The villain daughter did all kinds of things

"That... depends on how I protect you."

Amelie thought for a moment:

“If I help you guys beat her up, I definitely can’t protect you, and I’ll probably get a good beating myself… But if I beg her and you guys cooperate by admitting your mistakes and promising to change, it shouldn’t be a big problem.”

"..."

After saying this, Amelie noticed that the three women, including Ji Xinyu, had very strange expressions when they saw her, and even Tianyin seemed to want to say something but stopped herself.

After a long pause, the old lich let out a strange, cackling laugh first:

"Well done, Ellie. I didn't expect you to actually hook up with that old guy, Daozu. People calling you a witch is really not wrong."

"Admitting a mistake to show repentance... that's not necessarily a bad thing."

The woman in red had clearly given Amelie's suggestion serious consideration:

"The reason why Xiaoya and I caused so much bloodshed back then was mainly because the cultivation techniques we practiced could only be improved through killing... Now there's no need for that anymore. Now that we've both recovered our physical health, it's not a bad idea for us to cultivate ourselves and travel around together."

"I'll do whatever you say."

The old lich immediately echoed this.

Clearly, while the old lich was often domineering when she was Amelie's teacher, she was always a zero in front of the red-clad woman.

Seeing that neither the red-clad figure nor the old lich had any intention of causing trouble like they had in their youth, Amelie and Ji Xinyu exchanged a glance and both breathed a slight sigh of relief.

To be honest, the two of them were really worried before that the two old men might turn into old demons again and cause trouble everywhere after losing the Dao Ancestor's deterrence. Now they should not have to worry about it.

And so, after meeting Amelie in the palace, the red-clad woman and the old lich couldn't wait to leave that very night to enjoy some time alone together.

After all, it's only natural that a body that has been lost for thousands of years would suddenly be restored, and people would definitely want to spend a few days and nights indulging in some intimate moments to celebrate.

Amelie settled down in the palace, waiting to attend Ji Xinyu's formal coronation ceremony as the new emperor of the empire.

Amelie didn't forget the request Ji Xinyu had made. She quickly contacted the Federation and arranged for a large number of magicians and magic engineers to come to the Tianyun Empire with relevant magical devices. They used the method of simulating city governance in a customized dream to help Ji Xinyu select talents.

Although the customized dream project is very expensive in the Allen Federation, it is an entertainment project that was available even when Locke City was still a small third-tier city. The technology is already quite mature, and Ji Xinyu's idea is entirely feasible.

However, after this technology was developed in the Allen Federation, it was immediately used for all sorts of pleasures, and no one ever thought of using it for an exam...

Several more days passed quickly. With everything settling down in the Immortal Sect, everyone in the Tianyun Empire had accepted the major changes that had taken place in the empire.

Although many people still have reservations about Ji Xinyu's usurpation of the throne, who can blame them when Ji Xinyu is so powerful? Now that the Dao Ancestor has disappeared and the Immortal Sect has disbanded, Ji Xinyu is not only a top expert herself, but also has the support of a foreign witch behind her, so her position is unshakeable.

If they couldn't win, they had no choice but to join. More and more local officials and generals of the empire personally went to the capital to swear allegiance to Ji Xinyu and wait for her to officially ascend the throne.

But no one expected that at this moment, an urgent report came from the southwestern border of the empire, saying that a barbaric tribe had suddenly invaded and a city had already fallen, and even the cultivation sects in the city had not been spared.

"Is it that Tasha Cherry?" x2

Upon learning of this, Emery and Ji Xinyu exchanged bewildered glances, both speechless.

Amelie thought to herself that this so-called destiny was really interesting. Even though things had developed so differently from the original game, Tuoshe Ying still led her tribe to invade the Tianyun Empire not long after the Dao Ancestor's merging with the Dao.

Ji Xinyu almost forgot about this move, but she wasn't worried at all.

In the original game, the main characters did not connect with Hongyi and Ji Xinyu. As a result, Ji Xinyu failed to seize the opportunity of Dao Ancestor's integration with the Dao to launch a rebellion and seize the throne. In the end, she was just a princess and did not even have much screen time in the original game's storyline.

