Treat, Behead, Take as Dog

The Imperial Court is now a foreigner's court. The foreigners consider the newly emerged martial artist group to be unforgivable sinners who disrupt civilized trade. They believe this unprecedented riot by yellow-skinned monkeys must be met with a heavy fist. The court, which happily licks the foreigners' boots, naturally follows suit.

Without fully understanding what happened in Puhai.

The Imperial Court has swiftly declared the martial artist group, led by Nong Jinsun, Chen Qimei, and their ilk, as rebellious traitors. Their crimes are heinous: they have misled the people, harmed loyal subjects, shown disloyalty, disrespect, inhumanity, and unfilial piety, violated ancestral traditions, and committed grave sins that warrant dismemberment by a thousand cuts!

Especially Lan Yi, who was put forward as the leader of this heretical cult, has been charged with twelve severe crimes. He awaits the arrival of the Foreigner Heavenly Army to crush and suppress him!

He is urged to surrender quickly for a lighter sentence.

Finally, a powerful concluding remark was added.

"Rebels and their cohorts will surely be struck down by heaven!"

This was the official statement.

Accompanying the official statement were some whispers from the north.

These whispers were not much better, essentially saying that the foreigners are invincible, and one must not act stubbornly, causing the southern coastal regions to suffer. They demanded that the mountain-dwelling Lan Yi be summoned to the palace to serve as the Imperial Preceptor and guard His Majesty.

If they refused to comply.

The Imperial Court would offer no assistance. Instead of aid, they would cooperate with the foreigners to purge these rebels.

On their own land.

Someone defeated the foreign army, yet they were denounced as treasonous and deserving of heavenly punishment, as if it were a grave sin. They were on the verge of being abandoned by everyone and attacked by all. After hearing this ultimate decree, Lan Yi was truly terrified. He was so scared that he wanted to use the Steel Armor Divine Thunder Cannon to obliterate the pig-skinned dog emperor.

Huo Yuanjia was also enraged after relaying the message.

Even though he had learned of it beforehand, recounting it still filled him with grief and indignation at the court's incompetence, foolishness, and shortsightedness.

"Immortal Master, lead us on a northern expedition!" Huo Yuanjia had completely abandoned any lingering thoughts of supporting the Qing and destroying the foreigners.

"Rotten mud cannot be plastered onto a wall!"

Even if the Immortal Master were to support it, it would only prop up a stinking, rotten framework that would plague China!

"No matter which world it is, there are always these foolish ungulates who choose to present their faces for me to slap," Lan Yi couldn't help but exclaim in his beautiful hometown dialect.

"I've changed my mind."

"I originally planned to go to Dongyang after dealing with things here, but I'll head north first."

Huo Yuanjia instinctively asked.

"Do we need to prepare and accompany you?"

"No need. I'll just take the train north then."

Taking the train north would also allow him to clear out reactionary forces along the way, station by station. By the time he reached Yanjing, Lan Yi wanted to see if the Qing court, strangled by despair and fear, would choose to kneel and admit their mistakes on the spot or flee in panic, setting a record for the third imperial flight to the west.

Along the way, he would see if he could encounter any psionic cultivators from the main world.

In Artificial Divine Realm 1909, Lan Yi was not the only visitor from the main world undergoing trials.

Before his rebirth, Lan Yi already knew this.

There was a psionic cultivator in Dongyang, and it seemed there was another one in the Ice Fortress. In Star Han, besides himself, there should be one more, but this psionic cultivator was quite unlucky; it seemed he was arrested and beheaded in the marketplace shortly after entering for various reasons.

He didn't know about anything further away.

After all, communication and transportation were underdeveloped in this era. Even within the same world, without good luck or the prevailing trend, it was difficult for psionic cultivators from the main world to meet each other.

The first trial for psionic cultivators in the Artificial Divine Realm.

Even though Lan Yi showed off, created martial artists, forcefully suppressed anyone who dared to defy him, and boldly reshaped the territory, which was very satisfying, most psionic cultivators were in a state of ordinary people trying to survive.

Having initial Destiny Clusters, and if those clusters were useful, they could fare better.

If one had nothing, and entered the Artificial Divine Realm rashly without preparation...

Taking Star Han as an example, men could try wilderness survival, but women had it truly miserable, worse than death. In any case, Lan Yi had heard that some young women who dreamed of being at the table in Wei-Jin, and entered without heeding warnings after the War Zone opened, fantasizing about being in Feng Ba's harem or being business empresses.

Whether they were in Feng Ba's harem or were business empresses, Lan Yi didn't know.

He only heard one piece of news.

After the first Artificial Divine Realm trial in the War Zone, the gynecology and dermatology departments in various cities were immediately overcrowded.

However, the commotion Lan Yi caused was not small.

If there were any psionic cultivators from the main world that Lan Yi didn't know about who actively sought him out, it wouldn't be impossible.

Huo Yuanjia's report concluded.

This meant that the martial artist group had officially stepped onto the world stage as a force. In this era of surging winds and imperial rivalries, the martial artists, having tasted humiliation and despair, and vowing to avenge their shame, would undoubtedly use their strength to fight for a space for the empire to survive, rather than being at the mercy of others as before.

Temporarily overtaking in terms of supernatural power did not mean they had caught up in other aspects.

Martial artists could indeed ignore bullets.

But in large-scale warfare, facing heavy artillery, heavy machine guns, explosives, grenades, flamethrowers, and poison gas, the difference between Qi Cultivation Practitioners and ordinary people was not significant.

Even for Human Form Martial Artists.

They could not use mental attacks without limit. Their mental energy might be exhausted after killing a few hundred people.

Therefore, Lan Yi had never put all his eggs in one basket. Since firearms were so effective, martial artists wielding firearms were clearly stronger in war than ordinary people wielding firearms, and they were also more adapted to battlefield combat.

Mr. Kent, who was willing to sell his conscience and loyalty, brought good news today.

Among Immortal Master Lan Yi's captives.

He had unearthed a few unexpected delights.

These unexpected delights were not the captured observation group, but rather this unfortunate group of reporters from before.

In this era, those who could become reporters, traveling across oceans to enjoy exotic customs, especially female reporters, were basically from powerful families. They belonged to the class of people who had no material pursuits in life and wanted to pursue something spiritual.

Thanks to the adventure and detective novels that were bestsellers among Western nobles.

In a foreign land, having a romantic encounter with an excellent and perfect person of the opposite sex, one that society would not condone, had become a forbidden fantasy for some governors' wives or noble ladies.

Although these reporters were captured, they were not subjected to cruel and barbaric abuse. Lan Yi's power and perfection were evident for all to see. When Kent went over to take stock, he realized this was a good opportunity.

"So, you're suggesting they become my mistresses or lovers?" Lan Yi was almost ready to applaud.

Nong Jinsun's eyes blazed, and he almost wanted to lunge forward and tear Kent's throat to shreds.

This foreigner! They hadn't even presented gifts and women to the Immortal Master yet, and this guy had beaten them to it!

"Your Excellency, I have researched the culture of Star Han. As an excellent and extraordinary powerhouse, it is common for you to have three wives and four concubines. And in our culture, it is normal for a powerful general or king to have multiple secretaries, lovers, maids, and companions... Of course, if you want men, I believe they would also be willing."

Kent listed a long string of names, along with the companies and nobles involved behind those names.

Ironclad ships, guns and cannons, various factories, and new army instructors.

If he could win over these women or men, he would have them all!