Chapter 597: A Shocking Entrance

The entire scene fell silent.

Not a sound was heard.

Those countless pairs of eyes looked quietly at Liu Zheng, unable to help but gasp.

Yes.

He alone faced everyone's mockery. He alone faced everyone's disdain. He alone faced everyone's lack of faith.

Is this not the same as Xie Tianyao in the past?

Just a moment ago.

A million people mocked in unison.

Liu Zheng came to face them alone.

Now.

A million people are silent in unison.

Liu Zheng raises the sword in his hand.

Boom!

Everyone felt as if they had been struck by lightning! This scene was too shocking! That silver-white battle robe, that figure—not massive, yet sufficiently imposing—and the stern killing intent on Liu Zheng's face! That aura and confidence of "I shall go forward even if there are thousands of people"!

Instantly ignited everyone at the scene.

One person!

The scene of one person ignited everyone!

"My god!"

"This..."

"What is going on!"

The people at the scene were going crazy. Many felt their scalps tingle and their bodies tremble.

Xie Tianyao watched, his eyes actually moistening.

Was he not exactly like this back then?

Facing those political enemies, facing those princes, he relied solely on himself to carve out a bloody path and then ascend the throne. Whenever he thinks of it, it always makes his blood boil.

"Good!"

The nearly seventy-year-old Xie Tianyao could not help but shout "Good!"

A single word, "Good," seemed to pierce through the entire Jinghua.

Although this roar left him hoarse, it was still as resonant as a great bell, the majestic aura of a king pouring forth, causing the group of treacherous ministers and regional commanders beside him to tremble all over. They lowered their heads and said nothing.

"Good!"

The commoners watching along the street also shouted in unison.

The sound shook the heavens, lingering for a long time.

Resonant and powerful, the killing intent fully revealed!

The Longyan aura was displayed to the fullest at this moment.

Those barbarians were even more startled.

Who am I?

Where am I? What is happening here?

Tie Mucheng, who had already entered the Imperial Palace with a Grassland dance, had eyes shining at this moment. Is this Governor Liu? Is this the world-renowned Governor Liu? With his own strength, he can control the atmosphere of the scene, making these people shout with him, go hysterical with him, and go crazy with him?

Such a person...

Is very dangerous!

Gu Jin was also stunned at this moment.

She had imagined many versions of Governor Liu's program, but she never expected that he intended to perform himself... She had not thought that with just this, Governor Liu's acting skills would be so explosive. People seemed to see the shadow of Xie Tianyao in him, the shadow of Xie Tianyao in his youth, slaughtering in all directions.

Art?

Is this art?

The building of the atmosphere, or the control over the scene?

Not only was Gu Jin stunned.

Li Xuanya, who had just entered the Imperial City, was also stunned.

This master of art suddenly felt a bad premonition in her heart.

Suddenly, at this moment.

As Liu Zheng raised the long sword in his hand, the war drums sounded.

"A Martial Dance! He is going to perform a Martial Dance!"

Li Xuanya's expression suddenly changed drastically.

"What?"

"That's impossible, right?"

"He actually dares to..."

The people beside her heard this and their expressions changed drastically.

Martial Dance?

After Li Xuanya's guess, many others also realized it, and their expressions changed one after another.

What is a Martial Dance?

In ancient dance art, it is classified as follows. The main content of elegant dance is the "Six Great Dances" (Six Dynasties Dances), representing six dynasties. There is the Yellow Emperor's *Cloud Gate*, Emperor Yao's *Dazhang*, Emperor Shun's *Dashao*, Xia Yu's *Daxia*, Shang Tang's *Dahu*, and King Wu's *Dawu*.

The Six Great Dances are divided into two categories: "Civil" and "Martial." The first four dances belong to Civil Dance, and the latter two belong to "Martial Dance." Civil dances are performed holding the *Yue Di*, hence they are called Yue Di Dance. Martial dances are performed holding the *Gan Qi*, also known as Gan Qi Dance. Both types of dances are related to the means by which emperors obtained the world; as the saying goes, "Those who obtain the world through civil virtue perform Civil Dance, and those who obtain the world through martial merit perform Martial Dance."

Civil dance and martial dance are collectively known as Yalue. "Civil to manifest virtue," "martial to symbolize merit," they are used to express a nation's culture and military strength. Since then, it has been passed down through the generations; if a nation gained the world through yielding, it would perform civil dance first, and if it gained the world through conquest, it would perform martial dance first.

By the Qin Dynasty, the Yalue of the Zhou Dynasty only retained the "Shao" dance and the "Wu" dance.

After the Han and Wei dynasties, there were major reforms; whenever a dynasty changed, the music and dance were not inherited, but the spirit of the music and dance system established by the Zhou Dynasty remained consistent for a thousand years.

Later, when the Longyan Dynasty unified the world, before the Tang King, martial dance was the most prevalent, with civil dance coming second.

However, after the Tang King was torn apart by five horses, this generation of the Xie Clan exclusively honored civil dance and began to abandon martial dance. Because they believed that this could prevent other forces from seizing the world by force, or rather, they did not believe they would ever give anyone the opportunity to perform martial dance again. The thousands of years of the Longyan Dynasty's continuation should be based on a peaceful reign, with conquest as mere Assistance.

Since then, the literary style of Longyan has flourished greatly; although it appeared to be an era of peace and prosperity, the wind of extravagance also began to permeate Zhongyuan.

As time went on.

The Court Grand Dance of the Longyan Dynasty began to be a competition of beauty in civil dance.

Whether in the court or among the common people, the sounds of decadent music were everywhere.

Therefore...

At this moment, Prefect Liu actually chose to perform a martial dance!

This...

Is this not a grave act of disrespect?

The entire audience began to clamor.

Xie Tianyao's expression also darkened.

However, he remained immersed in the atmosphere that Prefect Liu had created.

War drums began to beat rhythmically and intensely.

The tense atmosphere of the battlefield struck instantly. People's hearts began to tremble along with it.

"Kill!"

Suddenly.

A woman's shout rang out.

Everyone looked toward the sound.

A woman in red military attire appeared on a war chariot; on the chariot, a massive war drum was placed before her.

Shen Manqing, who had tied her hair up with a ribbon, looked heroic and spirited at this moment. With two drumsticks in her hands, she struck the war drum before her beat by beat. Although she appeared frail and delicate, who could have imagined that the war drum she struck would be so magnificent and inspiring? Those dense and rhythmic drumbeats seemed to strike at people's hearts with every hit! Added to this, while she was striking the war drum, her graceful figure was still performing certain dance movements.

The red ribbons moved without wind.

It was dazzling to behold.

Fight!

The enemy is right before our eyes!

Fight!

The common people are fleeing!

Fight!

The ancestral temple is in danger!

Fight!

Everyone, listening to these war drums and watching Prefect Liu riding on horseback and raising his long sword, began to feel their blood boil.

Their scalps tingled!

Goosebumps broke out all over their bodies!

This was the feeling everyone had at this moment.

Martial dance!

This is the charm of martial dance! Liu Zheng and Shen Manqing had truly mastered the control of the atmosphere at the scene.

Finally.

The war chariot moved forward slowly.

It signified that a large-scale war was about to arrive.

And just at this moment.

A scene that was shocking and unforgettable for a lifetime appeared.

In the sky.

White snowflakes began to drift down.