If you're made a fake emperor, why did you change the country's name?

A sharp, piercing sound shattered the eardrums.

The eerie green light rapidly magnified in Shen Miaochu's pupils.

too fast.

It happened so fast that she didn't have time to react at all.

"Be careful!"

In that split second, a tremendous force came from her side, shoving her violently aside.

puff!

The sound of a sharp blade piercing flesh was so dull it sent chills down one's spine.

Shen Miaochu staggered a few steps, steadied herself, and suddenly turned around.

Zhao Yu stood still, with an arrow still buzzing in his left shoulder blade.

The eerie green light was spreading visibly along the arrow shaft throughout his body.

His face instantly lost all color, turning as white as paper.

"Zhao Yu!"

Shen Miaochu let out a cry of surprise and rushed over to support his swaying body.

She stared at the arrow, completely frozen in place.

"Soul-Devouring and Bone-Corroding Arrow!"

Her voice trembled slightly, without her even realizing it.

This stuff is the number one poison on the world's most potent poison list.

Those who come into contact with the Celestial Realm will die instantly, with absolutely no chance of survival!

"hehe……"

Master Hu stopped not far away. He looked at the scene with no expression on his face, and simply nodded slightly.

"That's right."

"Miaochu, don't blame your master."

His voice came through clearly from a great distance.

"I know you can't dodge this arrow. But I also know he will definitely take it for you."

"Because he was a benevolent ruler."

The last four words were ambiguous, neither praising nor mocking.

"you!"

An indescribable rage surged from the depths of Shen Miaochu's heart to the top of her head.

It's unclear whether it was because her master attacked her, or because he killed Zhao Yu.

"Come back, Miaochu."

Master Hu's voice rang out again, tinged with complexity.

"I don't want to kill you."

"I kill you!"

Shen Miaochu's eyes were bloodshot, and her internal energy circulated wildly without reservation, unleashing a resolute aura that soared into the sky.

She was actually going to fight her master to the death!

Master Hu was stunned for a moment. He seemed to have never expected that his usually aloof disciple would draw his sword against him for a man he had only known for three months.

Just as he was about to subdue Shen Miaochu, a sudden change occurred.

Zhao Yu, who had been supported by Shen Miaochu, suddenly moved.

He suddenly raised his right hand, and a long sword gleaming with golden light appeared out of thin air.

The Emperor's Sword!

With his last ounce of strength, he slashed his sword fiercely in the direction of Master Hu!

A domineering and unparalleled golden sword aura tore through the sky, carrying the momentum to cut through everything, and roared away.

Although his strength is only a fraction of what it used to be, the Emperor's Sword can draw upon the power of the nation's destiny, so this strike is no weaker than when he was at his peak!

This sudden attack caught Master Hu completely off guard.

He hastily raised his hand to block, but was forced back more than ten steps by the sword energy before he regained his footing and coughed up a mouthful of blood.

"Walk!"

Zhao Yu let out a low growl, grabbed Shen Miaochu with his backhand, and started running.

But after running only a few steps, the scene before his eyes began to spin and turn black.

No more.

The national fortune protection granted by the system, along with that little bit of toxin resistance, is simply no match for this most potent and rare poison in the world.

We're at our limit!

Shen Miaochu immediately noticed that something was wrong with him. Without saying a word, she picked him up and activated her secret technique again, transforming into a streak of light and disappearing into the sky.

Behind them, Master Hu watched the direction in which the two disappeared, but did not give chase.

He looked down at the deep, bone-revealing wound on his palm, his face filled with shock.

Suppressed by the Heavenly Dog's Sun Erosion and struck by the Soul-Devouring Bone-Corroding Arrow, how could he... still unleash such a powerful sword strike?

He sighed, and with a flash, he disappeared from the spot.

……

Three hours later.

As night fell, in a secluded cave deep within an unknown forest, a campfire crackled.

Shen Miaochu placed Zhao Yuping on a clean stone slab.

At this moment, Zhao Yu had completely lost consciousness. His lips were purple, his face was covered with a thick layer of black mist, and his breathing was so weak that it was almost imperceptible.

