Hurt my loved ones? I'm not guarding this country's borders anymore!

"I only have one question for you!"

"Does this northern border listen to the barking of a mere eunuch, or to the orders of Shen Jinglong?!"

Shen Jinglong had just finished speaking.

His response was a deafening roar.

"We swear to follow Commander Long to the death!"

"I swear to follow Commander Long to the death!!"

The sound even shook the dark clouds in the sky, causing some of them to disperse.

Li Fu, the chief eunuch who had been a powerful figure in the imperial palace, was now slumped in the mud.

His proud imperial authority and the hundreds of golden-armored guards whose legs trembled with fear were as fragile as a joke in the face of the 300,000-strong army that had just gone on a killing spree.

"You...you..."

Li Fu pointed at Shen Jinglong with a trembling finger, his delicate fingers shaking.

"Shen Jinglong! You're really making things difficult for yourself!"

"When I return, I will certainly report the truth to the King! You can expect the extermination of your entire clan!"

Even at this point, all he could do was resort to those intimidating words that no longer held any power, trying to maintain the last shred of his ridiculous dignity.

Shen Jinglong didn't even lift his eyelids.

"Execute his entire family?"

He sneered, about to take a step forward and shut this noisy fly up completely.

"Hey——!"

Suddenly, a sharp, piercing cry of an eagle ripped through the sky.

Immediately afterwards, a black falcon, entirely black except for a single red feather tied to its talons, swooped down like a black lightning bolt, piercing through the layers of blockade and heading straight for Shen Jinglong.

That was a top-secret urgent document from the Black Dragon Palace.

Only those who bring about the extermination of an entire family will be issued red feathers.

Shen Jinglong's expression changed slightly.

He raised his arm, and the fierce black falcon landed steadily on his blood-stained arm guard.

Remove the mailbox.

Unfold.

There was only a crumpled piece of paper.

The note was stained with what appeared to be ink or tear stains, and the handwriting was crooked and messy, suggesting that the writer was in a state of extreme panic.

But Shen Jinglong recognized the handwriting at a glance.

It belongs to my younger sister, Shen Yishi.

"Brother! Come back quickly!"

"Those monsters are back... No, this time it's different! They don't look human! My sister-in-law fainted while protecting Sisi, and Baicaotang is about to fall... Brother, I'm so scared..."

Just a few lines.

Shen Jinglong's heart stopped when he saw it.

monster?

Doesn't look human?

Is it even more terrifying than the previous "Holy Lord" forces?

The image of Sisi's pale face and Qin Xuerong's struggling to support the family flashed before his eyes.

An unprecedented surge of ferocity exploded in his chest.

That killing intent was a hundred times more terrifying than when facing a million enemy soldiers!

"Damn it!"

The note in Shen Jinglong's hand instantly turned to ashes.

"What? Scared?"

Although Li Fu on the ground couldn't see the contents of the letter, he noticed the change in Shen Jinglong's expression and assumed that he was afraid of the king's wrath.

Li Fu immediately perked up, climbed out of the mud, dusted himself off, and said in a sarcastic tone:

"Shen Jinglong, now you're scared? Too late!"

"Weren't you very arrogant when you tore up the imperial edict? Why aren't you being so cocky anymore?"

"Kneel down now and kowtow three times to me, and I might be able to put in a good word for you before the King..."

"Snapped!"

Before Li Fu could finish speaking, he was sent flying.

He spun three and a half times in the air before landing face down, sliding five or six meters in the muddy puddle mixed with blood before finally coming to a stop.

Half of his face was swollen like a steamed pig's head, and his teeth were shattered all over the floor.

"Noisy."

Shen Jinglong withdrew his hand, not even bothering to look at him.

"Azure Dragon".

"Here!" Despite his serious injuries, Qinglong stepped forward.

Shen Jinglong untied the heavy black dragon commander's seal from his waist, which represented the supreme power of the Northern Territory.

This great seal can mobilize 300,000 iron cavalry and make the entire northern border tremble; it is the pinnacle of power that countless people dream of.

