[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-monarch-night":3,"chapter-monarch-night-monarch-night-chapter-45":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Monarch Night",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},932095,1222,"Chapter 45 - 11: Bad News, Establishing the Nation, The Grand Competition","monarch-night-chapter-45",45,"\u003Cp>Lost!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At a certain moment, almost no one spoke upon hearing this news.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Countless people were shocked by the message, not knowing what to say.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sword against spear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this world, it has special significance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was the battle of the truly peak figures.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A sword and a spear, one ranked first in the world, the other second.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Topping the Cloud Weapon List.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In their battle, what they were actually fighting over was the position of number one in the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But there was another deeper reason, which was... the sword belonged to the Guardian Alliance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the spear belonged to the Wei Wo Zheng Sect!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For countless years, the sword had always suppressed the spear, which was also where all the confidence of the righteous martial artists on the continent came from.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now, the sword lost a move.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This news was like the sky falling!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Number one on the Cloud Weapon List, Emotion Cutting Saber.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Within the dream’s earthly dust, outside the blade cuts emotion, severing ties without carefree wander; Who suffers amid the tears in the wind, at the cloud’s peak the heartless snow caresses the flute.\"—Emotion Cutting Saber, Xue Fuxiao.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Number two on the Cloud Weapon List, White Bone Shattering Dream Spear!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Lonely boat on the blood sea, White Bone Spear cuts through the bleak wind and bitter rain, ending the remnants of sunlight; Piercing the earthly dreams of thousands, shattered on the spear’s tip a fragrant petal.\"—Sui Meng Spear, Duan Xiyang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is said that this time, Duan Xiyang of the White Bone Spear initiated the challenge at Ziyue Peak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xue Fuxiao refused to accept the battle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So Duan Xiyang suddenly took action, slaughtering three border cities within three days, killing over two million civilians!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Xue Fuxiao, each day you do not fight, I will slaughter a city!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Enraged, Xue Fuxiao met the challenge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The terms of their duel were set: if Duan Xiyang won, then the Wei Wo Zheng Sect would establish its nation, and the Guardians would not interfere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If Xue Fuxiao won, the Wei Wo Zheng Sect would lie dormant for five hundred years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For five hundred years, they could only operate in secret, holding no sacrifices, not slaughtering civilians, and not engaging in terrorism on the continent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This agreement left Xue Fuxiao with no way out!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Wei Wo Zheng Sect had plotted to establish its nation countless times, infiltrating various countries across the continent, and had even established an army early on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But every time, they were crushed by the Guardian Alliance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Emotion Cutting Saber Xue Fuxiao stood high atop the Cloud Weapon List, overlooking the world and suppressing all dissenters!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Including Duan Xiyang of the White Bone Spear!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Four hundred years ago, Wei Wo Zheng Sect plotted to establish a nation, overturning the Dayong Dynasty; but the Guardian Alliance was prepared, marshalling countless experts to disintegrate their nation-building scheme.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And in turn, they established the Great Zhao Dynasty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Continuing the fate of the Dayong Dynasty into the Great Zhao.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The three great empires, nine great dynasties of the continent, all belonged to the Guardian Alliance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though the Wei Wo Zheng Sect was mighty, it was never recognized as legitimate by the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without the suppression of a nation’s destiny, they remained disparate—only another ruling power could fight for sovereign rule.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without a ruling power, no matter how strong, you are just bandits!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That’s the logic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So what Wei Wo Zheng Sect lacked was exactly this: legitimacy!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For so many years, they fought desperately for this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, this time, they found the opportunity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xue Fuxiao faced Duan Xiyang at Ziyue Mountain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two fought for a day and a night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xue Fuxiao was alarmed to find that Duan Xiyang was now beyond the man he had once suppressed for numerous years; his old rival’s strength had now surpassed his own!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, with every encounter over the years, Xue Fuxiao felt Duan Xiyang had caught up greatly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each time, he made progress.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Until eighty years ago, Xue Fuxiao’s victory was very much by luck.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was why he refused to fight: without fighting, he remained number one in the world. This way, the mountain in the hearts of the countless martial artists would not crumble!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their faith would not collapse!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Duan Xiyang’s relentless city slaughter left Xue Fuxiao with no choice but to fight!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the battle, unsurprisingly,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though Xue Fuxiao used all his strength until the end, he still lost a move!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The White Bone Shattering Dream Spear pierced through his shoulder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xue Fuxiao sighed deeply, feeling the pain of the White Bone Spear piercing his body, yet it was nowhere near as painful as his heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because he knew, from this day forward, the sky had fallen!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Duan Xiyang slowly withdrew the spear and said indifferently, \"You’ve lost. I’ll repay the first time I spared you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xue Fuxiao gave a bitter smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Before, it wasn’t that I didn’t kill you out of mercy, it was that I had concerns. You owe me nothing.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Debt is debt,\" Duan Xiyang turned to leave. \"Sooner or later, you will die by my spear because we can use methods that you cannot. And you never will!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xue Fuxiao, \"If I acted as you do, wouldn’t I become one and the same? What then would be the point of our strife?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Duan Xiyang’s light laughter echoed from a distance, \"Fair point.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xue Fuxiao’s defeat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The world was shaken!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first place on the Cloud Weapon List changed names.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From now on, the Cloud Weapon List, White Bone Shattering Dream Spear. Number one!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suppressing the world!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Fourth Day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under the Wei Wo Zheng Sect, thirty-six sects, along with countless organizations, across the continent, simultaneously made sacrifices to heaven, to gods.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To the Celestial Worm God!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On this day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>July 27.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Became known as the Bloody Day of the continent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because nineteen large cities, each with a population exceeding ten million, faced atrocious massacres!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Belonging to different countries, different dynasties.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A thousand elderly couples, a thousand middle-aged couples, a thousand young couples, a thousand pairs of boys and girls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was the same in every city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eight thousand people knelt before the hidden idol of the Celestial Worm God, their throats cut.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Letting their blood flow freely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A river of blood spread for dozens of miles.\u003C\u002Fp>",1058,"2026-06-03T06:53:06.048Z","2026-06-03T06:53:12.633Z",1,"novelbin.me","f8c6590bcdbe3a26da94ec1ee2b977a59e3b7ff5ad7f72efeb8a83d4dc337e90","monarch-night-chapter-46","monarch-night-chapter-44",1290,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fmonarch-night-cover.jpg"]