Chapter 993 Father, the Chu Kingdom I Conquered for You

The instant that sword intent emerged, Sword Nanny knew clearly that it didn't come from Master's sword, but from her own Little Sister's sword.

After a moment of absentmindedness,

Sword Nanny smiled;

She didn't resent or blame her Little Sister for jumping on the bandwagon at the last minute.

How to put it?

When she borrowed the sword from the sect, she sensed that her Little Sister hadn't said a word before lending out her own sword intent, and judging by the scale of this sword, it would probably drain all of her Little Sister's sword energy in an instant.

Her Little Sister had been clever since she was little, with the Fire Phoenix Spirit Body, her future was limitless, no less than a natural sword embryo;

A clever person, doing something foolish, meant that at that time, she had absolutely no way to think, but only instinctively provided help to herself.

What reason did she have to blame her?

As a swordsman,

As a disciple of the Sword Saint's sect,

Whether wielding a sword or standing as a person, one couldn't be wishy-washy and resentful; at the very least, one had to be able to afford a sense of freedom.

At this time, Sword Nanny didn't have the time to analyze whether she had been impulsive at the time.

Hero Chen said that he was going to push this "mother and daughter" into the South Gate Pass, and then call for people;

Or simply push them to Fengxin City, and then call for people, saving even the effort of escorting them, directly sending the Buddha to the West.

This was undoubtedly the best solution.

Similarly,

Just like Little Sister lending her sword without hesitation,

Wasn't she, at that time,

Unwilling to delay for even a moment, directly revealing her identity and choosing to attack?

In the end,

She had a feud with Zheng Fan, and she would never forget the scene of her master, Yuan Zhenxing, being shot to death by Zheng Fan's order on the Bian River.

It was fine if Zheng Fan adopted her,

Since ancient times, whether it was the royal family or the martial arts sects, when they encountered good seedlings, even if they were the children of enemies, there were many examples of adoption.

Either they hid it, deceived it, or coaxed it, or they washed your brain until it buzzed, at the very least, they had to be constantly vigilant, waiting for you to grow up, and keep you in reserve.

But this Zheng, really just raised her...just raised her.

Giving you food, giving you drink, giving you things to use, gaining the appreciation of the Sword Saint, that Zheng didn't have any other expression;

It seemed that she was just a relative's child living in his house, not warm, but not cold either.

In the past, Sword Nanny didn't understand;

Later, she gradually understood a little;

Compared with the Northern Gentleman who made her feel vaguely afraid since she was a child, this Zheng was actually truly using the most effective tactic by having no tactics.

The hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Jindong were willing to die for Zheng, it wasn't something that could be exchanged for by simply deceiving them.

The two women said they were going to the Prince's Mansion to try their luck, and even said something about "greeting,"

Sword Nanny couldn't bear it at all;

From the earlier Cui Liu Fort, to the later Shengle City, and then at Xuehai Pass and Fengxin City, that was the Prince's Mansion, that was Zheng's home;

But Zheng was often on expeditions for half a year at a time, and if you really had to count, she lived at home more than Zheng did.

Two bitches,

Dare to go to my house to greet?

See if I don't kill you!

The woman blocked the sword from Da Niu, and after a brief moment of astonishment, she immediately woke up, and her figure was about to step forward to first finish off the battlefield in front of her, but when she urged the blood in her body again, her figure suddenly froze.

She lowered her head in a daze, and opened her palm. At the wound on her palm, strands of golden纹路 (wén lù, lines) were spreading. In the arm that had been blasted earlier, there was also gold faintly visible.

She knew what this was,

This was the Fire Phoenix aura,

Very pure,

But not very powerful, at least, not powerful for someone at her level.

She had been injured earlier, and after receiving this sword, the Fire Phoenix aura wrapped in the sword intent began to soak, or rather, scorch her wound;

This was also a minor injury, as long as she had a little time, not even half an incense stick, and half a cup of tea would be too long, she could completely eliminate these Fire Phoenix auras from her body.

However,

The real problem was that,

This body of hers didn't matter, because she was here, but in the dark, this fire was burning in another place.

