Sorry, I rushed the last chapter and got the chapter number wrong. It was Chapter 976, not Chapter 972. My sincere apologies!
"Your Majesty... I did everything I could..."
Yu Ji stood upon the city wall, her graceful figure proud amid the flames of war. The carnage and bloodshed could not obscure her flawless beauty...
San Francisco Royal City was more than a city the Huan Emperor had personally led the Great Huan Expeditionary Army to conquer at enormous cost. It was the Great Huan Dynasty's foothold in North and South America, its bridgehead and springboard. It was also the site of Heavenly Punishment, the place where the Huan Emperor had vanished, and the one place most likely to hold clues to his whereabouts. Naturally, it could not be lost. Otherwise, with the Great Huan Dynasty already swaying in the wind and rain, they would never have defended it to the death rather than retreat.
Yet over the past month, the once serene and gentle Immortal Empress Yu Ji had been driven like a duck onto a perch, forced into a role she had never sought. Under the pressure of endless enemy troops, she had held on, kept the Great Huan Expeditionary Army in line, and commanded its entire force, becoming a sovereign of iron resolve and keen judgment. Now that the Western True Gods had joined the fighting, however, the absolute gulf in strength had finally proved insurmountable. Even Great Huan's ministers and soldiers were barely holding on. Four Western True Gods had appeared together, not just one. Even with China's formations, the Great Huan Expeditionary Army could hardly withstand all four at once.
Who could know the utter exhaustion and fragility hidden beneath Yu Ji's graceful, commanding figure and flawless face?!
"Your Majesty! There's nothing more we