Chapter 776 (1/2)

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“So that’s why Her Majesty insisted on locking you up. You’re the largest variable in this world!” sighed Sha Lan.

“If you want to talk about variable, Zhao Yarou’s the one. She’s always changing her mind…” said Ye Lang.

“You troublemaker, that’s just a person who changes her mind. That’s a thing women do, that’s not considered a ‘variable’.”

“Is there a difference? I think it’s all the same?” answered Ye Lang cluelessly.

Ye Lang was still as confused as before. No one knew how Ye Lang spent his ten years. But this was great too. He remained the same guy everyone loved.

“Yarou, come here so I can take a good look at you!” said the Soaring Sky Emperor calmly. No one knew what he intended. Was he just a father who wanted to see his daughter, or was there something else?

“It’s fine, you can see me from there. You want me to help you conquer the world but that’s not going to happen. We don’t need to talk about it,” said Zhao Yarou honestly. “It’s true I wanted to conquer the world but that was when I was the empress, I don’t want to help another person conquer the world. When I help others, all they do is say I’m useless…”

“...”

Did someone call her useless? Was it because Ye Lang called her useless many years ago, leading up to her conquering the world to prove that she wasn’t useless?

If that was true, that meant the chaos of this world right now was all to prove her worth to Ye Lang. The mess we’re in is all because of Ye Lang’s idiotic nonsense?!

“No matter what, it must be related to you. You little troublemaker, something you said when you were a child led to the mess in this world today. Only you two crazy troublemakers could wreak such havoc.” Princess Longji felt a headache coming. She was unable to even scold Zhao Yarou at this point, as the culprit was still Ye Lang.

Princess Longji was right. Nothing of this scale had ever happened before, the entire world erupting in war over a few sentences between two people.

Perhaps it was just one of the reasons, the earliest one. The escalation of the situation had many contributing factors, the Soaring Sky Emperor was one of them.

“Eh? Your Majesty, why aren’t you dead?!” Ye Lang finally noticed the emperor, though his response was a little too late.

“...”

“If you aren’t dead, wouldn’t that mean Zhao Yarou didn’t actually kill her own father?” Ye Lang looked at Zhao Yarou as if this was great news.

“Brother-in-law, do you think I’m such a bad person? I’m just a weak and gentle little girl…”

“I did. When you wanted to shake me off, you asked me to answer them. I couldn’t, so you told me to go play by myself…” said Zhao Yarou.

“Did that happen? That’s odd. It should be impossible to get all the questions right, even a psychopath shouldn’t be completely psychotic,” said Ye Lang.

“If you knew about this, why did you still answer the questions?” asked the seventh princess. Wouldn’t that just make other people think you’re crazy?

“Because I really could answer some of the questions. Since Ye Lang had already called me crazy and didn’t want to play with me, I decided to might as well go full-on crazy. Also, I think you all thought it was normal for me to have such a response. You wouldn’t think I was faking anything on purpose,” said Zhao Yarou mildly.

“..”

This woman was terrifying!

“So you’ve planned on taking the throne for a long time, it wasn’t a recent plan at all. That was why you were so prepared. But I still don’t understand one thing-- when did you start preparing?”

“When I was about seven or eight. It was more convenient planning it as a young child…” said Zhao Yarou.

That was horrifying!

Even without that psychology test, everyone could tell she was a psychotic woman!

“Alright, let’s stop talking. We need to run immediately!” said Ye Lang.

“Why?” Everyone was confused.

“Because the emperor just ran. If he’s retreating so quickly, I think we’re in grave danger.” Ye Lang pointed at the retreating emperor.

“Little Ye Lang, why did you choose to be smart now? But you’re all finished anyway! I do not need to capture you. I just need to kill you all and nothing shall stop me from conquering the world!” The Soaring Sky Emperor was now very, very far away. He was about to leave the ancient ruins.

