So this place... was mine to command?
Heh heh, then I wouldn't hold back!
"Cough, cough!"
Li Wei cleared her throat.
That light cough rang through the deathly silent Jade Pool like a clap of thunder.
The people who had just recovered from the heavenly might all shuddered violently. They stiffly turned their heads, their gazes converging on her.
Fear, bewilderment, disbelief.
Every gaze brimmed with emotional value.
Meeting those gazes, Li Wei grinned and immediately announced,
"From now on, I call the shots here."
"I didn't come to the Heavenly Ruins for anything else."
She paused, then said each word distinctly, "I came here to be the emperor."
After speaking, under everyone's horrified gaze, she walked step by step toward the seat of honor atop the jade platform.
As she walked, she announced in a ringing voice,
"From this day forward, I am the rules, and I am the heavenly laws!"
"First decree!"
"Anyone who points out my faults to my face will have their nine generations of kin exterminated!"
The instant her voice fell, several members of the Aristocratic Faction in the corner, who had luckily escaped disaster because they were farther away, finally came to their senses.
One of them instinctively stood up and pointed at Li Wei. "Even the Jade Emperor wasn't this tyrannical. You..."
A bolt of purple lightning appeared from thin air and struck him with pinpoint accuracy.
He did not even have time to scream before turning into a pile of drifting ash.
The objects manifested by his divine position turned into light and flew away, returning to their original places.
"You, you, you..." His companions beside him trembled in terror, unable to speak properly.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
More than a dozen bolts of purple lightning fell, thoroughly plowing through that small area.