The Emperor Reigns Them All

Chapter 288 So What Will You Do After Seeing Your Highness

When Cao Zhongming looked up and screamed in pain, Cao Xijin could no longer maintain his composure. He only had time to bow his upper body and growled, “I’m an unworthy son!” Then his body buckled and crumpled on the ground. All was silent.

Cao Zhongming held Cao Xijin in his arms and watched him die. He could do nothing. His face was gradually distorted and his features were huddled together. The Spiritual Qi in his body was agitated. He could hardly control the power of his cultivation, which was oppressing the people around him. Everyone around him fell to the ground from the pressure.

“Military Commander! Li Ye has gone too far. We will follow Military Commander and fight till our last gasp of breath!” A general added.

“Li Ye has gone completely mad. He has no humanity left. Military Commander, we should join forces with the Longxi Prince!” An advisor suggested.

Cao Zhongming just barely kept his emotions in check and asked the subordinates to help Cao Xijin leave. Seeing Cao Xijin’s body disappear from the door, he seemed to have aged more than a decade in an instant. His spirit had taken a nose dive and he became languid. However, having been encouraged by the people around him, he gradually picked himself up. His grief was replaced by hatred, and his eyes were full of murder.

“How dare an ignorant youth like Li Ye threaten my Weibo Army. Does he really think my Weibo Army has no talented person?” Cao Zhongming was furious, and his hair and beard were all fluttering about. “If he forces my hand again, I will head into Pinglu Army and personally fight him to the death!”

“That’s not the best move, Military Commander,” an advisor hastened to add, “I heard that Li Ye is also of the Spiritual Master Realm...Military Commander is the hero of the world, and now there is chaos in Kyushuis. It’s time to accomplish great things for you, Military Commander. Li Ye is nothing but a piece of crap! He is unqualified to be mentioned in the same sense as the military commander!”

Cao Zhongming looked at the advisor and snorted. He also knew that his words were somewhat inappropriate, and the advisor’s suggestion was the perfect gentle let down. “Then I shall let him live for a few more days. When I gather the army, I will completely wipe out the Pinglu Army, and smash Li Ye into pieces!”

“Li Ye, that ignorant youth is no match for the military commander!”

“There’s no harm in letting him live for another few days. Sooner or later, he’ll be buried with the first Childe!”

Cao Zhongming threw his sleeves and went into the political hall. “What an arrogant young fool. He’s lucky not to have met me. If I see him, I’ll show him...”

Before he could finish his words, a chuckle suddenly came from the roof in front of the yard. A voice full of ridicule ensued, “If Commander Cao sees me, you will do what to your highness exactly?”

Having heard this abrupt and clear voice, everyone was stunned. Their eyes looked in the direction from where the voice came and said, “Who’s there? How dare you hide out in the commissioner manor! Come out!”

On the roof stood a young man who was calm and casual. He was in wide-sleeved robes, his hair and clothes were ethereal. With his head bumping against the stars and back leaned against the moon, he seemed so suave and over-powering.

Li Ye took a glance at all the people in the courtyard and his eyes were full of banter, “I don’t need to hide anywhere in this world. As long as you are not blind, you can see I am here. So, I don’t need to ‘come out’!”

“Prince... Prince An?”

“Li Ye?!”

“How dare you come here!”

Upon hearing Li Ye’s self-proclaimed title and seeing his face, everyone was shocked and reacted differently. Some were angry, some panicked. Some were surprised, some were confused, some were jealous and some were full of hatred.

Cao Zhongming, who was about to enter the door, turned back and saw Li Ye. His expression immediately turned ghastly. The enemy was in front of Cao Zhongming, and he was furious. Li Ye actually dared to enter Weizhou City and splendidly appear in the commissioner manor, which made him feel ignored and insulted!

According to common sense, Cao Zhongming should violently kill Li Ye, but at this moment, Cao Zhongming had all sorts of thoughts except to fight with Li Ye because before Li Ye made a sound, he couldn’t sense Li Ye’s breath and did not realize his existence!

There was only one explanation, Li Ye’s cultivation was higher than him!

Realizing this, how could Cao Zhongming dare to act rashly?

However, now that Li Ye had already appeared before him, if Cao Zhongming had nothing to say and did not respond, he’d lose face. Just when he hesitated, his escort chief, a master of Qi-refining Level 8, was full of fury and stepped forward. He pulled out his knife and leaped up, wielding his knife in front of Li Ye and saying, “Bastard, how dare you and your soldiers invade Weibo and kill the Childe of Weibo! How dare appear here? I’m going to end you!”

Seeing the escort chief attack, Cao Zhongming secretly sighed and decided to wait and watch. The escort chief’s cultivation was not low, so it was a great opportunity to get a grasp on Li Ye’s level.

Seeing the escort chief wielding his knife towards him, Li Ye still stood with his hands clasped behind his back, and did not intend to move. The Knife Qi was approaching like a flash, and just as everyone thought Li Ye was nuts and courting death, Li Ye glanced at the escort chief.

