97: Xuanwu Gate

The Immortal Artifact, Mang City, floated quietly in the sky.

Chu Mo and Li Tian Ce stood side by side.

Everything in the Imperial City was within their sight.

"An Immortal Artifact is indeed an Immortal Artifact! It can even be used as a mount! It's exciting, truly exciting!"

"In the future, I also want to get a city like this; only then can it display my identity!"

Standing on the city wall, Li Tian Ce was full of heroic spirit at this moment.

Chu Mo shook his head and said indifferently, "If I were you, I'd refine a planet. By then, you'd have even more Face. When you go out, you can say you own a sphere, and you're the 'sphere leader' (chieftain). How much Face would that be!"

Li Tian Ce: "..."

Chu Ge is indeed Chu Ge; his perspective is just different from ordinary people.

However, using a planet as a means of transportation isn't bad either; it's even more exciting!

Not only would his status increase, but it could also be used against enemies.

In a battle between two sides, the most feared thing is an information asymmetry.

Who would have thought that a seemingly ordinary bead could instantly transform into a planet that covers the sky and blocks out the sun?

"What a pity, what a pity, I still have a very, very long way to go to reach that step!" Li Tian Ce sighed inwardly.

Chu Mo glanced at him, pointed in the direction of Xuanwu Gate, and said indifferently.

"Alright! Don't be so melancholic here. The main event at Xuanwu Gate has arrived; you should go meet her!"

Li Tian Ce looked in the direction Chu Mo pointed.

It was none other than Wu Yue.

At this moment, she was clad in heavy armor, riding a fine steed, but her weapon for this confrontation was nowhere to be seen.

"Confronting at Xuanwu Gate without a weapon?"

Li Tian Ce's expression was a bit strange.

What's the difference between going to war without a sword and going to an exam without a pen? What, is she preparing to give up?

"What? Can't bring yourself to do it?" Chu Mo teased.

"Nothing of the sort. I was just thinking, how dare she come to Xuanwu Gate to confront me without a single soldier... Do I look very weak?"

Li Tian Ce racked his brains but couldn't understand how this Female Emperor not only dared to come to Xuanwu Gate but also dared to don armor herself and even chose to duel him.

Your confidence is making me lose my own!

Li Tian Ce reached out to the side and shouted, "Bring me my Overlord Spear! Today, no matter what trump cards she has, she won't escape death!"

Several soldiers breathlessly carried the Overlord Spear. Li Tian Ce grabbed it with one hand and leaped down from the city wall.

From a distance of several hundred meters, Li Tian Ce performed a free fall. After falling for a certain distance, he suddenly spread his arms like a roc spreading its wings, reducing his descent speed.

"Boom!"

The Overlord Spear was the first to smash into the ground, leaving a huge pit and kicking up a cloud of dust and rocks.

Then, Li Tian Ce landed with his hands behind his back, his toes lightly touching the end of the spear.

This entrance truly perfectly inscribed the words 'King of Swagger' on his Face.

However, Wu Yue, who was in front, didn't even look at him. She just kept pulling on her horse's reins, closing her eyes and shouting loudly.

"Protect the Emperor! Someone, quickly protect the Emperor!"

Li Tian Ce: "..."

He felt that his incredibly cool entrance was just a waste of effort.

You're making me look foolish!

"Whoosh—!"

Li Tian Ce landed, pulled out the Overlord Spear, and shot out like an arrow from a bowstring, instantly appearing before Wu Yue.

The tip of the Overlord Spear flicked.

A great force struck, and Wu Yue was lifted from her horse, her legs still flailing like a frog.

"Someone! Protect the Emperor! Protect the Emperor!"

At this moment, she hadn't recovered, still flailing her arms wildly.

"Great Wu Empress? Is that all?"

A sudden voice.

Startled Li Tian Ce.

He turned his head and saw Chu Mo standing beside him.

"Chu Ge, scaring people to death. Appearing so suddenly behind someone can easily scare them to death."

As he spoke, Li Tian Ce lightly shook the Overlord Spear with his right hand, throwing Wu Yue to the ground.

This fall nearly broke her waist.

Wu Yue squirmed on the ground, got up clutching her aching waist, and when she looked forward, her pupils contracted.

"It's you!"

Chu Mo: "..."

Li Tian Ce: "..."

No, big sister!

We've been here for over ten seconds, and you're just noticing us now?

At this moment, Wu Yue still repeated her old line: "Protect the Emperor! Someone, pro..."

"Protect your..."

Li Tian Ce went up and kicked her. Why had he never noticed before that this old demoness was like an NPC?

Wu Yue was hit by the kick and rolled several times on the ground before stopping. Her internal organs suffered varying degrees of rupture. If not for the heavy armor on her body,

She might have already been sent away.

Wu Yue lay on the ground, the pain from her abdomen making her extremely uncomfortable. She continuously spat blood, mixed with fragmented internal organs.

She propped herself up with her hands, looking forward with immense difficulty, and a pair of feet appeared in her line of sight.

Her gaze moved upward.

The Face was incredibly familiar; it was none other than the Imperial Prince Li Tian Ce, whom she had sent off for a political marriage.

She looked at Li Tian Ce with hatred, screaming hoarsely, "I sent you to the grasslands, why wouldn't you just stay there obediently and exchange for peace between the Central Plains and the grasslands? Why did you come back to rebel? Why didn't you listen to me?"

Upon hearing this, Li Tian Ce felt completely off.

He squatted down in front of Wu Yue, his Face full of mockery, "Who do you think you are? What right do you have to make me listen to you?"

"I am the Martial Emperor of Great Wu! The entire world belongs to me, and everyone in the world must listen to me." Wu Yue struggled to maintain her last bit of dignity as the Great Wu Empress.

However, her forced appearance looked so ridiculous.

"Tsk tsk tsk, what a Great Wu Empress! Even the armor on her body doesn't fit. This style, it must have been stripped off some soldier, right? And, you seemed to have been driven to Xuanwu Gate before. It seems you, this Great Wu Empress, aren't very capable either!"

"You can't even control your subordinates!"

Li Tian Ce examined the armor on Wu Yue's body and was able to completely confirm that this style was simply armor stripped off some Imperial Guard.

Combined with the Female Emperor's panicked shouts while on horseback earlier, he could already deduce that a major change had occurred in the palace.

Most likely, the female officials and female generals she had promoted had turned against her, seeing that the Female Emperor's power was gone.