Shennong Dao Master

Chapter 1755 - 7: Riddled with Doubts, Saint Sinon and the Demonic Scholar

The Carlos Family is one of the founding families of the Red Star Empire. The first Lord Carlos was a founding hero who established the country alongside the first Emperor Red Star.The current Lord Carlos is a powerful Reincarnation Emperor. In terms of personal strength, this Reincarnation Emperor possesses multiple ancestral divine objects.

In terms of imperial authority, the Lord Carlos manages the empire’s northern fortress and can be considered the King of the North.

The descendants of the Carlos Family are also very outstanding; in the selection like the Primordial Conference, someone from the Carlos Family enters every year.

Zhao Xing remembers that in the final examination of the Primordial Conference, there was a genius named Carlos among the top ten.

Colossal families are usually very low-key and do not deliberately promote themselves, but Zhao Xing is well aware.

Because, in his previous life, he once worked short-term jobs for the Carlos Family and often took on exploration tasks they issued.

Zhao Xing does not understand how a force as weak as the Great Zhou could provoke the Carlos Family.

In the eyes of the Carlos Family, the Great Zhou is not even an ant, at most a microorganism.

"Big brother, back then, when you were in the Illusion God Star System developing opportunities for the Great Zhou, we took the first step and followed the people of the Star Fire to the Red Star Empire. In the end, with Jing Yan’s help, we settled on the Fengdu Boundary Star of the Wuye Constellation in the Beihai Star System," Ji Che began recounting past events.

"Jing Yan helped our Great Zhou a lot, and we quickly gained a foothold on the Fengdu Boundary Star, at least we didn’t have to worry about basic survival."

"However, for the Great Zhou to develop, ultimately, we have to rely on ourselves."

Zhao Xing nodded.

Jing Yan can’t arrange everything for the Great Zhou like a caretaker. Even if Jing Yan wanted to, as the demands of the Great Zhou grew, he wouldn’t be able to do it anymore; after all, he’s just a prince with an army of over ten thousand.

"No country becomes powerful through the help of others, so just before your return, in the 127th year of Gengshi, I led people westward out of Jia Chen Pass to seek development for the Great Zhou. Later, when you came back, we discussed it."

"Indeed," Zhao Xing also remembered, because the empire’s northwest needed development, establishing a life road through the Si Yue Desolate Domain would naturally provide more opportunities.

So at the time, he also strongly supported Ji Che and Ji Si leading people out to seek opportunities, as business, agriculture, and industry were already saturated domestically within the Red Star Empire.

The Great Zhou lacked funds and connections and would quickly hit a developmental bottleneck.

Expansion was inevitable, and exploring the unknown cosmic territory beyond the empire’s borders was akin to great seafaring adventures, full of opportunities.

However, over the years, Zhao Xing had been focused on cultivation and was unaware of the extent of the Great Zhou’s achievements.

"...Around the 300th year of Gengshi, big brother had already passed the third round of the Primordial Conference."

"By then, outside the Great Zhou, big brother had gained fame in the Primordial Realm. Inside, Liu Tianning apprenticed under Lord Qianhua and became a Tao Domain Realm practitioner."

"Coupled with me and Ji Si, the Great Zhou already had three Tao Domain Realms and over three thousand Third Realm practitioners."

"Big brother was appreciated by the Beihai Lord Yang Lin, who provided us with some conveniences."

"Thus, around the 380th year of Gengshi, about twenty years before big brother was to participate in the fourth round of the final examination, we established quite a territory in a place outside the pass called ’Annihilation Star Corridor.’

"Annihilation Star Corridor?" Zhao Xing recognized the place just by hearing the name.

The Annihilation Star Corridor pairs with the Si Yue Desolate Domain. In the "Galaxy Thousand Realms" version, it’s a popular map.

When the Red Star Empire was expanding westward, it encountered the obstruction of the Si Yue Desolate Domain. Since the empire was determined to explore westward, it naturally couldn’t rely on opening just one star route.

Imagine if halfway through, it turned out to be a dead end, blocked by dangerous terrain—wouldn’t that waste time? Therefore, the exploration and construction of starry sky routes involve simultaneous exploration of multiple points.

According to past development, the Annihilation Star Corridor was not selected as the empire’s entry point to break through the desolate domain.

Not until the Jia Chen Third, Ninth, Forty-sixth, and Eighty-fifth passes’ star routes were three-quarters complete did the Ministers of Agriculture at the Ancient Hill collect more information. After analysis, it was found more convenient and cost-effective to build another star route through the Annihilation Star Corridor.

The Annihilation Star Corridor is a ruin formed by the collapse of a heap of top-level Boundary Stars, which also resulted in many temporal passages.

Being able to shuttle across space could potentially save time and effort.

Thus, exploration using the Annihilation Star Corridor as a base point began.

Zhao Xing clearly remembered that it took less than five hundred years to open the corridor route.

Not only did the people at the Ancient Hill not lose money, but they even made a huge profit before it was opened.

Because four and a half billion astronomical units northwest of the Annihilation Star Corridor, several small ’Origin Realms’ emerged.

Within the Origin Realms, there are many ’non-renewable’ materials that can be used to make ’Original Divine Weapons’ and ’Reincarnation Divine Weapons!’

"Big brother, do you know this place?" Emperor Wu looked at Zhao Xing’s reaction, somewhat puzzled, because he rarely discussed specific affairs with Mr. Zhao, and the Annihilation Star Corridor name was given a hundred and twenty years ago when Zhao Xing should have been in seclusion.

"I’ve heard a little," Zhao Xing said. "Go on, how did the conflict with the Carlos Family arise?"

Ji Che shook his head, "Actually, we didn’t directly have a conflict with the Carlos Family; it was with their proxy."