Cang Yuan and Jin Yan had similar thoughts.

Cang Yuan thought to himself that his wife's appearance was very similar to that of Xiao Ning.

My heart suddenly started racing, and I felt panicked.

He couldn't help but tentatively ask, "My lady, do you still remember what you said to me on the mountaintop of Huaizhou in the border region of Dayue?"

Without hesitation, Leng Qingning replied, "I said I will always be with you and love you forever."

Upon hearing this, Cang Yuan breathed a sigh of relief. Thankfully, it was indeed his wife.

Leng Qingning chuckled a few times, knowing he was testing her, and said nothing more.

Jin Yan's expression was somewhat indescribable.

"A-Ning, I'll go first."

Leng Qingning nodded lightly: "Go, my husband."

Jin Yan spurred his horse and led a large army away.

Cangyuan immediately followed.

The battle horns sounded in the Yue army's ranks...

The deafening fighting, mixed with the smell of blood, filled the sky above Yancheng.

Jin Yan's assault force of over 100,000 men suffered more than half casualties, but the remaining soldiers successfully jumped over the city walls and opened the city gates.

"Right now."

Leng Qingning raised her right hand high and then swung it down heavily, shouting at the same time, "Charge!"

Upon receiving the order, Xie and Meng rushed out.

Behind them, thousands of troops charged forward in unison toward the city gate.

Clad in black armor, he leaped onto the city wall and, together with Jin Yan Cangyuan, slaughtered the city's defenders.

In less than half an hour, the enemy troops on the city wall were completely annihilated, and inside the city gate, the ambushed enemy troops were fighting fiercely with the Yue army.

Leng Qingning stood atop the city wall, looking down at the scene below. Her body was covered in the blood of the enemy soldiers, and even the strands of her hair were stained crimson.

His tone was flat and even: "Brother Yan, A Yuan, let's go."

Moments later, the three joined the melee.

…………

They captured the city with almost no effort.

The main hall of Yancheng.

"Bring it up."

The soldiers forced the city lord of Yancheng to kneel at Leng Qingning's feet.

The city lord of Yancheng, his hair disheveled, laughed awkwardly: "Hahaha, Your Highness the Young King of Dayue, you... have won. Do with me as you please."

After saying that, he snorted coldly, closed his eyes, and made a gesture of heroic sacrifice.

Leng Qingning couldn't help but laugh. "City Lord, it's just a matter of the victor taking all and the vanquished dying. Is it really necessary to act like this? I've given you chances before."

The city lord scoffed, "A scholar can be killed but not humiliated. Your Highness, please proceed."

Leng Qingning was too lazy to waste words with him and asked in an unquestionable tone, "Where is the City Lord's Seal? Hand it over, and I might consider sparing your family."

Upon hearing this, the city lord's heart skipped a beat, and he opened his eyes to glare angrily at Leng Qingning: "Don't blame your family! How can the future ruler of Dayue be so lacking in martial ethics?"

"What is martial virtue? I've never heard of it." Leng Qingning glanced at him, her sinister gaze shooting at him, and he immediately felt a chill run down his spine.

He continued to threaten him: "I've already said I'd massacre the city! Do you think I'm a person of morality?"

"I'll ask you one more time, where is the city lord's seal?"

With a face full of indifference and coldness, the Lord of Yancheng felt a chill run from the soles of his feet to the top of his head.

"In...in..."

Leng Qingning bent down and stared coldly at him, impatiently urging, "Where?"

The city lord was startled and stammered, "It's...it's in the wall of the secret room in the bedroom. There's a mechanism in the wall."

Without Leng Qingning giving the order, the general immediately led his men to the bedroom.

"I asked, can you let my family leave?"

Leng Qingning smiled, straightened up, raised her sword, her eyes full of mockery, and said coldly, "What do you think?"

A flash of sword light—

"Ah!!" The city lord collapsed to the ground.

