Sir, this is not how bad women are used.

Auntie Fengqin nodded deeply: "Yes, it has a relatively large impact, accounting for about 60% of the reasons."

Chu Yan scratched his head: "Then I really guessed it right by luck."

Before, Chu Yan had heard that Emperor Yama was in his prime, and his supreme status brought by domestic worship meant that he did not need to worry about any internal strife at all, and he had a centralized superiority that far surpassed other forces.

As for the civil unrest that might break out in Chu Yan's hometown, the Yama Empire had no such worries at all.

Although there were frictions and frame-ups among the heirs later, it did not shake the overall stability of the empire at all.

However, Emperor Yama's attitude towards the eldest prince framing Princess Ye Na was a bit biased.

The eldest prince's frame-up was unusual. He made a contract of faith and tried to frame Princess Ye Na as a descendant of the emperor's bloodline, turning her into a puppet controlled by the great devil, which was disgraceful.

Princess Yana later clarified the matter and proved that when she was framed by the contract of faith, she "overcame" the restrictions of the contract of faith through willpower and controlled the power for her own use.

This is a perfect comeback, the eldest prince must be punished.

Even if you are really biased, you can't do too much to save face. Punishments such as reprimands and confinement should at least be symbolic, right?

But the reality is really intriguing and unreasonable!

Now that I know the condition of Princess Ye Na's mother, everything becomes understandable.

The sprouts of religious belief inevitably appeared among the core scholars of the Yama Empire. It is unknown whether this sprout will be good or bad for the future.

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But what is certain is that the Empire's research on magical machinery has come to a standstill because of the emergence of this trend of thought.

Either create a god to satisfy the scholars' spiritual needs and then continue to conduct research without distraction.

Or he could issue an order as an emperor to deny and ban this trend of thought and explicitly prohibit the spread of all theological ideas in the empire.

As an absolute ruler, the first thing King Yama needs to consider is whether the throne under his buttocks is stable, so he has to take the worst case scenario into consideration -

Theological thoughts will shake his absolute position as an emperor and must not be allowed to stay!

Unfortunately, one of his wives is one of the core scholars, and is a scholar who is caught up in that trend of thought.

In the worst case scenario, King Yama threatened his daughter Ye Na and forced his wife to tell his fellow scholars that all the doubts were false, that magic machines were just cold mechanical structures, and that there was no such thing as "God".

Because this group of core scholars are all stubborn in theoretical research, it would be ineffective and unconvincing for the emperor to deny this trend of thought.

Scholars may fear the power of the emperor, but they will never accept his theoretical level. You don’t even have the academic qualifications, and you still think you can tell us what’s going on?

But when his wife, who is also a core scholar, speaks up, it is much more convincing.

Being able to realize this, instead of simply thinking "I am the emperor and scholars must believe in me", Chu Yan truly admired the ability of the Yama emperor.

At least compared to many nobles of the kingdom, Emperor Yama is indeed far ahead!

“The current situation is that Emperor Yama has most likely acquiesced that Sister Ye Na will lose the contest and will not be able to compete against the eldest prince, but when Sister Ye Na loses, he will come forward to mediate again and spare Sister Ye Na’s life.

Emperor Yama will use this forgiveness as a bargaining chip to ask me and Sister Ye Na's mother to speak out and deny the trend of thought among scholars."

After sorting out all this, Chu Yan suddenly realized that Emperor Yama was not partial to Princess Ye Na...at least not particularly.

However, Emperor Yama also intuitively demonstrated what it meant to be "the most ruthless emperor". Everything he did was based on the overall situation.

Auntie Fengqin sighed helplessly. No matter how calm and demure her temperament was, she looked depressed now. She nodded and said:

“The details are different, but it’s pretty much the same. Ye Na’s mother can be said to be the leader among the scholars in the empire. She also has a very strong scholarly quality, and it’s difficult to communicate with her using common sense.

To use your words, they are probably like those crazy necromancers."

...It's really vivid. There is a necromancer in my lair!

Chu Yan suddenly took a breath and asked, "So, everything that happened to Sister Ye Nai was done by the emperor?"

"That's not the case. We can only say that he took advantage of the friction between his children. King Yama is... a very cold-blooded and authoritarian person."

Princess Ye Nai finally came to her senses after listening for so long. She frowned and looked at her aunt with dissatisfaction, and asked suspiciously:

"Auntie Fengqin, you've seen all this all along, why didn't you tell me? And you assumed I would lose, could it be that you are..."

