"Qin Xiao, do you really think that by using the common people as a shield, you can force me to order a ceasefire?"
A trace of sarcasm appeared at the corner of Emperor Qinwu's mouth.
His stern and gloomy face was replaced by a broad smile.
It was as if everything was completely under his control.
"You are still too young. You only know slaughter on the battlefield, but you do not understand the art of political maneuvering."
Emperor Qinwu shook his head. Feeling that victory was on his side, he assumed a condescending posture to educate Qin Xiao.
"History is written by the victors. A true winner does not care about the life or death of the common people."
"As long as I win, I will forever be recorded in history as a wise ruler who loved his people like his own children!"
"And you, Qin Xiao, are nothing but a guilty emperor who attempted to force the people to their deaths. You will go down in infamy for ten thousand years!"
"Watch and learn well. This is the last time I will teach you."
Emperor Qinwu's posture was extremely arrogant, and his bold tone revealed the domineering aura of a sovereign ruling the world.
At this moment, he had completely broken free from the shadow Qin Xiao had cast over him.
In his eyes, the current Qin Xiao was like a trapped beast at death's door.
The civil and military officials, their faces full of joy, stood in a line with Emperor Qinwu.
An endless stream of compliments echoed out.
The area where the officials stood behind Qin Xiao instantly emptied out significantly.
"Have you written it all down?"
"Your Majesty, it has been recorded. After this battle ends, I will dispatch the Brocade Guards to raid their homes and exterminate their clans!"
The Azure Dragon Commander was expressionless. He looked at the group of officials with a murderous glint in his eyes.
Those who betray His Majesty will never be spared!
Hearing the crowd's compliments and flattery, Qin Xiao couldn't help but laugh.
In an instant.
Everyone's gaze fell upon Qin Xiao.
"Hmph! Guilty emperor, you are at death's door, yet you can still laugh!"
A young official rolled his eyes and, in order to curry favor with Emperor Qinwu, immediately jumped out to accuse Qin Xiao.
Seeing someone take the lead, the rest of the civil and military officials couldn't help but feel regret, lamenting that they had acted a step too late.
It was good to be young; the mind was just so sharp.
Emperor Qinwu gave a rebellious smile, not caring in the least.
The outcome was already decided!
Who was still afraid of a mere Qin Xiao?
Now was the best time to pick a side. Too many people were currying favor with Emperor Qinwu, waiting to rise through the ranks and become high officials after Emperor Qinwu ascended the throne once again.
"Shut up! You are not allowed to slander His Majesty!"
"His Majesty loves the people like his own children and is the sage monarch of our time! You rebellious officials and thieves, cease your nonsense!"
Some old officials still chose to stand behind Qin Xiao.
They were all upright and honest people, only they had been suppressed by others, leading to a bumpy political career.
However, ever since Qin Xiao came into power, he didn't care how big your family's influence was or who your backer was.
Anyway, in the Great Qin, Qin Xiao was the highest authority!
Some officials lacked the virtue for their positions, only knowing how to flatter all day long without solving the practical problems of the people.
For people like this, Qin Xiao would not hesitate to behead them as a public warning!
After the massacre, those with stunning talents who had been suppressed, scholars from humble backgrounds living miserably, naturally rose step by step.
And this group of people firmly supported Qin Xiao.
Seeing that the two groups were about to start arguing.
Qin Xiao pressed his hands down.
Only then did the crowd unwillingly shut their mouths.
Qin Xiao looked down at the young official.
A terrifying pressure suddenly crashed down, covering the sky and the earth!
Waves of blood-red energy crashed outward in all directions, layer upon layer!
"Pfft!"
The young official's originally triumphant expression suddenly changed. As if the weight of Mount Tai had been pressed upon him, he fell to his knees with a thud.
Crack!
His knees shattered, and a miserable howl escaped his mouth. His face turned deathly pale and twisted in agony.
Bleeding from his seven orifices, he looked completely ghastly!
"Supreme Emperor, save... save me..."
He looked at Emperor Qinwu with hopeful eyes.
At this moment, Emperor Qinwu's face was also extremely ugly, as he exhausted all his strength to resist the pressure erupting from Qin Xiao.
The civil and military officials behind him were vomiting blood one by one, swaying unsteadily and on the verge of collapsing.