But at this moment, Shen Jinglong tossed it at Qinglong as if it were a piece of scrap metal.

"Receive the seal."

Qinglong instinctively reached out and caught it, completely dumbfounded.

"Dragon... Dragon General?! What are you doing?!"

Not only Qinglong, but all the soldiers around him, including Li Fu who had just gotten up, were dumbfounded.

That's the commander's seal!

They are the lifeblood of the North!

Just like that... you threw it away?

"This northern border is now in your hands."

Shen Jinglong's voice was frighteningly calm, yet it conveyed an undeniable resolve.

"I have more important things to do."

"Where...where are you going?" Qinglong held the commander's seal, feeling that this thing was heavier than the million enemy soldiers.

"go home."

Shen Jinglong uttered two words.

Simple and straightforward.

"go home?"

Li Fu spat out a mouthful of blood and screamed in disbelief, his voice as shrill as fingernails scraping a blackboard, "Shen Jinglong! Have you gone mad? Without the King's orders, you left the country without permission and even abandoned your command seal! This is treason! This is rebellion!!"

"rebel?"

Shen Jinglong stopped and turned around.

His bloodshot eyes were fixed on Li Fu, as if looking through Li Fu at the distant, high-ranking capital city.

"You can think of it that way."

Shen Jinglong slowly walked up to Li Fu.

The overwhelming sense of oppression caused Li Fu to collapse to the ground again, and a surge of heat uncontrollably flowed down his trouser leg.

I was so scared I peed my pants.

He really peed.

"Go back and tell the man sitting on the dragon throne."

Shen Jinglong's voice wasn't loud, but every word was like a chisel, striking the hearts of everyone present.

"I held the northern border. I drove back the enemy."

"I don't care about this commander's seal."

"But let me make this clear from the start."

Shen Jinglong stomped his foot hard on the muddy ground in front of Li Fu.

"boom!"

The earth is cracked.

"If anything were to happen to my daughter, not only would it be a mere Prince of Anle, but the entire Dragon Kingdom..."

"I, Shen Jinglong, will personally tear it down!"

These words struck like a thunderclap, sending chills down everyone's spines.

mad!

That's insane!

He dared to threaten the entire world for the sake of his daughter!

This is Shen Jinglong.

This is the "doting father".

On his scales, one side was the fate of the nation, and the other was a single hair of his daughter's head.

Even a fool would know that he would choose the latter without hesitation.

"Backup machine!"

Shen Jinglong stopped talking and strode towards the "Kunpeng" transport plane that hadn't yet turned off its engine.

"Old Zhang! Step on the gas! Full speed ahead back to Cangcheng!"

"Alright, Commander Long! Buckle up! This old man is about to take you flying!"

Old Zhang was a ruthless man; without saying a word, he started the engine.

The massive transport plane roared deafeningly as it slid along the muddy runway, soaring into the sky with an unwavering momentum!

All that remained were a group of dumbfounded people on the ground, and Qinglong, who was still holding the commander's seal and looking completely bewildered.

"Commander Long... is he really gone?" The one-eyed man from the Northwest rubbed his eyes.

"I'm gone."

Qinglong gripped the commander's seal tightly, watching the plane disappear into the clouds, his eyes filled with reverence.

"That's our boss."

"No one, not even the King of Heaven, can make him bow down, but for his family, he'd even dare to rip a hole in the sky."

He turned around, looked at Li Fu who was still trembling, and his eyes instantly turned cold.

"Steward Li, it seems you didn't heed Commander Long's words."

"Now that I have the command seal, the rules here must be followed by mine."

"Guards! Throw these eyesores out of here! If they dare utter another word, chop them up and feed them to the dogs!"

,,,

10,000 meters above the ground.

Shen Jinglong sat in the cabin, clutching the ashes of the piece of paper tightly in his hand.

His heart had already flown to Cangcheng, a thousand miles away.

Yishi, Xuerong, Sisi...

You must wait for me.

Anyone who dares to touch you, I'll make the world pay for it!