As mentioned before, the emperor assumes that Ye Na will lose, so it would be best if there is a traitor around Ye Na to cause trouble.

Auntie Feng Organ narrowed her eyes and smiled apologetically:

"Yes, Emperor Yama told me about this privately, hoping that I would take good care of you and not let anything happen to you, so that you would not be in danger of losing your life and having difficulty negotiating with your mother. This would be good for everyone.

But now I realize that if you have the help of your brother Chu Yan, things might be a little different."

Oops, the rhythm of this dialogue is wrong, it seems like it is going to trigger a boss encounter?!

Chu Yan's heart tightened and he was ready to fight.

Aunt Fengqin changed the subject and said calmly: "But no matter how things change, it has nothing to do with me. I just want to make sure that you are safe, Ye Na!"

...You scared me, Auntie, why are you like this?

Chu Yan complained about her harshly in his heart, and he even gasped while speaking!

Ye Na, however, was a little unconvinced and dull: "Now that everyone knows that I can defeat the Ryuukage Sword Saint head-on, do you think I will lose?"

Auntie Fengqin shrugged: "Who knows, maybe King Yama prepared something for the eldest prince? You guys have time to chat, and I, as the elder, will leave first~"

Chapter 200: Lightning Attack on Yana's Port

Aunt Organ got up and left. Such a dazzlingly beautiful woman, as she walked through the door of the open-air restaurant, was like a transparent person and almost no one saw her.

The slender and graceful figure quickly disappeared in the crowded street.

After watching her leave, Chu Yan and Princess Ye Na started chatting again.

Although there were a lot of things to talk about just now, when Princess Ye Na opened her mouth, she mainly made light-hearted complaints instead of talking about those complicated and troublesome things.

"Chu Yan, you call me 'Aunt' and 'Mother' very skillfully and fluently!"

Princess Ye Na thought that she could not do it so naturally. In the past, when she visited the families of her peers, she would always be entangled in the issue of addressing them.

Saying that they are becoming estranged could easily be misunderstood as a signal from the royal family to distance themselves from the family.

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If she shouted the wrong name, Princess Ye Na would be worried about being embarrassed and rude and being laughed at.

The countermeasure she chose was "silence", and unknowingly she created an image of being dull and taciturn.

Chu Yan was much more relaxed about this issue. Older women were directly divided into "maternal elders" and "maternal peers".

"I can't let Aunt Organ think that I'm difficult to approach. I have to be approachable first so that it will be easier to get along with her in the future."

"We have to get along well in the future. I thought that things would become clear after we arrived in the city with the army, but after what you said, I feel that things seem to be getting more complicated..."

The princess was tired. She wanted to drink some tea, but found the cup was empty, so she had to ask the waiter to bring another cup.

She also had to admit in her heart that she was not suitable to be a leader of a team and was only suitable to focus on herself.

Princess Ye Na had expected that this competition with the eldest prince would probably be to find a suitable open space in the Tower of Babel, and then compete with each other, ignoring all the tedious and boring games, and directly test their strength.

Chu Yan spread his hands innocently and said:

"It's not because I said it that things became troublesome. I've also recently discovered that the situation within the church is a bit Muggle, and I'm having a headache. I didn't expect to drag Sister Ye Na into this headache as well."

Ye Na rolled her eyes at him. What was Chu Yan's behavior like? He fell to the ground and was in great pain. When he saw others coming to comfort him, he felt that the other person was not empathetic enough, so he slapped the other person's butt hard, making his peach petals turn red. Everyone felt uncomfortable together.

"When I first met you, was that because of the church matters that distracted you there?"

"Yes, it's even more complicated than what happened to you, Sister Ye Na..."

It would be fine if Chu Yan didn't think about it, but he became worried as soon as he thought about it. He was afraid that this chance meeting would unknowingly become a place for him to complain, so he got back to talking about the princess sister.

"Sister Ye Na, don't worry about your affairs. The eldest prince needs to face attacks from both inside and outside, and he will suffer the consequences! But I want to confirm one thing with you..."

"Go ahead and ask. Is there anything else you want to know about domestic trends of thought?"

If this is what Chu Yan wants to ask, then Ye Nai should consider calling his aunt back since he can’t chat with her by himself.

