2024-09-19 00:01:47Jack turned, his demeanor instantly shifting as he sized up Alex.
Puffing out his chest like a blowfish, his fists clenched, and his eyes narrowed with hostility.
"So, you're the one extorting and harassing my sister, huh?" Jack sneered.
"Let me warn you: a pathetic man like you had better stay away from her. Keep pestering her, and you’ll be digging your own grave."
Alex snorted, amused.
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Chapter 671
The morning after the Namgung compound burned, fear spread through the empire faster than any messenger could ride.In teahouses and sect halls from the northern passes to the southern deltas, men spoke in hushed voices over cooling tea.The Namgung family—one of the five great pillars of the Murim Alliance—had been erased in a single night. Their ancestral halls reduced to ash. Their disciples scattered or dead.Their legendary patriarch, Namgung Hyuk, gone without a trace. No one knew who had struck or how.Only that the attack had been swift, silent, and absolute. For generations, no one had dared raise a hand against that name. Now the name itself felt like a curse.In the great hall of the Prime Minister’s pavilion in Changyi, Alex stood at the long map table, fingers tapping once against the dark wood. Zhuge Liang waited opposite him, calm and precise as always.“Yuan Shao is moving,” Alex said. “He sent the Murim Alliance after me. What do you think?”Zhuge Liang inclined his h
Chapter 670
Alex stood in the rubble, blood dripping from his split lip onto the broken stone. His left arm hung useless at his side, the bones shattered from Namgung Hyuk’s earlier blow.He ignored it. Pain was a luxury he could not afford. He raised his good hand.“Attack now!”Feng Taiyi charged forward without hesitation, pouring every ounce of his strength into the assault. But Namgung Hyuk was older and stronger.“You will never win,” Namgung Hyuk sneered.The two Nascent Soul masters collided high in the dark sky. Their swords clashed with explosive force, sending streaks of sword light flashing like silver lightning weaving through turbulent storm clouds.Then, without warning, five thousand Wudang disciples emerged in perfect unison. They appeared on every rooftop, in every shadowed courtyard, and from every hidden vantage point surrounding the Prime Minister’s pavilion. A sea of white robes rippled as one, silent and disciplined, like an avalanche ready to descend.They had been waiting
Chapter 669
The impact came like a thunderclap.Namgung Hyuk’s fist drove forward, qi roaring around his knuckles in a spiraling vortex of raw power. The air itself seemed to tear. Alex met it head-on, feet planted, every muscle braced.The collision exploded outward in a shockwave that cracked stone and sent dust billowing across the ruined courtyard.Alex’s body left the ground.He flew backward through the night air, a white-robed figure hurled like a broken doll. One hundred meters. His back slammed into the side of a half-collapsed building with a sound like splitting timber.Ribs screamed. His left arm hung useless, bones shattered inside the sleeve. Blood filled his mouth. For a heartbeat the world went gray at the edges.But he did not fall.He slid down the wall, boots finding purchase on broken masonry, and stayed upright. The five-element core inside him burned steady and deep, a foundation that had once carried him all the way to the first stage of Nascent Soul before he deliberately
Chapter 668
Alex met his gaze without flinching.“I stole the original Prussian designs,” he said. “Then I gathered the brightest minds Xia has—many of them from Wudang itself—and we reverse-engineered every component. The drones that now guard these provinces were built here, by Xia’s people, using Xia’s resources. They watch our borders. They help our farmers. Tell me why I should not use tools that protect our people.”Namgung’s face darkened to a deep, furious red. His knuckles whitened around the hilt of his sword.“That is evil Prussian technology,” he snarled. “How can you bring it into Xia and call it your own?”The old master’s qi began to rise again, thick and heavy, pressing down on the ruined courtyard like a coming storm.Alex took one deliberate step forward. His voice remained calm, clear, and unafraid.“Old man, if these technologies can help the people of Xia—better harvests, safer lives, food on every table—why shouldn’t I use them for our people’s good?”Namgung’s mouth opened,
Chapter 667
The fifth floor of the Prime Minister’s pavilion detonated outward in a storm of splintered timber and pulverized stone. An old man in blood-red robes descended through the smoke on a blade of pure qi, his sword still singing with the force of the strike. He landed amid the wreckage, eyes blazing, and drove the weapon through the two figures seated at the war table. They did not bleed. They did not scream. The blade passed through them as if through colored mist. The images of Alex Bai and Zhuge Liang flickered once, twice, then dissolved into harmless light and scattered pixels. Namgung Hyuk froze. The righteous fury on his ancient face cracked into raw disbelief. Below, thirty meters underground in a reinforced bunker lined with concrete and layered wards, Alex and Zhuge Liang remained perfectly still, but the faint tightening around his eyes said he understood the same terrible truth. This one had gotten through. Alex had prepared for exactly this moment. Every sensitive meet
Chapter 666
The war room in Liang Province’s capital stank of old wine, sweat, and the iron tang of too many armed men in one place.Torches guttered along the stone walls, throwing long shadows across the scarred oak table where four warlords sat like wolves around a fresh kill.They had stopped killing each other for one reason only: the enemy had taken Liu Wei. The real emperor. That single blow had landed harder than any army. It had forced the truce no one wanted.Dong Zhuo had once commanded the largest army in Xia—two hundred thousand soldiers.His four generals each held fifty thousand men under their banners.The endless conflicts between them served only to weaken all parties. In the end, they chose to set aside their grudges and form a temporary truce to consolidate their strength—so that they might later divide Xia between themselves.Li Jue leaned over the map, thick finger dragging across the faded lines. “Zhang Ji takes fifty thousand east. Yan and Qing provinces. You kill Bai Xiao
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