Daqian Night Emperor

Chapter 1 She's Just Playful
In the 59th year of the Tenmu calendar, Kyoto, the Princess's Mansion.

In the side courtyard, a young man sat by the pond, sharpening his sword with an expressionless face.

Behind him stood a maid, eight feet tall, with a build as big as a mountain, a face full of fat, and extremely ugly.

The ugly woman looked at the young man silently sharpening his sword, timid and timid, and said after a while: "Sir, don't take it seriously, the princess is just playful..."

"I know, I didn't take it personally."

The young man spoke slowly and calmly, revealing a refined air.

He bent down, scooped up a handful of water from the pool, poured it onto the grindstone, and continued sharpening as before.

The sword blade scraped against the stone surface, making a creepy sound that made people's teeth ache.

The ugly woman was so angry that she bared her teeth and said, "You don't look like you don't take it to heart. Sir, the blade of your knife is almost worn out."

"This is not a knife, this is a sword. Sharpening the sword is not the purpose. I am comprehending the way of the sword through the process of sharpening the sword."

The ugly woman just curled her lips in response to the young man's explanation.

Who doesn't know that the Third Princess's husband is a useless person without any talent in martial arts?

However, this prince consort is also a miserable man.

Having witnessed such a thing with his own eyes, he could only stay here, sharpening his knife to vent his anger, and he didn't even have the courage to question the princess.

The young man probably saw what the ugly woman was thinking, and he waved his sleeves: "Don't bother me, go away."

"Well, Master, please don't do anything stupid! The princess has guards around her... and don't rub it on your neck!"

“Tsk tsk!”

After the ugly woman left, the young man reluctantly sat back on his small stool. Looking at the increasingly thin iron sword in his hand, he sighed softly, "How come no one believes the truth these days?"

"Forget it, leave her alone!"

He leaned over and continued to sharpen the iron sword, with a gleam in his eyes that no one noticed.

[Kendo Perception +1]

[Kendo Perception +1]

【kendo……】

……

I was already twenty-eight years old when I came to this world.

Zhao Qi'an was very lucky. He was born into the Zhao family of Donghai in this life, which was the richest family in Daqian. It was no exaggeration to say that the family was rich enough to rival a country.

However, although they were rich, the Zhao family's history of prosperity was too short. It only took them twenty years to go from being a local tyrant to the richest family that controlled the economic lifeline of the entire Daqian.

The Zhao family lacks foundation in the court.

The richer the Zhao family is, the more they look like a piece of fat meat.

Surrounded by wolves, everyone wants to eat this piece of fat meat, but there are two conditions for eating this piece of fat meat:

power.

And the price you are willing to pay.

The most powerful person in the Daqian Kingdom is none other than the current emperor.

At this time, the Daqian Kingdom suffered from disasters year after year, with famines followed by wars. After twenty years of chaos, the national treasury had been in deficit for years and had long been unable to make ends meet.

The emperor has power but no money.

The Zhao family has money but no power.

Just right, they hit it off right away.

The Zhao family almost offset the national treasury's years of losses in one go, and the money and grain they donated were comparable to the tax revenue of the Daqian period for 50 years.

The Zhao family also gained a lot because of this. The head of the Zhao family, Zhao Wanjin, was granted the title of Duke of Donghai, and his son Zhao Qi'an was given the title of Viscount and Viscount Haiqing.

His Majesty even personally issued an edict to betroth the third princess of the dynasty to Zhao Qi'an.

The third princess of the dynasty was given the title "Yuzhen". She was only ten years old when the marriage decree was issued.

Zhao Qi'an was ordered to come to the capital at the age of eighteen. He waited for five years in Kyoto Prefecture before Princess Yuzhen came of age. Only then was he allowed to marry her.

Now.

Zhao Qi'an and Princess Yuzhen have been married for five years.

But during these five years, the total time the two of them spent together was less than a month.

Not to mention playing the clapping game with Princess Yuzhen under the covers at night, he had never even held her hand.

Even more tragic was that today, he personally witnessed Princess Yuzhen and another person making love in the Princess's Mansion.

This was Zhao Qi'an's first thought.

"It's over, I was tricked into marriage!"

This was Zhao Qi'an's second thought.

But in the end, Zhao Qi'an just watched silently for a while, then returned to the side courtyard where he lived and silently sharpened his sword.

Even in the eyes of his personal maid, the prince consort was just furious and impotent.

But this behavior, which seemed helpless and furious to others, had already started yesterday when Zhao Qian'an began.

……

[Kendo Perception +1]

[Kendo Perception +1]

[The time to borrow your life has come. You have completed the achievement "Sharpening the Sword Ten Thousand Times" and have lit up: Path of the Sword Immortal]

When the last voice sounded in his mind, Zhao Qian stopped sharpening the sword.

He picked up the iron sword in his hand and looked at it. The sword had been polished to a thin layer. Although it was sharp, the blade was too soft and made a "ringing" sound when it was shaken slightly.

But in the next second.

Zhao Qi'an waved his hand casually, and the originally soft sword became hard, and a residual image passed through the air.

By the pond, the extremely hard whetstone silently split in two, with the cut neat and smooth.

Sword energy!

If you want to cultivate sword energy, it is impossible to do it without decades of hard work.

But Zhao Qi'an planned everything and accomplished it in just one day.

Such talent is simply amazing!
And all of this originated from the golden finger that was activated after he traveled to this world.

"Who would have thought that the game I made would travel through time? I should have made a 'private server' version earlier."

Zhao Qi'an had a lot of complaints about this, but in fact he was already very satisfied.

At least in this world, he has the ability to protect himself.

He stood up and was about to perform some sword techniques in the yard, but as he stood up, he noticed the banyan tree behind the gate of the yard out of the corner of his eye.

"Ah Chou, that tree can't block your body, come out!"

As soon as Zhao Qian'an scolded him, the ugly slave came out from behind the banyan tree in a shy manner.

When his eyes fell on the ugly slave's fleshy face, a light blue screen appeared in his eyes:

[Name: Holo Jiao]

【Bone age: 21】

[Life: Beauty that brings disaster to the country (gold), Strong as a mountain (purple), Princess of a fallen country (purple), Hardworking and able to endure hardships (blue), Proficient in needlework (white), Proficient in cooking (white), Miser (grey)...]

【Loyalty: 60】

[Qualification: A-level (can be expanded to view attributes such as root bone, comprehension, and fortune)]

[Cultivation: Rakshasa (comparable to the fifth-grade Zhoutian)]

[Do you want to lend him your life? After borrowing his life, you will randomly draw a fate entry, and there is a chance to see through a "destiny node" of the borrower]

This is the golden finger that Zhao Qian brought with him when he traveled to this world. It is the system of a fairy-hero development game that he developed himself in his previous life.

He can see through other people's fate and extract a line from it to use on himself.

For example, if Zhao Qi'an could draw the fate entry of Chou Nu, he would immediately possess strength far beyond that of ordinary people.

But in addition to the positive entries of gold, purple, blue, green and white, everyone also has negative entries of gray and black.

Grey entries were fine, but black entries… were most likely lethal.

Although it is good to draw words, you should use them with caution.

However, the real power of Zhao Qi'an's golden finger is not limited to extracting entries, its real amazing power lies in -

[Your servant "Holo Jiao" is undergoing flesh and blood training]

[Your strength has been slightly improved]

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