A Private Instance Dungeon: Overthrow the Qing and Restore the Ming. Are You In?

Liu Bing felt that reaching the Golden Immortal realm would be enough for him. After all, Golden Immortals had already achieved a preliminary state of immortality and indestructibility. An immortal Golden nature was no joke.

To kill a Golden Immortal, one needed at least a Taiyi Golden Immortal or even a Grand Unity Golden Immortal. Only by erasing them on a conceptual level could one kill a Golden Immortal.

As for Grand Unity, just as Empress Nuwa had said, it was true immortality and indestructibility. Even conceptual erasure was useless; the very existence of a Grand Unity Golden Immortal had already transcended concepts.

He had learned all this while chatting with those big shots. They were the ones who had told him.

Liu Bing looked at the extra little red circle in the Chat Group, indicating something had yet to be handled. After opening it, he discovered that the Chat Group could invite new people again.

Without giving it much thought, Liu Bing sent out the invitations.

[General of Heaven] joined the Chat Group.

[Blizzard of Hell] joined the Chat Group.

[Frieren: Beyond Journey's End] joined the Chat Group.

[Qianlong Emperor] joined the Chat Group.

Liu Bing narrowed his eyes slightly as he looked at the newcomers. It seemed he had spotted something filthy.

[Yang Chan]: Oh, newcomers! Welcome, welcome.

[Hong Huang Little Shrimp]: I'm planning to open an instance dungeon. I wonder whether any of the Emperors are interested?

[Yang Chan]: Huh? Brother Liu Bing, aren't you going to welcome the newcomers first?

[Hong Huang Little Shrimp]: Welcoming newcomers can wait. I think we need to deal with certain filthy things first.

[Qianlong Emperor]: Insolence! Who dares make such a clamor in my ears?

[Qianlong Emperor]: What is this thing? Who dares use such sorcery to plot against me? Are they not afraid that I will execute their entire nine clans?

[Qianlong Emperor]: Hm? Old Zhu of Great Ming? Traitor and rebel, do you wish to Overthrow the Qing and Restore the Ming as well?

[Qianlong Emperor]: And there is Great Tang, Great Han, and Great Qin. Sure enough, you Han People still wish to restore a Han dynasty in your hearts. It seems the realm needs another cleansing.

[Ding, Qianlong Emperor has been muted by Hong Huang Little Shrimp! Please chat civilly.]

Rage blazed in Qianlong's heart. He had actually seen Great Ming in that strange place.

As a dynasty that had taken advantage of an opening, Great Qing feared Great Ming above all else.

He had intended to hurl a few more fierce rebukes into that strange place in his mind, only to discover in the next instant that he could no longer send his words. He had actually been muted.

His face instantly flushed blood-red, and chilling killing intent flashed in his eyes. As the supreme Emperor of Great Qing, when had he ever suffered such humiliation? That Hong Huang Little Shrimp actually dared to mute him.

Hong Huang Little Shrimp had earned himself a death sentence!

"Guards!" Qianlong slammed his dragon desk in fury and roared.

Before his voice had faded, two eunuchs hurried into the hall and dropped to their knees with a thud. Trembling with fear, they said, "This servant is here. Please calm your anger, Your Majesty."

Grinding his teeth, Qianlong ordered, "Immediately send people to find someone called Hong Huang Little Shrimp. Also Old Zhu of Great Ming, Erlang of Great Tang, and Great Han..."

He had wanted to list every group member's name in one breath so his men could search with all their might. Once they caught those people, he would have them torn to pieces, subjected to the harshest punishments, and have their nine clans implicated, all to vent the fury in his heart.

Yet when Qianlong took a closer look at those names, he was suddenly stunned. It felt as though something had lodged in his throat, making it impossible for him to continue.

Among them was Emperor Wu of Han Liu Che, who had been dead for over a thousand years. Even more absurdly, there was the First Emperor of Great Qin, an Emperor from nearly two thousand years ago.

Qianlong guessed that these names were all aliases.

What audacity. Even their aliases used titles associated with Emperors. Did these people want to be Emperors? Did they think Qianlong did not exist?

Qianlong snorted coldly. "Investigate every Han person who harbors rebellious intentions. Anyone who mentions Ming, Tang, Han, or Qin, arrest them all. From now on, those four characters are forbidden throughout the realm."

"Yes!" The two eunuchs immediately accepted the order and departed.

Qianlong stared at the notification that he had been muted, his eyes boiling with killing intent.

The more he thought about it, the angrier he became. He was an Emperor, yet someone had actually muted him. It was simply the greatest humiliation.

Though he could not speak, he could still lurk. He wanted to see what those traitors and rebels would say.

[Old Zhu of Great Ming]: Overthrow the Qing and Restore the Ming? Does it mean what I think it means?

When Zhu Yuanzhang saw Qianlong's string of messages, especially the words "Overthrow the Qing and Restore the Ming," those four words seemed to trigger a sensitive nerve. He immediately narrowed his eyes and sent a message to the group.

[First Emperor of Great Qin]: Is this another Emperor from later generations? And judging by what he said, he is not an Emperor of China? Has a foreign race taken control of the Central Plains?

[First Emperor of Great Qin]: Also, Overthrow the Qing and Restore the Ming. Is this a dynasty after Great Ming?

[First Emperor of Great Qin]: Old Zhu, what happened to your dynasty? How did you allow a foreign race to steal the realm?

Ying Zheng's gaze turned cold as well. He could accept the fall of Great Qin; at least the realm had remained in the hands of the people of China. But after Great Ming, a foreign race had actually become the rulers. What had Old Zhu's dynasty been doing, to let a foreign race seize the realm?

[Emperor Wu of Han Liu Che]: A foreign race seized the realm? Old Zhu, what happened to your descendants? How could we Han People be ruled by a foreign race?

[Erlang of Great Tang]: Old Zhu, what happened to your Great Ming? How could foreigners be allowed to rule the realm?

Zhu Yuanzhang's face darkened as he read the words of the other Emperors. He had never expected Great Ming's realm to ultimately fall into the hands of a foreign race. The History of Ming he had seen only went as far as Li Zicheng, the Rebel King, breaking into Beijing and Chongzhen hanging himself on Coal Mountain.

There was nothing after that. He had thought Li Zicheng had won the realm. How had it ended up in the hands of a foreign race instead?

[Hong Huang Little Shrimp]: All right, this cannot be blamed on Old Zhu. Old Zhu seized the realm back from a foreign race and rebuilt China. Before Great Ming, the Han People's realm had been fractured for several centuries. They had even been ruled by foreign races for a hundred years. Old Zhu had already done very well.

[Hong Huang Little Shrimp]: What I want to say now is that I have a private mission here. Do you Emperors want to take it?

Liu Bing's message temporarily diverted the Emperors' attention.

[First Emperor of Great Qin]: Sir, what mission is it? Please speak freely.

[Hong Huang Little Shrimp]: It isn't a particularly difficult mission. I'll open a door for you, and you can clear an instance dungeon together. This instance dungeon is called: Overthrow the Qing and Restore the Ming!

[Old Zhu of Great Ming]: Overthrow the Qing and Restore the Ming! Sir, we'll take this mission. I can do it alone.

Zhu Yuanzhang's mind was now filled with one thought: destroy that foreign dynasty.

He had destroyed the Mongol Yuan back then. He could destroy this Great Qing now too. He had to destroy it!

Great Ming's realm, the Han People's realm, would never be allowed to be tainted by a foreign race!