Originally, Fang Zheng wanted to kill the emperor and cause civil unrest, so that the Northern Empire would have no time to take care of other things.

But after listening to Kuang San's report, Fang Zheng had a new idea.

Fang Zheng had also investigated the Northern Empire and knew that there were two generals in the Northern Empire, Esdeath and Budd. One was a spear and the other was a shield. Esdeath was mainly responsible for attacking, while Budd was mainly responsible for guarding the royal family. It could be said that the two of them each accounted for half of the military power within the empire.

However, neither of them has any intention of interfering in politics. Esdeath seems to simply prefer fighting and has no interest in politics, while Bud is completely bound by the ancient rule that "military generals are not allowed to interfere in politics", so he turns a blind eye to everything that is happening in the royal family.

But now, Fang Zheng has a new plan.

He planned to find a time to meet Esdeath, and then persuade her to inherit the empire as the empress after he killed the emperor and General Budd. After all, Fang Zheng had heard of Esdeath's reputation. To be honest, being cold-blooded and cruel to the enemy was not a big deal for Fang Zheng. When he went to the grassland to fight against the Huns and formed the "Grassland Cavalry", he killed them all in tribes, regardless of whether they were men, women, or young.

For Fang Zheng, protecting the Chinese civilization in the Central Plains is his top priority. He doesn't care about the lives of the Huns.

Therefore, the rumors about how cruel, cold-blooded, and tyrannical Esdeath was to her enemies were nothing to Fang Zheng. After all, Fang Zheng was no better than Esdeath in dealing with enemies, and their attitudes towards enemies were even more similar. He had been the emperor of the Han Dynasty for hundreds of years, and his reputation was not much better than Esdeath's. Forces like Night Raid hated him to the core, but they were powerless to defeat him, hahahahahaha...

They are all delivering food.

But to be honest, Fang Zheng still quite likes the beauty trap.

After all, it was consensual, and every time Fang Zheng received a beautiful assassin sent by an assassination organization, he wanted to give her a five-star rating. For sisters, mother and daughter, the more the better.

No matter how Esdeath treats her enemies, at least she is very caring towards her subordinates, and that is enough. If such a person becomes emperor, then there should be no problems within the Northern Empire. Of course, it is hard to say about the outside.

But Fang Zheng is confident that he can convince Esdeath. You know, if Esdeath becomes the empress and then proposes to Reinhard, then Reinhard will definitely not be able to refuse casually. This is a matter of face for the queen of an empire, and it may escalate into a diplomatic crisis.

This would definitely give Reinhard a headache.

But what does this have to do with Fang Zheng? Anyway, as long as he is not the one who has a headache, it's fine.

And as a perfect knight, dedication is also important, right? Reinhardt?

The next day, when Fang Zheng came to the training ground again, Chi Tong was already waiting there. When she saw Fang Zheng appear, she came up and asked him a question.

"What can you teach me?"

"It seems you are already prepared?"

“…”

Facing Fang Zheng's question, Chi Tong nodded, while Mayin beside her looked at her with a complicated expression. After they returned to their room last night, Mayin grabbed Chi Tong and told her exactly what Fang Zheng had done to her, but unexpectedly, Chi Tong did not react at all after hearing it...

But then again, think about Akagi's desire to become stronger. If Fang Zheng can really make her stronger, then even if she is treated like Marin, it wouldn't be something worth worrying about for her.

What made Ma Yin even more depressed was that Chi Tong didn't have to be as unlucky as herself...

Why am I so unlucky?

"Since you are good at using Murasame, I think it would be more useful to teach you a set of sword techniques."

Fang Zheng looked at Chi Tong in front of him, then stretched out his hand and pressed it against her forehead.

"Next, I will show you a few sword techniques. You can see for yourself which one is more suitable for you. Okay, close your eyes."

Hearing Fang Zheng's words, Chi Tong closed her eyes obediently, and after a moment, she felt a slight pain in her forehead, and then the originally dark world in front of her eyes suddenly changed.

Chi Tong's eyes widened in surprise, looking at her side. Not far in front of her, stood a man in white clothes as white as snow. He was holding a sword in his arms, standing in the dim alley. In front of him, stood a man. He stared at the man in white, then he suddenly drew his sword and attacked the man in white with eight strikes at lightning speed.

Seeing this scene, even Chi Tong's expression changed slightly. She asked herself that even if it was her, there was no way she could block these eight swords under such circumstances.

In her opinion, these eight strikes were like a series of lightning strikes, leaving no room for escape and almost perfect.

But the man in white only stabbed out once.

