“Shameless!”
Seeing the Ancient Legacy Clan resort to a gauntlet strategy, the Shen Ge Clan’s experts erupted in angry curses.
Utterly shameless!
Ye Xuan was speechless.
A gauntlet? He definitely wasn’t playing along!
Who could withstand that?
Ye Xuan turned to the Shen Ge Clan experts below. At that moment, an elder slowly stepped forward.
The Supreme Elder of the Shen Ge Clan!
Currently, aside from Li Ge, the strongest expert in the clan.
The Supreme Elder looked at Ye Xuan and smiled. “Young Master Ye, take a rest. I’ll handle this!”
Ye Xuan nodded slightly. “Good!”
With that, he vanished on the spot.
Ye Xuan returned to the Small Tower to heal his wounds.
In the sky, the Shen Ge Clan’s Supreme Elder faced the Ancient Legacy Clan’s expert and smiled. “Come, let me experience the strength of the Ancient Legacy Clan’s warriors!”
With that, he disappeared from the spot.
The Ancient Legacy Clan expert vanished as well.
The battle began!
Inside the Small Tower.
Ye Xuan sat cross-legged, frantically absorbing Shen Ge Crystals to heal his wounds.
He realised that a peak Supreme Saint Realm expert was his current limit!
If he faced a top-tier expert beyond Supreme Saint, he’d be at a disadvantage.
Still not strong enough!
Ye Xuan sighed inwardly and continued healing.
…
Elsewhere, Princess Qi arrived at a small courtyard.
Beside her was a man.
The War General!
As Princess Qi entered the courtyard, she saw a woman in a purple dress tending to a vegetable garden.
Seeing Princess Qi, the purple-dressed woman was briefly stunned, then set down her small hoe and said softly, “You’re here!”
Princess Qi looked towards the house in the distance. “He’s inside?”
The purple-dressed woman nodded.
Princess Qi smiled. “You two live quite leisurely!”
The purple-dressed woman remained silent.
Princess Qi sat on a nearby rattan chair and said, “I didn’t want to come, but I did. There are things I can’t let go of.”
The purple-dressed woman looked at her. “What do you want to do?”
Princess Qi smiled. “No need to call for help. The Shen Ge Clan is busy defending against enemies. They don’t have the energy to save you.”
The purple-dressed woman stared at her, silent.
Princess Qi continued, “I think some debts you and my brother owe need to be repaid. Don’t you agree?”
The purple-dressed woman’s gaze grew cold. At that moment, a voice came from the house. “Little Qi!”
Princess Qi looked at the house. The voice inside said, “These debts, can I repay them alone?”
Princess Qi shook her head. “No!”
The person inside fell silent.
Princess Qi said softly, “The Ming Empire lost nearly a million people! Our royal family was slaughtered to the last! Do you think you alone can repay that?”
The person inside remained silent.
Princess Qi slowly closed her eyes. “Brother, you can pursue your love, and I support that. But you shouldn’t lose your senses for someone you love! As a man, you shouldn’t be so foolish. Man or woman, you must understand one thing: beyond love, there’s family and friendship! To destroy family and friendship for love, how utterly foolish is that?”
The person inside stayed silent.
Princess Qi continued, “I’ve never liked fighting, only travelling and enjoying nature. But now, I have to bear this hatred. If I let it go, it’s a betrayal of our ancestors and kin. I don’t hate the Shen Ge Clan; we’re enemies, and life-or-death struggles are normal. But I hate you. Your actions are truly foolish. Any man who abandons principles and boundaries for a woman is a fool. Is such love noble? No, I think it’s foolish. Brother, you’re even more foolish than I imagined.”
The person inside suddenly said, “It’s all my fault, Little Qi. Can you spare their mother and daughter?”
Princess Qi turned to look. At the courtyard gate stood a girl, about fifteen or sixteen, her face still youthful.
The girl looked at Princess Qi, her expression calm.
Princess Qi smiled. “Shouldn’t you call me Aunt?”
The girl walked towards Princess Qi. The purple-dressed woman tried to stop her, but the girl shook her head. “Mother, she won’t hurt me.”
The purple-dressed woman didn’t let go, staring at Princess Qi.
Princess Qi looked at the girl and smiled. “You look so much like your father.”
The girl broke free from her mother, walked to Princess Qi, and said, “Aunt, you won’t kill my father and mother, will you?”
Princess Qi said, “I will.”
The girl grabbed her hand. “I’m begging you, please?”
Princess Qi shook her head. “No.”
The girl looked straight at her. “Will you kill me?”
