Douluo: Divine Fire Xuanyuan

Chapter 565 Xu Tianzhen surrenders; Yuwen Tuo calls her "Sister".
With a single song, Xiao Xiao vanquished three evils, lit up all seven soul rings representing the seven emotions, and obtained the divine artifact Morning Dew Blade, greatly increasing her strength.

More importantly, it represents a significant step forward in the inheritance of the position of the God of Emotions.

But she wasn't very happy either, because of the passing of her friend.

Qiu'er carefully collected the soul bones dropped by the evil soul master and stepped forward, saying, "Xiao Xiao, let's take Mr. Kaiya back to the city lord's mansion."

Xiao Xiao nodded, "Okay!"

The two brought Kaiya's body back to the city, where countless people wept uncontrollably upon seeing it.

This shows how good a reputation and how high a prestige Kaiya had in Dongyang City before.

After the body was returned to Kaiya's family, a little girl stepped forward and asked, "Big sisters, will you help Uncle the City Lord avenge him?"

Xiao Xiao gently patted the little girl's head. "We will, because Guigu always repays kindness and avenges wrongs. We will always remember the grudges of our friends."

After saying that, Xiao Xiao looked at Qiu'er and said with a fierce gaze, "Qiu'er, let's go and meet up with Tuotuo. This time, we must completely eradicate the Holy Spirit Cult."

"Okay!" The two girls took off together and flew towards Mingdu.

Although they had been searching for evil spirit masters, they were not ignoring news from the mainland, and they had heard about it in the past few days.

Yuwen Tuo has already led his army into the Sun Moon Empire. With his strength, it won't be long before he can reach Mingdu.

Having suffered several heavy blows in succession, the ninth-level soul masters of the Sun Moon Empire's Hall of Worship, as well as their most prized guardians, have been almost completely wiped out, leaving them with no strength left to resist Yuwen Tuo.

Just as they had expected, the Heavenly Soul Army, led by Yuwen Tuo, advanced with unstoppable momentum.

The army won one victory after another, and its morale was high.

And those graduates from Shrek Academy, fueled by their hatred for the Sun Moon Empire, fought the fiercest.

Yuwen Tuo wouldn't deliberately use tricks to send them to their deaths in the war, but he was happy to watch Shrek Academy and the Sun Moon Empire fight to the death.

Although these Shrek remnants can no longer cause much trouble, it's better to have fewer of them.

In less than a month, the Heavenly Soul Empire had swept through half of the Sun Moon Empire, and at this moment they were less than a hundred miles away from Mingdu.

Xu Guozhong had already abandoned the city and fled. This emperor was inferior to Xu Tianran in every way, and had no trace of the qualities of a ruthless hero.

However, he was still the emperor, and Kong Deming, who was blindly loyal, continued to protect him during his retreat. As for where they retreated to, it was obvious without even thinking about it.

On the mainland today, where else is there a force that still has the potential to resist Yuwen Tuo?
At this moment, Mingdu is in complete chaos. There is no one in charge, and all the nobles and officials do not know what to do.

However, at this moment, someone stepped forward. It was Xu Tianzhen, the only daughter of the former Sun and Moon Emperor.

Although Xu Tianzhen is innocent and adorable, she is by no means without a sense of responsibility. At this time, she took on the responsibilities of the royal family.

She declared, in her capacity as the only daughter of the Sun and Moon Emperor, that Xu Guozhong had abandoned the city and fled, and was therefore unworthy to be emperor.

As the only remaining descendant of the Sun and Moon Emperor, she was entrusted with the mission of temporarily assuming the throne during a time of crisis.

In fact, Xu Tianzhen did not covet the imperial power. Rather, she could see that the Sun Moon Empire was doomed and that if the fighting continued, it would only lead to widespread suffering.

Therefore, she planned to have the Sun Moon Empire surrender to the Heavenly Soul Empire to end the war and reduce the bloodshed.

But not everyone has the right to surrender; there must be someone with a valid reason to do so. Xu Tianzhen volunteered to be the ruler of this fallen kingdom. When Yuwen Tuo led his army to Mingdu, the largest city without city walls, he saw Xu Tianzhen leading the officials and nobles who remained in the city, kneeling on the ground waiting for them.

