Sword Among Us

Panda Novel

Evil Emperor’s fight against Happy was over in an instant, and the victor was decided just as quickly. This news not only caused the Chinese server to be shocked and be in a ruckus, more than one hundred countries in the country were also incredibly surprised.

What caused the people to be in even greater disbelief that when Evil Emperor died, he was actually being hunted by the Chinese imperial court.

Once he died, right after he reappeared in Guanlin Temple, he was locked up in chains and sent to the prison in the ministry of punishment, and his sentence lasted for one week.

Evil Emperor had to be locked up for seven days!

The repeated news caused all of World of Martial Arts to experience endless amounts of shock.

The people who originally thought that the situation in the Chinese server was basically set in stone and that the resistances could no longer cause much of a splash were rendered speechless by this news.

The players from other countries started talking about this matter on the official website, and they began speculating about whether Happy or Evil Emperor was stronger.

For a period of time, word that Happy had already replaced Evil Emperor as the strongest in the world spread out continuously.

The Chinese server burst into a ruckus!

The world, too, burst into commotion.

On this day, many people were shocked repeatedly.

The first was Dream Clouds.

She had originally been prepared to seize the chance of Wind Assault Tower launching their final struggle to crush Phantasmal Shadow’s confidence completely. She did not expect that Evil Emperor would make such a huge mistake and die in Happy’s hands.

If it were not for the fact that she had stationed people to keep an eye at Guanlin Temple and the people from Wild Wolves had quickly verified this information, Dream Clouds would think that a traitor had appeared among her people and had decided to crack a joke at her at such an important moment.

When she learned that Evil Emperor had really died, Dream Clouds nearly killed the NPCs soldiers on the city gate. She stared ahead with a dark gaze while she quickly gave her orders to have all the people from the twelve Beijing sects, Blood Alliance, Assassin Hall, as well as Class One Hall retreat into Beijing.

Once she thought about how Evil Emperor’s death could possibly lead to One Emperor, Phantasmal Shadow, and the other forces of power as well as Chinese heroes fighting back, Dream Clouds even retrieved all the resources in her headquarters. She gave a strict order.

“None of you are to leave Beijing without orders for the next seven days!”

The second person who was shocked was naturally Phantasmal Shadow.

After she learned that Evil Emperor was killed by Happy and Dream Clouds retreated at full force, she repeatedly looked for Wandering Know-it-all, One Emperor, and Happy to verify the truth of the statement before she stopped, ordered her subordinates to retrieve all the people who died and were sent back to Beijing, and more than one hundred thousand people marched in plain sight on the government-made road in a mighty wave before they went south on the river.

The third was the manager of the pay-to-view battle replay system on the official website.

Shortly after Evil Emperor died, the manager quickly logged into the game personally and sent a messenger pigeon to Happy in the game. He said that the battle replay was already created, and they would split the profit by half. Once Happy gave the okay, he would advertise it widely on the homepage. He was openly trying to get wealth by scamming Happy.

[I want eighty percent of the profit. If you agree to it, I’ll sign the contract. I’m really busy right now.]

Happy’s reply to the manager of the pay-to-view battle replay system was very simple and straightforward. Once he sent the news, he no longer paid any attention to it. Instead, he watched One Emperor ride over from the distance.

One Emperor had a rare smile on his usually callous and indifferent face. “You did great.”

Happy smiled. “Same to you. Has Phantasmal Shadow still decided to break out of the encirclement and bring her forces down south?”

One Emperor sighed in resignation. “I know that you want to fight and turn the tides, but our strength won’t allow us to do that. You know it. Even though the number of people we have to force our way out is nearly two hundred thousand some time after you killed Evil Emperor, there are more than sixty percent of them who are not at the peak of their condition. With just a few ten thousand, forget about turning back and fighting against Beijing, it’ll already be pretty good if Class One Hall doesn’t end up gobbling us up whole.”

