Chapter 337 - 334: Nation Annihilation

Chapter 337: Chapter 334: Nation Annihilation

’What is that voice!’

As the inexplicable male voice echoed in their minds, the entire city seemed to fall silent.

In the grand hall of the Li Yang capital, a court session was underway. The Female Emperor looked up, her brow furrowed in confusion, only to see that the ministers before her also wore varied expressions.

"My dear ministers... did you hear that voice just now?" the Female Emperor asked, her brow tightening.

Her words were met with a wave of agreement. One courtier asked uncertainly, "Could it be a secret voice transmission?"

"It must be the work of some Fourth Turn Martial Artist. How disrespectful to Her Majesty!"

Elsewhere, in a farm field, a woman straightened her stiff back and looked quizzically at her daughter. "Child, did you hear a voice just now?"

On the streets, those who heard the Heart Image voice stopped in their tracks, turning to ask where the sound was coming from.

But as they did, they realized everyone else on the street was doing the exact same thing.

The range of a simple Heart Image transmission was far greater than that of a reality-materializing force field.

At that moment, floating in low-earth orbit, Fang Can used his Heart Image to broadcast his thoughts directly down to the entire city.

From the common peddlers to the nobles and generals, everyone in the city received his message without exception.

In an ancient society with such primitive communication, the fastest way to seize control wasn’t simply to kill the entire royal family. It would take ages for the news to even spread.

Therefore, the most efficient method was indeed to impose his will upon every facet of the city.

He had to make these commoners understand, as quickly as possible, that he was about to kill their emperor.

While the people below were still trying to process this, Fang Can’s cold voice continued:

"From this moment on, I will rule every aspect of your lives. You will have only one being above you: me, the supreme Celestial Emperor Fang."

"For the next thirty days, your lives will be under my control. The entire nation will be converted to a slave state, and I will possess absolute power!"

As Fang Can’s words were transmitted through his Heart Image, an image also unfolded in the minds of the masses.

It was the image of Fang Can himself, floating in the vacuum of space. His white hair cascaded like a waterfall, and his tall, half-naked figure was as grim and imposing as a god or demon.

A Heart Image was a transmission from one mind to another, capable of unilaterally planting one’s thoughts and will into the minds of other Martial Artists.

During the previous Carnival Day, Fang Can had used his Profound Gate Eighth Layer Heart Image to strike down all life within a hundred-meter radius.

Broadcasting a factual image to the inhabitants of a single city was a trivial matter in comparison.

If this world hadn’t been suppressed, preventing him from transmitting much information until after the Heaven-Ascending Road, things would not have come to this.

But for the people below, this scene was rather indecent. After all, in a Female Venerate World, a man not wearing a shirt was considered far too provocative.

"What a harlot! He’s so hot!"

"So shameless. A man like that must have been enjoyed by plenty of women!"

"He has no male virtue. He doesn’t obey his mother at home or his wife after marriage. He has none of the Three Obediences and Four Virtues."

...

As the image of Fang Can spread through their minds, crowds of men and women began to point and gossip about his appearance.

Fang Can, however, had no intention of indulging them. Remaining afloat in low-earth orbit, he simply amplified the transmission of his Heart Image slightly.

In the next instant, a sharp, phantom pain surged through the minds of the city’s residents.

Every single person felt as if they had been brutally slapped across the face, leaving it completely numb.

’What’s happening?’ Countless people below clutched their cheeks, only to then feel a vicious kick to the groin.

In an instant, men and women alike crumpled to the ground, their eyes bulging!

"Calmed down now?" Fang Can’s voice came through his Heart Image, cold as ice. "I now control whether you live or die. You can either submit and become my subjects, or you can die!"

"As for the current Female Emperor and her civil and military officials, there is no need for them to survive."

Looking down at the Forbidden City below, Fang Can issued his final ultimatum:

"In one hundred breaths, I will destroy the entire Hall of Supreme Harmony, obliterating everyone inside, from the civil and military officials to the reigning Female Emperor. Then, I will establish a Xin Dynasty!"

"Anyone else who doesn’t wish to die, run. Flee that place with all your might."

Inside the Hall of Supreme Harmony, the courtiers were sprawled on the floor, unable to get up after the phantom slap and groin kick from Fang Can’s Heart Image.

But upon hearing Fang Can’s words, they were filled with fury. "Damn that upstart! How treasonous! He actually dares to usurp the throne!"

Of course, despite their defiant words, they knew they had to run. The gap in power was just too immense.

But as they tried to scramble up and flee, they found their bodies frozen in place, completely unable to move, as if they no longer had control over their own limbs.

Suspended in the heavens, Fang Can’s white hair whipped about wildly, his crimson pupils gazing down at the imperial city squirming like an anthill below.

He simply extended a single finger. A jet-black AT Field churned like boiling ink as the surrounding atmosphere was violently siphoned away, forming a vacuum vortex in low-earth orbit.

"Watch closely, you ants—"

The Heart Image boomed like heavenly thunder, rattling the nerves of everyone in the city and shaking them to their core.

They watched as black energy surged at Fang Can’s fingertip. The atmosphere for several miles around was enveloped by the force field, forming an expanding, pitch-black sphere.

"This is the inaugural salute of the new dynasty."

Fang Can grinned malevolently. The energy sphere in his hand had swelled to over a hundred feet in diameter. With a light press of his finger, he sent it downward.

Released from his control, the energy sphere plummeted downward like a meteor.

At the same time, the Heart Image broadcast abruptly stopped. Everyone’s consciousness snapped back to reality, and they collapsed to the ground in terror.

The images that had been transmitted were far too real.

It was as if a real energy sphere was about to bear down upon the entire world.

The black currents within it were filled with a domineering, malevolent aura that looked down on all creation, leaving all who watched breathless.

"Was... was it a hallucination?"

The thought had barely formed in the minds of the city’s populace when countless people instinctively looked up at the sky.

There, in the daylight sky, a massive, pitch-black sphere was descending unhurriedly toward the earth, radiating an aura of absolute extinction.

The overwhelming, unsettling, and tyrannical aura it emanated was identical to the image that had appeared in their minds.

’The heavens above Li Yang... are about to change...’ This was the first thought that surfaced in everyone’s mind.

They could only watch as the pitch-black sphere grew larger and larger in their vision before plunging into the Hall of Supreme Harmony.

As the sphere touched the Liuli tiles of the imperial palace, time seemed to freeze for an instant.

In the Female Emperor’s final moments of vision, a black-and-white explosion of light instantly engulfed a hundred-meter radius. The gilded, dragon-carved pillars inside the Hall of Supreme Harmony vaporized on the spot.

A pillar of black and white light shot into the sky!

The walls of the two-hundred-year-old imperial city collapsed like a sandcastle built by a child.

And with that, the nation of Li Yang was no more.