"Haha, how shameless!"

Ran Qiyue's lips curled up slightly, revealing a disdainful smile. He didn't take Mu Lige's words seriously, thinking he was just bluffing.

Suddenly, a loud "boom" sound was heard in the distance. The sound was so loud that it seemed to resonate through the sky. Everyone in the courtyard was startled and felt that the ground beneath their feet seemed to tremble a few times.

"What happened?" Ran Qiyue turned her head to look at Lin Yu, the commander of the Yulin Army.

Lin Yu's face showed panic. He immediately left the yard to find out the news. A moment later, he returned and hurried forward to report to Ran Qiyue: "It's not good, Master Guoshi! Jin Ruishan has been cut in half, and our troops are surrounded!"

Lin Yu's voice was filled with deep astonishment and fear. Jinrui Mountain was located in the suburbs north of the capital of Zhaoyang State. It was the highest and most precipitous mountain in Zhaoyang State. The snow on the mountain never melted all year round, and countless ferocious beasts roamed in it. Ordinary people could not climb the mountain at all. But such a mountain was actually cut in half by someone using something unknown. How could this not be terrifying?

"What?! Jin Ruishan was actually cut in half?! What...what on earth happened?!" Ran Qiyue was shocked and showed an expression of disbelief.

"Also, our 100,000-strong army was actually surrounded?! Who did this?! Did the enemy send a large number of troops to attack?!" Ran Qiyue said as he cast a suspicious look at Mu Lige and Hua Qingcheng.

Lin Yu suppressed his inner fear, tried to calm himself down, and then continued to report to Ran Qiyue: "Master State Master, please calm down. This matter is absolutely true, it is too strange and bizarre. For some reason, our cavalry horses suddenly became weak and their legs became weak. They fell to the ground one after another, causing many soldiers to be thrown off their horses. What's worse, these horses also caused a chaotic stampede, resulting in a large number of casualties. Moreover, our people have no idea what kind of weapons the other side used, and they were able to cut Jin Ruishan in half in an instant."

Upon hearing this news, Hua Qingcheng's lips curled slightly. She had long known that Zuo'an's thunderbolts were immensely powerful, but she hadn't expected the results to be so astonishing when they were experimented on Zhaoyang's Jin Ruishan. As for the Zhaoyang soldiers' horses showing signs of comfort before the battle, that was naturally due to the pressure emanating from Xiaobai.

Hua Qingcheng flicked her sleeves and said nonchalantly, "What's the big deal about cutting off half of Jinrui Mountain? Believe it or not, if I wanted to, I could raze the entire Jinrui Mountain to the ground, let alone the imperial palace. I can make the palace and all of you who are inside it... vanish in an instant!"

As soon as Hua Qingcheng finished speaking, a loud "bang" was heard. Everyone in the palace felt that the ground beneath their feet began to shake violently, as if an earthquake had occurred.

"What's going on?" someone shouted in panic.

"Oh no, oh no, Master Imperial Master, the moat of the imperial city has been destroyed!" A guard ran in with horror to report.

"What?" Ran Qiyue's face was as dark as the bottom of a pot, and he shouted angrily: "What on earth is going on?"

"Reporting to the Imperial Master, according to the information I have gathered, someone must have thrown something into the moat." The guard answered tremblingly.

"Nalan Qingcheng, you are really great!" Ran Qiyue glared at Hua Qingcheng with gritted teeth.

Hua Qingcheng raised her eyebrows slightly and said nonchalantly, "So what? What I said always counts. What I said just now was just an appetizer."

"You...what exactly did you do to Jin Ruishan?" Ran Qiyue looked at Hua Qingcheng with a look of scrutiny in his eyes.

The ability of this chosen girl was far more powerful than he had imagined. Not only did he fail to capture her soul this time, he even suffered heavy casualties... Thinking of this, Ran Qiyue's face became increasingly gloomy.

"Ran Qiyue, I advise you to surrender as soon as possible to avoid further unnecessary casualties," Hua Qingcheng said coldly. If it weren't for the fact that Zhaoyang was Mu Lige's home country, why would she be so cautious, fearing the harm of innocent people?

"Hahaha, you're dreaming! I've finally come this far, how can I give up so easily? Come on, quickly capture these people for me!" Ran Qiyue, who didn't believe in evil, ordered the guards to attack Hua Qingcheng and others, while he personally took Su Mutianjun down and went to the palace gate to find out what was going on.

Under the inky night, the palace gates were a dark mass, filled with shouts and neighs. Thirty thousand imperial guards and seventy thousand soldiers were in chaos. The horses, startled, galloped uncontrollably, their eyes filled with fear, their breaths ragged. In the chaos, the soldiers struggled to control their mounts, but with little success.

Some war horses raised their front hooves high, threw the soldiers on their backs off, and then trampled on them mercilessly, making shrill neighs; some soldiers were knocked to the ground, and before they could get up, they were trampled by other war horses and lost their lives instantly; other soldiers pushed and crowded each other, their swords and guns clashed, and people were injured and fell to the ground from time to time.

The scene was in utter chaos, with shouts and screams echoing one after another, and blood staining the ground red. The square in front of the palace seemed to have turned into a battlefield, and the shadow of death loomed over everyone.

However, strangely, Ran Qiyue did not see the army that the guard had just mentioned that surrounded his own soldiers.

"Nalan Qingcheng, Su Mulige, I order you to withdraw the ambushers immediately. Otherwise..." Ran Qiyue's eyes suddenly turned cold, and he pulled over the tied-up Su Mutianjun and threatened, "Otherwise, I will kill him immediately!"

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