Jiu Gongzi

Chapter 1 A Phone Call

In the narrow alleyways of civilian houses, a woman with a pale, panicked face ran swiftly, holding a little girl.

The little girl clung tightly to the woman, her large, clear eyes filled with fear, but she didn't cry. She was afraid of worrying her mother.

"Answer the phone! Answer the phone!"

"Li Xiaotian, this is the last time I trust you. You are my last chance! Please answer the phone!"

The woman held her phone, repeatedly dialing a number, her face etched with anxiety. She kept looking back, her gaze filled with worry.

"Mommy, will Daddy come to save us?" the little girl asked, her voice full of hope.

"Tiantian. Your father will definitely come to save us!" the woman said, even though she hadn't been able to contact the man.

"Bitch! Damn it! You're running away with that mongrel again!" A furious roar suddenly came from behind.

Upon hearing this, the woman's face turned instantly pale. The little girl in her arms instinctively curled up, tears falling silently.

"Stop for me! Don't seek suffering. No one in Jiangcheng dares to save you! Use that little mongrel's life to exchange for a bright future for my Ye family. This is your mother and daughter's honor!"

The man's voice was venomous. Behind him, numerous guards followed closely, catching up to the mother and daughter.

"Brother, please! Let Tiantian go, won't you? Tiantian is only four years old, she doesn't understand anything. She hasn't had a chance to see the world."

The woman pleaded, her expression filled with fear and helplessness. She clutched her daughter tightly.

At the same time, the pursuers had already surrounded the mother and daughter.

"Uncle, Tiantian will go with you. Can you not hit Mommy?" The little girl raised her head, looking at the approaching man, her eyes filled with fear. Yet, she mustered the courage to speak.

"Bah! You little mongrel, do you think you're worthy of calling me uncle?" the man sneered, his face showing disdain.

"Take these two, mother and daughter, away. We'll send this little mongrel to the hospital for surgery tonight!"

"No!! Don't!! Brother, you can't do this!! Tiantian is so young, she'll die!" The woman’s face turned to one of sheer horror as she frantically dodged those closing in on them.

"Hello?"

Just then, the woman's phone connected.

Seeing this, the woman immediately shouted.

"Li Xiaotian, quickly save our daughter, save her. You said to call you if I was in danger. This is the last time I trust you. I hope you won't disappoint me. I have no other way, no other way."

On the battlefield, Li Xiaotian had just led his team to victory against the most powerful international force, the Dark Night Legion. As soon as he opened his phone, he saw a call that had occupied his thoughts for three years.

The moment the call was answered, a woman's desperate and helpless voice came through.

"Li Xiaotian, I beg you. I hope what you said back then was true. I've begged everyone, but no one dares to help me, no one dares to save our daughter. *Sob sob*. Tiantian is going to die. *Sob sob*."

"Damn it! You bitch, who are you calling? Damn it, hang up right now!" a man's voice suddenly blared from the other end of the phone, filled with anger.

"Don't come over! Don't come near!! Li Xiaotian! Li Xiaotian! Hurry back and save our daughter, come back quickly! *Slap*! I'll beat you, you slut! How dare you make calls randomly! *Bang*!"

"Mommy! Don't hit Mommy!! Daddy, hurry and save Mommy!!"

"Beep beep."

The sound abruptly ceased.

*Crack!* The phone in Li Xiaotian's hand instantly shattered. Immediately after, an incredibly terrifying, vengeful aura erupted from him!

Li Xiaotian's subordinates, witnessing their King's aura change so suddenly, all showed expressions of shock.

King, what's wrong?

"Ah!!" Li Xiaotian roared up to the sky, his eyes turning blood red. He grabbed his trusted subordinate and shouted.

"Great Qin Nation! Great Qin Nation! Quickly!! Rush to Qin Nation at your fastest speed!!"

"King." The person Li Xiaotian grabbed was clearly terrified and didn't react immediately. He had never seen the King in such a state.

"Jiangcheng in Qin Nation! I want to be in Jiangcheng, Qin Nation, immediately!" Li Xiaotian roared, his expression contorted, and two streams of hot tears gushed from his scarlet eyes.

