Chapter 1949: Removing the Misunderstanding

"Oh no, His Majesty the Emperor has been captured! Quickly, go get help!"

The high-ranking and influential ministers of the Star Scar Empire were all terrified. No one had anticipated such a dramatic and sudden turn of events. Even the Empress herself had not realized Xu Yang's power was so formidable.

"This is impossible," the Empress exclaimed. "Even a true Martial God-level expert couldn't break free from my Divine Artifact cage. How did you do it?"

Xu Yang maintained his gentle smile. He directly injected a stream of spiritual energy into the Empress's soul realm, transmitting the situation around his true body's location to her.

"The one currently holding your body is merely a spiritual illusion I conjured," Xu Yang said.After understanding the situation, the Empress sneered slightly.

"So, your so-called sincerity was just empty words," she said. "You never truly trusted our Star Scar Empire from the very beginning."

Xu Yang nodded repeatedly, a smile on his face.

"You're absolutely right," Xu Yang replied, "because I'm not as naive as you might think. If I hadn't been careful, I probably would have been manipulated by you. Unfortunately, your plan was exposed by me."At this moment, the Empress was truly gritting her teeth, wishing she could tear Xu Yang to shreds. However, she lacked the power to do so; she had even been deprived of her basic right to move freely by him.

If Xu Yang had not been such an honorable gentleman, but instead a vile villain, his immense power would have allowed him to do anything he pleased to the Empress at that moment."You little ones, don't stir up trouble here," Xu Yang said. "I won't harm your Empress, provided she gives me a satisfactory answer."

Xu Yang directly released a powerful wave of spiritual energy downwards. This sound reached the ears of every Star Scar Empire minister, effectively reassuring them.Meanwhile, around Xu Yang's true body, more than a dozen rules of various kinds had quietly emerged, firmly guarding him within the cage and ensuring he would not be affected by the power of any Martial God-level expert.

Soon, led by Xu Yang's illusionary body, the two arrived at the summit of Absolute Star Peak.Currently, guarding this mountain range, in addition to the living fossil elder, were hundreds of female captives from the Star Scar Empire.

Because these individuals had been properly settled by Xu Yang, they had not only returned to a normal life, but under the guidance of the living fossil elder, these ordinary women, who were once powerless, had now crossed the threshold of cultivation. Coupled with the original power cultivation methods Xu Yang had previously taught them, these hundreds of ordinary women now possessed the ability to contend with common warriors. Upon seeing the Empress arrive in person, they all knelt on one knee and respectfully saluted both the Empress and Xu Yang.

The Empress, seeing that all these women were from her own country, immediately became furious. "Is this your so-called sincerity, using ordinary women from our Star Scar Empire as hostages to threaten me?"Xu Yang bothered not to explain anything to her; he simply stood by, smiling and shaking his head. Instead, the living fossil elder, who was leading these women, projected a spiritual imprint into the Empress's soul realm, transmitting the entire process of Xu Yang saving these Star Scar Empire women and their children.

After understanding the history of the matter, a trace of shame appeared on the Empress's face. However, due to her proud nature, she did not yield to Xu Yang; she simply lowered her head again and fell silent."You don't need to feel any psychological burden," Xu Yang said. "I brought you here to further corroborate what I told you earlier. It won't be long before the disciples of the Dark Forces appear again."

As Xu Yang spoke, he used his powerful spiritual energy to create a spiritual barrier in front of himself and the Empress. Within this barrier, they could clearly see everything around Xu Yang's true body, far away within the Star Scar Empire's city-state.In reality, the reason Xu Yang did not immediately allow his true body to break free from the Divine Artifact cage was not because his power was insufficient. If Xu Yang truly wanted to, how could a mere Divine Artifact possibly restrain him?

He was merely performing a feigned concession. Xu Yang had long anticipated that the disciples of the Dark Forces would not target only one empire for invasion, and that there must be their informants within the Star Scar Empire's ranks. Therefore, Xu Yang's execution of this feigned concession was truly flawless.He predicted that soon after his physical body was suppressed, the disciples of the Dark Forces, unable to find an opportunity to attack the hundred thousand imperial troops, would undoubtedly turn their attention and attack the Star Scar Empire first. Their subsequent actions would then become Xu Yang's best leverage to resolve the Empress's desire for invasion.

As long as the Empress witnessed the terror of the Dark Forces firsthand, she would certainly consider the larger picture and abandon her invasion of the imperial border. Initially, the Empress was deeply skeptical of Xu Yang's confident assertions, merely regarding his methods as a trick to delay her invasion. After all, since she had led her army to the imperial border, she had never encountered any disciples of the Dark Forces. However, she didn't expect that on the second night after she and Xu Yang arrived at the summit of Absolute Star Peak, large numbers of Dark Forces disciples finally could no longer hold back and launched an attack on the Star Scar Empire's border city-state encampment.

The flames that shot up into the sky within the spiritual energy barrier immediately caught Xu Yang's and the Empress's attention. Through the perfect view provided by Xu Yang's true body, the Empress's face became extremely grim."Damn it, what's wrong with these guys?" she exclaimed. "They are all cloaked in robes of various colors; I can't clearly see their faces. Moreover, each of them possesses powerful strength, far beyond what ordinary warriors can contend with. It seems everything you told me before was true. I misunderstood you."

This was the first time the Empress had willingly bowed her head to Xu Yang, admitting the error in her judgment. Xu Yang, naturally, had no intention of doing anything to her; after all, he only wanted to achieve a spiritual resonance with the Empress. Only in this way could the fundamental conflicts between the two empires be resolved. Xu Yang sat beside her, shrugging helplessly.

"Now do you understand my painstaking efforts?" Xu Yang asked. "The more fiercely the conflicts between your two empires rage, and the more warriors fall, the more these disciples of the Dark Forces will benefit. And when these war puppets, who have no meaningful existence, truly grow to a certain scale and strength, they will not hesitate to turn their attacks on all imperial forces within the Ancient Martial God Path. At that point, their true master behind the scenes will fully recover, and the entire Ancient Martial God Path will fall under his control."