r18novel Chapter 21 If I still had time, I would give you all of mine.
Chapter 21 If I still had time, I would give you all of mine.
Cheng Xiao, wearing a pure white fox fur coat, slowly stepped down from the carriage with the help of a palace attendant.
He was thin and frail, and although it was early summer, he was still dressed in thick clothes. When he got off the bus, he covered his mouth with a handkerchief and coughed lightly twice.
Before this million-strong army, he was so frail that he seemed as if a gust of wind could blow him over.
But in Chu Ning's eyes, the teacher was still as great as ever.
Even the million-strong army before him is not as important as him alone.
Chu Ning had clearly given up hope, but the teacher still came.
For some reason, she felt a little like crying.
Unfortunately, she was no longer the timid little girl she once was. She was the King of Chu, the monarch of the Great Chu, and the commander of this million-strong army.
She kept all those tears inside.
"Teacher..." The moment she opened her mouth, Chu Ning found that her voice was a little choked up, and even her hands were trembling slightly.
She didn't even care about the majesty of a monarch, and quickly walked down the long steps of the command platform to stand in front of Cheng Xiao.
"How can Teacher's body be exposed to the wind outside the palace?" Chu Ning hurriedly tried to remove her cold arm guards to help him, but she was afraid that the cold iron and murderous aura on her body would offend him.
"It's alright, let's see His Majesty off."
Cheng Xiao reached out and gently tidied Chu Ning's wind-blown hair, just like he had done many years ago.
"Ning'er, go, go and conquer this world."
Chu Ning's body trembled. She wanted to grab her teacher's hand, but she knew she couldn't.
Since she became the Queen of Chu, her teacher never called her "Ning'er" again, only addressing her as "Your Majesty".
At first, she felt a bit distant, but she gradually got used to it.
Hearing that title again now almost made her lose control of her emotions.
If she could, she wouldn't want to be the King of Chu at all.
She only wanted to be a student of her teacher.
"I will, teacher, I will. I will definitely conquer this world and then present it to you with both hands." She said through gritted teeth, suppressing the overwhelming emotions surging within her.
Cheng Xiao looked into Chu Ning's eyes, and found a hint of determination hidden within those usually calm eyes.
He spoke slowly, as if making his final arrangements: "When this chaotic world ends, if I still have time, I will give you all of mine."
When Cheng Xiao finished speaking, Chu Ning felt as if the world had fallen silent.
Although the teacher phrased it tactfully, she certainly understood what the teacher meant.
It was just a casual remark, but it sent a chill down Chu Ning's spine.
"If I have any time left, I'll give it all to you."
Chu Ning even pondered in his mind what his teacher had just said.
She was even afraid that everything before her eyes was just a dream.
Chu Ning never expected that her teacher would be willing to accept her, and after fulfilling his grand ambition of "creating peace for all generations," he would shed his identity as a chess player and become Chu Ning's teacher alone!
All the awkward feelings I had before vanished, leaving only an indescribable joy in my heart!
She didn't ask any more questions, nor did she expose the despairing and cruel truth behind the phrase "if there's still time."
"Teacher, wait for me! Ning'er will definitely rush back to see you as quickly as possible!"
She needs to hurry, even faster!
Chu Ning suddenly stood up. When she stepped onto the command platform again and turned to face the million-strong army, her beautiful face was filled with nothing but tyranny and murderous intent that seemed to want to burn the world to ashes.
She raised the Emperor's Sword high, and the dark red aura transformed into a pillar of blood that shot straight into the sky!
That hoarse and frenzied roar echoed throughout the entire plain:
"The three armies of Great Chu, heed my command! Crush Great Zhou and avenge our fallen soldiers!"
With Chu Ning's shout, the roar of the million-strong army shattered the clouds in the sky.
The battle was fierce back then.
Most of the soldiers who have joined the army today have a blood feud with the Great Zhou Dynasty.
Now the time for revenge has finally come.
The war machine of the Great Chu, which had been suppressed for five years, was finally ignited.
Cheng Xiao, who was standing below the stage, was helped back into the carriage by the eunuch.
Through the crack in the car window, he watched Chu Ning's resolute back, but his eyes were as calm as a stagnant pool.
The favorability rating there has reached 99, the highest ever.
After Chu Ning unified the six kingdoms, he only had one last move left, and the first task given to him by the system was also coming to an end.
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The Great Chu Dynasty was in its 437th year.
The general trend of the world began to change from this year.
The million-strong army of the Great Chu completely shattered the false peace that had lasted only five years.
In the first year of the war, the Great Chu attacked the Great Zhou under the pretext of avenging past grievances.
Everyone said that the Great Zhou cavalry was invincible, but after just a few attempts to sow discord, the Great Zhou fell into internal chaos. The 300,000 cavalrymen were forced to fight each other and fall apart due to the lack of food supplies.
Chu Ning personally led the Xuanjia Army to conquer the Zhou capital and slaughtered the entire Zhou royal family.
The saying goes, "If the lips are gone, the teeth will be cold." The Great Yan, which was dependent on the Great Zhou, couldn't even organize a decent resistance. The King of Yan then held up the imperial seal and surrendered the city.
The Great Yan dynasty perished without a fight. Although the royal family of Great Yan surrendered, they could not escape the fate of extermination.
In just one year, the Great Chu conquered two countries in succession and completely controlled the entire north.
From then on, the seven kingdoms became five.
Everyone believed that the Great Chu, which had conquered two countries and dominated the north, would stop to recuperate and digest its enormous gains, and would not continue its southward advance.
Many strategists asserted that the Great Chu merely wanted to avenge the humiliation of the past.
The Great Yong, the overlord of the Central Plains, was filled with a sense of侥幸 (a sense of luck or elation).
They sent envoys, voluntarily ceding thirteen border cities and offering countless gold, silver, jewels, and beautiful women.
They even opened their doors wide, establishing a prosperous trade relationship with the Great Chu.
Chu Ning sat high in the army's command tent, accepting all the benefits from Dayong without expression, and watched the Dayong envoys leave with gratitude.
Everyone in the world thought that peace was on its way.
However, the warhorses of the Great Chu did not even have their saddles removed.
Just when the people of Dayong thought they had bought a century of peace with money, the iron cavalry of Dachu, under Chu Ning's sword, directly trampled the newly opened trade route of Dayong and drove straight in without warning!
There was no declaration of war, no moral justification, and not even a pretext, not even a superficial one.
When attacking the Great Zhou and Great Yan, Chu Ning also used revenge as a pretext.
This time, however, without any reason, they directly tore up all the treaties signed with Dayong.
In this bloody blitzkrieg devoid of any credibility, the bloated and corrupt Dayong collapsed, and not a single member of the Dayong royal family survived.
Chu Ning proved to the world through his actions that rules and morality are useless in the face of absolute hegemony.
Scholars throughout the land wrote articles denouncing the Great Chu for its lack of morality and saying that the Great Chu had lost its rites and music.
But none of this could prevent the complete demise of the largest dynasty in the Central Plains.
The once remote northern Chu state has now completely taken control of the Central Plains.
Only at this moment did the remaining three kingdoms and the remnants of those kingdoms that had long been destroyed finally awaken completely in extreme fear.
What this Empress of Chu wanted was neither ceding territory nor paying reparations, nor was it about establishing trade relations.
What she wanted was the unification of the world and the absolute annihilation of all royal powers!
In the end, the world was conquered by Chu, leaving only the state of Chu.
She wants to be the ruler of everyone in the world!