Chapter 860

"Why don't you just kill me?"

Shangguan Wan looked at Wu Zhao holding the jade ring, a smile on her face, looking as though she had gotten her way, and could not help but ask in fury.

From the moment Wu Zhao appeared, to defeating Sun En in just a few moves.

Every attack was almost accompanied by these ripples.

Even a master of Sun En's caliber, a Heaven's Dao Golden List–level expert, was utterly exhausted when facing the waves Wu Zhao unleashed, even after bringing out the Huang Tian divine weapon.

Shangguan Wan was now in a heavily wounded body, and her cultivation was ordinary to begin with.

A single ripple, yet it did not take her life.

All of this was clearly the result of Wu Zhao showing mercy.

"If I wish to kill, I kill; if I wish not to kill, I don't. Why on earth so many questions!"

Wu Zhao swept a casual glance at Shangguan Wan, then said with utter indifference.

Shangguan Wan could not help but fly into a rage.

In Great Tang, she was second to none and above ten thousand men—the head of the inner court.

Even a powerhouse of the supreme Mythical Realm had to give her some face.

Today, having just left Great Tang, she had fallen into dire straits.

"Enough, the time has come. I'll send you two off now!"

After toying with the jade ring for a while, Wu Zhao casually tucked it into her sleeve, then looked at Shangguan Wan and the other and said.

Shangguan Wan was wondering just where Wu Zhao meant to send the two of them.

She saw Wu Zhao's wide robe sleeve sweep once more, and then ripple after ripple formed out of thin air beneath Shangguan Wan and Wu Zetian.

Wrapping the two of them, it swept them straight up.

In no time, they were already over a hundred feet off the ground.

Just as Shangguan Wan was thinking, she happened to look up.

She saw, in the sky, that Changancheng, faintly as if real, drawing closer and closer to the two of them.

"This is… sending us to Changancheng?"

Shangguan Wan finally guessed.

Only she could not guess where this mirage, so extremely similar to Changancheng, actually was.

Was it the real Changancheng?

Or merely an environment?

As countless doubts turned in her mind, the ripples had already wrapped the two of them and plunged them into that Changancheng in the sky.

As the two vanished into it, Wu Zhao below waved her hand once more.

And that magnificent Changancheng in the sky gradually faded, as if it had never existed.

"From today forth, Mingkong, you shall be the empress of Great Tang in this Nine Provinces World."

Wan Wan, who had been silent for a long while, now said excitedly to Wu Zhao.

"All of this is thanks to Master's cultivation."

So Wan Wan was actually Wu Zhao's master?

As the two spoke, streaks of Jin Guang flashed at the edge of the sky.

These Jin Guang drew near from afar, and in no time arrived above the two of them.

"It's here!"

Wan Wan's face was flushed with excitement as she looked at the scene before her, then turned back to Wu Zhao and said,

"From here on, it will depend on your fortune. Remember well—the Qinglong Society hides dragons and crouching tigers; you must not be careless."

"Mingkong will keep Master's instructions firmly in mind."

Wu Zhao had clearly also heard of the Qinglong Society, and nodded solemnly.

Seeing that the Jin Guang had already reached directly above the two of them, the entire sky was dyed as if gold.

Wan Wan knew that the Qinglong Summit was about to descend.

She said no more, and gradually faded her form from sight.

With Wan Wan's vanishing, Sun En, who had been unconscious nearby, now Su Xing.

He only cast a bewildered glance at the sky, then saw Wu Zhao, immediately stood up, bowed, and said,

"Sun En failed to protect Your Majesty; please, Your Majesty, forgive the offense."

For some unknown reason, Sun En, who had previously been able to tell Wu Zhao and Wu Zetian apart, now suddenly recognized Wu Zhao as the empress of Great Tang.

"No blame!"

Wu Zhao replied indifferently,

"The Qinglong Summit is about to appear; you had best withdraw for now!"

"Yes! Your Majesty, take care."

Sun En bowed once more, then, just like Wan Wan, flashed and vanished.

Once Sun En was gone, at the edge of the sky, amid the Jin Guang, myriad golden bricks hung down, gradually paving a golden avenue across the horizon.

Seeing the golden avenue had not yet taken shape, Wu Zhao pointed at Zhang Wuxia, who had already become a charred lump.

Then, under the pull of Wu Zhao's ripples, streams of life energy were drawn out from the withered grass and trees all around, and poured into that charred lump.

That charred lump changed at a speed visible to the naked eye, swiftly transforming back into the charming and lovely Zhang Wuxia.

Once Zhang Wuxia had fully recovered, she immediately scrambled up, kowtowed to Wu Zhao in thanks,

"Zhang Wuxia thanks the Empress for the grace of rebirth."

"Mm! Prepare yourself; come with me to the Qinglong Society!"

Wu Zhao gave a slight nod, and Zhang Wuxia immediately obediently took her place behind her.

At this moment the golden avenue had finally been completed, and two rows of Qinglong Society members in blue robes came down the steps and slowly took their places on either side.

"Quite the imposing display."

This was truly the first time Wu Zhao had witnessed the Qinglong Society's arrival, and this entrance was the most spectacular she had ever seen in her life, so she could not help but murmur a soft exclamation.

Once the Qinglong Society members had lined up, a figure slowly appeared behind Lin Yunduan.

Standing at the very bottom of the golden avenue, he cupped his fists toward Wu Zhao from above and said,

"I am Guichen of the Qinglong Society. Are you the one who has come from Great Tang?"

"This is Her Majesty the Empress of Great Tang!"

Wu Zhao naturally would not answer, so Zhang Wuxia obediently stepped forward to reply.

"Oh? Why has the Empress come? Wasn't it said that only one important official need be sent?"

Guichen could not help but give a soft exclamation of surprise upon hearing this.

"What? Does the Qinglong Society not welcome Us?"

Though Guichen's voice was not loud, Wu Zhao heard every word clearly, and she asked coolly.

"That's not it either."

Guichen thought about it and decided it didn't matter—whoever came was whoever came, all the more since he was only there to greet them.

"Empress, please!"

So saying, Guichen stepped aside and struck a gesture of invitation.

Generally, Tang Ren addressing the Empress would add "Your Majesty" as a sign of respect.

But in Guichen's eyes, the Empress and a female official were no different at all, so he did not add the honorific "Your Majesty."

Wu Zhao, who had long been the Empress of Great Tang, detected Guichen's indifference and felt it somewhat discourteous, and could not help but knit her brows.

Then she recalled that this was the legendary Qinglong Society.

No matter how proud she was, she could only keep it in for now.

She took Zhang Wuxia along and leapt onto the golden avenue.

663 How is your wife?

Upon reaching the golden avenue, before Wu Zhao could say anything,

She felt a blur before her eyes, and she had already left the golden avenue and found herself before a majestic Chengguan.

This Chengguan towered into the clouds, and even Changancheng would pale in comparison.

Above the gate's archway, four great characters were inscribed: Qinglong Shanzhuang.

"Heh! And this actually dares to be called a Shanzhuang."