Synopsis and Starting Chapter Chapter 2 - 17 Years Later
Chapter 3 - Distinguished Guest, Famous Dog
Chapter 4 - Unsheathing The Sword
Chapter 5 - Moon As Backdrop
Chapter 6 - What A Pity
Chapter 7 - I'M Freezing
Chapter 8 - I Submit
Chapter 9 - Sweet Revenge
Chapter 10 - Storm Rages On
Chapter 11 - That Magical Moment
Chapter 12 - I’Ll Fall Into Hell
Chapter 13 - Individual Motives
Chapter 14 - Scheming For The Destruction Of Mystic Essence
Chapter 15 - Clear Water And Flying Sleeves
Chapter 16 - Stripping Before The Enemies
Chapter 17 - A Stripping Strategy
Chapter 18 - King Hunter, Zhan Beiye
Chapter 19 - Three-Way Night Battle
Chapter 20 - Parting Ways
Chapter 21 - Dogful Marriage
Chapter 22 - Chasing A Man Down The Street
Chapter 23 - Thanks For Your Service
Chapter 24 - A Crafty Little Plan
Chapter 25 - Meeting On A Narrow Path
Chapter 26 - A Frame-Up
Chapter 27 - An Extortion
Chapter 28 - Eve Of Change I
Chapter 29 - Eve Of Change Ii
Chapter 30 - Turbulence
Chapter 31 - Yun Chi
Chapter 32 - The Perfect Moment
Chapter 33 - A Shocking Arrow
Chapter 34 - A Reunion
Chapter 35 - Arrival Of A Lightning Bolt
Chapter 36 - A Public Talk About Chest
Chapter 37 - Fleeing Once More
Chapter 38 - A Rise Is Coming
Chapter 39 - Robbing Wealth, Robbing Body
Chapter 40 - Who'S Teaching Whom?
Chapter 41 - Beauty In The Lake
Chapter 42 - The Smells Of Life
Chapter 43 - Drunk At A Brothel
Chapter 44 - Abandoned Garden
Chapter 45 - The World’S Hero
Chapter 46 - A Flower Under The Moonlight
Chapter 47 - Scapegoat
Chapter 48 - Heartbroken Servant
Chapter 49 - Whose First Kiss?
Chapter 50 - Charging Through It All Alone
Chapter 51 - Your Heart, My Heart I
Chapter 52 - Your Heart, My Heart Ii
Chapter 53 - What Must Be Done, Will Be Done I
Chapter 54 - What Must Be Done, Will Be Done Ii
Chapter 55 - Closing In, Step By Step I
Chapter 56 - Closing In, Step By Step Ii
Chapter 57 - The Heart Of Wuji I
Chapter 58 - The Heart Of Wuji Ii
Chapter 59 - A Night Of Complaint I
Chapter 60 - A Night Of Complaint Ii
Chapter 61 - Painful Choice I
Chapter 62 - Painful Choice Ii
Chapter 63 - One Night Spring I
Chapter 64 - One Night Spring Ii
Chapter 65 - Secretive Si Lei
Chapter 66 - Challenge Accepted
Chapter 67 - Battle Of Two Hearts
Chapter 68 - Battle Of Two Hearts Ii
Chapter 69 - Defrost
Chapter 70 - Defrost Ii
Chapter 71 - Devil’S Curse
Chapter 72 - Both Sides Of The Story
Chapter 73 - A Brilliant Idea
Chapter 74 - Name Extend Of
Chapter 75 - Lantern Festival
Chapter 76 - The Blue Danube
Chapter 77 - Incoming
Chapter 78 - Wave After Wave
Chapter 79 - Walk Of Shame
Chapter 80 - Surrender
Chapter 81 - Fake Surrender
Chapter 82 - Against All Odds
Chapter 83 - Don’T You Dare
Chapter 84 - Rising Dust
Chapter 85 - Secret Of Haoyang Valley
Chapter 86 - Return
Chapter 87 - Grieving Ghost
Chapter 88 - Sleep Tight, Zhan Beiye
Chapter 89 - His Return
Chapter 90 - Motive Revealed
Chapter 91 - Thunderstorm In February
Chapter 92 - The Wait
Chapter 93 - He’S No More
Chapter 94 - Reunion
Chapter 95 - Confrontation
Chapter 96 - Caught In The Middle
Chapter 97 - Revelation
Chapter 98 - A Guinea Pig’S Plan
Chapter 99 - Let’S Wait And See
Chapter 100 - Empress Yuan
Chapter 101 - The Cruelest Revenge
Chapter 102 - Love Triangle
Chapter 103 - Stripped
Chapter 104 - Missing Concubine
Chapter 105 - Chrysanthemum
Chapter 106 - Feng Mo
Chapter 107 - Sir Li
Chapter 108 - 13 Years
Chapter 109 - Gale
Chapter 110 - Chef Meng In Action
Chapter 111 - Untitled
Chapter 112 - Separate Ways
Chapter 113 - Wife-To-Be
Chapter 114 - An Ambush
Chapter 115 - Ambush Ii
Chapter 116 - Two Paths
Chapter 117 - Gu Lingfeng
Chapter 118 - An Engagement From The Past
Chapter 119 - Night In The Forest I
Chapter 120 - Night In The Forest Ii
Chapter 121 - The Great Sacrifice I
Chapter 122 - Untitled
Chapter 123 - Untitled
