Wu Yan'er looked somewhat displeased.
She had not expected the soldiers of Great Qin to harbor such rebellious sentiments.
But what did that matter?
Such things often happened in history.
For instance, when the Great Qing took over the Central Plains, the Han people refused to submit, so they simply shaved their heads and forced them to wear the coin-sized queue.
Still defiant?
Then they slaughtered the people, city by city.
Killing until corpses piled up like mountains and blood flowed like oceans, leaving thousands of miles devoid of human life!
As long as enough people were killed, was there any fear that these peasants would not submit?
"Qin Xiao, kneel down and receive the edict!"
Wu Yan'er's attitude was arrogant. She raised her neck high, looking at Qin Xiao as she coldly shouted.
To the side, the previously maddened Qin Yu finally regained his senses.
Hearing the contents of the imperial edict, a massive wave of pleasant surprise hit him, making his entire body tremble.
He was excited beyond words.
With a ferocious look on his face, he stared fixedly at Qin Xiao and laughed wildly.
"Qin Xiao, I can be the emperor! And it is by the personal decree of the Empress of Great Zhou. From now on, how will you fight me!"
Qin Yu laughed maniacally and hastily knelt on the ground, kowtowing to Wu Yan'er.
"Your humble servant Qin Yu kneels in gratitude to the Empress of Great Zhou!"
His smile was extremely flattering.
"Your Highness the Princess, since Qin Xiao is not speaking, I will agree on his behalf."
"From this day forward, my Qin State submits to Great Zhou, willing to be a vassal of Great Zhou..."
Before he could finish his words.
"Get lost!"
A furious shout rang out, deafening to the ears.
"Ah!"
Qin Yu's ears bled from the shock of the sound, and he rolled on the ground in agony.
The one who struck was none other than Qin Xiao!
Qin Xiao's eyes were filled with chilling killing intent, as if raging flames were burning within them!
His pupils were consumed by a frenzied desire for slaughter, turning completely crimson!
Thump! Thump!
His heart beat rapidly, as if an imperial engine had been ignited.
"Heh... hahaha!"
Qin Xiao let out a low laugh filled with endless murderous intent, a bloody light flashing in his eyes!
He raised his hand and beckoned, and the imperial edict flew into his grasp.
Wu Yan'er's face lit up with joy, thinking Qin Xiao was accepting the edict.
She felt wonderfully triumphant in her heart.
It seemed Qin Xiao was nothing special after all; a few words had driven him into a corner.
"You must kneel to receive an edict! Qin Xiao, do you not understand the rules?"
She decided to thoroughly humiliate Qin Xiao, to let him know the difference in their status.
But in the next second, something happened that made her pale with shock!
"Make me bow my head and declare myself a vassal? Share the throne of Great Qin with Qin Yu? Heh! Your Empress of Great Zhou might be ugly, but she sure dreams beautifully!"
"What is the Empress of Great Zhou anyway! Does she deserve to have me submit to her!"
Qin Xiao gripped the edict, a wisp of crimson true qi flame burning in his palm.
"A useless usurper who only rode the coattails of her predecessors! What qualifications does she have to make me kneel!"
Boom!
Qin Xiao flicked his hand.
The imperial edict instantly turned into dust!
"Qin Xiao, how insolent!"
Wu Yan'er was furious.
"You dare to insult the Empress! She is the role model for us women, you are courting death!"
Qin Xiao's face was icy cold, killing intent bursting forth.
"What? Am I wrong?"
"Your Empress of Great Zhou merely served as a bridge. Before her was the Zhenguan Reign, and after her was the Kaiyuan Era. What does your Empress of Great Zhou have?"
"Oh right, I almost forgot, you even lost territory."
This matter was not a secret.
Many years ago, the Empress of Great Zhou was nothing but a concubine. Step by step, she became the Empress Consort and usurped the throne to seize supreme power.
But she governed the country terribly, lost territories, and madly slaughtered ministers and generals, throwing the nation into turmoil.
Forced by circumstances, she had no choice but to abdicate.
But when the next emperor succeeded the throne, a dramatic scene occurred.
The country developed rapidly, lost territories were reclaimed, and it ushered in the prosperous Kaiyuan Era.
As a result, this emperor did not rule for long before dying inexplicably.
The Empress of Great Zhou began to rule as emperor once again.
Unsurprisingly, the Empress of Great Zhou was completely incapable of bringing peace to the world.
If it were not for the capital accumulated during the two prosperous eras, Great Zhou would have fallen apart long ago.
This matter was virtually a taboo in Great Zhou, and no one was allowed to mention it.
Now that Qin Xiao had publicly spoken of it, it was a direct slap to Wu Yan'er's face.
"Damn it! Qin Xiao! You actually dare to publicly defy the Empress's command!"
Wu Yan'er was extremely angry.
This Qin Xiao was so audacious that he even dared to offend the Empress's majesty. He clearly did not take their Great Zhou seriously at all.
"Mister Dugu Jian, please make your move. I want Qin Xiao to kneel and beg for mercy!"
Wu Yan'er revealed a fierce look, turning her head to look at Dugu Jian.
"Rest assured, Princess. Qin Xiao is no match for this old man." Dugu Jian slowly stepped forward step by step, facing Qin Xiao, and let out a sigh.
