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"Of course not... Hehe, Senior Sister, you've finally been an idiot for once."

Ji Xinyu shook her head and said:

“I am indeed a member of the royal family, but the title of princess with an official title and the commander of the Eastern Legion are the highest positions I can achieve in my life... The royal family values ​​lineage very much. They would rather let my useless cousin sit on the throne than ever consider my shrewd and capable father.”

"Of course, the most important thing is that there are many members of the royal family, but Master only has me as his disciple, and I am the only young master of the resistance army... Now you understand, Senior Sister?"

Chapter 268 Everything is a gift from nature

"So, junior sister, you actually have your eye on that position."

Emery then realized what was happening, and with a laugh, she pinched Ji Xinyu's arm.

"You do have ambitions as vast as your heart, junior sister."

After saying that, Emery leaned her head back against the white jade pool, her face full of languidness:

“I’m not interested in that kind of position at all. I would try to turn it down if offered to sit there. I prefer to stay behind the scenes and control everything.”

"I really like the feeling of having a lot of power."

As Ji Xinyu spoke, she gestured as she held Amelie's hand:

"To command the world by day and enjoy the warmth of a love bed by night—that is the ultimate life."

"...In that case, junior sister, you'd better start preparing soon."

Emerald ignored Ji Xinyu's pointing and whispering about her body, and suddenly revealed a mysterious smile:

"The time for the resistance may not be long, and it should be in the next few years."

"……what?"

Ji Xinyu was stunned for a moment, then immediately reacted, and with a splash, sat up from the white jade bath, supporting herself on the edge of the tub as she looked down at Amelie:

"Senior sister, are you serious? This is a prophecy you made? But isn't your precognitive ability just an act to fool people? Your real talent is your innate soul body, isn't it?"

"Hmph... I can't say."

Emerald, however, became increasingly languid, as if she were asleep, with only the corners of her mouth turned up in a smile.

"Hey! Senior Sister! This is very important, okay? It concerns Master and my grand plan!"

Ji Xinyu was getting impatient. She stared at Amelie's snow-white skin, wanting to take a bite. It was really annoying for a precognitive ability user to only say half of what they meant.

"Hoo hoo... Of course I know it's important... so I can't say, okay?"

Emerald simply winked seductively again.

"Senior sister, you... Humph!"

Whoosh!

This time, Ji Xinyu jumped directly out of the white jade bath, used her spiritual power to evaporate the water droplets, and paced back and forth in the room several times without even bothering to put on her clothes.

"Fine, fine, you people who play the psychic are all so high and mighty! You can't say anything important when asked... Humph!"

Ji Xinyu finally gave in to Emery, still fuming.

"Speak up, you naughty senior sister... How should I prepare? You must have some suggestions, right?"

"Yes, I do have some suggestions."

Emerald also slowly emerged from the white jade bath, using magic to quickly evaporate the water from her body. She then took out a set of undergarments and a pair of black stockings, and gracefully sat down in a chair to slowly put them on.

"Don't you have a saying in your Tianyun Empire? 'A skilled craftsman must first sharpen his tools.' If the resistance really wants to seize the opportunity, then a batch of advanced and easy-to-use weapons is indispensable... And I happen to be a weapons seller, so you understand what I mean, right, junior sister?"

"Oh, so after all that talk, it's because you wanted to sell me a weapon, Senior Sister."

Ji Xinyu snorted and took out her clothes to slowly put them on.

"That timing thing, you're not just trying to fool me, are you, senior sister?"

"Junior sister, you don't have to believe me."

Emerald had just put on her black stockings when she lifted her legs and stretched them out to examine them while admiring them herself, her tone quite nonchalant:

"If you miss that perfect opportunity, junior sister, I'll lend you my arms so you can have a good cry. Don't worry, don't worry."

"...Tsk, you cunning senior sister, now that you've said that, I guess I have no choice but to buy it."

