~Six Days Later~
'You all be careful out there,' sister Sarai said. 'We will, mom. Junior brother and junior sisters, please take her back,' Lee Wei said. 'Okay, you all be safe,' Ma Lie said. 'Let's go, mom,' Xue Li said.
After they left Lee Wei flew to Huno, 'are you ready?'. 'Not really, let's go,' Huno replied and flew to the legendary realm experts.
'Seniors,' Huno greeted.
'Where is the third patriarch?' Chani Qing asked.
'You don't have to worry. He'll join us. You all remember the plan?'
'Yeah, I hope it goes well,' Chani Ju said. Huno nodded and turned to Jui Tong. 'free your mind from guilty, I don't keep grudges,' he said. Before Jui Tong could reply, Han Longu said, 'let's go,'.
Everyone nodded and followed his lead. Nine people in number flew towards the middle of the city. They arrived and waiting for them were nine legendary realm experts. Two peak ranks, three high ranks, one mid rank and four low ranks. Huno saw a familiar figure among them, the high rank who he told Luna to let go.
'What took you so long?' a peak rank yelled. 'you requested a meeting to discuss and yet you come late,' he added.
'Apologies, we've come to discuss the possibility of a truce,' Han Longu said.
'You make me laugh. After fighting for hundreds of years, you want a truce when you are on the bleak of extinction. Stop amusing me and bow now to this emperor,' the peak rank said.
'If we do, what happens?' Han Longu asked. 'You will swear an oath on your core to obey me,' the peak rank said. 'I meant, after all that, the emperor should think far,' Han Longu said.
'I'll let you have your authority among your people, but the entire Saint realm will belong to me. You will send all your wealth to me,' the peak rank said. 'You'll send five thousand female cultivators over. All in the true realm, I will use them as a sacrifice and you will hand over the Feng family headquarters,' he added.
'Sacrifice? For what?' Qu Lilin asked.
'The beautiful Lilin, I wonder how a peak rank will taste in bed, (she frowned) don't be like that I'll treat you well,' the peak rank said. 'To answer your question, there is a realm that is greater than the Saint realm, in order to imprison someone here the Saint realm was locked up, the early Legendary realm experts along with a great number of True realm and foundation realm experts left before this place was locked up,' he added.
'How do you know this?' Han Longu asked. The peak rank hissed, 'you great families are children in the eyes of the Jia family, you guys rose just a thousand years ago whereas my Jia family has stood for over that, when the Saint realm was abandoned my ancestors united it under their reign at that time only the foundation realm were the strongest,' he said.
'The one who was locked up should be Luna, right?' Huno thought. 'But why would that guy lock up the realm? He said Luna won't be able to escape. Why be so precautions to lock the Saint realm up? Or was someone else locked up here?'. 'Chiro was right, they know almost nothing about the legendary realm because of this and I guess the faint energy here is due to this,' Huno muttered to himself.
'Is that why the energy in this realm is growing faint?' Qu Lilin asked, as if reading his mind. 'What do you think, beautiful?' the (peak rank) Jia emperor asked. 'If this is a lower realm, then it surely needs the higher realm to survive. With the connection gone, this realm is slowly dying,' she said. 'But how are you able to get more Legendary realm, if you tell me I promise my family will follow your lead and you will have me, Longu over here still cling to his small dog wives and concubines, he isn't bold enough to request a wonderful time with this lioness,' she said and turned to the other Legendary realm men behind her. 'Besides, he is injured and both him and these little ones won't be enough to satisfy me. I rather go for mighty lion while I have the chance to,' she added.
Huno frowned. He couldn't believe what he just heard. 'What was wrong with this lady?'
'Very well I shall tell you, we...,' 'Your majesty, she should swear on her core,' the other peak rank said, cutting him short.
'You dare interrupt me, are you tired of your dog's life?' the emperor roared and his subordinate bowed his head. 'You just recently became a peak rank, so you think you can question me now, right?' he asked.
'No, your majesty, forgive me,' the other peak rank said.
The emperor turned to Lilin. 'it doesn't matter if they know. Reinforcement will arrive soon, so if they don't surrender they'll lose their life,' he said and everyone on Qu Lilin's side frowned. 'A few decades ago we found the place were that person was locked up in, it was filled with yellow stones that contain legend Qi energy, two decades ago six of our people broke through to the legendary realm, before the war started two of our old high rank got to the peak and three more people broke through, I carried those three to start the war while I ordered the six to follow some months after, they should arrive soon, six high rank, do you think you can manage the situation then?' the emperor asked.
