Chapter 254: What Is Your View on This Matter?

In the Demon Race World, within a massive palace.

Here, even a random blade of grass was as tall as a large man.

A young sapling resembled a towering tree.

A single leaf could serve as a bed.

A single floor tile was like a giant boulder.

And a giant boulder seemed like a massive mountain Peak!

A mountain Peak soared into the clouds, its end unseen.

This was the Giant Country, a nation located in the north of the Demon Race World.

The average adult male in the Giant Country stood seventy meters tall, adult females stood sixty meters tall, and legend had it the Giant King himself was over a hundred meters tall!

The Giant Country had no Cultivators, as they could not absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. Instead, they were born at the Heroic Soul Realm.

There are ten total realms for martial artists under heaven:

The three Body Refining Realms: Mud Embryo Realm, Wood Fetus Realm, Stone Spirit Realm.

The three Qi Refining Realms: Heroic Soul Realm, Majestic Spirit Realm, Martial Courage Realm.

The three Spirit Refining Realms: Golden Body Realm, Far Roaming Realm, Mountain Peak Realm.

The final realm: Stopping Realm (divided into three layers).

Within the Giant Country, from the moment a child was born, males were all trained to become warriors!

Furthermore, because the Giant Country governed through martial might, where combat was the prevailing custom, nearly sixty percent of the women were skilled in martial arts!

A qualified warrior of the Giant Country had to at least reach the Peak of the Martial Courage Realm!

With their massive physiques, innate monstrous strength, and heaven-granted martial Dao talent,

the Giant Country rampaged unchecked in the surrounding areas. Since the time of the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Dynasty, they had repeatedly invaded the borders of the Ten Thousand Demon Country!

Later, after being subjugated by the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox, the Giant Country became a vassal state of the Ten Thousand Demon Country, paying annual tribute and swearing fealty. The enthronement of its king required the formal investiture of the Ten Thousand Demon Country’s ruler.

However, when the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox royal family grew corrupt, plunging the world into chaos with warlords rising everywhere, the Giant Country broke free from its vassal status.

The Giant Country had even considered seizing the Ten Thousand Demon Country and proclaiming itself emperor.

But the Elders of the Giant Country were also clear-headed.

Their country, governed through martial might and akin to a barbaric society—leaving aside whether they could defeat those treacherous outsiders to seize the supreme imperial throne and gain the blessing of the Demon Race World’s Luck—

even if they did seize it, with the intellect of their Giant Country, they could never hold onto it.

Therefore, during the chaos in the Demon Race World a thousand years ago, the Giant Country merely plundered resources and did not participate in the struggle for the Ten Thousand Demon Country.

In the end, the Giant Country’s strength actually grew significantly.

After that, when the Heavenly Frost White Snake Clan ascended to the imperial throne, the Giant Country was still very displeased.

Weren’t they all vassal states in the past? Why should you get to be the boss?

Thus, for the following centuries, the Giant Country continuously caused trouble along the Ten Thousand Demon Country’s borders.

The Heavenly Frost White Snake Clan, needing to stabilize the Ten Thousand Demon Country’s situation, temporarily ignored the Giant Country.

By the time the Heavenly Frost White Snake Clan had fully consolidated control over the Ten Thousand Demon Country, another hundred years had passed.

It was then that the Heavenly Frost White Snake Clan, now firmly in power over the Ten Thousand Demon Country, began to plan the pacification of the surrounding rebellious elements.

Among them, the Giant Country was assigned to the Fifth Prince, She Wu, to lead troops in an expedition.

However, over the many years since, the Giant Country continued to provocatively test the Ten Thousand Demon Country’s borders, each time looting and then retreating. She Wu once led his army deep into the Giant Country and almost didn’t make it back.

The Demon Emperor was furious. In a fit of anger, he stripped She Wu of his military authority and ordered the Third Prince, She Shan, to lead the campaign.

Finally, after another fifty years, not only did She Shan achieve nothing, but the Giant Country’s arrogance grew even more rampant. They plundered ten border cities in a row and swaggered away.