Ji Xinyu was even more annoyed, but there was nothing she could do. She could only imagine the wonderful scene of leading her troops on a distant expedition to the Allen Federation and capturing Amelie, and said helplessly:

"Alright, alright... I'll buy it... Hmph, you cunning senior sister... But as you know, the empire has a policy of isolationism, so direct trade between us is definitely not an option. We have to go through the black market... There's someone in the Fujiwara family of Shangying Kingdom who specializes in black market trade. She's quite reliable. We can trade indirectly through her... Hmm, let me think."

Ji Xinyu rubbed her chin slightly with her hand and said:

"At that time, the Fujiwara family can openly trade with you, Senior Sister. Then, your ship transporting weapons will encounter huge storms or monster attacks on the eastern shore of the White Sea. The crew will have no choice but to abandon ship and use teleportation items to escape... Later, the abandoned cargo ship will wash ashore and we will find it. We will not be trading with foreign countries against the will of the Dao Ancestor. We will just be picking up things on the shore. Everything is a gift from nature."

"It doesn't matter, you can arrange the transaction as you see fit, as long as you pay."

Emery chuckled and shrugged.

Actually, it's fine even if you don't pay, because Emerald's business deal isn't about making money, but about accumulating strength in advance for the final boss battle.

"Oh, right."

Emerald thought of something else and asked curiously:

"Junior Sister, could the Fujiwara family middleman you mentioned be Fujiwara Momiji? I heard she has a lot of connections in the Tianyun Empire, and even has connections with members of the royal family... Could her connections be you, Junior Sister?"

"..."

Ji Xinyu's expression immediately turned strange, but after a few seconds of silence, she finally spoke:

“Her connections do exist in our family, but not with me… She was my father’s mistress, and it was my father who supported her in ousting her own brother and becoming the Fujiwara family’s head of the black market in Ryogoku.”

"That's truly a very impressive network..."

The topic of her father's lover was indeed quite awkward to discuss, so Amelie quickly moved on from it and instead took out some information on common military magical artifacts, asking Ji Xinyu which ones she was interested in.

"Senior sister, can you sell that big triangular iron bird you used when we sparred?"

What general wouldn't be interested in weapons? Ji Xinyu quickly became enthusiastic and started discussing them with Amelie, raising some requirements. Many of her requirements, in turn, gave Amelie new inspiration for her weapon design.

. . . . .

The next morning, after resting for a night, Amelie and Ji Xinyu came to Hongyi again to do the last thing Hongyi had asked for.

“This should be very easy for you, Ellie. You can even treat it as a date with Xinyu in the wild. It won’t take long, maybe two or three days at most.”

The woman in red first explained to Emerald the difficulty and time required for the task, and then used magic to condense a projection of a person.

She was a very tall woman with a fuller figure, resembling a tribal person, but her skin was quite fair and delicate, her face was very beautiful, and she had long brown hair, which is rare among East Asians.

She must be about 2 meters tall, more than a head taller than Emeryte, who is only 1.7 meters tall. If Emeryte stood in front of her, her head would only be at the same level as her chest, and it wouldn't be that big.

"Who is this person...?"

Emerald felt that the brown-haired woman looked familiar, much like a character from the original game, but lacked that character's key features, so she wasn't quite sure.

"According to intelligence, her name should be Tuosheying. She currently lives in a tribe, but she actually has the blood of the Ji royal family of the Tianyun Empire, so she is a relative of Xinyu."

The woman in red chuckled as she introduced Amelie to:

"She has great talent, and her other half of her bloodline hides a very strong power. I originally wanted to take her as a disciple and have her take care of Junior Sister Xinyu, but the divination results showed great misfortune. She is very likely to bring me annihilation, so I finally gave up."

"However, it would be a waste of her talent not to make good use of such a promising talent and cause some trouble for the Tianyun Empire. It's too slow for her to grow on her own, so what you and Xinyu need to do this time is to guide her to activate the hidden power in her bloodline, and at the same time fill her with hatred for the Tianyun Empire... We don't need to worry about the rest, we can just watch the show from the sidelines."

...So she really was that Tosha Sakura.

As Amelie listened to the red-clad woman explain the details of the mission, she couldn't help but feel a sense of感慨 (gan3kai3, a complex emotion encompassing both admiration and reflection).

