With a warehouse full of supplies, I stood alone as king in this chaotic world, gun in hand.

They had arrived at an extremely luxurious underground palace, which dazzled the two of them.

The space was enormous, and the mountain wall at the top was about five or six zhang (approximately 10-15 meters) above the ground. No wonder they had descended so many steps.

Inside this underground palace, the beams and pillars are carved and painted, and each pillar has a lamp hanging on it, with a huge luminous pearl on each lamp, illuminating the entire underground palace as bright as day.

The four walls are inlaid with luminous crystals, which are very dazzling.

Looking around, Nangong Wu saw that the palace was about 3,000 square meters in size. But these were not the most important things. What was important was that the palace was filled with mountains of gold and silver and displayed rare and precious treasures.

At the very front is a red coral tree that is over four feet tall, which looks like a money tree and is placed in the most conspicuous place.

"Holy crap!" Nangong Wu couldn't help but exclaim, "What exactly is the Wan family trying to do by building such a huge underground palace and filling it with so much gold and silver jewelry?"

"Let's take a look first." Bei Chenyan walked in slowly and stopped in front of the red coral tree.

With its vibrant colors and gnarled branches, it resembles a burning flame.

Nangong Wu examined the red coral and said, "This red coral is truly the finest of the finest."

Red coral grows extremely slowly, taking at least twenty years to grow just one inch. It also has very demanding environmental requirements, needing to grow in deep-sea areas. As a non-renewable resource, a red coral that is four feet tall is extremely rare and can be considered priceless.

"This is a rare find." She gently lifted her hand, and the red coral tree vanished from its spot.

"Now, it's mine."

Looking up again, there was a mountain of gold bricks, about six feet high, arranged in three pointed shapes to form the Chinese character for "mountain," truly a mountain of gold.

"What a huge gold brick!" Nangong Wu pulled out a gold brick, which was indeed as big as a brick and felt heavy in her hand.

"Tsk tsk! The Wan family has turned gold into huge gold bricks. How extravagant! They're probably richer than the entire treasury of your Southern Qi Kingdom."

"Take them all!" Bei Chenyan's face darkened.

"Alright!" Nangong Wu happily moved the entire mountain of gold into the space.

This is a beautiful work of art, painstakingly built by thousands of families; it must not be destroyed.

When she looked up again, she saw that behind the gold mountain was a silver mountain, and there were two silver mountains, but they were both made of huge silver ingots in the shape of gold coins.

Bei Chenyan looked at these things, his eyes as deep as night, as if covered with a layer of frost.

"Take them all!"

Nangong Wu raised her hand, and the two silver mountains were moved into her space intact.

Bei Chenyan walked to a huge display cabinet on the left, which was filled with various jade carvings, such as jade ruyi, jade vases, jade flutes, cloisonné, and so on.

He picked up a jade Guanyin statue, about a foot tall, and said, "This is a gift from the Emperor, carved from the finest mutton-fat jade and jadeite. Let's accept it!"

"The Treasure Pavilion is made of sandalwood, and it's quite valuable." With a thought, Nangong Wu sent the entire Treasure Pavilion into her spatial dimension intact.

There was also a curio cabinet on the right; she didn't look at it anymore, she just bought it all.

"These Wan families are so wealthy they could rival a nation. Just how many businesses do they own?" Nangong Wu couldn't help but ask.

No matter how much the Wan family embezzled and accepted bribes, they could never amass such a large amount of gold and silver.

"The Wan family originally had a fief of ten thousand households. Every time the royal family married an empress, they were granted a lot of land. Now the Wan family owns several thousand hectares of land."

"These treasures and paintings, some of them were gifts from the imperial court. The Wan family wields immense power, and most officials in the court fawn over them; it's inevitable that they'd offer lavish gifts to get favors," said Bei Chenyan.

"Several thousand hectares of fertile land?" Nangong Wu clicked her tongue.

One qing is one hundred mu, and several thousand qing would be hundreds of thousands of mu of fertile land.

"Your royal family has simply raised a huge parasite."

Bei Chenyan added, "According to information gathered by my people, Shi Shengqing gave half of the Fan family's assets to the Wan family in order to marry Wan Shuhua."

"Let's confiscate the Shi family's property! Even if we take all the gold and silver, the land and shops left by the Fan family alone will add a considerable amount of wealth to your Southern Qi Kingdom's treasury," Nangong Wu said.

As she talked to Bei Chenyan, she walked forward. Along the way, various birds and beasts carved from pure jade were displayed. The twelve zodiac animals, such as jade cranes with outstretched wings, eagles, geese, horses, and oxen, were all present and lifelike.

Nangong Wu naturally put them all away.

Bei Chenyan, who was walking ahead, suddenly stopped.

Nangong Wu was so focused on packing up that she almost bumped into his back.

"What's wrong?"

Bei Chenyan remained standing still, without saying a word.

Nangong Wu emerged from behind him and widened her eyes upon seeing what was before her.

Because the ground was covered with tiny figures.

No! They were soldiers dressed in uniform, like soldiers in a military camp lined up in neat rows, with bayonets like a forest.

She thought of the Terracotta Army from her past life.

"What does this mean?" Nangong Wu asked, puzzled.

She crouched down and picked up a small figure to examine it.

The figures are about two feet tall, all made of pure gold, including the spears they hold. There are about a thousand of them.

A thousand little golden figures—that's more gold than that mountain of gold we just saw.

"These are the Imperial Guards," Bei Chenyan said.

"The Imperial Guards? What does the Wan family want to do?" A thought flashed through Nangong Wu's mind.

Bei Chenyan took a step forward.

Nangong Wu looked up and was shocked again!

Because in front of it was a real grand hall, with no walls on any side, supported by more than a dozen large pillars, from which you could clearly see everything above, decorated in a magnificent and resplendent manner, located in the very center of the entire underground palace.

She put down the little figure in her hand and followed it over.

First, you walk up nine steps.

The nine-tiered steps were exclusive to imperial power and represented the highest level of etiquette, embodying the absolute authority of the "supreme ruler."

"These Wan families are doing all this here; they clearly harbor rebellious intentions."

Bei Chenyan pursed his lips and remained silent.

As the two ascended the steps, the first thing that caught their eye was a huge dragon chair on the high seat, also made of pure gold, gleaming brightly.

"What a beautiful dragon chair! Let's take it back for the kids to sit and play on..." Nangong Wu was about to walk over when she saw many small golden figures on the ground.

"Holy crap! These are all the civil and military officials!"

These small golden figures stood on both sides, facing the dragon throne, holding jade tablets and bowing slightly, like civil and military officials standing on both sides of the imperial court.

Nangong Wu couldn't help but look at Beichen Yan, "The Wan family has declared themselves emperors beneath this underground palace!"

"The Wan family is doing very well!" Bei Chenyan spat out these words through gritted teeth.