Jui Tong broke into a cold sweat, 'with that number of reinforcement even if we have the formation we can't deal with it,'.
'The peak rank that chased Luna is a newly promoted one. We should consider him dead. If we can take care of the emperor, Longu and Lilin should be able to take this other newly promoted, right? That means we will be left against three high rank of which one is injured, one mid rank and three low rank, while we have two high rank two mid rank and two low rank, one of our mid rank should be able to take on the injured high rank while Shin and Lee Wei could handle the three low rank for some time, if we handle the peak completely we can gang up on the two high rank while the mid and low escape to join the six high rank on their way, if we can handle this well even if we have casualties the situation can remain balanced for a while,' Huno calculated. 'Well, there's a possibility of things going wrong,' he said quietly and flew forward to Lilin's side.
'Greetings, your majesty, the greatest emperor and ruler of the Saint realm, The King even among the Lions, I request permission to speak,' Huno said.
'An ant who knows how to please this king, this king grant you permission,' the emperor said.
'Thank you, great emperor, as the great emperor said we would die, anyway. Please great, emperor, do not mind if I ask a question?' Huno bowed and said.
'Proceed,'.
'You said you found yellow stones in the place where the master was locked up in. Don't you think someone connected those stones to his prison and using those stones to cultivate will weaken the prison? What if that senior is free and kills all of us?' Huno asked. Before the emperor replied, he asked again, 'why do you need five thousand female cultivators? what kind of sacrifice are you planning to do?'.
'There is no possibility of that person being free because there is no life coming from that person and the female cultivators will sacrifice their body to give this king pleasure every night,' the emperor said.
'Oh, I believe any woman will want to enjoy the great emperor, even senior Lilin is attracted to you, any woman who doesn't was born a fool,' Huno said. 'Permit me, great emperor, for a request,' he added.
'Let me hear it,' the emperor said. 'Please, when the great families bow, you can you let the Feng family keep their headquarters. I have a relationship with the Feng family. That's why I make this request,' Huno said. 'That can't happen. The passage that was locked up is in your family's headquarters,' the emperor said.
'That's why, I thought as much,' Huno thought.
'By the way, what is your name ant? Are you under the Feng family?' the emperor asked. 'This ant before you, great emperor, is Huno the second patriarch of the Leechiro family,' Huno reported.
'The family that has that formation, the one sheltering the useless great families now?' the emperor asked.
'Yes great emperor, I would like to hand over to you the array control plate and request my family be spared,' Huno said, bringing out a jade plate.
'Don't you dare?' Longu said and attacked. Qu Lilin blocked his attack and said, 'please include my family also,'. 'You decided to join them?' Longu asked. 'What's the need for us to continue to struggle? In the end, we won't be able to take on their reinforcement,' she replied. 'Huno let's go. Don't worry about anyone touching you,' she added. Huno nodded, breathing heavily, fear written all over his heart as it beats heavily.
He flew forward with the plate in his hand, and Lilin followed, watching his back. They got close and immediately the emperor struck Huno. 'do you take me for a fool?' he roared. Huno fell down seriously wounded, coughing a lot of blood. Lee Wei's fingers twitched, but Shin held him from doing anything. 'Jia He check the plate,' the emperor ordered. 'Yes, your majesty,' the other peak rank took the order and collected the plate.
'Your majesty, it seems to be original,' Jia He said. 'Wonderful, the ant really wasn't planning anything,' the emperor said. 'Your majesty, what should we do about him?' Jia He asked. 'What does the life of an ant matter? The great families are finished,' the emperor said and stepped on Huno. 'Ant, you did well,' he added. 'I now see why the ancestors of the great families rose against yours,' Huno said, and coughed. The emperor smiled and said, 'the Jia empire will swipe away their descendants, and use their fall as a lesson for any future arrogant family to learn from. Do you have any last request? I promise to make your death quick,'.
'Come in,' Huno said and wrapped his divine sense around him. The emperor's figure became blurry for a while and then solidify back. 'What did you just do?' the emperor asked in a confused state. 'Shit, Chiro, what the hell are you doing?' Huno yelled. Immediately after the emperor disappeared, Huno turned to the other peak rank, Jia He, and wrapped his divine sense around him. Feeling it Jia, He collided with his divine sense Huno's immediately but he still disappeared. He coughed a great amount of blood and fell to the ground.