Chapter 1099: The Evil Emperor Is Released

The capital city, the Ministry of Punishments’ prison.

The heavy iron shackles scraped against the ground, emitting a series of loud, grating noises. The Evil Emperor, his face pale as iron, followed the queue of prisoners, moving slowly.

It felt as though he had walked for a century just to get here. Noticing the strange and meaningful glances cast at him by several players around, his expression grew even darker. He wished he could kill them all on the spot, destroy their bodies, and leave this hellish place.

Unfortunately, his internal energy was sealed, and his hands and feet were shackled with weights of over a hundred pounds. Even the NPC guards at the escort level could press him to the ground with just one finger.

With a clang!

The door to the prison cell opened, and a burst of bright light streamed in. The prisoners immediately covered their eyes, yet their faces showed relief.

“Prisoner Wang Erlong, your sentence is over. You may leave!”

“Prisoner Zhao Jun, your sentence is over. Come out!”

“…”

It wasn’t until the fifth prisoner was called that it was the Evil Emperor’s turn.

“Prisoner, the Evil Emperor!”

The NPC guards didn’t care about anyone’s reputation in the martial world. This was the Ministry of Punishments’ prison, filled with skilled fighters. Anyone who dared cause trouble under the emperor’s watch could be handcuffed and thrown back into the cell, or even killed on the spot!

So, even though the Evil Emperor was known as the greatest martial artist in the world, the NPC guards gave him no special treatment.

“Your sentence is over! Come out!”

Unfazed by the guards’ sharp gazes, the Evil Emperor stepped forward slowly, allowing the guards to remove the shackles from his hands and feet.

“I hope I won’t see you in this prison again. Otherwise, your sentence will be extended by one day! Understood?”

Due to years of dominance, the guards had developed an air of authority. The Evil Emperor and the others, still unable to restore their internal energy, waited until the guards turned away before realizing that the empty entrance to the prison was right nearby. Six guards at the Wuwei level stood there, watching them warily.

“Let’s go…”

“Go ahead.”

Except for the Evil Emperor, the other prisoners didn’t dare speak throughout their time in prison. It wasn’t until now that they exchanged glances and carefully left the prison.

The Evil Emperor was the last to leave!

As he stepped out, he could still see those fleeting figures peeking around in nearby restaurants or among the crowd, perhaps missing the days spent in prison with him.

The moment he stepped out of the prison, the sealed acupoints reopened, and his internal energy began to flow slowly through his meridians.

Whoosh!

Whoosh!!!

With a sound of breaking through the air, dark figures rushed from nearby to stand in front of the Evil Emperor. A total of forty-seven people, led by Yan Lang and Xiao Taohong, lined up neatly around him.
“Boss!”
The voice was deep, yet full of strength and dominance!
The presence of these top experts instantly silenced everyone in the surroundings. Countless eyes filled with awe and fear carefully scanned the group.
“…”
Only after Yan Lang and the others appeared did the Evil Emperor’s expression improve slightly.
Xiao Taohong stepped forward.
“Are everyone ready?” The Evil Emperor asked, picking up a pill the size of a longan from her hand without even looking at it before tossing it into his mouth.
Yan Lang nodded. “As you ordered, all the members from Yipin Tang, Xue Meng, and Meng Yun’s forces have been mobilized. Four hundred thousand people have gathered outside the city, leaving less than fifty thousand inside…”
“Let’s set off.” The Evil Emperor uttered these two words calmly.
…
“They’re here!”
“The Evil Emperor is out of prison… Hurry and inform everyone…”
“That’s all members of the Wild Wolf Organization! Yipin Tang’s people are too showy—sending them to escort him? It gives me the feeling of a life-or-death duel in a casino.”
Under the escort of experts from the Wild Wolf Organization and Yipin Tang, the group mounted their horses. With the thundering of hooves, they forced their way through the crowded streets of the city, racing toward the outskirts.
The news spread quickly throughout the entire city!
…
Whoosh!
Outside the city, under the pitch-black night sky, countless torches burned brightly!
Below the flames were countless dark heads, packed tightly together. Hundreds of thousands of people surrounded the entire city, yet it was eerily quiet. The scene was terrifyingly magnificent. Many who wanted to leave the city stopped in their tracks upon seeing the formation outside.
Boom! Boom!!
The Evil Emperor, experts from the Wild Wolf Organization, and those from Yipin Tang rushed out through the city gates…
Even Meng Yun, who rarely appeared in public, sat atop a tall horse, his expression solemn and his gaze sharp. After leaving the city, he glanced around, and over two hundred top experts with imposing presence silently rode in from both sides, surrounding him.
“I’ve been suppressed for a week…” Meng Yun spoke in a low voice, touching the hearts of countless followers around him.
Many lowered their heads and gritted their teeth.
After a few seconds of silence…
Meng Yun raised his face again, his voice loud enough to be heard within a kilometer:
“Today is the day to avenge our humiliation!!”
These simple words expressed Meng Yun’s and all of Yipin Tang’s and allied forces’ feelings, quickly gaining widespread response…

