Ren Tianye sat high upon the Diaoyutai.
Calm and collected, he waited for the tumultuous war that was about to erupt within the capital.
News continuously poured in from all directions.
"Report! Lord Duke, Xiao Lie and Shen Xiao engaged in a street fight. Shen Xiao's horsemanship was indeed formidable, wielding a long spear with tiger-like ferocity. He actually used a 'thrusting the spear backward' move and killed Xiao Lie at the most critical moment."
"Report! On his way back, Shen Xiao was intercepted by Cheng Shu. Cheng Shu easily finished off Shen Xiao, but knowing his own strength was insufficient, he went to ally with Wen Liang. As a result, he was poisoned to death by Wen Liang."
"Report! Wen Liang is also dead. It seems the poison he made was too potent. During the process of poisoning Cheng Shu, he accidentally came into contact with it and died as well."
"Report! Tang Yin went to find Bai Zixuan, but happened to run into Zhao Cheng, who was also looking for her. The two have already started fighting, and it's getting intense!"
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Listening to the reports, Ren Tianye continuously made marks on the drafts on his desk. At this rate, the Seven Righteous of Chifeng would probably kill each other off in internal strife within a few days.
"How ruthless!"
"Showing absolutely no mercy to the brothers they once fought alongside."
"All for a woman."
"However, this is also normal."
Nowadays, Ren Tianye had become very composed.
After all, having experienced so much, his heart was no longer like concrete, but like steel. Now, as long as it wasn't overly outrageous, he could easily accept it and make good use of the rules of the Heavenly Dao.
Thinking of something, he asked, "What about the two hundred thousand strong army outside the city?"
"Are there any unusual movements?"
"Reporting to the Lord Duke, the Seven Righteous of Chifeng clearly possess some means to send messages to the army outside the city, which caused a commotion among the troops at first."
"However, the two hundred thousand strong army outside the city has been separated, so it didn't cause any major disturbances."
"And now, as more and more news is relayed back, those two hundred thousand soldiers are completely bewildered. They seem to not know what to do."
Hearing this, Ren Tianye breathed a sigh of relief.
It seemed things were just as he had imagined.
The two hundred thousand strong army had become utterly confused.
Like completely dumbfounded fruits on a tree of confusion.
After all, if the Seven Righteous of Chifeng issued an order together, with their respective influence, they could still mobilize the two hundred thousand troops. But now that the Seven Righteous had fought into a hornet's nest, those soldiers were bound to be confused just by listening to the news.
What in the world...
Who should they listen to?
How should they fight?
"However, this is still not enough."
"Those two hundred thousand troops still need to be stabilized. We can't let them cause any trouble."
Thinking this, Ren Tianye was about to send more people outside the city to intimidate them with military force, ensuring the two hundred thousand troops wouldn't dare act rashly before the Seven Righteous of Chifeng finished slaughtering each other.
But right at this moment, a personal guard came to report from outside the door.
"Report! Lord Duke, Zhao Cheng of the Seven Righteous of Chifeng requests an audience."
"Oh?" Ren Tianye was slightly surprised.
Why didn't Zhao Cheng go and fight the other members of the Seven Righteous, but instead came to find him?
After a moment's thought, he said, "Let him in."
A moment later, Zhao Cheng, bathed in blood and looking as battered as a beggar, rushed in. As soon as he saw Ren Tianye, he fell to his knees with a heavy thud. "Lord Duke, this lowly one is willing to serve you. As long as the Lord Duke is willing to help me marry Zixuan, my life will belong to the Lord Duke from now on."
Ren Tianye suddenly understood.
He came to seek external help!
He could be considered a smart person.
Unfortunately, he didn't use it on the right path.
Immediately, he stood up with a face full of smiles and said, "I didn't expect your love for Bai Zixuan to reach such an extent. It deeply moves this Duke. If I had known this earlier, I would have definitely pleaded with His Majesty in the imperial court to let Bai Zixuan marry you."
"Now that I see your sincerity,"
"This Duke has decided, Bai Zixuan is yours."