Back then,

On Tianhu Mountain, Tian Wujing had once said to Zheng Fan: Things like esoteric arts can never escape the saying "believe it and it is there, don't believe it and it is not there";

When he was assassinated on the Wangjiang River, Zheng Fan borrowed the power of the Magic Pill and the traction of his real identity to cause tens of thousands of Yin souls to roar out on the Wangjiang River, and then, Li Xundao on the back mountain used the last lotus flower left by Cang Fuzi as a guide to forcefully invite them up the mountain.

If you start, you believe it, and if you believe it, you must recognize this rule;

It can also be said that since you use this rule to do things, you will inevitably be affected by this rule.

The woman was able to appear here in this body, obviously using extremely clever esoteric arts.

By the same principle,

She had to bear the influence from another aspect.

"Fire..."

...

Here, it was dark and lightless.

But at this moment,

A cluster of orange-yellow flame as small as a baby's fingernail... no, a small spark, was swaying.

With its appearance, it brought some light to the surroundings.

It could be seen that,

Below the small flame,

Was reflected a woman's face.

The woman was wearing a black robe with gold thread, which looked dignified and luxurious, and she was lying on a piece of ice. Faintly, it seemed that on both sides of where the woman was lying, there were similar pieces of ice.

This wasn't ordinary ice, because there were纹路 (wén lù, lines) faintly visible inside the ice, obviously inlaid with some kind of formation, running endlessly.

This团 (tuán, mass/ball) of flame,

Appeared on the woman's brow.

It was burning,

It was roasting,

Its strength was very small, but it was real.

Clearly, one breath could easily extinguish it,

But the problem was,

All around, in this area, where would a living person stand up, come over, and blow that breath?

Therefore,

It wouldn't be extinguished,

It would continue to burn.

It was the Fire Phoenix Fire, even if it was just a trace, as long as there was something to attach to, it could continue to live on correspondingly.

Its damage was very, very small, but little things add up;

Not long ago,

The Qian Emperor self-disintegrated on the mountain road behind the mountain;

Because his Qi Refiner cultivation was too low, when he triggered the internal fire to burn his body, it also triggered a small flame.

For this reason, the Emperor had to endure a longer period of painful torture, but in the end, he still successfully sent his body to this storm.

It was there,

It was burning,

It was incinerating...

…

The woman let out a sharp roar. At this moment, she couldn't even care about Sword Nanny, who was seriously injured in front of her and had almost completely lost her ability to resist.

Her body, her true self, her original soul, had been set on fire!

"Why is this happening, why is this happening!"

The woman was almost hysterical,

While forcibly expelling the Fire Phoenix aura from her body, she roared at the other end:

"Go back, I'm going to die!"

She was afraid of death, very afraid of death, otherwise she wouldn't have hidden herself, and wouldn't have been a mouse in the shadows for so long.

Most importantly,

This way of dying made her feel extremely suffocated.

"Go back!!!"

The woman roared again;

She was very anxious.

……

In that originally dark area,

The position where the small flame was burning, which was the woman's forehead, had already begun to turn black, and there was a tendency for it to spread.

This meant that the dam of a thousand miles was being destroyed by an ant nest, and it was about to begin.

The woman couldn't feel the pain, but she could sense that crisis in the dark.

It was like you were dreaming, and someone was doing harm to your body, even if you hadn't woken up yet, you still had a feeling in your dream.

"Go back!"

The woman let out another sharp roar, and instead of going to Sword Nanny, she turned and lunged at another battlefield.

The girl was still struggling to support herself under Hero Chen's offensive, and her body was already covered with sword marks.

In the end, this was a game of Tian Ji's horse race, comparing whose inferior horse could last longer.

The woman's roar was heard by the girl.

However, she simply had no intention to think or be distracted, and couldn't sense the awkward and dangerous situation the woman was facing.

"Buzz!"

The woman rushed in.

Hero Chen didn't retreat, but released a sword.

The woman didn't dodge, and took the sword head-on. A bowl-sized opening was instantly dug out of her back.

