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The Blood Moon Cult was very friendly to Zhang Wei's herald and did not show any intention of making things difficult for him.

Not only that, when Sister Cheng, the high priestess and saint, learned that Zhang Wei planned to join forces with Duke White Tiger and Duke Dragon Wing to rob the Neon Empire's caravan, she actually sent someone to escort the messenger and tipped off the enemy, Duke Dragon Wing, in advance to avoid accidentally injuring Zhang Wei's messenger.

The reasons why the Blood Moon Church is so actively involved in this matter are actually quite complicated.

Ever since the Neon Empire occupied the two ports in the east of the kingdom, the Blood Moon Cult has lost the initiative to export goods.

To make matters worse, the Northern Empire also refused to trade with them.

This series of events has put the Blood Moon Cult at the bottom of a trade dilemma. They can only continuously produce large quantities of the kingdom's specialties, and then sell them to the Neon Empire and Zhang Wei at low prices, making a meager profit from them.

Today, the Blood Moon Cult controls six cities, including the massive royal capital.

However, no matter whether it is urban construction, military maintenance or daily operations, all aspects require huge financial support.

If they cannot find a way to change the current predicament, it won't be long before the Blood Moon Cult itself declines and perishes due to lack of resources and malnutrition.

Because of this, the Blood Moon Cult did not hesitate to engage in a fierce battle with Duke Dragon Wing for the eastern part of the kingdom.

Its real purpose is not just to expand territory, but to gain vital access to the sea.

Only by controlling this key transportation hub can the Blood Moon Cult regain trade autonomy and escape its current difficult situation.

However, there are various signs that Duke Longyi is doing something dirty with the Neon Empire. Every time the Blood Moon Cult gains the upper hand, the Neon Empire will suppress the Blood Moon Cult economically, forcing the Blood Moon Cult to temporarily withdraw its troops due to lack of funds.

Duke Longyi was extremely concerned about what Zhang Wei said and specially sent a special envoy with full powers to meet with him.

And this special envoy was none other than Dora Rosales, someone Zhang Wei had known in his previous life.

Time flies, and now Dora has grown into someone who can take on responsibilities on her own, and has even made her mark under the command of Duke Longyi.

At first, Zhang Wei was puzzled as to why Dora, as a plenipotentiary envoy, would hide like a thief in the Blood Moon Cult's caravan heading to Newt City.

The mystery was not revealed until the two met.

It turns out that the reason why Duke Longyi was able to successfully capture Pada Port was inseparable from the strong support of the Neon Empire.

It was actually the fleet and soldiers of the Neon Empire that attacked Pada Port, but because the matter involved a wide range of people and was quite sensitive, it was announced to the outside world that it was Duke Longyi who dispatched troops to capture the city.

According to Dora, the Neon Empire helped Duke Dragon Wing to capture Pada Port more out of a compensatory mentality.

The reason is that the Neon Empire does not allow Duke Dragon Wing to occupy Buzau Castle, Demar City, and Chad City in the eastern part of the kingdom.

The Neon Empire even once attempted to force Duke Longyi to return the occupied city of Tyronia, but this move was strongly resisted and opposed by Duke Longyi.

The Neon Empire was worried that doing so might push Duke Longyi to the hostile Blood Moon Cult. After weighing the pros and cons, it had to give up and adopt other strategies to appease Duke Longyi.

Therefore, the Neon Empire took the initiative to attack and seize the Port of Pada and gave it to Duke Longyi.

However, it should be noted that this "giving away" is actually only half of the gift - although the daily operations, taxation, and trade of Pada Port are all controlled by Duke Dragon Wing, the key port garrison work is still firmly in the hands of the Neon Empire.

According to the Neon side, the reason was that the people under Duke Longyi were not good at naval warfare, so they were kind enough to do the job and assist in the defense for free.

But everyone knew it in their hearts: the so-called lack of naval warfare was just an excuse used by the Neon Empire to restrict the development of the Duke of Longyi's navy and trade fleet.

After all, the Neon Empire controls the island's defense forces, so who the island belongs to will ultimately be determined by the Neon Empire's orders.

In view of this situation, Duke Longyi's terms of cooperation are: as long as Zhang Wei can help him eliminate the Neon Empire's troops stationed in Pada Port, Duke Longyi is willing to only take 20% of the profit share.

Finally, Zhang Wei, Duke White Tiger and Duke Dragon Wing signed the following agreement: In terms of looting the Neon Empire fleet, Zhang Wei would provide the looting fleet, Duke White Tiger would provide Zovia Port as a supply port, and Duke Dragon Wing would provide Pada Port as a supply port. In terms of profit sharing, Zhang Wei would take 50%, Duke White Tiger would take 30%, and Duke Dragon Wing would take 20%.

After the agreement was signed in Newt City, Zhang Wei couldn't wait to mount the dark flying dragon and rushed towards Xina Port like an arrow.

He held tightly in his arms various Heroic Spirit Summoning Stones, which were the result of his hard work day and night.

He was rushing through the dungeon so desperately just to summon an outstanding naval commander for himself.

After all, according to Yuan Shao, since the kingdom has long implemented a maritime ban policy, it may take many years to train a naval commander who can take on important tasks.

After arriving at Xina Port, Zhang Wei immediately found Yuan Shao and went to the secret room with him.

As soon as they entered the secret room, Yuan Shao began to perform rituals, while Zhang Wei quickly put the summoning stones on the ground in order.

They had tried it once before, but to their disappointment, they used a full hundred summoning stones, but only got a group of useless crystal warriors in return.

Apart from their high defensive capabilities, these crystal warriors are a mess in other aspects. Not only are they unable to upgrade their levels, even their basic combat capabilities are extremely limited.

According to Zhang Wei's evaluation, this kind of thing can only be used to block narrow passages or to pretend to be a ceremonial soldier to scare people, and it has no other use.

The second attempt, however, was far more miserable.

Zhang Wei and Yuan Shao used the precious summoning stone presented by their subordinates with great expectations, but in the end they were unable to summon out even a single hair.

For this reason, the angry Zhang Wei once again went to the reincarnation goddess to protest, but the other party accused him of being insincere and using the summoning stone provided by others.

So, this time, Zhang Wei specifically used the summoning stone he had obtained, with the purpose of seeing if his sincerity was really effective.

Three hundred summoning stones of different sizes, during Yuan Shao's one ritual, all turned into various lights and were injected into the formation. Zhang Wei and Yuan Shao stared nervously at the summoning formation emitting colorful lights. Not long after, a beam of light shot straight into the sky, and even the magic formation set up by Zhang Wei and his team in the secret room could not block it at all...