People in the Qin Dynasty, entertained during the Warring States period

But now that the die is cast, he has no time to think about it anymore.

However, years of experience in hiding have made the straw-cloaked man casually leave himself an escape route.

"Brother Li, let's change our clothes."

Li Kai was slightly taken aback. "Okay."

The man in the straw raincoat put on Li Kai's black robe, and Li Kai changed into the man in the straw raincoat and bamboo hat.

“Now Brother Li calls me ‘the man in black,’ while you, Brother Li, are ‘the man in the straw raincoat.’”

“Yes…” Li Kai was stunned, realizing that Han Xin’s voice had changed, and so had his own.

Han Xin laughed and said, "My mask has the function of dissipating sound, so don't be surprised."

"Understood." Li Kai's palms were sweaty.

Disguised as a man in black, Han Xin followed Li Kai into the palace as his attendant.

The palace was in chaos, and Han Yu, who was stationed outside the palace, changed his expression several times.

Unexpectedly, that "what if" still happened; someone led an army into the palace.

"Qiancheng, Canglang King, you shall lead the experts of the Iron Blood Alliance to guard the key points of the palace gates to prevent the enemy from infiltrating and harming Father King."

Han Yu drew his longsword. "All men, listen to my command! Anyone who defends the palace will be rewarded with ten gold coins. Killing a single enemy will be rewarded with ten gold coins, and killing the commander-in-chief will be rewarded with a thousand gold coins! Those who die in battle will be given a hundred gold coins in compensation, and their descendants may be allowed to take over their fathers' positions!"

The Iron Blood Alliance may not have much else, but it has a lot of money.

"Kill! Kill! Kill!"

Most of the Imperial Guards were green with envy; an ordinary family couldn't even afford a single gold coin a year.

Bai Yifei rode a white horse, swift as a shooting star.

He watched as thousands of imperial guards fiercely defended the royal palace, and said grimly, "Killing one person is enough to be granted a title, and the first to enter the royal palace will be made a marquis!"

Li Kai, disguised as a straw raincoat-clad man, led a group of skilled fighters dressed in straw raincoats and hats to resist the royal guards who were rushing in from all directions.

In a one-on-one situation, few of the royal guards could defeat these martial arts masters, but with a large number of them, these martial arts masters became easy prey, and the outcome was almost one-sided.

Although Li Kai deliberately let them win, even if he hadn't, these martial arts experts wouldn't have been able to stop these imperial guards, who were carefully selected from the Han soldiers.

"The man in the straw raincoat!" Bai Yifei roared, "Kill the King of Han first!"

Li Kai paused for a moment before realizing that Bai Yifei was shouting at him.

He glanced around and spotted Han Xin, dressed in black, on the outskirts of the battlefield, ready to escape at any moment.

Before long, the retainers of those old nobles had stormed into the palace.

Li Kai immediately gave the order: "Charge into the royal palace!"

"Bai Yifei! The man in the straw raincoat! How dare you!"

With a roar, Ji Wuye arrived alone, killing several noble retainers clad in armor with a single blow.

At this moment, shouts of battle filled the air both inside and outside the palace. The nobles and their retainers were exceptionally brave, fighting fiercely against the royal guards.

Wei Zhuang dodged left and right, but because he didn't have a white stripe on his arm and wasn't a member of the royal guards, he was targeted by everyone.

He was not in a hurry to go to the royal palace; he was waiting for an opportunity to make Han Fei the ultimate beneficiary.

Cao Ze was in the Red Lotus Palace, holding the terrified Red Lotus in his arms. He avoided the chaotic palace passageways—where there were throngs of plundering retainers, wandering knights, and even royal guards taking advantage of the chaos to humiliate palace maids and women.

Honglian asked in alarm, "Cao Ze, what happened?"

She was fast asleep when she vaguely heard a noise.

Before she had even regained consciousness, Cao Ze held her in his arms and she witnessed many palace maids and eunuchs fleeing for their lives, and the ground was littered with the bodies of the recently deceased.

"Bai Yifei and the Straw-Clothed Man are plotting a rebellion. Let's hide first."

Honglian asked anxiously, "What about my brother? How is my father?"

Cao Ze hugged Xiao Honglian's soft, boneless body tighter and whispered comfortingly, "It's alright, your brother is safe."

My brother-in-law Han Fei has the Reverse Scale Sword. If he uses it recklessly, even a marquis could touch it.

Of course, you can only touch it. This is the Reverse Scale Sword, not the Heaven-Defying Sword. The sword spirit itself is stronger than a half-step Grandmaster, but weaker than a Grandmaster. It belongs to the pseudo-Grandmaster category.

He figured that the sword spirit's strength in life must have been at least at the peak of the Grandmaster level, or even a Great Grandmaster. As for whether he was a Celestial, he didn't quite believe it.

Arriving at the desolate and secluded courtyard, not far away was the cold palace of the Zheng Kingdom, and the sounds of fighting and clamor in the palace of the King of Han became extremely faint.

When Honglian arrived at the courtyard, she was so surprised to see Madam Mingzhu and Consort Hu standing there that she was speechless.

Hu Meiren was the first to react, and said softly, "Your Highness, thanks to the gentleman, my wife and I were not harmed by those bandits."

She had just heard Madam Mingzhu say that she had already accepted Cao Ze as her master.