The girl saw the opportunity, and quickly pinched her fingers to form a seal. A black chain flew out from her fingertips, wanting to bind Hero Chen. From the girl's perspective, this was an opportunity created for herself by the woman at a great cost.

However,

The next moment,

The woman's fist,

Directly hit the girl's chest.

The woman roared:

"Take me back!"

The woman was a martial artist, a very, very strong martial artist. She could distinguish the trace of Second Rank sword intent that the Sword Saint had transmitted earlier, which meant that she wasn't completely unfamiliar with the power of this level.

But a martial artist was, after all, a martial artist.

The reason why she and the girl had been staying together was that the two of them were actually supporting each other.

The woman provided the girl with martial force to travel the world, while the girl provided the two of them with the qualifications to travel the world.

There were thousands of martial artists in the world, but there was only one Tian Wujing;

For other martial artists, even if they were at the top, they couldn't achieve "borrowing a corpse to return the soul."

If they wanted to go back, they could only end this "dream" so that their true selves could wake up and blow out that flame.

If the girl didn't end it,

Then the woman would force her to end it first!

Zheng Fan had once joked with the Blind Man that these so-called powerhouses with Qi Refiner backgrounds who were waving the banner of "restoring Great Xia" were all cowards who were strong.

When faced with unfavorable situations, they simply didn't have the heart to fight, and didn't have the courage to fight to the death;

They were far inferior to the Baili siblings, who didn't say a word and returned to the city with their swords when faced with the Iron Cavalry of the Northern Garrison Army back then.

But once their fundamentals were really threatened, they could immediately erupt with terrible decisiveness and determination.

The girl ate the woman's punch head-on without any defense.

Her body,

Finally exploded.

The woman landed. After the girl dissipated, the woman also rolled her eyes, and white air burst out of her body. Immediately, her shell disintegrated and fell to the ground.

Hero Chen landed,

Looking at this scene,

He seemed unable to react. This duel had actually ended in this way.

Just now, Hero Chen had even prepared to try to open the Second Rank at the cost of self-destruction of his realm, or even sacrificing his life.

He hadn't opened it before, and it was very likely that he wouldn't be able to open it;

Even if he really did receive it,

One must know that the Sword Saint in front of Xuehai Pass back then was barely rescued from the gates of hell by Zheng Fan and the devils;

Although the current Hero Chen was also a Third Rank, he was still far inferior to the Sword Saint back then. Forcibly opening the Second Rank was almost certain death.

But he hadn't hesitated or made too many choices before. Hero Chen had always been very direct in doing things.

On the one hand, there was his senior sister, a genuine fellow disciple;

On the other hand, there was that Zheng, and someone wanted to harm Zheng's family, so there was no way he could let it go.

As for whether it was really worth it to sacrifice himself here to help Zheng Fan's family block the knife,

Sorry,

Hero Chen would consider many things in his life, but he would never consider whether it was worth it.

It was just that,

This all ended too suddenly and was too comical;

The bamboo stick in Hero Chen's hand slowly curled back and fell to the ground casually. There was actually some loss in his heart.

It was a pity,

An opportunity to forcefully open the Second Rank at a stage where his strength didn't match was lost just like that.

Immediately,

Hero Chen walked to Sword Nanny and bent down to stop her bleeding.

Sword Nanny nodded at her clothes with her chin. Hero Chen understood and took out a few bottles and jars.

"Which one to take?"

"All of them."

Hero Chen nodded, poured out a pill from each small jar, and helped Sword Nanny take them.

Thanks to his relationship with Fan Li, Sword Nanny could get the real good medicine personally prepared by the devils. Of course, his master's reputation was also big enough, but with Fan Li, she could get two or even three copies.

After taking a bunch of pills for replenishing Qi, replenishing blood, resolving blood stasis, consolidating the foundation, cultivating the essence, and regulating menstruation,

Sword Nanny's complexion obviously improved a lot.

"Just now, what was borrowed was Junior Sister's sword, but why..."

Sword Nanny was a little puzzled.

She had originally thought she was done for. She hadn't borrowed Master's sword, so she had actually prepared herself mentally to end it;

But who would have thought that this unexpected turn of events would come so suddenly.

