"roar!"

As if feeling his majesty being challenged, the Demon Dragon Rhino roared angrily, and a dark red flame spurted towards the city. Feeling the scorching temperature and suffocating smell in the flames, everyone on the city wall was stunned. Although this was not the strongest attack of the Demon Dragon Rhino, even this attack could only be blocked by a handful of people on the city wall.

The old man in the golden robe had no panic on his face. He raised his right hand slightly and a huge ice wall suddenly appeared before the fireball. The ice wall seemed to be only about ten centimeters thick, showing a very rich blue color. The moment the ice wall appeared, the burning sensation brought to the people of the city wall suddenly disappeared, and the next moment a bit of cold swept across the space. Although everyone on the city wall understood that the old man was not trying to target them, his heart still trembled.

"It turned out to be him!" Amandelon murmured, but his voice was very loud, and no one around him heard it except Jing Chen. At this moment, Rao's eyes were focused on the battlefield between the golden robe leader and the demon dragon rhinoceros, and he did not notice the changes in Amandelon at that moment.

"boom!"

With a loud bang, the ice wall collided with the fireball, and a large amount of white vapor rose. Most people couldn't see what was happening inside, except for some experts. They clearly saw the scene that happened in the white water vapor. At the moment of the collision, the dark red fireball tightened, then quickly expanded and finally exploded.

Even if most people see this series of changes, they will think that the explosion is the result of the collision between the two. However, the master understands that the leader of the golden robe was plotted this time, and the fireball was not done casually by the demon dragon rhinoceros, but guessed the reaction of the leader of the golden robe and designed trap.

The two of them who took action naturally knew it. A smile of conspiracy flashed in the eyes of the Demon Dragon Rhino, and the corners of the golden robe leader's mouth twitched. Obviously, he had suffered some minor injuries in the fight just now, but he could not show it, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable. Turning his head and looking at Amandelon on the city wall, feeling the old man's gaze. Amandelon hesitated for a moment and nodded slowly. At this moment, the two seemed to have reached some kind of agreement.

"Old guy, does my explosive toxic flame bomb taste good? How does it feel now?" The Demon Dragon Rhino smiled and looked at the golden robe leader who had already calmed down on the city wall. Obviously, he didn't want the old man to hide his support so easily.

Sure enough, its purpose was achieved. Just as the Demon Dragon Rhino finished speaking, a commotion inevitably appeared on the city wall. No one would believe that the powerful golden robe leader was injured, but when they turned their heads and looked at the old man looking forward to his denial, the old man snorted coldly and said, "To deal with you, what is my injury?" He walked slowly into the air, and countless ice crystals appeared under his feet, and the ice crystals seemed to be walking in the air with the old man's body.

"The Road to Ice! It's the Lord of Ice!" I don't know who was the first to recognize the old man's identity. Then, extremely excited voices sounded. Although Jing Chen didn't know what the leader of the golden robe, who was called Lord of Ice was, seeing the excited and awe-inspiring look of the soldiers on the city wall, it was not difficult to imagine his powerful strength. On this continent, the only ones that could make people so respected were the strong, and the peak strong.

"I didn't expect that it was the ice condenser!" There was a hint of surprise in Rios's voice. Obviously, even Rios was a little afraid of the old man's profession.

"Teacher, what is ice condensation master?" This is the first time Jing Chen has heard of this profession. Of course, Jing Chen also understood that in the tens of thousands of years of history on the mainland, many powerful professions have appeared, some even reversed. Unfortunately, most of those professions have not been passed down, not because no one thought about it, but because the cultivation requirements of those professions are too harsh. When he heard that the ice condensation master appeared in Rios, he naturally thought of these.

"Oh." Rios did not answer Jing Chen's words immediately, but sighed and pondered for a while before slowly saying, "Ice Condenser, an extremely powerful profession, is one of the few professions that can own the Demon Realm at level 8. Although his cultivation conditions are extremely harsh, his strength is also recognized."

