On the left stood a hundred thousand Great Snow Dragon Cavalry. Their silver-white armor reflected a cold, piercing gleam in the sunlight, exuding an imposing aura!
On the right were rows upon rows of Iron Pagoda heavy cavalry. The densely packed mass looked like a black cloud threatening to swallow the city, striking fear into the hearts of all who saw them!
"This... how is this possible?!"
Wu Yan'er stared at the scene in sheer disbelief!
Such an elite force, and heavy cavalry at that, had actually submitted to Qin Xiao!
She was not the only one shocked.
All the civil and military officials of the Great Qin Dynasty stood frozen in place.
Their mouths were wide open, jaws practically hitting the floor!
"So that's it! So that's how it is!"
Cai Kun trembled all over, his mind buzzing and exploding with realization!
A whole series of events suddenly made perfect sense to him!
"It would be child's play for His Majesty to slaughter this five-hundred-thousand-strong army!"
"The only reason he brought the families of these five hundred thousand soldiers here was simply to give them one last chance."
At this moment, an old official spoke up with a trembling voice, "What if the five hundred thousand soldiers had insisted on rebelling against His Majesty?"
Cai Kun's face turned deathly pale. Shivering uncontrollably, he looked at the five-hundred-thousand-strong army as if he were looking at a pile of corpses.
"Given His Majesty's temperament, I'm afraid rivers of blood would flow, and the fields would be strewn with corpses!"
These words sent a chill down everyone's spine, making their blood run cold!
Their eyes were filled with absolute terror!
So that was the truth!
They had been kept in the dark by Qin Xiao this entire time!
Qin Xiao had never compromised.
He had merely handed the choice of survival over to them.
Submit, and live.
Betray, and die!
Beneath the city walls, a collective tremor ran through the hearts of the five hundred thousand soldiers!
"So we were all wrong."
"His Majesty could have easily slaughtered us all! He didn't need to use our parents as leverage at all."
"Thank goodness we surrendered early, otherwise we would have definitely been trampled into mush by this heavy cavalry!"
"His Majesty gave us a chance to repent, we must remain absolutely loyal to him!"
....
The five hundred thousand soldiers looked up at the figure towering like a majestic mountain.
Sunlight fell upon Qin Xiao's dark dragon robe, refracting a dazzling brilliance. It was as if he were draped in a sacred cloak, exuding an awe-inspiring, domineering presence!
At this moment, a profound sense of reverence welled up in the hearts of everyone present!
The gazes they directed at Qin Xiao were fervent and full of worship!
Only an emperor like this could lead them to unify the world and establish an immortal hegemony!
Qin Xiao hadn't expected that merely having his cavalry make an appearance would completely win over their hearts.
However, one person alone descended into complete madness!
"No! Impossible!"
Qin Yu roared in agony.
He knelt on the ground, his hair disheveled, desperately pounding his fists against the earth.
Punch after punch, until his knuckles were a bloody mess.
"No! How could this happen!"
"How could Qin Xiao possibly have so many heavy cavalrymen!"
"Then what was the point of my rebellion? I am nothing but a joke! The biggest joke of all!"
"Hahaha!"
Qin Yu suddenly threw his head back and burst into maniacal laughter!
His smile was so hideous and twisted that it made one's hair stand on end!
All his hopes were thoroughly shattered!
Everything he possessed, everything he had poured all his effort into obtaining, had been effortlessly crushed into dust by Qin Xiao!
His struggles made him look like a mere clown, leaving him with no dignity left in front of Qin Xiao!
At this time, Cai Suwan also came to her senses. Seeing the crazed Qin Yu, she knew his momentum was completely gone.
The true ruler now was still Qin Xiao.
In an instant, she knew exactly what she had to do.
"Brother Qin Xiao, I'm sorry. I only feigned surrender to Qin Yu just now in order to protect you."
Cai Suwan's eyes were misty with tears, her watery gaze brimming with sorrow. She looked so pitiful and delicate that one couldn't help but want to cradle her in their hands and cherish her.
She threw herself toward Qin Xiao, attempting to use her most vulnerable side to win his forgiveness.
"Heh!" Qin Xiao sneered coldly. He raised his hand and firmly clamped his fingers around Cai Suwan's throat.
"How much longer are you going to keep up this act? Do you really think I am as foolish as that idiot Qin Yu?"
His five fingers closed together, applying slight pressure.
"Urgh!"
Cai Suwan's toes left the ground as Qin Xiao lifted her entirely with one hand. Her face flushed red, and the veins on her forehead bulged.