Hero Chen smiled and said:

"Yao Shizeng told me that in today's world, the Qian Kingdom has a back mountain, which seems to be the ancestral home of Qi Refiners, but in fact, the people who really promoted the art of Qi Refining are the Chu people."

"Chu people?"

"Yes, in the Chu Kingdom, Qi Refiners are called witches.

Yao Shi said that in the Great Xia period eight hundred years ago, witches were the predecessors of Qi Refiners, and witches were used by the court.

Our Qian Kingdom's Qi Refiners in the back mountain are as free as gods, but in the Chu Kingdom, their witches are more like members of the imperial government.

When the Three Marquis opened the border,

A large group of witches followed Marquis Chu to the land of Chu, not because the witches believed in Marquis Chu, but because the lineage of Marquis Chu was the first to manage and control witches for Great Xia.

Witches, or Qi Refiners, pay attention to the Mandate of Heaven, and like to calculate cause and effect, often talking about the origin and end of fate, but the Fire Phoenix bloodline in the Chu Kingdom's Xiong clan is able to restrain them to death.

Fire Phoenix blood, Fire Phoenix spirit, that kind of flame may not be able to burn through spider silk, but it can burn the great net of cause and effect woven by those Qi Refiners clean.

Junior Sister is a Fire Phoenix Spirit Child, and the purity of her Fire Phoenix bloodline is extremely rare in the entire Xiong clan of Chu for hundreds of years.

So, Junior Sister's sword may not be powerful enough now, but the Fire Phoenix fire attached to Junior Sister's sword intent can make the Qi Refiners extremely uncomfortable."

Hero Chen pointed to the distant corpse on the ground,

And said:

"They aren't the real bodies here. If I'm not mistaken, it should be that the fire has burned them to a place they can't tolerate.

To put it bluntly,

It's their own carelessness that they didn't expect to encounter this."

"Hehe."

Sword Nanny laughed,

And said:

"It seems that this time, Junior Sister really saved my life.

How embarrassing,

I originally wanted to protect them in advance, and kill these two mad women here before that.

As a result, I almost fell, and in the end, I had to be rescued by the person I was protecting."

"People from the same sect don't need to be so clear, otherwise it will be too outsider."

"Yes."

"I'll take you away first, back to the South Gate Pass first, and find someone to send the news back, otherwise Master will worry."

"Okay."

Hero Chen picked up Sword Nanny,

While walking,

He suddenly thought of something,

And asked:

"Are you and Mister Li already together?"

"No."

"Then why did you say those words earlier?"

Sword Nanny blushed immediately when she heard this,

And said:

"To build momentum for myself."

"Oh."

"When I return from my travels, I will force him."

"Oh."

"He's not stupid."

"I know that." Hero Chen empathized.

"Junior Brother, do you think I'm not good enough for him?"

"Not good enough."

"..." Sword Nanny.

Sword Nanny reached out and scratched Hero Chen's neck, and said:

"Liar."

"Good enough."

"He's been getting more and more distant from me in recent years."

"You're growing up."

"Are you saying he's always treated me like a daughter?"

"Or... a sister?"

"But I don't want to. I just want him to be my man, no matter what you think, I think he should be my man. I matured early."

"But you grow slowly."

Sword Nanny noticed something was wrong,

Reached out and pinched Hero Chen's neck,

And asked:

"Junior Brother, it feels like you've changed a lot after not seeing you for a few years."

"Oh?"

"You're not still a bachelor, are you?"

"No."

"You're married?"

"No."

"Then you..."

"Three years ago, in Jiangnan, a woman was drowned in a pig cage by her husband's family for committing adultery."

"You saved her?"

"Yes."

"Then, she followed you?"

"Yes."

"I guess she should be a poor person who was wronged, right?"

"No, she really had an affair with the servant in her family."

"Uh..."

"In this world, where are such perfect and transparent things, right?"

"Right..."

"Zheng Fan once said this to me. He said that for a while, he liked to draw very much, and he also liked to write books very much. He liked to twist the evil and good in the world to the extreme, tear them to the extreme, and at the same time, make them as clean as possible.

