"Is this what you call heaven's will?!"
As Di Xin's words fell, silence settled over the entire scene. The brothers Fang Xiang and Fang Bi, along with every soldier present, stared at him in terror, trembling from head to toe.
Not one of them had imagined that the situation would undergo such a dramatic reversal!
That so-called divine lightning from heaven now seemed to have been nothing more than a lightning ball thrown by Di Xin himself!
They even began to suspect that Di Xin had deliberately thrown it to lure them into his trap!
This tyrant's scheming ran far too deep!
Let's see how you grow chicken eyes in your palms and go peeping everywhere in this lifetime!
Di Xin sneered inwardly, then thrust a hand forward. A fireball shot out in an instant, flying toward Yang Ren's corpse.
Although it was only a basic fire technique, Yang Ren was not yet the eldest disciple of True Lord Qingxu Daode of Purple Sun Cave on Green Peak Mountain. He was an ordinary mortal through and through. The instant the fireball struck, his remains burned to ashes, reduced to dust.
As though answering some unseen summons, his lingering soul flew out of his remains and made to head toward Green Peak Mountain. Unfortunately, before he could move, Di Xin raised his hand and unleashed another thunder technique. With a crack of thunder, that lingering soul was blasted into nothingness!
[Detected that the host has killed Yang Ren and completed the hidden mission: kill a great general of Xiqi. Rewards: achievement points +10, merit points +500. Automatically converted into the host's merit golden body...]
Almost at the very instant Yang Ren was destroyed in both body and soul, the system's notification rang out in Di Xin's mind.
Damn, this system actually has hidden missions!
Di Xin's eyes immediately lit up, flames kindling within them. He could not help wondering whether killing that cow-licking warrior would earn him achievement points too. Unfortunately, Huang Feihu was not here!
But although Huang Feihu was absent, the brothers Fang Bi and Fang Xiang were right here!
"Generals Fang, I have long heard of your boundless strength. Today, I would like to see whether the two of you are stronger, or whether my basic spells pack more power..."
Di Xin looked at Fang Bi and Fang Xiang and grinned. With a sweep of his hand, streams of yellow-brown origin energy immediately rose from underground, forming great hands that grabbed hard at the brothers' thighs!
[Negative emotion points from Fang Bi: +199...] [Negative emotion points from Fang Xiang: +199. Cumulative total: +4300...]
The moment the yellow-brown origin energy appeared, Fang Bi and Fang Xiang turned pale with horror. Without hesitation, they pushed off their saddles, attempting to leap away and dodge.
Whoosh!
But they were merely powerful among ordinary mortals. How could they possibly rival Di Xin, who was in the Qi Refining into Spirit Realm? Their backsides had barely lifted a fraction from their saddles before the great hands formed from earth element power seized their thighs, then slammed them into the ground.
"Pfft... splurch..." With two dull impacts, the Fang brothers coughed up mouthfuls of blood, their bones broken and flesh mangled. Before they could even spit out the blood, the great hands lifted them again and flung them about in a frenzy. These pitiful men, whose names would one day appear on the Investiture of the Gods List as the Manifestation God and the Path-Opening God, died horribly at Di Xin's hands before the Ten Absolute Arrays destined for them could even be activated, reduced to two puddles of mashed flesh.
The wisps of their souls that rose faintly and tried to escape were likewise blasted into nothingness by Di Xin's thunder technique, destroying them in both body and soul.
[Detected that the host has killed the brothers Fang Xiang and Fang Bi and completed the hidden mission: kill minor generals of Xiqi. Rewards: achievement points +10, merit points +100. Automatically converted into the host's merit golden body...]
Sure enough, as Fang Xiang and Fang Bi died, the system's voice rang out in Di Xin's mind once more.
Although the brothers would later receive divine titles, they were merely insignificant minor gods. The rewards for their deaths fell far short of those given for Yang Ren, the "Jiazi Tai Sui."
"The two brothers put together aren't worth even one of the others. Stupid to the bone. No wonder a fellow like Bi Gan, with six of his seven apertures blocked, could use them as his weapons..."
Di Xin shook his head with a cold laugh, his face full of contempt.