When he said this, One Emperor cast a glance at the ten thousand or so people who filled up the plains behind Happy densely. He also saw Ji Feng standing beside Happy. He said with a myriad of emotions in his heart. “Looks like you’re prepared to hold a huge campaign.”

“Since Phantasmal Shadow has decided to develop her sect in the south, we can’t not have forces in the north…”

One Emperor was puzzled and stunned when he heard this. “Are you saying…?”

“I’m staying.”

Happy knew that One Emperor was shocked because of his decision. He said with a calm voice, “In seven days, Phantasmal Shadow can use her great foundation of strength to seize a territory in the south, but if no one holds Dream Clouds back in the north, she can send her two hundred or so aces in Beijing down south at any moment, and Phantasmal Shadow won’t be able to last for long. That’s why I’ve decided to stay and do my best in this.”

Once he said that, not only did One Emperor put on a solemn and respectful gaze when he stared at Happy, even the people behind him were shocked. They did not expect that Happy would dare to make such a risky move.

“Evil Emperor will only be locked up for seven days.” One Emperor reminded Happy with a solemn voice. “There are very limited things we can do here in seven days.”

“I know. But as long as I can hold back Class One Hall’s forces and make them be unable to leave Beijing, Phantasmal Shadow can do many things in the south.” Happy’s tone was as calm as usual. “If I stay near Beijing, not only can I hold back the Class One Hall forces in Beijing, I can also make the people near Beijing wary. My plan is simple. We will each lead a team and launch guerilla attacks at them. We’ll make Class One Hall not dare to readily move north or south during the week. Now, it just depends on whether you dare stay here.”

“If you’re not afraid of it when you’re hunted by the imperial court, why should I?” One Emperor smiled and nodded. “I’m on board.”

“Since we’re staying, we’ll make them sink into utter chaos!” Happy smiled and raised his hand.

One Emperor quickly came to an understanding.

Slap!

Right before countless people’s faces, the two shook hands and sealed the deal.

*****

Evil Emperor’s unexpected death and imprisonment for seven days caused the situation in the Chinese server to experience a slight change that looked as if it belonged to a movie script.

Wind Assault Tower was about to collapse completely, but they had somehow managed to get a precious chance to catch their breath while they were caught between life and death.

Due to Evil Emperor’s death, Class One Hall could only watch the remnants of Wind Assault Tower break out of Beijing and leave, because they had to face the intimidating might from Happy and One Emperor, who were two powerful players who were practically fiends to them.

On the first evening, out of the two hundred thousand people who broke out of Beijing, more than ten thousand people pulled in to the bank at Shanghai, and with more than ten Wind Assault Tower’s aces leading them, the branches of Class One Hall, Blood Alliance, and the twelve Beijing sects were all destroyed within a day!

After Class One Hall, Blood Alliance, and the twelve Beijing sects lost thousands of men, they shrank in their cities and did not dare come out. They could only watch as Wind Assault Tower destroyed their branches.

It was followed soon by the second day.

Fujian! Xiamen! Foshan! Hainan!

Wind Assault Tower’s members got on shore one after another in multiple cities in the coastal area, and they worked together with the people in the city to launch fierce counterattacks. In an instant, they managed to suppress Class One Hall and the other sects’ might.

Due to Dream Clouds’ stern order, Class One Hall and multiple sects did not fight back at all. In just two days, more than thirty branches were destroyed.

At the same time, the resource points outside these cities in the coastal area were taken down, and Wind Assault Tower’s branches were swiftly set up.

But on the third day, it was clear that Phantasmal Shadow faced much more difficulty in her operations.

Dream Clouds already learned about how Phantasmal Shadow distributed her aces, and she mobilized a lot of her aces and Wild Wolves from other cities in the land to head to the other cities to protect her branches.

On the third day, Phantasmal Shadow only managed to take down six branches.

The fourth day was worse. She only managed to get two branches which had no value whatsoever.

“I knew that Dream Clouds wouldn’t give us the chance to turn the situation around. She’s defending her territory tightly and preserving her strength. Once Evil Emperor is released from prison, the pressure at Beijing will disappear, and the control in the Chinese server will return to her hands.”