Chapter 124 - Untitled
Chapter 125 - Untitled
Chapter 126 - Untitled
Chapter 127 - Untitled
Chapter 128 - Untitled
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Chapter 135 - Untitled
Chapter 136 - Untitled
Chapter 137 - Untitled
Chapter 138 - Untitled
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Chapter 140 - Untitled
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Chapter 142 - Untitled
Chapter 143 - Untitled
Chapter 144 - Untitled
Chapter 145 - Untitled
Chapter 146 - Untitled
Chapter 147 - Untitled
Chapter 148 - Untitled
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Chapter 155 - Untitled
Chapter 156 - Untitled
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Chapter 160 - Untitled
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Chapter 164 - Untitled
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Chapter 168 - Untitled
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Chapter 218 - Untitled
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Chapter 250
Chapter 251
Chapter 252
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Chapter 264
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Chapter 280
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Chapter 318
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Chapter 339
Chapter 340
Chapter 341
Categories Genre: Action, Adventure, All, Fantasy, Josei, Ongoing, Romance, Wuxia Status: Ongoing Alternative names: Empress Fuyao, Phù diêu hoàng hậu, The Rising Empress, 扶摇皇后, ______
Total Chapters in book: 341
Estimated words: 747511 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 3738(@200wpm)___ 2990(@250wpm)___ 2492(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 747511 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 3738(@200wpm)___ 2990(@250wpm)___ 2492(@300wpm)
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Chapter 53: What Must Be Done, Will Be Done I
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Trapped in the blood-reeking space, Guo Pingrong shuddered involuntarily at the thought that his glorious and brilliant life had come to an official end. A beautiful, firework-filled dream had in an instant been crushed.
“Your Highness…I need revenge…”
Through the glossy layer of blood on the ground a reflection of a faint purple robe could be seen, its corner swaying before Guo Pingrong’s eyes. Hopeful, Guo Pingrong looked up at his venerable crown prince.
A familiar pair of eyes – breeze-like, deep but perpetually smiling – greeted him, but the feeling it evoked in him was completely foreign. The way he looked down at Guo Pingrong was no different from how a wyvern would, from the highest of heavens, at a mere mortal who had dared intrude upon his territory.
It was distant, compelling, cold and deadly.
Guo Pingrong’s desperate call for revenge had instantly cracked within his throat, and his body started shaking uncontrollably.
In front of him, Zhangsun Wuji bent down and squatted in the pool of blood. There seemed to be flames burning beneath the eyes that were fixated on the hot blood.
“You’ve done wrong, Pingrong,” he stated dully.
Guo Pingrong jolted his head, not understanding why His Highness had said that. Also, why hadn’t he called for the physician?
“You’re wrong for being conceited. You were born into the lowest rung of society and have suffered too much in the beginning, to the point where you have lost control of your temper and become petty and narrow-minded. You spent a night traveling over a hundred kilometers to wipe out the family, whose member had once spat on you. You ordered men to gang r*pe your aunt, only because she hadn’t thrown you a single compassionate glance. You drunk-stabbed a man who had accidentally bumped into you in a small alley, and even killed his innocent and good-willed friend.”
