The Peerless Emperor (TPE)

The Crown Prince of the Qin Dynasty is worthless? The Qin Dynasty is insignificant?

Lin Qian's words shocked everyone. What stunned them most was his extreme arrogance.

When the Qin Dynasty referred to the Huaxia Empire as a small, insignificant country, everyone agreed. After all, in their eyes, this was no exaggeration—after all, the Linhai Prefecture was a remote place.

How strong could the Huaxia Empire, ruling such a remote area, possibly be?

Even though Lin Qian was currently undergoing his soul tribulation, which, if successful, would elevate him to the Life and Death Realm, in their eyes, he was doomed to fail, especially since he was recklessly moving around during his tribulation.

Moreover, although Lin Qian appeared to be reaching the Soul Realm at a young age, Qin Yunyu had already reached the Heart Realm of the Life and Death Realm at the age of just twenty!

Breaking through from the Life and Death Realm to the Awakening Realm was an incredibly difficult task. The gap between the two realms was like a vast chasm, challenging to cross.

Thus, in their eyes, Lin Qian was insignificant compared to Qin Yunyu.

But what they didn't know was that Lin Qian had only begun cultivating in his teens, and the presence of the Huaxia Empire's Heaven Scar within his body placed enormous strain on him.

The continuous flow of refined spiritual energy through his body had made Lin Qian far stronger than others at the same stage since the Fundamental Three Realms.

With two lifetimes' worth of experiences, a soul empowered by his nation's destiny that could dissipate even the powerful spirits of alien races like Nan Xin, and a physique that even legends like Yuan Xiang didn't dare approach, Lin Qian's strength was far from ordinary.

Let's not forget, Lin Qian also had an additional martial spirit, and his spiritual energy now boasted three attributes.

So, for Lin Qian, advancing through the realms was thousands of times more difficult than it was for ordinary people!

Were it not for the Huaxia Empire's Tiangong Department continuously improving the Emperor's Art and the endless supply of spiritual energy from the Heaven Scar, a minor advancement in the Life and Death Realm would take Lin Qian at least twenty years.

This was why Lin Qian's combat strength was so terrifyingly powerful.

Lin Qian's words had darkened Qin Yunyu's expression considerably. He glared at Lin Qian with a chilling tone, "Do you realize that your words will condemn you to an eternity of suffering?"

Qin Yunyu's anger made the geniuses behind him laugh. They eagerly awaited the moment when Qin Yunyu would torment this young man.

Elsewhere in the Two Provinces Water Forest, other southern domain forces were secretly observing. Their mission was to monitor the outcome of the conflict between the Qin Dynasty and the allied forces and obtain firsthand information.

Upon hearing Lin Qian's words, they too shook their heads in amusement.

"Perhaps you don't know," Qin Yunyu sneered, "but I've already arranged for the Qingfeng Sect and the Ying Mountain Sect, which neighbor your little so-called empire in Linhai Prefecture, to attack once the Qin Dynasty begins its war with the three allied forces."

"And thanks to my father's decree, the forces from Qizhou, Tiaoshun Prefecture, and Nanying Prefecture have likely already mobilized to join in on the attack against your territory."

As he spoke, Qin Yunyu's eyes filled with pity as he looked at Lin Qian. "How pitiful—you, this so-called emperor, are probably all alone now. Oh, wait, no—you still have a senior brother and a little brother. Hahaha!"

"Hmm?" Hearing Qin Yunyu's words, Lin Qian casually asked Zhuge Ming about the current situation in Linhai Prefecture and quickly understood.

"Oh no, Brother Lin..." Li Yunfeng exclaimed, realizing the danger, but when he turned to look at Lin Qian, he saw no trace of panic or anger on his face.

Instead, he noticed Lei Qian and Gao Benli laughing out loud.

"It's really hilarious. They think they can attack the Huaxia Empire? We're sparing them, and they should be thanking us, yet they have the nerve to come after us!" Gao Benli laughed so hard he could barely breathe, finding the situation utterly ridiculous as he glanced at Lei Qian.

Lei Qian nodded in agreement and asked Lin Qian, "Boss, what's the situation in Linhai Prefecture right now?"

"They've already entered Linhai Prefecture. The first places they attacked were the Wanxiang Sect and the Divine Sword Sect. But Xin'er has already sent reinforcements, so it shouldn't be a problem," Lin Qian replied with a smile. "It seems our empire is about to expand by three more prefectures."

As Lin Qian spoke, far away in the territory of Linhai Prefecture, the forces from Qizhou, Tiaoshun Prefecture, and Nanying Prefecture that had come to invade the Huaxia Empire were fleeing in panic.

But no matter how they ran, they couldn't outrun the soul energy arrows speeding toward them from behind.

The leader of the sect controlling Qizhou hovered in midair, staring blankly at the young woman in the phoenix carriage across from him, who was glaring back at him with icy eyes.

"How...how can this be?" The sect leader murmured in confusion as he looked down at the bodies of his disciples, unable to comprehend what had gone wrong.

As soon as they entered Linhai Prefecture, they had been stunned by the richness of the spiritual energy saturating the land.

Spiritual trees were everywhere, and the dense spiritual energy in the air made their eyes burn with greed. How could such a blessed land be in the hands of this insignificant Huaxia Empire? It was a waste of resources.

But just as they prepared to attack, a phoenix carriage suddenly flew toward them from the distance, followed by a group of lightly armored soldiers armed with longbows.

Without a word, these bow-wielding soldiers formed a line and, at the command of the young woman in the phoenix carriage, began their assault.

The soldiers didn't bother asking who they were or why they had come. They simply attacked without hesitation.

There were at least hundreds of thousands of these soldiers with longbows, and the pressure from their aura turned the invaders' initial smugness into dread, and then into outright terror.

Life and Death Realm soldiers! Hundreds of thousands of them!

Their combined forces from the three prefectures, along with the defected elders from the Qingfeng Sect and the Ying Mountain Sect, had barely a hundred Life and Death Realm cultivators altogether.

As soul energy arrows rained down from afar, many invaders were struck dead without even seeing the arrows coming.

The attackers from the three prefectures fled in terror, but the arrows chasing them seemed to have eyes.

"Master Feng, I was wrong! I was wrong!" a Qingfeng Sect elder cried out in despair, clutching his pierced heart, filled with regret and sorrow.

Now he understood why their sect master had chosen to join the Huaxia Empire, why he had willingly submitted, and why he had said that attacking the Huaxia Empire would be suicide.

Bang!

The elder collapsed to the ground, still clutching his chest as blood seeped through his fingers.

"Yes... it really was suicide..." the elder murmured his last words before dying.

In the phoenix carriage, Ye Xin fought the urge to vomit, her face remaining cold as she watched the invaders from the three prefectures fall to the arrows of the Life and Death Realm archers.

The Huaxia Empire needed to establish its power, to take its place on the stage of the Southern Domain.

Ye Xin couldn't help but recall what Lin Qian had told her before he left...

"The Huaxia Empire's time has come."