Shouts and roars filled the fields!!
“Set off!!!”
Shi Huasheng roared like a lion in the darkness, and the world outside the capital city instantly trembled!
Hundreds of thousands of troops headed in the direction of the evil forces…
The earth shook!!
Horse hooves echoed through the sky!!
On the city walls, countless players saw the dense clusters of flames outside the city rapidly moving, forming a massive fire dragon that soon spread all the way to the horizon.
“…”
Many people took a deep breath.
Many snow-white homing pigeons took off from the city walls and soared into the night sky!
…
At Bai Xiaosheng’s residence.
As the distant tremors of the earth reached them, the melodious sound of the zither inside the pavilion suddenly stopped!
Feng Ling pressed the strings with both hands, frowning deeply, and couldn’t help but ask Bai Xiaosheng, who was still busy making various calculations:
“Master, who will win this battle?”
“…”
Bai Xiaosheng didn’t answer.
The silence gave Feng Ling the answer…
If the master knew, he surely wouldn’t be so busy as to neglect even eating.
“Take! Take! Take!”
At that moment, someone knocked on the main door of the residence.
Bai Xiaosheng, who had ignored Feng Ling’s question, suddenly looked up in surprise. Who would come to visit at such a time?
“Who is it?”
Bai Xiaosheng stood up and demanded.
Whoosh!
What replied to him was a snow-white homing pigeon.
Bai Xiaosheng was stunned again. He quickly removed the note from the pigeon’s foot and unrolled it…
Upon reading it, his expression changed. He rushed out of the pavilion in two steps and opened the door!
Two men with the emblem of the Jinxiu Heshan gang embroidered on their chests were scanning the surroundings warily outside. As soon as the door was slightly opened, they slipped in like fish.
Bai Xiaosheng said nothing. He quickly closed the door in perfect understanding and stared in surprise at the two young men, who appeared to be in their twenties or thirties.
“Master, did you receive a letter from Happy?”
One of them asked urgently, pushing his nose as usual.
Bai Xiaosheng was taken aback. He keenly picked up some clues from the way the other person referred to Happy. He raised the letter in his hand and quickly glanced at the item in his arms:
“Lonely Xiaobai? You’re not a disciple of Ji Feng from Jinxiu Heshan—you’re from the Colorful Robes Sect? An old comrade of Happy?”
“As expected, the master of all things in the jianghu!”
“Happy sent us here to ask you to help gather a group of people to assist our forces in the capital in attacking the headquarters of Yipin Tang.”

Accompanying Bai Lang was the solitary Chen Fan. The latter glanced at Feng Ling, who was approaching from not far away, and said, “Time is pressing; let’s not waste it. Happy isn’t even 100% confident about this battle, so we must hurry…”
Bai Xiaosheng and Feng Ling, who had heard the news, grew serious and quickly led the two of them to a pavilion to discuss things:
“Do you know how many men the First-Class Hall and the twelve major gangs in the capital have left behind? And how many people do you have? What do you want me to do?”
“Don’t worry about the remaining troops. Our people have checked everyone in over 140 streets and thousands of restaurants in the capital. Including those outside the city, we estimate that the number of troops left behind is less than 100,000—definitely not more.”
The solitary Chen Fan took out a map from his pocket and spread it on the stone table in the pavilion, quickly marking four city gates: “The locations of the city gates are already under our control.”
“And here too… There are a total of seventeen main and branch temples in these places, all under our surveillance. Any movement by the First-Class Hall won’t escape our notice…”
The solitary Chen Fan added,
“Our troops number only over 50,000, but Happy said that Jinxiu Heshan is merely the initiator and not responsible for the main attack. So 50,000 is more than enough. Master Bai Xiaosheng, your task is to contact skilled fighters to assist us in attacking the First-Class Hall’s main temple. We’ll first launch attacks on the main temples of two affiliated gangs. Once we provoke the martial artists in the capital, we’ll take care of those 50,000 left by Meng Yun!”
“Isn’t Happy planning to fight the Evil Emperor in Jinxiu Heshan?”
Hearing this, Bai Xiaosheng suddenly gasped in surprise.
“Happy won’t avoid fighting the Evil Emperor! But he said that to prevent unexpected situations, he has to prepare a backup plan. Even if Jinxiu Heshan loses this battle, it must still cripple the First-Class Hall!”
“Happy also said that if he loses this battle, he’ll be imprisoned for a month. If he doesn’t deal a heavy blow to Meng Yun and give Meiying more time and opportunities, by the time he’s released a month later, the Central Plains might no longer have the Xi Feng Tower or Jinxiu Heshan. He said he doesn’t want the Central Plains to fall into the hands of the Wild Wolf Organization because of him.”
The solitary Chen Fan’s further explanation helped Bai Xiaosheng and Feng Ling quickly understand Happy’s careful planning.
Bai Xiaosheng took a deep breath, filled with emotion.
Even though he had once defeated the Evil Emperor, even though he now commanded seven hundred thousand disciples of Jinxiu Heshan, and even though he had become the greatest martial artist in the Central Plains, standing at a height no one else had reached, Happy never lost himself.

He finally understood why Happy had progressed so quickly to this point in such a short time…
…
Happy, who was stationed at the main altar in the direction of the netherworld, received a reply from Bai Xiaosheng at that moment. The message was concise and forceful:
“I won’t disappoint you!”