Even though his face was completely flushed from drinking, Li Shimin was utterly dumbfounded when he saw the educational video playing on the phone.
He had imagined that modern weapons must be incredibly powerful and come in a vast variety.
But he never expected them to be advanced to such a terrifying degree, with so many types that they were simply uncountable.
"The only country to have been taught a lesson by 'Truth'? What exactly did this so-called 'country living a good little life' do?"
After scrolling to another video and finishing it, Li Shimin couldn't help his curiosity and asked.
"All I can say is that they deserved it."
Cai Cheng chuckled. "And they took two hits, so we now call them the 'Twice-Nuked'."
"Brother Li, when you return to the Great Tang one day, you must remember to send your troops across the sea and wipe out this country. You have no idea..."
Following that, the crowd meticulously recounted the events of modern history to Li Shimin.
"How dare that puny Wa Kingdom do such a thing?!"
After hearing this, Li Shimin was instantly enraged. His face turned beet red, even redder than when he was drunk. "When I return, I will definitely obliterate them! Neither their people nor their land will be spared!"
"No, no! You should keep the land."
Wang Er laughed, "Brother Li, you don't know this, but that island has a mountain of silver and a mountain of gold. The Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine can produce at least a million taels of silver and hundreds of thousands of taels of gold every year. So, launching an expedition to the island nation and conquering that territory would bring nothing but absolute benefits to your Great Tang!"
Hearing this, Li Shimin's eyes immediately lit up.
Originally, mobilizing a large army would severely drain national strength and finances. He had been thinking that after returning, he would have to take a long-term approach and discuss the best possible plan first.
But now, just for the mountains of gold and silver, he would steamroll over them with his eyes closed.
"Let us know when you launch the expedition. I will absolutely provide your Great Tang with a batch of firearms as aid, so you can just sweep right through them."
"Why go through all that trouble? Just have Young Master Qin contact the higher-ups, bring over a few blasts of 'Truth', and drop them. Done."
"That won't work. We still need to go there to mine the gold and silver. How can we go there if we drop 'Truth' on it?"
"If you ask me, none of you have any brains. Young Master Qin could go over there alone, wave his hand, and solve everything. Why would we need to waste these things?"
"What do you mean by waste? We've developed these things up to now, but we haven't actually used them in real combat yet. Now that we have the chance..."
Wang Er, Xia Fei, and the others began a heated discussion around this topic.
It wasn't until past eleven o'clock at night that Qin Fei and the others returned from their outing, parking their car outside the villa.
Empress Zhangsun walked in and looked at Li Shimin's flushed face. She couldn't help but say, "Erlang, why did you drink so much? It is getting late. Let's go rest first. We can come back and talk more tomorrow."
"Alright."
Li Shimin nodded, then stood up and looked at Xia Fei and the others. "Brothers, I shall go rest first. We will drink again tomorrow."
"Let's not drink tomorrow. Didn't Young Master Qin just say that he's going to take you out for a stroll and then head to the capital to find Elder Zeng?"
Zhou Ping'an and the others also stood up, putting their arms around Li Shimin's shoulders as they escorted his family to the villa next door.
Jiang Yanran said, "Changle, how about I have Qin Ning go to your Great Tang and bring two maids over? You need someone to take care of you while you stay here. Hiring a nanny or something wouldn't be very convenient given your identities."
"Would that be too much trouble?" Li Lizhi asked.
"Not at all. Come with me to find Qin Ning, and we'll go with him to the Great Tang right now."
Jiang Yanran smiled and then led Li Lizhi back to the villa next door.
Upstairs, Qin Ning was meditating with his eyes closed. Hearing Jiang Yanran call him, he leapt up and instantly appeared before them.
Jiang Yanran then explained the situation.
After hearing it, Qin Ning nodded and took Li Lizhi and Jiang Yanran together to the Great Tang.
"Zisu, Molan, the two of you will come with us to the future so you can take care of Sizi."
Li Lizhi had summoned two palace maids. Zisu and Molan were originally Sizi's personal maids, so bringing them along would be much more convenient.
Upon learning that they actually had the opportunity to travel to the future, Zisu and Molan naturally couldn't help but feel a burst of excitement.
"Understood, Your Highness. Do we need to prepare anything?" Zisu asked.
Before Li Lizhi could speak, Jiang Yanran took the lead and said, "Don't bother preparing anything, we have everything over there. You'll have to wear the clothes from over there anyway."
"Alright," Li Lizhi nodded.
Soon, Qin Ning brought them to the modern world.
Inside the villa.
After Zisu and Molan arrived, Su Xingwan and the others took them around, explaining some of the modern electrical appliances. They also warned them that these things carried a certain degree of danger and had to be used with caution.
The two were very excited, feeling that everything they saw was a novelty, and they tried their best to memorize all the knowledge Su Xingwan and the others taught them.
