Ren Tianye laughed: "What are you staring at me for?"
Bai Hu immediately fired back: "What if I am?"
Bai Hu knew he shouldn't be losing his temper.
After all, this was part of his Bai Li sister's plan.
Seeing how impatiently Ren Tianye had come looking for him, it was most likely that Bai Li's plan was going especially smoothly. The Ren Tianye before him had probably already fallen madly in love with Bai Li, but upon learning of his existence, jealousy had taken root.
For Bai Li's sake, he ought to swallow his pride and endure it.
But the thought of his Bai Li sister—whom he himself couldn't bear to touch—being mistreated by Ren Tianye only fanned the flames of his fury beyond control.
Yet, to his surprise, Ren Tianye didn't seem angry at all.
Instead, he grinned: "Ye Hu, you see, this is where you're wrong."
"I know that in your heart, Bai Li is no different from your wife..."
"That's right, Bai Li sister is my wife!" Before Ren Tianye could finish, Bai Hu cut in: "Bai Li sister is, in my heart, just like my wife. I'll be with her for life."
"That's exactly it." Ren Tianye chuckled: "Look, you deeply love Bai Li, and I'm very satisfied with her performance. From this perspective, we share a common interest—we should have been friends."
"Yet you treat your friend this way?"
"Isn't that going too far?"
Bai Hu: "???"
He felt his head spin for a moment, dizzy with confusion.
When clarity returned, his rage only intensified.
He was about to lash back, but Ren Tianye had run out of patience.
This was clearly a case of refusing a toast only to be forced to drink a penalty.
So, with a slight raise of his hand, Wang Ming standing behind him immediately understood the signal.
In an instant, three guards pounced forward like wolves.
A flurry of blows rang out—whacks and thuds.
In the blink of an eye, Ye Hu was bruised and swollen-faced.
"I had planned to have a heart-to-heart with you, but now it seems we'll have to talk about something else." Ren Tianye's tone turned cold. "Spill it. What's this Tongxin Alliance all about?"
"What strength do they have now?"
"Where are their main areas of influence?"
"And also..."
"Bai Li said Liu Ruyan appears and disappears like a ghost. Where is she now?"
Pausing, Ren Tianye looked at Ye Hu's stubborn expression and added slowly: "I'd advise you to talk honestly. Otherwise, tonight, Bai Li might have to suffer again."
The stubbornness on Ye Hu's face instantly melted away.
He blurted out: "I'll talk, I'll talk, I'll say everything."
"Just, just don't lay a hand on Bai Li sister."
And so, with little effort, Ren Tianye extracted everything he wanted from Bai Hu's mouth.
The Tongxin Alliance had forces spread across the entire Great Yu Empire.
Every region had hidden troops and even firearms.
However, their main base was in Yunjing!
One of the two capitals of Great Yu—Yunjing!
"Our Tongxin Alliance has merged with the city of Yunjing. Yunjing is the Tongxin Alliance, and the Tongxin Alliance is Yunjing!"
"And our alliance has something called the 'assembly line' established by the Grand Palace Lord, which can mass-produce all kinds of firearms. What we've seen so far is just a drop in the bucket."
"In our Yunjing, the number of firearms is beyond counting!"
The guards behind Ren Tianye, including Wang Ming, were already showing signs of shock. But Ren Tianye remained calm. Through this whole ordeal with Bai Li, he had come to a clear realization:
In this world, hot weapons were not invincible.
A lovestruck mind was!
As long as he grasped that principle, even if the enemy rolled out planes and cannons, he would bet that they were still on cooldown right now!
"And Liu Ruyan?"
Bai Hu shook his head.
He didn't know much about Liu Ruyan either, only that she was as beautiful as an immortal, elusive as a ghost, and served as the spiritual pillar of the Tongxin Alliance.
This made Ren Tianye frown slightly.
Information on Liu Ruyan still remained incomplete!
Given all the recent events and the investigations by the Demon Suppression Bureau, he was quite certain that the source of Great Yu's troubles lay with Liu Ruyan.
But the fact that a single Liu Ruyan could stir up such chaos across Great Yu once made him suspect she might possess something like a system—especially when firearms appeared; that suspicion had grown immensely.
However, after personally inspecting the firearms brought by Lin Zixiao and the Divine Machine Battalion, he dismissed that notion.
Those weapons weren't mass-produced by a system.
