Fairy, please step aside, I've taken a liking to your man.

The situation in the capital became increasingly unpredictable as the emperor's health deteriorated.

The message brought by Qi Rui made Shen Bai's expression turn serious.

"Is the information accurate?"

He looked at Feng Wei, who was usually calm and capable, and who would never be so flustered and at a loss as she was today.

Mrs. Mikami, who was standing nearby, quickly activated her communication talisman and began contacting various parties. Soon, everyone's information confirmed one thing: the Emperor was nearing his end.

Apart from the sixth princess and the royal princes who were forbidden from leaving their fiefdoms, all the royal family members had arrived at the palace and were kneeling outside the emperor's bedroom.

Recently, it seems that the Great Emperor's primordial spirit is about to dissipate, and the time he is conscious is becoming less and less each day.

According to reliable intelligence, the Emperor is now able to have a lucid conversation with people for less than half a quarter of an hour each day, and even during that half quarter of an hour, he speaks incoherently, clearly indicating that his spirit has weakened to the extreme.

"The Emperor is barely breathing and has been unable to respond to Wang Gao's calls for three whole days."

Qi Rui quickly reported to Shen Bai: "His Highness asked me to inform you to prepare for the response."

Shen Bai nodded, then looked at Mrs. Mikami: "Let's go back first."

Shen Bai activated the Spirit Network, which, as always, was dominated by various entertainment headlines, followed by who had advanced to the Nascent Soul stage, and who had found a spiritual vein on Qiyuan Star.

A piece of peace.

"How's things at home these past few days?"

Shen Bai contacted An Li, who quickly replied with a message: "Everything is fine."

"What about your cultivation level?"

"I just broke through to the late Foundation Establishment stage with Qingqing, and Wenwen has also reached the eighth level of Qi Refining. Her cultivation speed on Qiyuan Star is faster than all of ours."

"Raise the manor's security level to the highest level, and refuse visitors. Be careful of robberies recently."

After giving some instructions, Shen Bai closed his eyes to rest.

……

Upon seeing Shen Bai's instructions, An Li, who was far away on Qiyuan Star, immediately notified everyone to stop their secluded cultivation and activated all the defensive formations of the spiritual veins to their highest level.

Just as she finished doing all this, a group of people suddenly arrived outside the Shen residence.

"I am Miki Reki, the manager of the Sanjin Company on Dongdao Island. I have heard that the third-tier spirit fish produced in your esteemed Spirit Lake are of very high quality, and our company would like to purchase a batch."

For more than a year, the existence of the Shen family mansion has been no longer a secret.

After all, the expansion of humankind on Earth has been too rapid.

The spiritual veins within a radius of ten thousand miles around Qiyuan City have been occupied by various families and forces.

Although Shen Bai had used a sixth-order magic array to contain and hide the sixth-order spiritual vein, making it impossible for outsiders to know its specific grade, it was still noticed by many interested people.

Shen Bai decided to stop hiding his intentions and openly began trading with various parties using the resources produced within the spiritual vein.

However, the product tiers displayed to the public have never exceeded the fourth tier.

Tier 3 spirit fish are a specialty of the spirit vein, and their reputation has recently grown, so it's not uncommon for people to come looking to buy them.

An Li wanted to have a talk with the other party, but remembering Shen Bai's instructions, she refused without hesitation: "The production of spirit fish is not high recently, and we will have to wait a while before it can be sold to the public."

Wearing a black traditional East Island outfit, Miki Reki was not angry after being rejected. He bowed once and then turned and left.

An Li initially thought it was just a small matter and didn't take it too seriously.

That very night, while she and Bai Qingqing were cultivating in their cave, they were awakened by a violent tremor.

"Is someone attacking the magic array?"

Despite her shock, An Li remained calm and flew to the sky above the Shen residence. She immediately saw more than a thousand Golden Core cultivators besieging the area outside the formation.

Countless powerful spells bombarded the defensive array, causing numerous fluctuations in the array's patterns.

"Was it someone from the Sanjin Company this morning?"

Bai Qingqing, holding her flying sword, looked at the people outside. Shen Wenwen also flew over excitedly: "Are we going to have a war? That's great! I've been so eager to get started!"

"Stop fooling around!"

An Li scolded Shen Wenwen, and the little girl immediately shrank her neck.

With her elder brother gone, her elder sister-in-law is like a mother to her.

Now that An Li has become the matriarch, her demeanor is more dignified than it was a year ago.

Shen Wenwen used to dare to act coquettishly and play pranks on her, but now, faced with the invasion of foreign enemies, she dares not disobey in the slightest.

Bai Qingqing chuckled and pulled Shen Wenwen into her arms: "Alright, just watch quietly."

Shen Wenwen pouted and dared not say another word.

"A1, B1, you two lead your teams out and wipe them out, leave no one alive."

An Li waved her hand, and the leaders of Team A and Team B, who had been waiting, immediately grinned maliciously: "Yes, Madam!"

The Shen family rewards merit based on merit.

There is competition between each team.

Although everyone was forced to sign the master-slave contract, Shen Bai did not mistreat them, so they worked very hard.

More than a thousand Golden Core cultivators may seem like a lot, but for Team A and Team B, the two strongest combat teams, it's nothing at all.

……

"Lord Miki, how can this Shen family's magic array be so powerful? It doesn't look like an ordinary fifth-order magic array!"

The besieging crowd was getting anxious. With over 1000 Golden Core cultivators attacking simultaneously, the formation showed no signs of being breached. Even the use of powerful spells only caused minor disturbances.

"I have a feeling that it might be a sixth-order magic array."

