The court lackeys of the eight-hour workday

Chapter 647 Rush to Rescue
Stars hang low over the vast plain.

On the vast plains, the Tumed tribe members were slowly making their way forward by the moonlight.

Anda Khan was at the very back of the ranks, his arms crossed as he rode on his horse, his eyes half-open as if he were dozing. But the Tatars who followed him did not dare to relax at all, and even looked somewhat tense.

Because they could clearly sense the murderous intent emanating from Anda Khan.

Today in the Tatar camp, Altan Khan appeared to have the upper hand and left very easily. He even made a sarcastic remark in public, which the Tatars didn't dare to retaliate against. But ultimately, he only gained an advantage on the surface; he suffered a loss in substance.

His plan to weaken other tribes through An Ziyang and others has failed.

He was then forced to leave by Yibuli, who took advantage of the power of the old man on the river.

This was something that the usually stubborn and self-willed Anda Khan could not tolerate, but he simply could not take action. After Yibula brought the conflict to the forefront, any action he took against other tribes would be tantamount to sabotaging the plans of the River Elder, something he dared not do under any circumstances.

"Tsk!"

Anda Khan opened his eyes and glanced around. The Tumed people instinctively looked away, afraid of offending their Khan. But then they regretted it, because Anda Khan hated spinelessness, and their retreating behavior would only anger him more.

Strangely, Anda Khan did not react.

He simply gazed silently in the southeast, towards the direction of Shuntian Prefecture.

"A bunch of idiots."

He murmured to himself.

"What is Yibula? What is Kuden Khan? An old dog and a wolf cub pretending to be stupid. If I was afraid they would gossip to the Eternal Heaven, I wouldn't have attacked them in the first place... Do you really think I was forced to leave by them?!"

"The Eternal Heaven has been in the capital for half a month, but has not shown itself again, leaving these people from the Central Plains to guard Nanjing and drag down their army. Can't they see the strangeness of this situation?"

Anda Khan made the same guess as An Ziyang.

The old man on the river has run into trouble.

Those who can sit in high positions are naturally not fools. Whether it is the cold and ruthless Yibuli, the seemingly ignorant Kuden Khan, or the rough and ferocious Altan Khan, they are all intelligent people, but only Altan Khan came to the same conclusion as An Ziyang.

Because he is very arrogant.

Unlike other Tatars, Altan Khan was not so superstitious about the River God. In his eyes, although the River God possessed unparalleled martial prowess, he was merely one of the tools he needed to achieve his hegemony—so he would not subconsciously ignore certain possibilities.

"I don't have time to deal with these idiots anymore."

"The Tatars' military strength and population are insufficient to occupy the Central Plains. The Eternal Heaven is my greatest reliance as emperor... Let those useless people like Yibula get entangled with those Central Plains people. I want to go and see what exactly is happening in the capital."

Anda Khan withdrew his gaze and was about to close his eyes again.

Just then, a gust of wind came from afar and approached. A Tatar celestial being rushed over and stopped abruptly beside Altan Khan. Before he could speak, Altan Khan interrupted him and asked a question to himself.

"Those people from the Central Plains have made their move?"

"Yes!"

"Did Yibula let them into the camp, intending to annihilate them?"

"Yes!"

"Have all the tribes pulled out their most treasured experts?"

"Yes!"

Anda Khan sneered.

"That old dog Yibuci, all he's got are these tricks... All those people from the Central Plains are dead?"

Having fought for decades, he knew the other tribes inside and out, and was also aware of the capabilities of An Ziyang and his group. So, although he sent his men to investigate, he had already anticipated the outcome.

But this time, he did not receive the affirmative answer he expected.

"Great Khan..."

The Tatar celestial being murmured.

"Ok?"

Anda Khan frowned, looked down, and stared at him.

"An accident?"

"How could that be? Those few Imperial Guards, along with a bunch of beggars and defeated soldiers, would have been surrounded and killed by Yibu Ci long ago if I hadn't secretly helped them. Now that we've already used our methods and the other side has fallen into the trap, what unexpected thing could happen?"

"You're probably trying to trick me!"

He frowned, staring intently at the Tatar celestial being. He was too arrogant, which was why he was able to guess the truth about the River Elder's predicament, but also because of his arrogance, he preferred to believe that his subordinates had failed to investigate properly rather than that his own judgment was wrong.

Anda Khan reached out to grab the Tatar celestial being by the neck.

But as soon as he raised his hand, Anda Khan's expression changed drastically!

"No...you—"

boom! ! !
Anda Khan had not yet finished speaking.

The Tatar Celestials who went to investigate the situation were in an uproar.

Without any warning, just as Anda Khan sensed something amiss with his circulation of Qi and blood, he exploded like a firework, so fast that he didn't even have time to realize his own death before his flesh and blood were scattered everywhere.

As his body "opened up," a blood-stained black cloud burst forth from within him, accompanied by the buzzing sound of flapping wings, and swiftly rushed toward the surrounding crowd.

Amidst the rain of blood, Anda Khan suddenly leaped out and unleashed a powerful punch!

Bang!
The fist, imbued with true energy, was unleashed, scattering a large amount of blood rain.

This punch was no weaker than the Emperor's.

With just one punch, and even holding back his strength out of consideration for his subordinates, he stirred up a whirlwind that shattered the exploding blood into tiny, invisible blood mist.

But after unleashing that terrifying punch, Anda Khan suddenly coughed.

He spat out a mouthful of foul blood!

"Damn it... I'm in big trouble."

He wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and turned to look around with a gloomy expression.

Chaos reigned.

The black clouds emerging from the exploded Tatar celestial beings were flying forward along the Tumed army. They were tens of thousands of Gu worms, their shells so hard that even Anda Khan's punch had only swept away a very small portion of the outer shell. The remaining Gu worms were constantly landing on the Tatar soldiers, tearing through their flesh and burrowing inside in an instant.

The Tatars whose bodies were burrowed into by the Gu worms immediately fell off their horses, writhing and screaming in agony, before losing their voices within moments.

"Sweat!"

A Tatar celestial being turned around and shouted.

"We'll go ahead and stop the Gu worms. We have a method bestowed by the Eternal Heaven to remove the Gu poison, as long as—"

"no need."

Anda Khan said firmly, his face extremely grim.

“That method is useless against these Gu worms… There is only one person in the world who can raise Gu worms that can withstand my punch and whose poison is even difficult for my Zhou Tian to resist. Her Gu poison can only be cured by the Eternal Heaven himself.”

His tone was filled with murderous intent, forceful and ferocious, seemingly the same as always.

However, several Tatar Celestials who had always served him keenly sensed a barely perceptible hint of fear and weakness in his tone.

"Ji Tianrui".

As Anda Khan watched his followers, whom he had trained over the years, being burrowed into their bodies by Gu worms, he felt his reason was about to be burned away by rage... but he still managed to suppress his anger because he instantly understood everything.

His guess was proven correct beforehand.

Ji Tianrui is back.

She shouldn't have been there.

Her appearance signifies the collapse of Shintoism in Japan and the death of Xu Fu.

It also signifies someone's return.

The reason why Kawakami no Takatomo (the old man from the river) did not leave the capital was explained.

"Ignore them."

Anda Khan squeezed out the words through his teeth.

"Release all soldiers, all celestial beings... and come with me."

"Go to the capital."

"Rush to the aid of...Eternal Heaven!"

(End of this chapter)