Afterward, Cheng Weiyang arranged their respective rooms for them and taught them how to use the bathroom.
Zisu and Molan were both stunned by these modern things, feeling as if they had arrived in the immortal realm.
...
In the blink of an eye, the night passed.
Early the next morning, Qin Fei came knocking on the door, carrying two large bags in her hands.
Li Shimin and the others were already up. At this moment, they were all sitting around on the sofa, watching television and drinking morning tea.
"Sister Qin."
Hearing the doorbell, Li Lizhi got up to open the door. Seeing that it was Qin Fei, she politely smiled, greeted her, and welcomed her into the living room.
"Little Fei."
Li Shimin and Empress Zhangsun, who were watching television, also greeted her. By now, they were starting to get used to some of the modern ways of addressing and greeting people.
"Is Sizi still sleeping?"
Qin Fei sat on the sofa and looked around, not seeing the little princess.
Li Lizhi nodded and said, "Yes, Sizi woke up once in the middle of the night last night. Then I had Zisu and Molan take her to the living room to watch television for two hours before she fell back asleep. I reckon she'll have to sleep a little longer before she wakes up."
"Children are all like that. Besides, she just got here and finds many things novel, so it's normal for her not to be able to sleep in the middle of the night."
Qin Fei smiled, then opened one of the bags and took out the food containers inside. "These are the breakfasts we just made. Have some first."
Saying that, she opened the other bag and took out a few small boxes from inside.
"These are mobile phones, five in total. Changle, His Majesty Taizong, and Empress Zhangsun, there is one for each of you. I have already set up the SIM cards. Give the remaining two to Zisu and Molan. I will teach you how to use them later. In the modern world, having a phone on you makes things much more convenient when you are out and about."
"Thank you for the trouble, Xiaofei."
Li Shimin was very interested in the mobile phones. Not only could this gadget make long-distance calls, but he had also used Xia Fei and the others' phones to scroll through videos last night, realizing that the device was far more practical than he had imagined.
"I am only twelve or thirteen years older than you, so please stop calling me Taizong. It sounds a bit strange. If you don't mind, just call me Brother Li."
Since he addressed Xia Fei and the others as brothers, and Xia Fei's group highly respected Qin Fei, he didn't dare let Qin Fei call him Uncle. Wouldn't that completely mess up the seniority?
However, calling him Brother also seemed a bit strange, considering Changle called her Sister.
Qin Fei smiled and said, "That won't do. Changle calls me Sister. How about I call you Uncle? The age difference is just right. As for Empress Zhangsun... I'll just call her Aunt?"
"Alright, alright, just call us Uncle and Aunt. It sounds much more affectionate," Empress Zhangsun said with a warm smile.
to panic—he has a system. As long as an investment target dies, he can claim a reward. And since he is immortal, the one thing he has plenty of is time. ... Countless years later. “Immortal Emperor of Longevity? I invested in him.” “Supreme Celestial Venerable? I invested in him.” “Undying Empress? I invested in her.” “...” “Heh. Once they’ve all died, even the Heavenly Dao will have to kneel and call me Dad.”
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.
his freshman year, Su Bai accidentally bound the "Indulgence Tycoon System." 【Sleeping in? Reward: +$1,000】 【Spent $288 at a street barbecue stall? Cashback: +$2,880】 【Dropped $14,396 on in-game skins? Special reward unlocked: A brand-new Porsche Panamera!】 Luxury cars, penthouses, corporate shares, financial empires… College life was all about living freely and doing whatever he pleased! … When the adorably naive academic genius faced family medical bills and financial struggles, Su Bai waved his hand dismissively: "Your future is on me." "Wuwu~ Big Brother is so good to me! I’ll become a scientist to repay you!" When the genius girl got bullied by a shady professor? Su Bai casually dropped a billion-dollar investment, forcing the university to grovel and beg for her return. A company’s funding chain collapsing? Su Bai smirked—cash was the one thing he’d never run out of. Years later, when people traced the rise of the AI prodigy beauty, who was the man behind her success? Not just that—Su Bai also became the tsundere campus belle’s unattainable dream, the contrast senior’s daily necessity, and the beautiful counselor’s emotional anchor…
e school belle recognized by the whole school, a genius girl from the kendo club. She also has a hidden identity, the youngest legendary demon hunter. Chen Shuo just transmigrated and found himself turned into a weak, helpless little vampire. He was caught by Su Xiyen and taken home at the very beginning. Since then, Chen Shuo's life creed only had two items. "First, classmate Su Xiyen is always right." "Second, if classmate Su Xiyen is wrong, please refer back to item one." Many years later, Chen Shuo, who had turned back into a human, led a pair of twins to appear in front of all the vampires to share the secret of how he turned back into a human. "It's simple, I tricked a female demon hunter into becoming my wife!"
