Deposed? I couldn't be happier! I wouldn't even be a dog to the crown prince.

The civilians who were frantically trampling and fleeing for their lives on Suzaku Street looked up in disbelief, their faces covered in cold sweat, when they heard a sharp sound of something breaking through the air above them.

Two heavy security mechs slid mechanically through the mud and water.

The heavy machine pressed countless cracks into the hard bluestone pavement.

But in front of that hysterical, crazy scholar.

The Empire's cold-light heavy armor had become a sitting duck, unable to retaliate.

The sound of teeth rubbing against a stainless steel tube drifted down the long street.

It sent chills down the spines of the Guanzhong men around them, who were all wearing brand-new padded jackets.

This unprecedented and bizarre technological spectacle triggered extreme technical panic among retail investors throughout the city within ten minutes.

The artisans in the various workshops who had just received their credits.

He couldn't even hold the hammer in his hand anymore.

Everyone stared intently at their smart bracelets, watching the flickering system waveforms on them, their hearts filled with boundless fear.

"This glowing box can turn living people into carnivorous beasts!"

Someone in the crowd suddenly shouted a stern cry.

Within a microsecond, the situation on the long street began to spiral out of control completely.

The people who were initially just watching began smashing streetlights in protest against the new technology.

Hard blue bricks and gravel rained down on the holographic LED tubes of the streetlights.

It made a crisp, crackling sound, like physical shattering.

One by one, the neon lights symbolizing a vibrant, sleepless world went out.

The long street was plunged back into a dark, ancient gloom.

"Smash all these sorcery components! Make the Crown Prince return the original Tang Dynasty to us!"

The refugees, their eyes red, waved their carrying poles.

Those originally sophisticated sensors were smashed, leaving bright blue sparks scattered all over the ground.

This anti-technology frenzy is spreading from the bottom up.

Following the high palace walls of Daming Palace, the wave-breaking shield.

It was projected onto the giant control panel in the side hall of the Taiji Hall without any obstruction.

The security waveform of the entire Guanzhong Province turned a deep, almost blood-red color in that single second.

As Li Shimin watched the surveillance footage in the Taiji Hall, he was no longer filled with rage, but rather with a deep-seated "feudal emperor's technological fear."

The old man gripped the chipped Tian Ce sword tightly.

Cold sweat dripped from my palms down the anti-slip grooves on the knife handle.

His eyes were bloodshot.

What shines now is no longer the ferocity of yesteryear, but an absolute terror in the face of something incomprehensible.

This code, capable of directly obliterating the rationality of mortals, made him feel as if he were sitting on the top of a volcano that could physically melt down at any moment.

"This is not just ordinary troublemaking by unruly citizens."

Li Shimin's voice was hoarse.

The wide sleeves of the dragon robe trembled unconsciously in the air.

"Those old rats from the aristocratic families are using these brainless peasants as bait."

Poisoning right under my nose.

Today they can get a scholar to bite through the steel pipes of a dragon rider mech.

Tomorrow they can issue a command in the code to send all the people of this city into the Daming Palace to strangle me!

This fear touched upon the very core of hereditary imperial power.

Let the old man do it within one millisecond.

They completely abandoned Wu Zetian's previous technical advice regarding the loss of digital assets.

In the logic of feudal rulers, if a force cannot be physically controlled, its best fate is to be completely physically annihilated.

"Wang De! Don't press that button for the Cybersecurity Department!"

Li Shimin suddenly turned around, his face as lifeless as a piece of raw iron.

He bypassed Wu Zetian and directly gave the Imperial Guards a death order to prepare for a physical encirclement of the city's supercomputing center.

"Issue my special military tally to Xu Xiao, commander of the Xuanjia Guard!"

The old man's trembling right hand pulled a heavy, pure black iron tiger talisman from his pocket and slammed it hard onto the dragon table.

It produced a dull, metallic clanging sound.

"So that he doesn't need to read out any of the new laws of the Tang Dynasty!"

Immediately mobilize three fully equipped heavy armored vehicle divisions to completely surround and destroy all the ancestral computing power rooms in the west and south of the city!

"Use the most primitive physical cannons to blast all those metal boxes connected to the internet cables into scrap metal!"

Changsun Wuji, kneeling at the foot of the steps, was deathly pale.

The fat muscles on his face twitched violently from excessive tension.

He knew all too well the weight of this instruction.

Once the army physically breaches the gate, it will uproot the cyber foundation of the Tang Dynasty.

"Your Majesty, once these cannons fire, we'll truly never get our money back in the virtual world!"

"Shut up! What do you need money for if you're dead?!"

Li Shimin roared hysterically.

"Xu Xiao! Listen to me!"

If the cybersecurity department of the Empress dares to use code to block you, then you should use a physical battering ram to smash open the door to their server room for me!

"Before midnight tonight, I want to see all the cables in the Taiji Hall physically severed!"

Underground in the south of Chang'an City, on the outskirts of the Tang Dynasty's first quantum supercomputing center.

The heavy armored chariots of the Imperial Guards have already deployed their battle grid.

The tracks rolled over the muddy streets, making a sickeningly loud, physical friction sound.

