As for the experts at the mid-stage of the Celestial Realm, there is only Zhao Yun. Moreover, Zhao Yun's talent is unparalleled, and it is believed that it will not be long before he breaks through to the late-stage of the Celestial Realm and catches up with the four fierce generals.
Wang Xuan has three experts at the early stage of the Celestial Realm: Taishi Ci, Zhang Ren, and Zhang Xiu. Among them, Taishi Ci is on the verge of breaking through and will be able to break through to the mid-stage of the Celestial Realm in less than ten days to half a month.
In addition, Wang Xuan also captured Li Ru, Dong Zhuo's top strategist, who was also at the mid-stage of the Celestial Realm. However, it would not be so easy for Wang Xuan to subdue him.
"It's a pity that Dong Zhuo is unwilling to fight for me. Otherwise, if he had joined me, I would have ten Celestial Realm experts under my command." This thought flashed through Wang Xuan's mind, and he couldn't help but chuckle.
Most of the top strategists in the main world are cunning and shrewd; it would be impossible for Wang Xuan to fool them.
As for military generals, he recruited most of the top generals. Yan Liang and Wen Chou had joined Yuan Shao and were not on good terms with Wang Xuan, so they were not within Wang Xuan's recruitment scope.
Ma Chao and Sun Ce are still young, and even if he manages to recruit them, it will take decades to nurture them.
He's already recruited so many powerful individuals from the main world; he should be content.
Just as Wang Xuan suppressed his distracting thoughts, Miss Cai Yan walked over with a group of little girls, acting as if she were the hostess, and went to arrange accommodations for these powerful generals.
When Huang Zhong, Guan Yu, and the others learned that Cai Yan was the daughter of the great Confucian scholar Zheng Xuan, they couldn't help but look at their "mistress" with higher regard.
With Cai Yan entertaining Huang Zhong and the others, Wang Xuan didn't linger in the Xuan Tian World. With a thought, he returned to the main world.
Pushing open the door, Wang Xuan's expression suddenly turned strange. He listened intently and heard his adoptive father burst into laughter, saying, "With my son Fengxian holding down the fort in Chang'an, how can we worry about the Han Dynasty not being able to revive!"
My son Fengxian! My son Feng'er! Important things must be said twice. I never expected that even though Wang Xuan has changed history so badly, Grand Minister Wang Yun still adopted Lü Bu as his son!
In other words, Wang Xuan now has another cheap brother!
Wang Xuan was speechless; Wang Yun was truly audacious.
Lü Bu's first adoptive father was Ding Yuan, the governor of Bing Province, whom he later killed himself.
Lü Bu's second adoptive father was Dong Zhuo. If Wang Xuan hadn't intervened, Lü Bu would have killed Dong Zhuo himself!
Now that Wang Yun has become Lü Bu's third adoptive father, Wang Xuan can't help but feel a chill for him.
At this moment, Wang Xuan even wanted to knock out his own cheap father and carry him back to the Xuan Tian World, because the main world was just too dangerous.
The idea, once it was born, took root and sprouted as quickly as a seed in spring, growing stronger and stronger.
"Xuan'er, you've come at the right time! Quickly greet your sworn brother!" Wang Yun had already noticed Wang Xuan by now. He held Lu Bu's hand in one hand and Wang Xuan's hand in the other, and introduced him to Wang Xuan with heartfelt sincerity.
Wang Xuan forced a smile, but it looked worse than a grimace.
Fortunately, besides Lü Bu visiting the Wang family, Liu Bei also came. Wang Xuan quickly changed the subject, shouting to Liu Bei, "Brother Xuande, your two sworn brothers need to see you. I'll take you to see them right away!"
After saying that, Wang Xuan immediately broke free from his cheap father's grasp and led Liu Bei into the backyard of the Wang family.
Liu Bei didn't suspect anything. He was just a nobody at the moment, and no one would rack their brains to scheme against him.
After all, casually crushing a nobody only resulted in being hunted down by his two brothers who were at the late-stage Celestial Realm, which was a losing proposition.
Wang Xuan led Liu Bei to the backyard of the Wang family. The area was heavily fortified with arrays, and even Lü Bu could not use his divine sense to scan what was happening there.