After a pause, Rios continued, "Maybe you haven't heard the word "Demon Realm", but you must know the realm."

When Rios mentioned the domain, Jing Chen's face suddenly changed, and he couldn't help but tremble. Domain is something exclusive to God. Since Rios mentioned the two, there must be some connection between the two. Could it be...

Thinking of this, Jing Chen didn't dare to continue thinking, but only heard Rios continue, "The similarity between the Demon Realm and the Demon Realm is that it can open up a relatively independent space. In the realm, the controller of the realm is the rules, and saying it is the law. Yes, within the realm, the deity represents the supreme rules; while the Demon Realm is not like this. Although it is also a relatively independent space, the role of the Demon Realm can only limit or suppress the strength of the target, and it will improve the strength of the controller to a certain extent, as one rises and the other falls..."

Rios did not continue, but the meaning he wanted to express was very clear. Jing Chen of course understood Rios's meaning, but he was still a little unbelievable at this moment. Just imagine what kind of picture would it be if two powerful men with similar strengths had one of the Demon Realm and the other did not.

"boom!"

A loud noise under the city interrupted Jing Chen's thoughts. His eyes moved to the source of the sound. He saw that the old man in the golden robe was already fighting with the demon dragon rhinoceros. There was an ice spear with a cold light shining in his hand. His eyes fell on the ice spear, and Jing Chen couldn't help but be stunned. The ice spear was not the holy weapon or even a magic weapon that Jing Chen thought. It looked like the old man condensed it casually.

Although the weapon was shining coldly, it did not have the breath of an enchanter. Obviously, it was not an enchanted weapon. Seeing this, Jing Chen couldn't help but wonder again. He couldn't understand why the old man used this weapon.

As if feeling Jing Chen's doubts, Rios slowly explained, "No need to guess, the weapons of the Ice Condenser are all like this. Don't look at this weapon. Although this is condensed by the Ice Condenser using ice, this ice is not an ordinary ice. It is an ice type condensed in the body from the moment the Ice Condenser began to practice. It is like the magic source of the mage, the fighter's fighting spirit crystal, and the auxiliary spiritual heart. If this ice type is completely destroyed, the Ice Condenser will be almost destroyed."

"Then aren't they afraid that someone will destroy this ice type?" Since the ice type is so important, Jing Chen really doesn't understand how these ice condensers would use such an important thing as weapons.

"Haha." Rios' laughter came from his mind, "Chen, this ice type is the essence of the ice condensation master's cultivation. Just this level 8 ice condensation master, his ice condensation weapon is not inferior to your wild pillar. It can be imagined. Moreover, the degree of compatibility between this ice and ice condensation master is far from comparable to those of us who fight with foreign weapons."

After hearing Rios's words, Jing Chen understood a little bit. At this moment, he couldn't help but sigh that the senior who created the ice condensation master's profession was not considered an exaggerated genius.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

In the field, the sound of ice spear and the body of the demon dragon rhino collided constantly. Obviously, both are strong men who are good at melee combat, and the excitement of the fight is far from the boring match of the magicians during duels. I saw that the two were hit by one spear and me, and the battle was lively.

"boom!"

There was another loud bang, and the spear in the old man's hand hit the complete horn of the demon dragon rhinoceros. A light mixed with dark blue and dark red suddenly rose. The huge shock wave instantly formed a ripples, pushing the old man and the demon dragon rhinoceros to both sides.

Suddenly, a sharp light flashed in the eyes of the Demon Dragon Rhino, and the four hooves hit the ground desperately. With a loud "bang", the four hooves penetrated into the ground more than half a meter deeper. Then, the Demon Dragon Rhino's four hooves exerted force again, and the whole body was like a lightning bolt directly towards the old man. A black-red light lit up from the Demon Dragon Rhino's body, and in the blink of an eye, it had already arrived in front of the old man.

"coax!"

Seeing this scene, everyone standing on the city wall watching the battle exclaimed, and no one expected that the Demon Dragon Rhino would have such a trick. Of course, no one included the old man who was called the Ice Venerable.

