General Yun struggled with all his might, roaring in resistance, but he could not move Cheng Yuanzhi’s blade from his shoulder even by a fraction. He raised his head and saw Cheng Yuanzhi’s reddened eyes, with a posture that seemed determined to kill him to vent the hatred in his heart. After all, General Yun was getting old, and during the battle at Weng Mountain, he had been wounded in both knees by Bai Qingyan’s arrows, which had not completely healed to this day. How could he possibly resist Cheng Yuanzhi’s fierce strike filled with such hatred?

Cheng Yuanzhi had waited too long for this day. He thought revenge would truly have to wait another three years, but he never expected… this General Yun to be so eager to reincarnate. Since he was in such a hurry, Cheng Yuanzhi would be failing Miss Bai’s careful planning and arrangements if he didn’t fulfill his wish.

“General Yun, our Miss Bai gave you three years, but you just had to be so ungrateful as to rush to your death when our Great Zhou and Great Yan are joining forces to help you, Western Liang, fight against Tianfeng. Then today… I, Cheng Yuanzhi, will take the head that has been resting on your shoulders for over two years to comfort the spirits of our Deputy Commander… Seventeenth Young Master and the brothers of the Bai Family Army!”

Cheng Yuanzhi pressed both hands on the blade handle, gritting his teeth and exerting all his strength to push the blade downward. General Yun was unable to hold on any longer. He looked up at Cheng Yuanzhi, who was fighting desperately with him, his eyes showing the determination of burning bridges and facing death fearlessly. Suddenly, he released his hands that were blocking Cheng Yuanzhi’s blade…

The moment Cheng Yuanzhi’s great sword neatly severed General Yun’s arm, General Yun drew a dagger from between his legs with his left hand. At the cost of sacrificing one arm, he gained a brief opening and thrust the dagger, which gleamed with an eerie green light, toward Cheng Yuanzhi’s heart.

The sounds of roaring and fierce combat filled his ears. From the corner of his eye, Cheng Yuanzhi saw the cold, gleaming blade attacking him, but today he was prepared to die. Even if it meant perishing together with General Yun, he would not hesitate, completely ignoring any defense…

Just when that incredibly sharp dagger was only half an inch away from Cheng Yuanzhi’s heart, General Yun felt a powerful wind rushing past his ear…

“Clang—”

The sharp arrowhead struck the Tianfeng-forged blade without mercy. General Yun, along with his desperately gripped dagger, was knocked aside by the flying arrow, causing Cheng Yuanzhi’s strike aimed at General Yun’s head to miss its mark.

General Yun’s hand and head were both numbed by the impact. Looking sideways, he saw the arrow lodged in the middle of the Tianfeng blade. He suddenly turned his head and saw Bai Qingyan in silver armor, mounted on a white horse, her features cold and icy!

Bai Qingyan, appearing here at this moment, was it because she was pregnant and feared danger, letting Cheng Yuanzhi take the vanguard, or… had she already dealt with the Huoyun Army led by his son and grandson?

It couldn’t be that she had dealt with the Huoyun Army led by Yun Lingzhi and Yun Tian’ao. That was the Huoyun Army… the Huoyun Army trained in imitation of the Bai Family Army’s Huying Battalion! How could it be resolved so quickly?!

Then was the news that the Great Zhou intended to capture Western Liang’s Empress Li Tianjiao alive, originally a trap, fake? Just like when they had contacted Liu Huanzhang and used him to trap Bai Weiting, Bai Qingyan was using the same method to trap him, all to avenge her grandfather, uncle, and brothers!

In just one breath’s time, General Yun’s mind had already turned a hundred times, becoming completely chaotic.

“Bai Qingyan!”

The moment General Yun shrilly called out Bai Qingyan’s name, the next instant Cheng Yuanzhi stepped on General Yun’s chest, his great sword gleaming with cold light pressed against his neck.

“Where is my son? Where is my grandson?!”

“Is your plan to capture the Western Liang Emperor alive fake?! You want to avenge your grandfather, uncle, and brothers, so you deliberately set a trap? Who is the traitor? Let me die with understanding!”

General Yun, covered in blood, was filled with rage. The uneasy premonition in his heart had now become reality. He knew he would surely die today, but… he only sought to die with understanding!

At least, back then, he had let Bai Weiting die with understanding.

General Yun was more disheveled than at any time Bai Qingyan had seen him before.

She didn’t know if her grandfather, when he ordered his men to fight desperately to carve out a bloody path for her brother and deliver the military records, had been in such a wretched and desperate state.

Bai Qingyan, mounted on her horse, held her Sun-Shooting Bow in one hand and the reins in the other, gazing at General Yun with an indifferent expression. She turned her head to look at Shen Liangyu: “Bring them up…”

Shen Liangyu nodded and ordered men to bring up General Yun’s grandson, Yun Tian’ao, as well as… Yun Lingzhi’s corpse.

“Grandfather!” Yun Tian’ao called out loudly.

General Yun’s severed limb continued bleeding profusely. He felt he was already on the brink of death, but seeing his son’s corpse and his grandson, his heart was torn apart again, just like several years ago when he had personally witnessed his son’s head being severed and his grandson standing beside him being pierced by an arrow.

“Bai Qingyan, I’ll kill you!” General Yun struggled. His face, pale from rapid blood loss, turned red again from grief and rage. “I will kill you!”

At this moment, General Yun was deeply convinced that there was a traitor among their Western Liang Huoyun Army, and Bai Qingyan’s plan to capture His Majesty alive had been a trap from the beginning!

He was filled with panic and unease. She had used the same method he had once used against Bai Weiting, so… she had killed his son, Yun Lingzhi, and kept his grandson, Yun Tian’ao, surely intending to disembowel him before his very eyes! Just exactly as he had done to the Bai Family’s Seventeenth Son.

Just imagining such a scene, General Yun felt unbearable, even horrified, wishing he could die right now. Even though he had once sent his grandson to Great Zhou, wanting his grandson to die to atone for his sin of disemboweling the Bai Family’s Seventeenth Son, that was still in a place where he couldn’t see…

His heart wouldn’t hurt so much. Now, Bai Qingyan wanted him to watch his grandson being disemboweled just like the Bai Family members had back then. How could he bear it? This was worse than letting him die immediately!

“It’s merely returning what was done. When you struck against the Bai Family Army, you were far more vicious than this.” Bai Qingyan’s cold, stern eyes stared into General Yun’s already clouded eyes. “I gave you a chance. If you had obediently gone south of the Danshui River today to fight the Tianfeng fleeing elephant army, today wouldn’t be your death day. But you just had to be eager to reincarnate, so I can only fulfill your wish.”

“Cheng Yuanzhi! Kill me!” General Yun struggled to get up, staring fiercely at Cheng Yuanzhi and shouting, “What are you waiting for! Don’t you want to avenge Bai Weiting, who was killed by me, Bai Qishan, whose head I severed and hung in our Western Liang military camp, and that ten-year-old child who was still singing the Bai Family Army song before he died? Come on! Kill me!”

“Grandfather!” Yun Tian’ao saw his grandfather’s condition and cried out hysterically, “Grandfather! Grandfather, you cannot die!”