"Why did you surrender so quickly?" he asked the burning question in his heart.
The ministers were kneeling on the ground, not daring to speak, while the Taluo King and the royal family were tightly bound, their mouths stuffed, unable to speak even if they wanted to.
"It was I who made them surrender!"
At this moment, a figure flew over from the city tower, and a woman who looked to be in her fifties landed in front of Yang Mingzhi and Yang Minghao.
This woman was wearing a blue long robe, similar to a Taoist robe, with a simple silver hairpin in her hair, giving her a plain appearance.
Her hair was mixed with black and white strands, and her face bore the marks left by time.
Clearly, she was an Innate Martial Artist, but she seemed to have just recently broken through to the Innate Realm, as her youthful appearance had hardly changed.
"Are you Sword Monarch Sui Qingmo?" Yang Mingzhi looked her up and down, asking.
The Taro Dynasty also had its strengths, such as its formidable Sword Dao legacy.
Don’t underestimate Xiang Anxu, who was defeated by Yang Zhenshan’s spear; in fact, Xiang Anxu was the renowned Sword God of the central and western Ten Thousand Miles Sea Domain.
His title as Azure Sea Sword God was not falsely earned, and indeed he had mastered the essence of the Dao, but he lacked a clear understanding of his own Dao essence.
The Innate Martial Artists of the Taro Dynasty were few, aside from Xiang Anxu and Wen Qing; only Sword Monarch Sui Qingmo remained.
Sword Monarch Sui Qingmo was also an outstanding martial artist, a figure of legendary fame.
Born into the middle nobility of the Taro Dynasty, Sui Qingmo displayed extraordinary talent from a young age, and her beauty was transcendent; in her youth, she was hailed as the most beautiful woman in the Taro Dynasty.
However, fate plays cruel tricks, perhaps because Sui Qingmo was too exceptional, or perhaps her talent and beauty provoked jealousy from the heavens.
At the age of eighteen, the entire Sui family of thirty-two members met a tragic end, leaving only Sui Qingmo to escape the calamity.
Then Sui Qingmo embarked on a path of revenge, her family’s killers were none other than the elite of the Taro Dynasty.
Her revenge was not to hide and cultivate, but rather to offer herself to the former Taluo King, using her beauty to tempt him into helping her eliminate her enemies.
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After the former king’s demise, she suffered reprisals from many officials, and had it not been for cultivating some of her own power in the court, she might have been killed by the combined civil and military ranks.
She entered a Taoist temple, becoming a nun.
But the affair did not end there; remember, she was still a martial artist of extraordinary talent, and she maintained loyalists and power in the court.
In the temple, she quietly cultivated while secretly amassing power in the court.
With her cultivation level rising, everyone knew she was an Innate Martial Artist, yet none knew she secretly controlled half the court.
Had she not feared Xiang Anxu’s strength, she might have usurped the throne long ago.
Although she was the former king’s concubine, the current Taluo King was not her son, and she had no offspring.
She secretly planted her own faction in the court for revenge.
The former king had avenged her family’s massacre, but many in the court remained her enemies, including the current Taluo King.
If not for these people, she wouldn’t have ended up hiding in a temple as a nun.
She originally planned to overthrow the despised court after Xiang Anxu’s demise, but unexpectedly, Xiang Anxu died, along with the entire Whale Navy of the Taro Dynasty.
Her impressions of the Taro Dynasty’s monarchs and ministers were of disdain, even for the king who helped her avenge.
Thus, as the Taro Dynasty faced imminent downfall, she chose to surrender without hesitation.
Simply put, she was a resentful woman, holding grudges against those who wronged her and continually plotting her revenge.
And now, her targets for revenge had become captives, and the dynasty she despised had fallen, leaving her with no regrets and no psychological burden to surrender to a power unconnected to her.