On our wedding day, I castrated my fiancée's white moonlight.

That night.

Inside the inn in the capital of the Great Xia Dynasty, an hour earlier, the Crimson Merchant Guild had ordered the complete abandonment of Qin Ren, their pawn.

"Ah...ah—!"

Qin Ren went completely mad, and piercing screams echoed from inside the room.

The innkeeper was so frightened that he didn't dare to pass by the room.

Suddenly, with a loud bang, the door was kicked open from the inside.

Qin Ren rushed out with disheveled hair, his clothes soaked with sweat, his eyes bloodshot, and a trace of black blood at the corner of his mouth!

"18 billion...18 billion...all gone..."

"The Qin family is finished...and so am I!..."

His eyes were unfocused, and he kept repeating the same words, as if he had lost his soul!

An elderly man with white hair ran out, his face contorted in pain, and grabbed Qin Ren tightly, crying, "Young Master! Please calm down!"

"Haha...hahaha..."

Qin Ren suddenly laughed, his face streaked with tears, his whole body trembling as he laughed: "Woof woof woof... I'm a dog, I'm a dog... Woof woof woof!"

The white-haired old man's eyes filled with tears: "Young master..."

At midnight that day, the Qin family arrived from Zhongzhou.

Two gray-clad guards carried the already deranged Qin Ren away from the capital of Daxia.

Even as he was leaving, Qin Ren was still shouting wildly!

"Woof woof woof! Ye Fan... Ye... Fan... I'm not convinced... I'll bite you to death... woof woof..."

The sound faded into the distance, disappearing completely into the depths of the night!

That evening, Hua Nongyu and Hua Nongyue broke through to the next level.

In the morning, Ye Fan got up and didn't let the two of them serve him. He made himself a bowl of white porridge and ate it. Wang Danian came up to report on Qin Ren's situation.

Ye Fan remained unmoved: "He who kills will be killed by man!"

"Qin Ren should have been prepared to help the Crimson Merchant Guild before killing me!"

"Just like the Japanese pirates, they want to destroy the Xia dynasty! To annihilate the Xia spirit! Then we must be prepared for the destruction of our nation and the extinction of our race. By the way, what's the situation with the Japanese pirates?"

Wang Danian grinned: "Niu Er is still killing people on the Japanese island. Your Highness, you once said that the head of a Japanese pirate is worth one tael of gold."

"You should at least prepare seventy or eighty million taels of gold!"

"Hahaha! Don't worry, there's plenty of gold!" Ye Fan was in high spirits.

……

Zhongzhou, the divine city.

The Blood-Red Chamber of Commerce headquarters, on the top floor of the Hundred-Foot Black Gold Building.

Three elderly men in blood-red robes sat in the main seats, the atmosphere extremely oppressive.

On either side of the long table, more than a dozen senior vice presidents bowed their heads, not daring to utter a sound.

"Qin Ren has lost..."

The leader, the blood-robed elder, spoke in a hoarse voice, filled with extreme anger and bewilderment!

The Crimson Merchant Guild, backed by the Holy Land, is experiencing defeat for the first time in all its long history!

The second elder on the left sneered, "Qin Ren didn't just lose! Ye Fan took away the Qin family's 18 billion spirit stones overnight!"

"With the collapse of the Gengjin market, the Qin family's assets have essentially gone down the drain!"

"That idiot Qin Ren was completely outmaneuvered by a mere mortal, utterly disgracing the Crimson Merchant Guild!"

The Third Elder gripped the armrest with his palms, his knuckles white: "The problem isn't with Qin Ren."

"The problem is that Ye Fan has far more resources than we anticipated!"

"Where did he get so much Gengjin (a type of metal)?"

A vice president, forcing a smile, spoke up: "Elder, I've done a detailed count... In the past few days, the various supplies Ye Fan has sold, converted to market value, have exceeded one hundred billion spirit stones!"

"One hundred billion spirit stones!"

Everyone's eyes narrowed, and they opened their mouths.

This is the Crimson Merchant Guild's entire year's transaction volume! Ye Fan achieved it in just a few days?

That's incredible!

The meeting room was deathly silent!

With a loud crash, the Grand Elder suddenly slammed his palm on the stone table, causing the conference room table to shatter and kick up a cloud of dust.

Through the dust, everyone's gaze fell on the First Elder's face, and he gritted his teeth and spat out a sentence:

"It must be Ye Shitian!"

The moment those words were spoken, the temperature in the entire council chamber plummeted!

Everyone present knew that a thousand years ago, Ye Shitian, the God of Slaughter of Zhongzhou, had plundered the treasure troves of the five holy lands!

