However, his battle prowess was getting weaker and weaker, and after three more days of fighting, he finally exhausted his power and was seized by Ling Han.
He truly wasn’t resigned to this defeat!
Xianyu Cheng clenched his teeth. If it weren’t for this guy’s terrifying recovery power, he would have killed him several hundred times, but now he was a captive, so how could he be resigned to this defeat?
“Escort him to the east gate, this emperor will kill them personally!” Ling Han said loudly, his voice bright and clear, ringing throughout the entire imperial city.
“Long live the emperor!”
The subjects were all frantic as all of them personally witnessed that His Majesty’s enemy turned into a true dragon! His Majesty could kill dragons, and what did this represent?
Great Ling Empire was invincible!
“You, you dare!” Xianyu Cheng was really scared now. This human really dared to kill him?
“What’s there not to dare?” Ling Han sneered and waved his hand, having people escort Xianyu Cheng and Xianyu Dongming to the east gate.
Chapter 767 - Your Power of Nation Is Wrong
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“Ling Han, you’d better think clearly, do you really want to kill them?” Helian Xun Xue approached him with a worried look on her face.
Ling Han glanced at her, and said, “The sea race is at the door. It can’t be avoided in the end, so what if I tolerated them this time? We’ll still meet on the battlefield. If that’s so, why tolerate them? Besides, they already walked all over us and acted atrociously!”
Helian Xun Xue shook her head, and said, “But our strength is too weak, after all, and a long time is needed for growth.”
Ling Han shook his head, and said, “Didn’t you hear them talk? If you couldn’t be found in a month, they’d kill all the people in the imperial city. Then tell me, when the time comes, should I hand you over or not? What a joke, coming to my territory to tell me to give up someone, don’t they know that I’m in charge on my territory?”
Helian Xun Xue was speechless, and, after pausing momentarily, said, “Next time, the Xianyu Family will definitely sent a Shattering Void Tier elite over, what do we do then?”
“Serve it cold 1 ,” Ling Han said with a smile.
He truly was unafraid—with Black Tower’s power boost, he could receive a chance to possess Shattering Void Tier battle prowess, and if he could kill a Shattering Void Tier elite, once the show of might was established, the sea race would have to think hard about attacking him.
Moreover, his grasp of the Ice Dragon Ground Blast Formation was gradually reaching a higher stage, and when the time came, he’d really possess Shattering Void Tier battle prowess.
It was a world where strength was honored, and if he weren’t powerful enough, people would only think that he was easy to bully.
Dignity and honor were gotten from fighting, not from begging!
He came to the eastern side of the city. The Xianyu uncle and nephew had already been escorted over, with chains all over their body, kneeling on the high platform.
It was an execution stage where Zhu Long Xin and Qian Feng suffered a hundred lashes previously.
“Human, you’re extremely daring. This will bring death upon yourself, and no one can save you!” Xianyu Dongming shouted furiously. “I am a clansman of the north sea’s Xianyu royal family, the lord of the royal family in the future, and if you dare touch a single hair of mine, the royal family’s thirty-plus Shattering Void Tiers will trample over this place and burn you all into ashes.”
Hearing him say so, many people instantly felt fear. Over thirty Shattering Void Tier elites? It was no joke.
“Still impenitent when death is near at hand!” Ling Han walked over and slapped him such that Xianyu Dongming’s mouth was slapped crooked—he ended up groaning and unable to speak.
Xianyu Cheng knew better, and didn’t speak threatening words, and instead tried to coax Ling Han. “Human, we lacked respect before, but we had no ill intentions, and simply wanted to find that woman. How’s this: you let us go, we’ll compensate you, and if you find that woman, we’ll have a great reward for you!”
Ling Han laughed loudly, and said, “You’re a fool, or are you taking me for a fool? To actually say that you had no ill intentions now! No ill intentions? I don’t have any ill intentions towards you guys, just going to kill you.”
Xianyu Dongming wanted to jump in nervousness. If killing him wasn’t ill intention, then what was ill intention?
