There wasn't any need to think. The old man called out to his friends and invited them to leave the mountains together.

This bunch of elders, who were contacted by the old man personally, definitely weren't ordinary people.

They then left the mountains to find those experts who lived in seclusion.

Apart from the experts who lived in seclusion, there were also the three factions and the sects of all sizes.

This time, those who were partic.i.p.ating in this operation in Tianjing Basin were experts who were minimally at the Earth Wheel level.

If it wasn't for the fact that it was inconvenient to mobilize such a large number of people, as well as the fact that the empress's whereabouts weren't fixed to a certain location, they would have wanted to arrange a large number of ordinary elite soldiers and Man Wheel pract.i.tioners, then deployed them first to sap the empress's energy.

Under the situation where the empress's whereabouts were constantly s.h.i.+fting, only an expert would be able to rush to her destination in the shortest possible time.

Ren Baqian's only thought was, Something serious has happened!

Followed by, Why is the empress here?

Originally, Ren Baqian wanted to provide them with some weapons to gain their trust before entering their inner circle to understand their plans. By then, when they started to revolt, he would subsequently be able to make targeted arrangements and annihilate all opposition.

Unfortunately, all his plans had been disrupted.

Why did the empress come to Tianjing Basin?

Furthermore, she didn't bring any bodyguards, only traveling with Qing Yuan and Hong Luan.

The empress wasn't G.o.d. Although she was formidable in Ren Baqian's eyes, if she were to be surrounded by several hundred Earth Wheel experts and a few Spirit Wheel experts, it would still be difficult for her to escape even though she was the fifth most powerful expert in the world.

After all, many ants could still bite an elephant to death.

Baron Nashor in League of Legends could still be killed by a group of players if they surrounded it.

What should he do next?

Naturally, the best method would be for him to locate the empress and leave Tianjing Basin.

However, finding the empress wasn't an easy task. Even if the two parties were in the same city, they would probably just brush past each other. Furthermore, the facts were that Ren Baqian only knew an approximate range of where the empress might be. Finding the empress was like finding a needle in a haystack. Instead, it would be better for him to follow the people here as they carried out their large scale operation.

After that?

With Lin Qiaole, the empress, and three burdensome people consisting of Qing Yuan, Hong Luan, and himself, the odds of winning against countless opponents were very low no matter how he thought about it.

There wasn't much he could do.

Conventional weapons weren't useful against Earth Wheel experts, let alone Spirit Wheel experts.

A nuclear bomb? Even if he was able to obtain one, they would perish together with their enemies.

Poison gas? That seemed feasible, but after thinking it through, if a foreigner like him was surrounded by experts and he decided to take out a bunch of bottles, it would definitely raise some suspicions. At that time, it would only take one person to swat him to death.

Furthermore, the rate at which the poison gas spread was too slow. Those experts were very swift and could avoid the poison gas as a result.

When using poison gas, there was also the same concern as using a nuclear bomb. No matter what, the nation wouldn't give it to Ren Baqian.

Apart from nuclear bombs and poison gas, he couldn't think of another method that he could utilize in such a situation.

Under these circ.u.mstances, there weren't many weapons on Earth that would come in handy.

His last resort would be to bring all four of them back to Earth with him and then hide for five days.

He would first wait for the empress to kill a batch of people. During a crucial moment, he would then bring them back to Earth to rest for a few days before returning to this world.

However, it wouldn't be easy to grasp the opportunity. With so many experts fighting hand in hand, it was possible for the tides to change at every second. Ren Baqian had to bring the empress, Qing Yuan, Hong Luan, and Lin Qiaole with him simultaneously. It was easy to imagine the difficulty of this task.

Forget it. If the other party wanted to organize for a group of experts to arrive in the vicinity of their targeted area, there would still be a period of time before it actually happened. Over the next few days, he would have to ponder over this matter and see if there were any other methods that he could utilize.

Ren Baqian thought about all these things until he had a headache. He wanted to let out a long sigh.

Your Majesty… Weren't you doing well in Gu City?

Even if you wanted to come into Tianjing Basin, you should have brought along a few bodyguards.

Ren Baqian turned his head and saw Lin Qiaole happily gnawing on the beast head.

It's been two days and you are still gnawing on it. Don't your cheeks hurt?

