The misunderstanding was resolved, and the golden dragon felt a little embarrassed, with a trace of flesh-paining expression flashed across his face. After a "brush", a white stone appeared in the dragon's claws.

"Human, you should remove any harm to the dragon clan. The dragon clan should repay you. I will give it to you." The white stone fell lightly into Ouyang Shuo's hand, and the dragon's tail flew and disappeared into the sky.

It's really a dragon that sees its tail but not its head.

Ouyang Shuo took the stone and checked the properties.

[Contract Beast Prayer Stone (1/1)]: Use gold coins to pray and randomly summon the contracted beast eggs. Friendly reminders: One thousand gold coins of wild beasts, one thousand gold coins of spiritual beasts, one hundred thousand gold coins of sub-divine beasts, and one million gold coins of divine beasts.

If an ordinary player gets this prayer stone, it will be nothing more than a waste. Not to mention millions of gold coins, there are very few players who can get 100,000 gold coins.

It is naturally very different when it falls into Ouyang Shuo's hands.

There are dragons of luck, sub-divine beasts such as Xiaoqing and Xiaobai. Ouyang Shuo is not short of contract beasts. What he subconsciously thinks of was a pair of children who were not yet born.

It would be a great blessing if the two little guys were protected by divine beasts when they were born.

Ouyang Shuo only carries two million gold coins with him, but he dare not use it now. He should wait until the global auction is over before praying for it.

Thinking of this, Ouyang Shuo put the prayer stone into the storage bag.

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On November 11, after experiencing that storm, the Royal Fleet arrived in Xingzhou County successfully. Accompanied by the governor of Xingzhou County Gu Xiuwen, Ouyang Shuo visited the Lion City with great interest.

As the Qianxing King City, Lion City has a strong urban construction foundation. Under the operation of Daxia, it has become a core node of global ocean trade, with merchant ships coming and going to and from ports in an endless stream.

The trade inside the Lion City is also well developed, and more than half of the shops specializing in ocean trade are available.

In addition to the prosperous commerce, the fighting on the islands outside the Lion City has never stopped. The bloody PK between Chinese players and Java adventurers is staged every day, and hundreds of PK madmen have been born.

The total number of players in Java is 20 million, second only to China, India and the United States, ranking fourth in the world, equivalent to one-fifth of the total number of players in China.

The huge player base is exactly where Java's confidence lies in its fight against the Great Xia Dynasty and China.

Not only Java, but also the base of the ten ASEAN countries is relatively large. Except for the destroyed Star Kingdom, the total number of players in Annan District is 8 million, 600,000 in Nanzhang, 1.2 million in Zhenla, 5 million in Siam, 4.5 million in Piao, 8 million in Luzon, 2.5 million in Johor, and 2.5 million in Johor, and only 40,000 in at least 40,000 players in the country.

The total number of players in the nine existing countries in ASEAN combined is nearly 50 million, equivalent to half of the Chinese region.

A year and a half have passed, and earth-shaking changes have taken place in ASEAN. What made Ouyang Shuo most uneasy is that the nine existing ASEAN countries have all decided on regional overlords.

There is only one lord left in every country.

Take Johor as an example. A year ago, Johor was still in the country with two strongest forces in Perak City and Sabah City, but now Johor is the only one in Perak City, which is the only one in Sanda.

Guo Yannan, who is of Chinese origin, was defeated by Sanda, and his territory Sabah City was integrated into Pili City as a whole.

Behind the rapid annexation of the territories of ASEAN countries, there is the shadow of [Silver Hand]. It was precisely because of Ouyang Shuo's strategic intention to balance ASEAN, that he attempted to muddle the water.

Because there are only nine overlords left in the entire ASEAN, there are fewer constraints in the joint decision-making within ASEAN, which has also vanished the efforts of Daxia to cultivate trusted forces at home.

Among the nine overlords, the three giants were the lord of Java Uais, the lord of Annan Ruan Tianque and the lord of Luzon Matin, the lord of Siam Tirad, the lord of Phu Mo'an Yin and the lord of Johor Sanda.

The three lords of Zhenla Kingdom, Bi Wenlie, the lord of Nanzhang Kingdom, and the lord of Ni Country, Abdul, basically have no say in ASEAN, and everything depends on the eyes of the three giants.

I don’t know if it’s a coincidence or something, but the three giants and Daxia are both hostile.

So far, Java, Annan and Luzon have not established trade relations with Daxia.

Not to mention Java, this is a feud and there is no room for reconciliation. Annan was beaten twice by the Daxia fleet, which was "orally convinced but not convinced". The resentment in his heart was no less than Java.

The grievances between Luzon and Daxia include both "favor" factors and conflicts of interest. The Great Xia Dynasty developed the Xisha Islands, Zhongsha Islands and Nansha Islands on a large scale, greatly compressing the marine space of Luzon.

ASEAN is faintly divided into two factions, one is the pro-war faction and the other is the moderate faction.

Needless to say, the three giants are all hard-core battle factions, and they will join the Nanzhang Kingdom, which also borders Daxia, to form a faction; the remaining five countries maintain trade relations with Daxia and form a moderate faction together.

The two factions were originally in a balance of power, but with the unification of various domestic forces, this balance of power was in danger of being broken.

