The Chief Secretary Calmly Fortifies the Defenses as a Hundred Thousand Yan Cavalry Besiege the City

"...Yes."

Beimingzi nodded with a stiff smile, lowering his voice slightly. "When they learned Zhao Cheng had placed a mental restriction on you, they exploded on the spot.

Every one of them was furious and said they had to teach Zhao Cheng a lesson, give him a show of force, and make him rein himself in when he worked with us later instead of acting so arrogantly."

Yunxiao heard him out. A faint smile curled at the corner of her mouth, but she said nothing. Her gaze merely drifted toward the depths of Wu'an City, as though recalling her past dealings with Zhao Cheng.

Recovering her memories hadn't erased everything from this life. Instead, the true spirit of her previous life had wondrously fused with the experiences of this one.

Everything from this life—her feelings, emotions, insights, personality, and state of mind—had been preserved. Fused with her true spirit, they had formed an entirely new Yunxiao.

As Yun Miao, she had struck out recklessly after trusting the wrong people, and the resulting guilt had stayed with her. So had the awe inspired by Zhao Cheng's strength and breadth of vision. Recovering her memories hadn't made either feeling disappear. Instead, they had intertwined with the reason and foresight of Yunxiao's previous life, giving her a more complete understanding.

Even now, looking back as "Yunxiao," she clearly remembered how she had protected a corrupt official guilty of the gravest crimes and volunteered to kill Zhao Cheng. Then, after entering the city, she had been caught red-handed by the Blood-Clad Army. The fault had been hers from the start.

Under the merciless laws of the Investiture Calamity, if she had been one of the Chan Sect, they would likely have already reduced her soul to nothing.

Yet Zhao Cheng had clearly possessed the