Yuwen Tuo immediately understood her intention and quickly stepped forward to help her up. Xu Tianzhen smiled slightly, "Little brother, I actually knew this day would come, but I didn't expect it to come so soon."

“We have different stances, so I won’t apologize to you for what I did, but I’m still very grateful to you,” Yuwen Tuo said. In his heart, his grandfather was a citizen of the Heavenly Soul Empire, so he was naturally a citizen of the Heavenly Soul Empire as well. Fighting for one’s country was a matter of course.

Therefore, he would not feel any guilt towards Xu Tianzhen.

However, he was sincerely grateful to her for stepping forward at this time to take responsibility and reduce the killing in the war.

Having fought to this extent, there are quite a few people who can see that the Sun Moon Empire is doomed. The garrisons in various parts of the Sun Moon Empire are also very clear about this. At this point, if the Sun Moon royal family or even the emperor takes the lead in surrendering, they will naturally have a way to stop resisting and will not have to bear the crime of treason.

Admittedly, an emperor succeeded by someone like Xu Tianzhen would not be recognized by the entire Sun Moon Empire.

However, anyone who doesn't want to continue fighting will turn a blind eye and take this step.

Xu Tianzhen's surrender, even if it couldn't completely pacify the Sun and Moon region in one fell swoop, at least reduced the number of battles by 70%.

Xu Tianzhen smiled and said, "Little brother, I have never blamed you. It's all fate."

After saying this, she stepped forward and respectfully bowed to Vina, "Your Majesty, Xu Tianzhen surrenders and begs Your Majesty to stop the war and stop harming my Sun and Moon soldiers."

Vina stepped forward and said, “Innocent Princess, I am Vina, the Empress of the Heavenly Soul Empire. Now, in the name of the Empress, I accept the surrender of your Sun Moon Empire.”

"You are a man of great understanding and righteousness. I wish to bestow upon you the title of Grand Duchess of our country, a hereditary title. Do you have any other requests?"

The continent is not yet fully unified. The Sun Moon Empire is just the first one to be dealt with. Vina also wants to show the people of Douling and Xingluo that as long as they sincerely surrender, she will not make things too difficult for them.

In this way, if she were to attack these two countries in the future, it might weaken their will to resist.

Xu Tianzhen replied, "Thank you, Your Majesty. I do indeed have another request, and I ask that Your Majesty grant it."

“Go ahead,” Vina said.

"Your Majesty, I don't care about anything else now, except my family. Please, Your Majesty, plead with my brother for me. I will stay with him from now on. He must not send me away and must call me sister." Xu Tianzhen was indeed still the same innocent little princess. Her final request once again revealed her simple and straightforward nature.

Vina smiled. "Well... I can only try for you, junior brother. I think your sister is quite sincere. Why don't you take her back with you?"

In fact, Vina felt that there was nothing wrong with Xu Tianzhen following Yuwen Tuo. If she stayed in Sun Moon Empire, who knows what kind of trouble some die-hard Sun Moon Empire loyalists would cause her, such as to restore the country. Wouldn't that just cause her trouble? With Yuwen Tuo watching over her, she could feel more at ease.

“I don’t really care, but after I retire, I’ll probably live in Shiwa Village. She used to be a princess, can she stand this kind of impoverished life?” Yuwen Tuo said.

Xu Tianzhen immediately said, "I can take it, I absolutely can. Anyway, I don't usually like being served. Brother, please, you're my only family."

"Alright, then, sister, I welcome you." Yuwen Tuo hesitated for a moment, but finally called out. Although his physical bloodline was no longer related to Xu Tianzhen, emotionally, he had already accepted Xu Tianzhen.

Xu Tianzhen was taken aback. "Did you just call me 'sister'? Could you call me that again?"

Yuwen Tuo nodded. "Sister, let's go home together after the war is over!"

"That's great, that's great! This is the first time you've called me 'sister'!" Xu Tianzhen jumped over and hugged Yuwen Tuo's neck. "Well, once everything is over, we'll go home."

(End of this chapter)