erson can be used in what kind of place. As long as they are useful, their true nature is unimportant.""An honest official should naturally be used, but not too much. A corrupt official should be used...Chapter 85: Human Life is the Least Valuable

Witnessing with my own eyes, countless bodies frozen stiff and lifeless, being discarded into pits like trash. When one pit was nearly full, soldiers would take shovels to fill it up.

This shocking scene gave Zhao Rui a huge shock.

Despite her tumultuous life, being displaced several times as a child and eventually finding refuge with her distant relative Zhao Xuanji, who used her to gain entry into the Eastern Palace, Zhao Rui grew up in luxury and comfort. She had never experienced the hardships of the common people.

She said, incredulously, "Thousands! Just like that!"

"In this world, human life is the cheapest."

Li Chen looked at Zhao Rui and said, "This palace kills people, always only killing those who deserve it. But some people, who have held a brush for a lifetime and read the scriptures of the sages for a lifetime, because of them, the innocent people who died are like mountains and seas."

Zhao Rui pursed her lips, too afraid to answer.

She could feel the suppressed anger in Li Chen's chest, directed at Zhao Xuanji and also at herself.

Whether it was the cold or fear, Zhao Rui's body trembled slightly.

At this very moment, a large company of soldiers clad in the armor of the Imperial Guard came running from afar.

The one at the beginning, marked by "ptional talent and incredible fortune, he achieved the Earth Immortal realm at the youngest age in the history of the Qin Empire.Such a feeling of invincibility, which reigned supreme today, has been...