It was also under such circumstances that in order to break the deadlock, Ouyang Shuo took the initiative to sign the "Pan Pacific Trade Partnership Agreement" with the ASEAN lords to open up trade dividends with the Mediterranean.

The purpose is naturally to consolidate relations with Johor and other territorial areas and strengthen the existence of Xia in ASEAN.

Of course, the Pan-Pacific Trade Partnership Agreement can also be regarded as a smoke bomb or bait thrown by Ouyang Shuo, with the intention of paralyzing ASEAN.

No matter what considerations are made, crushing ASEAN and preventing it from posing a substantial threat to Daxia's ocean trade is one of Ouyang Shuo's medium- and long-term goals.

To achieve this goal, it is not possible to not see some blood.

However, before actually waving the butcher knife, Ouyang Shuo could not let the ASEAN lords see through his intentions. In that case, the nine overlords would probably be firmly hugged in advance.

If this is the case, Ouyang Shuo is really not sure to leverage ASEAN.

Not to mention, the base of only 50 million players is not something that the current Daxia Dynasty can leverage. The only way is to defeat each one, which requires superb diplomatic art cooperation.

Before Ouyang Shuo arrived in Xingzhou County, Honglu Temple cooperated with the Commerce Department to carry out three rounds of measures with the five countries of Johor, Piao, Siam, Zhenla and Ni on the Pan-Pacific Trade Partnership Agreement.

Unfortunately, the negotiations were not ideal, so Ouyang Shuo asked to take action personally.

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At 2 p.m., Sin Chew Port.

In order to show sincerity, Ouyang Shuo specially welcomed the five lords at the port to fulfill the friendship of the landlords.

At the agreed time, the four people of Siam lord Tirad, the Phu lord Mo Anyin, the Johor lord Sanda and the Clay lord Abdul were invited to the Lion City.

What made Ouyang Shuo frowned was that Bi Wenlie, the lord of Zhenla Kingdom, was not invited to come.

"This is definitely not a good sign!"

The signal that Bi Wenlie did not come was very obvious. Zhen La Kingdom was probably already turning to the main war faction. Ouyang Shuo could not be sure whether there was a shadow of [Silver Hand].

In any case, Bi Wenlie's sudden absence made Ouyang Shuo very embarrassed, which was equivalent to slapping Ouyang Shuo in the face and the Daxia Dynasty in the face.

Before the negotiations began, a shadow was cast.

Although he was already full of anger, Ouyang Shuo smiled on the surface and shook hands with Sanda and others one by one, outsiders could not see any strangeness.

Among the four, Ouyang Shuo was the only one who really came into contact with.

Without exception, the four of them were first-class young talents, and they were all noble, either members of the royal family or heirs to prominent families.

It’s no wonder they can quickly unify the domestic wilderness.

Such an identity has a natural fit with [Silver Hand]. Perhaps in reality, some of their families are not qualified to join [Silver Hand], but given the complex situation in the game world, [Silver Hand] will not stick to the rules and do not mind absorbing new members.

This is the terrifying thing about [Silver Hand]. Faced with external threats, these aristocratic families that have survived for hundreds of years can think of ways to respond.

During the greetings, Sanda and others' eyes floated intentionally or unintentionally to the west of Sin Chew Port, where the vast royal fleet was quietly anchored on the sea, especially the Yu Huang, which was particularly eye-catching.

Sanda and others had no expression on their faces, but their eyes were fixed, and their mood became heavier in an instant.

The main warships of ASEAN countries were either tower ship warships introduced by the Daxia Dynasty or sail battleships introduced from the West, but they had never seen the Z1 warship.

There is no doubt that this is a new generation of warships developed by the Great Xia Dynasty.

What ASEAN feared the most was the powerful navy. Sanda and others originally thought that after introducing the tower ship warships, the combat power of the territorial naval forces could be closer to the Daxia.

Unexpectedly, Daxia actually developed a new type of warship.

This is a big blow.

When Ouyang Shuo saw it, he smiled in his heart. He went to the port to greet him this time and parked the Royal Fleet in a conspicuous position, which was not without the intention of using this to secretly warn Sanda and others.

"Don't look at Zheng Huan, who is jumping around in the main war faction, if you really want to fight, Daxia has some trump cards."

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Ouyang Shuo led Sanda and others to the Shicheng County Magistrate's Mansion to start a new round of negotiations.

What made Ouyang Shuo frowned was that even if he was in charge, Sanda and others were still very tough in their attitude, and they made many unreasonable demands, which vaguely meant "starting on the ground".

Ouyang Shuo smiled coldly and thought to himself, "Do you really think that with the [Silver Hand] behind your back, you can be fearless? It's really a lack of human heart to swallow an elephant."

Seeing this, Ouyang Shuo looked around for a week and said with a smile: "Take this opportunity, I want to announce a news."

Sanda felt inexplicably trembling, and she said with a forced smile: "Look at the ear!" In this confrontation, Sanda and others were not as strong as they showed.

Ouyang Shuo said: "In order to continuously combat pirates, the Great Xia Dynasty will set up maritime cruise checkpoints in the Gulf of Aden to conduct routine inspections of merchant ships. Those who fail the inspection shall not enter the Mediterranean."

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Chapter completed!