I Actually Doubted Him (Just opened, those who want to read it all at once can save it up)

A few squads of elite soldiers, most of them only Soaring Dragon cultivators—blades in hand, they could scarcely cut through an oily hide. But they represented Qi State!

Chen Yanxun could not strike back, or Chongxuan Sheng would have even more grounds to make an issue of it. Yet neither could he simply let a pack of martial soldiers hack him away—fleeing meant admitting guilt, and admitting the pursuit. Leaving his back to these villains aside, whether that was a wise choice at all... his final step still had to be completed upon the platform!

Using the Light of Humanity as a guide, at this moment when humanity was at its peak, lifted by Humanity's Torrent, he would fill the old regrets of the age. Only then could he truly begin his ascent.

At such a moment, he had nothing left to hold back. Raising his voice, he cried, "I have long known of the Li Emperor's illustrious virtue! When this age first opened, your sovereign name was already known; the world's settled momentum could rise from the northwest. You are an elder, and a wise ruler! Today, the presiding judge is arrogant, the Legalist School unreasonable, and the dukes and marquises of a Hegemon State use their power to oppress! Will you not come forth and say a word? It is lonely in the heights; this lofty platform chills my heart. I ask that you uphold justice!"

No one had expected Yan Chunhui's backup plan to be Hong Junyan.

Yet once he spoke, it somehow did not seem all that surprising.

Hong Junyan had amassed strength for so long. He had merely drilled troops in calm waters for several years, never competing with any house for valor. He was a man of immense composure! Without sufficient preparation, how could