Chapter 1582: What Has Happened to This World?

At this moment, inside Tianmen Pass City!

Xuan Yuan Wanrong was reviewing recent volumes, but after only a short while, she suddenly set the scroll in her hand aside.

"Strange... why do I always feel restless and troubled?"

Xuan Yuan Wanrong frowned slightly; an indistinct sense of unease lingered in her heart, making it hard to concentrate.

After a moment, she still put away the volumes and went directly to Xu Que's room door.

Seeing the Queen had arrived, several soldiers hurriedly bowed: "We pay our respects to Your Majesty the Queen."

Xuan Yuan Wanrong raised her hand, signaling them to rise, and asked, "Has His Majesty come out?"

A soldier replied respectfully, "Reporting to Your Majesty the Queen, His Majesty has never left the room."

Xuan Yuan Wanrong's heart settled slightly, and she was about to leave when she suddenly heard a soldier hesitantly add, "But... Adult Gong came to see His Majesty."

"Adult Gong? Gong Qiwei?"

That ominous premonition in Xuan Yuan Wanrong's heart instantly magnified.

Bang!

She pushed the door open directly.

The furnishings in the room were untouched; a man in white robes lay on the bed with his back to the door, trembling.

Xuan Yuan Wanrong quickly walked to the bedside, turned the person over, and her face immediately turned extremely ugly.

The one lying on the bed was not Xu Que at all, but Gong Qiwei, his face bruised and swollen!

"This... how could this happen?" The soldiers were instantly stunned.

They had clearly watched Adult Gong leave; how could it be Adult Gong lying here instead?

"Uh... Your... Your Majesty the Queen?"

Gong Qiwei's face was full of bitterness; immediately, he sprang up from the bed, not even daring to step onto the floor, and knelt directly, shouting loudly, "Your Majesty the Queen, spare my crime! This subject deserves to die ten thousand times!"

Xuan Yuan Wanrong took a deep breath and said coldly, "How are you here? Where is Xu Que?"

Gong Qiwei's body trembled, and he bowed his head even lower: "Reporting to Your Majesty the Queen, His Majesty, His Majesty he... should have gone to the battlefield."

Gone to the battlefield?

Xuan Yuan Wanrong immediately recalled what Xu Que had said before.

To personally lead the troops and cut off the King of Qin's head to use as a chamber pot.

Never did she expect that this lad had still racked his brains to sneak out.

Xuan Yuan Wanrong's face was as dark as ink; she turned and walked quickly out of the room.

"Gong Qiwei, transmit the order: command the rear army to stop resting and accelerate their march to Tianmen Pass!"

Gong Qiwei froze for a moment, then chased after her, shouting loudly, "Your Majesty the Queen, where are you going?"

"I'm going to see if that bastard is dead yet!"

As soon as her words fell, Xuan Yuan Wanrong's figure had already hurriedly vanished into the distance.

At this moment, on the Frontline Battlefield.

The myriad officers and soldiers standing on the City Wall did not react at first.

It was not until Hu Zhengtang cried out in shock that everyone went dumbfounded.

"What's the situation? How could His Majesty be outside the city?"

"No, where did those soldiers behind him come from? Aren't the troops brought from the Imperial City still on the road?"

"That's the logistics convoy! It's the logistics one; how did His Majesty bring them out?"

"Is that the damn point? The point is His Majesty, His Majesty! His Majesty has never even killed a chicken; isn't leading troops out to battle now just sending himself to death?"

Hu Zhengtang slapped the Deputy General on the head and rushed frantically toward the area below the city wall: "You're all damn idiots! Hurry and open the city gate to go out and save people!"

The myriad officers and soldiers immediately reacted, hurriedly following closely behind him as they ran down below the city wall, their hearts filled with bitter complaints.

Your Majesty, oh Your Majesty, saying you are on a Personal Expedition is one thing, but couldn't you just stay properly inside Tianmen Pass City?

Must you insist on leading troops out to fight; is this something an Emperor should be doing?!

The key point is that the opposite side has over Number Thirty myriad people, while His Majesty's side has only three thousand troops!

Even a fierce general capable of campaigning and skilled in battle would not do such a thing!