Zhao Cheng was overjoyed and kowtowed heavily three times to Ren Tianye. "I thank the Lord Duke for your grace. The Lord Duke allowing me to marry Zixuan is a great kindness that I won't know how to repay for the rest of my life."
"No need to be polite!" Ren Tianye smiled and helped him up. "A fierce general like you, who was also Lin Zixiao's deputy and followed him early on, is most familiar with the affairs of the Lin family army."
"Right now, the morale of the two hundred thousand troops is unstable, and this Duke is worrying about it. I was just thinking that whoever could help this Duke solve this problem, I would owe him a favor. I wonder..."
Zhao Cheng agreed without hesitation, "Lord Duke, I am willing."
"Alright, then clean yourself up and leave the city now. Don't worry about the affairs inside the capital. This Duke has spoken; Bai Zixuan will definitely marry you in the future."
After saying that, Ren Tianye arranged for people to head outside the city.
He also brought Zhao Cheng along.
The huge boulder in his heart finally fell to the ground!
This Zhao Cheng, originally an old subordinate of the commander-in-chief of the Chifeng Army, was perfect for controlling those two hundred thousand Lin family troops.
With this person in hand, coupled with the current chaotic situation of the Seven Righteous of Chifeng slaughtering each other in the capital, he could almost say he had complete control over the two hundred thousand troops!
He had essentially flattened one foot over this world.
As for how he flattened it, that didn't matter!
"Phew!"
Ren Tianye breathed a sigh of relief.
Immediately, a sharp glint flashed in his eyes. "Next, I can focus on dealing with the Tongxin Alliance with peace of mind."
The Tongxin Alliance had always been a heavy burden on Ren Tianye's heart. Whenever there was even a tiny opportunity, he would go all out. And right now, he held several hostages from the Tongxin Alliance in his hands.
Bai Li!
Bai Zixuan!
Bai Hu!
Bai Li had been with Liu Ruyan for a long time but joined the Tongxin Alliance only recently, so she didn't know much about the alliance or Liu Ruyan.
Bai Zixuan was currently the target of the Seven Righteous of Chifeng's mutual slaughter, so she couldn't be easily moved.
Then...
Bai Hu was his target.
"Let's go, we are going to meet Bai Hu!"
"This Duke would like to see just how miraculous this 'extraordinary man' really is!"
Ren Tianye took his personal guards and quickly arrived at the mansion bestowed upon Bai Hu by the Emperor. However, at the entrance, he was surprised to find that the plaque above the door had changed.
Originally, it said "Bai Manor!"
But now...
It had become "Ye Manor!"
The plaque was newly made, clearly just replaced.
Ever since Ren Tianye shattered Bai Li's romantic dreams with three strikes of a staff, he had extracted more and more information from her. Therefore, he clearly knew about Bai Hu's promise to Bai Li.
"This is expressing his love to Bai Li in advance."
"Incredible!"
"Impressive!"
Ren Tianye smiled and said loudly, "Generals, follow me into the Ye Manor. Let's meet Ye Hu together!"
The momentum was massive, even overwhelming.
It quickly alarmed Bai Hu. Bai Hu immediately jumped out from the room and looked at Ren Tianye with a face full of displeasure.
close your eyes and open them again, only to find yourself transmigrated into the role of a villainous male supporting character. Readers familiar with urban wish-fulfillment novels know that it is only through the relentless antics of the villainous male supporting character that the plot between the male and female leads can progress. As the villainous male supporting character, Long Aotian not only has to bully the female lead, harass the second female lead, and flirt with the third female lead, but he also has to go all out to antagonize the male lead. In the end, when his body is discovered, he is still clutching half a moldy fried dough stick in his hand. Fully aware of the plot, Long Aotian is determined to change his fate, starting with the female lead! In the beginning, the female lead lacks confidence: "Big brother, I hope I didn't scare you?" In the middle, the female lead treads carefully: "Brother Long, please don't hit me, okay?" Later on, the female lead becomes coquettishly clingy: "Aotian, it's time to pay the 'public grain' tonight." Long Aotian's legs go weak, and he feels like crying: "I taught you to be thick-skinned, not shameless!"
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...
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!
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?!
