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

As Shen Murong looked towards the direction of the Great Xia Dragon Capital!

Deep within the Great Xia Imperial Palace, Emperor Li Fuyuan tossed and turned, unable to fall asleep, until midnight before finally drifting off to sleep!

Boom!

A thunderclap resounded over the Great Xia Dragon Capital!

"Ah! An assassin!"

Li Fuyuan cried out in surprise and sat up abruptly from the dragon bed.

"His Majesty!"

Dozens of black-armored riders rushed in and knelt around the dragon throne.

Hundreds of Black Knights had gathered in the corridors and on the rooftops outside the palace. One of the night watchmen knelt and said, "Your Majesty, please rest assured, it was just a clap of thunder. There were no assassins! Perhaps Your Majesty was having a nightmare!"

"Nightmare?"

Li Fuyuan's heart was pounding!

A torrential downpour began outside, accompanied by lightning and thunder.

The lightning illuminated Li Fuyuan's face, making it appear incredibly pale!

"Chen Hu, I ask you, where has Ye Fan gone?"

Li Fuyuan just dreamt that Ye Fan held a sword, pierced his chest, and killed him on the dragon throne.

Everything in the dream felt so real!

Even now, Li Fuyuan feels a dull ache in his heart!

General Chen Hu of the Black Cavalry replied, "Your Majesty, there has been no news for two hours!"

"What?"

Li Fuyuan's face darkened: "The Black Riders must send back four messages within an hour to confirm their location!"

"Why haven't you informed me after two hours?"

Chen Hu knelt on the ground and hurriedly said, "Your Majesty! This humble general noticed that you were having trouble sleeping, so I did not disturb you!"

"Furthermore, Duan Shang's three thousand Black Riders are the elite of the elite, while Ye Fan only has eight hundred old, weak, and disabled soldiers! Even if they are all veterans who have survived piles of corpses, they are absolutely no match for the battle-hardened Black Riders!"

"Perhaps Ye Fan was trying to escape, and General Duan Shang was chasing him, which is why he was delayed!"

He was confident, and he believed even more in Duan Shang!

Ye Fan, with his eight hundred old, weak, sick and disabled men, can't cause any trouble!

"impossible!"

Upon hearing Chen Hu's explanation, Li Fuyuan nearly died of anger.

He jumped off the dragon throne and kicked Chen Hu, who was kneeling on the ground, to the ground: "I said, any unusual activity must be reported immediately!"

"How dare you conceal this?"

"Guards! Take Chen Hu away and behead him as a warning to others!"

"yes!"

Ten Black Riders stepped forward. Even though Chen Hu was their general, at this moment all the Black Riders obeyed only the Emperor!

"Your Majesty! Spare my life!"

Chen Hu was terrified.

He was dragged out of the palace by the Black Knights, and with a swift stroke of their blades, his head fell to the ground.

The entire palace was deathly silent; apart from the sounds of the torrential rain and thunder outside, there was not a sound at all!

"The Duan Shang army is known for its strict discipline; even while pursuing Ye Fan, they will definitely send back messages on time!"

Li Fuyuan's eyes were bloodshot as he paced back and forth with his hands behind his back.

Suddenly, he stopped in his tracks:

"Something's happened! Something must have happened!"

Pointing at one of them, he commanded, "Zhu Xiong! You will ride my Lightning Falcon and personally pursue Duan Shang's three thousand Black Riders!"

"Report back immediately with any news, without delay!"

"yes!"

Zhu Xiong dared not delay and quickly left the palace!

Chen Hu, who had served His Majesty for twenty years, was beheaded without warning. Something big must have happened!

The Lightning Falcon is very fast. It is a fifth-tier magical beast and extremely rare. There are only two in the entire Great Xia Dynasty!

One is in the imperial palace, and the other is in the hands of Shen Murong in the northern border!

This time, Shen Murong pursued the traitor without bringing the Lightning Falcon along; otherwise, it would have been impossible for them to be surrounded by the Quanrong tribe!

After Zhu Xiong left, Li Fuyuan couldn't sleep anymore and was restless.

Three hours later.

The rain has stopped!

"His Majesty--!"

Zhu Xiong's terrified voice came from outside the palace!

"How is it?"