So when Tuosheying invaded the empire, Ji Xinyu was too lazy to care. She watched as many immortals from various sects were defeated and captured. In the end, the main characters had to go and conquer Tuosheying's tribe.

But things are different now. Tuoshe Ying, who has awakened the bloodline of the Emperor Dragon, is very strong, but her Emperor Dragon Soul was given to her by Hongyi, who is best at manipulating souls. Tuoshe Ying also has a backdoor, so Ji Xinyu can easily defeat her.

Therefore, upon learning that Tuosheying had led her barbaric tribe to invade the empire, Ji Xinyu did not think about how to defeat her, but rather how to make good use of the situation to gain more popular support and solidify her rule.

Chapter 378 The Empress Ascends the Throne

"Tuosheying and her wild tribe..."

Emery was also trying to find a solution for Ji Xinyu, and after a moment's thought, she proposed a very bold plan:

"How about... we try turning it into a tourist attraction?"

"Tourism...projects?"

Ji Xinyu's mouth opened so wide it could swallow a finger, her eyes filled with incomprehension and confusion. She simply couldn't connect the words "wild tribe" with "tourism project."

In Ji Xinyu's mind, using Tuosheying was nothing more than nurturing a bandit to enhance her own prestige, and using her to eliminate those in the empire who were not of one mind with her.

"...Junior sister, you're not still thinking of nurturing enemies to enhance your own power, and deliberately sending those who aren't loyal to you to attack Tuosheying and die, are you?"

Amelie easily discerned Ji Xinyu's thoughts from her expression, and smiled as she shook her finger at her:

"This approach isn't wrong, but it's somewhat redundant and wasteful given the current situation of the Tianyun Empire... With your current strength, Junior Sister, do you really need to resort to such a scheme to deal with opponents? Why don't you just kill whoever you want? Besides, isn't it a waste to only have a tall and beautiful woman like Tuoshe Ying as the female bandit leader of a barbaric tribe?"

"Hmm...that seems to be true."

Ji Xinyu was persuaded by Amelie's words and nodded gently:

"So, what exactly is your brilliant plan, senior sister? And what's the deal with the tourism project?"

"The tourism project I'm referring to isn't just about the Tuoshe Cherry Blossom, but about turning the Wilderness Tribe area into a unique cultural tourism project for your Tianyun Empire to attract tourists from our Federation."

Emerald continued to smile:

“Now that you’ve become the Empress, the Tianyun Empire will definitely be fully open to the public. Just like how many people from Shangying Kingdom travel to the Federation now, there will definitely be many people from the Federation coming to the Tianyun Empire to travel in the future… And when it comes to travel, it’s nothing more than beautiful scenery, delicious food, and beautiful women. Do you remember where you were most captivated when you first came to the Federation?”

"It's an elven brothel..."

Ji Xinyu answered immediately without the slightest embarrassment, then a look of realization dawned on her face:

"Senior sister, do you mean that the new attraction that those wild tribe beauties have for the Federation people is like the attraction that elven beauties have for us Easterners?"

"That's right!"

Emery snapped her fingers:

"Although our Federation is not lacking in beauties, and has a large number of elven beauties, it is quite rare for us Federation people to be like the beauties of the barbarian tribes who are generally around 2 meters tall. Especially those tribal beauties who have delicate features and smooth skin under such a size are even more rare."

"Indeed, those wild beauties are quite useful. I had some in my household before... cough cough."

When the topic turned to beautiful women, Ji Xinyu immediately perked up, but upon seeing Amelie's ambiguous smile, she quickly stopped her urge to launch into a long-winded discussion and continued with the important matter:

"In short, Senior Sister, you mean we can build some entertainment venues themed around savage beauties to attract tourists from the Federation, right? Then why don't we just send a slave-hunting team to capture them? What does that have to do with Tuoshe Ying?"

"Slave-catching teams... Our Federation used to have slave-catching teams too, which went to the Elf Kingdom to capture those Elf village girls and sell them, but now the slave-catching teams are gone, they've all turned into all sorts of labor brokers."

Emery chuckled lightly, without saying much, and directly retrieved a set of data from Linglan's database and projected it for Ji Xinyu to see.

"This is……"

As someone who had long harbored ambitions to become empress, Ji Xinyu, though having little exposure to the Federation's capital-driven business model, could still understand the data and possessed a high level of comprehension.