This cherry blossom tree actually has a role in the original game, and even plays a significant part in unlocking CGs.

She's a villainous boss, the kind of side villain who only appears after the main storyline has ended.

In the original game, after Dao Zu, the final boss of the main storyline, was defeated, the order of the Tianyun Empire was reorganized and it became the Tianyun Republic. The system was more advanced, and the happiness of the residents was higher after the country was stable.

However, in the early stages of the reorganization of Tianyun Kingdom, some growing pains were inevitable amidst the chaos, and Tuoshe Ying was a major antagonist who appeared during that period.

Tuosheying originally ruled a tribe in the wild lands northwestern border of the Tianyun Empire. Later, taking advantage of the chaos caused by the defeat of the Dao Ancestor, she led her tribe into the territory of the Tianyun Empire and occupied several cities in the northwest of the Tianyun Empire.

She took all the things that the Tianyun Empire's slave-catching teams had done to the barbarian tribes and inflicted them on the inhabitants of the Tianyun Kingdom.

She captured the most beautiful young girls from the fallen cities of Tianyun Kingdom and took them into her harem to enjoy, while turning all the men into slaves and forcing them to work hard.

During this period, Tianyun Kingdom did try to reclaim those cities, but the armies sent to recover the lost territories were all defeated by Tuosheying. The cultivators accompanying the army were also all defeated. The vast majority of male cultivators were killed by Tuosheying, while the female cultivators were basically captured and taken into Tuosheying's harem, becoming those gauze-skirted fairies who could only utter "oh oh oh oh".

The Tianyun Kingdom had no choice but to follow the example of the Allen Federation by issuing a Brave Order, calling on the strong among the people to fight against Tuosheying. As a result, many more fairy maidens from the immortal sects were defeated and captured, only able to utter "oh ho ho ho".

Ultimately, it was Yulia's team that took on and completed the mission to defeat Toshe Sakura. They used classic decapitation tactics to infiltrate and raid Toshe Sakura's palace, defeating her and rescuing the captured fairies who could only utter "oh ho ho ho".

Of course, this side story also has defeat CGs. If the main characters fail to win, they will all be captured by Tosha Sakura and end up with those fairies... Oh ho ho ho... Many of those defeat CGs are quite useful and rank very high in the ranking of CG usability on game forums.

In conclusion, although Sakura Tosher only appeared after the main storyline in the original game, she still left a deep impression and was quite popular.

As a former veteran player, Emery should have recognized this character at a glance. The reason she didn't recognize him immediately is that the current Tosher Sakura lacks a key feature—the pair of huge dragon horns on her head.

That's right, Tuoshe Ying is a human-dragon hybrid. Half of her bloodline comes from the Tianyun royal family, and the other half comes from the highest-ranking Eastern dragon race—the Emperor Dragon.

In the original game's boss battle against Tosher Sakura, she has a second phase form. After defeating her human form, she transforms into a giant three-headed imperial dragon. Many players who haven't consulted guides fail to manage their resources properly, exhausting them in the first phase and resulting in defeat in the second phase, forcing them to unlock the defeat cutscene.

Since Toshe Sakura doesn't have dragon horns yet, Emerald roughly knows what her mission is: to find a way to awaken Toshe Sakura's bloodline.

As expected, after giving Emerald a brief introduction to the Toshe Sakura, the woman in red gave Emerald a spherical crystal the size of an egg:

"This is the dragon soul essence I've already refined. Take it and let Tuoshe Ying absorb it. You also need to find a way to make her think that this is her own opportunity, not something we gave her... In short, guide her onto the path we want her to take, and also distance yourself from her, understand?"

"Understood, Aunt in red. Don't worry, I'm quite good at this kind of thing."

Emerald first accepted the Dragon Soul Essence, then asked with some curiosity:

"You didn't attack the woman in red yourself, was it because you were concerned about the divination results?"

"more or less."

The woman in red shrugged.

"No matter how I divine, the result is that I cannot have direct contact with her, otherwise we will both be in trouble. Moreover, if she has my marks on her, she will easily be targeted by the immortal sects... Unlike Xinyu, she cannot perfectly switch from demonic arts to righteous arts to hide her identity, and with her strength, she is too vulnerable to face the immortal sects head-on."