"Little friend, why must you do this? If my Great Zhou truly wanted to deal with you, there are thousands of ways. Why ask for trouble?"
"I see that you are also a swordsman. You are not my match, so this old man will give you one more chance to consider."
He was the supreme grandmaster of the sword in this era, and his comprehension of the sword had long surpassed all other sword cultivators.
Such an existence could crush a Qin Xiao with a single finger!
But he greatly cherished talent, and seeing that Qin Xiao possessed such strength at a young age, he felt a sense of compassion.
"Old dog! Is His Majesty someone you can address so casually!"
Lu Fengxian immediately stepped forward, pointing his Sky-Piercer Halberd at Dugu Jian from afar, exuding murderous intent.
"Your Majesty, let me test this Dugu Jian first."
He had also heard of the other party's great name.
It had been thunderous to his ears since he was just a few years old!
Lu Fengxian knew he would definitely lose this battle, and might even be decapitated with a single strike, but he still wanted to test the opponent's true strength for Qin Xiao.
Just as Lu Fengxian was about to make his move.
"Step back."
An unparalleled, domineering voice suddenly rang out, carrying heavy majesty.
"You are not his match."
Qin Xiao took a step forward, a series of afterimages flashing by, and instantly appeared in front of Dugu Jian.
"Make your move. If you can take one sword strike from me, you may live!"
He was in the Martial Saint realm and possessed the technique One Sword Opens the Heavenly Gate!
When the sword strikes, all laws perish!
The person before him was nothing but an ant.
How could he compete with him?
Dugu Jian was taken aback, looking up at Qin Xiao in disbelief.
He wondered if he had heard wrong.
But when he saw Qin Xiao's indifferent eyes, anger involuntarily rose in his heart.
He was actually being looked down upon by a junior?
"Good! Since you are so stubborn, this old man will let you experience what true, brilliant sword might is!"
Dugu Jian shouted coldly, his cloudy eyes suddenly becoming as sharp as swords.
He tapped the void with the tip of his foot, and like an arrow leaving the bowstring, he instantly vanished from his spot!
He stood proudly in the firmament above, slowly drawing the longsword from his back.
At this moment, a vast sword intent soared into the sky, as if it could cleave through all things in heaven and earth!
"One Sword Shocks the Firmament!"
"Nine Sword Stances, Severing All Creation!"
Dugu Jian let out a furious roar, swinging his longsword down!
In an instant, a hundred-zhang long silver river appeared in the void above, radiating monstrous sword might.
"What a powerful sword intent!"
"One sword strikes and all things are buried! Qin Xiao is dead for sure!"
Qin Yu was ecstatic, staring viciously at Qin Xiao with an insidious sneer curling on his lips.
"Qin Xiao, oh Qin Xiao, in the face of absolute power, you are nothing but an ant!"
"Now the entirety of Great Qin will be mine!"
"Hahahaha!"
At this moment, Cai Suwan's expression shifted as she pressed herself tightly against Qin Yu.
"Brother Qin Yu, please forgive my behavior just now. Qin Xiao forced me to do all of that. I truly love you..."
She whimpered, her eyes misty with falling tears.
Now that Qin Xiao had lost his advantage and was undoubtedly doomed to die, she immediately threw herself back into Qin Yu's embrace.
Looking at the beauty before him and recalling the memories they once shared, Qin Yu's heart softened.
He pulled Cai Suwan into a deep embrace, and the two were reconciled.
Off to the side.
A smile graced Wu Yan'er's breathtakingly beautiful face. She stared unblinkingly at Qin Xiao, her eyes filled with mockery.
It was as if she were eagerly anticipating the miserable fate that was about to befall him.
The sharpness of the incoming sword strike was too overwhelming. Its sword intent pierced through the very clouds, radiating a crushing pressure that forced everyone present to bow their heads!
Only Qin Xiao stood tall and proud, unyielding as a mountain. With a perfectly straight posture, his entire body erupted with a majestic, heaven-shaking sword intent, making him look like a peerless, ominous blade about to be drawn from its sheath!
"Xuanyuan Sword, unsheathe!"
"One sword... to open the Gates of Heaven!"
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
lity and could only live as an ordinary mortal. He only wished to live a peaceful life. Yet he didn't know— The dog he adopted, because it ate his food, became a legendary demon king. The kitchen knife he casually forged became a peerless divine weapon, causing numerous experts to fight desperately for it. The young disciple he took in became an immortal lord that led an era, due to cultivating the techniques Ye Feng taught him. Even the skeletons he looked down on the most were ominous demon kings that suppressed countless worlds. Many years later, looking at the void shattered with a punch, Ye Feng murmured to himself: It turns out the peerless kings were myself all along...
with countless casualties. As a top-tier gamer, Liu Xuan volunteered to join the fight, intending to dominate with his skills, but instead he obtained the hidden class: [Pacifist]. Unable to attack. Unable to use active skills. Fortunately, with each level gained, he acquired a new passive skill. And so, armed with a body full of passives, Liu Xuan slaughtered his way through the battlefield of ten thousand races! [You attacked Liu Xuan] [You gained the debuffs: 'Poison', 'Fear', 'Burning', 'Bleeding', 'Freeze', 'Silence', etc.] [Your attack speed has been reduced by 99%] [Your armor and magic resistance have been reduced by 99%] Warriors of the Ten Thousand Races: How the hell am I supposed to fight this?!
