The Emperor Reigns Them All

Chapter 320 Contrast

The army attacked the city from all sides. Two hours or four later, the troops of the Hedong Army in the streets of Qinzhou City were already submerged in the armored ocean of the united forces.

From the top of the watchtower, Li Ye walked forward with his hands clasped behind his back. Lotuses appeared from beneath his feet with every step, and he walked straight into Qinzhou City.

His footsteps seemed to be slow but in actual fact, he was moving quickly. The Ground Immortal Realm and Sky Immortal Realm masters who had fought fiercely in the sky gradually stopped fighting. The thick clouds and lightning flashes dissipated, and the sky gradually returned to a peaceful and warm blue color. Beams of sunlight shone through again.

The Immortal Realm and Sky Immortal Realm masters from Land Buddhism were retreating one after another. Willing or not, their city had been breached, and they were unable to do anything anymore. The Great Cultivators of the demon clan did not pursue further, they all landed on the flat ground and gathered behind Li Ye.

They did not speak, but silently followed Li Ye, gradually more followers joined.

Those Spiritual Master Realm cultivators that were fighting back and forth all hurriedly stopped and spread out like birds after seeing Li Ye approach. The Buddhist monks turned around and left without any hesitation.

A wide aisle unfolded straight in the direction that Li Ye was heading.

The Qinzhou city gates, both inside and outside the city walls, were flooded with soldiers everywhere. The streets and houses inside the city were full of corpses and blood.

Li Ye walked indifferently, leading the cultivators of Spiritual Master Realm, the Ground Immortal Realm and the Sky Immortal Realm. Together with the Son of God, the Holy Child, Nangong Diyi, Su Emei and others, they headed straight to the Inspector General Mansion in the north of the city.

The Inspector General’s manor was empty, and there were no signs of Li Keyong and the Feihong Bodhisattva.

Li Ye was not surprised. the city had been breached, and naturally, Li Keyong and Feihong Bodhisattva had no purpose to remain. Unless they wanted to fight to the end here.

Qinzhou City, as the portal of Hedong, was now taken over by the coalition forces, and the portal of Hedong was wide open. The future battles would surely be more detrimental to Li Keyong. The initiative was totally in Li Ye’s hand.

In order to avoid such a result, the Feihong Bodhisattva came forward to fight Li Ye as a last effort, but both ended up with wounds. Li Ye’s arm was wounded, and Feihong Bodhisattva’s unhealed injury was aggravated further. It was a clear case of the loss outweighing the gain. But Feihong Bodhisattva had to try again. She couldn’t keep watching Li Ye take Qinzhou City and not do anything about it.

Above the Inspector General Mansion, Li Ye glanced around the battles that were still going on in the city and spoke with an absolute tone. His voice was low but full of vitality, and it was clearly heard in the ears of more than 100,000 soldiers, “Li Keyong has already fled, and left the Hedong Army to surrender. If anyone dares to fight stubbornly, kill! ”

After his words spread throughout the whole city, the battling sound of the streets that had been heaven-shocking suddenly shrunk by more than half.

After a while, Qinzhou City was in an uproar. The soldiers of the Hedong Army did not know that Li Keyong had already been defeated and fled. Now, with the knowledge that they had been abandoned, the hearts of the soldiers who had been putting their lives on the line had now turned icy cold.

About two hours later, Qinzhou City was basically stable.

The allied forces began organizing men to prowl around streets and restore order. The sporadic fighting sounds were no longer audible. The united military soldiers were too busy to worry about those beaten generals and remnant soldiers that had fled.

After Li Ye declared his sovereignty over Qinzhou City, he did not linger in the air. The Inspector General Mansion had been cleaned up. Li Ye arbitrarily chose a quiet yard to rest.

Until this time, Li Ye had not dispatched any forces to intercept Li Cunxiao. Because it was no longer necessary. Su Emei and others already took the Dan Pills given by the Holy Child and rushed to Liu Dazheng and Shangguan Qingcheng to heal them.

There were rockery and lakes in the courtyard where Li Ye rested, and there were many fishes in the lake. Li Ye sat in the pavilion and refreshed his spirit by closing his eyes, like an old monk getting settled.

They were in the Inspector General Mansion. Yet the Inspector General of Qinzhou City was imprisoned in it, kneeling outside the pavilion. His sweat rolled down his body like rain drops. He was even too scared to breathe loudly, and his voice trembled, “I, the sinner, am honored to meet Prince An, Your Highness!”

Fear had made him confused about his own title.

As the largest official in Qinzhou City, the Inspector General of Qinzhou naturally followed around Li Keyong in the offensive and defensive battles of Qinzhou City. But when Qinzhou City was breached, Li Keyong did not take him along. This wasn’t because Li Keyong did not want to, but he could hardly look after his own safety. He even needed the care of the Buddhist monks, thus he did not have energy to consider the Inspector General.

