Secular Immortal of the Nine Realms - Chapter 11

Chapter 11: The World Shall Change From This Day Onward

The surroundings fell completely silent. The laughing Greenpine martial artists found their smiles slowly stiffened up, as disbelief crept into their eyes. They never thought Fang Chen would really dare to kill someone from Greenpine Country,

You Longchang and his subordinates were stunned. The empress’ procession was dumbstruck. The surrounding populace clasped their mouths, flabbergasted by what they had seen.

Greenpine martial artists had been oppressing them in the capital all this while. They had witnessed more than enough of their atrocities. As much as they wanted to rip them into pieces, they knew that they had to hold back.

Killing someone from Greenpine Country will invoke Greenpine Country’s wrath. The current Great Xia couldn’t withstand that.

Yet, Fang Chen actually slayed a Greenpine martial artist.

The crowd was shocked and confused, but that was soon replaced with delight. That was exhilarating after undergoing five years of oppression!

“How dare you, Fang Chen!” a Greenpine martial artist roared.

Fang Chen began walking toward the martial artist with his sword. The surrounding civilians automatically stepped aside.

Psh!

Yet another head fell to the ground. The first stage Ki Condensation Greenpine martial artist was slain, and he couldn’t even fight back at all.

“How dare you! Insolence! Aren’t you scared that our Greenpine Country would destroy your Great Xia?!” the remaining Greenpine martial artists screeched.

“From this day onward, I don’t want to see any Greenpine martial artists in Great Xia’s capital,” Fang Chen calmly declared.

Several people in the crowd nodded in agreement as they secretly slit the necks of nearby Greenpine martial artists.

This sight had Great Xia’s civilians breathing heavier, as their eyes reddened in excitement. They began scanning their surroundings for martial artists from Greenpine Country.

“What should we do, commander?” one of You Longchang’s subordinates asked.

“Do what?” You Longchang was still overwhelmed by the situation and wasn’t thinking straight.

“War supreme-ruler Fang has regained his martial cultivation. We don’t have to fear Greenpine Country anymore! How can we allow their martial artists to continue oppressing our people? We should work with War supreme-ruler Fang to eliminate every one of them!” the subordinate urged with a suppressed voice.

“But…” You Longchang gritted his teeth.

He dared not decide on this by himself. For a matter as grave as this, they would require the emperor’s edict before making a move.

“Commander, my younger brother was killed by a Greenpine martial artist on the streets,” the subordinate said.

“shit! I don’t care anymore!” You Longchang roared, “Soldiers of West Tiger Barracks!”

“Yes, commander!” There was a resounding response.

”We shall follow War supreme-ruler Fang’s lead and purge the capital of all Greenpine martial artists today!”

You Longchang’s eyes reddened with bloodthirst, as if he had returned to the days when he fought valiantly on the battlefield. Terrifying killing intent billowed from him.

“Yes, commander!”

You Longchang led his subordinates behind Fang Chen, as they made their way toward a martial dojo. This martial dojo was opened by Greenpine Country, and it was the place where Greenpine martial artists frequented.

Countless Great Xia’s civilians followed them. They might be unarmed, but five years of accumulated rage from the oppression they had suffered greatly enlivened them. They felt as if endless energy was surging in their body.

“Your Majesty, young master Fang…” The palace maid stared dazedly at the empress.

The empress took a deep breath before turning to her guards. “Take your men to support Chen’er. We’ll support him in purging the capital of Greenpine martial artists.”

“Yes, Your Majesty!” The leader of the empress’ guards nodded in excitement.

Leaving a few guards to protect the empress, he took the others and chased after Fang Chen.

“The world is going to change from this day onward,” the empress murmured.

“Your Majesty, someone might use this matter to attack you,” the palace maid said worriedly.

Fang Chen was the empress’ nephew, after all. They were on their way back to the Fang Clan when he suddenly began slaughtering Greenpine martial artists. If this matter blew up, the empress would be implicated.

In particular, Noble Consort Hua would never let this opportunity slip.

“They might have forgotten, but I was a Fang Clansman before I became the empress.” The empress chuckled. Lightning flickered across her eyes, and the jade ring she had been fiddling in her hands was suddenly reduced to dust.

…

The Greenpine Superior Dojo occupied a huge plot of land, as the place used to be an administrative office. Greenpine Country had taken over it when it won the war five years ago and established a martial dojo in its place.

The word ‘superior’ indicated that those from Greenpine Country were superior to the lowly people of Great Xia.

It was crowded. Eight out of ten Greenpine martial artists making a living in Great Xia’s capital resided here.

“Do you think Celestial Xiao will visit our dojo?”

“Of course! Our dojo master was a Wolf Army’s veteran. He was part of the army who fought alongside First Wolf Marshall at Three Realms Mountain and defeated Fang Chen!”

“I heard Celestial Xiao is an unparalleled beauty. Fang Chen got lucky!”

“Don’t say that. If Fang Chen becomes one of us too, Great Xia will be over. By then, it’ll only be a matter of time before our Greenpine Country conquers this land! Hahaha!”

A group of Greenpine martial artists were idly chatting near the dojo’s entrance, and they would laugh loudly every now and then. A group of servants carefully maneuvered around the martial artists with fearful eyes.

These servants were from Great Xia, but they had been forced to serve the Greenpine martial artists. They were afraid of having their heads lopped off if they screwed up.

Just then, a Greenpine martial artist noticed that something was amiss. “Why is it so noisy outside?” He stood up and looked outward, only to be taken aback.

“What’s wrong?” his companion asked.

“People. There’s a lot of people…” the Greenpine martial artist muttered. “They seem to be heading in our direction.”

A lot of people?

The Greenpine martial artists rushed outside, and they were shocked by the massive crowd gathered outside. Most were ordinary civilians, but there were also armored soldiers. Someone even recognized Fang Chen, who stood at the forefront of the crowd.

“Isn’t that Fang Chen?”

“Something is not right. I’ll inform the dojo master!” one of the martial artists rushed off.

Fang Chen walked up to the Greenpine Superior Dojo and eyed the plaque hanging above the entrance. “Commander You, take down the plaque.”

“Yes sir!” You Longchang leaped up and punched the plaque, smashing it into pieces. The wooden smithereens fell all over the ground.

“Audacious!”

The Greenpine martial artists were infuriated. Their eyes turned red with anger.

“Kill them,” Fang Chen said.

“War supreme-ruler Fang, are you sure?” You Longchang had regained his composure on his way here, and he began weighing the pros and cons of their actions.

“Don’t make me repeat myself.” Fang Chen frowned.

You Longchang realized that there was no backing down anymore. There was only one choice he could make. Thus, he roared, “Kill them!!!”

He charged into the Greenpine Superior Dojo, with his subordinates quickly following him.

The Greenpine martial artists gathered at the entrance of the dojo didn’t have time to react before they were buried under a sea of people. In a matter of seconds, every one of them had already suffered more than ten cuts.

This showed how much the people of Great Xia hated Greenpine martial artists.

You Longchang led the way, whereas Fang Chen relaxedly paced behind him.

The civilians closely followed Fang Chen’s footsteps with worried but excited faces.

The Greenpine martial artists realized what was going on and rallied their forces to stage a counterattack. It was then that a person rushed out. Upon seeing this sight, he furiously roared, “Stop!”

That person was the Greenpine Superior Dojo’s Master, Xiao Tianci. He was not a Xiao Clansman, but he was granted the ‘Xiao’ clan name as he had fought alongside Wolf Marshall Xiao from a young age.