"Brother Xuande, I have something very important to tell you!" Wang Xuan said, feigning seriousness, "Your two brothers are no longer in this world!"
"What?! You're saying Yun Chang and Yi De are both dead? How is that possible?!" Liu Bei had just retorted when his vision went black and he was knocked unconscious by Wang Xuan.
Chapter 173 Infiltrating the Dream of the Red Chamber
A month later, Wang Xuan was leisurely drinking wine in the Kunlun Cave Heaven of the Xuan Tian World, with Miss Diao Chan pouring wine for him beside him. He was living a very comfortable life.
Of course, if you ignore the fact that Miss Cai Yan is looking at Wang Xuan with a cold smile, Wang Xuan will be even happier.
"Wang Xuan, you've fallen!" Cai Yan's delicate face was filled with anger, disappointment, and other emotions, which made Wang Xuan feel a sense of guilt for no reason.
Wang Xuan rolled his eyes and said irritably, "You must have misunderstood. I'm not slacking off or enjoying myself; I'm honing my Dao heart."
"You make it sound so real, I almost believed you!" Cai Yan laughed in anger; she had never seen such a shameless person.
However, after lecturing Wang Xuan for a few more minutes, Miss Cai Yan suddenly changed the subject: "You brought so many people back from the main world, aren't you going to do anything about them? The three Liu brothers have already divided up a large area of western land and officially established the Han Dynasty yesterday!"
Wang Xuan burst into laughter upon hearing this.
Wang Xuan was naturally aware that Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei had established the Han Dynasty, as it was Wang Xuan who had given the order.
Wang Xuan dominates the will of Xuan Tian. After the Xuan Tian world transforms into a mythical world, he will be able to control a part of the Heavenly Dao!
Don't think that he can rest easy now. The three paths of Heaven, Earth, and Man coexist, with Heaven being the strongest and Man the weakest. However, Man can also threaten Heaven to a certain extent, so Wang Xuan would never allow Man to be unified.
The Xuan Tian world already has a Tang Dynasty, and now it has created a Han Dynasty, which can keep each other in check.
In the future, he will even create more dynasties of human destiny, tearing humanity to pieces, so that it will never be able to threaten the Way of Heaven.
Cai Yan was naturally unaware of this. The reason why the young lady was so angry was just an excuse to reprimand Wang Xuan for being lazy. In fact, she was worried that Wang Xuan's interests would be taken away by Liu Bei and his two brothers.
With his young lady being so considerate of him, how could Wang Xuan not be happy? Perhaps even Miss Cai Yan herself didn't realize that she was behaving more and more like a virtuous wife.
After so many years of spending time together, Wang Xuan and Cai Yan have developed a very deep affection for each other. They are just one step away from confessing their feelings and winning the heart of their beloved.
Taking advantage of this rare free time, Wang Xuan was about to flirt with the two young ladies when suddenly his expression froze, because the Eternal Tower of Heaven and Earth in his mind had just trembled.
The Eternal Tower of Heaven and Earth was the foundation of Wang Xuan's life, so he naturally dared not neglect it. He quickly used his mind to communicate with the Eternal Tower of Heaven and Earth and took a look at it.
Most of the information in the Tower of Eternity remains the same as before, except that a new world coordinate has been added to the "World Coordinates" column.
"I can travel to a new world again. I hope the new world isn't too powerful, so I can conquer it easily!" Wang Xuan sighed. It's more important to cultivate relationships with the ladies. Exploring the new world doesn't require his main body to take action; he can just send his Xuan Yin avatar over!
The next moment, the Xuan Yin avatar leaped out from beside Wang Xuan, and the Burial World Coffin shrank and flew into his sea of consciousness between his eyebrows.
The Xuan Yin incarnation and Wang Xuan's original body are connected in thought; they are both the same soul and can be considered the same individual.
However, Wang Xuan's true form has much greater potential, while the Xuan Yin Avatar is ultimately formed from Chen Qingzhi's corpse, so its potential is limited and it can only cultivate to the point of perfect divine power at most.
