After clearing the level, the fairies were reborn!

"Does everyone think I'm a fool?"

Her voice remained flat, devoid of any emotion.

But it was this very ordinariness that made the kneeling crowd tremble even more violently.

We're doomed.

It seems there's no way to fool anyone today.

"Empress Dowager, it's not like that..." Prime Minister Qin Zhanming raised his head, wanting to explain.

He was a veteran of three reigns, having cultivated his influence in the court for many years. He considered himself eloquent and persuasive, but at this moment, his voice was trembling and shaking.

There was nothing that could be done; with a single thought, this woman could make everyone present disappear.

Mu Yan raised her hand, interrupting him.

"No need to say anything more."

"Today is a joyous and happy day, and I will not hold it against you."

As soon as he finished speaking, everyone present wore an expression of disbelief.

A joyous day?

You're not going to hold it against me anymore?

Has the Empress Dowager... taken the wrong medicine?

Or is something bigger about to happen?

"Alright, quiet."

Mu Yan ignored the questioning looks.

She turned around and looked at Xu Ze standing to the side.

The young man in the blue robe stood with his hands behind his back, calmly observing everything.

It was as if the rebels who had just vanished into thin air and the noble families who had knelt down and begged for mercy had nothing to do with him.

Xu Ze's eyes were calm as still water, and his demeanor was composed and unhurried.

It was as if he were the true ruler of this world.

A barely perceptible smile flashed in Mu Yan's eyes.

She cleared her throat, her voice clear and melodious, echoing throughout the entire training ground:

"Today, I have something to announce."

Everyone perked up their ears.

"From this day forward, he, Xu Ze, will be the Supreme Emperor of the Great Xuan Dynasty."

As soon as he finished speaking, the entire room fell into a deathly silence.

Just as Empress Dowager Mu Yan finished saying "A general amnesty is hereby granted today," and these noble families had just begun to feel a sense of relief.

This was accompanied by the Empress Dowager's voice echoing throughout the Central Plains.

Everyone was stunned again.

Xu Ze?

The retired emperor?

He's the Empress Dowager's man?!

“His orders are my orders,” Mu Yan continued. “Seeing him is like seeing me. If you disobey, you will be punished like this.”

She raised her hand and pointed to a palace in the distance.

That palace was none other than...

It was the Eastern Palace of the Fourth Prince, Mu Jun.

"Boom!!"

With a deafening roar, the entire palace was instantly reduced to ruins.

Smoke and dust billowed into the sky, obscuring the sun.

Under such horrific methods, a once magnificent palace was reduced to ashes in an instant.

The entire room fell silent.

Everyone stared blankly at the palace that had been reduced to ruins, their hearts filled with turbulent emotions.

This was the Empress Dowager's method.

This is what happens when you go against her!

From that moment on, that young man in the green robe became the second 'Empress Dowager' of the Great Xuan Dynasty in the Central Immortal Continent.

She was even more esteemed than the Empress Dowager.

Emperor Emeritus!

Mu Jun slumped in the ruins, staring dumbfounded at the Eastern Palace reduced to rubble.

His palaces, his empire, everything he had...

It's all gone.

Even this young man who had just boasted that he would steal all his women and then torture him to death by a thousand cuts.

In the blink of an eye, he became his father, the emperor.

“No, no,” he murmured, his eyes filled with madness, “No, no…”

He suddenly got up and rushed towards Mu Yan.

"Mother! Mother, you can't do this!"

"I am your son in name only!"

Mu Yan didn't even glance at him.

An invisible barrier kept Mu Jun three zhang away.

He pounded on the barrier frantically, shouting hysterically.

"I am the Crown Prince! I am the future Emperor! Why?! Why should an outsider be the Retired Emperor?!"

"Mother, you've gone mad! You've been bewitched by this man!"

"Xu Ze! You monster! You bewitched the Empress Dowager, what is your punishment!"

His voice grew increasingly frantic and hysterical.

But nobody paid him any attention.

Those powerful families kneeling on the ground didn't even dare to look him in the eye.

Mu Yan frowned slightly.

"Take him away," she said calmly. "Lock him in the imperial prison and keep a close watch on him."

Several imperial guards stepped forward and dragged away the frantically struggling Mu Jun.

His shouts grew fainter and fainter until they disappeared into the wind.

Suddenly, Mu Jun remembered something.

He had seen a statue at the old site of the Fire Cloud Valley sect. The statue depicted a young man holding a sword.

At this moment, looking at Xu Ze's figure in the distance, Mu Jun's pupils suddenly contracted sharply.

Then.

A surge of blood welled up in his heart, and he uncontrollably vomited it out.

"puff--"

Blood arced through the air before splattering onto the ground.

"Fourth Prince, are you alright?"

Looking at the young man whose heart was completely shattered, the imperial guard beside him asked a question in a low voice.

But the Imperial Guards in charge of escorting them immediately rebuked them:

"What are you calling me, Your Highness? Drag the prisoner away right now, don't make a mess of this place!"

The Imperial Guards immediately fell silent, no one daring to regard Mu Jun as the former Fourth Prince.

The rebels were almost inside the palace just now, and the Empress Dowager's decision not to punish them is already an act of mercy.

How could they dare to say another word?

Seeing this, Mu Yan even glanced at her disdainfully and whispered:

"He wasn't even my biological son, so how dare he compare his status to mine?"

"If I weren't in a good mood today, I would have killed you long ago."

As she finished speaking...

The training ground fell silent once again.

Then, someone made a move.

Hu Taiwei was the first to get up, quickly walked to Xu Ze, and knelt down with a thud.

"Your Majesty the Retired Emperor, please accept my bow!"

His forehead slammed heavily against the ground with a dull thud.

The others, as if waking from a dream, rushed forward.

"Your Majesty the Retired Emperor!"

"Your humble servants pay their respects to the Retired Emperor!"

"Long live the Emperor Emeritus! Long live the Emperor Emeritus!"

The sound, like a mountain roaring and a tsunami crashing, resounded through the sky.