Translated by Mianbao
Edited by RED
At this moment, Li Yunzi waved her hand, giving the Flying Birds Battalion in the air the order to kill!
Hundreds of Pseudodragon Birds dove down suddenly, every one of the soldiers exuding a bloodthirsty air, echoing the sentiments with their ferocious Pseudodragon Birds!
Swooping down to kill was much better than crushing an army with iron cavalry. It was like harvesting wheat. Large swaths of crimson red blood spattered everywhere, and countless rebels fell in the lake of blood!
“Charge, charge! We have no path of retreat!” Some people among the rebel army continued shouting, waving their banners.
Blood gushed endlessly ahead of them, tragic screams rising continuously. Even so, the people still charged in the direction of the sword boundary. They charged to the now shallow sunken lake, dashing madly toward Glory Valley City!
The black figures were like geese, rising and falling. Every time they swooped down from the skies, they’d take away the lives of the rebels they passed. The charging rebels had no chance of arriving at the Glory Valley City’s walls before they died tragically to swords.
A river of blood flowed, seeping into the fields bit by bit, slowly converging in the valley’s stream. Endless corpses rolled into the stream, washed by bloody water. Even at night, with poor visibility, it was a shocking sight!
The deputy with long eyebrows was riding on a Winged Dragon.
The Winged Dragon beat its wings powerfully, blowing the rebels into the air; the deputy’s long blade danced about extremely quickly, accurately slaughtering every one of them!
In just a short while, the long-eyebrow deputy had butchered dozens of people.
Sent into a frenzy from the killing, the deputy shouted angrily. Seeing a group of rebels trying to run for their lives, he immediately chased after them on the Winged Dragon.
Raising his long blade, just as the deputy was about to cut down all these people, a sword blur streaked past, knocking his long blade flying away. Even the Winged Dragon was shocked by the sudden sword blur and it beat its wings in panic, nearly falling to the ground.
“Anyone who backs away from the sword boundary are my citizens!” Li Yunzi’s voice rang from above.
The long-eyebrowed deputy went blank for a moment. Although he felt a little annoyed and puzzled, he didn’t dare chase them beyond the sword boundary.
The Flying Birds Battalion possessed incomparable combat strength. The thousands of rebels were no match for them at all. Basically everyone who went past the sword boundary was slaughtered.
Corpses now filled the sunken lake. The fields were similarly strewn with remains. Li Yunzi looked over this coldly, unmoved by any of this. As long as the rebels crossed the sword boundary, she’d give the order to kill them!
“Retreat, we’ll live if we retreat!”
“Don’t kill me, I don’t want to die…”
Li Yunzi’s words weren’t just directed to the long-eyebrowed deputy. The struggling rebels in the bloody lake also heard her. When an absolute difference in power was presented to them, no one wouldn’t cherish their dear lives. They started retreating, running back…
Indeed, once they retreated out beyond the sword boundary, the Flying Birds Battalion no longer gave chase. The rebels were in shock, like they had just lingered in front of the gates to hell and gotten away.
On the battlefield, people would indeed disregard everything when their blood got to their heads. However, when they saw people around them dying one after another, their fear and desire to live shocked them back to normal.
“Zhang Tuo,” Li Yunzi spoke up once more, calling the name of one of the rebel army chiefs.
Among the rebel army, an extremely haggard-looking chief showed a complicated expression.
He looked up at Li Yunzi, who was as dazzling as the sun and the moon, not knowing whether he should respond.
“Tell them to put their weapons down, and I’ll let them survive the winter. If they insist on being rebels, they’ll definitely not live past tonight!” Li Yunzi declared.
“I trust in the crown princess’s character, but how do I account to my brothers who braved life and death with me? You’re representing the Ancestral Dragon City State, and are no longer our city lord. Behind me are tens of thousands of my compatriots. They have no food, and not a piece of clothing. If the crown princess really has pity on us Wutu citizens, please give us a way to live. Even if we starve to death, or freeze to death, we’ll never intrude upon any cities under the crown princess’s administration!” the rebel chief known as Zhang Tuo said, his eyes filled with desolation.
“This is the way to live I’m offering you,” Li Yunzi said, extending her left hand out.
