She Holds the World After Being Reborn
Chapter 241: Li Chengyuan, The Sky Has Long Changed

Chapter 241: Chapter 241: Li Chengyuan, The Sky Has Long Changed

"These are Japanese Pirates, release the arrows—!" Li Chengyuan said to the soldiers defending the city with a fierce expression.

The soldier hesitated for a moment, "What?"

"That person is not General Yan, but a Japanese Pirate!" Li Chengyuan repeated.

"It’s so far away, how do you know?" The soldier was reluctant to make a judgment rashly.

"With such a formidable enemy before us, better to kill wrongly than to let them go. How could General Yan possibly come back at this time? It’s clearly a trick by the Japanese Pirates!"

After these words, enlightenment dawned on the leading soldier.

"Someone, hurry and prepare the bows and arrows!"

Seeing this, Li Chengyuan revealed a sly smile.

Below the city gates.

Yan Li’an squinted up at the people on the city wall, "This doesn’t feel right."

"What are they arguing about?"

Yan Wanqing’s brows furrowed slightly when she saw that the other side suddenly had more people. She immediately shouted out loud.

"Scatter in all directions—!"

To their shock, the moment Yan Wanqing’s words fell, they saw the soldiers on the city wall raising their bows and arrows towards them.

"Blind bastards, even I’m unrecognizable to you." Yan Wanqing cursed and charged straight towards the city gate on her horse.

Everyone was taken aback, not knowing what she was trying to do at that moment, thinking she had gone mad.

Only Piji, riding a fast horse, followed closely behind her, shouting, "Master, catch the sword—!"

Yan Wanqing didn’t even turn her head. She reached out and caught the long sword thrown by Piji firmly. She maneuvered her horse skillfully to dodge among the arrow feathers, and soon she was about to reach the city gate. Li Chengyuan became frantic.

She snatched the bow and arrow from someone nearby and shot at Yan Wanqing!

"So it’s you causing trouble!" Yan Wanqing snorted coldly. Her sword already unsheathed, she inserted it into the crevice of the city wall, and in the blink of an eye, she used it to propel herself onto the top of the city gate.

Li Chengyuan’s bow and arrows were also kicked away by her.

"Are you all blind!" Yan Wanqing held the long sword in her hand, pointing it at the leader, "As subordinates who have acted against their superior, what punishment do you deserve for daring to shoot arrows at me!"

"It was him, he said you were a Japanese Pirate!" Even the unimaginative leader was frightened by the aura of Yan Wanqing at this point.

"Look what this is." She tossed out the Marshal’s Seal. The leader caught it with both hands and immediately knelt on the ground.

"Welcome General Yan back to the city!"

Hearing his voice, the soldiers all knelt on one knee in unison, "Welcome General Yan back to the city—!"

Yan Wanqing lifted her long sword and swung it down without a word. The leader, sweating with fear, thought he was about to be killed, but to his surprise, the next moment, a hat was split in two and fell to the ground.

"Li Chengyuan, you’ve got quite some nerve."

The city gate’s wind scattered Li Chengyuan’s long hair, revealing her as a woman.

"You’re actually a woman!" The leader was greatly shocked, finally realizing he had been framed.

Li Chengyuan, without a glance at the leader, sneered and swore, "Blame others for your stupidity."

"Yan Wanqing, I had no idea you had such a strong will to live. Stabbed like that and still alive." Li Chengyuan, watching the agile figure of Yan Wanqing, had the words ’seeing a ghost’ flashing through her mind; it truly defied explanation.

For a person whose limbs and tendons were severed and chest was pierced to still survive.

"Could it be that your body hides some mystery?" Just like her, had she traveled back in time?

Li Chengyuan asked with a frown.

Yan Wanqing had no idea what she was talking about. She raised her hand to signal the leader to go down and open the city gates to let her people in, then, staring at Li Chengyuan, she said, "I did die. But King Yama didn’t take me. So, I came back."

"During the time I hovered outside King Yama Hall, I’ve been pondering over what it means to falter and be defeated, and what it means for indecision to invite disaster..." She stepped toward Li Chengyuan.

Li Chengyuan backed away, "What do you want? I am Princess Yaochi, personally conferred by the Emperor. You won’t get away with killing me. Prince Seven won’t let you go, nor will the Emperor!"

