First-Year Internship—And You Went to Site 749 to Contain Monsters?!

So those countries seized the opportunity to lash out at Great Han!

They demanded that Lu Ding be sent to an international military tribunal.

They wanted him judged by multiple nations.

They insisted on eradicating this kind of merciless combat style.

In other words, they had begun to fear Lu Ding’s growth. They feared that once Lu Ding reached a certain height, a single throw of Golden Ao Island could sink several regions of their country.

They could not afford such a cost.

Fortunately, Baoji Kingdom helped shoulder some of the pressure.

Great Han wasn’t actually incapable of handling the current strain.

By the time Lu Ding received this news,it was already three days after the war began in Baoji Kingdom’s Royal Capital.

Secretary Qiu sent a message.

[Lu Ding, the situation in Baoji Kingdom’s Royal Capital has blown up, you really did not hold back at all.]

[Right now Great Han is under significant diplomatic pressure.]

[We have proposed a plan for you to consider.]

[First, give up the Empress of Baoji and let them fight over her. You should return quickly, and then use the international military tribunal to buy time. There will be three joint trials; we’ll stall them all.]

[By then, the diplomatic outreach to Demon Continent should bear fruit. If it goes well, we’ll immediately establish relations with the Demon Continent and call Lü Mountain to intervene, violently suppressing any who refuse.]

[If it fails, Great Han will fully prepare for war, and the time gained by those three joint trials will be enough for Great Han’s wartime preparations.]

Facing so much pressure,

Great Han did not choose to abandon Lu Ding or take desperate measures against him.

Instead, they chose to stall first.

If stalling three times fails, then they would simply go to war!

At his current stage of development, Great Han couldn’t claim an absolute sure victory, but making Great Han lose would require a protracted war.

Of course, Great Han had its trump card.

Elder Shui—if pushed too far, Elder Shui could personally go to the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation to effect a mass assimilation.

One hundred thousand Expeditionary Force troops would deploy; then everyone would stop fooling around.

But Great Han did not want to lose Elder Shui unless absolutely necessary.

With a gun in hand, they could remain calm.

When Lu Ding saw these messages,

Gongyang Qingrou had just kicked in and crushed the last enemy’s skull.

Blood splattered everywhere.

Lu Ding hadn’t expected the fallout would be so huge.

If he had known earlier, he wouldn’t have thrown out Golden Ao Island.

He replied to Secretary Qiu’s message.

[Right now I’ve captured the Empress of Baoji and eliminated all the other foreign powerhouses who came to Baoji. Letting her go like this leaves me a bit unwilling.]

Secretary Qiu’s response came almost instantly.

[Secretary Qiu: We can’t let her stay with you. Taking her is a burden. On the way from Baoji Kingdom back to Great Han, although there’s no confirmed intelligence yet about who might ambush you, there definitely will be people trying. Only by handing her over can your return go more smoothly.]

[The rest you don’t need to worry about. Give the Empress of Baoji to Cao Lie and the others. You bring your people back quietly. They will divert the enemies’ attention; otherwise you won’t be able to leave Baoji Kingdom.]

Lu Ding laughed.

He had thought there were other reasons to force him to give up the Empress.

It turned out people wanted to intercept him.

What a joke. When he lacked Celestial Shift, others tried to intercept him and he didn’t bother countering them. Now that he had Celestial Shift, and these fools still tried the same interception tactics?

Stupid!!!!

Lu Ding wasn’t going to play their game.

He also understood Secretary Qiu’s implication.

Handing the Empress of Baoji to Cao Lie meant letting Cao Lie and the others draw the fire for him.

Faced with countless interception attempts on the return journey, although Cao Lie and his team were indeed fierce, returning entirely unscathed was unlikely.

Lu Ding disliked burdening others.

He also hated seeing others pay a price because of him.

As if Cao Lie and the others had no family or friends of their own.

People worried about Lu Ding’s safety, and others would worry about theirs just the same.

He sent Secretary Qiu a message.

[Secretary Qiu, where are you right now?]

Secretary Qiu didn’t know why Lu Ding asked, but he replied.

[I’m at the State Council. We just finished a meeting discussing your matter. What is it?]

[Lu Ding: I’ve never been to the State Council, don’t know what it looks like. I have no sense of it. You should go back to Elder Shui’s office first. Let me know when you arrive.]

Secretary Qiu was puzzled, but answered: [Okay]

Phone put down,

Lu Ding looked at the Baoji Empress subdued by Gongyang Qingrou.

The instant his gaze fell on her,

the expression on the Empress of Baoji’s face turned into mockery.

“You think you can still go home peacefully? Lu Ding, you’re finished. You will be remembered by every nation. Assassinations and ambushes will haunt you forever. The road back to Great Han will be full of thorns. Do you think you can wade back through it!?”

“A tall tree attracts the wind and must be broken. You do not know how to hide, you flaunt yourself, you have lost your humanity, this is your retribution!!!!”

She was an empress, a national leader, with clear thinking and no defects in reasoning.

She understood what would follow when Lu Ding used those methods and fought like that.

If it were another country under assault instead of Baoji,

she would not allow Lu Ding to keep developing. She would crush him in the cradle.

Because Lu Ding was too threatening.

Especially for a country or a power, a person like him, if left alive, would keep them up at night.

Who could say whether such a madman might one day suddenly come and detonate himself against you?

On the battlefield, encountering someone like Lu Ding was a nightmare; any nation would get a headache.

Lu Ding nodded. Since Secretary Qiu still hadn’t returned, he might as well chat with her.

He crouched down. “Fine, let’s bet.”

“If I can return to Great Han safe and sound, and deliver you intact to Great Han to face trial, then I win. You lose a slap from me. I’ll give you a fat, round slap because you scream and shout so much—your shouting annoys me.”

Saying that, Lu Ding scooped up a handful of dirt.

“If I can’t do what I said, I lose. I’ll give you a scoop of earth from your homeland. Maybe I’ll feed it to you before you die so you don’t die in a foreign land, or scatter it on your tomb so you can fall back into your roots. You can choose. Even if something happens, I’ll surely die after you.”

“Like you said, my importance cannot be ignored. I’m definitely more valuable than a fallen ruler like you, someone to be used by Great Han for negotiations. You’re just a dethroned monarch.”

The Empress of Baoji looked at Lu Ding coldly. “You’re very confident. I’ll take that bet.”

She wanted to see how Lu Ding would bring her through countless obstacles back to Great Han.