However, Ren Baqian felt that her face had become slightly larger… Could it be the legendary stud jowls?

Lin Qiaole frequently scratched people's faces, so Ren Baqian somewhat suspected that she was related to cats. If she was really related to cats, it was logical that her cheeks would get chubbier.

Yeah… when she finished gnawing, she would have a face that looked like a steamed bun.

"They are planning to gang up on Her Majesty and kill her. Don't you have anything to say about that?" Ren Baqian couldn't help but ask this as he watched her gnaw on the beast head.

"What?" Lin Qiaole raised her head and looked at him blankly.

"They are planning to gang up on Her Majesty and kill her!"

"Why? Where? Who?"

Lin Qiaole's reaction practically implied: "Who am I, where am I, and what am I doing?"

"Never mind. Just keep gnawing on your beast head…" Ren Baqian replied as held his head.

That very afternoon, Ren Baqian returned to Earth.

When the moonlight rose in the evening, the old village chief, Qingyun Sword, appeared outside the courtyard.

"Is Mister Ye in?"

"He isn't in!" Lin Qiaole vaguely said while gnawing on the beast head.

"Where did he go?" Qingyun Sword was a little suspicious because Ren Baqian should have been in his room at this time.

Lin Qiaole placed the beast head down and thought about it for a long time. Previously, Ren Baqian had told her how to respond in such a situation… What exactly had he said?

After thinking for some time, Lin Qiaole finally remembered a sentence that Ren Baqian had said in dissatisfaction and repeated it.

"What time is it now? At this hour, it is so late to disturb someone. Don't you have any manners? Give me a while, and I'll come out and kill you. Yeah!!"

The last word, "Yeah!!" was filled with overflowing charm!

Coupled with her ambiguous voice due to the fact that she was still gnawing on the lion head… Qingyun Sword immediately had dirty thoughts.

"Apologies, please have Mister Ye come to my room tomorrow when he wakes up." Qingyun Sword swung his sleeves and left hurriedly.

After he walked for several hundred meters, Qingyun Sword looked at the sky, as if spotting the youth he had lost.

The next morning, Ren Baqian returned with an erhu.

He was mulling over something. When the time came, there would be so many people, and the empress might not see him. He would then play "Pomp and Circ.u.mstance" on the erhu as it would be easy for the empress to recognize the tune. Without saying a word, the empress would know where he was.

In addition to this, there was a pile of fortified smoke grenades. This was mainly because he didn't know what he should bring back. After racking his brains, he thought that these smoke grenades might be useful. As such, he decided to bring them along. When he returned, he took a glance at Lin Qiaole and felt that her face got larger.

Soon after, he opened the doors to his room, sat in front, and tuned the strings of the erhu before playing the song "Pomp and Circ.u.mstance."

After a series of short notes, the "moaning" of the erhu was heard by everyone.

"d.a.m.n it! What kind of sound is that?!" Celestial Hound, who was currently wiping clean his weapon, cursed furiously.

"Why does this tune sound so strange?"

"Who's playing this sort of musical instrument? I want to slap him to death…"

A series of curses sounded within earshot of the noise made by Ren Baqian's erhu. However, there was one person squatting in front of Ren Baqian. Her hands were holding and supporting her face as she listened to his playing attentively.

After Ren Baqian finished playing "Pomp and Circ.u.mstance," he felt refreshed.

Sure enough, I'm an established erhu player who had been delayed by my studies. "What's this? It's very pleasant to hear!" Zhan Caixian's eyes brightened while she was squatting in front of the door.

Ren Baqian bolted upright upon hearing what she said.

Thinking about his erhu that had been crushed in front of the palace, Ren Baqian couldn't help but be distressed.

At last, he had found a soulmate.

"Can you teach me how to play this instrument?" Zhan Caixian continued.

"Sure!" Ren Baqian agreed almost immediately.

Ren Baqian felt that the girl in front of him was becoming more pleasing to his eyes. After all, it was indeed difficult to find a soulmate.

When Bo Ya met Zhong Ziqi, he had also probably felt what Ren Baqian was feeling.

League of Legends: multiplayer online battle arena video game developed and published by Riot Games for Microsoft Windows and macOS."Who am I, where am I, and what am I doing": a Chinese expression to express how lost one isA model example: Bo Ya's story exemplifies the Chinese ideal of friends.h.i.+p