Suddenly, she grabbed her sword with her left hand and sliced heavily, cutting her palm open!
Fresh red blood flowed out, along the silver silk sword and the gaps between Li Yunzi’s fingers.
“What kind of a promise is this?” Zhang Tuo said loudly.
The blood was sticky, hanging down from a big drop, becoming a stand of red silk, and slid to the ground.
Li Yunzi faced her palm down, allowing her blood to keep flowing…
“I’ve prepared food and clothing. They’re already on the way, enough for you to survive the winter.”
“With my blood as judge, if the supplies don’t arrive before my blood dries, my, Li Yunzi’s, life is yours!”
The head chief of the rebel army, Zhang Tuo, was stunned, unable to answer her for a long time.
The men of the Flying Birds Battalion were similarly astonished. They completely didn’t understand why Li Yunzi had done this. Clearly they could slaughter every last one of the rebels!
“Why would we wield weapons if we could live with hoes in hand?” Zhang Tuo said.
Zhang Tuo’s words conveyed Wutu’s helplessness and desperation.
He turned his head around to look behind him. Desperate citizens were still coming to them. Most of them were numb, no longer having the qualification to think after being tortured by the cruel heavens. They were only relying on their basic survival instincts.
Not only that, most of them were men…
When winter came, there would also be women and the old in this army.
When the harsh winter arrived, even children would appear. Their weak and thin figures would appear on the battlefield. They, who should retain their innocence, would similarly turn numb, tortured by the cold and hunger and becoming wild beasts!
Do they blame the heavens for being unfair? Or do they blame the world for being heartless?
Zhang Tuo looked up, staring at the proud figure.
Her blood never stopped flowing. That was a torn wound. If no medicine was applied, her blood would never coagulate.
The Wutu citizens recognized her. As long as they stepped into any of the nine cities in Wutu, they’d immediately notice the statue standing in the middle, holy and proud. Most people would lament at her beauty at first glance, but she was never the symbol for goodness…
Now, they saw the real person of the statues. She was made of flesh and blood.
“Flying Birds Battalion, withdraw to Glory Valley City,” Li Yunzi commanded.
“Crown princess…”
“Withdraw!” Li Yunzi repeated angrily.
Military orders were absolute. The lieutenants didn’t dare delay any further.
“Withdraw!”
“Withdraw!”
The Flying Birds Battalion was well-trained. They followed their officers and flew to Glory Valley City, their black silhouettes retreating quickly through the sky above the sunken lake, and over the city’s gate tower.
Suddenly, only Li Yunzi was left in the narrow path, hovering in the air.
In front of her was the tens of thousands-strong rebel army, a group of cold and hungry citizens abandoned by the heavens.
Not a single soldier was behind her.
Drop after drop of blood flowed down, the night seemingly silent.
No one attempted to move a step past the sword boundary. Their numb gazes seemed to finally regain focus, looking at the proud woman in the air, watching as her life slipped away little by little…
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On the city gate tower, Zheng Yu couldn’t help sighing, “We’re all mere mortals, but the crown princess is a goddess!”
With the arrival of the crown princess, he had originally expected her, as long as she held the military command token, to slaughter without regard, thoroughly eliminating the pressing threat to the Ancestral Dragon City State in the east.
However, Zheng Yu had got it all wrong!
At his side, Zhu Minglang seemed unable to shift his gaze away from Li Yunzi. Seeing her complexion gradually paling, and her left hand starting to tremble slightly…
At this moment, Zhu Minglang suddenly thought of an extremely important matter.
The cessation document in Yang Xiu’s hand…
What Li Yunzi wrote on the document wasn’t the name of a city, none of the wealthy cities of Lingxiao City State!
It was food and clothes!
It was food and clothes, enough to save the whole of Wutu, enough to allow all the desperate citizens to live through the winter!
When she gave the order to kill, she had not a shred of pity and sympathy for the rebels who crossed the sword boundary. At that moment, Li Yunzi was that cold-blooded!
However, the Li Yunzi when she sliced her palm open for the people of Glory Valley City and the citizens of Wutu who were looking for a way out was more like a goddess descending to the mortal world, unwilling to see the people suffer.
This was why he had always been unable to see her thoughts through her clear eyes. She was actually such an unparalleled person!