Dressed as the prince's substitute? I took the throne

Chapter 265 Zhang Baitian

Zhou Chuxuan was slightly startled. He obviously didn't expect that Zhang Baitian actually had such a connection with the first generation of Heavenly Masters. "Old Taoist Priest, what kind of thing is that? Why can it block people from entering?"

Zhang Wu smiled faintly and said mysteriously, "Qi Men Dun Jia is the most mysterious thing in the world. You may not believe in it, but it will invisibly affect your life! In fact, the formation that the ancestor set up with Zhang Baitian is not difficult. It is mainly to disrupt people's sight and mind. Ultimately, people lose their sense of direction and spin in place, thus preventing outsiders from entering the valley!"

"I see!"

Zhou Chuxuan nodded. "I've heard before that they not only have 600,000 elite troops, but also countless civilians living in those mountains. They intermarry with each other and never have any contact with the outside world!"

"Each commander is carefully selected at birth. They are called Zhang Baitian! Zhang Baitian is the name of their commander, and every one of them is like this!"

"This means that Zhang Baitian is top-tier in both individual combat and command of large armies! Old Taoist Priest, are you aware of this?"

Zhang Wu pondered for a moment and said, "Your Highness, you still only know one side of the story!"

"Oh?"

Zhou Chuxuan became interested: "Master, do you know anything more?"

"Every commander Zhang Baitian can almost live to be over a hundred years old, and the longest even reached 150 years old!"

"But the strangest thing is that even when they are a hundred years old, they still don't look old!"

Taoist Zhang Wu's words shocked Zhou Chuxuan. "What? What do you mean you're a hundred years old and still look young?"

Zhang Wu smiled, his large white teeth gleaming brightly in the night sky. "That's exactly what you meant, Your Highness! Their appearance is practically the same as when they were young, probably in their twenties or thirties!"

"What?"

Zhou Chuxuan opened his mouth wide, finding it hard to accept for a moment: "Master, this, this can't be right, right? Why? Could it be that Master Zhang Lin once gave them some secret technique that would allow them to maintain their youthful appearance forever? But, there's probably no such thing in this world, is there?"

Zhou Chuxuan scratched his head. Even in his previous life, there were indeed some medicines that could resist aging, but it was possible for a sixty-year-old to look like a forty-year-old.

But how is it possible that this 150-year-old man looks like he is in his twenties or thirties?

"I don't know either!"

Zhang Wu gave a bitter laugh. "Besides, our great master once warned us not to use our divination techniques to infer the people of Zhang Baitian's lineage! Otherwise, we will suffer backlash!"

"Moreover, I also know that even if Zhang Baitian reaches the age of 150, his fighting power will not be reduced much. He will still be as powerful as when he was young."

Zhou Chuxuan scratched his head and asked in confusion, "Master, however, true peerless martial arts require continuous accumulation in blood. They have lived in seclusion in the valley for years and have no combat experience. Isn't this just a closed-door practice? What kind of peerless martial arts can they cultivate?"

"hehe!"

Hearing Zhou Chuxuan's words, the old Taoist priest sneered and curled his lips: "Your Highness, you really underestimate Zhang Baitian's lineage! It's his 600,000 troops who are in seclusion, not him!"

"What does the old Taoist priest mean by this?"

Zhou Chuxuan was slightly stunned.

Zhang Wu fished out a small wine flask from nowhere and took two sips. "Your Highness, Zhang Baitian has had special guards since he was born. They took him around the world, through all kinds of brutal battles, and only returned to the valley to take charge when he was thirty years old!"

"Over the years, he sometimes joined an assassination organization to carry out assassination missions, sometimes became a street thug, and sometimes joined a certain underworld force!"

"Wait, everything is something that others cannot experience. He will experience it all when he is young. In the end, when he returns to the valley, he will become a man who is decisive and murderous, without any emotion!"

"Zhang Baitian is a man of ruthless determination, and his eyes never betray the intimidation of anyone! If the enemy captured his relatives as hostages, he would draw his bow and arrow and kill them without hesitation!"

"Only a man like this can achieve unwavering victory on the battlefield! Only a man like this can inspire fear from all the nations of the Western Regions!"

"The Western Regions back then weren't the small countries they are today. It was once a very powerful country!"

Zhang Wu glanced at Zhou Chuxuan, handed him the wine jug, and continued his story. "That powerful country is called Tianzhu! They claim to be a nation standing at the junction of the gods and the human world. Before the Wu Dynasty was unified into its current territory, the first Zhang Baitian once led 600,000 elite soldiers into Tianzhu!"

"With an unstoppable force, they shattered Tianzhu into pieces. In the end, they killed almost all of the Tianzhu royal family. The Tianzhu royal family could no longer control such a large country and could only allow it to fall apart, becoming the small country in the Western Regions today!"

Zhou Chuxuan had never seen this period of history.

In fact, his understanding of this world is far from enough. This is what troubles Zhou Chuxuan very much. When he traveled through time, his original body was a fool. Not to mention the understanding of the world, it was already very good that he could even remember his own last name.

Therefore, Zhou Chuxuan could hardly find anything useful in his original body's memory. For such a long time, he almost knew some things about this world from others.

"Master, I suddenly remembered something!"

Zhou Chuxuan frowned slightly: "Master, have you ever heard of Yang Li?"

"I heard it!"

Zhang Wu nodded, then smiled at Zhou Chuxuan's shocked gaze and said, "Although the old Taoist lives in seclusion in the mountains, we still need to know what we should know!"

"Could it be that the old Taoist priest also has his own intelligence organization?"

Zhou Chuxuan suddenly had a very absurd idea.

"That's out of the question!"

Zhang Wu smiled slightly: "It's just that my Taoist boy went down the mountain to travel and brought back all the things in the world to tell me about it!"

"hiss!"

Zhou Chuxuan couldn't help but gasp: "Then, how many Daoist children are there?"

"Not many, maybe 1,800!"

Zhang Wu smiled slightly, seemingly not caring at all.

"What's the matter?"