After clearing the level, the fairies were reborn!

But the entire training ground fell silent.

"Is it fun?"

Mu Yan's voice rang out softly.

Mu Jun opened his mouth, but could not utter a word.

Mu Yan turned her head to look at the rebel soldiers fighting, the assassins who stormed into the palace, and the demons who were causing chaos.

"I've only been gone a few days, and you've already turned the world upside down?"

Her voice wasn't loud, but it reached everyone's ears clearly.

The rebel soldiers who were fighting suddenly froze.

She is the Empress Dowager.

The Empress Dowager is back!

Chapter 159 The Empress Dowager's Secret Garden

The training ground was deathly silent.

The peerless woman, dressed in a black and gold phoenix robe, stood there quietly, without releasing any pressure or using any supernatural powers; even her eyes were calm and indifferent.

But it was this very ordinariness that sent a chill down everyone's spine.

"One or two, they're both great."

Empress Dowager Mu Yan.

He once single-handedly suppressed three major immortal sects, killed three Transcending Tribulation Ancestors, and made the entire Central Continent submit.

For three hundred years, she was a woman who made all the powerful families tremble with fear and made the princes and dukes bow their heads in submission.

Now, she's back.

Just when everyone thought she had disappeared, at the crucial moment when the fourth prince launched his rebellion.

She appeared out of nowhere, standing before everyone.

"Keep going, why aren't you rebelling anymore?"

Her voice wasn't loud, but it was like thunder, exploding in everyone's ears.

The rebel soldiers who were fighting had their swords hanging in mid-air, unable to strike again.

The assassins who stormed into the palace were frozen in place, unable to take another step.

Those demons who took advantage of the chaos were ashen-faced and trembling like leaves.

No one dared to move, no one dared to speak.

They even slowed their breathing to the lowest possible level.

Mu Yan raised her hand.

The movement was slow and gentle, as if it were merely brushing away non-existent dust from a sleeve.

But such a simple action sent a chill down the spines of everyone present.

next second.

"Om-"

An invisible ripple spread from her fingertips.

The ripples were silent and invisible to the naked eye.

But wherever it passed, the bodies of the rebels, assassins, and demons collapsed like sand sculptures.

There were no screams, no blood, and no struggle.

They stood there, and then they turned to ashes.

A gust of wind blew by, and the ashes scattered and fell, landing on the ground, on the stone slabs, and at the feet of the dumbfounded noble families.

Throughout the entire imperial capital, tens of thousands of cultivators participated in the rebellion.

In the blink of an eye, it vanished into thin air.

The entire venue was deathly silent.

Everyone stared blankly at the scene, their minds completely blank.

The ashes fell on them, on their faces, but they didn't even dare to wipe them away.

This is the power of the Empress Dowager.

This is what makes Mahayana cultivators so terrifying.

All resistance was futile; she was the strongest person on the Tianyuan Continent.

"I didn't know she was this strong."

Xu Ze's eyes also flashed with sharpness as he looked down at the figure not far away.

Even in the world of the Heavenly Book, Mu Yan had already told herself everything from the depths of her heart.

But even at that moment, he was still deeply moved.

That kind of shock didn't come from reason, but from an instinctive sense of awe.

Even though Xu Ze is now able to compete with cultivators in the 'Tribulation Transcending Stage', the Empress Dowager Mu Yan's strength gives him the feeling of an insurmountable chasm.

This is the woman who single-handedly suppressed the Central Immortal Continent for three hundred years.

No wonder Lin Yueyan said she couldn't break through the tempered glass screen protector; it might actually be true—the difference in their cultivation levels is too great.

"I wonder just how powerful Lin Yueyan is in the Heavenly Book world. She might not even be just a projection of a divine soul..."

For no reason at all.

Xu Ze remembered the woman who had cultivated the Path of Ruthlessness for ten thousand years.

The figure standing before the star map, the complex emotions that occasionally flashed in his eyes.

Is she really just a projection of a divine soul?

Or is she actually real, but trapped in that world?

Just as Xu Ze's thoughts were racing.

"thump."

Suddenly, someone knelt down in the training ground.

He is the head of the Cui family.

The old man who had been in charge of the Cui family for hundreds of years was kneeling on the ground, his forehead touching the ground, his whole body trembling.

His once youthful face, now white as a sheet, was filled with terror, and his usually dignified gaze was now filled with fear.

"Your Majesty, please forgive us! The Cui family has absolutely no ulterior motives! Absolutely no ulterior motives!"

"Yes, we are all like the Cui family, loyal only to you!!"

Then, the second, the third...

On the training ground, a sea of ​​people knelt down.

Those powerful families who had just pledged their loyalty to the Fourth Prince, the princes and nobles who secretly supported the rebellion, and the opportunists who stood by and watched from the sidelines.

At that moment, they all knelt on the ground, kowtowing desperately.

"Your Majesty, please forgive me!"

"Your subjects are utterly loyal and have no disloyal intentions whatsoever!"

"It was all the Fourth Prince who forced us! We had no choice!"

Cries and pleas for mercy rose and fell.

Mu Yan did not look at them.

She simply raised her eyelids and her gaze fell on the fourth prince, who was slumped in the ruins.

Mu Jun was completely dumbfounded at this moment.

Just a moment ago, he was raising his arms and shouting those treasonous words.

"—Smash that throne, and I will ascend the throne as emperor!"

He thought he was only one step away from that position.

Mu Jun thought that his grand plan, which he had been scheming for many years, was finally about to succeed, and that he would finally be able to fulfill his father's last wish...

But the next moment, he wilted completely, like a frostbitten eggplant.

His lips were trembling, his body was shaking, and his eyes were filled with fear.

The woman who was invincible in the world has returned.

His mother has returned.

All my efforts will be in vain.

"Mother, Empress Dowager," he murmured, his voice so hoarse it was almost inaudible, "I..."

He wanted to explain, to beg for mercy, to say that he had been misled and had no choice.

But all her words vanished under the gaze of those phoenix eyes.

Those eyes were so calm.

The calmness made him feel desperate.

If she is angry, if he is disappointed, or even if his mother scolds him, he will feel that there is still a glimmer of hope.

But she didn't.

She just looked at him like that, as if he were an arrogant ant.

This calm is more terrifying than any anger.

Mu Yan withdrew her gaze and looked at the aristocratic families kneeling on the ground.