Empress Yin led her men to surround Zheng Ya, and the retired emperor tried to dissuade her, but to no avail. Daiyu said disdainfully, "Are they putting on a show?"
"That's right! You can know a person's face but not their heart. Did Master Brother save them for nothing?" Liu Yan'er gritted her teeth and waved her little fists to assert her dominance, looking as if she were ready to charge out at Zheng Ya's command.
Zheng Ya smiled faintly and said, "You should know that ingrates exist everywhere, regardless of nationality or region. There's no need to get angry over them."
"How can I not be angry?"
Despite the immense risk to his life, Master risked his life to save the Hongli Continent and the five planets from being swept into a void-devouring vortex, where they were in imminent danger of losing their lives.
This is undoubtedly a great favor, but how dare they come to our door demanding the seal and the magical treasure? It's shameless..." Liu Yan'er was so angry that she wanted to kill someone, and her eyes turned red with rage.
Daiyu nodded repeatedly in agreement: "That's true. The key is that their status as emperors and empresses is so high that it's deeply ingrained in people's minds. We can't do anything to them, or we'll only embolden them."
"I'm afraid this matter will be difficult to handle."
"I think we should just kill them to end it all, so as not to let them grow into a threat..." Liu Yan'er offered her suggestion without wavering, using killing to stop killing.
This kind of tendency should not be allowed to develop.
Otherwise, you'll face a constant stream of troubles.
If someone leads a disturbance but ends up getting hurt, what if everyone starts causing trouble and wants something in return?
Daiyu opened her mouth but was speechless, not knowing what to say!
He originally agreed with Liu Yan'er's suggestion to kill the members of the Yin Empress's forces to eliminate future troubles, intimidate people, and benefit the development and growth of the Four Continents.
As the saying goes, "One general's success is built on the bones of ten thousand."
Every dynasty's rise and fall is a bloody process, a new dynasty built upon countless lives and skeletons, without exception.
Those members of the imperial family who fell from power all died tragically.
They either become slaves to minor officials, spending their lives being ridiculed and barely surviving in the world.
Empress Yin clearly could not accept this treatment, and her purpose in causing trouble was obvious: to reclaim her former glory.
Why did Zheng Ya portray herself as a saintly hypocrite, a savior of the world, making her seem easy to bully?
For Zheng Ya, this would be a test from the official Tower of Babel authorities, a bloodless victory, and the development of a large-scale integrated sub-base.
Moreover, it involves a grand fusion of life forms from three different star systems: Earth, the native creatures of the Hongli Continent, and the creatures from the Blue Star.
The difficulty level increases infinitely.
The problem is that Zheng Ya isn't cut out to be a leader, nor has he ever considered becoming one. Even now, forced into this situation by the Tower of Babel officials to lead the beings of the three star systems towards great integration, resist foreign invasion, and complete the assessment task, Zheng Ya is flustered and has a headache. He rubs his forehead and says, "Alright, everyone stop talking. Let's go out and see what's going on..."
"Zheng Ya, get out here..." The Empress's incessant roars attracted all the surviving cultivators, who gathered at the square in front of the villa in the center of the Four Continents Base to watch the show.
Occasionally, a shout would erupt from the crowd, misleading people and stirring up trouble.
The retired emperor outwardly tried his best to dissuade him, but what he was really thinking was anyone's guess.
Intelligent people all know one thing: if someone like him, the retired emperor, were to become an ordinary person, not to mention the endless ridicule he would face and the life of being talked about behind his back, barely surviving in this world, the impact on his cultivation and the development of inner demons would be fatal.
For a high-ranking person who reveres immortality and has spent most of his life striving for power, this is worse than death.
What can you do if you can't accept reality?
This scene is going to be interesting!
With a rustling sound, Zheng Ya led Daiyu and Liu Yan'er out of the courtyard gate, stopping at the very front of the steps. He looked around at the tens of thousands of cultivators in the square and laughed, "So you've all come to celebrate a birthday? It's so lively!"
