Chapter 319: The King of Miefa Kingdom: Who am I? Where am I? What happened?

Once Sun Wukong returned from seeing the monks off, and once Yang Jian brought down the treasures given as compensation by the Jade Emperor, their group was ready to continue their journey.

The Golden-Nosed White-Haired Rat was reluctant to let Tang An leave and wanted to follow along to fetch the scriptures, even if it meant being a pet.

But Tang An explicitly refused, telling the Golden-Nosed White-Haired Rat that if she wanted to carve out a career of her own, she could join the Jie Sect, cultivate diligently, and improve her strength to await an opportunity to ride the wind.

"Three tribulations, completed."

Tang An looked at the Journey to the West Calamity Book with satisfaction and recorded the three tribulations on it.

"Next, it's time for the Miefa Kingdom."

"It's a good thing those few monks weren't monks from the Miefa Kingdom, otherwise, they would have already been reincarnated by the time they reached the Miefa Kingdom."

As she spoke, Tang An opened the map. "It seems there aren't many countries left for me to conquer for the Great Tang; aside from the Miefa Kingdom right in front of us, it seems only the Tianzhu Kingdom remains."

Hearing this, Sun Wukong was so happy he slapped his thighs.

"Master, oh Master, once we reach the Tianzhu Kingdom, we will already be at the foot of Lingshan. The scriptures will have all been fetched, so where else do you want to conquer?"

Tang An straightened her back. "You don't understand, Wukong. As a descendant of Huaxia, especially one who has transmigrated, there is basically an obsession with expanding territory and unifying all nations."

"If I had transmigrated to the Qin Dynasty, I definitely would have given that charming ancestor a Ginseng Fruit, and then none of that messy business afterward would have happened."

"This entire world would belong to our Great Huaxia!"

Yang Jian shook his head with a smile. "It is truly a pity that Master is not a queen."

"What's a pity about that?" Tang An didn't care. "I only enjoy the sense of honor and pride that comes from expanding territory for our vast Huaxia."

"But if you were to make me the Female Emperor, I wouldn't have the ability or the leisure to guard the world."

"After all, it is easy to conquer a country but hard to hold it; I only enjoy the joy of conquering cities and seizing land."

"The pain and trouble of governing the world are better left to my noble father."

"Besides, although I am not the Female Emperor, with my achievements, wherever I go in the future, my noble father will have to back me up. A Princess of the Great Tang cannot be bullied by others."

Nezha watched Tang An gesticulating and talking eloquently, the corners of his mouth lifting involuntarily, his eyes filled with nothing but tenderness.

Perhaps only when facing Tang An could he, the God of Slaughter, appear this way, without a trace of killing intent.

"By the way, Wukong," Tang An remembered again, "After passing the Miefa Kingdom, we should encounter the Leopard Demon."

"When the time comes, I will make you a trendy leopard-print outfit; I guarantee you'll be satisfied."

"If you aren't satisfied, we'll just remove the 'un' from 'unsatisfied', and then only 'satisfied' will remain."

Sun Wukong didn't care whether what Tang An made looked good or not, but as long as it was made by her, he was happy and satisfied.

What if he really couldn't wear it out?

No problem, he would just wear it on the road to fetch the scriptures. Wearing it in front of the family was fine anyway.

As for any demons who dared to stare at him and taunt him, he would just beat them to death with his staff. That way, no one, no demon, would say the clothes Tang An made didn't look good.

Miefa Kingdom, Capital City

When Tang An's group arrived here, they saw many monks on the road covering their bald heads, fleeing in a sorry state.

Sun Wukong stopped a monk wearing a hat and inquired about the situation.

Only then did they learn that the King of the Miefa Kingdom had made a Luo Tian Great Vow to kill ten thousand monks to achieve full Merit.

As for why the King wanted to kill so many monks, it was said that a monk had once used the pretext of worshipping Buddha to defile the innocence of the King's beloved concubine and had then fled the country.

