Xiao Zuo looked at Yin Jin'an, his heart pounding with panic, and said, "You are a demon..."

Yin Jin'an said coolly, "Watch your words! After all, your name is masculine... You're almost forty years old this year, right? So, how many people have you slept with?"

"You're talking nonsense! How could I eat people?"

"Didn't the Thirteenth Prince eat people? He ate a child's kidneys. How could the child survive? What is this if not cannibalism?"

Many officials in the hall were truly disgusted at this moment.

Men might want to do it, but they still find it too disgusting and unbelievable to eat children's organs.

However, the Thirteenth Prince was a monster, indeed a monster, and the fox fur covering his head, face, and body was genuine.

After dealing with the two people, Yin Jin'an said impatiently, "Take out the seal, stamp it, and get out of here right now!"

Emperor Yangsheng was still unwilling to give up and said loudly, "Even if you force me to my death, I will not give up the Great Xia! After all, you are an outsider. How can you usurp my ancestral land?"

"Are you out of things to say?" Yin Jin'an said with annoyance. "Did you eat your brain?"

"You are not the eldest prince!"

"What are you living for? You can't even recognize your own son. How did you become emperor? How have you managed the Great Xia Dynasty all these years? No wonder it's getting poorer and poorer!"

“You are not the eldest prince. My son is not so eloquent. Besides, you have always worn a mask. Why can’t you show your true face?”

"It's none of your business if I want to."

At this moment, all the civil and military officials boldly said, "Your Highness, please remove your mask!"

Currently, there is an unwritten rule in many countries that disabled people should not be placed in the highest positions.

Xiao Zuo felt that Yin Jin'an was either disfigured or was not the original owner of the body at all.

Seeing the people below looking at him with a death wish, Kuangren Chu was also very curious and wanted to see what Yin Jin'an looked like.

This man wore a mask from the first time I met him.

Jiutian wore the mask purely for fun, while Yin Jin'an probably wore it because he genuinely didn't want others to see his face.

Gu Chongjin, Ling Xun, and the others were also watching from the courtyard outside. They were even more eager to see Yin Jin'an's face than Xiao Zuo was.

Yin Jin'an — No way!

He chuckled and said, "I have a strange temper. You want to see me? I won't let you. Unless you see my true face and then you die."

Xiao Zuo pointed to the ministers scattered on the ground and said, "You can't just kill them all, can you?"

Yin Jin'an looked at those people indifferently: "You all want to see my true face? If I don't let you see it, you won't accept my ascension to the throne?"

Some ministers said, "If you were not the Crown Prince, we would never support the traitor."

"Alright, line up. Those who refuse to support me if I can't see their faces, stand on the west side. Those who want to create a prosperous era with me, stand on the east side."

After a moment's hesitation, the people in the hall split into two groups, roughly half on each side.

All the princes stood on the west side. If it weren't for the eldest prince who ascended to the throne, wouldn't all these princes be slaves of a conquered country?

"I'll ask you one more time: have you thought it through? I'll give you another quarter of an hour to think about it."

Yin Jin'an said to Xiahou Yan, "Watch the water clock."

Emperor Yangsheng's eyelids twitched, but he had to keep these officials with him to fight against Yin Jin'an.

Yin Jin'an cannot abandon his court officials; he cannot single-handedly lead a nation.

Half an hour passed quickly.

Everyone thought he would be pressured into revealing his true identity, since it wasn't unreasonable for the royal family to want to see if he was truly the eldest prince.

Unexpectedly, Yin Jin'an refused to compromise and told Xiahou Yan, "Take everyone in the west out and behead them."

Those standing on the west side were stunned, and Xiao Zuo jumped up: "Are you crazy?"

“It’s precisely because they’re not insane that we have to kill them. What’s the point of keeping the disloyal ones around?” Yin Jin’an said. “Stop talking nonsense and stamp the seal. Am I being too kind to you? I’ll only give you the time it takes for an incense stick to burn. After that, you don’t need to stamp the seal anymore.”

Emperor Yangsheng trembled all over: "What do you mean?"

"I'll kill you! Can't you even tell? Let me tell you, no one can control me."

"You think you can just show me your face like that? Do you think I'll refuse to ascend the throne just because you don't agree to it?"

Yin Jin'an said defiantly, "What I want to do is not subject to anyone's control, and I am not manipulated by anyone."

Those people on the west side, including the six princes of the royal family (my great-grandfather and great-uncle), as well as some who insisted on showing him respect, were all beheaded.

"You...you've killed them all! Who will run the court now?" Xiao Zuo asked, both frightened and anxious. "Do you really want the Great Xia Dynasty to perish?"

"There are too many people who want to become officials in the court, there will never be a shortage of people who want to be officials! You are reluctant to abdicate, it doesn't matter, you can take the Great Xia Imperial Seal into the imperial mausoleum! I will change the name of the country."

The incense stick had burned out, and Yin Jin'an said to Xiahou Yan, "Throw out the retired Emperor Xiao Zuo."

The retired emperor?

Xiao Zuo was furious. Xiahou Yan and his men had already arrived. Two men carried him away, and two others lifted his dragon throne out.

Xiao Zuo's personal eunuch hurriedly presented the imperial seal, which had been hidden in a secret compartment, to Yin Jin'an.

The seal was affixed to the abdication edict.

With the falling of the bright red imperial seal, the era of Emperor Yangsheng came to an end.