The stolen items are countless. It is said that even the five holy sites have not yet been able to count how much has been lost!

If all these things were in Ye Fan's hands...

Even the Crimson Merchant Guild dared not think any further!

The Grand Elder rose, his blood-red robes billowing even without wind, his aged voice laced with a chilling greed: "Ye Shitian's treasure must be brought into the hands of my Crimson Merchant Guild!"

"Contact the people of 'Heavenly Slaughter,' and we're willing to offer a bounty of 10 billion spirit stones for capturing Ye Fan alive!"

"What?! Ten billion spirit stones!"

All the vice presidents and high deacons of the Crimson Merchant Guild stood up in shock!

"hiss--!"

Inside the meeting room, gasps of astonishment filled the air.

The Heavenly Slaughter is the most powerful assassin organization in Zhongzhou. It is said that its predecessor was a fallen holy land!

Later, they became an assassin organization! A bounty of 10 billion was extremely rare in the entire history of "Heavenly Slaughter"! Because every time a 10 billion bounty was offered, the target was the Lord of the Holy Land!

……

at the same time.

The Eastern Lands, the Great Zhou Dynasty, Dragon Capital.

Inside the main hall of the palace, the lights were on.

The high-ranking members of the Ji family, the royal family of the Great Zhou Dynasty, gathered together, and every face was filled with fear.

"The scouts just sent back news..."

An elderly man in grey robes knelt in the center of the hall, his voice trembling: "General Shen Murong, the Great General of the Northern Garrison of the Great Xia Dynasty! His 300,000 elite troops set off from Yongning Port in the East China Sea last night!"

"Heading straight for the western border of Great Xia!"

The hall fell into a deathly silence.

The western border of the Great Xia is exactly the eastern border of the Great Zhou!

"hiss--!"

Ji Wuming's eldest son, Ji Changfeng, had an old face ashen white: "He...he wants to attack my Great Zhou?"

"Impossible, right? Great Xia is currently being blacklisted by the Blood Chamber of Commerce and is too busy to take care of itself. How could it have the strength to attack us?" Another elder from the Ji family asked anxiously.

"Still too busy taking care of yourself?"

A thin, middle-aged man sneered and glanced at the crowd.

"Ye Fan has been raking in money like crazy in the Great Xia Dragon Capital these past few days, earning over 10 billion spirit stones! The Zhenbei Prince's Mansion has even installed a protective formation! Do you think someone like that wouldn't be overwhelmed with his own troubles?"

The hall erupted in chaos!

"It's over...we're finished..."

Ji Changfeng slumped into the chair, cold sweat pouring down his forehead.

An elderly man with a white beard stood up shakily: "Surrender...surrender! After the Three Kingdoms Allied Forces were defeated, the Yunluo Empire surrendered immediately. The Yunluo Emperor was demoted to the Yunluo King, and no one in the royal family was purged!"

"Our Great Zhou... has been playing dead all along..."

Another middle-aged man slammed his fist on the table: "What surrender? My Great Zhou Dynasty has stood for thousands of years!"

"Contact the ancient Ji family of Zhongzhou! We share the same ancestry and origin; they cannot abandon us!"

The gaunt middle-aged man sneered, "What are you dreaming about? Our branch is just a collateral relative of the Ji family, driven out back then! Why should the direct descendants pay you any attention?"

"So you just know how to ignore me?... "

Amidst the cacophony of arguments.

Ji Wuming, who had been silent all along, suddenly roared: "Enough!"

"What's the use of arguing? Three hundred thousand elite troops, plus red-coated cannons! What can our Great Zhou use to stop them?"

The hall fell silent.

At this point, the thin, middle-aged man who had been pouring cold water on the situation said, "Actually, it's not like there's no way at all!"

Everyone looked over.

The gaunt middle-aged man said, "There is someone, Ji Ruoyao!"

"Ji Ruoyao? That little brat?" Ji Changfeng frowned.

The gaunt middle-aged man's voice deepened: "You all may not know, but back when Consort Xiao's Number One Manor was still in Longdu of my Great Zhou, Ji Ruoyao and Consort Xiao had an extremely good relationship!"

The two were inseparable, almost day and night, and their relationship was like that of sisters!

"Consort Xiao is Ye Fan's ninth sister!"

The people inside the hall exchanged glances, their eyes gradually brightening!

The gaunt middle-aged man continued, "I suggest we follow the example of the Great Xia Dynasty and support Ji Ruoyao as the Empress of the Great Zhou!"

"At the same time, we can secretly arrange for Ji Ruoyao to become Ye Fan's woman, and for their son to become the Emperor of the Great Zhou!"