His bloodshot eyes stared at her before he breathed his last, "You...don't expect...to have an easy time either..."

"Take it away immediately."

With a hint of disdain in her voice, Leng Qingning then ascended to her high seat and took the city lord's position.

Jin Yan stepped forward and stopped. "Your Highness, what should be done with the city lord's family?"

"To cut the weeds, you must pull them out by the roots! Kill them!"

Jin Yan hesitated for a second, then replied, "Yes!"

Cangyuan asked, "Then what you just mentioned about massacring the city?"

Are they really going to slaughter all the people of Yancheng?

Leng Qingning said indifferently, "The common people can be spared death, but if any of the 300,000 garrison troops of Yancheng do not serve me, their families will be strangled as well."

Surrender is useless; they must be put to use.

Cang Yuan breathed a sigh of relief. Killing the enemy soldiers was fine, but if the civilians were all killed, his wife's reputation would probably be damaged.

"Your Highness, we've found the city lord's seal," a general reported.

"Bring it here."

The hand that received the seal trembled, and Leng Qingning's expression changed drastically as she suddenly felt her blood surging.

You Di stood up: "What's going on?" Leng Qingning quickly sealed her heart meridian.

Jin Yan and Cang Yuan immediately tensed up, "My lady, what's wrong?"

“I… am poisoned,” Leng Qingning said through gritted teeth.

In an instant, the generals in the main hall panicked and rushed towards her.

"Your Highness, how could you have been poisoned?"

Leng Qingning was also puzzled. How could she suddenly be poisoned out of nowhere?

He quickly recalled what the city lord had just said, realizing that he hadn't eaten or touched anything.

"No, wait," Leng Qingning suddenly looked up, "Don't go near this seat."

Jin Yan and Cang Yuan were greatly alarmed and wanted to rush forward to help her, but they were frozen in place by her words.

Leng Qingning raised her hand to stop them: "Don't come any closer, there's something wrong with this chair!"

No sooner had she finished speaking than a surge of bloody energy shot into the sky, and blood trickled from the corner of Leng Qingning's mouth.

"My lady!" Cangyuan and Jin Yan exclaimed in surprise at the same time.

The next instant, Leng Qingning's body collapsed uncontrollably, and in her last second she cried out, "Don't touch me!"

Falling into a coma—

"A-Ning!"

Jin Yan ignored everything and stepped forward to hug her. Just as his hand was about to touch her, a gust of wind swept in, the air reversed, and everyone in the main hall was instantly blinded by the strong wind.

A huge vortex appeared out of nowhere in the sky, accompanied by cold wind and lightning, emitting a hissing sound.

Jin Yan Cangyuan blinked and looked in that direction.

Immediately, a figure appeared in the black and blue vortex.

Cang Yuan's eyes widened in shock, "Xiao Ning?"

Xiao Ning swiftly leaped out of the vortex, instantly teleporting to Leng Qingning's side to their astonished gazes. She picked her up and helped her sit upright, then turned behind her, placing her hands on Leng Qingning's back to begin transmitting her magic power.

Before Cang Yuan could close his mouth, another person fell into the vortex with a thud—a handsome man dressed in strange clothes.

The difference is that he fell hard!

"Hiss~" he hissed softly.

Jin Yan stared at him with a furrowed brow.

Soon, the vortex's opening closed towards the center, stopped blowing out cold winds, and quickly disappeared into the sky.

Everything happened so fast!!

The wind stopped—

The people in the main hall were able to open their eyes.

"what happened?"

"What just happened? Why is there wind?"

Everyone was filled with surprise and doubt.

Xie and Meng noticed something was amiss.

"Who are you?" General Xie asked in a panic, stepping forward to stand next to Jin Yan.

How strange! How strange!

Xie and Meng exchanged glances, watching the newcomer warily. Seeing that Xiao Ning seemed to be rescuing someone, they did not step forward to stop her, and then both looked at the other person.