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Chapter 951: Chapter 397 The Grown-Up Children Chapter 951: Chapter 397 The Grown-Up Children Having finished his cultivation, Lu Yuan rose and left the palace, strolling around Mount Jinfeng leisurely.

Mount Jinfeng was one of the Royal Gardens he had been constructing in these recent years.

Throughout these years, as Yangzhou unified, life became peaceful, and Chu State rapidly became prosperous and wealthy.

Not only did a large population begin to converge toward the Imperial Capital Baling, causing the city to expand drastically—more than tenfold in just over a decade—but it also became a huge city spanning hundreds of miles around.

Even Lu Yuan’s imperial city expanded outside Baling, enclosing many scenic spots as Royal Gardens for his own enjoyment.

Mount Jinfeng was one such place.

As a Royal Garden, the scenery of Mount Jinfeng was naturally extremely beautiful.

After wandering for a while and gazing at the lush greenery, Lu Yuan’s mood instantly brightened considerably.

As he walked around, he unconsciously arrived near a waterfall at the mid-mountain, and before he could get close to it, he saw two young figures approaching through the rising mist ahead.

“Greetings to Father Emperor.”

The two approached and saluted Lu Yuan.

“Ah, it’s He’er, Hao’er.”

Seeing the two young men in front of him, a smile spontaneously appeared on Lu Yuan’s face—they were indeed his eldest son, Lu He, and his second son, Lu Hao—so he asked, “Are you two brothers practicing martial arts here?”

Both brothers, Lu He and Lu Hao, inherited excellent genes from Lu Yuan and their mother.

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As they grew up over the years, they had become handsome young noblemen who charmed many a maid in the capital, becoming the object of their affections.

Hearing his father’s question, Lu He, the elder brother, nodded and said, “Father Emperor, my brother and I were indeed practicing martial arts.

We just broke through Innate a few years ago and thought to train our martial arts more.

Therefore, we came to the Purple Smoke Falls to make use of the mutual destruction of water and fire to temper our Red Sun external bodies.”

Five to six years ago, after more than a decade of accumulation, both brothers, Lu He and Lu Hao, had successively made their breakthrough into the Innate Realm, becoming Martial Arts Grandmasters.

Like Zhou Qing and Sun Siwen, they too practiced the “Chiyang Divine Skill” that Lu Yuan had learned and created along the way.

The martial arts external body they ultimately condensed was naturally also refined by Lu Yuan, perfected to the utmost as the Divine Fire of the Red Sun.

The key to cultivating the Chiyang Divine Fire lay in the principle of water and fire opposing each other.

It required martial artists to place themselves in completely opposite water environments to force the Chiyang Divine Fire to grow in order to survive.

This difficult setting slowly strengthened it, achieving the effect of rapidly solidifying the martial arts external body.

This was a small technique that Lu Yuan had figured out in the past years after breaking through Grandmaster, in order to refine his realm.

Later, he recorded the detailed methods into the “Chiyang Divine Skill”.

Lu He and his brother probably read the latest edition of the Divine Skill and came here to try it.

“Good, the path of martial arts requires diligent study and constant practice every day.

With this diligent heart, you will surely be able to accomplish great things in the future.”

Lu Yuan patted his sons on the shoulders, encouraging them full of anticipation: “Father Emperor had a lonely and difficult start in life, without relatives from a young age.

Our Lu family’s foundation can only be supported by Father Emperor alone.

Now that you have grown up, you must not waste your abilities but strive harder.

Father Emperor is waiting for you to grow up and support a piece of the sky for Great Chu.”

Compared to his steady big brother, the younger Lu Hao was full of youthful vigor.

Hearing his father’s encouragement, he confidently said, “Father Emperor, rest assured, with me here, I will certainly defend the lands of the Lu family and prevent the untoward from succeeding.”

Completing his words, Lu Hao then looked at Lu Yuan expectantly, nervously saying, “Father Emperor, I have heard that there are barbarians causing trouble in Hanzhong, encroaching on our borders, utterly abhorrent.

In these years, I have been diligently practicing martial arts, and have also been studying military tactics with Senior Brother Zhou for quite some time, achieving modest success.

But continuously contemplating behind closed doors ultimately remains a paper discussion; it does not grasp the essence.

I wish to ask Father Emperor for a mission, to lead troops to suppress the barbarians in Hanzhong and secure the borders of Great Chu.”

In the past few months, as the Snow Plains Nomads gradually moved into Chu, the Longxi county they had occupied was abandoned little by little.

And the territories left behind were not vacant for long, soon after, some nomadic barbarians from the south followed and occupied them.

In this manner, as we retreated, they advanced.

In a couple of months, once all the nomads had retreated into Chu, the barbarians occupied the entire Longxi county, bordering Chu State.

To have such a people who lived by nomadism, revered the survival of the fittest, and were accustomed to plundering, as neighbors,

It didn’t take much thought to realize that the borders of Chu State could hardly be peaceful.

Indeed, that was the case.

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In recent months, barbarians kept crossing the Longshan, infiltrating the borders of Hanzhong county, starting invasions like those they had previously done to the nomads.

Although these invasions were mostly disorganized, usually involving only dozens or hundreds of men, small bands that couldn’t be called armies, only bandits on horseback.

But as the invasions grew deeper, the barbarians sent more and more men, and with increasing frequency.

According to Huang Xin’s report to Lu Yuan a few days ago, the barbarians had recently sent out forces of a thousand or more.

This was no longer horse banditry, but a real army.

Based on this turn of events, Huang Xin speculated that the barbarians might launch a large-scale invasion soon, attempting to cross the Longshan and enter the warmer Hanzhong county.

Therefore, Huang Xin felt that merely defending was too passive.

Furthermore, setting the battlefield within Hanzhong county meant letting the enemy into their home.

Regardless of victory or defeat, the damage to their foundation was inevitable.