Pa!
Ling Han slapped Xianyu Dongming on the face, making him stupefied. I didn’t f*cking say anything, so why’d you slap me?
Ling Han said indifferently, “Inside my imperial palace, speaking threats and doing as you please, such non-ill intention is really an eye-opener for me.”
“Human, everything is our fault, but please forgive us once for the sake of north sea’s royal family!” Xianyu Cheng was sincere with his words; so long as he survived, then everything could start over, or else all would come to naught.
Ling Han laughed loudly, patted Xianyu Cheng’s shoulder, and said, “Now you’re quite courteous, but where was this attitude earlier? Unfortunately, we’re destined not to get along with each other, because the woman you’re looking for is my wife!”
Oh sh*t!
After being startled for a while, Xianyu Dongming came to his senses. This f*cking cuckold! At this moment, he really cursed Ling Han’s eighteen generations of ancestors. No one could’ve expected that the person they were looking for was in front of them—not only was Helian Xun Xue here, even the cuckold was too!
“Time for the execution!” Ling Han said coldly. Raising the Revere Life Sword high up, he said loudly, “Great Ling Empire’s imperial prestige cannot be challenged, and no matter who it is that comes, those who challenge my imperial prestige will all be killed!”
Pu, pu, one strike for one life, bursting the Xianyu uncle and nephew’s hearts.
Normally, decapitation would be more impactful, but while Xianyu Dongming’s head was easy to cut off, Xianyu Cheng’s wasn’t—after all, his was a physique of ninth-tier rare metal. Even using the Revere Life Sword wasn’t enough, because Ling Han didn’t have enough strength, and it wouldn’t be a public beheading at that time, but rather a public sawing, and that would drastically reduce the deterrence power.
“Long live the emperor!” The entire imperial city’s subjects all knelt down. Ling Han already declared his position that Great Ling Empire didn’t fear any foreign enemies and all violators would be killed!
Our emperor is awe-inspiring, our emperor is imperious!
The public execution instantly made Ling Han’s image as an emperor deeply rooted into people’s hearts, and when the news spread throughout the entire north region, his image as an iron-blooded emperor was obviously firmly established.
Ling Han returned to the imperial palace, and just when he wanted to rest, he suddenly felt a warning premonition, and shouted, “Who is it!”
“Tsk, tsk, tsk, such keen perception. This lady was slightly careless only once and already has been discovered by you for revealing a shred of presence.” With a sigh, a red-haired beauty with an alluring figure walked out, swinging her ample buttocks and thin waist extremely seductively.
She was Yi Shuang Shuang—the red hair was too obvious.
“You!” Ling Han instantly showed a vigilant look. She was a Shattering Void Tier elite, who was also extremely likely to be a high-level one, and he would hardly be a match for her even if he used Black Tower’s power boost.
“Tsk, tsk, tsk, what’s with your attitude, you don’t like seeing this lady?” Yi Shuang Shuang said unhappily. “This lady saw that you had some trouble and especially ran over to help you.”
“Oh?” Ling Han said with a smile. “Really couldn’t tell that you’re actually a good person!”
“Tsk, if this lady didn’t feel
that you’re especially strange, this lady wouldn’t meddle in your business!” Yi Shuang Shuang stroked her chin, pondered for a while, and then said, “And that little girl’s also very strange. This lady must take her as a disciple.”
“Pah, Niu doesn’t want it!” Hu Niu popped out of nowhere and made a face at Yi Shuang Shuang.
Ling Han gestured with his hand at Hu Niu, and said, “Oh, how do you plan on helping me?”
“On two aspects: first, this lady can reluctantly accept to be a retired empress or something, and second… you call this the power of the nation? Really making this lady laugh her head off!” Yi Shuang Shuang sneered.
Ling Han laughed mischievously, and said, “How about bestowing you the title of an imperial maid, want it?”
