Chapter 251: The Assassination Attempt
While Xing was negotiating with the Gods fifty feet above the ground level, she wasn’t aware of the almost mutiny going on down on the ground.
While there were three persons talking above, the generals and lieutenants and other soldiers saw was only a golden tiger standing in front of the big wall of water that was about to swallow them.
Fear of the unknown, helplessness in adversities and sudden show of wonders brings out the worst in some people. And especially in their case, some of those who were already provoked by Lord Chu, who in the past one month stay with the troops had made them believe by some stories he heard from ’reliable sources’ that the Empress is some kind of demon who is seducing the Emperor to get her rule set in the nation.
He even presented valid reasons like the appearance of her out of nowhere as the first daughter of the Huang family, her otherworldly beauty that is only said to be common among the Fox Race of the demon realm, the illusion of a dragon that ’appeared’ during the coronation and how the Emperor who was said to be bent, accepting only her in his bed.
Some discredited his beliefs and some agreed to him but didn’t think further but General Fang who is the brother - in - law of Lord Chu who had a thousand men under his command, entirely believed him. On account of their relationship, he forgot how Lord Chu snitched on him and others from the East some time back.
He was the one who helped with the entry of the thirty two men inside their borders in order to help the Emperor open his eyes towards the Empress but his plan failed seemingly.
For him, Lord Chu’s points were only further proved by her killing more than two hundred trained men right in front of their eyes within hours in a single day. Most men in thir army haven’t killed that many men in the entire war. So how does a woman have such strength? She must be a demon!
People disbelieving her, happens a lot in Xing’s life. True, she is naturally talented in many things and God’s loved her always for some reason too that gave her some advantages. But that doesn’t mean she didn’t work for it too. Just because she rarely talks about the problems she went through in her life people who are not so close with her will assume she got it all easy.
No one knows of the soul crushing training she went through in that cave that honed her sword skills and with the old master who taught her the basics before. No one knows of the sleepless nights she spent reading books of different languages and practised her writing. The same goes for her learning GO, learning to gamble and also to shoot an arrow. There are certain skills like embroidery and cooking she couldn’t learn no matter how hard she tried too. But no one cares about the numerous times she went to hell and back for bettering her and they only see the now skilled her who fears no one as haughty and insolent and some even call her names.
Lord Fang now saw Xing high above everyone and the Emperor with a proud look in his face and felt the need to whip some sense into him.