He was telling the scary truth. This was a congregation of the most powerful people in the world, including Ye Lang and Zhao Yarou.

If these people left this place today, Soaring Sky would lose the war. If these people died here, all of Soaring Sky’s opponents would be greatly weakened.

“Run!” Ye Lang immediately started sprinting.

“Hey, hey! Ye Lang, what can he do anyway? Keep in mind we’re all very powerful people,” yelled Ye Lanyu, running after him.

“You stupid! What’s the use of being powerful? We still cannot withstand physical damage. He just needs to collapse this entire structure and bury us in here! How will we survive that? Even if a portion of us survive, we will still suffer major losses!” said Ye Lang.

“He’s going to blow up the place? Don’t we have Little Xin? She can control his alchemy bombs.”

“Little Xin only controls things with alchemy formations, some types of alchemy do not require formations. They’re purely chemical reactions! Nothing can stop those!” huffed Ye Lang, irritated.

Little Xin could control some items but she was not the ultimate remote control. If she could, then she would not be ‘Little Xin’ but a god.

“Then…”

“Shut up and just run!” interjected Zhao Yarou.

“...”

As they ran, before all of the Soaring Sky people could escape, there was an explosion at the entrance of the ancient ruins.

“Boom!”

“Aaah! Zhao Yarou, your father’s insane! He’s going to kill his own subordinates too, and there are so many people here!” yelled Ye Lang. He didn’t expect the emperor to be this direct.

“...”

Everyone clearly understood the thinking of the emperor now. His change in personality upon receiving power was terrible indeed.

“Your Majesty…” The Soaring Sky subordinates who hadn’t reached the entrance stood stunned. They were the lucky ones. The ones who were nearest to the entrance would never have the chance to gawk at anything ever again.

Reality could be so cruel sometimes!

“Are you talking to me? I’m not ‘Your Majesty’ anymore,” said Zhao Yarou with a grin.

“Stop looking, that exit’s useless now. Are there any more exits?” The young war strategist had also been abandoned.

“Nope, there’s only one here!” said Ye Lang. He looked at the young man. “Why… do you look so familiar…”

“...” The strategist was silent and then shook his head. “You, how could you… One day, my name will travel across the lands, I will be the best…”

“Ah, I know! You’re that… that… that…” Ye Lang pointed at him but still could not remember his name. He did remember the man though.

“My name is Chu Jiu! This is the three-hundred-and-seventy-ninth time I’ve told you! I’m not telling you next time,” said the strategist, Chu Kiu. It was obvious he had said this at least three-hundred-and-seventy-eight times. He always said he wasn’t going to tell his name again, but did anyway.

This Chu Jiu was the young man Ye Lang often met at the library. Like Sha Lan, all three were frequent visitors of the library and often ran into each other.

“Oh! Right, right! Chu Jiu! Why are you here?” asked Ye Lang.

“I’m now the number one strategist in Soaring Sky…” said Chu Jiu proudly. He had already achieved his goal of many years.

“Oh, then how are you related to this place?” Ye Lang did not really care.

“Because I helped His Majesty with his plan to kill you all, but in the end…” Chu Jiu shrugged. He was quite nonchalant about the whole situation, given he was about to die.

“So this is your plan! Everyone, go beat him up!” roared Ye Lang, pointing at Chu Jiu.

“...” Chu Jiu was silent, shocked. If these people beat him up, was he going to survive?

“Cough, cough. I’m just a strategist, I just make plans. Everything else is none of my business. Everyone, calm down, we need a way to escape or His Majesty will blow up the place with gunpowder.

Gunpowder! That was just a chemical reaction, they wouldn’t be able to control it!

“Yeah, Ye Lang, think of something! Don’t just stand there!

Everyone started to hurry him, he was the one who could think of a plan. If he had no ideas, then all they could do was await death.

“Oh, there is a way to leave,” said Ye Lang flatly.

“What is it? Hurry up, I’m dying here!”