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Chapter 404 A Disguised "Peace Talk"

Most of these men possessed cultivation levels. Ji Wantang's move wasn't enough to kill them, but it was enough to cripple their cultivation.

Ji Wantang propped her head up with her hand, her gaze sweeping over them indifferently, as if these men of different appearances were not the men with whom she had once shared a marital relationship, but rather strangers.

"The forces behind you sent you here hoping to leverage my influence to give you some benefits. Now that I've lost a match, you're planning to leave. What about all the benefits your forces have taken over the years?"

Those men who hadn't dared to ask Ji Wantang to leave before knelt down and begged for mercy: "Your Highness, spare us! Your Highness, spare us! Even if Your Highness doesn't consider us, you should at least consider the young ladies and gentlemen of your household! Please, Your Highness, give us a way out!"

Ji Wantang scoffed: "In all my years of cultivation, I have only ever plundered others, never been plundered by others. You have the audacity to scheme against me."

She struggled to her feet, her body aching, and seeing her swaying precariously, a boy in the second row gritted his teeth and stood up: "Crazy woman, I'll kill you!"

Ji Wantang reached out, her seemingly slender and delicate hand gently pinching the head of this boy in the throes of first love, and then she gently closed her five fingers together.

The boy's head exploded like a balloon.

The children kneeling on the ground burst into tears, hiding in the arms of their fathers or wet nurses, fearfully avoiding their biological mothers.

Ji Wantang stood with his hands behind his back, glancing around. He saw a little girl standing quietly beside her father, her big eyes looking at him with a melancholy gaze.

For once, Ji Wantang showed a rare curiosity about his children, whom he had never paid much attention to: "What's your name?"

The little girl answered crisply, "Mianmian."

Ji Wantang then noticed that the person kneeling next to the little girl seemed to be her husband, who had always been in charge of things in her household. It seemed that he used to be a leader of the Bright Hall.
It's better not to think about it, because once you start thinking, the memories suddenly pile up.

This leader also seems to be a key figure in helping her gain a foothold in the Bright Hall, because he is the Bright Hall's patriarch's favorite junior.

What's your full name?

Whether it was her daughter's own behavior or the companionship and support she had received from her husband over the years, Ji Wantang had become more patient with his eldest daughter.

The young man in white watched as Ji Wantang picked up her daughter for the first time and replied, "She doesn't have a formal name."

Ji Wantang looked at the little girl in his arms for a while, then glanced at the night outside. "Mianmian is too frail. Let her be named Ji Xingmian. Stars do not lie on mountains and seas, and sitting for a long time does not necessarily lead to sleep. She is in a high position and supports the universe."

She took out a blood-red jade pendant from her sleeve and hung it around her daughter's neck. Looking at the young man in white, her eyes were calm and indifferent: "Take Xingmian to the Ji family on the Heavenly Phoenix Continent and say that she is my daughter. My brother will understand when he sees this jade pendant. Once things are stable here, I will bring you back."

The young man in white seemed to understand something and lowered his head: "Yes."

Even the most clueless among them understood Ji Wantang's meaning and immediately stepped forward, crying and begging for mercy.

The second disciple of the Hehuan Palace sect leader held his son, who was crying uncontrollably, and choked out, "Your Highness, Chenghuan is also your child."

Ji Wantang glanced at the crying baby with disgust, her gaze seemingly carrying a hint of murderous intent, which made the concubine's hands holding the child freeze.

"Your Highness..."

Ji Wantang had already taken the child from his arms and thrown it to a servant standing nearby. She grabbed his neck, her eyes bloodshot: "Are you threatening me?"

"Your Highness, you mustn't!" Ji Xingmian's father couldn't help but step forward and advise, "He is a disciple of the Hehuan Palace. If you accidentally kill him at this time, the Hehuan Palace will have an excuse to leave your side."

Upon hearing this, Ji Wantang threw the man to the ground.

"Then convey my decree: please appoint Ji Chenghuan, the second son of the Prince of Ding's mansion, as the heir apparent of the Prince of Ding."

The second disciple of Hehuan Palace turned deathly pale, unable to believe what he was hearing: "Your Highness..."

Ji Wantang looked at him with a half-smile: "Isn't this what your Hehuan Palace wanted? Now that I've given it to you, you should be happy. As for the rest of you, watch out. You can leave if you want, but you'll have to return all the benefits that the Prince Ding's Mansion has brought you over the years. I, Ji Wantang, have never let anyone take advantage of me for nothing." Her words set the tone for the whole affair. After Ji Xingmian's father had handled the matter according to her wishes, he took his daughter to Ji Wantang's room.

Ji Wantang, dressed in white, sat on the cold jade couch, her face as pale as paper.

"Your Highness."

Ji Wantang opened her eyes: "If I lose again, Lin Zhao will not kill them, and of course, she will not keep my Prince Ding's Mansion alive either."

Luo Shujue asked, "Does Your Highness think you will lose?"

Ji Wantang, unusually, did not answer.

Finally, she had to say the most difficult words to her daughter: "At least, Lin Zhao made me understand that no one can win forever, but I will never lose forever."

Luo Shujue sighed, "I will take Mianmian and her people to the Heavenly Phoenix Continent. For the rest of the journey, regardless of life or death, victory or defeat, I will accompany Your Highness."

Ji Wantang narrowed her eyes and looked at him.

Luo Shujue kept his head down, so Ji Wantang couldn't see his expression, but could hear his voice.

"Luo Shujue will never die after Your Highness."

……

The first thing Lin Zhao did after stepping out of the cave and returning to the Ancestral Phoenix Plane was to send Yang Weiwei back to Yehuang City.

After seeing Yang Weiwei off, Lin Zhao returned to the Phoenix Medicine Sect. She learned from Yun Fei that the selection would probably begin at noon the next day, and that Ji Wantang had not appeared since the day she challenged her to a duel.

There are still some people in the Ancestral Phoenix Plane in the Divine Soul World, so everyone knew about Ji Wantang's defeat in the battle between her and Lin Zhao in the Divine Soul World after the results of their battle were announced.

Yunfei followed Lin Zhao and said to her, "Moreover, it is said that many people are missing from the Prince Ding's mansion. Ji Wantang's eldest daughter was secretly sent back to her hometown. Do you think she is afraid?"

Although Lin Zhao defeated Ji Wantang in the Divine Soul World, he did not feel that he could easily win if Ji Wantang's true body fought against him, let alone that Ji Wantang would be afraid of him.

It should be noted that Ji Wantang's defeat in the Divine Soul World was partly due to underestimating his opponent and his inability to fully control the power of the Ancestral Spirit.

Taking away the Ancient Phoenix's Fate might be a way of freeing Ji Wantang from the power of her ancestral spirit.

If Ji Wantang stops underestimating his opponent and gains a better grasp of the ancestral spirit's power, then his combat strength will definitely see a terrifying increase.

Of course, Lin Zhao was not without ways to improve.

She has not yet used the core power belonging to the Ancestral Dragon.

When the final selection begins, the two will face off again, and it remains to be seen who will emerge victorious.

Lin Zhao shrugged: "Perhaps she just thinks I won't harm other people's lives, but her chosen successor might not be so."

Yunfei blinked: "Isn't it because she thinks you'll win?"

"No, she's telling me that if she wins, she won't harm the people on my side, she'll just suppress them."

Is this a disguised form of reconciliation between the two sides?

Lin Zhao was surprised to discover for the first time how well he knew his opponent, whom he had only met a few times.