Facing the sudden attack of the demon dragon rhinoceros, the eyes of the Ice Master condensed, and his hands waved. The spear formed by the ice species was instantly thrown into the air by him. With a light "bang", the spear had been broken into countless ice. At this moment, these ice icicles were a kind of black color. This was the color that only those ten thousand years of ice would have, but it appeared in the old man's hand Zheng.

At that time, the black ice had just taken shape and the demon dragon rhino had already attacked. In an instant, two rays of light collided, and the expected huge explosion did not appear. A darkness that seemed to be able to swallow everything suddenly rose from the collision between the two and disappeared suddenly the next moment, but neither of them was as casual as before.

Everyone on the city wall felt relieved when they saw that Venerable Bing was fine. Although Armandron was also a master-level strongman, he had been staying in Zeus Academy after all, and rarely came out to walk around, so few people knew him, and few of them knew him.

"I really didn't expect that this beast tide not only sent so many low-level monsters, but also let you, a alien with ancient bloodline, lead the team. It really cost a lot." After the separation, Venerable Ice did not launch an attack immediately. His eyes, which were originally slightly dim, also shot out a Sherao Han light, and his eyes fell on the demon dragon rhinoceros and said slowly.

"Old guy, it feels good to be injured and accompaniment? I know, you just want to delay time and waste the kid I brought this time. Unfortunately, you are destined to miscalculate." After saying no, he ran towards Master Bing again.

The eyes of Master Bing condensed. The Demon Dragon Rhino was right. Now, after he was injured twice, his injuries were superimposed, which had some impact on his ability to continue fighting. Moreover, the Demon Dragon Rhino itself has reached the peak of the lord level and is only one step away from the Duke and Marquis level. He cannot gain any advantage in the battle. At this moment, he just wants to delay some time and recover his injuries.

In March 9004, in this early spring season, most parts of the Eastern Continent can still see some uncompletely melted white snow. The Gama Province, a region that had just experienced the baptism of war, presents a completely different scene. While the other three provinces originally belonged to the Gama Kingdom were still waiting for officials of the Holy Spirit Empire to take office, this territory that was awarded to the third prince of the empire by Emperor Lingjia, was a prosperous and busy scene.

Since that day, after the meetings that decided on most urban administration and military leadership, most families who obtained administrative power or military power have hurriedly returned to the cities under their jurisdiction. Of course, the special puppets mentioned by Jing Chen were also mentioned. Although the strength of this puppet is not as powerful as those who sent them invitations, no one dared to underestimate the strength of these puppets.

For some reason, the aura of these puppets was completely outward. Those with keen perception could even feel the aura of these puppets hundreds of meters away. However, being able to sense and being able to deal with them is different. In the current province of Gama, there are no ones who can compete with these puppets, but there are very few.

I think that those strong people who can fight these puppets will probably not offend Jing Chen for nothing. After all, Jing Chen still has that kind of terrifying puppet with light golden color. With the strength of that kind of puppet, not a level six peak powerhouse. Even ordinary level seven powerhouses may not be able to get it. What's even more terrifying is that no one knows how many terrifying and powerful puppets Jing Chen has in his hands.

This is also a sharp sword hanging in the hearts of all families. Everyone works diligently, for fear of annoying the newly appointed lord and making himself a role model for him to kill the chicken to warn the monkey.

Of course, there is another reason why these families are full of energy, that is, the tax revenue for the first year is only equivalent to 60% of last year, which undoubtedly made many families who were worried about not being able to pay the sufficient taxes back in their hearts. I remember that when they left, Jing Chen announced the news that made them very excited, and everyone was stunned. Sixty percent, this number was too much.

You should know that except for the city of Gama, other places have experienced this war, but there is not much damage. Most of the original defenders of Gama abandoned the city and fled when they saw the Holy Spirit army. Moreover, the military discipline of the Holy Spirit army was extremely strict. Along the way, no matter how city or how huge the Holy Spirit Empire team passed by, there was no incident of the Holy Spirit soldiers harassing the people, so the place suffered almost no losses.