“To dare tease this lady, are you tired of living?” Yi Shuang Shuang’s beautiful eyes narrowed as she emitted a dangerous aura.
Ling Han raised both hands with a smile, and said, “What, you can’t take a joke? Can’t we still be friends joyfully?”
Yi Shuang Shuang laughed out loud, patted Ling Han’s shoulder, and said, “Youngster, you’re quite daring. This lady actually underestimated you.”
“Please advise, what’s wrong with my power of nation?” Ling Han said with a serious look.
Chapter 768 - Totem
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“You should ask where it’s right!” Yi Shuang Shuang shook her head, looking like she looked down upon him.
Ling Han accepted it with an open mind, and said, “Please point it out.”
Yi Shuang Shuang started to create difficulties, and said, “Where’s the tea? The present for acknowledging a master? Brat, you’re not really thinking about getting things for free, right?” 1
“Hehe, are you for free?” 2 Ling Han said with a smile.
Yi Shuang Shuang glared at him, and said, “Brat, you’re seeking death again?”
Ling Han nodded to have the palace maids bring deliver fragrant tea and fruits, and said, “Teacher Yi, please sit and allow your student to ask for guidance.”
“Yes!” Yi Shuang Shuang sat upright, and said, “Seeing that you’re fairly sincere, this lady will kindly instruct you!” She coughed lightly, and went on, “In the divine realm, countries are divided into a total of four levels: heaven’s court, sovereign’s court, emperor’s court, and king’s court, with heaven’s court being the highest, and king’s court the lowest. Each level has strict limits decided by the size of the country’s territory and the quality of elites—definitely not whatever you want to call it.
“Theoretically, it’s impossible for a mayfly world to produce a sovereign court. It’s not qualified enough.”
Ling Han immediately said, “Before, Fatty Ma established Purple Moon King’s Court, but now it’s Purple Moon Emperor’s Court 3 I didn’t think that fatty was that unreliable.”
Yi Shuang Shuang nodded, and said, “That fatty had been buried for so many years, and was cocky to dare claim it was an emperor’s court. Fortunately, he’s not in the divine realm, or it’d be bulldozed.”
“Then how can it be called an emperor’s court?” Ling Han asked.
“You don’t have to think about this now. If you can really successfully split open the skies, you’ll know eventually. Now, you’d just be wasting time thinking about it.” Yi Shuang Shuang waved her hands, and continued, “In reality, your king’s court doesn’t live up to its name and needs a Shattering Void Tier elite to keep watch over it.”
Ling Han shrugged, and said, “It’s useless to talk about this now, we’d better talk about something more practical.”
Yi Shuang Shuang rolled her eyes at him, and said, “How can I explain it clearly without speaking more in detail?”
“But you say don’t even think about it now and then not qualified enough, I really don’t get the point.” Ling Han sighed.
“The point is coming right up, have some patience, alright?” Yi Shuang Shuang said. “Establishing a nation is easy. But if you want to extract the power of nation, it definitely doesn’t suffice to just establish a nation.
“Power of nation, a nation’s influence, its fortune. Where does it come from? It’s your subjects’ faith in this country and their dependence on the country, which then allows for the power of nation to be extracted.”
Ling Han knew this: the conversion of popular sentiments allowed the power of the nation to be extracted, or else the power of the nation would be empty talk.
“However, normal people can’t possibly have seen you, and a nation is an abstract existence, so how will your subjects have faith?” Yi Shuang Shuang asked.
What?
Ling Han fell into deep thought, and said, “Then what should I do?”
“You need a totem to be the the nation’s symbol, and through this totem, popular sentiments can aggregate while you extract the power of the totem. This is the correct way of the power of the nation,” Yi Shuang Shuang said.
Ling Han gave an oh, and asked curiously, “You’re quite clear about divine realm’s situation, could you be from the divine realm?”
“Hehe, you guess!” Yi Shuang Shuang wasn’t willing to give a definite answer.
Ling Han didn’t dwell on this point, and said, “Then how’s the totem made?”
