Sakura's fury, worldwide condemnation

Everyone in Huaxia was both shocked and bewildered.

News that Huaxia's second symbol had shattered had been circulating online for days.

Yet the authorities had remained silent, neither denying nor confirming it.

Then Su Chen had visited Sakura and somehow awakened another Huaxian ancestor.

Even those who had never heard the name Ying Zheng before could tell from Su Chen's account alone.

Everyone understood that Qin Shi Huang was an ancestor of enormous importance to Huaxia.

Why had he gone all the way to Sakura to awaken such an important ancestor?

No matter how they looked at it, something about this seemed wrong!

Inside Huaxia's headquarters, Zhu Yuanzheng and Li Shuhua watched the screen and let out long sighs of relief at the same time.

Previously, both Su Chen and the two of them had assumed Sakura would keep the Imperial Seal under heavy guard.

Even if he reached Sakura, getting close to it would be nearly impossible.

Given Su Chen's identity, Sakura would surely watch him closely and take every precaution in secret, however polite they might appear.

Awakening Qin Shi Huang had seemed like an almost impossible mission.

But however impossible it was, Su Chen would never leave the Imperial Seal in foreign hands and allow foreigners to claim Qin Shi Huang as their ancestor.

So, as Su Chen departed, Zhu Yuanzheng had ordered hundreds of thousands of Awakened in the military to prepare.

If Su Chen ran into danger, he would no longer care about the consequences.

Even if countless countries condemned and boycotted them, even if they had to stand against the entire world.

He would bring Su Chen back alive, no matter what!

But Zhu Yuanzheng had never imagined this, even in his wildest dreams.

Noda Shino had actually carried the priceless Imperial Seal on his person!

Not a single one of the contingency plans he and his staff officers had spent three sleepless days preparing had been needed!

If not for Noda Shino's status as Sakura's inheritor.

Zhu Yuanzheng would have suspected he was one of their own agents embedded in Sakura.

At Shentian International Airport.

Everyone was still overwhelmed by shock, unable to shake it off.

After the blast threw Noda Shino off his feet, he flew over a hundred meters and rolled dozens of times before finally managing to steady himself.

"Shit!"

Seething with rage, Noda Shino struggled to his feet.

But when he turned to look, he was completely dumbstruck again.

"An... ancestor phantom?!"

"How is this possible!"

"What the hell happened!"

Noda Shino stared blankly, unable to believe anything he was seeing.

Suddenly, the corner of his mouth twitched, and his gaze fixed on the space beneath the phantom.

A dazzling mass of golden light shone there, too bright to look at directly.

But with an inheritor's keen eyesight, Noda Shino immediately spotted a fist-sized seal at the center of the golden light.

"The Eight-Character Divine Seal!"

"The Eight-Character Divine Seal has activated!"

Noda Shino's face went from red to white, then from white to ashen, before his gaze locked onto Su Chen.

He remembered that the Eight-Character Divine Seal had suddenly changed only after Su Chen spoke those last two syllables.

Those syllables had sounded like...

Ying Zhen?

Noda Shino had never heard that name.

But he understood that this had to be the ancestor represented by the Eight-Character Divine Seal!

Only then did Noda Shino come to his senses.

Su Chen had not come to offer goodwill or seek peace at all. He had come for Sakura's ancestor symbol!

Although Su Chen had not recognized the Eight-Character Divine Seal.

In Noda Shino's eyes, and in the eyes of every person in Sakura, this seal was Sakura's second symbol!

Now Su Chen had activated the Eight-Character Divine Seal right in front of him, right in front of everyone in Sakura.

To Sakura, this was an unprecedented humiliation!

An intolerable provocation!

As for the history of Great Qin that Su Chen had recounted earlier.

To Noda Shino, it was nothing but a complete fabrication.

Before the Common Era?

The Warring States period?

Huaxia's first emperor?

None of this had ever appeared in any history book anywhere in the world. It was utterly unbelievable!

Su Chen had rattled off this pack of lies the moment he stepped off the plane.

All he wanted was to claim Sakura's ancestor symbol for himself!

He even wanted to call Sakura's ancestor a Huaxian!

Noda Shino did not know how Su Chen had learned which ancestor the Eight-Character Divine Seal represented.

But as far as he was concerned, the Eight-Character Divine Seal would activate as soon as Su Chen finally said the name Ying Zhen.

Then, to everyone watching, it would look as though all Su Chen's earlier lies had been proven true!

Devious!

A thief!

Shameless!

His own symbol had shattered, so now he wanted to steal Sakura's.

Did he think I wasn't here?!

Did he think the Great River Nation was easy to bully?!

We should have wiped out that inferior country back then, whatever the cost!

"You bastard!"

"As Huaxia's inheritor, you fabricated lies in an attempt to steal Sakura's symbol! Your crimes are unforgivable!"

"All Sakura Awakened, heed my command! Kill this man on the spot!"

At Noda Shino's command, the Sakura Awakened hidden inside and outside the airport immediately poured out like a swarm of bees.

Noda Shino's entire body shuddered, and the inherited power of Sakura's First Emperor surged into the sky.

Leading a dark mass of Sakura Awakened, he closed in on Su Chen from every direction.

Only then did many of Sakura's citizens finally snap out of their shock.

As people of Sakura, they naturally believed Noda Shino.

Their earlier shock turned into seething hatred and fury.

"Has Su Chen gone mad? He's actually trying to steal our symbol!"

"Scum! This is a crime against Sakura! An insult to the Great River Nation!"

"Kill him! He has to die!"

"Damn it! Huaxia must pay for this!"

From the airport to every corner of Sakura Country, curses and furious shouting filled the air.

Every person in Sakura wanted to kill Su Chen with their own hands and hack him to pieces.

Even other countries erupted in condemnation.

"His own symbol shattered, so he came to steal another country's? How is that any different from robbery?!"

"Despicable! I never thought Huaxia could do something so shameless!"

"Do you think there's a chance... that this symbol really belongs to Huaxia? After all, Su Chen activated it, and he told us a whole lot of history we'd never heard before."

"Impossible! Whichever country a symbol ends up in, that's the country it belongs to! That's a fact the whole world recognizes!"

"Exactly! Take Her Majesty the Queen of Moonfall Country. If someone from Haidong went over, recited some history nobody knew, and then spoke the Queen's true name, would that make the Queen an ancestor of Haidong?"

"Hey! Now that you mention it, people from Haidong really would do something like that."

"Fuck! Our country is practically gone, and you're still making fun of us?!"

"We didn't destroy your country. If you want someone to blame, blame Huaxia!"

"Ever since Huaxia activated its symbol, it's been stirring up trouble everywhere. We should unite and boycott Huaxia!"

"Exactly! If Su Chen can steal Sakura's symbol now, he could come for ours next. We can't let him get away with this!"

"Kill Su Chen! Boycott Huaxia!"