Princess Qi shook her head. “No.”
The girl said, “When I grow up, I’ll avenge my parents.”
Princess Qi smiled. “You can.”
The girl pleaded, “Father and Mother have been living peacefully here. They haven’t harmed anyone else.”
Princess Qi chuckled softly. “They caused the deaths of many, many people. Do you know how tragic it was for them?”
The girl fell silent.
Princess Qi said softly, “I want to let them go, to end the cycle of hatred, especially after seeing you. I don’t want this hatred to continue. But I can’t convince myself.”
The girl took her hand. “Aunt, if you kill them, I’ll live in pain and hatred forever, and you won’t truly be happy either. The past hatred is done, and we can’t change it, but we can make our future better.”
Princess Qi fell silent.
The girl continued, “Aunt…”
Beside them, the War General slowly knelt. “Your Highness, the Shen War Legion was entirely wiped out back then, except for me. The royal family, young and old, was slaughtered. The Shen Ge Clan plundered the royal city for a month. Resisters suffered fates worse than death. The city was a river of blood, piled with corpses…”
His eyes turned bloodshot. “How can such hatred be let go?”
Princess Qi slowly closed her eyes.
The girl’s face turned pale.
The purple-dressed woman suddenly said coldly, “Kill us? Are you sure you have the ability? You…”
Before she finished, Princess Qi waved her sleeve.
Boom!
A white light shot into the purple-dressed woman’s body. In an instant, her body and soul began to disintegrate.
Seeing this, the girl’s face changed drastically. She tried to intervene, but a terrifying force locked her in place.
Princess Qi slowly stood and walked out. In the distance, the small courtyard burst into flames.
The girl knelt, pleading desperately.
But Princess Qi didn’t look back.
Debts must be repaid.
The girl knelt behind, watching her parents slowly vanish before her eyes.
Princess Qi suddenly said, “Little one, will you let go of hatred now?”
The girl lowered her head, hiding her hatred and killing intent.
Princess Qi smiled faintly. “Advising others to let go is easy, just words. When it happens to you, you realise it’s not so simple. Don’t urge others to be kind without knowing their pain. Take care.”
With that, she and the War General quickly disappeared into the distance.
The girl stood slowly, expressionless, and turned to leave.
…
Outside.
The War General said solemnly, “Your Highness, that child…”
Princess Qi said softly, “She’s done no wrong. How could I kill her?”
The War General hesitated.
Princess Qi smiled. “Are you saying I’m too soft, that sparing her might bring trouble later?”
The War General nodded. “Yes.”
Princess Qi shook her head with a smile. “Look at it differently.”
The War General was puzzled.
Princess Qi said softly, “First, she’s innocent. Killing her would go against my principles. If I killed her out of fear of revenge, I’d ruin my own state of mind, never advancing again. As for revenge, I killed her parents. Isn’t it normal for her to seek vengeance?”
The War General was silent.
Princess Qi continued, “Let’s go. To the Shen Ge Clan. The Ancient Legacy Clan likely can’t destroy them alone. I need to lend a hand.”
The War General hesitated, then said, “Didn’t you say Young Master Ye…”
Princess Qi smiled. “What does my fighting the Shen Ge Clan have to do with Young Master Ye?”
The War General: “…”
…
Shen Ge Domain.
The Supreme Elder of the Shen Ge Clan and the Ancient Legacy Clan’s expert were locked in a fierce battle.
Their strengths were equal, neither able to overpower the other.
But the pressure was on the Shen Ge Clan. The Ancient Legacy Clan had nearly twice as many True Immortal Realm experts.
Without the formations, the Shen Ge Clan would be in grave danger.
At that moment, Ye Xuan appeared before the crowd.
His injuries were mostly healed.
Seeing him, the Shen Ge Clan experts breathed a sigh of relief.
Ye Xuan watched the battle in the sky, his expression grave. If the formations broke, the Ancient Legacy Clan’s experts would storm the Shen Ge Domain, and it would be unstoppable.
Fortunately, the formations seemed impregnable for now. The Ancient Legacy Clan couldn’t break them easily.
At least not in the short term.
At that moment, a woman appeared outside the barrier.
It was Princess Qi.
Seeing her, Ye Xuan felt a surge of unease.
Princess Qi smiled faintly, said nothing, and pointed at the barrier.
Boom!
The nine grand formations trembled violently. In the next moment, they collapsed into nothingness.
Seeing this, the Shen Ge Clan leader’s face changed drastically. He looked at Princess Qi, trembling. “You… a Supreme God Realm expert…”
At those words, everyone’s faces changed.
