Ren Baqian still hoped that Qingyun Sword would surrender.
As the chief of the Hidden Village and the leader of the Hidden Alliance, it would be extremely helpful to pacify Tianjing Basin if he surrendered.
Furthermore, he wasn't an ambitious person. His greatest wish was for the people of Tianjing Basin to be able to leave this place.
Ren Baqian actually didn't want to exterminate all the sects and clans.
Those who hadn't made up their minds were the people from the three major powers.
This was because the others were people from the underworld, didn't control power, couldn't motivate people, and didn't aim for the imperial court. Even if they stayed, they wouldn't cause too much trouble.
As for the people from the three major powers, they were completely different from them. They were the rulers of Tianjing Basin, which was equivalent to a country within a country. Their thoughts were more complicated and had more ideas. Therefore, Ren Baqian still had to consider whether these people could stay.
Qingyun Sword didn't give Ren Baqian an answer. After listening to Ren Baqian, he cupped his fists and turned to leave.
Before coming here, he only wanted to hear the truth from Ren Baqian and then live and die together with Wu City.
However, Ren Baqian's words made his heart waver.
Surrender was easy to say.
However, he had gathered so many people and lost so many people. Could he really surrender so easily?
What face did he have to face the others?
At this time, surrendering was a more difficult choice than death.
It was easy to die. Once he died, he could leave a good reputation that would be spread among the people of Tianjing Basin and even be written down.
However, if he surrendered, he would have to bear countless curses and his reputation would be ruined. He wouldn't have the face to meet others after death just to see the future that Ren Baqian spoke of!
He couldn't decide between these two choices.
Seeing that Qingyun Sword had gone far away, Ren Baqian shook his head, turned around, and took the roasted jumping goat from Shi Gan.
After eating breakfast, Ren Baqian thought for a while and asked Shi Gan and Lin Qiaole to wait near Wu City to prevent the winged cavalry from arriving early and massacring the entire city.
Shi Gan was quite talented. At such a young age, he was already at the Kismet Heaven level, which was equivalent to an Earth Wheel expert. He was also quick-witted. If there were other Spirit Wheel experts in Wu City who could slap him to death, it would be too unjust.
As for Lin Qiaole, if she were to go alone, she would probably wake up to find that the rocket developed by Dayao had already flown out of the planet.
After sending the two of them out, Ren Baqian recalled his previous question. He turned around and asked the empress, "Your Majesty, what is the name of our planet?"
The empress looked at him in a daze …
"Look, our country and the world are all on a planet called Earth. What about here?"
The empress pondered deeply and said, "Dayao ball!"
Ren Baqian's face was filled with question marks.
Your Majesty, can you please be more attentive?
"Why don't we call it 8,000 balls?" After Ren Baqian finished speaking, he looked at the empress's face and immediately changed his mind. "Eight purple balls? Hey, Your Majesty, I suddenly thought of a suitable name. Let's call it Zixiao Star! "
The empress's gloomy face immediately brightened up. "This is it!"
It felt good to have a planet named after her.
"What if the planet is square?" The empress raised a very serious question.
Ren Baqian pondered for a long time. Would Fang's planet appear? It wouldn't be a planet then, it would be Minecraft!
This question was a little difficult for someone who used to be a bad student like him.
"Also, there's a star in the sky that belongs to me. Wouldn't that be the same name?" The empress still remembered that everyone corresponded to a star. Although this was just a beautiful story, she treated it as true.
"Zixiao Star and Zixiao Ball!"
Pow!
"Zixiao Heavenly Star and Zixiao Earth Star!"
"Very much to my liking!" The empress's gloomy face brightened up again.
"Your Majesty, do you think there are other continents outside of this one? After we conquer the Yun Nation, we will build a ship and send people out to see how big this world is! "Ren Baqian said nonchalantly with his swollen hands.
"Okay!"
The two of them imagined the original appearance of this world for a while. In the afternoon, they heard the sound of hooves and stirring up dust in the distance.
Nearly 1,000 riders rushed over from afar and stopped in unison. They got off their mounts, cupped their fists, and said, "Greetings, Your Majesty!"
Although there were only 1,000 riders, their momentum was comparable to that of an army. Every rider exuded a valiant, powerful, and bloody aura from the soles of their feet to the top of their heads.
The empress stood up and looked at the warriors in front of her, whose leather armor was covered with various scars. It was these people who had gone deep into Great Xia when Ren Baqian went there. During the war with Great Xia, these people acted as the blade and entered Great Xia again after the war. After returning to Dayao, they rushed here without stopping.
Out of the 1,500 people, only about 900 were left.
The empress's gaze swept across everyone's faces before saying faintly, "Take a rest first!"
"Yes, Your Majesty."
The empress called for the captain of the winged cavalry to inquire about the situation in Great Xia.
The captain of the winged cavalry was a burly man with a big beard. His name was Gong Zheng, and they were familiar with each other when they were in the north.
Ren Baqian heard an interesting story. Li Qianqiu actually kidnapped a few so-called scholars in Dayao and brought their families back under their bitter pleas.
"County Commandant Gong, where are those people?" Ren Baqian was very interested in these scholars. He didn't have the prejudice that the aboriginals had against people from other countries.
After all, Earth was a global village, and he could see people everywhere.
"Principal Ren, I don't know about this."
"Oh." Ren Baqian nodded. It seemed like he had to go back and ask Li Qianqiu.
Fortunately, he had sent Shi Gan over in advance. Otherwise, Wu City would have been filled with people by now.
It wasn't until late at night that Xi Wanya returned with his army. Among them were dozens of half-dead captives who were covered in blood.
These captives were thrown down from their mounts. When they realized that there was another army besides the Protectorate of the South — the winged cavalry — their faces were filled with despair.
The winged cavalry had indeed arrived.
"Your Majesty, the other party has Spirit Wheel experts, and we only managed to capture 23 people," Xi Wanya reported as he strode to the empress.
It was slightly less than Ren Baqian had expected, but capturing one was still good.
Carrying the torch, he went to the captives who were surrounded in the middle and sized them up. There were two ladies from the Full Star Pavilion, a few people from the Green Bell Flower, and an old man whom he had met in the hidden village. There were also some people from other sects of various sizes. There were no people from the Golden Ring Residence or the girl who had learned the erhu from him for half a month.
Everyone was covered in blood and injuries. Some of them had twisted limbs, and some were even missing one or two limbs. It seemed like they had been captured after a bloody battle.
When everyone saw Ren Baqian under the torch, they glared at him.
"Pfft!" A woman from the Manxing Pavilion spat a mouthful of blood right in front of Ren Baqian's shoes. Immediately, a soldier went over and kicked her blood-stained but still pretty face. She flew backward and spat out blood … as well as her teeth in midair!
"I want them alive," Ren Baqian shouted.
"Split up and watch them. If anyone tries to escape, break their legs and keep them alive," Ren Baqian instructed before turning around and leaving.
Everyone looked at him with murderous eyes. If looks could kill, Ren Baqian would have been dead by now.
The night passed. After breakfast the next day, Ren Baqian ordered his men to carry the captives to Wu City. He threw the captives on the ground in front of the city wall so that the people could see them clearly. Ren Baqian then ordered his men to shout, "People in the city, listen up!
"People in the city, listen up. You've been surrounded. Surrender is your only way out!"
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