The Second Prince, the Fourth Prince, and the Eighth Prince—except for the Crown Prince—all took turns leading expeditions. The best result was merely driving them back to the Giant Country.

But as soon as the princes withdrew their armies, the Giant Country would start harassing again.

The Demon Emperor considered leading a personal expedition several times, wanting to completely annihilate the Giant Country.

But considering the Giant Country’s combat power and the desire to harness it for his own use, he hesitated.

Moreover, mobilizing the entire nation’s strength to attack a small vassal state was far too humiliating.

Even during the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Dynasty, the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox royal family had never done such a thing.

If the Heavenly Frost White Snake Clan did it, it would make them appear even more incompetent than the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Clan.

The Heavenly Frost White Snake Clan’s royal family found itself in a dilemma.

The Demon Emperor even considered whether to arrange a political marriage for the Sixth Princess with the Giant Country.

This would only be a symbolic marriage. Perhaps the Giant King would simply be erased by the Sixth Princess’s inherent “Husband-Killing Curse.”

But the Giant King had long since heard of the “Sixth Princess’s” formidable reputation.

Not to mention the Giant King, in the entire Demon Race World today, was there truly anyone unafraid of death who would dare to marry the Sixth Princess?

The Demon Emperor considered whether to send the Crown Prince to subdue the Giant Country.

If the Crown Prince’s expedition succeeded,

it would greatly enhance his prestige in the court and further solidify his position as Crown Prince.

But conversely, if the expedition failed, the Crown Prince’s prestige would suffer a further blow.

Thus, the matter was repeatedly postponed until now, when the Giant Country once again raided the Ten Thousand Demon Country’s border, bringing the issue back to the court for discussion.

“Your Majesty need not be so conflicted. The Seventh Princess is no less capable than any man. This subject recommends the Seventh Princess to lead the expedition against the Giant Country.”

In the court, the Old State Preceptor stepped forward to propose.

At the Old State Preceptor’s proposal, the officials aligned with the Seventh Princess in the court all straightened their backs proudly.

The minds of the other officials, however, raced, thinking of ways to persuade His Majesty to reject this proposal.

“Father Emperor! I beg Father Emperor to give this son another chance!” The Third Prince stepped forward.

“Father Emperor, three hundred years ago this son was defeated. This son wishes to atone for his failure with merit!” The Fourth Prince stepped forward.

“The Seventh Sister is, after all, a jewel of our Ten Thousand Demon Country. Sending a jewel on an expedition seems improper.” The Fifth Prince added.

“Moreover, the Seventh Sister already oversees the Dark Butterfly Pavilion, which is burden enough. To have her lead a military campaign as well would likely be overly taxing.” The Second Prince nodded gravely.

At the very front, the splendidly dressed young woman in palace attire merely bowed her head slightly, her eyes calm, revealing neither joy nor sorrow.

The reason the Demon Emperor had never allowed his seventh daughter to lead an expedition was precisely because She Qiqi truly might succeed in subduing the Giant Country.

Since the chaos began a thousand years ago, whenever She Qiqi accompanied the army, every attack succeeded, and every battle was won, without exception.

At first, if he had sent his seventh daughter to attack the Giant Country, it would have been fine.

But now, after the failures of the other princes had paved the way, if Qiqi conquered the Giant Country, her momentum would reach a terrifying level.

To say nothing else, among the common folk today, there were already voices saying, ‘If the Seventh Princess were Empress, the Ten Thousand Demon Country would have no worries for ten thousand years.’

However, the Giant Country was different from the campaigns of a thousand years ago.

Back then it was chaos; now it would be the destruction of a country.

And the Giant Country was notoriously easy to defend and hard to attack. Otherwise, the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Clan would have destroyed it long ago instead of making it a vassal state.

If Qiqi failed this time, the Crown Prince’s position might become a bit more secure.

The Demon Emperor looked at his daughter: “Qiqi, what is your view on this matter?”