Miki Reki's eyes flickered: "Shen Bai and the Sixth Princess are extremely close. Perhaps he invited a master from the Princess's residence to help set up a sixth-order magic array. However, even a sixth-order magic array cannot last long."

Since the creation of magical artifacts such as the Desert Eagle, Namo Gatling Bodhisattva, and the Three-Element Cannon, people have come up with new ideas for destroying magical arrays.

Single-point breakthrough has become a new tactical approach to breaking through magic formations.

"Take 1000 enhanced Triple Cannons, combine them with magic attacks, and destroy targets single-point."

Although Miki Reki had already cut off all communication in the surrounding area, he was afraid that things might get complicated if he waited too long, so he prepared to change his approach.

"Someone's coming out!"

Just as Miki was preparing to strengthen her breakthrough, a flash of light appeared, and twenty powerful cultivators emerged from the formation.

"These people..."

Reki Miki's eyes narrowed, a look of horror flashing in them.

"Twenty Nascent Soul True Monarchs!?"

The powerful pressure of the Nascent Soul cultivators suddenly descended, and before the more than a thousand Golden Core cultivators could react, their formation was disrupted by the twenty people.

Twenty fifth-order flying swords, with overwhelming force, strung together the Golden Core cultivators like candied hawthorns.

In just a few breaths, nearly three hundred Golden Core cultivators died on the spot.

"How can there be so many Nascent Soul True Lords? Quickly form a battle formation!"

Miki Reki was horrified.

Over the past year, although various companies and countries have seen the birth of Nascent Soul True Monarchs, the number of such individuals in each power has been limited.

Who would have thought that a small Shen family mansion could produce twenty powerful Nascent Soul True Monarchs?

Were all these Nascent Soul True Monarchs sent by the Sixth Princess?

Reki Miki swallowed hard, his eyes involuntarily glancing behind him, but there was no response.

He steeled himself and organized the Golden Core cultivators to launch a swift counterattack, but the twenty Nascent Soul True Monarchs were simply too fast. In the short time it took to catch his breath, more than three hundred Golden Core cultivators were blasted into dust.

These Nascent Soul True Monarchs are too cruel.

They already possessed overwhelming combat power against Golden Core cultivators, and these twenty Nascent Soul cultivators moved with measured steps, two at a time, their presence like a meat grinder wherever they went.

Just as the remaining three hundred-plus Golden Core True Monarchs formed their battle formation, the twenty Nascent Soul True Monarchs on the other side also formed their battle formation, and an enormous, incomparably powerful sword soared into the sky, rising and falling.

"boom--"

With a single strike, the battle formation consisting of more than three hundred warriors was shattered.

"boom--"

With another blow, more than 300 real people were blasted into the sky.

"kill!"

Twenty flying swords swiftly began reaping the lives of these Golden Core cultivators.

Reki Miki trembled uncontrollably, his panic becoming uncontrollable. Just as he was about to turn and run away, he heard a pleasant female voice: "Take him alive."

Miki Reki's face turned deathly pale. Before he could make a move, a restriction in his mind suddenly activated, and he exploded in mid-air, turning into a rain of blood.

"Did it self-destruct?"

An Li looked at the scene before her, feeling somewhat uncertain.

"It wasn't a self-destruction; it was detonated remotely by a restriction placed on it."

Jia, being knowledgeable and experienced, waved for his men to clean up the battlefield, then returned to An Li's side to report: "I believe this group was sent by someone to test the Shen family's strength. The real mastermind has not yet shown himself."

"Then eliminate them completely. After cleaning up the battlefield, head over to the Sanjin Company and ransack the place!"

A fierce glint flashed in An Li's eyes.

She knew that at such a sensitive time, if someone came to probe the Shen family's secrets, that person was definitely someone with great malice towards the Shen family, so she did not hesitate to issue the order for revenge.

A responded and left.

The pioneering era of Qiyuan Star was just like that, completely chaotic.

Competition between nations and companies is far more bloody than on Earth.

They'll start a war at the slightest disagreement; it's either you or me who dies.

Since the Shen family began engaging with the outside world, they have suffered various attacks on more than one occasion. However, in the past, these attacks were all carried out by monster hunters. This is the first time that such a large-scale and organized attack has occurred.

After becoming the mistress of the Shen family, An Li knew that a kind heart cannot command an army.

Today, a three-gold company comes to test us; tomorrow, a four-gold company will come to provoke us.

Only by making an example of one to deter others can we serve as a warning to others.

After finishing everything, An Li handed over all the storage rings she had acquired to Bai Qingqing to sort them out, while she herself began to contact Shen Bai, who was far away on Blue Star.

"Someone came to provoke us? More than a thousand Golden Core cultivators?"

Shen Bai frowned slightly.

He wasn't sure which of his enemies had come to his door, but since the other party was from a company in the East Island, he turned his attention to Mrs. Mikami, who was giving him a massage.

"Mrs. Mikami, do you know about the Mikin Company?"

Mrs. Mikami looked up, a glistening line of water at the corner of her mouth. She swallowed hard and said, "A small to medium-sized conglomerate, why are you suddenly asking about them, Kato-kun?"

Shen Bai ruffled Mrs. Mikami's hair: "They just launched an attack on my Qiyuan Star forces, but I have already uprooted them. Have someone find out who they are employed by, or who they are close to."

Mrs. Mikami took out her communication talisman and smiled charmingly: "Please give me one hour."

Shen Bai nodded, then pressed her head down again.

"Don't stop."

Mrs. Mikami's alluring eyes held a pure, innocent charm as she quickly sent messages while continuing to massage Shen Bai.

"Kato-kun, you can't forget what you promised me."

"Then good luck to you!"