[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-if-you-will-not-reject-me-i-wish-to-bow-and-take":3,"chapter-if-you-will-not-reject-me-i-wish-to-bow-and-take-if-you-will-not-reject-me-i-wish-to-bow-and-take-chapter-4":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","If You Will Not Reject Me, I Wish to Bow and Take You as My Adoptive Father",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2276731,4454,"Chapter 4: Chapter Four: The Immortal","if-you-will-not-reject-me-i-wish-to-bow-and-take-chapter-4",4,"\u003Cp>“I don’t care about old Sand Barbarians or young Sand Barbarians—I want Sand Yu only, and I want her fast and alive!” General Guan growled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bearded man leaned close to the Pig-Eye Knight and whispered, “Brother Changqing, let’s gather all the remaining Sand Barbarians. They must know Sand Yu.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Song Changqing nodded slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He and the bearded man led over a hundred knights, driving forward a group of Sand Barbarians—some weeping, some moaning in agony.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Where is Sand Yu? Who has seen her?” the bearded man shouted loudly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Master Tang and his disciples walked from Tang to the Liusha River, then to the Tongtian River, finally reaching Lingshan—yet they never brought a translator, revealing how widespread the “official speech” of the Central Kingdom was across the Four Continents.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Western Sand Barbarians merely had an odd accent; they never invented a “foreign barbarian tongue” and could communicate normally with the Shu people to the south.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing the black-armored knight’s demand, some pragmatic “Sand Barbarian elites” furrowed their brows in thought, exchanging glances with one another.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a long while, as General Guan and the others grew impatient, an elderly woman with gray hair and wrinkled, chicken-skin face raised her trembling hand and hesitantly asked, “Sand Yu... who is that? I’ve never heard of her.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bearded man glared and snapped, “If the emissary of the Central Kingdom named her, ‘Sand Yu’ can’t be some nobody—how could you possibly not have heard of her?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One cavalryman laughed and said, “Brother Zhu, we Shu people can call her ‘Sand Yu,’ but the Sand Barbarians themselves won’t call themselves ‘barbarians.’”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sand Yu must be famous in the dunes, but her name there certainly isn’t ‘Sand Yu.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hmm, according to their customs, they take the Liusha River as their surname—Sand Yu might be ‘Sha Yu.’”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He turned to the old woman and asked, “Do you know the Sand Chief, the rebel who dares call himself ‘King of the Dunes’?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old woman’s chicken-skin face twisted strangely, and she grumbled, “The King of the Dunes is my son—I am the Empress Dowager of the Dune Kingdom... Sha Zhen.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You’re the Empress Dowager?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Old Zhu sized her up—her body was filthy and disheveled, worse than the female beggars of Tianmen Town.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even the female beggars of Tianmen Town, though unable to afford silk, wore at least hemp garments.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This old woman was wrapped in tattered animal hides... hmm, the hides seemed torn apart, now haphazardly draped over her...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Old Zhu’s bearded face contorted in confusion as he glanced around at the cavalrymen with disbelief: Who, in heaven’s name, was so starving?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If the King of the Dunes is your son, you must know his daughter—Sand Yu is his daughter...” Song Changqing paused, hesitating, “Or do you call her ‘Princess Yu’?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ah, you mean Yu Ya Tou.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Oh, so that’s the ‘Jia Nao Feng.’”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All the Sand Barbarians suddenly looked enlightened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Indeed, “Sand Yu” was famous throughout the dunes—everyone knew her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some affectionately called her “Yu Ya Tou”; others blurted out “Jia Nao Feng.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What ‘Princess Yu’? That Jia Nao Feng isn’t my granddaughter—she’s a bastard with a father but no mother.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What do your lords want with her? She’s never left the dunes—how could the emissary of the Central Kingdom even know her?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When speaking of “Sand Yu,” the old Empress Dowager’s face twisted with disdain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Don’t ask questions—now it’s our lords asking you,” Old Zhu barked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old woman bowed meekly and fell silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Why ‘Jia Nao Feng’?” General Guan frowned. “Old barbarian woman, the Sand Yu we seek is the King of the Dunes’s daughter—Princess Yu.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If ‘Yu Ya Tou’ isn’t your granddaughter, and she’s a madwoman, then she’s not who we’re looking for.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Among your other granddaughters, does any have ‘Yu’ in her name?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A bare-chested Sand Barbarian, clad only in a leopard-skin skirt, prostrated himself before General Guan, bowing his head three times hard on the ground before respectfully saying, “My lord, Xiao Yu must be the ‘Princess Yu’ you seek.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the past, peers called her ‘Xiao Yu,’ elders called her ‘Yu Ya Tou.’”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Because she was the strangest person in the dunes—always speaking odd words and doing inexplicable things—many called her ‘Jia Nao Feng.’... She gave herself many names, but none bore the surname ‘Sha.’”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Our Sand Barbarians never had surnames—until outsiders, who all had surnames, began calling us by surname, so we all took ‘Sha’ as our surname.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But Yu Ya Tou was different—she always used ‘Yu’ as her surname.