When Zhao Hai rode the strange horse back to the convoy, Captain Hu and the others couldn't help but worry. The strange horse ran away like a madman, running and jumping. It didn't take long for it to disappear and even carried Zhao Hai away. Because they had to protect the convoy, they didn't follow. Although they were confident in Zhao Hai's strength, they couldn't help but worry.
Zhao Hai had used his strength in the past few days to completely convince them. Captain Hu and the others were now completely convinced of Zhao Hai's strength. So when they saw that Zhao Hai was carried away by the crazy horse, they couldn't help but worry.
Now that they saw that Zhao Hai had returned, Captain Hu and the others felt relieved. Captain Hu immediately went to Zhao Hai's side and said, "Young Master Crane Grass, are you alright?"
Zhao Hai smiled faintly and said, "I'm fine. It's really a good horse. Not only is it fast and powerful, it's also very explosive. It's a good horse, not bad. Let's go." When Captain Hu heard Zhao Hai's words, he felt completely relieved. The convoy moved forward.
Zhao Hai rode the strange horse at the front. The strange horse was given a name by Zhao Hai. This name was very special, it was called Mottled Bamboo.
Aside from Zhao Hai, no one knew what the name Mottled Bamboo meant. Zhao Hai saw that the horse looked very strange, so he came up with this name. Naturally, the horse didn't know what it meant. Instead, it happily accepted the name.
Finally, they didn't have to sit in the carriage. To be honest, Zhao Hai's carriage was originally a four-person carriage. In other words, the carriage could seat four people. Even at night, the four of them could live in the carriage, although it was a bit crowded.
However, Zhao Hai's body was too big. Sitting in the carriage made him feel stuffy. That was why he wanted to ride a horse.
They didn't encounter any trouble along the way. The Hu Clan's reputation was there. No one dared to provoke the Hu Clan. After all, there were very few people like the Yang Clan. Of course, this also had a lot to do with the fact that Zhao Hai had dealt with the Yang family.
This time, the Hu Clan decided to let Zhao Hai escort Hu Xian 'er to the Saber Sovereign Pavilion because the Hu Clan found that the atmosphere in the Saber Spirit Nation was a bit strange.
In the past, the Saber Spirit Nation was formed by two factions. One was the royal family. The royal family, the Dao Clan, was the number one clan in the Saber Spirit Nation. They controlled the Saber Spirit Nation's army and officials, as well as the nation's taxes. Logically speaking, such a clan was equivalent to completely controlling the Saber Spirit Nation.
Actually, this wasn't the case. In the Saber Spirit Nation, there were some old and established great clans. These great clans had existed for as long as the Dao Clan. Furthermore, they had a deep foundation. When the Dao Clan was at its peak, they naturally wouldn't touch the Dao Clan. They also wouldn't clash with the Dao Clan. However, slowly, these great clans used all sorts of methods to arrange their clansmen in various cities and slowly controlled those cities.
Although the Dao Clan still controlled the majority of the army, the great clans also controlled some local troops. This made the Dao Clan aware of the danger. Hence, the Dao Clan started to make a move on these great clans.
The Dao Clan also knew that if they rashly made a move on these great clans, they would definitely cause all the great clans to retaliate. Now that these great clans were already established, if they worked together to retaliate, it wouldn't be beneficial to the Saber Spirit Nation at all. If things went wrong, the Saber Spirit Nation might be engulfed in flames and descend into chaos.
Hence, the Dao Clan thought of another method. That was to support some new factions and support some people who were loyal to the Dao Clan. They would let these people establish their own clans and then let them fight with the old and established clans. Slowly, they would wear down the old and established clans. Finally, they would think of a way to get rid of the old and established clans.
After the Dao Clan's continuous efforts, this method really succeeded. They successfully nurtured a third faction in the Saber Spirit Nation. These were the new clans. However, the Dao Clan soon realized that these new clans that they had nurtured were slowly breaking away from their control. They had become a hidden danger in the Saber Spirit Nation.
However, one couldn't say that the Dao Clan's method was a failure. In fact, the Dao Clan's method was very successful. Although the new clans were slowly breaking away from the Dao Clan's control, their relationship with the Dao Clan was still considered secret. What's more, they had already formed a feud with the old and established clans. Both sides were in constant conflict. This wasn't something that could be resolved so easily.
However, these things basically had nothing to do with the Hu Clan. The Hu Clan was a family of botanists. They were on good terms with the Dao Clan. Many of the Hu Clan's disciples were serving in the army. Furthermore, the Hu Clan wasn't as arrogant as the other clans. They controlled cities and nurtured armies.
Logically speaking, the Hu Clan shouldn't be provoked by others. However, the situation was a little different recently. Some of the new clans wanted to break away from the Dao Clan. They wanted to mingle with the old and established clans. The reason why they had such thoughts was because they were very envious of the old and established clans. They wanted to be like the old and established clans. They wanted to be able to control their own cities and nurture their own armies. They wanted to be like the old and established clans.
It was because of such thoughts that the new clans wanted to interact with the old and established clans. They wanted to enter that circle. However, this wasn't an easy task. In the eyes of the old and established clans, the new clans were just nouveau riche. They didn't even have the right to be compared to the old and established clans.
