Yuan Shao's Curtain Call!

On the Heavenly Screen, the images continued flashing by.

[Xu You's arrival became the final straw that broke the camel's back!]

[He offered Cao Cao a plan to wipe out the enemy at the root!]

[Burn Wuchao!]

[All the provisions and supplies of Yuan Shao's army were stockpiled at Wuchao!]

[With just one fire there, Yuan Shao's army of seven hundred thousand would collapse without a fight!]

Cao Cao made his decision on the spot!

He personally led five thousand elite cavalry on an overnight raid against Wuchao!

Fire!

A towering inferno!

The raging flames seemed to set the entire night sky ablaze!

The granaries at Wuchao were destroyed in a single night!

When the news reached Yuan Shao's camp, the entire army erupted into an uproar!

The morale of seven hundred thousand soldiers crumbled in an instant!

The leading generals, Zhang He and Gao Lan, saw Yuan Shao's incompetence all the more clearly, switched sides on the battlefield, and surrendered straight to Cao Cao!

The defeated army collapsed like a mountain landslide!

Yuan Shao's army, which had seemed invincible just moments before, disintegrated in an instant!

Yuan Shao himself was scared out of his wits and fled back to Ji Province in panic with only a few hundred personal guards.

Thus, the curtain fell on the Battle of Guandu!

With fewer than a hundred thousand troops, Cao Cao crushed Yuan Shao's army of seven hundred thousand, achieving a victory that could only be called a miracle!

[After this battle, Cao Cao pressed his advantage, sweeping forward like a blade splitting bamboo!]

[He conquered Ji Province, Qing Province, Bing Province, and You Province in succession, tearing the Yuan clan's power out by the roots!]

[At this point, Cao Cao had completely unified the entire north!]

[He became the north's sole overlord!]

The images on the Heavenly Screen slowly came to a halt.

Everyone was still immersed in Cao Cao's thunderous methods and glorious victories, shaken beyond measure.

Yet the next second, golden light rose again on the Heavenly Screen!

A new line of large text appeared!

[The Battle of Guandu has ended. The north is united!]

[Tomorrow, the Heavenly Screen will continue revealing the future to all under heaven!]

[Liu Biao, Governor of Jing Province, deeply awed by the Great Yang Empire's overwhelming heavenly might and aware that he cannot stand against it, has decided to surrender the whole of Jing Province to Yang Feng, Emperor of the Great Yang Empire!]

[Meanwhile, the Battle of Red Cliffs is about to begin!]

[This battle will officially raise the grand curtain on the three-way division of the realm!]

[At that time, the Great Yang Empire, Cao Wei, Eastern Wu, and several other powers will all take the stage of history to contend for the Central Plains!]

At this point, the images faded away completely.

Meanwhile, the imperial palace in Shouchun had gone utterly mad!

Thud!

Without a second thought, Yan Xiang and Ji Ling dropped straight to their knees!

Behind them, the entire throng of civil and military officials followed suit, kneeling on the floor!

Every face was filled with fervor and worship, their eyes looking as though they were gazing upon a living god!

A miracle!

This was nothing short of a miracle!

"Your Majesty!"

"Heavens above, Your Majesty!"

Yan Xiang trembled all over with excitement, his voice choked with tears.

"The three-way division of the realm!"

"The three-way division you spoke of before... it really... really came true!"

"Yuan Shao really lost! Cao Cao really won! Now it's almost our turn!"

Ji Ling's face was also filled with wild joy, and he shouted excitedly.

"Exactly, exactly!"

"Tomorrow! Tomorrow, our Great Yang Empire will take Jing Province!"

"Heavens above, that's Jing Province! A land of fish and rice, a strategic stronghold!"

"This Liu Biao really knows which way the wind blows!"

"He actually surrendered outright! This is practically a giant pie falling from the sky!"

"Hahaha! Our Great Yang Empire is about to become the true overlord of the realm!"

The ministers' faces were flushed with excitement, as though they could already see the Great Yang Empire's banners planted across the entire realm!

Yet Yang Feng, seated on the dragon throne, felt no joy at all as he watched the ministers below, who looked as though they had all been pumped full of chicken blood.

He even felt a little irritated.

What the hell was this?

Retirement!

All I wanted was to retire early!

Was there any point to doing this stuff every single day?

Yang Feng ranted furiously in his heart.

Wasn't it just the Battle of Guandu?

Wasn't it just Boss Cao unifying the north, then preparing to march south for the Battle of Red Cliffs?

Wasn't it just the curtain rising on the three-way division of the realm?

What was there to make such a fuss about?

Back on the original Blue Star, this was basic history that even elementary school kids knew!

Elementary school kids!

You ancient people really hadn't seen anything of the world!

Such trivial nonsense, and every last one of you was worked up like this.

Sigh. How exhausting.

The more Yang Feng thought about it, the more he felt trapped.

Had he known the Heavenly Screen System could stir up so much trouble, he would never have gone through with it, even if someone beat him to death.

Now look at him, worshipped like an immortal by these people every day, unable to find any path to retirement. He had practically dug himself a colossal pit!

And Liu Biao of Jing Province-wasn't that guy supposed to hand Jing Province over to his brother Liu Bei?

How...

Sigh...

When would these days ever end?

And just as Yang Feng was sighing away...

Far away in Yan Province, inside Cao Cao's camp.

As Cao Cao watched the words slowly disappear from the Heavenly Screen, he first froze for a moment.

Then he could no longer contain himself and burst into earth-shaking laughter!

"Hahahaha!"

"Hahahahahahaha!"

His laughter brimmed with boundless boldness and smug satisfaction, as though it would blow the roof right off the tent!

"Good!"

"Wonderful!"

"Absolutely wonderful!"

Cao Cao slapped his thigh hard, his eyes blazing!

The Great Yang Empire?

A three-way division of the realm?

Interesting!

Truly fascinating!

I, Cao Mengde, would actually be one of the overlords dividing the realm into three in the future!

That useless Yuan Shao, whose family had held the Three Ducal Offices for four generations, really couldn't withstand a single blow, just as the Heavenly Screen had said!

Then, next...

Cao Cao's gaze seemed to pierce through time and space as he looked south.

Liu Biao of Jing Province!

Sun Ce of Jiangdong!

And that so-called Emperor Yang Feng of the Great Yang Empire, putting on his mysterious airs!

"Come on!"

"Come at me, all of you!"

"Let me, Cao Mengde, see just what abilities you possess to dare share the realm with me!"

"Hahahaha!"