127: Your Majesty is wise! The entire Great Xia Dynasty is in a state of jubilation!

Ji Hongxue issued an edict from Zichen Hall, carrying her supreme imperial prestige.

This edict was like a flash of blazing white lightning, instantly tearing through the tranquility of the Great Xia Divine Dynasty and spreading wildly across the vast territory like a prairie fire!

“By the mandate of heaven, the Empress decrees:”

“The Wang Family of the Northern Region has lost its virtue and the Dao, audaciously attempting to touch a forbidden Demonic Technique and intending to bring disaster upon the world! Such demonic spawn are an affront to both gods and men!”

“I, Ji Hongxue, hereby form the ‘Demon-Quelling Allied Army’ to act on behalf of Heaven. I vow to wipe out this demonic scourge and restore a bright and clear world to the Xuanyuan Continent!”

“All who answer my call to join the crusade against the Wang Family will be rewarded according to their merit after the war, including the granting of fiefdoms!”

“All who side with the Wang Family will be regarded as accomplices of the Demonic Path; their entire families shall be executed, and their heritage shall cease to exist!”

“Respect this!”

Every word carried the Killing Intent of clashing weapons and armored horses!

When this edict appeared on the formation light screens across the land and met the eyes of every Great Xia citizen, the blood of the entire Divine Dynasty was instantly ignited!

Great Xia valued martial prowess!

After this Iron-Blooded Empress ascended the throne, she had branded the words 'expanding territory' deep into the marrow of the Divine Dynasty.

After a brief dead silence, there was a sky-piercing roar of fanaticism and support!

“Your Majesty is wise! Devilish spawn like the Wang Family should have been crushed long ago!”

“Support Her Majesty! Our Great Xia is the orthodox Human Race; how can we allow a Devil Head to sleep soundly by our side!”

“Hahaha! I've been annoyed with those barbarians from the Northern Region for a long time! Finally, this day has come!”

Countless young Cultivators had bloodshot eyes, their blood boiling.

The Empress's move was to rid the people of a scourge, and it gave them a supreme opportunity to perform meritorious service and soar to the sky in one bound!

“Granting fiefdoms!”

“My god! This is a grand gesture unseen since the founding of the nation!”

Those masters of small and medium-sized families and Sects struggling for survival in the cracks of the Central Continent were even more excited, trembling all over.

They saw the only ladder to break through class barriers!

As long as they could follow the Divine Dynasty's army and get a taste of the spoils, even if they only received a desolate, barren piece of land in the Northern Region after the war, it would still be a Foundation to establish a Sect!

“Quick! Prepare a generous gift! I will personally visit the City Lord; my Li Family is willing to be Her Majesty's vanguard!”

“Pass the order! All Disciples of the Dao Platform Realm and above are to assemble immediately! My Zhang Family will bet our entire Family fortune to gamble for a Foundation for ten thousand generations!”

From the nobles to the common peddlers, the emotions of everyone in the Great Xia Divine Dynasty were completely ignited.

“Dispatching troops to the Northern Region to crusade against the Wang Family” became the only roar at this moment.

Ji Hongxue's prestige climbed to an unprecedented Peak!

The Imperial Palace, the Ministry of War.

The Grand Marshal, clad in heavy armor, was staring intently at the massive sand table of the Northern Region, his eyes flashing with a light like a hungry wolf.

In the center of the sand table, the location representing the Wang Family's ancestral land was pierced through by a vermilion command arrow he had slammed into it!

“Exhilarating! Truly exhilarating!”

The Grand Marshal clapped his hands and laughed wildly, exhaling all the stale air that had been suppressed in his chest for a long time.

He had thought his proposal to seize the Demonic Technique was bold enough.

Unexpectedly, the Empress's appetite was more than ten times larger than his!

She didn't care for any bullshit Demonic Technique; what she wanted was the entire living Northern Region!

“Relay my command!”

The Grand Marshal roared, his voice nearly flipping the tent.

“Order the ‘Shenwu Army’ as the left vanguard, with Han Qingtian as commander, to set out immediately and strike directly at the eastern gateway of the Northern Region, ‘Black Stone Pass’!”

“Order the ‘Tiance Army’ as the right vanguard, with Li Guang as commander, to advance along the western line and wipe out all of the Wang Family's lackeys!”

“The main army will advance with me! Within three days, I want the battle flag of our Great Xia to be planted all over the lands of the Northern Region!”

“As you command!”

Dozens of fierce generals roared in unison, their iron-blooded Evil Qi condensing into a blood cloud that enveloped the Imperial City!

...Inside Zichen Hall.

Ji Hongxue listened to the thunderous cries for war outside the hall and felt the surges of Killing Intent rising into the sky.

Her beautiful face, as cold and hard as ten-thousand-year profound ice, finally showed a sign of melting.

The people's hearts are ready, and the army's loyalty is won.

Even those timid old officials were now racking their brains to write calls to arms against the rebels, preparing to morally condemn the Wang Family to death.

Everything was within her grasp.

She slowly spread her palm open.

Three ancient tokens branded with Divine Phoenix totems lay quietly in her palm; the power imprisoned within them was enough to make the Divine Soul of a Great Saint Realm expert tremble.

Deliberate carefully?

No.

A monarch acts only with the force of a thunderbolt!

While the people of the world were still watching, hesitating, and fearing the Wang Family's 'unfounded' trump card, she would use the sharpest knife to cut off the fattest piece of meat!

Fast! Accurate! Ruthless!

This was her path of kingship!

Her gaze pierced through layers of palace walls and cast toward the distant north.

The Wang Family of the Northern Region was merely the first stepping stone for her grand ambition.

Her true purpose went far beyond this.

Inadvertently, that man's face surfaced in her mind once again.

That man who was always lazy as if he hadn't slept enough, seemingly unable to muster any interest in anything in the world, yet always able to make the winds and clouds dance.

Su Chen... Ji Hongxue silently chewed on the name.

The cold touch on the armrest of the dragon throne could not suppress the burning curve of her lips.

【When I have trampled the Northern Region and ruled over the world, the Luck of the Xuanyuan Continent will all fall into my hands.】

【I want to see if your Everlasting Su Family can still protect you, this salted fish who only wants to lie flat.】

【The world is mine.】

【And you can only be mine.】