Guo Pingrong listened as the crown prince listed his doings, which he hadn’t expected to ever be divulged. His whole body was trembling as he looked up at those unfathomable eyes. Why was he bringing these up, and why hadn’t he mentioned anything about them thus far?
“I need Generals, not Saints.” Zhangsun Wuji emphasized, and upon seeing the doubt in Guo Pingrong’s face, he continued, “Generals need no virtues. They just have to be good killers and brave warriors. As long as you’re able to guard the 18 restless tribes in the southern border and work hard to build up Wuji Nation, I have no reason to get involved in your personal matters. They have nothing to do with my court.”
Hands behind his back, Zhangsun Wuji stood up, his robe moving slightly and releasing an exotic scent.
“But today, Pingrong, you have done something I cannot tolerate.”
In response to Guo Pingrong’s increasingly apprehensive look, Zhangsun Wuji’s smile disappeared as he bent down to whisper something into his ears.
Guo Pingrong’s face instantly changed. It was as though he had just swallowed a burning clump of coal, and his whole face was beyond distorted. He opened his mouth as if gasping for air, attempting to say something but no matter how hard he tried he simply couldn’t utter a single syllabus.
He stared, wide-eyed, at Zhangsun Wuji, while his whole body was shaking. The initial shock on his face had gradually morphed into regret, confusion, despair and so on. Ultimately, he cried out. Both of his knees were on the ground, crawling over to tug at the corner of Zhangsun Wuji’s robe.
“Pardon me, Your Highness!”
Hands hidden in his sleeves Zhangsun Wuji gazed at his capable general, whose temperament had been warped by what he had had to go through as a child, his eyes expressionless.
“One more thing…the child prostitution in Deepspring Brothel… it’s because of you, isn’t it?” Zhangsun Wuji smiled faintly. “You sure know how to play, and you play without the slightest scruple, don’t you? Do you really think these girls are poor kids from Zhongzhou villages? They are the daughters of the 18 tribes, dragged over by Tory. You’re the general in charge of assuming control over the southern border, and yet you went on to provoke its already unruly inhabitants? Pingrong, you have really disappointed me.”
Guo Pingrong loosened his blood-filled palm and stared at Zhangsun Wuji in disbelief. He couldn’t understand why the crown prince, who should’ve been busy with big governmental affairs, would even know about the child prostitution going on in the brothel. Worse, he couldn’t understand why Tory would lie to him. Guo Pingrong looked in utter despair at Zhangsun Wuji but was unable to seek the answers from his eyes.
“No…” Guo Pingrong jumped to his feet, howling and making a dash for the door. “I can’t die like this. I am a military leader. I came in fourth place in the True Martial Arts Meet. I’m the disciple of the ninth strongest man! I-”
His voice was stuck in his throat.
Snow was falling outside, and fine specks drifted into the room through the creaks in the window, and toward the body that was releasing a significant amount of heat. Yet, upon closing in, the flakes stopped midway and started falling to the ground, as though there was an invisible wall blocking their path.
The sky was bright, its sunrays highlighting a kneeling figure from within the room. A few snowflakes could be seen falling upon a finger, fair and slender, whose tip was in contact with the kneeler’s forehead.
It was a subtle pose, but the crazy, tiger-like Guo Pingrong was no longer able to advance even a millimeter forward.
Guo Pingrong’s consciousness had fallen into chaos; there were countless horizontal, vertical and diagonal lines, weaving together to form a rope. The rope tightened with a creaking sound, squeezing and wringing his memory and clarity until his mind was in a tremendous mess.
His body fell a little to the side, the last thread of awareness escaping his head.
“Master is the ninth most powerful man and Zhangsun Wuji…”
“Offended the wrong person…”
Before he could complete the thought, he had already collapsed to the ground.
Zhangsun Wuji retracted his hand and rested it against his fur coat.
He raised his head slightly to look at the light coming in from the window. The expression in his eyes was unreadable, but it seemed almost as though he had seen a precious flower getting beaten by the strong wind and rain and had reached out to protect it only to get pricked.
After a long pause, he lifted a leg to give Guo Pingrong’s body a contemptuous kick.
“I’m sparing your life, but you’re only a puppet from now on… I was against using this method on any of my subjects, but you can be the first. Be honored.”
