before he could hear the guards outside answered, the carriage suddenly turned to the side.

Li Ming grabbed the window frame tightly, waited for the carriage to stop and quickly flipped out to check the situation.

Yun'er took a slap on one side of the carriage with the carriage.

"Get up quickly." Zhang Ling shouted.

Zhou Wutian came to his senses and opened his eyes and saw that his fair face appeared in front of him, but there was a blush in his fairness.

I don't know what it was in my palm, it was soft.

Zhou Wutian felt that the touch was good and grabbed it hard.

"Hmm. Get up quickly, otherwise I will kill you." Zhang Ling's face almost turned red. He struggled to hit Zhou Wutian, but Zhou Wutian pressed on her, making her unable to move.

If she were in normal times, she would have kicked her away. However, now she is facing Zhou Wutian, and Zhang Ling just couldn't get out of her foot for some reason.

"Ignorance, Ignorance." Zhou Wutian quickly got up, supported the window frame with both hands, and flipped out.

"Hmph." Zhang Ling quickly got up, trying to teach Zhou Wutian a lesson, but seeing that Zhou Wutian was running so fast, he turned around and pulled Yun'er up.

"Is it okay?" Zhang Ling asked.

"Well, it's okay, let's go out and have a look." Yun'er said quickly. After all, he was Zhou Wutian's maid. If something happened to Zhou Wutian, it would not be possible for her.

"You can wait here for me to go out to see what happened. It is also a burden to go out as a weak woman." Zhang Ling said.

"Well, okay, princess, you have to be careful." Yun'er said.

Zhang Ling did not answer, slowly supported the window frame and looked out.

However, what Zhang Ling unexpectedly was that all the guards outside the carriage fell in a pool of blood, and Li Ming was grabbed by a masked man tightly. There were about a dozen masked men around him.

Zhou Wutian stood in front of a masked man in the lead and was talking about something.

"If I'm not mistaken, you are from Wu, right?" Zhou Wutian said, "The only one who has such a big grudge against our Zhou State is probably the only one who has such a big grudge against Wu."

"I didn't expect that the little prince of Zhou also knew the grudge between our Wu and Zhou, and thought you were just Zhou Xing's good-hearted one. Hahaha." The masked man in the lead said provocatively.

The masked people around him mocked him according to the agreement.

"Even if you catch me back, it won't change anything. It will only make you beaten even worse by our Zhou Kingdom." Zhou Wutian said.

"Hmph, we knew the news of King Zhang's death that day. Do you think Wu is just afraid of you, Zhou? It's not because of your cooperation with Zhang. Otherwise, with the ability of Zhou, I'm afraid there will be no place to establish a foothold in this Zhuan Country." The masked man in the lead said.

"You put him down first, we can't run away anyway." Zhou Wutian glanced at Li Ming and said.

The man who was holding Li Ming looked at the man in black in the head. The man in black in the head nodded. The man threw Li Ming aside. Li Ming lay on the ground and gasped heavily.

"What are your purposes? What do you want to do?" Zhou Wutian asked, without showing any fear.

"Although I've been locked up at home, I didn't expect you to have some courage." The masked man in charge hugged his hands in front of his chest and continued, "It's not an important thing to come to take your life today. After all, you are just a waste."

As the masked man in the lead finished speaking, the men in black around him also burst into laughter.

"You are not from Wu, are you?" Zhou Wutian said.

"Hmm?" The masked man in the lead paused.
To be continued...