The singing on the beach carried through the screens and rang out across the world.
At that moment, every person of Huaxia forgot their tears.
Men and women, young and old, all rose to their feet of their own accord.
Everyone placed their right hand over their chest and sang in unison.
"United as one!"
"Braving the enemy's gunfire!"
"March on!"
"Braving the enemy's gunfire!"
"March on!"
"March on!"
"March on, on!"
The blood in every Huaxia person's chest boiled!
Lyrics forged from the blood of countless fallen heroes burned fiercely in the hearts of Huaxia's sons and daughters!
"March on!"
"March on!"
With each ringing cry, every trace of fear vanished from the eyes of a million people of Huaxia.
Countless feet stepped firmly forward, advancing to meet the Haidong Awakened in battle.
Even people from other countries could not help being moved by the sight.
They knew they would die, yet marched on without hesitation!
Who would dare claim they could defeat a nation like this?
Sadly...
This was no longer a year ago.
No matter how fearlessly the people of Huaxia faced death, they had no hope of survival against the ferocious Haidong Awakened.
"Kill them!"
"Kill anyone who dares resist!"
Jin Dachang's gaze was dark, brimming with murderous intent.
Haidong already had victory firmly in hand.
These ordinary people, no better than ants, not only refused to beg for mercy but even dared to resist.
Jin Dachang felt that his authority had been gravely challenged.
As Haidong's inheritor, he could never tolerate such a thing!
At his command, the killing intent of the hundred and ten thousand Awakened grew even fiercer.
A hundred meters...
Fifty meters...
As the distance closed, countless clubs formed from awakening power were raised high.
Facing those savage faces.
Facing those clubs that promised death.
The million people of Huaxia kept singing at the tops of their lungs and kept marching forward!
Blood was about to splatter across the shore.
Su Chen, who had remained motionless all this time, suddenly moved!
With a sweep of his right hand, the golden light surrounding him shot outward and spread rapidly.
Like a golden wall, it blocked the path of every Haidong Awakened.
Thud! Thud! Thud!
The Haidong Awakened brought their clubs down with all their strength, but only a series of dull thuds rang out before the golden light bounced them back.
"What?!"
Jin Dachang's eyes widened in disbelief.
Tens of thousands of Awakened had struck at once, yet Su Chen had blocked them with ease.
How was that possible?!
But soon, Jin Dachang's shock turned to delight.
"This brat... he's released all his inheritance power! Has he gone mad?!"
"Attack! Everyone, keep attacking!"
"Once we exhaust his inheritance power, he'll be no different from an ordinary person!"
As Huaxia's inheritor, Su Chen would at least have had a fighting chance if he devoted all his strength to battle.
Yet he had released all his inheritance power to protect a bunch of ordinary people.
That was tantamount to abandoning any counterattack and choosing to take a beating.
Once his inheritance power ran dry, neither he nor any of these million people would survive!
Jin Dachang did not know why Su Chen had made such a foolish decision.
But he would never let this opportunity slip away.
The hundred and ten thousand Haidong Awakened desperately attacked the golden light blocking their path.
Under the relentless impacts and furious attacks, the once-solid golden light began to tremble.
But Su Chen paid no attention to any of it, showing not the slightest sign of anxiety.
He merely turned his gaze slowly, looking over the people of Huaxia around him.
Countless eyes were also turned toward Su Chen.
Su Chen smiled faintly, then suddenly pressed his hands together and bowed toward the distant Nine Provinces Cauldron.
"Emperor Yu entrusted me with defending the Nine Provinces and protecting the people."
"But today, you have shown me that every one of you is a guardian of Huaxia!"
"Our great Huaxia has 1.4 billion sons and daughters!"
"How could we ever lack warriors to don armor? How could we ever lack armies to defend our land?!"
"Every inch of our land is paid for in blood! A million people are a million soldiers!"
Su Chen's eyes shone, his voice utterly sincere.
"Huaxia may be weak, but it will never be yours to bully!"
"Because you dare to battle gods with mere mortal bodies!"
"The Great Xia may be gone, but its land remains!"
"Because even if it means leaving your homes and children behind, you will defend Huaxia's land and nation!"
"You are worthy of the blood flowing through your veins!"
"You are worthy of being called descendants of Dayu!"
Su Chen's voice rang across the entire beach.
Hearing those words, the people of Huaxia stood frozen, as though struck by lightning.
In truth, Su Chen could have activated everyone's ancestral blood as soon as Jin Dachang and the others came ashore.
But he had held back all this time.
He wanted to see how these ordinary people would react when faced with a powerful enemy.
He wanted to see whether the people of Huaxia in this world still possessed the courage and unity he had known in his previous life.
Now.
He had seen it.
No matter the world.
No matter whether their history had been severed.
The people of Huaxia were still the people of Huaxia.
The same hot blood still flowed through their veins!
When faced with foreign enemies, the people of Huaxia in this world would likewise defend the land they loved with their own flesh and blood!
Yet as they watched the impassioned Su Chen, the minds of everyone from Huaxia were in turmoil.
Descendants of Dayu?
This...
Did he mean us?
Could it be that in our veins...
Dayu's blood flowed?
Bewilderment and uncertainty filled every face.
They wanted to believe, but dared not.
"We people of Huaxia have never believed in bloodline superiority!"
"Because that is the dregs of Western thinking, a means of dividing people into ranks!"
"We sons and daughters of Huaxia are all Descendants of Yan and Huang. No one is nobler than anyone else!"
"So remember this!"
"What you awaken today is not a superior bloodline! It is the ancestral blood passed down by Huaxia's forebears!"
"Today, you will use the power buried deep within that blood!"
"To bring back the valor of the people of Xia!"
"To proclaim the might of Huaxia!"
At those words, Su Chen suddenly raised his right hand, his palm facing the sky.
Boom!
With a thunderous roar, countless points of light shot from Su Chen's palm.
They soared hundreds of meters into the air, then burst outward.
Like a grand fireworks display, they were dazzling beyond compare!
A vast shower of light descended from the sky.
It fell upon the beach and merged into the bodies of a million people of Huaxia.
The next instant.
Every person of Huaxia shuddered as the power buried deep in their ancestral blood for four thousand years began to awaken rapidly.
The Nine Provinces Cauldron towering over the sea also trembled incessantly, releasing waves of humming.
It was as though it could see a million people of Xia returning.
It rejoiced for the descendants of Dayu.
Su Chen drew his inheritance power back into his body.
The golden light blocking the Haidong Awakened vanished with it.
In its place.
A million surges of awakening power shot into the sky!
The people of Huaxia, regarded as ants just a moment earlier, were ordinary no longer.
Now.
They were Dayu's descendants!
They were Huaxia's Awakened!
Su Chen lowered his raised hand slightly and pointed ahead, his eyes blazing with heroic resolve.
"Descendants of Dayu, heed my command!"
"Follow me!"
"Into battle!"
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