He turned around, waving his sleeve, and an imperial guard walked over. Far away, a whole group of residence guards kneeled on the snowy ground, not uttering a word.
Without turning his head, he entered his carriage. Before drawing the curtains, he said flatly, “Pass the order.”
“Yes.”
“There have been abnormal movements within the 18 tribes, so go and regulate the situation. Dissenters shall be punished on the spot. Prince De will now be King Rong, so bestow upon him Rong, Zhen, and Lizhou, and have him subdue the southern border. The General will work under King Rong’s subordinates to reach peace. Do it within the next few days.
“…”
“…”
“Eh?” Zhangsun Wuji’s gaze shifted. Sweat trickled down the Captain’s forehead, but he quickly wiped it off before answering, “Yes!”
The carriage departed, and a wave of confusion emerged from the Captain’s eyes. Some time later, he raised his head to look at the sky. The snow had stopped, but the clouds were stirring energetically.
The Captain let out a soft sigh, which transformed into a puff that dispersed into the cold air.
“Something’s about to happen…”
Bang!
Meng Fuyao hung from a tree, cold beads oozing from her body, while the branch she was resting on was covered in blood and sweat. The chilly wind blew onto her back, but her chest area was hot as if being burned.
She made a flip, with much effort, and started panting for air. She pressed on her chest while moving into a cross-legged position and trying hard to regulate her inner energy. Meng Fuyao felt as though countless fire snakes were slithering on top of one another, and where they passed her channels seemed to catch fire and developing into even more fire snakes.
What strange ingredients did that needle contain? It felt like aphrodisiacs but not really. Yet, there seemed to be something tugging at her desires, but the moment she got excited her internal organs started to hurt. If there wasn’t an overpowering herbal scent lingering on her collar to keep her alert and allow her to regulate the Cleaving Nine Heavens’ inner energy to suppress the pain, she would’ve lost all control long ago. Having gone through such an exhausting battle, it wasn’t surprising that her injuries were severe and difficult to endure.
Amid her hazy consciousness, Meng Fuyao broke into a daze, vaguely noting that she had underestimated Guo Pingrong. He was the disciple of a worthy man, and his serious lack of morals did not determine his abilities. She had come prepared and with caution but barely scraped by.
Meng Fuyao had taken all kinds of precaution against him and focused all her attention on him instead of the “victim”, whom she had dropped her wariness toward out of sympathy. Actually, she had her misgivings about it. Hence, deactivating her acupuncture point. However, what she hadn’t expected was for that girl to keep the needle in her mouth and make a move on her upon their arrival at the festival hall.
Nevertheless, it was a blessing in disguise as her all-out battle with Guo Pingrong had allowed her to undergo another breakthrough. What she couldn’t understand was how the thin, poison-dispelling fragrance pouch, specially blended by Zong Yue and known to cure many types of poison and even aphrodisiacs, was unable to fully quell the effects of Guo Pingrong’s needle.
“Mother,” Meng Fuyao cursed, “Barefoot doctor! Remote doctor! Quack!”
Darkness took over her vision in a flash. Someone was close by, and Meng Fuyao immediately struggled to get up and grab hold of her dagger.
The person stopped before her, his appearance ordinary and languid. He turned out to be the black-cloaked man who emerged by Yuan Zhaoxu’s side from time to time.
He looked at her hesitantly with a regretful expression. He had been ordered to protect this lady during his master’s isolation but had lost focus along the way due to an accident, causing her to get into trouble. He was standing before her but dared not go closer as her cheeks were a peachy pink, clearly abnormal.
He stood there for quite some time until a whizzing sound of the wind was heard from behind. He whipped his head around to see a man in white emerging from within the darkness and looking calmly at him.
The man in black exhaled and bowed. “It’s good that you’re here, Sir.”
“Leave it to me,” Zong Yue assured and had the man in black leave, before walking toward where Meng Fuyao was.
Meng Fuyao set her gaze downward, half-consciously making out that the man before her was a familiar person. At that, she hopped down with a grin on her face before extending a hand to push him. “You… get away from me…”
Total Chapters in book: 341
Estimated words: 747511 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 3738(@200wpm)___ 2990(@250wpm)___ 2492(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 747511 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 3738(@200wpm)___ 2990(@250wpm)___ 2492(@300wpm)
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