Li Fuyuan opened the palace door directly and saw Zhu Xiong, pale-faced, tumbling and crawling down the steps in front of the palace after climbing down from the Lightning Falcon!

"General Duan Shang is dead!"

"Three thousand Black Riders, utterly annihilated!"

"Ye Fan, whereabouts unknown!"

Upon hearing this, Li Fuyuan's old face twitched, and his aged eyes narrowed rapidly!

Even though he had a premonition, hearing these words now was like being struck by lightning!

"What did you say? Impossible!"

Li Fuyuan completely lost his composure.

With a clenched fist, a powerful force struck out of nowhere, causing Zhu Xiong's body to fly out of control, his neck landing in Li Fuyuan's palm!

"Your Majesty...you..."

Zhu Xiong's pupils contracted!

It was even more shocking than seeing the annihilation of Duan Shang's three thousand Black Riders!

The black knights surrounding the palace were stunned by this scene and stood frozen in place!

Emperor Li Fuyuan of the Great Xia Dynasty is actually a Martial Emperor!!! The Black Knights have followed His Majesty for so many years and have never seen him use force!

"Say that again? Black Knight, what's wrong?"

Under terrifying pressure!

Zhu Xiong trembled violently: "Duan Shang is dead! Three thousand Black Riders, utterly wiped out!"

Li Fuyuan was completely enraged. With a flick of his wrist, Zhu Xiong flew out and crashed into a pillar in the palace, his head exploding and killing him instantly!

"Hahahaha! Ye Fan, I knew it! You definitely have a problem!"

"Ye Zhengrong! You really did hide a team for the Ye family behind the scenes. Apart from the team you left behind back then, I'm afraid no one else could have killed three thousand Black Riders silently, right?" Li Fuyuan laughed angrily.

"Someone come here!"

An old eunuch walked quickly with small, quick steps and knelt on the ground!

"Inform Liu Chengen that he must spare no effort to immediately eliminate Shen Murong!"

"Whatever the Quanrong King desires, I will grant it!"

With that, Li Fuyuan surveyed the hundreds of black-clad riders surrounding the palace and on the rooftops, coldly declaring, "As for you, having witnessed my actions, commit suicide!"

"I will guarantee your families a life of wealth and honor!"

Upon hearing this, most of the hundreds of Black Knights surrounding the palace and on the rooftops drew their weapons without hesitation and slit their own throats!

Only a dozen or so people were so frightened that they turned and ran away!

Whoosh-!

Dozens of crossbow bolts were fired from the darkness!

A dozen or so bodies lay scattered on the ground, and then all was silent!

……

At the same time.

In the northern border, at the camp of the Quanrong king.

Upon receiving the message from the Thousand-Mile Transmission Talisman, Liu Chengen immediately sought out the Quanrong King and explained everything!

"What did you say? Attack now? Has your Great Xia emperor gone mad?"

"Aren't we, the Quanrong people, subject to fate? Shen Murong occupies this crucial pass on the cliff; one man can hold off ten thousand!"

"Under the cover of night! Even if we send 100,000 men to charge, we might not be able to take it!"

"As long as it gets light, the situation will be in our favor! At most, ten thousand people will die, and I will be able to capture Shen Murong alive!" The Quanrong King slammed his fist on the table, furious, feeling that the Great Xia Emperor had something wrong with his head.

Liu Chengen said, "His Majesty said! We must attack immediately!"

"Whatever the Quanrong King requests, our Great Xia will grant it!"

"Hmph! Is that so? You would agree to take three hundred miles of territory in the north?" The Quanrong king sneered, thinking Liu Chengen was joking.

These people from Great Xia were deliberately playing a trick on him!

but.

To the Quanrong king's surprise, Liu Chengen nodded: "Alright!"

"Our Great Xia not only bestows upon you three hundred li of land in the north, but also fifteen cities within its borders!"

"What?"

Bang! The Quanrong king slammed his fist on the table, his eyes practically bulging out of their sockets: "Damn it! Has your Great Xia emperor gone mad?!"

"You've fought for twenty years to hold onto three hundred miles of territory in the north!"

"Give up for Shen Murong?"

"Damn! Is this woman's life worth that much? Let's do it!"

The Quanrong king let out a low growl, and the army camp immediately sounded the horns, assembling a massive Quanrong army of 300,000!

"Go! Go and bring back Shen Murong's head!"