"Eternal Tower of Heaven and Earth, let's begin a new journey of time travel!" Wang Xuan murmured to himself. Then, the power of the Eternal Tower of Heaven and Earth was unleashed, directly projecting his Xuan Yin avatar across countless times and spaces to another world.
The surrounding space twisted and trembled continuously. Wang Xuan's Xuan Yin avatar felt a dizzying sensation and soon arrived in another world.
He first released his divine sense to sense the situation of this world, but as soon as his divine sense left his body, he discovered something was wrong.
Because his divine sense could only detect activity within a radius of ten miles!
This is undoubtedly extremely abnormal, considering that his avatar has already reached the mid-stage of the Celestial Realm, and his divine sense can easily radiate outwards for hundreds of miles!
"The laws of this world severely suppress powerful individuals. With my cultivation at the mid-stage of the Celestial Realm, the destructive power I can unleash is only about the same as that of a martial artist at the Transcendent Realm!" Wang Xuan gasped, knowing that he had entered an extremely troublesome new world.
The spiritual energy in this world is sparse, not much higher than that of the Water Margin world, so it should theoretically be a low-level martial arts world. However, even Wang Xuan's Xuan Yin incarnation was suppressed in this world, so how could a low-level martial arts world possibly achieve this?
In low-level martial arts worlds, the power of Heaven's Will is generally only equivalent to that of a Transcendent Realm martial artist. Even in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, a low-level martial arts world on the verge of advancement, Heaven's Will could only barely exert the strength of the early stage of the Celestial Realm. Wang Xuan could easily crush it!
"This world is extraordinary, capable of suppressing my full strength. Its level is definitely no weaker than that of the Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio world. I just don't know how it compares to the Xuan Tian world." Wang Xuan did not act rashly, but planned to cultivate a group of guides first, and then, when the time was right, guide the Xuan Tian will to launch a large-scale invasion.
He concealed his presence, making himself appear no different from an ordinary person, and spent a few days in a nearby town, getting a general understanding of the world.
In this world, there are the four great families of Jinling: Jia, Shi, Wang, and Xue, as well as the Ningguo Mansion and the Rongguo Mansion.
The Duke of Ningguo was named Jia Yan, and he had a son named Jia Daihua; the Duke of Rongguo was named Jia Yuan, and his son was named Jia Daishan.
Of course, these two families have gone through several generations. Although they are still called Rongguo Mansion and Ningguo Mansion, they no longer hold the title of Duke. According to the rules set by the Great Qing Dynasty that ruled the world (I really don't know what country is in Dream of the Red Chamber. Many people say it is an allusion to the Qing Dynasty, so let's just call it the Great Qing Dynasty), hereditary titles need to be reduced with each generation, so it can be said that each generation is worse than the last.
Rumor has it that a young master from the Rongguo Mansion was born with a jade in his mouth, named Jia Baoyu…
It would be strange if Wang Xuan still didn't know what world he had entered by this point. Other things could be coincidences, but there's only one Jia Baoyu born with a jade in his mouth—this must be the world of *Dream of the Red Chamber*!
"I must go and meet Jia Baoyu, the stubborn stone that mended the heavens!" After inquiring about the situation, Wang Xuan headed straight for the capital.
Jia Baoyu is not only the protagonist of the Dream of the Red Chamber, but also a stubborn stone left over from when Nuwa mended the sky. He is definitely not a simple character.
The previous piece of the stone that mended the sky has already transformed into Sun Wukong. Although the level of the Dream of the Red Chamber world is certainly not as high as that of the Journey to the West world, Jia Baoyu could not possibly be as mediocre as described in the original work!
"If possible, I can emulate the Bodhi Patriarch in Journey to the West and teach Jia Baoyu as Sun Wukong, letting him wreak havoc in the Heavenly Palace and slaughter all the immortals and Buddhas in this world!" Wang Xuan had not taken on any disciples for a long time, but now he wanted to take Jia Baoyu as his disciple.
After all, this is a piece of stone used to mend the sky; it might just be able to train a weaker version of Sun Wukong!
If Jia Baoyu is truly beyond redemption, then don't blame Wang Xuan for being impolite and taking the other party's Baoyu first.
Chapter 174 Unbearable to be Produced
The world of Dream of the Red Chamber is extremely unique. Although it is of a very high level, it is devoid of spiritual energy and its area is not large. Wang Xuan estimated that it was only about half the size of the Earth.