"Brother Qin Xiao, I didn't do anything wrong. Why are you treating me like this?"
"I did everything for you."
"Have you forgotten the days we spent together?"
Qin Xiao's words made her gaze dart away, a guilty conscience gnawing at her heart.
"If you kill me, who else in this world will love you as much as I do!"
Qin Xiao was utterly dismissive.
"I am the Emperor. I do not need a woman's love! Because any woman I set my sights on will enter my harem."
Qin Xiao scoffed at romantic love. Moreover, with his exceptionally high standards, how could he possibly stoop to chasing after a woman?
As the grip on her neck tightened continuously.
Cai Suwan's throat constricted. Blood trickled from the corner of her mouth, and her vision began to darken in waves.
Her heart shattered into pieces.
As it turned out, in front of Qin Xiao, she was nothing but a clown!
She had actually thought Qin Xiao was hopelessly in love with her.
"Father! Save... save me..."
Cai Suwan looked toward Cai Kun.
Hoping that her Prime Minister father would put in a good word for her.
Hearing this, Cai Kun subconsciously looked at Qin Xiao.
The moment their eyes met.
Thud.
Cai Kun dropped to his knees, burying his head firmly against the ground.
"Your Majesty, this girl is merely my adopted daughter. I signed a severance of kinship agreement with her a long time ago. Even if you were to decree the execution of her nine familial generations, it wouldn't involve me!"
Before Qin Xiao could even open his mouth, Cai Kun had already slid to his knees to beg for mercy.
Everyone present was dumbfounded!
Damn, he dropped to his knees way too fast!
And his posture was so textbook perfect.
Furthermore, his words instantly removed his entire extended family from the line of fire.
Qin Xiao looked down at Cai Kun as memories regarding the man scrolled through his mind.
Cai Kun, the Great Qin's most colossal corrupt official. He was a man who dared to mix sand into disaster relief porridge. A veteran minister of three reigns, it was rumored he was infertile.
In order to continue the Cai family bloodline, he had outright adopted one hundred and eight daughters.
He only recruited live-in sons-in-law.
And for every single daughter, he had them sign a severance of kinship agreement in advance.
Seriously, isn't this playing it a bit too safe?
Qin Xiao was somewhat speechless.
It was as if this Cai Kun had perfectly dodged every single guaranteed-death flag.
"Very well. However, since she is a daughter you raised after all, I shall give you a minor punishment as a major warning. You are fined one hundred million taels of silver."
Cai Kun's breath hitched. His face contorted with the pain of parting with his wealth, and he wanted to refuse Qin Xiao.
But the moment he saw Qin Xiao's eyes, they seemed to be saying: If you dare refuse, I will execute your nine generations.
Cai Kun forcefully swallowed back the words that were about to burst from his mouth.
He wanted to cry but had no tears left.
As for Cai Suwan, she was already dumbstruck.
"No! Don't! Don't kill me..."
She begged desperately for mercy, her legs kicking wildly.
However, Qin Xiao possessed absolutely no tender feelings for the fairer sex.
With a forceful twist of his hand, a sharp crack echoed, and Cai Suwan's neck was brutally snapped!
Her eyes stared wide open, her face deathly pale, and her lips turned a dark purple.
Qin Xiao casually flicked his wrist, sending Cai Suwan's corpse flying several meters away before it crashed heavily onto the ground.
young master of the Shen family—a figure of immense power and wealth beyond measure—and awakened the "Destined Ultimate Villain System"! His starting scenario? Running into his icy fiancée who shows up with a mountain-descending divine doctor to break off their engagement. The divine doctor arrogantly taunts: "What does your Shen family have besides a bit of stinking money? You're not even worthy of tying Qingxue's shoelaces!" Shen Fei just smiled. He completely defied the usual script: "Fine, I agree to break off the engagement. Also, notify the finance department to withdraw all investments from the Su family." Minutes later, with its capital chain severed, the Su Group teetered on the brink of bankruptcy! The once aloof and proud ice queen CEO was thrown into utter panic. That very night, she went to Shen Fei's villa, casting aside all dignity to beg and plead desperately... From then on, in this world teeming with Sons of Destiny, Shen Fei embarked on a path of extreme dimensional suppression! A mountain-descending divine doctor? Peerless medical skills? Shen Fei: "Reporting you for practicing medicine without a license! I'll gladly take your ancient medicinal cauldron and twin sister assassins." The Crooked-Smiling Dragon King? Commanding a hundred thousand soldiers with a single order? Shen Fei: "Illegal assembly and suspected treason! Let a fleet of attack helicopters sanitize the area and teach you what the state apparatus really means!" A reborn tycoon? Knows all the golden opportunities of the next decade? Shen Fei: "A trillion in capital to reverse and pump the stock market, making you blow your margin and jump on the very first day of your rebirth!" What Chosen Ones? What bearers of Heavenly Fortune? In Shen Fei's eyes, they're all just chives (i.e., suckers/marks) waiting to be harvested! Shen Fei: "Sorry, but as the Destined Ultimate Villain, I don't play by the rules of honor. I only play the game of dimensional suppression."