The most shocking thing happened. When he met Li Ye’s eyes, the escort chief was trembling and screaming like being struck by lightning. Blood spurted from his mouth and nose. His body fell down like he was crushed by Mount Tai. He was falling and bang, his body smashed a big pit on the ground and dust flared up around him.

Everyone was shocked and frozen for a moment. They surrounded the fallen body and when they saw the appearance of escort chief, they couldn’t help drawing a breath of cold air. The escort guard was lying on his stomach, and his seven orifices were bleeding. He was dead. This resulted from every meridian and bone breaking.

Many of these general’s advisers were ready to attack to show their loyalty in front of Cao Zhongming a moment ago. The escort chief was only a step ahead of them. At this moment, however, they could not help feeling lucky upon seeing the escort chief. The highest level of cultivation among them was Qi-refining Level 9. The escort chief met his ending just by taking a glance from Li Ye. How much better could they have faired?

In fact, the escort chief did know that Li Ye was of such a high cultivation. He was just anxious to prove himself. He intended to gain some cache in exchange for a bit of an injury. He just didn’t expect that Li Ye’s strength far exceeded his expectations, thus he was unable to die in peace.

Everyone looked at each other and saw the shock in each other’s eyes. No one dared to make a move. They could only glare at Li Ye furiously. Some were a little bold and dared to abuse Li Ye verbally to show their loyalty.

“Li Ye, this is too much even for a Prince An!”

“This is the commissioner’s manor, and it represents the dignity of the imperial court! You are a senior minister, you act without regard for anyone, Don’t you put the imperial court in your eyes?”

Seeing that the attacking with force would be in vain, they turned to verbal attack, and wanted to make Li Ye frightened and worried.

However, Li Ye was not the least bit scrupulous.

By contrast, he was completely unscrupulous.

The unscrupulous Li Ye waved his sleeve and added, “You lot are too bloody noisy.”

His movements were light, but the wind suddenly flared up in the courtyard. The people with low cultivation were blown up and slammed into the wall of the eaves, vomiting blood on the ground. Only cultivators who were of high Qi-refining level could resist it, barely, but they also gritted their teeth in shock. They too were feeling extreme pressure. These few cultivators that had high Qi-refining level did not last long, just like those people before, and they also flew out and crashed into the wall of the house and fell into the ruins.

The only one who could stand in the yard was Cao Zhongming.

Cao Zhongming was the Weibo Commissioner. Cao Xijin was tortured to death by Li Ye, who then dared to kill the escort chief right in front of Cao Zhongming. Now all of his generals and advisers were injured. It was humiliation to the extreme.

The usually prideful and arrogant Cao Zhongming could not bear this humiliation.

He screamed, and the power of his Spiritual Master of Spiritual Pool cultivation abruptly broke out. His Spiritual Qi surged and encircled to a whirlwind. He stared at Li Ye and roared, “Li Ye, you have gone too far! I am the Weibo Commissioner, second highest ranking of the imperial court! You are so unscrupulous, killing my son, hurting my troops. Where do you place me in your eyes?”

Li Ye chuckled. “Your dignity is nothing in my eyes.”

“I will fight to the death with you! Let’s perish together!” Cao Zhongming couldn’t stand it anymore, and he violently bounced, and had a machete with a golden ring in his hand. He fiercely wielded toward Li Ye. After this strike, shadows of millions of troops rushed out behind him, and they were roaring and rushing to kill Li Ye. That was his territory.

Facing Cao Zhongming’s full strength attack, Li Ye did not move at all. There was no expression on his face, his eyes were even calmer, and he just raised his hand and gently pressed down in the air. Instantly, a thunder sounded in the air and transmitted ten miles away. A huge palm emerged from the purple cloud and shot to Cao Zhongming in midair.

The territory of million troops were suddenly shocked, first being oppressed, each inch was cracked, and countless illusions dissipated in the air. Then the blade light was directly smashed like sand hills meeting a storm. Finally, the palm fell on Cao Zhongming, and bombarded him, slamming him into the yard.

Smoke and dust flared up everywhere in the courtyard, and there was a huge palm on the ground that went a few feet down. Under the palm of this hand, Cao Zhongming couldn’t move, and he was like a fly being flattened. It was not known how many of his bones were broken, but he kept vomiting blood.

There was even not contempt in Li Ye’s eyes. He looked at Cao Zhongming like watching a stone, “Battling with me, your highness, to the death? Who gave you that privilege?”

Cao Zhongming struggled to lift his head, and he looked at Li Ye with hatred, but he could not do anything because he could not move.

Li Ye grabbed the air and lifted Cao Zhongming directly. He strangled Cao Zhongming’s neck with one hand and added indifferently, “Commander Cao, Weibo Commissioner, I would not have even looked at you if it weren’t for the fact that you have more than a hundred thousand troops. If you want to live, you will order the Weibo Army to surrender to the Pinglu Army and remove their armors. Every state and county will open their city gates and accepted the Pinglu Army to settle.”