Even though Wang Xuan's strength was suppressed and he could only exert the power of the Transcendent Realm, he could still fly through the air and it wouldn't take long to reach the capital.
About half an hour later, Wang Xuan arrived in the capital city and headed straight for the Rongguo Mansion. Along the way, he used invisibility magic to conceal his figure, so no one could find his whereabouts, and naturally no one came forward to stop him.
He scanned the area with his divine sense and quickly spotted Jia Baoyu's figure.
Jia Baoyu wore a jeweled purple-gold crown to bind his hair, a golden dragon-shaped tassel around his neck, and a five-colored silk ribbon tied with a beautiful jade. It was through that jade that Wang Xuan recognized Jia Baoyu's identity!
"It really is a spiritual jade!" Wang Xuan was truly shocked, because the spiritual jade was filled with a purple light that was difficult to see with the naked eye, clearly a spiritual treasure!
"Could it be that someone refined Jia Baoyu's original form into a magical treasure?" Wang Xuan carefully recalled the original novel of Dream of the Red Chamber, but quickly dismissed the idea.
When Nuwa, the goddess of the Dream of the Red Chamber, mended the sky with stones, she forged 36,501 stubborn stones, each twelve feet high and twenty-four feet square, at the Wuji Cliff of the Great Wilderness Mountain. Nuwa used only 36,500 of them, leaving one unused at the foot of Qinggeng Peak, where Jia Baoyu's original form resided.
Jia Baoyu's original body should still be under Qinggeng Peak. The true spirit of the stone that mended the sky, after millions of years, was reincarnated and transformed into the Jia Baoyu before us.
As for the magical jade worn by Jia Baoyu, it was most likely the work of a powerful figure who intended for the jade to follow Jia Baoyu through reincarnation, thereby absorbing Jia Baoyu's merits and fortune from mending the heavens to perfect the jade!
“Poor Baoyu, most of your merits and fortune have probably been absorbed. No wonder you’re just a spoiled brat instead of a winner in life like Jia Aotian or Jia Ritian.” Wang Xuan looked at Jia Baoyu with some pity, then reached out and pulled Jia Baoyu close to him.
Jia Baoyu was having a good time with several pretty maids when he suddenly appeared out of thin air in another place, where a handsome young man in a white robe was looking at him with pity. His mind went blank for a moment.
"Who are you? What have you done to me?!" It took Jia Baoyu several breaths to come to his senses, and he pointed at Wang Xuan and roared in horror.
Wang Xuan shook his head. Jia Baoyu's temperament was just like that of an ordinary person, with nothing particularly outstanding about him.
"Young man, I am the Ancestor of Xuantian, the ruler of Xuantian, and the master of all realms. Your talent is quite good; would you be willing to follow me on the path of cultivation?" Although Wang Xuan was somewhat disappointed, he still asked. If Jia Baoyu was willing to embark on the path of cultivation, Wang Xuan might not be unwilling to accept him as a disciple.
Wang Xuan was destined to be disappointed. After considering for a moment, Jia Baoyu blurted out, "Is it like those monks and Taoists who become monks and Taoists? Is cultivation difficult? Is it tiring? Can I take a few maids with me?"
Wang Xuan shook his head again and sighed, "He really is hopeless!"
With a wave of his hand, he threw Jia Baoyu back to where he was. He even erased Jia Baoyu's memory of their meeting with him with magic, leaving no trace.
In his previous life, when he read Dream of the Red Chamber, he felt that Jia Baoyu's personality was a bit of a mess, and seeing him today, it was indeed true.
Wang Xuan simply couldn't stand Jia Baoyu, who was so ordinary-minded, had such a terrible personality, and whose merits and fortune had been mostly absorbed by mending the heavens.
He had thought he could create a weaker version of Sun Wukong, but the stubborn rock was ultimately just a stubborn rock, unsuitable for shaping.
More importantly, Jia Baoyu also possesses a magical jade, and the expert capable of forging such a treasure must have ridiculously high cultivation. Wang Xuan didn't want to clash with that expert so early on because of Jia Baoyu.