Chapter 2162 - 4: Infinite Evil God? True God? (Part 2)

Chapter 2162: Chapter 4: Infinite Evil God? True God? (Part 2)

They were like a defeated nation coming to pay tribute to the victor, subjected to all kinds of difficulties and interrogations along the way.

Including Fu Jin—obviously he was a Demigod, yet when faced with harassment from people weaker than him, he didn’t dare make a sound and could only endure it.

Because he had to endure. Jing Yan and Zhao Xing had gone through hardship together, and the Beihai Lord had once helped Zhao Xing; he was here to beg forgiveness and admit defeat.

"This is too much. These people, in the past, wouldn’t even have qualified for a glance from my Carlos Family, and now they dare to act this arrogant!" Yiping stormed into the ship’s hall, eyes spitting fire. "We’ve already been checked over and over more than a dozen times, and they still won’t let us through."

Fu Jin was still plucking the zither on his seat, expression calm, only his aura a little cold and distant.

"Big Brother, how do you still have the mood to play music?" Yiping sat down sullenly and gulped a mouthful of liquor.

Back then, their Carlos Family used to be just like those people outside. Countless enemies and competitors had fallen beneath their blades and prestige.

Now the situation was reversed, and this taste was truly hard to swallow.

"Second Brother, just take this as a process of Refining Heart." Fu Jin said lightly. "If you didn’t want to face this, you didn’t have to come. Since you came, then endure."

"I..." Yiping opened his mouth, but had no strength to refute, and could only mutter silently in his heart: "Refining Heart through ruining the family... only Big Brother could come up with that. How many years of accumulation is this..."

...

Fu Jin and his party were left hanging at River Pass for a full three months. In these three months, almost the entire Empire, and half the Star Realm, had turned their attention here, all knowing the Carlos Family had come to beg for mercy.

And in the third month, Zhao Xing finally allowed people of the Carlos Family to enter the Beihai Star System.

"Zen Master Chen An, we three brothers are here to plead guilty." Fu Jin, along with his two younger brothers, entered a large hall that had been hastily erected. The hall was extremely crude; the three of them even had to suppress their Sacred Bodies, shrinking themselves just to be able to stand.

Once inside, the three of them bowed respectfully toward the steps above.

"If you want to plead guilty, you should be pleading guilty to the Emperor of Great Zhou." Ji Si stared coldly at the three.

Aside from him and Zhao Xing up there, there was also Emperor Wu, Ji Che. Initially, Emperor Wu hadn’t wanted to come; he felt that having Zhao Xing and Ji Si appear was already an equal-level negotiation.

But Zhao Xing and Ji Si had simply said, "The Carlos Family now is like a stray dog. What ’equal’ is there to talk about?"

So Emperor Wu, Ji Che, sat in the chief seat, with Zhao Xing and Ji Si standing to his left and right.

Looking at these Demigods who had once stood so high above, now bowing their heads in submission, Ji Che couldn’t help feeling a lot of emotion, and a huge sense of satisfaction surged in his heart.

How many years had it been? Only today did he finally feel that, in this universe, he actually resembled an Emperor!

The days of treading on thin ice, living in constant fear, had finally become a thing of the past!

Emperor Wu was merely at Emperor Level, and hadn’t even passed a single tribulation. This was because Cultivation in the Fortune Dynasty had hit a bottleneck.

Bowing to Emperor Wu was simply a kind of humiliation, but the three still honestly saluted Emperor Wu once again.

"Speak. How exactly do you plan to plead guilty?" Emperor Wu asked casually.

"Your Majesty the Emperor of Great Zhou," Fu Jin explained, "the Carlos Family has been established for many years. My father almost never handled mundane affairs. My two brothers, Zhaibing and Yu Mu, have always been responsible for pioneering the wilderness and managing the outlying territories. As for the few of us, Father had long arranged for us to split the family holdings."

"We were completely unaware of what they did to Great Zhou. They hid all of this from me and from Father."

A trace of disdain appeared at the corner of Emperor Wu’s mouth.

Classic: when there are benefits, everyone’s one big family; when something goes wrong, suddenly it’s all ’separate branches.’

"Back then, when they launched that commercial offensive without authorization, the moment we found out, we immediately put a stop to it. Father also punished them severely, forbidding them from participating in the operation of any of the ancient routes..."

"Now Zhaibing is dead and Yu Mu is imprisoned; they both got what they deserved. Of course, this is still the Carlos Family’s failure in discipline. As their elder brother, I also failed to discipline them. My visit this time is to offer compensation for our crimes."

"I hope this gift can earn the forgiveness of Zen—of His Majesty the Emperor of Great Zhou."

After that, Fu Jin had a list presented. On this list were large quantities of Treasure. Besides shiploads of Treasure the Carlos Family had already offered up, there were also numerous land transfer documents.

All the earlier talk had been nonsense; only now did it get real.

"Hua~" A flash of lightning passed through Ji Che’s eyes, and he directly tore the list to shreds.

"Fu Jin, I’ve listened to your nonsense for long enough. Only now have you finally said something useful."

"However, since this is about making amends, how you compensate is not for you to decide."

Emperor Wu waved his hand, and a new list appeared in front of Fu Jin.

"Fu Jin, don’t say Great Zhou isn’t leaving a way out for your Carlos Family."

"Accept this list of ceding territory and reparations, and the war can stop."

"Refuse, and Great Zhou will come take it ourselves. At most, we’ll just spend a bit more time. Do you understand?"

With that said, Emperor Wu no longer looked at the two of them. He flicked his sleeve and turned to leave.

Zhao Xing chuckled inwardly. Emperor Wu had been suppressed for too long; now that he had a chance to show off, he really had the imperial aura nailed down perfectly.

But the three Fu Jin brothers were a bit stunned, because the list Great Zhou handed them was essentially a treaty of national humiliation and family disgrace.

Great Zhou demanded the Carlos Family hand over all their wealth, leaving them with less than one-thousandth just to keep their territories running on a daily basis.

As for territory, they were allowed to keep only the portions of Boundary Star Land outside the Ancestral Land Star System; all other private territories had to be transferred to Great Zhou. And any members of the Carlos Family holding public office in the Empire—aside from these three and the Carlos Priest, who were exempt—every other direct descendant had to resign within a very short time.