Chapter 295 - 292: Extorting the Nations and Class Change

Chapter 295: Chapter 292: Extorting the Nations and Class Change

The Wan Mansion, befitting the residence of a Third Turn expert, was the very definition of luxury.

But now, because they had offended Fang Can, the Imperial Guard was systematically moving everything out, from their Gold and jade down to the very bricks and tiles.

Sun Bailiao watched the entire process unfold, observing as the Imperial Guard escorted out the Wan family’s servants and young masters one by one to ensure that not a single item was missed.

Since Fang Can had said sixty percent, it had to be exactly sixty percent—not a fraction more, not a fraction less.

Therefore, the Wan family’s entire assets had to be thoroughly inventoried.

Besides, the Ministry of Justice had methods passed down for generations to make people tell the truth. These people wouldn’t be allowed to hide anything.

An hour later, the Wan Mansion was stripped bare. Under the Imperial Guard’s professional asset seizure, not a single surplus item was left behind.

It was like birds scattering from a depleted forest, leaving behind nothing but a vast, clean, empty expanse.

But this was only the beginning. The Wan family had been operating for centuries, with countless branch families and innumerable shops, farmlands, mansions, servants, Cultivation Techniques, and Sacrificial Artifacts.

It was far too much to be inventoried in a short time.

Meanwhile, the entire Great Chu nation was thrown into turmoil.

They had discovered that not only was the Chu Emperor gone, but three Fourth Turn experts had also lost contact.

After a desperate search, they found discarded clothing and a fine white ash upon it in the home of a Third Turn Priest who had also vanished.

When compared to the way the Chu Emperor died—after Liu Qingmeng delivered the final blow during the live broadcast—it was an almost identical scene.

In a single day, Great Chu had lost four Fourth Turn experts—an unprecedented sacrifice. Now, only two Fourth Turn experts remained to openly preside over the nation.

But before they could even react, a letter arrived from the Great Derivation, demanding they pay reparations for the battle losses.

"That inhuman bastard! After killing the Chu Emperor, he actually dares to demand reparations from us?"

A Great Chu court official, his eyes blazing with fury, crushed the reparations letter in his hand.

"We will never agree! Even if it means death, we will fight him to the bitter end!" a military official roared.

"Exactly! Whoever made Great Chu bleed must pay the price!"

...

Seeing the state of the entire court, the messenger said cautiously,

"My lords, in addition to the letter, Lord Fang had me bring a gift. He said that after you’ve seen it, if you agree to his terms, you are to send the reparations and return this item in its original condition."

"What is it?" a white-robed scholar, a Fourth Turn expert, asked coldly from his position in the court.

But the next moment, his eyes widened in shock. An overwhelming wave of scholarly energy erupted from him, enveloping the messenger’s body.

The messenger slowly pulled a pitch-black sphere the size of a human head from his cloth bag. His voice trembling, he said, "An antimatter weapon. About two kilograms."

Antimatter weapon???

At these words, the Great Chu court officials instantly recoiled several meters, like birds startled by a bowstring.

Thanks to the popular rankings from Baixiaosheng, who didn’t know the name of the antimatter weapon now?

This was a weapon that could kill even Fourth Turn experts. With enough of them, destroying cities and annihilating nations was a simple matter.

"My Lord Fang said that Lord Ji has already planted antimatter bombs in more than a dozen of Great Chu’s cities, with another one placed in your capital."

The messenger’s voice was filled with terror, but he repeated the words exactly as he had been told:

"My lord says they can produce one hundred thousand of these smaller, one-kilogram antimatter devices a month. If you don’t agree to the reparations... you can try and see what happens."

Hearing the messenger’s words, those present felt nothing but immense humiliation.