Seeing this, everyone on the battlefield was stunned! The King, was weeping!

The person Li Xiaotian grabbed instantly regained his senses, his heart churning like a stormy sea. He abruptly turned and yelled at those around him.

"What are you all still staring at? Didn't you hear the King? People are dead! Quickly get the fastest aircraft for me! Escort the King to Jiangcheng, Qin Nation! Hurry!! Now! Immediately!"

*Boom!* The Dragon King Hall personnel on the battlefield instantly scattered, each desperately searching for aircraft to escort their King to Qin.

At this moment, Li Xiaotian stood on the mountaintop, trembling, tears flowing incessantly. His close subordinates felt both heartache and burning anger.

Their King, a being feared by the entire world, a god-like expert, was now showing such a vulnerable side.

This could only mean that the information contained in that call had struck their King with immense force!

*Rumble!* Dozens of the world's most advanced aircraft landed on the mountaintop. Before the aircraft had even stabilized, Li Xiaotian, moving like a streak of light, dashed into one of them.

"Take off! Faster!!"

*Boom!* The aircraft shot into the sky, disappearing in an instant. Following it were hundreds of other aircraft.

Like a vast black cloud, they blotted out the sun!

Inside the aircraft, Li Xiaotian gritted his teeth, his body trembling, tears streaming endlessly from his eyes.

The person who had called him earlier was his wife, Ye Qingmei!

Five years ago, he had hidden his identity and married Ye Qingmei, becoming a live-in son-in-law for the Ye family, enduring countless humiliations, all to fulfill a childhood wish: to protect Ye Qingmei.

However, Ye Qingmei had only married him under family pressure, out of helplessness, and there was no affection between them.

It took him two years of effort to see Ye Qingmei's attitude towards him change. But then, his Dragon King Hall was attacked by other forces, and he was forced to leave Jiangcheng.

He still couldn't forget the look in Ye Qingmei's eyes then, filled with disappointment and sorrow.

That day, he had revealed his identity, only to be met with Ye Qingmei's ridicule, thinking he had left deliberately to escape.

Due to time constraints, he had left Ye Qingmei with a phone number, telling her that if she called, he would arrive immediately, no matter where he was.

"Ah!!" Li Xiaotian cried out in pain. He had never, ever imagined this.

After he left, he had been constantly fighting, his enemies growing in number, and the more he killed, the more he overlooked many details from his last meeting with Ye Qingmei.

Ye Qingmei had given birth to a daughter for him!

Li Xiaotian's heart was filled with immense pain. No wonder Ye Qingmei's gaze towards him had been filled with despair back then.

He beat himself fiercely that drunken night, how could he forget! How could he have overlooked it!

A fragile woman had given him a daughter after he left, and he knew nothing about it!

Thinking of Ye Qingmei's voice on the phone earlier, filled with fear and helplessness, Li Xiaotian felt overwhelming pain and sorrow.

"Quickly save our daughter! Save her!"

"I hope you won't disappoint me. I have no other way!"

"I beg you. I've begged everyone, and no one is willing to help me."

"Our daughter is going to die."

"Ahhhh!!! Speed up! Why haven't we reached Qin Nation yet!!" Li Xiaotian roared!

Ye Qingmei must have called him in a moment of extreme despair. She had fallen into a desperate situation! And his daughter, Tiantian! His daughter was close to death!!

*Boom!* An incredibly dense killing intent erupted from Li Xiaotian. His daughter was dying! His daughter, whom he had never met, was dying!! His wife, Ye Qingmei, had been imprisoned! Beaten!

At this moment, Li Xiaotian was like a demon, emanating boundless killing intent.

He was the King of the Dragon King Hall, the world's most powerful force! The foremost God of War of this era!

And yet, his wife and daughter had been driven to such a desperate state, his wife imprisoned, her freedom lost! His daughter's life and death unknown!

He was furious! He wanted to kill! To slaughter everyone who had bullied his wife and daughter!

Hundreds of Dragon God Hall aircraft darkened the sky, while on the ground, countless land vehicles also set off, and from the sea, warships launched.

That night, all the forces of the Dragon King Hall were mobilized. Their sole objective: the Dragon King's wrath must be appeased with blood!