"Yes!" General Yang replied respectfully without saying anything more.
"You tyrant, you will die a horrible death! If my mother finds out, she will surely suppress you again..." In the midst of the violent struggle, Guo Lin was dragged away by the soldiers.
"Ziyuan!" Li Ling muttered to himself. Upon hearing Ziyuan's name, an inexplicable anger surged within him.
This anger did not originate from Li Ling himself, but rather from the instincts of this body, as well as from the influence of the Dragon Emperor's memories.
"It seems I harbor a deep resentment towards Shion from the depths of my memory."
"Your Majesty, the location of Shangri-La has been determined through interrogation," General Yang reported as he entered the tent about two hours later.
Li Ling nodded calmly: "There's no time to lose, let's set off for Shangri-La immediately!"
As for how General Yang interrogated Guo Lin, Li Ling had no interest in knowing. He didn't care about the process; he only cared about the result.
"Your Majesty, please forgive me. I have arranged for a plane, but it may take half a day for it to arrive..." General Yang said.
"It's alright. I've survived two thousand years, so I won't care about half a day."
Li Ling then remembered that China was currently in the Republic of China era, and airplanes were still a rarity. Although General Yang was a warlord, acquiring an airplane must have taken him a great deal of effort.
No wonder General Yang only took so few men to Shangri-La in the movie; it wasn't that he didn't want to take more, but rather that the plane could only seat so many people. (The last part appears to be a nonsensical string of characters and doesn't translate directly.)
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Chapter 224: Transformation into a Dragon
After a night's rest, the next morning, as dawn broke, Li Ling and his group set off for Shangri-La.
Flying over yellow sand and cutting through wind and snow, after three days of flight, Li Ling and his companions finally arrived at the entrance to Shangri-La.
"Walk!"
Without any hesitation, Li Ling took the lead, bringing General Yang and more than a dozen elite soldiers with him into Shangri-La.
"Pop~~"
After crossing a barrier that resembled an array, a valley resembling a paradise came into view.
The valley is filled with birdsong and fragrant flowers, and the air is fresh and pleasant, a stark contrast to the icy and snowy landscape outside.
"who?"
The shrine maiden Shion, dressed in a long gown and holding a short sword, appeared before Li Ling and the others.
"Aster!"
A cold glint flashed in Li Ling's eyes. He took a step forward, and a surge of Five Elements Sword Qi shot out.
"Boom!"
Although Ziyuan dodged in time, the surging power of the Five Elements Sword Qi still sent her flying, crashing heavily into the wall.
"You tyrant, you've finally come out!"
Sliding down the stone wall, Ziyuan wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth, her eyes filled with resentment as she stared at Li Ling.
Li Ling carefully examined Zi Yuan's face and began to understand. Zi Yuan and Zi Yun did look somewhat alike. No wonder he had fallen for Zi Yuan when he was the Dragon Emperor, but Zi Yuan was ultimately not his Zi Yun.
"Ziyuan, I never thought that after two thousand years, even with the Fountain of Youth at your disposal, you're still only at the Golden Core stage. You've truly wasted your life!"
The fact that Ziyuan's strength hadn't increased at all in two thousand years made Li Ling very suspicious of how she had cultivated to the Golden Core realm in the past.
"You tyrant, if I hadn't destroyed my own foundation and used forbidden techniques to curse you and your army back then, how could I have remained stuck at the Golden Core realm for two thousand years!" Zi Yuan said bitterly.
Li Ling understood. He had to admit how insane a woman's hatred could be; she was willing to destroy her own cultivation foundation in order to take revenge on him.
Never mess with petty people or women!
"Your Majesty, what should we do with her?" General Yang stepped forward, his face full of ruthlessness.
In his heart, the majesty of the First Emperor was inviolable.
"kill!"
Li Ling uttered a single word: "Kill."
Since they are enemies, they should be eliminated completely. There's no need to raise a tiger that will cause future trouble, especially such a mad woman.
"You tyrant! You will die a horrible death! Ah..."
Guo Lin, who was being escorted over, saw her mother seriously injured and that Li Ling was about to execute Zi Yuan. Filled with hatred, she screamed loudly, but before she could even curse, she was struck hard by the soldiers escorting her.
"Kill them all!"
Li Ling glanced at Guo Lin disdainfully, then ignored her and Zi Yuan and headed straight for the Fountain of Youth.
But at that moment, a sense of vigilance rose in Li Ling's heart.
"You tyrannical ruler, prepare to die!"
Ziyuan, who had been lying on the ground with serious injuries, got up and rushed towards Li Ling. Her originally black hair had turned completely silver, and her face was covered with wrinkles, making her look very old.
However, this was a forbidden technique she used that burned her life essence.
Ziyuan rushed over with the short sword that could kill the Dragon Emperor and stabbed at Li Ling.
Li Ling was on high alert; his intuition told him that he absolutely could not let the sword touch him.