My Cultivation Starting from Archery

"How could the current plight be from Heaven itself! To act rashly is no blessing, and to accept rashly is not loyalty.

"The people are the children of Your Majesty, and Your Majesty is their Lord. How can a child feed his father and seek repayment?"

After speaking, he bowed and withdrew.

"This..."

Prince Qin clicked his tongue: "Father Emperor, did you hear that? This man calls you a true dragon descended, and says you are the Lord, providing us with grain without asking for returns. What a loyal subject! He looks like a scholar, and once this calamity is over, we should put him to great use!"

His expression contrasted sharply.

Emperor Longqing's eyes hesitated, then he let out a cold laugh mixed with anger and self-mockery, saying softly: "I have fallen to such a state, to be humiliated by troublemakers! How can I face ruling the world now? Chen San has greatly wronged me."

This scholar's words just now seemed respectful, but in reality...

Every word was an insult to him!

The so-called "The white dragon resents Heaven's pond... How could it be from Heaven", plainly speaking, is to say one brought this upon oneself, deserving today's plight.

As for the phrase 'Your Majesty is the Lord, how could a child feed his father and seek repayment', it translates to...

A son supporting his father is rightful, and shouldn't demand repayment.

Yet in this situation, leaving behind a bit of coarse grain and leaving, it's a yin-yang sarcasm, asking who is the father and who is the son now?

"Humiliate Father Emperor?"

Prince Qin gradually realized: "I'll go and kill him right now!"

"Enough."

Emperor Longqing interrupted: "How can I stoop to the likes of commoners."

After slightly regaining their strength, they left two cultivators to keep watch outside the village and found an abandoned house to stay in.

The small, dilapidated tile house had been abandoned for many years, with cobwebs and dust everywhere. On the wall, a nearly decayed recurve bow hung.

"Next..."

Prince Qi hesitantly said: "Where should we go?"

In one night, the million-strong army was reduced to ashes, and the civil and military officials were likely all captured. In a sense, the Great Sheng Court had already fallen!

"Your Majesty."

Dan Liangcheng solemnly said: "We have lost our advantage in the Eastern Continent. We should find an opportunity to break through to the ends of the earth, enter the Heavenly Water Continent, and come to my Shengyun Sect."

Emperor Longqing silently denied.

How could he not know what the other side was plotting? If he brought the Dragon Abyss Sword and Imperial Jade Seal to the Heavenly Water Continent, it would be like flaunting gold bars in the market.

But indeed now, in the Eastern Continent, they were out of options and nowhere to go.

Emperor Longqing glanced around the room's surroundings and noticed the bow and arrows hanging on the wall again, asking: "Where are we now?"

"In response to Father Emperor, I just inquired."

Prince Qi said: "This is Yanbian Village in Po Yang County, An Ding Prefecture, Yunzhou."

"Yanbian Village?"

Huang Hong recalled carefully: "Isn't this where Chen Sansi originated?!"

Looking again at the bow and arrows on the wall, everyone in the room felt a chill in their hearts.

"This..."

"Who lived here before?!"

They had circled high above the Eastern Continent, and it turned out they had come to the white robe's hometown, as if an invisible hand had drawn them to this place.

Almost at the same moment, noise erupted outside.

"They have caught up!"

"Chen Sansi is leading the Guiyuan Sect's people and has caught up!"

"..."

Before they could react, a massive wave of mana surged from above, and spells rained down from the sky, blasting the already dilapidated house to pieces.

The cultivators of Shengyun Sect, even if they wanted to leave, had no time, forced into a desperate resistance.

The brutal battle erupted without warning.

"Your Majesty, leave first. In the next life, I will serve you again!"

Huang Hong, who had followed Longqing since childhood, stepped forward.

"..."

Cao Kai closed his eyes slightly, then turned into a streak of light and fled.

But soon, he detected someone catching up from behind, and no matter how he accelerated or deployed blinding techniques, he couldn't stop the murderous intent from closing in.

With the army defeated and fleeing for half a month, emotions mounted, and Emperor Longqing could no longer maintain his usual grace and calm. He summoned the Seven Stars Dragon Abyss Sword, suddenly suspended: "Must you force me to death?!"

"..."

Chen Sansi wasted no words, only stepping on his flying sword, long spear in hand, charging forth, flames roaring from his orifices, the killing intent overwhelming the skies, voice shaking the clouds: "Cao Kai!!!

"Six years ago!

"For your longevity, you sacrificed the blood of millions in Yunzhou. Today, you have fallen here by fate, destined to be sacrificed for the common people!!!"

"Do you think you can really kill me?!!"

