Chapter 5: Chapter Five: Left General

This plan is good, but they are a bunch of ungrateful people……

Ying Kong, don't worry; nothing I create is free.

She smiled slightly, and a piece of wasteland in the Great River sprang back to life.

When Prince Shun arrives at the Great River Fortress, I'll have flattened the whole place—I want to see whether they accept it or not.

Wan Wujiang has already searched over ten places where her brother might be, but that person has no system, making it difficult to find.

But she knows he must be somewhere in a local army, and there are definitely large-scale footprints around.

Finally, at the border between the two feudal princes' territories, she spotted a group of armed militants! And they seemed able to control the elements of the upper realm.

The thief's heart is still not dead.

Suddenly, Wan Wujiang's voice sounded in their minds; dozens of people immediately looked around, and just as no one noticed Xiao Ning, he arrived at the Grand General's Mansion.

I've finally escaped—thank you, Empress. If I had transmigrated to the Anti-Japanese War era, this would be such a good outcome.

He panted heavily; if it weren't for Wan Wujiang secretly protecting him, he wouldn't be alive today.

Are you Xiao Ning?

Yes, this is the intelligence I obtained; please pass it to Your Majesty or the Empress. I don't seek to atone for my sister, but we really have no choice.

Xin'er nodded; nowadays, members of the Wan Family can enter the court directly, and no one dares to stop them.

Within a minute, she reached the imperial palace's main hall, saw her sister-in-law arrive, and Huang Yinglong, knowing it was absolutely important, said:

"Xin'er, what urgent matter do you have that makes you so anxious?"

"Your Majesty, this is the information gathered by the brother of that palace maid inside the former Great River Empire; his sister was targeted at that time."

When this information came out, Huang Yinglong couldn't stay seated; he personally took action and drew those documents into his hand.

But the first item was something he didn't even know: one's natal element can be altered by human intervention!

"Where is he now?"

"Right outside the hall."

"Hurry and let him in; I will appoint him Left General, make his sister the Empress's personal attendant, and for important matters he can directly report to the palace."

As he spoke, his gaze fell on the ministers below; fortunately, only a few doubted, the

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We ministers didn't know what that information was, but seeing the emperor's pupils dilate as he opened it, we knew it was absolutely top-secret.

"You beloved officials, speak freely; I can even let you know what the Left General has brought."

Under these circumstances, naturally no minister dares to question, after all that palace maid is already the Empress's person; what they have suffered is understandable, and to blame them would be to offend the emperor and Empress.

"This person is indeed the Empress's spy placed in the Great River; now he has fulfilled his mission and returned to my Summer Brilliance. You beloved officials look doubtful—who do you not trust? Summon the Left General into the hall."

Having said that, the ministers all stepped aside in unison; they had thought Xiao Ning would be a handsome young commander, but who would have thought the one entering was a frail scholar.

"Your humble servant Xiao Ning greets Your Majesty."

"I often hear the Empress speak of you, beloved official; I don't know what your natal element is."

"In reply to Your Majesty, my natal element is a kind of light. It is not only immensely powerful, but also enables my eyes to see through the enemy's disguises, even to perceive their premeditated plans."

Xiao Ning spoke calmly; the ministers who had doubted him because of his frail build were all shocked, never expecting this youth to possess such a formidable natal element.

"So formidable; I don't know what realm you, beloved official, have reached."

"Thanks to Your Majesty and the Empress, I have just recently entered the Dragon Origin Realm."

"Excellent, excellent; fetch that Star Origin Armor. From today onward, you are the Left General of the Summer Brilliance Kingdom, with authority to act first and report later, imperially sanctioned."

Before Xiao Ning could refuse, he found himself clad in a set of Stellar Armor, countless hues flashing within, like a sky full of stars.

"Meditate in your heart on the light you like."

A voice entered his ears, and the armor turned into a set of Silver Treasure Armor; he is indeed a talented youth, and this attire is most pleasing to the eye.

Huang Yinglong saw this and was overjoyed; he hurried down from the dragon throne and whispered a sentence to him, but Xiao Ning's body involuntarily shivered upon hearing it.

"I originally intended for you to escort Prince Lu to the south of the Great River, but the Empress said she would personally pave the way for Prince Lu. For these many days, the people of the Great River have not thought of post-disaster reconstruction, but instead all want to kill our people in droves—how brave of them."

I am increasingly suspecting that the people of the Great River are not from the Ten Thousand Yuan Continent; they are likely

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Since ancient times, the descendants of the transmigrators who arrived here have considered themselves extraordinary, and their natal elements are increasingly ferocious.

As for my Summer Brilliance Kingdom, the earth bears great virtue, the starry sky shines brilliantly, and stone and light are the kingdom's stabilizing elements; therefore, beloved official, even if you are far away over hundreds of thousands of li, you can return safely.

Everyone knows that the former emperor and the Grand General's natal elements were stone and light; now Huang Yinglong and Xiao Ning are the same, and the court ministers all understand that the emperor intends for Xiao Ning to become the next Grand General.

"Your Majesty flatters me."

"Where? I haven't even had time to greet him personally; thanks to the Empress preserving such talent, beloved official, are you still weary from returning? First go to the Grand General's Mansion to rest, Xin'er, take good care of the Left General."

"Yes."

Xiao Ning could see at a glance that Xin'er was the Empress's younger sister and the Grand General's second daughter; naturally he didn't dare, despite the emperor's recent favor, to say anything to her.

"Left General, you truly have extraordinary talent; I don't know what stage your natal element has reached."

"Because I have just reached the fourth realm, the Dragon Origin Realm, my natal element has not yet reached the fourth stage."

Xin'er nodded upon hearing that, then asked: "Left General, do you prefer Zhao Yun or Luo Cheng?"

That question frightened him quite a bit—how do people from another world even know that?

"Silver-armored spearmen—such a classic image—but we are not earthlings."

When Xin'er said 'we', she naturally meant herself and Huang Yinglong, since they had asked the same question.

"But why don't you think about why we speak Chinese here, and why you have a natal element?"

"Because we are not speaking Chinese; it's whatever you can understand, whatever you hear—that's what it is. As for why you have an element, it's because your whole body is made of elements."

That's such a hardcore explanation; Xiao Ning had never heard it before—so why is it light? Could it be E=mc²?

"That's just the rule of your universe; in our universe there is no earth."

This horrifying thought filled Xiao Ning's mind; I had thought that a person of ten thousand knew nothing about Earth, but I never expected they even know whether this universe has Earth.

I have a small question I'd like to ask the State Lady: Have you ever been to Earth?

Of course, and I've been a person twice.

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