2024-09-17 00:01:54"I don’t care whether you want to help me or not. Just stay out of my way," Sophia snapped.
Alex shook his head.
Her understanding was as dull as a butter knife, and her parents were much worse.
There was little hope she would realize the truth any time soon.
Alex felt no obligation to reveal his true self to her, as their relationship had been doomed from the start.
He was simply pl
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Chapter 681
One month ago, Alex stood before Zhuge Liang.“I’ve secured our connection with Estoria. The rest is yours to manage. Let’s make sure both countries grow together.”Zhuge Liang bowed, robes whispering against the polished floor. “Your Majesty. Your command will be done.”“Good. I’m entering the training realm to raise my cultivation. Keep everything running smoothly in my absence.”“Yes, Your Majesty.” Another precise bow.Alex turned and walked away. The words were a lie. He had never intended to set foot in the Wudang dimensional realm.Mid-flight, he summoned the Voxen Lucifer. The craft dropped out of stealth beside him, its matte-black hull drinking the light, engines already spooling with a low, predatory hum.“Been a while, buddy,” Alex muttered. “Let’s move.”The hatch unsealed with a pressurized hiss. He vaulted inside. The seat molded around him as the canopy sealed.“Prussia. Full burn. Now.”The Voxen Lucifer punched forward. The world outside blurred into streaks of cloud
Chapter 680
The Prussian succession had been a slaughter dressed as politics for five years.Twenty princes and one princess fought for the throne, and the only rule that mattered was brutally clear: win the support of five out of eight dukes, and the crown belonged to the winner.Brothers who had once trained together now hired knives in the dark. Factions formed at dawn and shattered by dusk.One prince would swear eternal loyalty to another over wine, then send poison before morning.The royal palace in Königsberg had become a graveyard of ambition.The first prince and the second prince had each secured two powerful dukes early. Their alliances were the standard everyone measured themselves against.Then, Sofina changed the game completely, backed by the influential dukes who had chosen to support her.The first duke to pledge his support was Duke Winter. He stood by Sofina, alongside his daughter Renata Winter—her best friend since childhood and the one who had carried her darkest secrets for
Chapter 679
The great hall of the imperial pavilion held its breath.Alex sat on the emperor’s throne, the weight of the dragon robes pressing against his shoulders like a living thing. Eighteen governors lined the chamber in ordered rows. Zhuge Liang stood at his right hand, motionless, eyes fixed on nothing and everything at once.A month had passed since the crown had settled on Alex’s head. The northern armies were broken, the provinces quiet, the old Murim Alliance reduced to ash and memory. Yet the silence in the room felt brittle, as if the peace they had bought with blood might crack at the first wrong word.Alex leaned forward a fraction. The movement was small, but every governor straightened.“I have an announcement.”Eighteen voices answered in near unison, low and careful. “We are listening, Your Majesty.”He let the pause stretch one heartbeat longer than comfort allowed. “For longer than any of us can remember, Xia has kept its doors closed to the world. That policy ends today. We
Chapter 678
The sword struck with a wet, final sound.Emperor Liu Xie jerked once, his dragon robes blooming dark red across the chest. His fingers slipped from the throne’s armrest. Then he slumped forward, eyes wide with the stunned look of a man who had not yet understood he was already dead.For one terrible heartbeat the entire plaza froze.Then the screaming began.“Guards!” Alex roared. “Seize Murong Sheng and Xiao Wuji. They tried to kill the Emperor.”Wudang disciples poured from the side chambers in a disciplined wave, elders at their head. Their robes snapped as they moved. Swords and qi flared in unison.Ten of the strongest elders fanned out around Murong Sheng and Xiao Wuji, faces grim, killing intent thick in the air.Murong Sheng’s blade was still humming from the deflected strike. He stared at the fallen Emperor, then at the sword that had killed him, and something cold and ugly twisted behind his eyes.“No,” he said, voice hoarse. “It was an accident. Someone must have redirecte
Chapter 677
Liu Xie raised a hand. “My new Prime Minister will be a man of experience. A man who understands both the court and the old ways of the Murim. A man who has proven his loyalty to the throne in its darkest hour.”He looked across the hall, straight at the man standing in the place of honor.“Murong Sheng.”The name landed like a blade on stone.Before the echo faded, a single voice cut through the hall.“I, Bai Xiaochun, do not agree.”Every head turned. Alex stood near the center of the chamber, white robes still marked with the dust of the road. He had entered without ceremony, and the shock of his presence rippled outward like a stone dropped in still water. Governors who had been whispering fell silent.Even the Emperor’s hands tightened on the arms of the throne.Liu Xie stared. He had not expected this. Not here. Not now. Fear coiled cold in his stomach, but he forced his spine straight.“Prime Minister,” he said, trying to sound regal, “this is my country. I am the Emperor. Why
Chapter 676
The victory at Guangdu shook the very foundations of the empire.One after another, the remaining provinces submitted and bent the knee. Those ambitious governors who had once danced to their own tunes were unceremoniously removed and replaced by hand-picked loyalists who owed their allegiance solely to Alex.In less than a month, Bai Xiaochun stood as the undisputed master of all eighteen provinces of Xia.The once-mighty armies of each province, which had previously swept across the land like tempests, were all summoned back to their provincial capitals and silently disbanded.Only token garrisons remained — sufficient to preserve peace, yet powerless to ignite war.“No governor shall ever again wield the strength to raise his blade against his peers,” Alex proclaimed to the assembled governors.“Transform every soldier into a farmer! Let them abandon the path of slaughter. Let them take wives, beget children, labor in the fields to feed their families, and raise generation after ge
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