Because while they followed a fairly standardized industrial process, there were noticeable differences between different ones—nothing like the nearly identical products a system would churn out.
So it was highly probable that Liu Ruyan had no system.
Yet, the fact that she could unleash such tremendous power still made him think twice.
Now, without finding out Liu Ruyan's exact situation, Ren Tianye's mood darkened again.
Just as he was about to continue his interrogation, a messenger hurriedly ran in and reported: "Duke, a group is approaching rapidly outside the capital, all carrying firearms, looking hostile."
Ren Tianye was startled. "All carrying firearms?"
That left almost no doubt—it was the Tongxin Alliance again.
The Tongxin Alliance had sent more people?
To do what?
"Have they identified themselves?"
"Duke, they haven't said anything. They just demanded that we open the city gates and let them in, or else they'll show no mercy." The messenger added: "Oh, and at the front of the group is a woman."
"On their wagon flies a banner with the character 'Li'!"
A woman? Surname Li?
Ren Tianye was puzzled, but Ye Hu's face instantly changed.
"Li Shuhan!"
Li Shuhan?
Ren Tianye was surprised.
As far as he knew, those of palace lord rank in the Tongxin Alliance all bore the surname Liu.
The high-ranking members were surnamed Bai, which was why Su Li had changed her name to Bai Li.
This person surnamed Li was likely not a top member.
Yet leading a group carrying firearms?
He immediately demanded: "Who is this Li Shuhan?"
Before Ye Hu could answer, another messenger sprinted in: "Report, Duke! The group at the capital gate has grown impatient. They've lined up their firearms, ready to attack the city. The woman at the front is shouting that she wants to see her fiancé, Bai Hu."
Huh?
Ren Tianye paused.
He looked at Bai Hu.
"Fiancée?"
"Damn, you're engaged?"
"So what if I'm engaged?" Bai Hu exploded like he'd been stepped on, leaping up instantly. "Does being engaged stop me from pursuing love? How can a piece of paper stand in the way of my love?"
Ren Tianye: "..."
Never mind, he didn’t have the patience to discuss romance with this man.
After a brief thought, he ordered: "Bring this Li Shuhan here."
Before long, a woman burst into the room.
She was dressed in a tight-fitting brocade robe, belted with jade, her posture straight and her expression sharp. A true beauty, with skin as fair as snow and arresting features—this was presumably Li Shuhan.
She strode in quickly, her gaze locking onto Bai Hu.
Then, her face flooded with anger.
Marching up to Bai Hu, she raised her hand and slapped him!
"Slap!"
Then she roared: "Bai Hu, you've got some nerve!"
Your mother here handed you a whole production line on a silver platter, helped you claw your way up to the Right Protector of the Pact Alliance, treated you with nothing but pure devotion—and you had the nerve to stab me in the back and mess with my woman?
You're begging for death!
……
e bizarre and supernatural had descended. The previous emperor was a thoroughgoing tyrant; no longer satisfied with human women, he had set his sights on a stunningly beautiful supernatural entity. He met his end in his bedchamber, drained of all his vital essence. As the legitimate eldest son and crown prince, Wang Hao was thus hastily enthroned, becoming the young emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. No sooner had he awakened the "Imperial Sign-In Intelligence System" than he was assassinated by a Son of Destiny—a classic villain's opening. The Great Zhou, ravaged by the former emperor's excesses, was in national decline. The great families within its borders harbored their own treacherous schemes, martial sects began to defy the imperial court's decrees, and border armies, their pay and provisions in arrears, grumbled incessantly against the central government. Fortunately, the central capital was still held secure by the half-million Imperial Guards and fifty thousand Imperial Forest Army who obeyed the court's orders, along with the royal family's hidden reserves of power, barely managing to suppress the realm. As the Great Zhou's finances worsened and supernatural activities grew ever more frequent, the court sat atop a volcano. Ambitious plotters everywhere dreamed of overthrowing the dynasty, and even some reclusive ancient powers emerged, attempting to sway the tides of the world. At the first grand court assembly, the civil and military officials nearly came to blows, fighting tooth and nail over the allocation of fifty million taels of silver from the summer tax revenues. The spectacle opened Wang Hao's eyes—the Great Zhou's bureaucracy was not only corrupt but also martially proficient, a cabinet of all-rounders. Some officials even had the audacity to suggest the emperor release funds from the imperial privy purse to address the emergency. Wang Hao suddenly felt weary. Let it all burn.
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?!
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!
. 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!"
