Free Web NovelChapter 2124: Chapter 212: Autumn Wind Sweeps the Fallen Leaves
The City Lord of An City is a young man with sunken eyes, whose appearance shows indulgence in wine and women.
The splendid clothing and jewelry he wears all indicate his privileged background.
According to Xue Rushi, this man is the third son of Marquis Li Fu of Guangping, a greedy and lustful person with a penchant for hawking and hounding. Marquis Guangping found him too disgraceful and sent him out from the city, assigning him to the border mansion early on.
Though named "Zi Ye," in reality, he has achieved nothing.
Thanks to countless doses of spiritual medicine and some innate talent in cultivation, he opened the Heaven and Earth Gate and achieved the realm of Teng Long. Since then, he muddled along, and Marquis Guangping spent significant effort helping him accumulate achievements on the Official Way, allowing him to reach the Inner Mansion Realm.
He possesses no Divine Skills at all.
If not for having a good father, he would never have become the City Lord by any means.
In the days spent in An City, he indulges himself freely as the Emperor is far away, and every day is filled with murky and chaotic affairs. All matters of city defense in An City are handled by the general of the City Guard Army, Yuan Zhen, an old subordinate of Li Fu.
Two days ago, Zhongxuan Sheng laid siege to the city, and Li Ziye didn’t even ascend the city tower. Today, for some reason, he decided to inspect the city’s defenses.
With Jiang Wang’s Qianyang Red Pupil, he could even clearly see Li Ziye’s groggy expression.
According to Xue Rushi, such a person should surrender at the slightest persuasion...
Unexpectedly, the current reaction was so intense.
On the tower, Li Ziye cursed loudly, hurling filthy slurs vehemently, shaming the New Glory Camp’s thousands and dimming their spirits.
The tower of An City echoed with cheers.
Zhongxuan Sheng didn’t care much. freewebnoveℓ.com
He knew well that a person’s usual conduct doesn’t represent their entirety.
He also couldn’t care less about how a wastrel like Li Ziye might show an exceptional bravery in a crisis.
Because the situation at Feng Li’s mansion was settled, the determination and courage of a few individuals were irrelevant to the overall situation...
If there is anything noteworthy, it is perhaps the morale of the New Glory Camp, for it’s about "one enemy’s meal is equivalent to twenty of ours."
Xue Rushi looked at Li Ziye on the tower, at this wastrel he usually despised... He clearly had the strength to crush him with one hand, enough eloquence to curse him into spitting blood, numerous reasons like birds choosing good trees for their nests, but in the end, he said nothing, returning dejectedly to Zhongxuan Sheng.
"General Zhongxuan, I..."
Zhongxuan Sheng, however, smiled and asked him, "Isn’t Marquis Guangping a native of Long Luo?"
Xue Rushi didn’t understand why he suddenly asked this but answered honestly, "His ancestral home is Long Luo."
Zhongxuan Sheng glanced at Jiang Wang, as if to say, "See, wasn’t I right?"
Then he said to Xue Rushi, "Being insulted by name doesn’t feel good, does it?"
Xue Rushi, sullen, remained silent.
Zhongxuan Sheng earnestly said, "General Xue, mere Li Ziye, here today, gone tomorrow, his insults won’t impact your reputation. I don’t know how many Li Ziyes there are in Summer Country, but I know——the records of the same event differ entirely between Summer History and Qi History."
"I... understand!" Xue Rushi replied.
Zhongxuan Sheng patted his shoulder, "Summer History will certainly conclude with this battle; the survival of one Dai City won’t be recorded. But Qi History is still long; whether you can leave your mark depends on your performance."
Then, without waiting for Xue Rushi’s response, he strode forward, approaching the city gate within a hundred steps, looking up at the tower: "Li Ziye!" ƒгeeweɓn૦vel.com
His voice thundered, startling the flags on the tower, halting Li Ziye’s stream of curses: "I know you’re a scoundrel; whether you abuse Summer Country’s people is none of my concern. But it’s different with Xue Rushi! I gave him the Order Seal and recorded his Great Name; he is already a Qi person! To insult my subordinate, are you truly not afraid of dying miserably?!"
He pointed at the tower as if aiming a finger at Li Ziye’s face with sunken eyes: "If you don’t apologize to him today, when the city falls, I’ll light you as a sky lantern!"
Such voice, such momentum, such threat.
Startled, Li Ziye stepped back, nearly falling!
The defending general beside him sensed the crisis, supporting him with one hand while gesturing forward with the other.
Suddenly, the tower’s massive crossbows activated, eight military-designed Breaking Technique crossbow bolts, each nine feet long, locked various locations and came whistling, shooting forth.
Zhongxuan Sheng pressed forward with a big hand, and the Power of Zhong Xuan madly concentrated, directly immobilizing all eight roaring crossbow bolts in the air! With a grip of his five fingers, these eight bolts twisted, converging into a mass, forming a giant iron ball.
"Li Ziye, I’ll give you one day to consider! Surrender, apologize! Otherwise..."
The giant iron ball shifted shape with his words, finally forming a hollow iron man with its belly cut open. Following Zhongxuan Sheng’s gesture, it crashed heavily in front of the city gate!
Boom!
"Such iron man!"
Simultaneously, he hooked the other hand behind his back.
On horseback, Jiang Wang responded in tacit agreement, turning his eyes to crimson gold, glancing at the iron man. A flame erupted at its navel, burning fiercely!
It truly looked like a person being lit as a sky lantern!
Li Ziye had never seen such a spectacle before. While he did possess a patriotic heart and deeply hated Qi people, he was ultimately a flower-basking playboy, skilled at seducing good women yet never truly faced life and death trials! Witnessing his possible demise so vividly displayed before him, he nearly collapsed, unable to maintain any composure.
