"Zhi Rui became a disciple and took the name of the hero Zhi Rui of the light sect. You came to the barbarian lands claiming to seek changes and make your people thrive. yet more than half of the people from the poorer part of the barbarian land died meaninglessly. With you being the only one to profit.The daughter of an unknown deserter that ran away with an empire native wh.o.r.e.
You enslaved the royal family, the only resemblance of hope of our people-"
The people that came with Zhi Rui, and the ones already there, murmured and whispered, the more loyal to the culture the louder they yelled.
Zhi Rui heard Silver reading off a scroll her crimes.
The smirk on Han Lee, the scorn on the people she thought to have led her way. Sandworm and Blue-amethyst" uneasiness and resistance to meet her eyes. Silver"s dramatic telling of her crimes and Fire-heart"s half-hearted willingness.
She a.n.a.lyzed and registered everything.
"And lastly, the crime of attempt to invade the sacred library reserved only for those with the thick ancient bloodline. My people, Zhi Rui" aim had always been that.
She fed you lies about our leaders.h.i.+p for the sole purpose of inciting a rebellion and using your deaths as a distraction to steal our cultural treasures! Her background is probably fake. we"re questioning if she"s one of the migrating cultivators from outside-"
Zhi Rui stopped listening. She didn"t need anymore to know how everything happened. Her eye went back to Sandworm and Blue-amethyst. While they were spreading rumors about Fire-heart and Silver they also used her as an example.
Her eyes looked at the smirking Han Lee, while sandworm and blue-amethyst worked behind her back Han Lee was distracting her. and the siblings would engage in her subjects and slowly shown the kind of progress she wanted to hear and see. All to keep her mind occupied.
Everything she thought to have accomplished from the moment she got out of the forest until now turned out to be a sham. And the only genuine accomplishment left is the mall planted seed of rebellion on the heart of the people. But that"s now being used by Silver and Fire-heart to justify her execution and gain a more tight grasp on the disheartened people.
"He." Zhi Rui chuckled.
Silver stopped his reading and looked at her with venomous eyes
"Wh.o.r.e! This isn"t the time for you to speak up!" He screamed hysterically.
Fire-heart sighed and looked at the orange eyed woman. She chuckled
Zhi Rui ignored everyone and looked at the entrance of the library.
The one to lead the siblings there, their steward, who Zhi Rui had planted her slave mark on and ignored his existence. Stood outside the entrance looking at her with relish and delight.
That was what he was showing, but Zhi Rui could feel deep grief from him.
"They know he"s my slave, yet they put him there exposed for me to see, with merely five levels two mounted warrior protection."
Zhi Rui chuckled again making a vein bulge on Silver"s forehead.
For some time now, they didn"t see one drop of negative emotions on Zhi Rui. That was already annoying enough but now he"s chuckling.
Fire-heart lapped silver"s shoulder before he could lash out and pointed where e Zhi Rui was looking with his chin. "The little bait we put on might just do the trick."
Silver nodded and kept on reading.
They wanted her to use the steward and force her way inside. Zhi Rui concluded
She smiled.
She never feared death, it was irrelevant, the objective is live the ost pleasurable and willful life she wanted. AS long as she" doing that then death would merely be a discomfort.
She looked at the scorn, hatred, and mockery. their eyes told how happy they were to scrub her face on the ground.
Zhi Rui smiled at each of them. "If The good way won"t do it, I can only stomp through everything."
Zhi Rui looked at her carriage on a conspicuous spot where barely a silhouette showed. She smiled. and jumped right towards the steward near the library.
The ground where she stood exploded from the energy.
She materialized her energy and walked through the air, She materialized her energy above the head jumped up and used it to gain momentum. She tore through the five level-two warriors effortlessly.
their limps fell apart
Zhi Rui grabbed the resigned steward by the neck and entered the library.
Silver screamed at the top of his lungs "Do you see it!? Her foul intentions never left her mind! on her lasts movement all she cared about entering the library now people do you still believe in her!?"
