However, when this sword energy, filled with terrifying ferocity, reached Nan Rong Jinghua, it stopped and vanished into nothingness in an instant.

Helian Nie narrowed his peach blossom eyes slightly, and with a wave of his hand, the black iron sword in his hand had already fallen back into its scabbard on the weapon rack a few meters away.

"Your subject, Nan Rong Jinghua, pays respects to Your Majesty." His voice was as calm as a secluded orchid in a valley, showing no trace of the ripples caused by Helian Nie's sword aura.

Helian Nie had already leaped away from under the paulownia tree and arrived in front of Nanrong Jinghua. For a moment, a chilling atmosphere filled the air.

But then it vanished in an instant. Helian Nie lifted his foot and walked towards the jade table beside him, his sinister voice ringing out, "Dismissed."

A gentle summer breeze carries the fragrant aroma of tea across the jade table. Amidst the swaying shadows of the trees, two figures, one in crimson and the other in silver, sit facing each other.

"My dear minister, you wouldn't come to my palace without a reason. Speak, what brings you here today?"

The aroma of the tea in his hand was enticing, and although his tone was playful, a chilling, sinister intent lurked beneath his handsome, devilish face and the depths of his peach-blossom eyes.

"I once told Your Majesty that I came here only to find one person." Nan Rong Jinghua sipped the tea in her jade cup, her demeanor as composed as a painting.

Helian Nie's fingers paused slightly, his long, narrow eyebrows twitched, and he looked at Nan Rong Jinghua's face with a mocking tone.

"Oh? My dear minister, have you found them? I wonder who it is? Should I send troops to confiscate their property and exterminate their entire clan, and bring them to you?"

"Little Princess." These three calm and indifferent words caused Helian Nie's face, which had been filled with amusement, to suddenly freeze and turn gloomy.

"Are you joking with me again, my dear minister?"

The person Nan Rong Jinghua has been searching for for over a decade—is it his own offspring? Or some audacious little wretch? It's utterly absurd!

"No, Your Majesty, I have come here to humbly request that you appoint me as the tutor of the little princess. Furthermore, after the little princess comes of age, I humbly request to become her consort."

His words flowed smoothly and calmly, completely disregarding the increasingly sinister and tyrannical aura emanating from Helian Nie.

Suddenly, a chilling laugh escaped Helian Nie's throat, and when he looked at Nan Rong Jinghua, his thin, crimson lips curled into a strange arc.

"My dear minister, why do you think I should agree to your request?"

What emperors detest most is anyone who dares to challenge their authority, especially a tyrant like Helian Nie.

Every word Nan Rongjinghua uttered just now challenged Helian Nie's authority as emperor. Undoubtedly, Helian Nie had already decided to kill her.

Even the eagle guarding a few meters away could clearly sense the murderous aura and killing intent emanating from Helian Nie.

Moreover, there was Nanrong Jinghua, who was sitting right across from Helian Si. Even when facing a tyrant feared by everyone in the world,

Despite her striking features, Nan Rong Jinghua remained composed as she set down her jade teacup with her long, slender, jade-like fingers.

She rose, bowed deeply to Helian Nie, and her voice, as melodious as an orchid in a secluded valley, rang out.

"Unifying the continent and winning the hearts of the people, I hope Your Majesty will grant my wish in exchange for the position of the princess's consort."

If these words had come from someone else, Helian Nie would have scoffed coldly and, without hesitation, ordered Changying to...

This person who dared to challenge the emperor's authority and utter such nonsense should be torn to pieces and then dragged to the snake pit to be fed to the venomous snakes.

But if it comes from Nan Rong Jinghua's mouth, it's different, because Nan Rong Jinghua truly...

He has the ability to do this, just as he once commanded the iron cavalry of Bei Yin to raze the cities of Xi Qi with a single word.