She Holds the World After Being Reborn
Chapter 246: Total Victory, Thousand Mechanism Reappears

Chapter 246: Chapter 246: Total Victory, Thousand Mechanism Reappears

Blood splattered three feet into the air, the warm sensation touching Yan Wanqing’s cheek.

She wiped it away with the back of her hand and stepped into the grand hall.

"The situation..." Xiao Pingfeng came from behind, his tone turning grave upon seeing the bodies strewn all over the floor, "isn’t looking good."

Yan Wanqing’s expression was solemn.

"We’re too late, Gesang has been killed."

His death was a pitiful sight, his head severed from his body.

He couldn’t be deader.

Xiao Pingfeng advanced two steps ahead and saw the head among the bodies.

Gesang had just enough time to move during the period Yan Wanqing went missing. He had no intention to care about what this woman wanted to do, focusing all his thoughts on finding Yan Wanqing.

"That night, I saw her sneaking around outside the City Lord Residence and followed her out, then I encountered..." Yan Wanqing thought of something unpleasant and stopped talking.

Xiao Pingfeng stepped forward, reassuringly hooking his arm around her shoulder, "It’s good that your elder brother came back alive, memories will recover sooner or later."

"I hope so." Yan Wanqing didn’t have much confidence in her heart, only waiting to return to the Capital City to let Xiaoliu give it a try.

"The person who cured me was our master." Speaking of Song Huaxu, Yan Wanqing was really curious about what role this person played in this appalling conspiracy!

To harm her and then to save her.

It was puzzling.

Upon hearing this person’s name, Xiao Pingfeng furrowed his brows, "There’s something I’ve been forgetting to tell you, Xiao Hongshen was wounded by his own dagger, poisoned with Thousand Mechanism."

"Thousand Mechanism—" Hearing the name of the poison, Yan Wanqing still felt frightened.

For five full years, she was controlled by Thousand Mechanism, vomiting blood at any small exertion, extremely weak.

Yan Wanqing staggered backward.

"Wanwan." Xiao Pingfeng’s eyes flickered with worry as he moved swiftly to support her.

Yan Wanqing raised her hand and moved half a step forward, "I’m fine."

Her lips turned pale in an instant.

The poison Thousand Mechanism was given to her father by Song Huaxu... Xiaoliu had said that this poison was extremely difficult to concoct, neither the Emperor nor her father would have such poison, the only explanation was that Song Huaxu gave it to her father, who then personally made her take it.

Why?

Why was it her?

Yan Wanqing felt a heaviness in her chest.

According to them, she was just a woman.

"Wanwan." Xiao Pingfeng saw the sweat on her forehead, raised his hand to wipe it, when Chang Qianhu suddenly walked in.

"General Yan, all the Japanese Pirates outside have surrendered, the brothers are all praising you for your foresight—" Chang Qianhu walked in exuberantly, only to find his commander’s complexion pale as paper. He paused and asked, "What’s this?"

"It’s nothing." Yan Wanqing composed herself, her gaze sweeping over the corpses on the ground, meeting Gesang’s eyes that stared towards the door, and then slowly withdrew.

Just... One step too late, the clue was lost again.

"We have won a complete victory in this battle, issue the order, reward the entire army—!" Yan Wanqing called out loudly, her expression resolute, no trace of her prior vulnerability.

Seeing this, Chang Qianhu hastily replied, "Good, alright!"

He moved two steps closer to Yan Wanqing’s side, "I’ll give the orders right away. When have we ever been so spirited? This battle was truly exhilarating!"

Clad in a crimson battle armor, the young girl’s hair was tied high on her head, her gaze held a determination beyond her years. She clasped the sword at her waist, stepped over the high threshold of the grand hall door, and bathed her entire being in the sunlight.

"All soldiers, heed my command!" she drew her sword and pointed toward the sky.

The soldiers solemnly responded, "Present!"

