964 The City Gates Catch Fire 4yr

Translator: StackThatCoinEditor: Hitesh_

In the audience hall of the Ling Dynasty, an executioner in red chopped off the head of a monarch from a small state.
Celestial Lord Yiqi, the imperial pen-holding subject of the North Emperor who was secretly sent to the Ling Dynasty by Heaven, frowned as he extracted a thread of purple emperor aura from the monarch. Slightly less than three feet long and as thin as a thumb, loosely held together and not having the shape of a dragon, the aura swirled restlessly around the celestial lord's fingertip like a tiny catfish.
It did not look at all like the emperor aura that a monarch who ruled over a land tens of thousands of miles wide and hundreds of millions of people should have. Even the power of faith gathered by the leaders of the tribes with only hundreds of thousands of people in ancient times was stronger than this.
Yiqi simply crushed the emperor aura with a pinch of his fingers.
Sitting in his throne with a glum face, Zhang Tengyun said in a deep voice, "My lord, we had destroyed countless states and turned their monarchs into captives over the past three years. However, the strongest emperor aura I managed to extract from them is this...And three years ago, some of them