After saying that, the woman in red thought for a moment, then smiled and gave Emery an example:

"Take you, Ellie, for example. If you were shopping and got beaten up by some delinquent girl, you would definitely try to get revenge yourself first, instead of directly asking your family for help and making your being bullied by the delinquent girl a joke, right?"

Seeing that Emery nodded speechlessly, the woman in red smiled and said again:

"But if the delinquent girl who beat you up is related to one of your family's greatest enemies, wouldn't you immediately report it to your family, urging them to take it seriously and arrest her with overwhelming force, and thoroughly investigate any conspiracy involving her?"

"Yes... I understand."

Emery nodded again.

The same applies to the immortal sects. If any of them were defeated by a barbaric tribe, they would be too embarrassed to tell others and become a laughing stock among their fellow cultivators. They would only try to take revenge themselves.

However, if that barbaric tribesman is related to the demon ranked number one on the Immortal Sect's wanted list, then that barbaric tribesman will become a walking achievement in the eyes of the Immortal Sect, and many elite Immortal Sect members will join forces to deal with her, and she simply cannot withstand it.

Having fully understood the plan and intentions of the woman in red, Emerald, carrying the essence of the dragon soul, set off with Ji Xinyu.

Originally, Hongyi intended to give this task to Ji Xinyu, but after meeting Amelite, she found that Amelite was clearly better at this kind of thing, so she changed her mind—after all, her wife's apprentice is still an apprentice, so why not use her?

Xiangyun City is located in the southeastern border of the Tianyun Empire, while Tuosheying's tribe is located in the northwestern border of the Tianyun Empire. Therefore, it took Aimeite and Ji Xinyu almost a whole morning to bypass the vast territory of the Tianyun Empire and find Tuosheying's tribe.

Regarding Tosha Sakura's background, both the original game's setting and the explanation given by the woman in red are quite clear and basically consistent.

In short, hundreds of years ago, the royal family of the Tianyun Empire had a perverted princess who disliked humans and only loved dragons, even earning the title of Dragon Hunter.

Of course, this dragon hunter doesn't mean she enjoys hunting dragons, but rather that she enjoys beating up male dragons and pinning them down as dragon riders.

Many male Eastern dragons have been violated by this dragon hunter princess, including even the Emperor Dragon, who was the most powerful and prestigious among the dragons.

However, as the saying goes, "He who walks by the river will eventually get his shoes wet." After hunting countless male dragons, the dragon hunter princess suddenly discovered that she was pregnant and had given birth to a dragon egg.

While the Tianyun Empire didn't treat dragons as mere prey and material like the Allen Federation, it also didn't worship them as totems. For a royal princess, laying a dragon egg was akin to an ordinary girl giving birth to a puppy—a huge scandal and a profound disgrace.

The royal family would certainly not accept the egg, but the Dragon Hunter Princess ultimately couldn't bring herself to destroy it as the royal family demanded. Instead, she sent the egg to the wilderness and hid it there, leaving behind a jade pendant with the words 'Tuosheying' written on it, which means a cute pink little dragon in the dragon language.

After that, the dragon hunter princess never came to see the egg again. Since the egg had no mother to incubate it, it could only slowly absorb spiritual energy on its own, and it took hundreds of years for it to hatch.

What emerged from the egg was Tuoshe Ying, who looked about the size of a three-year-old human girl. Although her dragon power did not awaken directly, she possessed the inherited memories of the dragon race and was born with a lot of human knowledge. She also recognized the characters on the jade pendant and believed that these three characters were the name given to her by her mother, so she named herself Tuoshe Ying.

After living alone for about half a month, Tuosheying was discovered by a hunting party from a tribe in the wilderness.

The beautiful and adorable little girl, who appeared to be of the same human race, was taken in by the hunting party of the wild tribe because they couldn't bear to harm her. They raised her in the tribe and she remains there to this day.

The tribe that raised the Tuoshe Cherry was definitely among the best in the wilderness, both in terms of the size of the tribe and the level of civilization.