The Empress's No.1 Lackey-Chapter 1145 - 621: The Princess Consort’s Schemes

Initially, although some secretly speculated that the mysterious white-clad woman on the warship might be a master, no one had seen her true power. Until the Yu Country Empress casually sent forth this mighty iron sword, a white indentation suddenly appeared on the river’s surface, followed by a roaring explosion.

Zuo Tang was stunned by the vast sword intent, his drunkenness vanishing instantly, his eyes clear. At this critical moment, the Martial Arts Alliance Hierarch, who had dominated the martial world decades ago, desperately used his broken sword to form a Qi Shield, blocking ninety percent of the Sword Qi. Despite this, he was still so shaken that he retreated violently, losing all regard for his senior reputation as he fled in disgrace.

On the warship, the Daoist woman from the Heavenly Master Mansion stared blankly at the Empress’s swordsmanship, releasing her Divine Thought into the water, trying to see through that fox mask but failing. A guess rose faintly in her heart, too absurd to believe, she murmured softly, "Half-step Heavenly Human."

Yes!

Indeed, to release such momentum with a single sword strike, regardless of the precise realm of this mysterious female Tributor—the low-realm cultivators can use secret techniques to unleash power beyond their rank. But purely based on the grade of this sword strike, it undoubtedly reached Half-step Heavenly Realm.

Therefore, Zuo Tang lost all fighting spirit and fled without any thought of dignity, knowing continuing the fight could lead to losing his life.

Jin Jian and Yu Xiu were dumbfounded, the little miser and the big introvert simultaneously widened their eyes, "You’re incredible."

Xu Zhenguan paused, both amused and helpless at their sincere praise, flipped the iron sword back into Tang Ping’s sheath, deliberately letting his aura fall and whispered: "I can’t perform this sword many times."

Was it indeed driven by secret skills? Yu Xiu felt reassured, as this made sense to her. A secret skill as a trump card for the Royal Family was plausible, but Half-step Heavenly Realm wasn’t.

"May I have your esteemed name, senior?" The Young Master Tang Ping asked foolishly, utterly shocked, then expressing admiration and awe, thinking anyone with such Sword Dao cultivation must be a senior, possibly older enough to be his grandmother...

The Empress didn’t bother with him, turned to Zhao Douan climbing the deck, "Are you okay?"

With his wife here, naturally the husband is fine... Zhao Douan had a brief sarcastic thought, shook his head, then flatly said, "Let’s keep firing, why are you dawdling?"

The mighty Sword Qi above the river had dispersed, because of this sword, many small boats capsized, and the stunned martial world folks fell silent, seeing Zuo Tang escape, they dared not linger any longer, scattering like startled beasts.

"Run quickly! I kept saying we shouldn’t come, this Zhao dared to enter the Marine Road, surely he has some trump card!" Aunt Gu dashed into the water, cursing the heavy resistance from her ample bosom.

The man with twin swords and the skinny monkey-looking man were also terrified, cursing their parents for not giving them two more legs, they swiftly maneuvered their ships to flee.

"Boom!"

Meanwhile, the Divine Mechanism Camp soldiers on the warship became excited, resuming cannon fire, with no Zuo Tang to block them, the shells landed, flipping boats and falling men. Two warships accelerated with raised sails, soldiers lifted their guns to shoot, covering many martial artists, with varied fatal or injurious results.

Yet Zhao Douan merely ordered a brief pursuit before signaling retreat, not bringing experts to annihilate this group.

After confirming the enemy retreated, he returned to the cabin citing rest, Xu Zhenguan followed alone.

...

Inside the cabin.

Once they sat again by the porthole, Zhao Douan curiously asked, "Does the Empress not plan to eliminate those martial world folks?"

Given the Empress’s means, if she wished, none could escape.

Xu Zhenguan laid down the black scabbard, took off the fox face mask, and calmly said, "No need, killing them all would easily scare off Xu Wen."

Zhao Douan sighed lightly, "The Empress’s earlier display hardly seemed low-key."

He was also surprised by the Empress’s sword strike, for in Zhao Douan’s view, Zhenbao could save him more discreetly.

Xu Zhenguan, however, shook his head, "As long as I keep the war power below the Heavenly Realm, Xuan Yin won’t detect it."

Heavenly Human Realm, resonance with heaven and earth.

Can easily span thousands of miles, sensing similar realm vibrations.

Xu Zhenguan’s sole concern while traveling was Xuan Yin.

As long as she wasn’t remotely sensed, with Zhang Yan Yi’s interference of celestial secrets and the Empress’s puppet in the palace, Xuan Yin wouldn’t perceive.

As for spreading news after today’s battle... she was even less worried.

"Sending messages from Coastal to the Western Regions takes considerable time, even at the fastest. This suffices for us to find Xu Wen. Besides, my display of cultivation rather reassures Xu Wen." The Empress calmly explained.

Zhao Douan smiled, "The Empress implies that Prince Jing, Prince Chen, and the others are surely watching me. If I attacked Coastal this time without formidable helpers, having only Yu Xiu and others, they’d suspect an underlying plot. Conversely, your display today makes them see that Zuo Tang forced out my trump card... having a helper capable of bursting out battle power comparable to Half-step Heavenly Realm is reasonable, further convincing them I have the confidence to invade Coastal, reassuring them they’ve seen through my trump card...and a purported Half-step Heavenly Realm wouldn’t suffice to alarm Prince Jing and others into fleeing."

The Empress paused, looked at him with a peculiar expression, then said annoyedly, "Did you guess my thoughts?"