"AOOOOOOOO!" They screamed enraged.
Silver laughed. "Let"s wait for her to come out. she" so desperate that she didn"t think about how he would get out of there."
"B-But what about the royalty? won"t he be able to order them around!?" A random man asked
Silver laughed.
"They were ready to die when they agreed to the plan. it" a pity. but barbarism must thrive!" Silver said.
He felt chill on his back.
The woman with orange eyes smiled at him. "You said too much. Pay more attention."
"Y-Yes senior" He stammered and bowed.
Fire-heart organized a line of attack in front of the library putting every level three right outside the door with other leve two"s behind.
Hilda watched it all from afar. The look Zhi Rui gave her was the same look she had when fighting to death.
Hilda sighed. "Maybe today is my day...."
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"You"re a really unlucky old man." Zhi Rui laughed as she dragged him down stairways.
"T-They said that if I died, they wouldn"t hurt my tribe." The lifeless old man murmured.
"What a brave old man you are. your family will probaly remember you for a few years for sure."
The sarcasm in her voice dug on his skin.
"It"s all your fault," The old man said.
"Without a single doubt, it"s all my fault." Zhi Rui said with her blood red eyes and a savage smile.
The man" lips twitched he wanted to curse and fight but the beast holding him never took him in any regard.
He sighed exasperatedly because he was enslaved by her, they put him as bait to be used by Zhi Rui.
"HAHA let"s go, old man, maybe we won"t die!"
Zhi Rui laughed and went down another set of stairs.
Her blood was boiling. She had given up everything. he didn"t chew on the forlorn feeling of The time wasted, or that everything became nothing. Why care? Zhi Rui laughed. she enjoyed it. Throwing everything up in the air doing it the raw way was liberating and right as her heart wished.
She reached the last step on the stairs. Zi Rui looked inside room Crystal and Rubble were in a trance, a three meters tall and stele shone with golden sand.
It brightened the whole room.
Zhi Rui looked in a daze. it was such a beautiful golden light. HEr heart raced, and a desire blossomed withing, she had to have it. he had to have a taste of such a beautiful thing.
Slowly the light dimmed and the sibling snapped back to reality.
Zhi Rui could feel the energy flowing through their muscles, the golden aura enveloping them.
She tried to use her lave mark on them. But felt no connection.
Zhi Rui frowned, with the old man and the two kid as her slaves she could use their blood to activate the stele and see what he can do. but they clearly went up a level.
Before they could evoke the strength of the third level when fighting together, and now, though they had just completed the level up. They were still stronger than Zhi Rui. They were official level three with a high-grade dual cultivation method.
They breathed in deeply. looked at each other and danced their synchronizations was a marvelous sight.
But Zhi Rui ignored it and paid attention to the stele.
It had "Have PRIDE in your heritage!" carved into it. with "PRIDE" s.h.i.+ning in gold.
"Another encounter with sin." Zhi Rui thought.
The siblings turned back around and looked at Zhi Rui.
Their chins were up higher than usual. their backs straight, the indifference even pity was clear in their eyes.
With a smile on her face, Zhi Rui spoke first.
"My small bunnies are quite the actors, though you needed to hide your inner emotions through outside help. you"re definitely talented. You"ll be of great use for me."
Crystal who never talked too much scoffed with disgust.
Rubble sighed and patted his sister"s shoulder. "She" like this, but we did learn from her. we owe her at least this talk."
Rubble looked at Zhi Rui in the eyes without any shred of discomfort
"Miss Zhi Rui, we understand your view of the world, and we agree to it. we"ll take reigns and certainly do right by our people although they are dumb. we"ll guide these lost souls into the greatness of old. Now you have to leave as this is a sacred ground where only the pure of blood can reside."
Zhi Rui saw they mannerism after the rite.. "the barbarians have come from pride."
She looked at the stele knowing that whatever they gained from it erased the mark that she put on them.
"So that stele has the power to actually fend off foreign bodies on the mind and body...."