At this very moment, the way they looked at Qin Xiao became incomparably terrified. They once again recalled Qin Xiao's terror, dominated by an absolute, despairing fear!
Cai Kun, who was among the crowd, saw this scene, his legs trembling as he swallowed hard.
"Thank goodness I didn't have time to join Emperor Qinwu's camp just now, otherwise I'd be kneeling and vomiting blood too!"
He secretly glanced at Qin Xiao, his heart pounding wildly.
Perhaps, this was Qin Xiao's final madness, right?
"Damn it! Qin Xiao, what exactly are you doing!"
Emperor Qinwu was boiling with rage.
"If you kill all these officials, who will govern the Great Qin!"
"You are at death's door, yet you are still so mad!"
He felt a bit of regret in his heart.
If he had known, he wouldn't have celebrated his victory prematurely.
Now look what happened. Once Qin Xiao got angry, he was completely unable to withstand it!
Qin Xiao smiled faintly. "At death's door? Do you think the people outside the city are all just ordinary commoners?"
This single sentence made Emperor Qinwu freeze.
He rubbed his eyes and looked carefully at the crowd of commoners again.
They were dressed plainly, men and women alike, completely lacking the murderous aura of the military.
Some were even carrying shoulder poles, holding eggs and food in their hands.
Their smiles were pure, honest, and simple.
These were clearly the most ordinary peasant bumpkins.
Emperor Qinwu breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. He had actually thought Qin Xiao possessed some great lethal weapon.
After all, the prisoner army from last time had taught him a harsh lesson.
He still remembered that tragic scene vividly to this day.
"Qin Xiao, are you saying this bunch of peasants can defeat this army of half a million?"
Emperor Qinwu pointed at the commoners below the city walls, meeting Qin Xiao's gaze with a face full of mockery and ridicule.
"Hahaha! Qin Xiao, you are too delusional."
"Just this bunch of peasants, who aren't even as good as new recruits, this is your trump card?"
"It seems you have reached a dead end and started having hallucinations..."
The people present had strange expressions on their faces. They wanted to laugh but did not dare, holding it in until their faces turned red.
However, a single sentence from Qin Xiao made their expressions change wildly!
"No, no, no. These commoners are the families of the half-million-strong army."
Saying this, Qin Xiao even patted Cai Kun on the shoulder, his tone full of appreciation.
"This is all thanks to Xiao Heizi for bringing them here. Otherwise, dealing with this army of half a million would have really cost me some effort."
Cai Kun's eyes widened, and he collapsed to the ground in terror.
"What the hell?"
"These... these commoners below the city walls, are the families of the half-million-strong army..."
Endless fear swept over him, turning his face deathly pale and making his whole body tremble.
The civil and military officials present were all stunned.
They stood frozen in place collectively, as if turned to stone.
One by one, their eyes widened, and their jaws nearly dropped to the floor!
A series of sharp gasps could be heard in the air.
"How... how could this be!"
Emperor Qinwu's arrogant smile froze on his face, his eyes revealing a look of sheer disbelief.
His whole body stiffened, his throat went dry, and his face became as pale as paper.
A deep despair spread within his heart.
It was as if his heart was tightly gripped by a giant hand, making it incredibly difficult for him to even breathe!
Emperor Qinwu looked again at that group of extremely ordinary commoners, his body trembling.
Once, in his eyes, this bunch of peasants, these ordinary people, were just like ants that could be crushed at will!
But when he learned that these commoners were the families of the half-million army, his entire world... collapsed!
The most terrifying part was that these commoners were not soldiers in disguise, but genuine commoners, the actual families of the half-million troops!
At this critical moment, whoever dared to touch these commoners would undoubtedly die!
Even he would be crushed into minced meat by an army driven to the absolute extreme of fury!
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
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ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
lan, the Luo family, tracked him down - along with the babies in their arms. Mo Xuan stared pensively at the paternity test results from over a dozen top institutions, both domestic and international, showing a 99.99% match between himself and the two baby girls. At 23, Mo Xuan, a doctoral student, had become the father of two three-year-old children. The kicker? The mothers weren't even the same person! He gradually realized he was being lured step by step into an elaborate trap designed by these two yandere sisters. "Be good, little Xuan. Sister's life belongs to you entirely." "Brother, if you try to run away, I'll have no choice but to tie you up." Mo Xuan: "Do whatever you want, ladies. I give up."