transmigrates into the world as the sect master of the Heavenly Yan Sect, which is on the verge of being wiped out. He binds a system that grants him cultivation power based on the number of disciples he has: for each disciple, he automatically gains a year's worth of cultivation every single day! Take one disciple: every day he gains 1 year of cultivation power. While others struggle through a year of bitter training, he gets the same just by sleeping through a single night. Take ten disciples: every day he gains 10 years of cultivation power. Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul—he breezes through all bottlenecks without lifting a finger. Take one hundred disciples: every day he gains 100 years of cultivation power. Even a Soul Transformation Venerable before him can’t survive a single blow. Take ten thousand disciples: every day he gains 10,000 years of cultivation power! With a wave of his hand, he topples empires. With a single step, he crushes the sacred grounds of the universe. ... While others fight tooth and nail for secret techniques, Lin Yan casually hands out Nascent Soul-level cultivation manuals as beginner textbooks. While others strain to find talented recruits, Lin Yan opens his doors to anyone—so long as they’re human. In just three short years, the Heavenly Yan Sect went from a backwater sect made up of three crumbling huts to a sacred land that every cultivator under heaven would kill to enter. ... One day, otherworldly demon gods invade, with a million demon soldiers pressing down upon the realm. Lin Yan, yawning, rises from his lounge chair and glances at the system panel: [Current Disciples: 1.28 million] [Daily Cultivation Increase: 1.28 million years] He waves his hand casually, and the countless demon soldiers are reduced to ashes in an instant. “So noisy… interrupting my fishing.”
. As long as he maintains the villain image and follows the plot to the grand finale, he can obtain generous rewards and return to the real world. So Gu Chen'an entered the role and began to act as a scumbag villain, but who would have expected that the female leads could hear his inner thoughts. Miss Su from the Su family was shocked: "I originally thought Gu Chen'an was a scumbag, but I didn't expect he turned out to be a gentleman! What? You said I have to call off the engagement? I definitely won't, I'll piss you off!" Bai Yuan Tian was dumbfounded: "Young Master Gu is usually unreasonable and a complete brat, but he actually calls me little sweetie in his heart? What, Young Master Gu even said he likes me?" As the female leads' images collapsed more and more, the plot also collapsed with it. Gu Chen'an looked at all this chaos. "Ladies, don't aggro me, if you keep this up the male lead really will stab me, I still need to survive to the grand finale!"
e, Immortal Body, Transmigration, System, Progression Fantasy, Academy Setting, Third-Person Perspective. Alternate Title: Transmigrating into a High Martial World and Reading Live Comments. Bad news: I transmigrated. This is a terrifying high-martial world, and my original, pathetically weak body fell into a coma and never woke up. Good news: I got a Popularity Points system upon arrival. I can see live comments and even create an unkillable alternate identity. Starting out, the alternate identity has all stats at 1. The system tells me that to grow stronger, I must participate in the plot, gain popularity points to allocate stats and grow stronger, and ultimately awaken my original body. And so, carrying my original body on my back, I officially entered Huaqing Academy, where the story's protagonist resides. From that moment on, Chen Guan kicked the original plot to pieces. Live Comments: [Doesn't anyone find this mysterious coffin guy creepy? He can summon indescribable grey misty hands.] [Is this guy a hero or a villain? What kind of onion became a spirit?] [By the way, does anyone know who's in the coffin? Shouldn't the debt for saving his life be repaid by now?] [According to unofficial histories, the person in the coffin was Chen Guan's first love. Their love was once passionate and earth-shattering, but they were separated by life and death due to worldly circumstances. What a star-crossed pair.] ... Years later, the world knew of a demon god born from a coffin, shrouded in grey mist, impossible to gaze upon directly. His foremost divine emissary often wielded a scythe, reaping lives like the god of death. As war approached, facing former friends and a boundless sea of enemies, Chen Guan merely raised his scythe. "Would you like to dance as well?"