"Did you think of these things when you attacked me?" Yan Wanqing found it laughably absurd. The long sword in her hand pierced Li Chengyuan’s chest in the next moment.

"You—" Li Chengyuan did not expect Yan Wanqing to actually take action.

"What about me?" Yan Wanqing advanced step by step, her long sword piercing through the other woman’s body inch by inch until, in the end, she collapsed into Yan Wanqing’s arms, only to hear Yan Wanqing’s cold, unfeeling voice, "Those powers you rely on, I never intended to let them go."

"Li Chengyuan, the world has long since changed."

Having said that.

Yan Wanqing let go.

Li Chengyuan’s eyes widened as she looked at her own chest, blood continuously flowing from her body, feeling the ebb of life.

"All soldiers, heed my command!" Yan Wanqing no longer looked at her but shouted to the soldiers, "Follow me to suppress the Japanese pirates!"

Yan Wanqing, leading her men, briskly left the city gates. As she departed, she saw someone tossing Li Chengyuan’s body down from the city gates.

The person was clad in white, with a face extremely similar to her own.

Truly of the same mother.

To eradicate the roots, very adept.

Above the city gate, Yan Li’an watched Yan Wanqing’s receding figure and fell into deep thought.

"Young master." Someone called to him.

Yan Li’an did not respond.

Lately, the images in his mind had been growing more numerous, so much so that he felt like he was bewitched, sometimes in his dreams, watching those scenes as if they were someone else’s life unfolding.

"My lord, why did you throw that woman down from the city gate? She bears the aura of the Holy Maiden."

Yan Li’an snorted lightly.

"What’s a Holy Maiden worth?" If she hurt his sister, she must die.

Thinking of the ordeal Yan Wanqing had suffered, even throwing this woman down from the city gate seemed too lenient to Yan Li’an.

Seeing Yan Li’an angered, the person dared not say anything more.

In the corner of his eye, he saw Li Chengyuan at the bottom of the city gate stretching out her arms towards the sky, her eyes wide open, blood continuously flowing from her body, seemingly painting a strange totem.

"My lord." Piji suddenly appeared before Yan Li’an.

Yan Li’an, puzzled, responded with a question mark.

"You are my master’s elder brother, so calling you ’my lord’ is fitting," Piji explained. "The master has said she’s going ahead to meet the enemy and has ordered me to stay here and take you to the City Lord Residence to stay temporarily."

"Did she say when she will return?" Yan Li’an asked, feeling that he had just stated the obvious.

Piji scratched the back of his head, "Considering the master’s personality, probably after the Japanese pirates are repelled."

Repelled?

That would take half a month.

Yan Li’an frowned slightly.

"My lord, since Marshal Yan has said so, we should hurry to the City Lord Residence," Yan Li’an’s subordinate suggested.

He was reminding Yan Li’an not to forget his own important matters.

Yan Li’an nodded, "We have no other choice."

He couldn’t shake the feeling that this affair was all a bit too easy.

In the east of the city.

It was now in great chaos, with some Japanese pirates having seized the turmoil to enter the city and begin their rampage of arson and murder, while the city’s main military force had been led by Xiao Hongshen to the west of the city.

"What are we to do, City Lord? If not for the seventh prince insisting that the west of the city was the main area of interest for the Japanese pirates, we wouldn’t have fallen to this plight," said the steward from Ji Yuntai’s side.

"Stay calm," Ji Yuntai continually fidgeted with the pebbles in his hand, "The city is imbued with formations I laid out during my leisure time. They can be activated now to protect the civilians, which is still better than doing nothing."

"This..." The steward shook his head and sighed. Holding his weapon tightly, he remained vigilant, wary of Japanese pirates that might appear suddenly: "The City Lord Residence has suffered casualties, the eyes of the formation are tainted, will it still work now?"

"It must work, even if it can’t! I’ve defended Xiliang City for over twenty years, never abandoning a single civilian. Today’s battle is no different!" Ji Yuntai turned his back to the steward, the corners of his mouth already bleeding, and he carelessly wiped it away with his sleeve.

With continuous roars coming from outside, Ji Yuntai said in a deep voice, "Go outside, protect the civilians, and give me a quarter of an hour, and the formation will be activated anew!"

Clenching his teeth, the steward opened the door and rushed out, "City Lord, please be quick, this old servant won’t last much longer!"