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Once, she secretly ambushed and shot dead the ‘Iron-Mouthed Golden-Winged Eagle’ that had devoured over a hundred Sand Dune warriors, making us call her ‘Yu Shen Yi.’”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“A few days later, she declared herself ‘Yu Wen Dao,’ then ‘Yu Hua Xian,’ saying she would leave to seek immortality and the Dao.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Everyone thought she truly was a Jia Nao Feng and ignored her—still calling her ‘Yu Ya Tou,’ though more and more called her ‘Jia Nao Feng.’”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“As for the King of the Dunes—he never had a biological daughter.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Last year, Yu Ya Tou presented him with a ‘Dragon-Slaying Treasure Blade,’ saying, ‘Chief, you have no daughter. I’ve been orphaned since childhood, fatherless and motherless. If you don’t mind, I wish to care for you in your old age.’”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The Chief was delighted and adopted her as his daughter.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Last year, when the Chief became King of the Dunes, Yu Ya Tou gloated and ordered us to call her ‘Princess Yu’... My lord, it was the Lu people who forced the Chief to declare himself king—we borderland barbarians have no courage to found a kingdom and proclaim ourselves kings.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Please, my lord, understand!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Please, my lord, have mercy and spare us!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We slaves vow to serve Great Shu forever as vassals, your generals’ hounds and horses.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Every year, we will offer our finest young female slaves, gold, silver, and furs—without fail.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he spoke, he kept bowing his head repeatedly, weeping and pleading as he did so.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>None of the other barbarians showed defiance—they were numb, vacant, or followed without hesitation, bowing and begging... In truth, the Sand Barbarians had always worshipped strength; they had no concept of morality, dignity, or backbone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To say they feared power but cherished no virtue was utterly accurate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Shut up!” General Guan roared coldly. “I want Sand Yu only! Say another word, and I’ll burn you all.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hee-hee~~~” The Red Smoke Steed sneezed, spitting two thin streams of fire from its nostrils.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its eyes, like flowing lava, swept back and forth over the Sand Barbarians.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fire snakes didn’t burn anyone—only circled a few times above their heads, making the old barbarian tremble and the Empress Dowager gasp in fear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yu Ya Tou isn’t in the dunes. She isn’t here.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If she isn’t here, where is she?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Empress Dowager’s face showed hesitation—then, seeing the Red Smoke Steed open its mouth as if to breathe fire again, she rushed out quickly: “Half a month ago, Sha Long and Sha Gui returned and told us the Central Kingdom had annihilated the Lu Kingdom. Yu Ya Tou immediately changed color, shouting, ‘The dunes can’t be lived in—we must move north immediately!’...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As she spoke, she raised her old eyes, glancing at the iron-armored cavalry around her, then at the desert land burning like a hellfire, her chicken-skin face betraying regret.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If only we had...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She suppressed her chaotic emotions and continued rapidly: “Yu Ya Tou said we must leave the dunes because the Thirty-Six Kingdoms Alliance was defeated—and because the Qin iron cavalry’s methods are horrifyingly brutal.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Lu once called itself the ‘Western Little Central Kingdom’—yet tens of thousands were slaughtered.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“To the Central Kingdom, we Sand Barbarians are surely less than beasts.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If we’re noticed, if we’re hated, our fate will be a thousand times worse than Lu’s.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“All this was said by Yu Ya Tou.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Several cavalry commanders exchanged glances, each seeing astonishment on the others’ faces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This Sand Yu is no ordinary person—no wonder the Central Kingdom’s emissary specifically ordered her captured,” muttered Old Zhu, the bearded man.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Empress Dowager didn’t pause: “Yu Ya Tou also said we Sand Barbarians have an advantage—we’re too weak, too barbaric, not worth the Qin iron cavalry’s direct attention.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“As long as we move north a few hundred or even a thousand li, Shu’s—”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Empress Dowager hesitated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That day, Xiao Yu had said, “the wine-sacks and rice-bags of Southern Shu.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But how could she say that to these “iron-armored devils”?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alas, though clever and right about today’s calamity, she still lacked vision—she thought Shu couldn’t defeat the Thirty-Six Kingdoms Alliance, that they were nothing but wine-sacks and rice-bags, mere clay dogs and paper tigers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She ought to have seen the true might of the “iron-armored devils.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“She said Shu’s lords surely wouldn’t waste time in the northern wastelands over a tiny tribe like ours.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You didn’t leave—so did she leave alone? Or with some who chose to go?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>General Guan had barely finished speaking when he shook his head, muttering to himself, “If Sand Yu had already left the dunes, Qingsong the young Daoist wouldn’t have sent me here.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My lord is wise!” The Empress Dowager offered a fawning smile. “The dunes are left only with the old, weak, and infirm—they can’t move, and they dare not.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Northward lies only wild, desolate land—who knows how many mountain spirits, wild beasts, wolves, tigers, and leopards lurk there?