Dragging three thousand troops to charge into an army formation of Number Thirty myriad people; has his brain broken?!

Just as everyone hurriedly rushed toward the foot of the city wall, Xu Que, at this time, had already led the troops behind him and charged into the space between the two armies.

The Qin Soldiers standing in the very center of the battlefield, because the distance was too far, could not hear the voices of Hu Zhengtang and the others.

However, seeing that someone actually dared to charge out, the Qin Soldiers' eyes instantly lit up with great joy: "Haha! Brothers, the Cowards of Eastern Tang have finally come out; follow me up!"

The Qin Soldiers who had originally been awaiting orders all mounted their horses one after another.

Swish!

Hundreds of thousands of troops drew their Long Blades, pointing them directly at Xu Que!

Killing Intent surged to the sky!

This was the army of Great Qin that had swept across the Nine Provinces; with hundreds of thousands drawing their blades in unison, just that momentum was enough to make people's hearts tremble with fear.

In the distance, Hu Zhengtang and the others, who had just run to the city gate, saw this and hurriedly gathered the garrison troops, mounting horses and charging over.

"Quick, quick, quick! We cannot let His Majesty come to harm!"

"Bastard, where is my horse? Hurry and bring it over!"

"Move faster!"

Feeling the solemn and deadly qi coming straight at him, Xu Que's heart instead grew increasingly excited, and he roared loudly, "Brothers, charge with me!"

Three thousand Soldiers shouted in unison: "Kill!"

Unexpectedly, however, Xu Que suddenly squeezed his horse's flanks, his speed increasing sharply as he broke directly away from the formation and charged forward.

The clamoring Qin Soldiers paused in shock, then burst into wild laughter as they drew their Long Blades, roaring: "Kid, you've got guts! Remember your Grandpa's name; the one killing you today is Pan Meng, a great General of the Qin Kingdom!"

The voice echoed in all directions.

"Pan Meng?"

Hearing this, Hu Zhengtang's Deputy General cried out in alarm, "He is the Pan Meng rumored to be known as the Butcher! I heard that in previous campaigns, this lad wielded a single Long Blade to forge a reputation for slaughtering countless enemies!"

The generals following behind instantly turned ashen.

"Heavens, I heard this lad uses cruel methods; doesn't he chop opponents without killing them in one strike?"

"Exactly! This lad cripples his opponents first, then subjects them to all manner of torment!"

"Most terrifying of all, this lad is a rare Second-Rank Expert within the military Array, his single Long Blade sweeping away all before it!"

"It's over, it's over; before the military formation, perhaps only a Quasi-First-Rank expert could fight him."

"Does our Emperor possess a Quasi-First-Rank realm?"

"Uh... hard to say; probably not, we've never heard of the Emperor practicing martial arts..."

Hu Zhengtang cursed loudly: "Damn it! You still have the mood to discuss this? Hurry up and charge for me! If anything happens to Your Majesty, I'll skin you all alive!"

Just then, Xu Que had already charged to stand before Pan Meng.

"Kid, accept death!" Pan Meng grinned ferociously as he brandished his Long Blade, his tall figure resembling a Demon God.

Xu Que neither dodged nor yielded, charging straight toward the blade's edge.

Seeing this scene from afar, Hu Zhengtang roared in fury until his eyes nearly split: "Stop!"

At that moment, Xu Que suddenly drew his blade; the blade light flashed like a white silk ribbon as he slashed down fiercely.

Clang!

Pan Meng's Long Blade snapped in response!

"What?"

Pan Meng stared at his broken blade in Disbelief; before he could react, he felt only a sudden chill at his neck.

His final memory remained fixed on the image of his own headless corpse collapsing.

I actually... lost?

Xu Que withdrew his Long Blade, didn't even glance at the corpse, and casually spat.

"Is this lad an idiot? Doesn't he know to yield to a horse? Seeing Me arrive, why didn't he get out of the way?"

Behind him, the hundreds of thousands of Eastern Tang troops stood dumbfounded.

Holy crap!

His Majesty the Emperor actually beheaded an enemy general with a single slash?

Is this still that Emperor of theirs who couldn't even tie up a chicken?

What has happened to this world?