"Ahem, Zheng Ya, I'm sorry, Empress Yin didn't mean to cause trouble. She was just touched on a sore spot and came here to demand an explanation..." The retired emperor stepped forward to cover for her.
Empress Yin seized the opportunity to push him aside, stepped forward and angrily rebuked Zheng Ya: "You sent people to gossip about us behind our backs, and you still have the nerve to make sarcastic remarks here."
"You dare to do it but not admit it? Are you really that cunning and deceitful, trying to win over the hearts of the people?"
"Your voice is almost as loud as a bomber's; it's quite intimidating and has a considerable ability to create momentum."
But your actions cannot be resolved by causing trouble.
"To solve this problem, I think we all need to handle it calmly and proceed in a harmonious manner. Otherwise, what kind of outcome do you all want?" Zheng Ya retorted with a faint smile, his tone neither warm nor cold, yet exuding an air of authority.
He has always disliked rambling and preferred to confront things head-on. He doesn't play games or engage in empty rhetoric, and his words resonated with people.
As it turns out, those two words were extremely important.
Don't forget where you are.
This is the Sihe Continent, not the former Hongli Continent.
The objective facts concerning the living environment are like a sharp sword hanging over everyone's heart and throat, a lump in their throat.
Clearly, the Four Continents are in the process of creating a suitable living environment and cannot withstand any disturbances. Otherwise, a mishap could cause many creatures to lose the oxygen they depend on for survival and die a violent death.
The vast majority of people realized this crisis, and everyone was terrified. When they looked at the people in the Emperor Emeritus and the Empress Dowager's faction, they all turned pale.
Unfortunately, Empress Yin ignored this and used it as leverage: "Zheng Ya, stop your sophistry and distortion of the truth."
If you hadn't sent people to smear our backs, we would be grateful to you for saving our lives, and we wouldn't have the face to mess around with you. If we started fighting, we would destroy the environment on which countless lives depend for survival and cause harm to all living beings, resulting in unnecessary deaths.
You're right, aren't you?
"Haha, good, very good. Then bring over the people you've been talking about behind your backs, and let me search your souls..." Zheng Ya heard the threat she was making, and launched a thunderous counterattack.
When it came to a soul-searching confrontation, the Empress naturally dared not attempt it and immediately rejected it: "Zheng Ya, don't even think about playing tricks on us."
Everyone present knows that you transmigrators have unique methods, such as destroying the Hongli Immortal Dynasty and ultimately the Hongli Continent, and then creating the impression of being saviors of the world by claiming to save all living beings.
If you've committed such heinous acts that have subverted the heavens and the human heart, what other means do you lack?
Faced with the facts, you can't try to play tricks.
"That's right, you transmigrators destroyed the Immortal Dynasty and cut off our cultivators' chance to ascend to the Upper Realm. You've done all sorts of evil deeds, and now you want to enslave us and make us work for you? What the hell are you thinking?" Someone in the cultivator group started to jeer, and others chimed in.
This immediately put Zheng Ya in a desperate situation, subjecting him to the wrath of thousands.
They created momentum to reverse Zheng Ya's standing in the eyes of the people, and threatened to destroy the Sihe Continent base in secret and perish together, coercing the people to gather in the square and cause trouble.
This made Daiyu cry in distress. She secretly sent a telepathic message: "This can't go on. The people are being incited by them to rebel. What should we do?"
"Master, why don't we use the array weapons to snipe the people who are leading the riot and quell this baseless farce? Otherwise, if we keep dragging this out, it will be impossible to end!" Liu Yan'er was so angry that she wanted to kill someone.
The decapitation operation eliminated the loyalists of Empress Yin and the retired emperor, and the problem was solved.
Daiyu nodded repeatedly, agreeing with Liu Yan'er's suggestion: "Kill them! As the saying goes, every emperor has his own ministers, and every emperor kills people!"
At this time, we cannot be soft-hearted; we must kill them if necessary!
"Yes, kill them..." Liu Yan'er transmitted her voice, turned around and walked back, preparing to return to the living room to control the array weapons to kill...
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