Amidst the gale, Emperor Longqing's crown scattered, his hair flying wildly, eyes glaring like a True Dragon enraged, his voice piercing the eardrums: "Today I will use the Seven Stars Dragon Abyss to take the head of you, treacherous minister!"

"Boom——"

As he finished speaking, waves of Dark Power burst forth from the Seven Stars Dragon Abyss Sword, a force that was neither mana nor True Power, but rather an obscure and profound strength.

This is...

The National Fortune!

The National Fortune of half the Great Sheng Dynasty!

In the beginning.

Great Ancestor Cao Xie of the Sheng Dynasty, obtained from an unknown source the method to refine national fortune, and sealed half of Sheng's national fortune within the Dragon Abyss Sword, to be used as an earth-shattering strike in critical moments!

But...

This is a one-time opportunity.

Once used, the true decline of the Sheng Dynasty's fortune would begin, and trying to accumulate it again would be as difficult as ascending to the heavens.

Because of this.

During the Liangzhou Blood Sacrifice, Longqing hesitated until the moment before the completion of the Blood Sacrifice Array, and during the Battle of Fei River, he was still reluctant to use it prematurely.

But at this moment.

Cao Kai finally made up his mind.

He was going to use the ancestors of the Cao family and half of the Jiang Mountain in the sword to eliminate the greatest threat to the Sheng Dynasty's national destiny in the past three hundred years!

"Rumble!"

The vast, limitless Divine Land.

The flourishing Central Plains, half of Jiang Mountain!

What a magnificent power this is!

Even just exposing it caused the heavens to overturn!

All the clouds in the Nine Heavens gathered and formed a massive vortex connecting heaven and earth!

This scene was visible to everyone on the Eastern Continent!

Millions of living beings on the Divine Land witnessed with their own eyes the sky above them tipping over, as if someone had uprooted it!

Such divine power—let alone a Foundation Establishment Cultivator, even a Golden Core Cultivator wouldn't dare confront it head-on.

"Chen Sansi!"

Cao Kai, filled with endless fury: "You wasted a great opportunity for me! This half of Jiang Mountain was meant for the cultivators of the Sky Water Continent!

"You ruined the careful plan of an entire sixty years!

"You are unworthy of the world!

"You—

"Deserve death!!!"

"Rumble——"

The Heavenly Dome collapses!

Emperor Longqing, holding the sword in both hands, with the Divine Dragon emerging from the abyss, held the entire sky in its mouth, and swung down with destructive might.

In this critical moment, he saw a bead slowly rising in front of the white robe, containing indescribable Dark Power.

Similar to the national fortune, yet different.

The Dark Power within the bead, like chains, wrapped around the Dragon Abyss Sword.

It was actually...

Competing for control of the Dragon Abyss Sword!

"How is this possible?!"

Cao Kai's expression froze: "This is the Cao family's treasured item! How can it be affected by you?! What is that bead in your hand?!"

It seems now.

The reason Chen Sansi could use the Heavenly Book Array without borrowing nature's spiritual energy must be due to this object.

But what exactly is this treasure?

And where does its power come from?!

"Cao Kai!"

As if seeing through Longqing's thoughts, Chen Sansi exerted all his strength to seize control of the Dragon Abyss, veins bulging on his neck and forehead, his voice hoarse from shouting:

"These powers! They come from the common people!

"From the common people you regard as grass, as firewood, as livestock, to be used as tributes!

"It is your deeds over sixty years, that have personally buried your Jiang Mountain and killed yourself!

"Without the common people, where does the national fortune come from?

"Today this sword—

"Is wielded by the countless people of Yunzhou, soldiers, and the people of the entire world, striking you along with me!!!"

"Boom—"

With a thunderous sound.

The endless, vast Dark Power from the bead finally broke the connection between the Seven Stars Dragon Abyss Sword and Cao Kai, spinning through the clouds into the hand of the white robe.

"Your dream of eternal life!

"Ends now!!!"

Chen Sansi gripped the sword's hilt with both hands, unable to perform any Sword Moves under the terrifying power, and thus raised half of Jiang Mountain high, crashing it down upon Emperor Longqing, the Sword Qi slicing the whole sky in half.

"Impossible, impossible! Traitor Chen, you still prattle!!!"

Emperor Longqing, even as he tried his best to retain it, lost Dragon Abyss. He looked at his empty hands, his expression turning mad, eyes wide open as he roared.

"Boom!"

The world turned upside down, the sea of clouds in turmoil.

Under the pressure of half of Jiang Mountain, any resistance was futile.

Emperor Longqing's meridians burst inch by inch, bones shattered inward, organs rupturing, as his body fell from the immense Heavenly Dome like a meteor, leaving a trail like smoke, crashing heavily onto Tiger Head Mountain, causing the earth to tremble.