Not much loss was suffered, which made the ruling families not need to spend too much financial resources to build city defense, and tax cuts undoubtedly gave them greater room for development, giving these families more room to do something they wanted to do or need to do, such as competing for resources in the city.

The original intention of these families to rule was to become the largest family in the city. If it were in the past, this might be just an expectation, but now it is not impossible to become the city lord of a city, and it was the city lord who was given great power by Jing Chen. The calories they have were far beyond ordinary people's imagination. Even some chambers of commerce that originally supported the largest family in the city began to turn against each other. No matter what, everyone wanted to cooperate with the strong.

People are very realistic, just like the current form in the province of Gama. Those families who were not particularly strong originally used the power granted by Jing Chen to complete the integration of their city's power in just over a month. It was at this moment that the large families that were originally entrenched in various cities and wanted to rise through the troubled times were completely suppressed.

In fact, there is nothing surprising about all this. New officials must win over a group of their own forces when they take office. At this time, they will hold the lifeblood of reform. However, these big families have no essential mistakes in their practices. They just want to fight for the greatest benefits for their families.

But they stood in the wrong team because they did not see through Jing Chen, and they did not expect that Jing Chen, a boy under the age of 20, could do as if he was not exposed, and even let these big families have no chance to fight back.

Whenever leaders change, there will always be some people standing in the wrong team, and these people standing in the wrong team will not be much better. Just like the big families in various cities, their days can only be described as dire straits, and even dire straits are not enough to describe them.

After countless original partners broke off their relationship with them, the decline of these families was just a matter of time for them. Of course, it was also like they imagined that this decline would definitely be a day of never turning back.

The Lord's Mansion of Gama City, Study Room.

At this moment, there were two people sitting in this spacious study, Jing Chen and Yue Ran. Since that day, Yue Ran has not seen Jing Chen for a while. Now Jing Chen sends someone to the mansion to let him meet him. Yue Ran is also a little confused. Generally speaking, there is nothing important to Jing Chen will not summon him, but Yue Ran really can't see that something important happened in the Kama Province.

After the two sat down, Jing Chen asked, "Uncle Yue, there has been no trouble in the territory recently, right?"

Upon hearing this, Yueran looked at Jing Chen for some reason. Since the empire's withdrawal, the area has returned to its peace for several years, but without tungsten iron ore, its income has definitely dropped sharply, but Yueran also knew that what Jing Chen was referring to was definitely not in this regard.

He frowned slightly, and suddenly Yue Ran remembered something, the bizarre death of civilians and the evil spirit. If there was any chaos in this area, I think these two things must be the ones. Thinking of these two points, Yue Ran became more and more sure. Jing Chen asked about this, and then replied, "Chen, are you trying to ask about the bizarre deaths of civilians and evil spirits before, whether these two things have appeared again?"

Nodded slightly, Jing Chen also showed a look of worry on his face. In the event that there were only two robberies, Jing Chen did not need to hide his thoughts. He was indeed worried about the two things that Yue Ranqi had. After all, there were figures of the Beast Court behind these two things. Although the Beast Court did not lose this time, those four or five-level figures were not in the eyes of the Beast Court. If they lost, they would lose, and they could not reach the point where they would hurt the Beast Court.

Seeing Jing Chen nodding, Yue Ran shook his head and said, "I didn't notice this. The remnants of the beast court seemed to have disappeared overnight. I don't know where they went." After the words came, a hint of worry flashed across Yue Ran's face. Although he didn't know much about the strength of the beast court, just looking at the Nangong family and the Xing Clan are both subordinates of the beast court, Yue Ran could also guess that this beast court must be extraordinary.

After pondering for a moment, Jing Chen said in a deep voice, "Even if this is the case, we still cannot neglect the mastery of the movements of the beast court." The reason why Jing Chen arranged this way was very simple. The beast court could almost be Jing Chen's mortal enemy. Now that Jing Chen can have this strength, it is largely forced out by the beast court's ghostly pursuit.

