However, having that title was also a good thing. They could openly levy taxes, expand their territory, and even do business with other alien races in the name of the Emperor. So, later on, no one bothered to be fussy about it.
"A guy who has lost all hope wants to seek the Emperor's forgiveness?" The Patriarch Gu sneered. He had thought his opponent had some good plan. "Urge the judge to start the second review as soon as possible. I want to take this guy's body to that planet and exchange it for my son."
"Yes!"
The second review trial finally began.
Fang Zhiyi slowly walked onto the trial position in shackles. He noticed the bloodshot eyes of the Patriarch Gu. It seemed that he hadn't found his youngest son. Just thinking about that kid being lovey - dovey with the blue - skinned princess, Fang Zhiyi couldn't help but shiver.
It seemed that when a person had everything, they would become a bit perverted.
"Prisoner, do you plead guilty?" The judge stared intently at Fang Zhiyi, just wanting to end this trial quickly.
Fang Zhiyi raised his head and scanned the surroundings. He didn't look like a prisoner but rather like a king. "I plead guilty, but I didn't do anything wrong."
He saw Hu Lie and others in the spectator seats, as well as some unfamiliar faces. Without exception, they were all wearing the uniforms of the Star Region Army.
"When aliens invaded, the duty of the Star Region Army was to protect the civilians. But the commander of the Ninth Battle Group, for his own self - interest and to curry favor with the nobles, would rather let the soldiers abandon their positions, leave the civilians behind, and even wanted to withdraw the troops. As the governor of the star region, I can't understand such behavior."
The Patriarch Gu was already full of anger. Hearing this, he suddenly stood up. "You're just a governor, a governor in charge of the star region. You barged into the war zone without permission, framed officers, and murdered the commander. You're a criminal!"
Fang Zhiyi glanced at him indifferently. "A criminal? I'm afraid your family's Gu Yuan is the real criminal. No, he's not just a criminal; he's a traitor to humanity! You've seen the footage of him leading the blue - skinned aliens to attack the human outpost, right?"
Whispers arose in the courtroom. This hadn't been mentioned in the previous trial.
"You... don't talk nonsense. Originally, Gu Yuan had sent a message to me, and we could have avoided the war and resolved this dispute peacefully. But you, your rash actions ruined everything!"
Fang Zhiyi sneered. "Peaceful resolution? How? By having him marry the blue - skinned alien? You guys may not know, but this guy's son has married a blue - skinned alien."
Gasps sounded in the courtroom. All kinds of looks were cast at the Patriarch Gu, and he turned red with anger.
"Shut up! You violent maniac! Human civilization has lasted for thousands of years! We don't need war to prove human strength! We are an inclusive and civilized society! We're not cruel. We should solve problems through negotiation! Gu Yuan went into the enemy's territory alone in pursuit of this great peace concept, but you ruined everything!"
Fang Zhiyi shook his head. "Inclusive? When you and your family were enjoying yourselves in your manors with gardens, did you ever show any inclusion to the people outside? You can't even tolerate your own kind, and now you're talking to me about tolerating an alien race?"
The Patriarch Gu gasped for breath. He wished he could kill this guy right now. If it weren't for him, his son wouldn't have gone missing!
"You're right. War can't bring civilization, but it can ensure the continuation of civilization." Fang Zhiyi turned around and faced those who came to the trial.
"As far as I know, besides the 32nd Star Region, dozens of other star regions are facing the same problem. Those strange - looking alien species often harass civilians and the army. But the nobles in the distant empire turn a blind eye to such chaos and tragedies. The warships of the Star Region Army have become useless decorations, the mechs have become tools for the nobles to seek benefits, and the soldiers have become fuel that can be discarded at any time! Is this the so - called civilization and inclusion you're talking about?"
"How dare you! You're actually questioning the Empire!" The judge couldn't bear it anymore. "Drag him out! Execute the hanging! You can repent on the gallows!"
He slammed his gavel hard.
The door of the courtroom was kicked open.
The Templar Knight guarding the door tried to reach out and stop the intruder, but his mechanical arm was suddenly grasped and twisted into a twist. This scene surprised the people nearby. That was a Templar Knight, an enforcer of the Empire! But when they saw the logo on the intruder's mech chest, they were stunned.
"By the order of the Emperor, take the prisoner to see the Emperor."
The voice behind the faceplate was cold and full of an undeniable tone. The pupils glowed with a bright red light, as if ready to start killing at any time.
"The Imperial Guard?"
Everyone present was terrified. The Imperial Guard had actually appeared? Wait, what did he just say? The Emperor?
No, the Emperor had been in seclusion for nearly five hundred years and had hardly interfered in any actions of the Imperial Parliament. Did he still exist?
Looking at those Imperial Guards, no one dared to stop them. Even those who wanted to raise objections shut their mouths when they saw the Templar Knight whose mechanical arm had been easily crushed.
Hu Lie stood up in shock.
For them, the Emperor was a legend. He had never appeared in front of them, and they could only occasionally hear the Emperor's name from the Parliament. Many people even thought that the Empire didn't have an Emperor; it was just a belief.
But in order to save Fang Zhiyi's life, he still plucked up the courage and went to the palace protected by the Imperial Guard. Of course, he wasn't qualified to go in, but the note he sent was taken in by the Imperial Guard.
After that, there was no reply.
He thought the note Fang Zhiyi sent contained a self - defense, but there was only one name in the note. He found it very strange.
The leader of the Imperial Guard ignored everyone and walked up to Fang Zhiyi, looking down at him. "Let's go."
Until Fang Zhiyi was taken away by the Imperial Guard, Hu Lie was still in a state of shock.
Fang Zhiyi was escorted by the Imperial Guard into the palace where the Emperor was. Fang Zhiyi's attention was on the Imperial Guards the whole way. The power armors on these guys were obviously of a higher grade, which made him drool a little.
He found that piloting a starship wasn't as exciting as piloting a power armor.
It was a pity that he couldn't try out the Imperial Guard's power armor.
The leader of the Imperial Guard suddenly stopped and looked at him through the faceplate. "The Emperor is inside. Go in by yourself."
Fang Zhiyi came back to his senses, nodded, and was about to step in.
The leader of the Imperial Guard suddenly called him.
"Governor, you did a good job."
Fang Zhiyi smiled.
After saying that, the leader stepped aside and stared straight ahead.
Fang Zhiyi stepped through the door and looked around. The atmosphere here felt a bit strange.
"Are you the governor of the star region who shouted 'Long live humanity'?"
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.”
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."
lities. One day, Qi Yuan was buying groceries when he unfortunately came face-to-face with a monster. Just when he thought he was going to die on the spot, he suddenly heard the monster's thoughts... "This aura, he's definitely not an ordinary master!" "So terrifying, so terrifying." "A fight with my back against the wall, I can't take it anymore." Qi Yuan: Ah, no one told me that my awakened ability isn't telepathy, but rather the stronger my enemies imagine me to be, the stronger I truly become. PS: Zhou Hai in the first chapter is not the protagonist.