Shen Miaochu gritted her teeth and quickly took out bottle after bottle of pills from her storage bag.

She pried open Zhao Yu's mouth and stuffed those supposedly miraculous medicines that could cure all poisons into his mouth as if they were free.

But it was completely useless.

The Soul-Devouring and Bone-Corroding Arrows are extremely poisonous and domineering. Once these pills enter the body, they are like mud oxen entering the sea, not even causing a ripple.

The dark aura on Zhao Yu's face grew even darker.

Shen Miaochu stopped moving. She looked at Zhao Yu's face, which was beginning to show signs of death, and felt a surge of unease.

She stood up and paced back and forth in the cave. Finally, she stopped, as if she had made up her mind.

She walked over to Zhao Yu and squatted down.

After hesitating for a moment, she reached out her slightly trembling hand and began to unbutton Zhao Yu's shirt.

The flickering firelight inside the cave cast a blush on her cheeks, yet her movements were swift and decisive.

The secret method of Taixu Temple: "The Art of Harmonizing Yin and Yang".

This method possesses the power to rejuvenate life, and coupled with her Ice Mountain Phoenix Body, her cultivation will advance by leaps and bounds.

It can also cure all poisons in the world, but the conditions for its use are extremely harsh; it requires skin-to-skin contact.

And as time goes on, the two will become uncontrollable and completely degenerate into beasts!

She took a deep breath, removed Zhao Yu's clothes, and then placed her palm on his chest.

The hot touch made her body tremble slightly.

She immediately composed herself, closed her eyes, and channeled her inner energy, slowly injecting it into Zhao Yu's body.

As Shen Miaochu's true energy surged in, the deadly poison in Zhao Yu's body seemed to have met its nemesis, and began to be guided out little by little.

But his consciousness was sinking deeper and deeper into the endless darkness.

It's getting increasingly blurry.

Just as he was about to completely succumb, a beam of light shone in.

The surrounding darkness faded away, replaced by the piercing sound of horns, the cacophony of voices, and the familiar smell of car exhaust.

He...returned to Earth?

He was standing on a film set, still wearing his costume.

The director, holding a megaphone, shouted, "Good! Cut! Teacher Zhao, you acted well in this scene, the emotions were spot on! That's a wrap!"

The staff around him gathered to congratulate him.

He smiled and said goodbye to everyone before going to the finance department to collect his payment.

Looking at the extra 100,000 yuan in his phone, he knew that these three months had been worth it!

I happily rode my electric scooter home.

As he passed by an old residential area, he smelled a strong burnt smell.

"Fire! Help! Fire!"

A piercing shout rang out.

He looked up and saw thick smoke billowing from the third floor of a residential building, with flames shooting into the sky.

A crowd had gathered downstairs, and the sound of fire trucks grew louder as they approached.

Just then, a woman tried to rush into the building like a madwoman, but was held back by several people.

"My child...my child is still inside! Let me in!"

The woman's cries were like a needle piercing Zhao Yu's heart.

He glanced at the blazing window, then at his heartbroken mother.

He didn't even know what he was thinking at the time.

Perhaps it's an actor's occupational hazard that's acting up; he wants to play a hero in real life too.

Or perhaps it was the kindness ingrained in his heart that made it impossible for him to back down!

He shoved the phone into the hands of a stunned middle-aged woman next to him, saying only, "If I don't come back, remember to give this phone to my mother and tell her the password is her birthday."

Then, he grabbed a bucket of water, poured it over his head, and rushed into the smoke-filled stairwell.

The air was scorching hot, the smoke was thick and choking, and my skin felt like it was being burned.

He found the child who was so frightened that he could only cry loudly, hugged him, and wrapped him in his own not-so-fireproof costume.

He rushed to the window and, with all his might, threw the child into the air cushion deployed by the firefighters below.

The child is safe.

He smiled.

Then, the overhead beam, accompanied by flames and a deafening roar, crashed down.

In his last moments of consciousness, he seemed to hear a very old, very distant voice.

"Your life shouldn't end like this."

"Go, go to that world, and complete your unfinished mission..."

Then he came here.

Zhao Yu became the emperor of the Great Liang Dynasty.