THE HUMAN EMPEROR

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NovelThe Human EmperorChapter 1701 - The Death of a Great General!
THE HUMAN EMPEROR
C1701 - The Death of a Great General!
Chapter 1701: The Death of a Great General!
“Your Highness is hesitant?”

Hou Junji raised his head and smirked.

The First Prince clenched his teeth and swiftly replied, “How could that be?! This prince is only worried that the man in Big Dipper City is not that easy to deal with.”

“Heh, Your Highness does not need to worry. Everything has been taken care of!”

Hou Junji chuckled and quickly turned his head.

“The righteous do not grasp for wealth and the kind do not command soldiers. As long as Your Highness is not softhearted, I will naturally help you ascend to the Supreme Seat of the Nine and Five! Of the six protectorates of the realm, Your Highness has only taken two. The strength of the Beiting and the greatly reduced Anxi is not enough. But if we take this place, we will truly be prepared, and everything will be different!”

His final words seemed to thud against the ground, echoing off the walls. Everyone in the hall fell silent.

At this moment, in Hou Junji’s barely open eyes, there was a frighteningly cold gleam.

……

Two days passed. One hundred generals had held a secret meeting at Setting Sun Villa and a Protector-General of the empire had been removed. All this was a major shock for the common folk of the empire.

But while the entire empire was focused on Setting Sun Villa, the echoes of the incident yet to fade, another incident came hot on its heels and stunned the empire.

“Your Highness, terrible news!”

Wang Chong had spent these several days doing his best to investigate the Setting Sun Villa and save An Sishun and those other generals. At this moment, Xu Keyi rushed inside in a panic, his face pale and completely unlike his normally composed self.

After going through both the war of the southwest and the Battle of Talas, Xu Keyi had been hardened into a fierce, veteran general, and his personality was much more tempered and composed. But at this moment, Xu Keyi was so frantic that his lips were trembling, and Wang Chong could sense the fear in his body.

“We just received an urgent report! There’s been a major incident in Big Dipper City! Great General Geshu Han was slain!” Xu Keyi blurted out the news before Wang Chong could ask.

Bang!

The news was like a lightning bolt, and the entire hall seemed to quake.

“What?!”

Wang Chong had been perusing documents related to the Setting Sun Villa incident when he heard the news, and he couldn’t help but raise his head in disbelief.

“This is impossible!”

Wang Chong almost instinctively rejected the idea. Geshu Han was a mighty general, one of the best Great Generals in the empire. He was also surrounded by countless elites. Wang Chong’s first reaction was to believe that this was all false, that such a thing could have never happened.

But a moment later—

Bong!

The resounding ringing of a bell came from the Imperial City. It was an extremely unique sound, one that had never been heard before in the capital.

The window several feet away began to fiercely tremble, and even Wang Chong’s desk and the books on the shelves quivered.

Upon close listening, one could hear a somber sorrow in the bell’s sonorous tones.