His city had been breached and he, the Inspector General of Qinzhou captured. Not only was he now on the ground all tied up, but also kept in detention by a team of soldiers behind him. Judging by the ferocious looks in their eyes, it was obvious that they had no good opinion of this official who was the enemy just moments ago. As long as Li Ye gave the signal, they would not hesitate to cut off Inspector General’s head.

Li Ye said nothing.

He didn’t open his eyes at all, much less look at the Inspector General. It was as though the Inspector General who had been kneeling outside the pavilion was just a blade of grass or a tree branch, not worth paying attention to at all.

Seeing Li Ye ignore himself, the Inspector General’s fear grew deeper. He hurriedly added, “Your Highness, I’ve been coerced by Li Keyong, thus offending the Imperial Army. It’s not my intention! Your Highness, heaven and earth as my witness, I want nothing more than to obey the imperial court and Prince An!”

The Inspector General spoke ruefully, and soon cried. It looked like he had suffered a great grievance, and he had nowhere to complain about his pain. His cry was louder than that of a woman.

Li Ye finally spoke, but only a few words, “Too much noise.”

When he heard those words, the Inspector General’s tears came to an abrupt end. It was as if someone was strangling his neck. His voice was strong and determined just moments ago, now it seemed all the life had been snapped out of him. All that was left on his face was panic. His body looked stiff and his pupils dialing as though he was about to be scared to death.

Moments later, the Inspector General began trembling and his crotch got wet. Seeing him so useless, the soldiers who had escorted him here all showed contempt in their eyes. He was the Inspector General of a state, a four-class official, and his cultivation must have reached the mid Qi-refining level.

Such a figure was high above ordinary folks and possessed the honor and wealth of countless people. He was really no different than the gods.

But now, Li Ye just expressed a little dissatisfaction, and the Inspector General was already so scared that he urinated in his pants.

Li Ye opened his eyes, and glanced at Inspector General casually and added with flagging interest, “I’ll give you an hour, summon all the Qinzhou officials and ethnic squires. After an hour, I must see them in the government hall.”

The Inspector General was already frightened and desperate, thinking that he would die. Urinating his pants in front of Li Ye was so rude that he thought he had definitely infuriated Li Ye, and there was no way he would live. So his guts were close to turning.

Fortunately, Li Ye’s words were timely, which saved the Inspector General’s life.

“Your Highness, trust me! I will do it now without any delay, and everyone will be there!”

The Inspector General understood his life was spared so immediately wept with joy and was quick to make promises. He didn’t dare to cry out loud, and he just had torrential tears. A senior official who was over forty, had just behaved like a child being forgiven by his parents.

As soon as the Inspector General ran out, Li Ye closed his eyes again, and he looked like he was roaming on the ninth heaven.

Of course, he was not putting on an act. He was thinking about the ensuing battles and various arrangements. Hundreds of thousands of armies from different vassal states attacking Hedong, which had dozens of states and counties. Even if this was a big victory now, the upcoming battles were still very complicated.

After an hour, Li Ye got a report from the Inspector General that he had summoned the officials, the heads of big clans, and the squires of Qinzhou City.

The fighting in the city had just stopped and it was barely orderly. Still, it was undoubtedly more chaotic than usual. The Inspector General’s ability was apparent in that he had gathered all the officials and clans in such a short period of time.

Li Ye was surprised when he got up and came to the government hall. Of course, not because of how few turned up, on the contrary, he was surprised at the turn out. Houses and yards were crowded and there was almost no open space.

Looking at the way these people dressed, some did not even take off their blood-stained robes. Needless to say that they also participated in the battle to defend the city.

Although there were many people, they were orderly and no one was talking.

When Li Ye went into the compound with his hands clasped behind his back, everyone was silent. They left a wide passageway and saluted, then they added in unison, “It’s an honor to meet you Prince An, Your Highness!”

Li Ye glanced at the Inspector General who was restlessly wiping sweat from his forehead, as if he were waiting for the results after an exam. From Li Ye’s point of view that it was not difficult to see that these people were not profligates. After all, their cultivation was apparent.

Since they were genuine officials, big family heads, and famous squires, it was not easy to find them all so quickly. And after arriving, it was obvious they’ve been arranged, so the etiquette they showed to Li Ye was surprisingly consistent.

It was simply amazing for the Inspector General to do all of this in such a short time.

This Inspector General that had urinated his pants upon hearing a few words from Li Ye and almost died on the spot from fright, had talent. And it was clear that these officials and the heads of clans were quite obedient to him. After all, they all followed his arrangements. It was conceivable that the Inspector General was also a very prestigious person.

In this regard, Li Ye was not surprised, for one’s talent had nothing to do with character. Many dim-witted but good people existed, and there were even more savvy but bad people.

He walked straight to the Host’s Seat of the government hall. Li Ye glanced at all the people standing respectfully in the lobby. They were everywhere, under the corridor and out in the yard, lowering their heads and not daring to look at him. He then added softly, “Originally, I wanted to ask you to choose to live or die. Now it seems that this question does not need to be asked again. What you should do next, I think everyone already knows. “