"Clear the battlefield, prepare for a triumphant return—" Yan Wanqing squinted her eyes scanning over the crowd below the steps, her voice resonant, booming across the entire square, stirring the blood to a boil!

&

The day they returned to the city, the commoners of Xiliang City lined the streets to welcome them. Yan Wanqing rode atop a chestnut stallion, her pretty face devoid of emotion, and as she looked at the halved population of Xiliang City, her heart even sank with sorrow.

If only she hadn’t gone after Gesang that night.

Then she wouldn’t have missed the moment the Japanese pirates launched their sneak attack.

The Divine Church of Light, sinister and vile, used her elder brother to appear at the critical moment to lower her confidence; thereafter, they colluded with Li Chengyuan to make a deadly move against her. Link by link, if it were not for Song Huaxu, she truly wouldn’t have stood a chance of surviving.

This was an opponent of unprecedented strength; she must focus her energy twelvefold.

After finally making it back to the City Lord Residence through the enthusiastic crowd, Ji Yuntai had already prepared a banquet early on.

Upon seeing Yan Wanqing and her followers, he wheeled toward them. His arm was still wrapped in gauze, his face full of eagerness: "Commander Yan! You’ve finally returned triumphantly!"

Yan Wanqing smiled slightly, her lips curling into a faint smile, "Yes, I’m back."

But the young man in white had tears brimming in his eyes, deeply bowing toward Yan Wanqing with his injured arm: "This humble official, on behalf of all the people of Xiliang City, thanks Commander Yan for your great grace! You have resolved the foreign troubles that plagued Xiliang City for a century!"

Yan Wanqing hurried forward to support him, "Such grand courtesy is unnecessary, as it is my duty to lead the troops from the Capital City to resolve this chaos."

"Commander Yan, you deserve it," Ji Yuntai said, choking up.

He, a formidable man standing eight feet tall, had guarded Xiliang City for more than twenty years, and this moment was his most sentimental!

"If it weren’t for my disability, I would surely follow Commander Yan into battle, to avenge our people of Xiliang City," Ji Yuntai added. "Therefore, this bow is one you cannot refuse."

At the banquet, the soldiers sang and danced, drank, and ate heartily, venting all the grievances, frustrations, and pain of recent days.

"Why aren’t you drinking?" Xiao Pingfeng naturally strolled over with a jug of wine and sat down.

Ji Yuntai, who had been chatting with Captain Chang, immediately glanced over from the corner of his eye.

Xiao Pingfeng, noticing this, flashed a mischievous light in his eyes.

He moved closer to Yan Wanqing’s side.

"I’m not drinking because I want to remember this scene," Yan Wanqing softly sighed. "Before, I didn’t understand why my father was so obsessed with the battlefield, but after this battle, I think I understand."

Xiao Pingfeng tilted the jug in his hand to his lips, taking a drink, with the liquor spilling from his thin lips, trickling down his handsome neck to his collarbones...

"Before, I also didn’t understand why my mother willingly stayed by my father’s side. Later, after hearing about some of her stories from someone, I started to understand a bit."

"Your mother?" Yan Wanqing looked at him in surprise, as Xiao Pingfeng had never mentioned his birth mother before.

The woman of rumors said to be incomparably beautiful, a beauty that eclipsed the Six Kingdoms.

She was also very curious about why in the end it was the Emperor of Dawei who won the beauty.

Seeing the curiosity in her eyes, Xiao Pingfeng’s lips slightly curved up, a deep, pleasant voice slipped from his throat: "Do you want to know?"

"Of course."

"Wait until you call off the marriage at the Southern Border, and I will tell you about my mother," he said.

"You..." Yan Wanqing furrowed her pretty brow, how could he revert to being shameless after just two days of seriousness.

She pursed her lips: "This, I cannot promise you for the time being."

"No rush, if nothing unexpected happens, I can wait for the next few decades," Xiao Pingfeng said, tilting the jug toward her red lips, his Adam’s apple bobbing slightly, his voice low and husky: "Right now, on such a joyful day, let’s drink..."

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