The Hu Clan, on the other hand, was a little different from the old and established clans. They were on good terms with the Dao Clan. This had nothing to do with the old and established clans. However, the Hu Clan wasn't as overbearing as the old and established clans. To the old and established clans, this was a little abnormal. Hence, although the old and established clans didn't isolate the Hu Clan, there weren't many who were on good terms with the Hu Clan.
The new clans had always thought that they weren't accepted by the old and established clans because they hadn't shown their strength. Hence, they thought of a way. They wanted to use the Hu Clan as a stepping stone.
They wanted to use the Hu Clan as a stepping stone to show their strength. They wanted the old and established clans to see that they dared to provoke the Hu Clan and yet the Hu Clan couldn't do anything to them. This was something that the old and established clans had never done before.
The reason why the old and established clans didn't provoke the Hu Clan was that they knew how powerful the Hu Clan was. Although the Hu Clan was very close to the Dao Clan, the Hu Clan was just like the other great clans. They also had their own forces. However, the Hu Clan wasn't very ostentatious. Although they controlled Ling Shan City, they had always pretended to be the City Lord sent by the Dao Clan. Furthermore, they had never disobeyed the orders of the Dao Clan. Most importantly, the Hu Clan didn't raise their own army. Of course, no one doubted the Hu Clan's battle strength.
The new and established clans didn't know about this. They only felt that the Hu Clan was very gentle to outsiders. However, this gentleness was seen as weakness in the eyes of some people. It was precisely because of this that the new and established clans wanted to use the Hu Clan as a stepping stone.
If it was just one or two clans provoking the Hu Clan, the Hu Clan wouldn't really care. What kind of status did the Hu Clan have now? The strength that they revealed to the outside world wasn't very strong. It could only be said that they had some weight in the Plant Masters Association. However, the Hu Clan's hidden strength was far more powerful than what the other clans had imagined. Hence, the Hu Clan didn't really care about ordinary provocations. They were like an old worm. Why would it care about a mosquito's provocation?
However, the Hu Clan didn't expect that their gentle attitude would make these little fellows think that the Hu Clan was strong on the outside but weak on the inside. They were very easy to bully. More and more people started to provoke the Hu Clan. In this case, the Hu Clan naturally couldn't hide. Because of this, the Hu Clan sent out Zhao Hai and gave him authority. They wanted to let Zhao Hai show his strength to these people and let them know that the Hu Clan wasn't easy to provoke.
Zhao Hai was indeed very outstanding. He gave the Yang Clan a scare. Not only did he kill the Yang Clan's people, but he also captured the Yang Clan's Patriarch. In the end, the Yang Clan didn't dare to say anything as they watched Zhao Hai leave. It was also because of Zhao Hai's performance that the small clans that were ready to cause trouble became well-behaved. They didn't dare to provoke the Hu Clan.
Since those small clans had become well-behaved, Zhao Hai and the others naturally didn't encounter any trouble on their way. After almost a month of traveling, they finally arrived at the capital of the Saber Spirit Nation, the Horizontal Saber City.
The Horizontal Saber City was the largest city in the Saber Spirit Nation. It was located between two mountains and two rivers. The two mountains were the Saber Horse Mountain and the Saber Soldier Mountain, while the two rivers were the Min River and the Lan River. It was said that the Clan Head of the Saber Clan had raised his army at the Saber Horse Mountain and fought for hegemony. In the end, he established the foundation of the Saber Spirit Nation. In the end, he grew old and didn't want to fight anymore. He stopped his army at the Saber Soldier Mountain and stopped fighting. Then, he built the Horizontal Saber City on the plains between the two mountains and two rivers.
The city walls of the Horizontal Saber City were five hundred miles long. The entire city was divided into thirty-six districts. Each district had its own independent administrative organization. Apart from that, there was also the Imperial City of the Saber Spirit Nation. The Imperial City was a city within a city that was independent of the thirty-six districts. The thirty-six districts surrounded the Imperial City.
As for the Saber Spirit Nation's number one comprehensive college, the Saber Sovereign Pavilion, it wasn't in the Horizontal Saber City. It was outside the Horizontal Saber City, on a small mountain near the Saber Soldier Mountain. No one remembered the original name of that small mountain. Now, it was called College Mountain.
Zhao Hai stopped Mottled Bamboo and looked at the Horizontal Saber City in the distance, which was like a ferocious beast lying on the plains. He couldn't help but take a deep breath. Then, he turned to Captain Hu and said, "Captain Hu, are we going directly to the Saber Sovereign Pavilion or the Horizontal Saber City?"
Captain Hu said in a low voice, "Let's go to the Saber Sovereign Pavilion. After we report there, we will be free to move around. It won't be too late to go to the Horizontal Saber City then."
Zhao Hai nodded and said, "Alright, let's go then." After he finished speaking, he turned his horse around and headed towards College Mountain.
The College Mountain wasn't very far from the Horizontal Saber City. This was also convenient for the students of the Saber Sovereign Pavilion to play in the Horizontal Saber City during their holidays. Those who could study in the Saber Sovereign Pavilion were either geniuses or had extraordinary family backgrounds. Even if those geniuses' family backgrounds weren't very good, the Saber Sovereign Pavilion would still provide them with high subsidies. As for those students with good family backgrounds, their spending power was not weak. Hence, the college didn't stop the students from entering the Horizontal Saber City.
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