Will You Pledge Loyalty to Her Majesty the Empress?

Nine Cauldrons Heaven.

At an execution ground on the border of Great Willow Kingdom, dark clouds hung low as yellow winds filled the sky.

Though it was the turn of spring and summer, the wind that blew against their bodies was exceptionally bleak, raising goosebumps all over them.

Within the vast execution ground, yin energy permeated the air, and the stench of blood assailed the nose.

Wave after wave of deathly aura came crashing toward them, filling their hearts with dread.

"Qin Zilong, do you know your crime?!"

A shrill, piercing voice shot into the sky, filled with arrogance and domineering authority.

At the front of the execution platform.

The chief eunuch Cao Huatian, his head full of white hair, his face caked in powder and his lips painted bright red, stared at the platform with imposing force in his triangular eyes.

"What crime have I, Qin Zilong, committed?"

In the middle of the execution platform stood a tall, mighty middle-aged man dressed in white prison robes.

A specially made black iron shackle hung around his neck, dense restraining light coiling around it as it forcefully suppressed his cultivation.

At the same time.

His feet were also bound by identical shackles, waves of mysterious restraining power wildly invading his legs and turning them rigid as iron, making it impossible for him to lift them freely.

Though his white clothes were stained with blood, exposing countless shocking wounds.

Qin Zilong still held his head high, looking down at Cao Huatian with a proud, defiant expression.

Cao Huatian shrieked:

"You abused your power for personal gain, colluded with bandits and the Demon Race by taking advantage of your status as Grand Marshal of the Soaring Dragon, slaughtered innocents, and committed every atrocity from rape to plunder. Do you still dare deny it?"