Unfortunately, Fang Xiang and Fang Bi's souls had already vanished into oblivion. Otherwise, those words would surely have earned him a hefty gift package of negative emotion points from each of them.
"Do you want to die, or do you want to live?"
Di Xin glanced at the soldiers ahead and asked calmly.
"We want to live! Please spare us, Your Majesty! We were all deceived by Yang Ren, Fang Xiang, and Fang Bi!"
Without the slightest hesitation, the soldiers immediately threw down their weapons and dropped to their knees with a chorus of thuds, kowtowing repeatedly to Di Xin and begging for mercy.
"What good is wanting to live? I want you dead!" Di Xin's face hardened, and he snapped out each word coldly.
[Negative emotion points from Zhang Dazhu: +99...] [Negative emotion points from Li Lao'er: +99...] [Negative emotion points from Wang Xiaosan: +99...]
With that single sentence, the system's background feed went wild. In the blink of an eye, another +2000 negative emotion points poured in, pushing the total past the +6300 mark!
The rapidly climbing numbers made Di Xin's heart blossom with joy.
Meanwhile, the pleas for mercy were deafening. Tears streamed down the soldiers' faces, and they kowtowed until their foreheads bled, every one of them bitterly regretting what they had done.
These men were, in fact, Fang Xiang and Fang Bi's slaves. Their entire families, young and old, were held in the brothers' hands. Naturally, they had to do whatever their masters ordered.
"Your Majesty, these soldiers were merely deceived by others. Please be magnanimous and forgive them."
Queen Jiang was softhearted. Seeing their pitiful state, she could not help pleading with Di Xin on their behalf.
"Since the queen has such a kind and generous heart, I will let you off..."
Di Xin looked at Queen Jiang's pleading eyes, then at the flood of negative emotion points in the background feed, and spoke calmly to the soldiers.
At his words, wild joy immediately filled the soldiers' eyes. Without thinking, they began to thank him for his mercy.
"Not so fast. I haven't finished. You may escape death, but you will not escape punishment!" Di Xin raised his brows, a teasing smile playing at the corners of his mouth as he looked at the soldiers before him. "Each of you must come up with twenty phrases praising my wisdom, benevolence, and virtue, and recite them to me one by one. And there must be no repeats!"
[Negative emotion points from Empress Jiang: +66...] [Negative emotion points from Daji: +66...] [Negative emotion points from Huang Yu: +66...]
"???" Empress Jiang.
Daji: "???"
"???" Huang Yu.
Not one of them had expected Di Xin to make such a bizarre demand.
Twenty different phrases might not sound particularly difficult, but actually coming up with them was harder than climbing to heaven. Even they, searching their own hearts, would struggle to think of twenty, let alone these soldiers, who could not recognize a basketful of characters even if each were as large as a bushel.
[Negative emotion points from Zhang Dazhu: +66...] [Negative emotion points from Li Lao'er: +66...] [Negative emotion points from Wang Xiaosan: +66...]
If even Empress Jiang and Daji reacted like this, what could be expected of the soldiers? In an instant, Di Xin's bowls and pots were overflowing once more, his earnings making his heart bloom. His negative emotion points shot straight up to the astonishing +8000 mark!
Unfortunately, the negative emotion points Di Xin now needed to break through to the second level of the Qi Refining into Spirit Realm had reached the staggering figure of +100000!
"Begin. We'll start with you..." Di Xin casually pointed at Zhang Dazhu, who stood nearest to him, and spoke calmly.
"Your Majesty, you are... good..."
Zhang Dazhu glanced at Di Xin in terror and stammered.
"Good, that counts as one! The rest of you cannot use that word again!"
Di Xin nodded slightly and gave Zhang Dazhu an approving look, allowing him to heave a great sigh of relief. Then he pointed at the soldiers behind him and spoke calmly.
[Negative emotion points from Zhang Dazhu: +66...] [Negative emotion points from Li Lao'er: +66...] [Negative emotion points from Wang Xiaosan: +66...] [...Cumulative emotion points: +10000!]
Watching the numbers change in the background feed, Di Xin broke into a beaming smile. Today had brought a bumper harvest of negative emotion points!
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