"Junior sister, you've seen it too, haven't you? Ever since the Federation changed the status of all those elven slaves to working people, not only has the number of elven brothels increased, but the service quality of the elven beauties has also improved, and the customers are more satisfied. It's a win-win situation."

Seeing that Ji Xinyu seemed to understand, Amelie continued:

"The barbarian tribes are actually in a similar situation to the elves, and are even more suited to the model I'm talking about."

"The Elf race consists entirely of women, and all of them are beautiful. Apart from the young children who have not yet grown up, there are not even any elderly people in terms of appearance. It can be said that their utilization rate is very high... In addition, given their nature, as long as they are treated even slightly better, they are very willing to work in brothels."

“Sending slave-catching teams to capture people is indeed an option, but the act of capturing slaves is inherently risky and can easily offend powerful elves. Furthermore, captured elven slaves need to undergo adjustment and education... These can all be considered as additional costs.”

"Not only that, once an elven slave belongs entirely to you, you not only need to take care of her food, clothing, and shelter, but you also need to treat her when she is sick... Otherwise, wouldn't it be a loss if she died before she could even help you make money?"

"But if we take a different approach, instead of making the elves slaves, we simply sign labor contracts with them to make them work. They would then have to figure out their own food and lodging, and if they get sick, they would have to find their own ways to treat themselves. Wouldn't that save us a lot of trouble?"

"Although we can no longer arbitrarily decide the life and death of the elves, as long as we have money, there are plenty of elves willing to work for us. All things considered, we have still made a huge profit... Therefore, in the current Allen Federation, slave contracts have been almost completely replaced by labor contracts."

"This is still the Elven race, which has better conditions. If it were those barbaric tribes, you might be able to get the enjoyment of a slave contract with the terms of a labor contract."

"Unlike the elves, not all the members of the barbarian tribes are beauties. Even if they develop well under the nourishment of spiritual energy, the number of high-quality barbarian beauties is still less than one-tenth, or even less than one-hundredth."

"The primitive tribal civilizations are backward and have low productivity. Once they experience the convenience brought by imperial products, it is difficult for them to go back to that backward life... But they do not have the corresponding production capacity. So what can they do? They can only come to the empire to work and buy those goods after earning money in the empire, right?"

"But the empire doesn't care about ordinary tribal people. The empire only wants handsome men and beautiful women from the tribes. So, in order to support their families, wouldn't the handsome men and beautiful women in each barbaric tribe have no choice but to work their lives away?"

“Using slave-catching teams to forcibly take people is not only risky and costly, but the people captured often resist. It’s much easier to use labor contracts to get them to work voluntarily.”

"...Senior sister, you're right."

After listening, Ji Xinyu remained silent for a long while before nodding in complete agreement.

"It seems that our empire has really stagnated for too long. At least in these aspects, many of our ideas have fallen far behind the Federation... I need to learn more from my senior sister."

"That depends on how you pay your 'tuition fees,' junior sister~~"

As she spoke, Amelie reached out and pulled Ji Xinyu into her arms:

"I heard that the new imperial robe you're going to wear when you ascend the throne is already finished, junior sister? How about you play a game of 'The Fall of the Empress' with me tonight?"

"If we're going to play anything, it should be 'Empress of the Empire: Subduing the Witch'!"

Ji Xinyu snuggled closer to Amelie and gave her a light bite, playfully scolding her:

"And senior sister, after all that you've said, you still haven't explained how these plans relate to that Tuoshe Ying?"

“...Junior sister, didn’t you think of this? Of course, we should support her to be your agent and manager in the Wilderness Tribe.”

Amelie gave Ji Xinyu a speechless look, then thought for a moment and asked again:

"Let me confirm first, are you sure you're 100% confident you can control her? Don't end up like that Misty Pavilion Master who crashed and burned and I had to save you."

"That's definitely not the case."

Ji Xinyu answered with great confidence:

"Putting aside the fact that I'm not afraid even if the Emperor Dragon in its prime revives, just the fact that Tuosheying only awakened the Emperor Dragon bloodline because of the dragon soul given to her by her master means that she has absolutely no chance of turning the tables."