With just one sword, he pierced the opponent's throat.

When the sword was drawn, it was still covered in blood.

Then the man in white blew gently, and blood dripped from the blade of the sword.

At the same time, Fang Zheng's voice sounded in Chi Tong's ears.

"Did you see it? This is Ximen Chuixue's sword. His sword is not for looking at, it is for killing people, and his swordsmanship is for killing people. For him, the most beautiful thing is to kill people with a sword. When you pierce their throat with your sword and watch the blood bloom under your sword, if you can see the splendor of that moment, you will know that the beauty is incomparable to anything else - well, I think you two have very similar personalities."

Chi Tong did not answer. She just stared at the figure in white without saying a word.

Soon, the scene changed again.

In front of the grand gate of the No. 1 Association in the World, an old man with white hair and beard slowly walked down the steps. He looked too old, so old that he even seemed like he might die at any time. However, under the gaze of Chi Tong, the old man slowly took a step forward.

After this step, time stopped flowing.

At this moment, Chi Tong seemed to see the old man's soul flying out of his body. Invisible sword energy suddenly burst out, and all the people around seemed to be imprisoned and unable to move. They could only stand there stupidly, watching themselves being torn and pierced by the sharp invisible sword energy. When time began to flow again, only spurting blood and corpses covered everything.

"The twenty-third Heaven-Destroying Sword requires one to control the sword with one's mind. Once it is used, the heaven and earth will collapse. Well, I think you have the potential to be a Sword Master... Then the next one..."

Just like that, scenes flashed through Chi Tong's mind one after another. She saw the Ten Thousand Swords Return to the Origin, which represented the highest realm of swordsmanship. The Six Meridians Divine Sword, which controlled the sword with Qi. The Thirteen Deadly Swords, which represented death and would kill anyone who struck the sword. The Fuyu Sword Technique, which was a sword technique that could only be used to the extreme of emotion, and to use the sword for emotion, and to enter the Dao with the sword.

These are the people Fang Zheng had met during his long years in the world of Xun Qin. Of course, the development of swordsmanship in the beginning was also very interesting. At the beginning, it was a low-level martial arts world that was more in line with physics, then it became an unscientific medium-level martial arts world, and finally it developed into a high-level martial arts world that could piss Newton off to death. Fang Zheng experienced the entire process of the martial arts world turning from weak to strong over the past thousand years, and during this period, he also met many people who should have appeared in different martial arts worlds.

Of course, this is quite interesting sometimes, such as when Linghu Chong and Li Xunhuan drink together. Just thinking about the flaws in this makes people laugh to death.

Although Fang Zheng did not take anything away from that world, these memories alone were enough.

When Akame opened her eyes again, she was almost numb with shock.

She had never seen such swordsmanship and such strong people. Every one of them - no matter whether male or female, old or young, was so powerful in Akame's eyes. She was sure that even with Murasame in her hand, she would not be able to defeat any of them.

Chi Tong had never thought that there were so many powerful people. Their swordsmanship had completely surpassed the limits of what he could imagine.

"Okay, so whose swordsmanship do you want to learn?"

Fang Zheng looked at Chi Tong in front of him. All these sword techniques were collected by him. After all, in that world, many peerless swordsmen died for various reasons without having the chance to teach their sword techniques. Fang Zheng collected all their efforts and essence, and then saw if they could be passed down in another world.

In his opinion, Akagi is a good successor.

“…”

Facing Fang Zheng's question, Chi Tong did not speak for a long time. This was the first time she encountered such a difficult problem. To be honest, now Chi Tong didn't even know whether she should make a choice. It was as if there were delicious foods in front of her and she wanted to eat every one of them, but Chi Tong also knew that she would not be full this way... But Chi Tong also understood that she had to make a choice eventually.

"I……"

Chi Tong opened her mouth, closed it, and then opened it again. Then she seemed to have finally made up her mind and raised her head to look at Fang Zheng.

"I want to learn the Thirteen Deadly Swords."

"oh?"

Hearing Chi Tong's answer, Fang Zheng raised his eyebrows. He originally thought that Chi Tong would choose Ximen Chuxue, after all, the two of them had similar personalities, but what Fang Zheng didn't expect was that Chi Tong would actually choose... Well, it's not surprising, after all, considering that person's experience, it seems that he has a lot in common with Chi Tong.

Maybe Chi Tong realized something from it?

"The sword energy spans thirty thousand miles, and the sword light chills nineteen continents...Okay."

After silently sighing, Fang Zheng nodded.

"It's not bad for you to be Yan Shisan's successor."