2024-09-23 00:01:27“Grandpa, you shouldn’t get so worked up over something so small. It’s bad for your health.”
“Small... small matter?”
Grandpa Abraham stammered, his voice subdued, as if he had swallowed the bitterest of pills.
“How can you—”
Suddenly, he gasped, clutching his chest.
“Ahhh!”
His heart raced uncontrollabl
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Chapter 673
The war room’s doors opened without ceremony. Li Qingxue stepped inside, white robes streaked with road dust, her breathing controlled but tight. She bowed once, sharp and precise.“Young Sect Master. Urgent news from the Murim Alliance.”Alex did not turn. “Speak.”“They have declared Wudang an enemy of the righteous sects. Five days. Surrender the sect and its assets, or their combined forces march on our halls.”The words landed like stones in still water. Alex’s eyes were calm, almost cold.“Good. They finally moved.”He shifted his attention to the man waiting on the far side of the map.Zhuge Liang stood with his usual stillness, hands clasped behind his back, the faint lines at the corners of his eyes the only sign he had absorbed every word.“Zhuge Liang. My orders.”“Yes, Prime Minister.”“First, the two provinces still clinging to the Yellow Turbans. Send our most reliable high-ranking officers—those whose loyalty is beyond question. They shall enter as the new governors. Pr
Chapter 672
The night air in the ruined courtyard still carried the sharp tang of smoke and blood. Li Tianlong stood rigid, his sword lowered but his eyes burning with the kind of fury that could ignite cities. His voice cracked across the open space.“If you do this, you are no longer human. How can you drag my entire family into your games?”Alex met his gaze without blinking. “I gave you a chance once. I am giving you another. Choose. Friend or enemy. But choose quickly.”“I serve only Emperor Liu Jian,” Li Tianlong spat. “The true son of the dragon. Not your puppet boy from the provinces.”Alex nodded once, a small, cold movement. “Liu Piao. Kill the emperor.”The fat Wudang disciple holding the bound false emperor tightened his grip. Liu Jian’s eyes widened in sudden terror as Liu Piao drew his blade in one smooth motion, the steel singing as it cleared the sheath.“Wait!” Li Tianlong roared.But Lu Piao had already driven his sword straight into the Emperor's heart. The blade erupted from
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,
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