“Then, what should we do now? More than half of the one week we have is gone, and we have only expanded the number of branches we have to fifty. We have fewer than sixty thousand people who can fight against Class One Hall head-on, and once the forces from Beijing pushes over, we’ll soon be beaten down to our original state.”

“Since Dream Clouds has decided to be so ruthless and refuses to give us the slightest chance, we can only act according to our original plan. We’ll have to be prepared to give up on all the branches in the cities and search for places that are easy to defend but hard to attack to set up branches that can serve as our strongholds.”

Phantasmal Shadow sighed, but went on to be rejoiced about one fact. “Thank goodness Happy and One Emperor’s results were good, or else, the chance Happy got for us after such great difficulty will be completely wasted.”

Wu Kuo and the others nodded when they heard this beside Phantasmal Shadow.

Over the period of time they were busy with doing everything they can to reduce Class One Hall’s claws, they also did not forget to pay attention to the situation in the north.

Ever since they parted ways at Beijing, Happy and One Emperor worked together with Ji Feng and his former subordinates to form a temporary group who were built solely for the purpose of being enemies with Class One Hall. They named themselves Lovely Land and set up their headquarters near Ghost’s Domain, and they looked as if they were going to seize every inch of land from Class One Hall near Beijing to restore the Chinese server to its former beautiful and lovely state.

With the reputation they accumulated over this period of time as well as the shock Happy delivered to the people when he killed Evil Emperor, on the first day Lovely Land was built, multiple Chinese heroes in Beijing and nearby cities joined them. Their numbers swiftly reached fifty thousand on the first day since they built the sect, a number that allowed them to become a large-sized sect that was not to be underestimated.

What caused the people to be even more excited was that in the name of restoring the Chinese server to its former glory, Happy had actually convinced One Emperor to join Lovely Land, even though he was someone who never joined any sect. And the man was even the title of vice sect master.

The cooperation between two elites of the Chinese server caused multiple people to be incredibly excited. The people who said that they would join Lovely Land increased day by day. Normal players were not the only ones who joined. Even many of the prideful solo players chose to join Lovely Land.

But that was only logical.

Even One Emperor, who had been the strongest in the Chinese server for five years, had decided to humble himself to become a member of Lovely Land. It was practically impossible for anything else to not happen.

However, after the sect was built, Happy handed over the miscellaneous matters of recruiting members, expanding their business and territory, and setting up the management system to Ji Feng.

One Emperor led a group of people down south. In three days, the branches belonging to Class One Hall, Blood Alliance, and the twelve Beijing sects in the cities near Ghost’s Domain were all destroyed, and the resource points nearby were all seized from Dream Clouds’ control to be under Lovely Land and the other forces of power’s hands.

Happy did not lead a lot of people. However, all of them were strong, and they were great fighters under Ji Feng. They caused great chaos to multiple cities in the north, causing complaints from Class One Hall and all the forces affiliated to it to rise nonstop.

*****

In a restaurant known as the Virtuous Gather in Stilled Wind City, more than twenty Class One Hall higher ups filled up a private room without a word. They had frowns and bitter expressions on their faces as they either sat or stood.

“I heard that Happy is already heading our way.”

“The members in the cities ahead have already been killed. We can’t run or hide. What should we do?”

“Didn’t the hall master give us a warning? We were to avoid fighting and wait until Evil Emperor comes out of prison!”

“But we can’t just continue spending money every day in the restaurant and not even dare breathe loudly, right? We’ve been holed up here for three days, and if we don’t go out and move soon, we’ll forget how to even hold our swords.”

“What else can we do? I’m still pointing my finger at those bastards every day and cursing at them.” A person who sat near the window snorted in a pathetic manner.

Before he finished speaking, a black shadow suddenly flashed past the window in the private room.

Soon after…

Boom!

The wall with the window of the private room attached burst open from the outside, and a large black sword charged into the people’s vision with the force of a bulldozer.