But in this world, how much pure evil and good is there?"

"I know he can draw and write books, but he basically doesn't do these things on weekdays, as if... he learned them in his previous life.

By the way,

What about that woman, what's the next story?

Did she stay with you?"

"She was very grateful to me."

"Of course, so she offered to repay you with her body?"

"No, three days later, she stole the silver in my luggage and left."

"Oh... where did she go?"

"She ran away, back to her parents' house."

"And then?"

"Then she was beaten half to death by her parents' family for being immoral, and thrown into the wilderness to fend for herself."

"You saved her again?"

"Yes."

"What happened after that?"

"I helped her heal her wounds. A month later, her wounds were almost healed."

"Did she offer to repay you with her body?"

"No, she stole my sword and pawned it."

Sword Nanny seemed to realize something, and asked:

"So your sword is gone, not because you're like Master, who has no sword and is better than having a sword?"

"Yes, it was pawned, and I didn't have the money to redeem it, so the sword was gone."

"I remember your sword, it was very good."

"The sword maker personally helped refine it when I accompanied Zheng Fan to grab a wife in the Chu Land."

"Alas, it's gone, it's gone?"

"It's gone, it's gone, what else can I do? There's a reason for everything, I can't go to the pawnshop owner for trouble, can I?"

"Okay, I understand... you."

"What about that woman? Where did she go this time?"

"She was robbed, and she was even trafficked into a brothel."

"She... is really unlucky."

"On the first day she received customers, she kicked the customer and injured him, and then she was almost strangled to death by the customer. The red tents in Jindong are different from brothels in other places. In other places, death is normal, as long as there's money to settle things."

"You saved her again?"

"Yes, she wasn't completely dead, and was thrown into a mass grave wrapped in a mat. I found her in the mass grave, barely breathing."

"Junior Brother, you really have a fate."

"Did she run away again next?"

"No, she didn't run away for the next year. Wherever I went, she followed."

Sword Nanny hesitated for a moment,

Pretended to be very mature, and asked:

"Did you sleep together?"

Hero Chen shook his head and said, "She looks down on a useless person like me."

Hero Chen looked at his prosthetic limb.

When he went to assassinate Zheng Fan back then, one of his legs was crippled by Xue San and the Blind Man together. Since then, Hero Chen had used a prosthetic limb, and Xue San personally designed and manufactured it;

In the past ten years, every time he went to Zheng Fan's place, he could replace it once.

"How could she have the nerve to despise you? No, Junior Brother, are you so fond of her?"

"I don't know, I just think I have a fate with her. Every time she's about to die, I can run into her, and I swear, I didn't deliberately look for her or observe her.

Do you believe in fate?"

"I guess I do."

"She and I drifted for a year first, and then we found a place and lived there for a year."

"Never... slept together?"

"No, she cursed me every day at first, saying that a toad wanted to eat swan meat, and wouldn't even piss to see what kind of virtue he had."

"What happened later?"

"Later, she didn't curse me once every day anymore."

"She has the nerve to curse every day."

"It was changed to cursing me once in the morning and once in the evening."

"Junior Brother, I don't want to hear your story anymore, it's too boring."

"She died."

"Not barely breathing?"

"No, really died, got a serious illness, and the doctor didn't treat her well, so she died of illness."

"It's about time she died."

"Before she died, lying on the sickbed, she asked me to get the痰盂 (tán yú, spittoon)."

"What for?"

"To let me look in the mirror."

Sword Nanny reached out and pinched Hero Chen's arm hard, and scolded:

"Junior Brother, you're really embarrassing our sect."

"Yes." Hero Chen defaulted.

"Then why did you say at the beginning that you weren't a bachelor?"

"In this life, no woman has ever been with me for so long."

"Sigh..."

Back then, when Hero Chen was still young, he pushed a cart carrying Yao Zizhan to the depths of the Skybreak Mountain Range. There was also a Miss Su, a Silver Armor Guard.

At that time, Hero Chen could still be called a "young hero". That age was the time of agitation, and no normal man was an exception at that stage.