The dark, gaping alloy muzzle had locked firmly onto the physical cooling tower in the server room.

The soldiers held their offline physical muskets level, their heavy iron boots pounding the bluestone slabs with a uniform, booming sound.

Just three seconds before the Imperial Guards' armored boots reached the entrance of the supercomputer room, and the entire Datang network was hanging by a thread.

The atmosphere was so heavy that even the moisture in the air seemed to freeze.

Lieutenant Xu Xiao held the command flag, representing the highest level of annihilation, with his right finger already hovering above the physical lever for firing the cannon.

As long as he presses his palm down.

The glorious era of the Tang Dynasty, which had been painstakingly built up, would be destroyed amidst the roar of this physical cannon.

We've completely regressed to the era of oxcarts.

"three!"

Captain Xu Xiao's eyes, hidden beneath his mask, were fixed on the alloy door.

"two!"

The soldiers' fingers were gripping the triggers tightly, and cold sweat trickled down their foreheads along the edge of their helmets.

However, in that most fatal final second...

The offline control panel inside the Taiji Hall of Daming Palace suddenly emitted a sharp technical whistle.

Wu Zetian didn't use her physical body to stop it; instead, she used a massive, overwhelming data surge across the entire internet to completely crush Li Shimin's control.

"Your Majesty, since you intend to resolve this with physical cannons, then I will first have all the capital in the land buried with the imperial power!"

Within that microsecond, Wu Zetian's holographic projection completely transformed into the coldest, deepest blue.

Her beautiful, data-driven fingers left dense afterimages in the air.

A ghastly white waterfall stretched across the entire screen.

It was like the Milky Way falling from the ninth heaven.

It carries a massive payload of hundreds of millions of short-selling orders.

It was brutally dumped into all the royal level-two settlement grids under Li Shimin's name.

"Error! The system has detected forced liquidation of assets by the highest-ranking legal entity!"

"Closed positions! Forced liquidation! Royal Vault reserve loss rate: 90%!"

The red light on the control panel instantly turned Li Shimin's old face a ghastly green.

Those golden characters representing the royal private treasury.

Within one ten-thousandth of a millisecond.

The data waterfall unleashed by Wu Zetian washed away everything, leaving not a trace.

The old man stared blankly at the Royal main panel, which had turned gray and closed.

His two calloused hands hung in mid-air.

But no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't find any physical buttons that could be used to exert force.

"You...you vixen, are you really going to rebel?!"

Li Shimin clutched his chest, his eyes red with pain.

He had won countless battles in his life, but he had never felt so frustrated as he did today.

Before the cannon even fired, his wallet had already been formatted by the algorithm.

This feeling of powerlessness in the face of absolute digital hegemony.

He was so angry that he couldn't even breathe.

"Your Majesty, I am saving these refugees, and I am also saving your empire."

Wu Meiniang's cold voice echoed in the deathly silent hall.

She pointed to the Imperial Guard mechanical dogs that had suddenly frozen at the entrance of the supercomputing center due to the asset freeze.

Faced with the highest generational difference of Tian Shu.

Ordinary armies and weapons cannot even penetrate the most basic anti-counterfeiting code.

The atmosphere in the side hall of Daming Palace was so heavy it was almost palpable.

"So, tonight I'm just stuck here on this cold bench, watching hordes of peasants in the entire Tang Dynasty turn into idiots?!"

Li Shimin slammed the chipped Tian Ce sword in his hand onto the floor tiles with a loud clang.

The old man's eyes were wide open, and the gold thread on his dragon robe gleamed with a dazzling contrast under the cold light.

"No power outages, no firing—who can come and wipe out this filthy code hiding in the gutter with a single click?!"

In that very minute, as Changsun Wuji and Fang Xuanling trembled violently and the entire side hall was plunged into the deepest despair...

The golden sun logo at the top of the console symbolizes the top master planner.

Suddenly, without warning, a dazzling aurora burst forth.

The light was dazzling.

In an instant, the pale white and scarlet hues of the entire hall were violently washed away.

Finally, Li Chengqian intervened and used Algorithm 2.0 to forcibly take over the old man's highest power-off authority!

In the center of the large screen, Li Chengqian's floral shirt with coconut tree patterns fluttered in the sea breeze on the other side of the ocean.

He casually pushed up his black aviator sunglasses on the bridge of his nose.

A cynical yet icy smile played on his lips.

"Old man, put away that bandit-like temper of yours, always wanting to use the red cannon to bombard the mainframe."

Li Chengqian took a sip of cola, his cool voice piercing through the transoceanic fiber optic cable, bringing out a burst of hardcore technological thunder in the deathly silent hall.

"Since powerful families like to use human lives as a cheat code."

Tonight, I will hang a special red-headed agreement on the base of this Heavenly Pivot, mandating a nationwide, mandatory addiction-free regime for them.

Xu Xiao, tell your Xuanjia Guards to put away their muskets.

"Notify the Wannian County government that tomorrow night at midnight, I will physically delete all these illegally connected, filthy codes from the entire network at the digital execution ground in Second Chang'an, along with their entire family's nine-generation household registration records."