“That’s easy. You can find some arbitrary thing and place it in the ancestral shrine, then spread the portrait thereof all over the nation for people to worship. Naturally, the power of faith will be produced, and as time passes, after the totem aggregates enough faith, it can also produce a spiritual will to protect this nation.
“In the divine realm, if a great war occurs between nations, whichever nation suffers the loss will have its totem weakened, and the winner will have theirs strengthened. This is the foundation of a nation!”
As a nation’s symbol, the totem… how could it be arbitrary?
Ling Han began to think seriously as to what he would choose to be the totem. The first subconscious reaction would obviously be the true dragon.
Dragon, the son of heaven, blessed by the heavens.
However, he’d just killed two people of the sea race with true dragon’s blood, so taking the true dragon as a totem seemed somewhat unjustifiable? Besides, Ling Han didn’t think that true dragons were really extremely powerful.
Nine Dragons Tyrant Body Art could grant the power of nine true dragons, and Annihilating Dragon Star Arrow was said to even be able to kill dragons, so true dragons apparently weren’t superior and inviolable in the divine realm.
Then why not use… Black Tower?
Black Tower’s secrets couldn’t be leaked, but fixing a tower-shaped totem, who would associate it with the Black Tower? After all, there were quite a few tower-shaped Spirit Tools, but none of them could compare to the Black Tower.
Yes, it’s decided!
Ling Han smiled mischievously, and said, “In the future, how about you stay to be worshiped and give some advice in ordinary times? You can help dismiss experts if they come too.”
“Then what benefits does this lady have?”
“Eat the food here as you please!”
“… You think this lady is a chowhound?” Yi Shuang Shuang said sourly.
“Chowhounds are quite good, the more you eat, the more you grow!” Hu Niu said in all seriousness, looking somewhat enviously at Yi Shuang Shuang’s breasts, which heaved and could compare with the greatly alluring Zhu Xuan Er’s.
Yi Shuang Shuang laughed heartily, walked over to hug Hu Niu forcibly, and said, “Such a cute and playful little girl, this lady really wants to hug her all day!”
“Damn it, Niu doesn’t want your hugs!” Hu Niu struggled repeatedly.
Ling Han ignored them. Yi Shuang Shuang was of unknown origin, but didn’t seem to have ill intentions, so he let Hu Niu play with her. He set about designing Black Tower’s totem and changed it slightly. Although it still looked like a Black Tower, it was still considerably different from t
he one in his dantian.
He immediately issued an imperial edict to use it as the nation’s totem and symbol and transmit it to every corner of the north region. Of course, to turn it into a true totem and make it become a sort of faith obviously wasn’t something to be done in a short period of time.
According to Yi Shuang Shuang’s statement, after the totem formed, a corporeal form of the totem would be formed on top of the imperial palace to guard the imperial city. The larger the nation’s territory, the stronger the strength of the subjects, and the more united the people’s hearts were, the stronger the totem.
He carefully recalled that neither the nine nations of the desolate north nor Purple Moon Emperor’s Court[1.ED/N: This may from now on appear as synonym to Purple Moon Empire.] had the existence of a totem. It seemed that similar to him, they didn’t know anything, and just knew to establish a nation.
Fatty Ma had to be reminded—perhaps the reason he’d failed to split open the skies the last time was connected to totems.
With Yi Shuang Shuang’s help, Ling Han was obviously a bit surer, and he also finally thoroughly grasped the Ice Dragon Ground Blast Formation and created 108 formation’s eyes in the Black Tower.
108 short swords were distributed around him as he threw them out. Because he’d personally created these formations’ eyes, he didn’t need to control them with much effort. Each short sword automatically landed in the corresponding position, floating in the air. The formation patterns emitted a faint light, and the world’s Spirit Qi instantly gathered, condensing into a white pillar.
The temperature dropped drastically; even more Spirit Qi swirled by as the white pillar changed rapidly, turning into an ice dragon!
Chapter 769 - The Power of Formations
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