Suddenly, Yue Ran seemed to remember something and said, "Chen, there is another thing that the following ruling families reacted. Recently, some families have used the ruling families to formulate local tax laws, welfare and other powers to lower the tax rate in their cities, but the welfare is done very well. This has caused many residents who originally belonged to other cities to relocate. Should we control this situation?"

Yue Ran was a little hesitant at this moment. Although this kind of competition seemed a bit cruel, it was undoubtedly a kind of survival of the fittest. The quality of the territory was mainly based on Jing Chen's idea. If Jing Chen did not want some local families to grow bigger, it was necessary to control this vicious competition. Otherwise, everyone flocked to those cities with good treatment. Wouldn't that put Jing Chen, the lord? But on the other hand, if Jing Chen wanted to build a strong territory, this kind of competition was inevitable. Without personnel flow, the actual role of the power allocated to the ruling family would be greatly reduced.

With a faint smile, Jing Chen said slowly, "This is nothing. There is competition in places with interests. If some families cannot survive in this competition, they can only understand that these families are not enough to take on such a great responsibility." Then a silver light flashed in Jing Chen's hand. The communicator left for Jing Chen when Jing and Yue Lu left appeared instantly in Jing Chen's hand Zheng.

Jing Chen felt a little, and said to the communicator, "Adminton, come to my study." After that, Jing Chen turned off the communicator.

Not long after, a knock on the door came, and Jing Chen said, "Come in". He saw a middle-aged man who looked very smart and capable, walked out from outside, came to Jing Chen and gave a deep tribute, "I have seen an adult."

"Well, sit aside." He pointed to the chair beside Yue Ran.

This consul is also a core member of the Yue family. He is now mainly responsible for the promulgation of major decrees in the territory. He has made some daily decisions and has been considered as the top figure in the province of Gama.

After the visitor sat down, Jing Chen said, "You can help me issue two decrees. The first is that the Lord's Mansion will not interfere with the tax and welfare laws issued by any local government. As long as it does not violate the decrees issued by the Empire and the Lord's Mansion, all decrees issued by the local government enjoy recognition from the Lord's Mansion; the second is that in order to promote the balance of military forces between cities, a competition between cities will be held at the end of the year. If the top three, the Lord's Mansion will have corresponding military subsidies. The cities ranked last three will decide the stay and leave of their military leaders based on the actual results of the test in each city."

As soon as these two decrees were released, Yue Ran and the consul of the lord's mansion were stunned. First of all, this is undoubtedly that Jing Chen has recognized the identities of those decrees of low taxes and high welfare. This is undoubtedly telling the ruling families of various cities that Jing Chen acquiesced to this kind of competition. Secondly, although this second decree is a bit vague, it at least makes the families who have taken military power clear. Taking military power does not mean that military power is always in their hands, and there is also competition.

After a pause, Jing Chen spoke again, "Article 3: In principle, families that govern or hold military power are prohibited in the territory from using their power to annex and exclude other families in the city. The Lord's Mansion advocates fair competition. If any family dares to violate the third law, they will directly cancel the qualification to govern or hold military power and will never be hired."

As soon as the third decree was released, Yue Ran and the consul who came out of their family couldn't help but look at each other. None of them expected that Jing Chen would issue such a decree. The promulgation of this third decree undoubtedly destroyed the original expectations of many families, but this kind of destruction was the best result for Jing Chen. Only when there are some forces that can check and balance them in the local area can these families be prepared for danger and work diligently for Jing Chen.

Otherwise, when the families that can compete with them are all removed by various means, the binding power in Jing Chen's hands will undoubtedly be greatly weakened. Although the puppet is also a way, that way is not as good as a family that can threaten its existence in the local area. This threat is actually, after all, people are forgetful and greedy.

At this moment, the knock on the door sounded again.

Jing Chen was slightly stunned and said, "Come in."
Chapter completed!