But the situation in this regard, and the content that can be revealed, has actually been mostly revealed just now.

Even if I called Aunt Organ back, she would just smile and change the subject.

It's impossible to reveal all the secrets within the empire.

"The thoughts of scholars in the Yama Empire are too far away, and it's not something we should care about right now, so we won't talk about that... I want to know, now everyone in the empire knows that your strength has improved by leaps and bounds, right?"

"Yes, the people basically know about my victory over the Sword Saint of the Flowing Shadow and overcoming the Contract of Faith, but I didn't reveal a single thing about the Cursed Witch."

"That's strange. How can the Emperor of Yama be so sure that the eldest prince can defeat you? Aunt Fengqin also said that she is not a traitor and will not trip you up. That means the eldest prince is very confident."

This confidence should not be because the eldest prince’s own strength can directly defeat Princess Yana, but because he has some trump card.

The white-haired princess understood what her brother meant. She looked at the water in the cup with her red eyes and thought:

"Perhaps it is some new weapon or medicine bullet launched by the Imperial Military Industry, similar to the [Overloaded Meteor Bomb]. Since my father has chosen to be partial and wants to ensure that the eldest prince will not be defeated, he will definitely not be stingy with these new things."

If that was the case, Princess Ye Na would not be worried.

No matter what secret weapons the other party has or what cards they have, you just need to focus on your own weapon.

It would be great if the trump card given by Emperor Yama could give the eldest prince the confidence to challenge her head-on, and the winner could be decided by a duel between the leaders of the two armies.

Thinking of this, Princess Ye Na looked at her sword. She slightly pulled the blade out of the scabbard and just in time saw the brilliant dusk passing across the sword.

Turning around and looking at the sun, it was not yet sunset in the evening.

"Chu Yan, the sword is glowing again!" She controlled the volume and spoke quickly.

"Huh? Is it so sudden?" Chu Yan was still distracted.

He took the weapon from the princess, pointed it towards the direction of the sun, and watched the halo on the sword change.

As he watched, he hesitated...

Judging from the situation previously inferred, when the sword body shows unusual changes, it is the safe time period to meet the Cursed Witch.

Obviously, now is that time. As long as you don't go into a dungeon and go in for a short period of time, it should be easy.

The first time I stayed in the Tianling town, I spent half a day, and it only took a moment to return to reality.

You can give it a try in terms of time.

He asked to confirm:

"Sister Ye Na, this kind of halo appears in non-dusk time periods. How often does it appear and how long does it last?"

Princess Ye Na went over her memories in her mind and did not respond arbitrarily based on her subconscious impressions. After she recalled clearly, she said simply and clearly:

"The intervals are irregular and there is no pattern at all. Sometimes it flashes for several days in a row, but sometimes it only appears once a week.

As for a continuous

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How long? Usually a few minutes, and the shortest time may be the time it takes to blink twice. "

"...Is the pressure so great?" The corner of Chu Yan's mouth twitched.

Now, the two of them don't know the condition of the weapons. Does the Cursed Witch rest for a whole day, or does she just take a nap during those few moments when the weapon flashes with halo?

Chu Yan couldn't just enter the nightmare space. The Imperial Gun Blade had to be warmed up before use, and he also needed to warm up the "chicken" before [Soul Invasion].

What if the Cursed Witch was just taking a nap? From the time Chu Yan reacted to the time the engine finished warming up, the Cursed Witch would have finished her nap as soon as he and Sister Yana entered the nightmare space.

That would be hilarious.

The nightmare space is truly a magical place. Not only does it test the Dragonborn’s ability to sustain a sustained battle, it also includes blitzkrieg capabilities within the scope of investigation.

Princess Ye Na made up her mind decisively and said, "Then let's go to a more private place to talk. Even if we hesitate, there is still room for hesitation."

"Okay, let's talk somewhere else."

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Princess Ye Na has been living with her aunt Organ recently, eating, dressing, living and traveling in a temporary camp outside the suburbs, with a large number of trained "security guards".

However, now that the imperial army has "made a comeback", they will naturally not remain stationed outside forever. They must move back to the city, which is the military district where Chu Yan assassinated General Shi Li.

The church has a small diocese, and the empire also has a small military district here, so they are not much different.

The small military area was quiet and deserted at the moment. The road had just been cleared, so it was clean and tidy, with only a few newly fallen leaves scattered around.