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Without tribal warriors to protect them, the old, crippled, and sick who go there are just meat for the wolves.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yu Ya Tou understands this.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“She couldn’t persuade us to leave, and she dared not leave alone.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hmm, she didn’t leave the dunes—but moved her tent to a cave seven or eight li north of the dunes.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this, the Empress Dowager froze, then slapped her palm and cursed: “What a heartless beast! What a cunning bastard! Now I finally understand—whether it’s the iron cavalry of the Central Kingdom or the generals of Great Shu, they’ll come to our dunes from the south!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“She hid in the northern cave, forcing us to stand in front as bait—large numbers, drawing all attention!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If the dunes change, that little beast can spot it immediately and slip away calmly.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Such a perfect plan—and she didn’t even invite this Empress Dowager! I’m furious!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“General, hurry and seize her! Don’t let her escape!!!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her final cry was shrill, her aged face twisted in rage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Swoosh~~~” General Guan raised his right hand, flicked his wrist lightly—and the “Snake Flame Whip” that had struck the Pig-Eye Knight earlier flew out of his sleeve again, like a venomous dragon, coiling once around the old barbarian woman’s neck, then pulling gently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like pulling a radish from the earth, her head tore free from her neck and soared high into the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Plop~~” Several seconds later, the Empress Dowager’s head rolled to the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her snarling expression froze on her face, slowly replaced by confusion and fear... then half of it vanished as she died completely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All the Sand Barbarians fell silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Pah!” Old Zhu spat on the ground. “What kind of trash? A lowly barbarian woman dares shout at the general? Does she think she’s really an Empress Dowager?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having beheaded the Empress Dowager with one whip, General Guan seemed slightly calmer, speaking coolly: “Where is the cave where Sand Yu resides?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My lord, this servant will guide you.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My lord, I know where the cave is—this way, please.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My lord, I know the terrain—I volunteer to help you capture Sha Man Yu!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Old Sha Man spoke first, then a crowd of Sha Man surged forward, eagerly volunteering to guide the way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>General Guan raised his right hand and lifted his faceplate with elegant grace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His skin was pale and smooth, his face square and dignified, his forehead full and broad, his nose like a hanging gourd, his mouth wide and ears large, his five willow-like beard flowing gracefully to his chest—his aura radiated heroic righteousness and refined vigor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His eyes were especially captivating: crystal-clear, like a spring of pure water; filled with brilliant light, as if celestial stars had been placed within his sockets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While the Pig-Eye Knight wore his faceplate to hide his ugliness, General Guan made one wonder if he concealed beauty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Pig-Eye Knight hid his flaws; General Guan made people suspect he hid perfection.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some Sha Man women stared, transfixed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even the male Sha Man could not help but feel awe: \"Truly a celestial being—no wonder he is a mighty general of the Celestial Realm.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Just point in the general direction—it’s impossible for anyone to escape my Immortal Eyes,\" General Guan said calmly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Sha Man did not understand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All the iron-armored knights wore expressions of understanding and relief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don’t stand there dazed—General Guan possesses the Eyes of an Immortal: upward, he can peer into the Heavenly Court; downward, he can see through the Nine Nether Realms; within a thousand li, all details are as clear as the lines on one’s palm,\" Knight Old Zhu shouted to the Sha Man.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other black-armored knights echoed their praise in unison, yet their expressions and demeanor were utterly sincere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They truly believed in General Guan’s Immortal Eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only Pig-Eye Knight Song Changqing stared intently at General Guan’s “Immortal Eyes” for a long while, his body trembling slightly, his breath ragged, before finally lowering his head—yet his fists remained clenched tightly, even as drops of blood seeped from between his fingers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He gripped so hard his nails pierced his palms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Whoosh!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>General Guan slightly widened his eyes, and a golden light, as thick as a bowl’s rim, shot forth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The golden light stretched three zhang long, sweeping back and forth through the dune forest as General Guan turned his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As it swept, it emitted a faint humming sound, like a lightsaber wielded by a Jedi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All present covered their eyes and shrank back, unable to bear the gaze of the golden light.\u003C\u002Fp>",2329,"2026-06-20T00:29:13.334Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","8078e45229e4399184743c45b048f11db29f45bb1f2dad2cf7b4790354261ca4","if-you-will-not-reject-me-i-wish-to-bow-and-take-chapter-5","if-you-will-not-reject-me-i-wish-to-bow-and-take-chapter-3",840,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fif-you-will-not-reject-me-i-wish-to-bow-and-take-cover.jpg"]