However, Yao Zizhan did do something human after all. He couldn't bear to watch such a good swordsman get involved with a Silver Armor Guard, so he used his authority to break the vague line.

Everything wasn't spoken out, so it didn't count for anything.

"Junior Brother, when did you enter the Third Rank?" Sword Nanny asked what she was really interested in.

"The day she died, I looked at the痰盂 (tán yú, spittoon)..."

"Aren't you disgusted?"

"There wasn't any pee, it was wiped very clean, and there was soapy water in it, which could reflect people's shadows. I saw myself in it.

Then, I entered the Third Rank."

"What's the reasoning?"

"I'm not like Master. He can see the family and the country clearly and think about them thoroughly. Zheng Fan once commented on Master, saying that the great hero is one who serves the country and the people."

"That's that Zheng flattering Master to make him happy and bind him to his chariot." Sword Nanny had already seen through everything.

"I'm not like Zheng Fan. To him, the general trend of the world is only secondary. What's primary is that he has to be happy.

Sleep in the softest bed, be in the best spotlight, fight the most enjoyable battles.

I'm afraid that 99.9% of the men in the world dream of living like him."

"That's true."

"I'm just a confused ordinary person. The sword I practiced and the path I walked, in the early years, I said I didn't have a master, but in fact, I followed whoever had reason;

If Yao Shi had reason, I would push Yao Shi while walking and listen to his reason;

If Zheng Fan had reason, I would like to accompany him to eat supper at night while listening to him talk;

If Master had reason, I would love to see Master's sword intent.

I can't compare to them,

Except that I practice the sword a little faster, and apart from practicing the sword a little faster, I'm just a confused person, and a little stupid.

Like myself reflected in that痰盂 (tán yú, spittoon),

Dirty, but actually not dirty, because it's wiped very clean. It's inevitable that I feel disgusted in my heart, but if you don't want to go out and feed the mosquitoes every night, especially in the summer, you have to use it.

It's the same with people. Zheng Fan said that in this world, counting three thousand years forward and three thousand years backward, the majority will always be idiots."

"Believe me, he wasn't talking about you."

"I'm an idiot."

"Third Rank... idiot.

If you're an idiot, how did you reach this height?"

Hero Chen shook his head,

Stopped walking,

And said very honestly:

"It's not that I climbed to this height, it's too high, I can't climb it."

"Then..."

"I pulled it down, and I can reach it."

Sword Nanny's eyes widened suddenly after hearing these words.

She didn't speak,

And he didn't speak either.

Hero Chen carried Sword Nanny and walked a very, very long road. It wasn't until dawn that Hero Chen chose a stream to rest. When he put down Sword Nanny, Sword Nanny still hadn't fallen asleep.

"I thought you were asleep. You're injured, you should rest more." Hero Chen said.

Sword Nanny bit her lip,

Feeling a little wronged and a little unwilling,

But in the end,

She smoothed out her emotions,

Folded her hands in front of her body,

And said:

"Junior Sister has been taught."

Hero Chen grinned and smiled,

And said:

"You're the Senior Sister."

"Those who achieve the most come first."

"There's no such reasoning."

"Mind your own business!"

"Okay, whatever you say. What do you want for breakfast? I'll catch some fish?"

"Okay."

Last night, all the way, it was more like fellow disciples chatting, but it was more like Hero Chen almost unreservedly presenting the whole process of his experience, heart change, and enlightenment of the sword, in its original and unadorned form.

This was actually teaching;

For Sword Nanny, who was already a Fourth Rank, it was definitely a great fortune.

Especially Hero Chen's sentence: Pull it down, and I can reach it.

Hidden in this sentence was an extremely restrained spirit.

Under this sentence,

Sword Nanny, who relied on entering the sect early and insisted on being Hero Chen's senior sister, was too embarrassed to take advantage of the "Senior Sister" title any longer.

Hero Chen came back and started grilling fish.

As the aroma of grilled fish gradually filled the air,

Sword Nanny, who was leaning there, suddenly opened her mouth and said:

"She probably felt that she wasn't good enough for you, so she..."

Hero Chen turned his head to look at Sword Nanny,

And then,

Turned back,

And continued to grill the fish.