"That's good... After all, you're my beloved junior sister. I don't want to come to rescue you one day only to find that all you can say is 'oh ho ho'."

Emery nodded before continuing:

"Junior Sister, do you still remember the Elf Clan Head of the Silbis family? Remember how you two used to have a lot of fun together?"

"Of course I remember."

Recalling Si Bi, Ji Xinyu immediately licked her lips:

"She's a very elegant lady... What happened to her?"

"You only remember how she tasted, right?"

Amelie pinched Ji Xinyu's cheek in an annoyed tone:

"Then you should also remember that when we attacked the Elf race, even though Silbis, who had received the Elf Queen's decree, was the rightful ruler, why did more elves support Theresa Scarlet Moon and her rebels?"

"Because Silbis has a very bad reputation among the elves... Ah!"

As Ji Xinyu spoke, she gradually understood:

"Senior sister, are you saying that we can have Tuoshe Ying become the Sibi of the barbarian tribes, sell the losers in the internal struggles of the barbarian tribes to the Empire, and then our Empire treats those losers better, so in the end we get all the benefits and a good reputation? The bad reputation and the blame all go to Tuoshe Ying?"

"Not bad... As expected of my junior sister, she grasped it in no time!"

Amelie snapped her fingers again, then wagged her index finger, and her gaze toward Ji Xinyu became less than serious again:

"Then let me check again, junior sister. Do you have any other places where you can understand things so easily?"

"Hmph! Senior sister, you're the one who understands immediately... Take this!"

With the business concluded, the two sisters, now able to act with impunity based on their strength, naturally resumed their unrestrained frolicking in the palace.

That afternoon, Ji Xinyu personally led an expedition to the southwest of the Tianyun Empire and easily resolved the matter of Tuosheying.

Aimee was a little worried and secretly followed, concerned that Ji Xinyu might accidentally make a mistake. After all, Tuoshe Ying's performance in the original game was quite strong, and many fairy sects who were theoretically guaranteed to win against her ended up just saying "Oh ho ho ho".

However, as expected, Ji Xinyu may still have the weakness of being careless and underestimating her opponent, but the dragon soul that the red-clothed woman personally tampered with is very reliable. Tuoshe Ying, who had completely absorbed that dragon soul, was like a heroine in an eroge looking at the screen of a hypnotic phone when facing the Netherworld Soul Technique. She was almost powerless and was defeated by Ji Xinyu. Afterwards, she accepted the arrangement according to Amelite's plan.

After resolving this minor incident, nothing unexpected happened for the next few days, and soon it was time for Ji Xinyu to officially ascend the throne as the Empress of the Tianyun Empire.

To demonstrate that she was different from previous emperors and to solidify her determination to carry out comprehensive reforms of the empire, Ji Xinyu completely redesigned the ceremony for her enthronement.

Ji Xinyu omitted many tedious and torturous steps, retaining only the most basic rituals such as worshipping heaven and earth and the ancestors of the Ji clan.

Among the spectators were local officials and military officers from all over the empire, as well as envoys from other countries, many of whom were acquaintances of Amelie.

For example, the person representing Shangying Kingdom to attend the ceremony was Princess Tiangong Lin. When she met Ji Xinyu, her experienced way of guarding against scheming women surprised Ji Xinyu a little, and then made her laugh.

Representing the Merfolk and Fish-Men were Machira and Ketu, who had participated in the Dao Ancestor's attack together. They even had a fight in the capital, which was easily suppressed by Ji Xinyu and turned into an impromptu performance in the eyes of the people.

The person representing the Allen Federation to attend the ceremony was not Amelie, but Beth, the daughter of the current president Gaif, also known as Miss Holy Mercury... Her large breasts and baby face immediately aroused Ji Xinyu's interest, and she strongly invited her to come and visit more often.

As for the elves who came to observe the ceremony, they were all Ji Xinyu's old lovers, the ladies and young women of the Qi Hong family whom she had personally rescued. They were here purely for fun.

However, while the elves are easy to get along with, don't expect them to be loyal. The ladies of the Seven Rainbow Clan are clearly more interested in the tall, handsome barbarian men on the streets of the empire than the new Empress, and they can hardly walk anymore.