In a fit of rage, the King decided to kill ten thousand monks and had people search everywhere for the whereabouts of that monk.

"So that's how it is." Tang An turned back to look. "Could it be that among the monks in that temple, one of them is the person who dared to lay a hand on the Miefa Kingdom's King's beloved concubine?"

It was a good thing she hadn't let her noble father kill everyone, otherwise, this matter would have been truly difficult to discuss.

"How many have been killed so far?"

"Nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-six, four more to go," Sun Wukong replied.

"Four?" Tang An pondered for a moment and said, "This matches the original story, but the four of us aren't monks either; even if we let him kill us, he wouldn't be able to achieve full Merit."

"Hey, do you think it's possible that among the four monks who died, one of them was that bold, lecherous monk?"

"What should we do? Should we drag them back and whip their corpses in front of the King again?"

"Hey, Nezha, where are you going?"

Nezha was puzzled. "Didn't you say to drag them back?"

"Uh... it wouldn't be too late to drag them back after we verify it." Tang An quickly jumped off Jiuyue's back and pulled Nezha back.

"Let's go. This Miefa Kingdom can only count as one tribulation; we don't even count as monks, and if we're careless, we won't even be able to make up one tribulation. We must finish this quickly, let's go."

Just like that, Tang An's group arrived at the royal city of the Miefa Kingdom.

Without staying overnight or resting, they went straight outside the royal palace.

Oh no, it was outside the main hall of the royal palace.

Which meant they had bypassed any notification or procedure and had fought their way right to the front door.

"Someone, there are assassins~"

"Assassins your grandfather."

Tang An rode Jiuyue straight into the hall, then got off Jiuyue's back. She walked to the King's desk, opened the Passage Document, and stamped it with the King's Seal.

This was truly playing a speedrun.

The King was completely bewildered. Who were they? What were they doing? What was that seal just now?

"Are you afraid of pain?"

"Ah?"

The King didn't even have time to call for guards to protect him before Tang An took a small knife and made a small cut on his left arm.

Then she took the King's thumb, dipped it in some blood, and pressed it onto the Surrender Document.

Everything proceeded in one go, smooth as flowing water.

The Surrender Document was signed, and the King still hadn't recovered, not knowing what Tang An wanted to do.

It was mainly because she was too presumptuous, too sudden, too fast, and too overbearing.

The King had simply accepted everything passively, and even without knowing it, had surrendered his entire country along with it.

"Who exactly are you?"

"I do not change my name when I walk or my surname when I sit; I am the Princess of Great Tang, Tang An."

"Why have you come to my Miefa Kingdom?"

"Traveling west to Lingshan to retrieve scriptures, and looking for you to stamp the Passage Document."

"But what did you have this King stamp?"

"The Surrender Document, of course."

The expression on the King of Miefa Kingdom was one giant question mark.

He even asked again in disbelief, "What?"

"The Surrender Document, of course."

"Absurd!" the King roared in fury, "Someone, come here!"

"That's enough; the people have long been controlled by me, they cannot come."

"Are you demons? But I am the ruler of a nation, protected by national fortune; how could you succeed so easily?"

Tang An sighed, "Do you want to listen to the question properly? I am the Princess of Great Tang, Tang An."

"You have national fortune upon you, so immortals and demons cannot get near you. But this Princess is neither an immortal nor a demon."

"When it comes to national fortune, you are far weaker than my Great Tang."

"So it is perfectly normal that I can harm you."

"However, I will not kill you; on the contrary, I quite appreciate your attitude toward Buddhism."

The King's chest heaved, and he even felt dazed, as if he were dreaming.

"Is this how you appreciate? Appreciating to the point that you made this King unknowingly sign a Surrender Document?"

"Uh... don't worry about so many details." Tang An also felt that what she had done was a bit immoral.

But then again, she had always been unscrupulous; when had she ever done anything moral?