She still finds it hard to believe.

But it was wise of them not to stir things up.

Madam Mingzhu nodded to Honglian without saying a word.

Honglian had no time to think about why it was such a coincidence that Lady Hu and Madam Mingzhu were in the same courtyard.

She looked anxious and uneasy; she had never imagined that one day someone would rebel and treason.

Cao Ze said, "Princess Honglian, don't panic, I'll go and take a look."

Honglian hugged Cao Ze's arm, her beautiful eyes filled with gratitude. "Thank you, I will definitely ask my father to reward you."

Cao Ze waved his hand and left the small courtyard where the Marquis was imprisoned.

Jing Ni slowly appeared behind Cao Ze.

Cao Ze turned around and smiled, "You don't need to follow me, just keep an eye on them."

He just went to watch the excitement; he had no intention of taking action.

Jing Ni nodded slightly: "Be careful."

Cao Ze arrived near the royal palace, where the fiercest battle was taking place.

He glanced at Ji Wuye, who was fighting alone in the crowd, intending to capture and kill the man in the straw raincoat.

He is indeed a rare and valiant general; even the current Peerless Ghost cannot compare to Ji Wuye at this moment.

"Straw-Clad Man, prepare to die!"

Ji Wuye roared, his body covered in blood, and slashed down at Li Kai, who was disguised as a straw-clothed man.

Li Kai did not resist, but looked at Han Xin, the man in black outside the arena, and smiled bitterly.

Han Xin, the man in black, sighed softly and muttered to himself, "Brother Li, why did you betray me?"

At first, he didn't realize that it was Li Kai who had leaked the information.

After entering the palace and waiting for Li Kai to command the battle, even the slow-witted man noticed something was wrong.

Fortunately, he was careful enough, otherwise he would have been the one in danger.

Cao Ze looked at him strangely, quite surprised that the man in the straw raincoat didn't block or dodge. Even a female marquis couldn't possibly withstand Ji Wuye's knife with her neck and survive.

He watched as Ji Wuye beheaded the man in the straw raincoat with a single stroke, his head rolling in the chaos of the army, and felt a sense of unreality.

Ji Wuye, who was in the field, frowned, also not wanting to see the man in the straw raincoat killed so easily by him.

It's fake...

Ji Wuye snorted, thinking that the man in the straw raincoat was lucky, but even a fake death would be useful.

"The man in the straw raincoat is dead! Those who surrender will not be killed!"

Upon hearing this, the martial arts experts looked at each other in bewilderment, then scattered like birds and beasts, taking advantage of the chaos to rob the Han King's palace and escape.

But the noble retainers continued to fight. Dozens of fully armed retainers entangled Ji Wuye, infuriating him. He could only watch as Bai Yifei charged up the steps and advanced step by step toward the royal palace.

The fourth young master, Han Yu, was extremely cunning. Despite the overwhelming smell of blood, he maintained his composure.

Bai Yifei grinned maliciously at Han Yu, who was only a dozen feet away from him. "Fourth Young Master, if you step aside, I guarantee you'll be a carefree Marquis."

Han Yu said in a deep voice, "Bai Yifei, you have been granted the mandate of heaven, and your regicide is an outrage against both heaven and man. If you stop, I will forgive and forget about it!"

Bai Yifei's blood-stained clothes turned even redder. He said coldly, "This throne should have belonged to our Bai family back then. Your Han family merely stole the land that our Bai family conquered. Now I am simply taking it back. How can you say that it is an outrage against heaven and man!"

Han Qiancheng said anxiously, "Father, the Imperial Guards have suffered heavy casualties, we..."

Han Yu gritted his teeth and said, "I believe in General Ji!"

He was gambling, gambling that he could hold out until Ji Wuye came to kill him.

The wolf king, not far away, licked its paws and turned to leave without hesitation.

Bai Yifei's strength wasn't top-tier in the martial arts world, but his ice magic made him kill those mediocre Imperial Guards more decisively than a typical Grandmaster.

Bai Yifei may not succeed, but he is absolutely capable of killing everyone inside and outside the palace before reinforcements arrive.

"You want to escape?" A cold voice rang in the Wolf King's ears, startling him. He looked up and saw a cold-faced young man.

“Wei Zhuang…”

He had witnessed Wei Zhuang's ferocious side on the cliff of Snow Robe Fortress, and killing him now, with his greatly weakened physique, would be an easy task.

"I'm giving you a chance: submit or..."

"Your subordinate, the Wolf King, greets Lord Wei Zhuang!" The Wolf King knelt on one knee, very directly.

Wei Zhuang said calmly, "Get up and come with me."

He was confident in his ability to tame the Wolf King.

"Yes."

The Wolf King followed Wei Zhuang toward the royal palace.

When he saw Han Yu and Han Qiancheng lying in a pool of blood on the steps, he couldn't help but feel a chill. His intuition was right. Han Yu and Han Qiancheng alone could not stop Bai Yifei.

"Isn't it interesting?"

Wei Zhuang sneered. He had the ability to save Han Yu, but he would not choose to do so so that Han Fei could become the crown prince and ascend the throne.

The Wolf King replied respectfully, "Yes, Lord Wei Zhuang, very interesting."

"Let's go, Bai Yifei should die too."