Dragon's Origin

Chapter 501: Baoqing Surplus Hall's Hidden Strength (End)

Even legendary masters couldn't resist the Truth Serum Pill, so how could a barbarian in the late stage of the first realm resist? In less than five minutes, the young barbarian was already in a state where he had to answer any question.

A'qi and Old Daoist Lingxu didn't have interrogation skills. Even with the Truth Serum Pill, they couldn't guide the conversation. A'qi rashly asked how many legendary masters their tribe had, which basically left the young barbarian dumbfounded and unable to answer, making A'qi lose face.

In the end, Wang Sheng had to step in. Wang Sheng's interrogation experience was based on scientific methods developed by countless psychologists, medical experts, and interrogation specialists from Earth. Even without the Truth Serum Pill, the other party might not have been able to resist for more than a few days, let alone with the help of the Truth Serum Pill?

The old Daoist and A'qi watched in surprise as Wang Sheng initially asked only very simple questions, such as his name, age, what his Yuan Soul was, when he started cultivating, what cultivation techniques he practiced, and so on. Could such simple things be worth asking?

But then, Wang Sheng continued to ask about trivial matters, such as when he started wearing clothes, when he learned to use a knife, when he learned to eat seasoned food, and so on. The barbarian youth answered them one by one. For him, these questions were answerable and not difficult.

Gradually, Wang Sheng asked about the strange people who had appeared, and the old Daoist and A'qi finally understood that everything before was a prelude, naturally transitioning to this topic.

Baoqing Surplus Hall had indeed brought tremendous changes to these barbarians, from clothing, food, housing, and transportation to cultivation methods. In short, the entire tribe's way of life had changed. They no longer needed the tribe's young and strong to risk their lives hunting.

After cultivating those techniques, hunting became easier, and life became easier and easier.

The people in the tribe were very grateful to Baoqing Surplus Hall for bringing them such great changes, even to the point of being willing to die for them, especially the old Master Zhu with the long beard, who had become the blood-sworn brother of their tribe's chieftain, wielding the power of life and death in the tribe.

Old Master Zhu even brought the deity he believed in to this tribe, making all the tribe members believe in this deity, and he presented himself as the deity's spokesperson. He taught people that everything the tribe now possessed was a blessing from the deity, brought by the deity. The totem god originally worshiped by the tribe was a subordinate of the deity, easily winning over the entire tribe's faith.

Hearing this, Wang Sheng, the old Daoist, and A'qi exchanged glances, basically realizing that this barbarian tribe had been completely controlled by Baoqing Surplus Hall.

One tribe could be played like this, and other tribes could be played the same way. The same methods used on the same barbarian tribes were simply invincible. These uncivilized barbarian tribes, who hadn't even learned to play tricks, easily fell.

The Xia family and those forces who had paid a huge price to conquer the Shanyue lands could cry now. What they had failed to accomplish with countless lives of their ancestors had been achieved by Baoqing Surplus Hall in just a few years, using some cheap daily necessities, mass-produced cultivation manuals, and the simplest religious beliefs.

When Wang Sheng asked the young barbarian how many tribes he knew about around him, the young barbarian said the number seventeen. This was twelve more than A'qi knew, and they were all large tribes with more than thirty to forty thousand people, equivalent in size to the young barbarian's tribe. As for the first small tribe of a few thousand people they encountered, there were dozens more scattered around. Moreover, among the large tribes, the most powerful were said to have three or four tribes with populations exceeding one hundred thousand.

The most powerful masters in the young barbarian's tribe were about several dozen, all of whom the young barbarian looked up to. One of his grandfathers was that kind of master. The young barbarian was very ambitious, and he wanted to cultivate into a master comparable to his grandfather within a few years.

The masters of that level in the barbarian's mouth should be the legendary realm masters that the old Daoist saw! Several dozen in one tribe, and with so many large and small tribes added together proportionally, there would probably be over two thousand.

This number made Wang Sheng, the old Daoist, and A'qi look at each other directly. This population, this territory, and this number of masters were probably not inferior to a medium-sized principality, right? Especially the number of masters, if the Kaixuan Kingdom had had so many masters back then, it would have been impossible for the Tang, Xia, and Feng kingdoms to destroy the Kaixuan Kingdom.

"Why didn't I see a flying mount?" Wang Sheng suddenly thought of a question and asked the young barbarian.

"That is the mount of the deity," the young barbarian answered under the effect of the Truth Serum Pill.

Next, Wang Sheng asked a few more questions before he completely understood. Baoqing Surplus Hall relied on flying mounts to easily subdue the various tribes and make them worship and believe in the deity. In the minds of these simple-minded barbarians, only the powerful deity could conquer the huge flying beasts.

"The flying mounts do not belong to these barbarian tribes," Wang Sheng concluded again: "Baoqing Surplus Hall has other channels to obtain them."

Unknowingly, Baoqing Surplus Hall had become a behemoth with the strength of a medium-sized principality, and even a portion of its strength, such as the flying mounts, was hidden in the dark.

"Will anyone follow us into the Shanyue lands?" Wang Sheng suddenly thought of a question and asked A'qi.

"Definitely," A'qi replied decisively. It would be strange if those principalities didn't send masters in to take a look: "The Xia family is the closest, so they might send a large group of masters in."

"Baoqing Surplus Hall can't possibly not know that we're coming here, right?" Wang Sheng asked again: "We made quite a stir when we left, and there can't be no spies from Baoqing Surplus Hall in the capital."

This time, A'qi and the old Daoist both nodded and remained silent.

"If you were the old Master Zhu of Baoqing Surplus Hall, with such strength, and my son's killer had crashed into your territory, and there were also masters from various countries, what would you do?" Wang Sheng suddenly asked the two a very realistic question: "Wait for us to figure out their details and return to our territory before finding a chance to kill us? Or kill us in the Shanyue lands, their territory?"

"Of course, kill us directly!" Even A'qi, as a lone traveler, knew what to choose. After speaking, A'qi's expression changed slightly.

"Then, where would the masters from Baoqing Surplus Hall who want to kill us be?" Wang Sheng finally asked a question that everyone had already thought of.