"Are you really not caring, or haven't you thought about it? Does she know that you are a powerful swordsman?"

"She's dead." Hero Chen said.

"So?"

Hero Chen handed the first grilled fish to Sword Nanny,

And by the way said:

"Zheng Fan once said that not every story has to have a pearl added to the end."

"Why?"

"Because pearls are too expensive, and most people are ordinary people who can't afford them."

Hero Chen picked up the second grilled fish, tore off a piece of meat, put it in his mouth,

And said while chewing:

"Have you seen the village opera in Jindong?"

"I've seen it. Most of it is praising that Zheng."

"I like to watch it very much, it's very lively and exciting."

Hero Chen pointed to the empty space in front of him:

"Because I'm too familiar with Zheng Fan, so I don't watch the people playing him. I'm also too familiar with Master, so I don't watch the people playing Master either."

"But those two are often the real characters in a play. If you don't watch them, what do you watch?"

"Look at the people next to them, carrying the flag, beating the gong, shouting, jumping, somersaulting, and even acting as horses, acting as Pixiu. In the words of the village opera troupe, they should be called... minor characters.

They may be insignificant,

But if they're missing,

It's not exciting."

……

In the deep dark place, a will-o'-the-wisp was lit;

A woman in a black robe sat upright from the ice, and at the position of her brow, the charred mark was extremely clear.

"I've fallen half a realm."

Next to her, a woman in a white robe walked over, with anger in her eyes.

The black-robed woman didn't care and said:

"If I didn't come back sooner, I would have died."

"What... to do now? Thanks to you, our bodies have fully awakened, and the hourglass has begun to fall."

The black-robed woman clenched her fists,

Terrifying power was constantly brewing and surging between her fist seams:

"There's no other choice.

Since we're all dogs living in the shadows,

Then..."

"Boom!"

The black-robed woman punched the ice below, and terrifying cracks began to spread, and ice beds also began to collapse. Then, figures slowly sat up from the hospital beds.

"Is it time?"

"It's time, isn't it."

"Devil, has the world become chaotic?"

"It's finally time to wake up..."

The black-robed woman looked around all of this,

And shouted:

"No,

We're out of time,

Wake up!!!"

……

"Husband, wake up, wake up."

Xiong Liqing woke up Zheng Fan, who was dozing on the commander's seat;

The Regent of Great Yan didn't feel embarrassed for falling asleep on such an important occasion,

Instead, he smiled and said:

"Who told you Chu people's etiquette to be so complicated?"

In the distance, on the altar, her brother-in-law, who was also the emperor of Great Chu, was offering sacrifices to the heavens.

Later, he would hand over the letter of credence to the Regent of Great Yan, officially meaning that in law, he would bow his head to the Regent's Palace in Jindong.

Many Chu ministers, nobles, and surrounding people were kneeling on the ground and crying;

Unfortunately, the prince of Great Yan couldn't empathize too much. After all, he was the victor and also belonged to the conqueror.

However,

After her brother-in-law's ceremony was almost completed,

The prince stood up,

Xiong Liqing supported him;

Behind them,

Zheng Lin also supported his elder sister to appear. Da Niu kept rubbing her eyes and yawning. She hadn't recovered from the exhaustion of borrowing the sword a few days ago.

"Oh, my precious daughter is sleepy."

The prince felt very sorry when he saw this scene.

Unlike Ji Lao Liu back then, who didn't hesitate to make his own son, Ji Chuanye, drink medicine in order to compete for the throne and give his "good holy grandson" extra points;

He, Zheng Fan, couldn't do such a thing.

Oh no,

Letting his son drink medicine was emotionally acceptable,

But not his daughter.

Even attending such official occasions and delaying his daughter's rest made the father feel sorry for her.

The prince walked over,

And hugged his daughter in his arms,

Da Niu very skillfully reached out and hooked her father's neck;

"Let's go down and rest."

Da Niu shook her head. Even though she was still yawning, she still firmly said:

"Father, today we father and daughter are the main characters."

"Okay,

Then Father will take you to see,

To see the Chu Kingdom that Father personally,

Conquered for you!"