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Chapter 362 - 261: Rotating Lantern · Oct 23, 2026

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351 Chapter 351 - 250: Making a Clean Escape 2026-10-23
352 Chapter 352 - 251: Soul Anchor 2026-10-23
353 Chapter 353 - 252: Child of the World and the Origin of Slaughter 2026-10-23
354 Chapter 354 - 253: The Wedding in Progress 2026-10-23
355 Chapter 355 - 254: Colored Card! 2026-10-23
356 Chapter 356 - 255: Kill 2026-10-23
357 Chapter 357 - 256: Rejection and Judgement 2026-10-23
358 Chapter 358 - 257: Fallen Knight, Dead! 2026-10-23
359 Chapter 359 - 258: The Monster Behind the Door 2026-10-23
360 Chapter 360 - 259: Split-Second Life and Death 2026-10-23
361 Chapter 361 - 260: Imperial Sword 2026-10-23
362 Chapter 362 - 261: Rotating Lantern 2026-10-23
363 Chapter 363 - 262: The Counterattack Begins 2026-10-23
364 Chapter 364 - 263: Who Are You? 2026-10-23
365 Chapter 365 - 264: The Sixth Day 2026-10-23
366 Chapter 366 - 265: Social Level 5, Mastermind 2026-10-23
367 Chapter 367 - 266: Citywide Manhunt 2026-10-23
368 Chapter 368 - 267: A Way to Severely Wound Frog 2026-10-23
369 Chapter 369 - 268: Evil 2026-10-23
370 Chapter 370 - 269: Day of the Final Battle 2026-10-23
371 Chapter 371 - 270: Desperate Situation 2026-10-23
372 Chapter 372 - 271: The Beating of Justice 2026-10-23
373 Chapter 373 - 272: That Sword Light 2026-10-23
374 Chapter 374 - 273: The Ultimate Solution, Origin Inheritance! 2026-10-23
375 Chapter 375 - 274: Ancient Divine Soldier, Kunlun Mirror! 2026-10-23
376 Chapter 376 - 275: Traveler Against the Flow of Time 2026-10-23
377 Chapter 377 - 276: Aftermath 2026-10-23
378 Chapter 378 - 277: The Longevity Company’s Conspiracy 2026-10-23
379 Chapter 379 - 278: Unstoppable With Me Here 2026-10-23
380 Chapter 380 - 279: Let’s Go Home 2026-10-23
381 Chapter 381 - 280: Changes in North County 2026-10-23
382 Chapter 382 - 281: Reunion After a Long Separation 2026-10-23
383 Chapter 383 - 282: Appointment and Surprise 2026-10-23
384 Chapter 384 - 283: Bob’s Request 2026-10-23
385 Chapter 385 - 284: World Intelligence 2026-10-23
386 Chapter 386 - 285: Heir to the Slaughter Origin 2026-10-23
387 Chapter 387 - 286: Warmth 2026-10-23
388 Chapter 388 - 287: Ordinary People and Minor Characters 2026-10-23
389 Chapter 389 - 288: A Few Matters 2026-10-23
390 Chapter 390 - 289: Amusement Park 2026-10-23
391 Chapter 391 - 290: Blessed Society 2026-10-23
392 Chapter 392 - 291: Spring Tide Dance Hall 2026-10-23
393 Chapter 393 - 292: Gospel Giveaway 2026-10-23
394 Chapter 394 - 293: Visiting Ye Qiu 2026-10-23
395 Chapter 395 - 294: Meng Xiaobei 2026-10-23
396 Chapter 396 - 295: Antique: Yan Soldiers Sword Box 2026-10-23
397 Chapter 397 - 296: The Antique Merchant 2026-10-23
398 Chapter 398 - 297: The Forty-Fourth Missing Person 2026-10-23
399 Chapter 399 - 298: Desire Oil Painting 2026-10-23
400 Chapter 400 - 299: His Choice 2026-10-23

Chapter 362: Chapter 261: Rotating Lantern

”Joseph, your talent is outstanding. Congratulations on achieving second place.”

A middle-aged professor with sparse hair and black-framed glasses was sitting on a meticulously crafted, expensive velvet-cushioned chair.

Looking at the face handing him the report card, the smile on his own face was nauseating.

”Teacher, I got the same score as Ferdinand. Why is he first, and I’m only second?”

The young Joseph, with golden curly hair, stubbornly lifted his head to look at his teacher.

The middle-aged professor tugged at the corner of his mouth.

He took off his glasses, leaned slightly forward, looking down at the little boy who didn’t know the vastness of the skies and the depths of the earth.

”That is Sir Little Ferdinand. Mind your words.”

...

”Joseph, congratulations on being selected to become a great knight, serving the Empire!”

The speaker was a beautiful woman, with a cascade of golden hair like a waterfall and star-bright eyes.

The youthful-looking Joseph lowered his head slightly, somewhat embarrassingly.

”Thank you, Tina.”

He hesitated for a moment, as if mustering his courage, to invite this charming and lovely person opposite him.

”May I invite you to have dinner with me tonight?”

Faced with Joseph’s invitation, Tina was momentarily stunned.

”Sorry, I’m afraid I can’t accept your invitation,” Tina said with an apologetic smile on her lips, continuing, ”Ferdinand invited me to his family’s ball today, and I already agreed to him first.”

Upon hearing this, something in Joseph’s eyes gradually dimmed.

...

”Imperial Sword!”

In the square, the citizens of the Empire were cheering and shouting.

Joseph, returning triumphant, rode a silver-white warhorse, entering from the city gate.

Amidst the thronging crowd, they walked from the city gate into the palace.

Just as they entered the palace and disappeared from the public’s view, a transparent barrier rose behind him and his men, isolating them from the outside.

This was the Empire’s relic, a powerful means only possible with the Knight’s Code.

A nobleman with green curly hair, about the same age as Joseph, slowly emerged from the shadows inside the hall.

”Ferdinand?!” Seeing the man before him, Joseph looked bewildered.

”Joseph, your reputation is too high.”

”The Empire only needs one leader, you should understand this logic.”

As Ferdinand turned the pages of the Knight’s Code in his hand, streams of multi-colored knightly power were forcibly extracted from Joseph and his warriors, who had fought life and death together.

Their cultivation vanished in an instant!

The Royal Guards, who had long been lying in wait, swiftly closed in, covering their mouths with their right hands, drawing short curved blades with their left hands, swiftly slashing across their necks.

Watching each of his brothers fall to death before him, Joseph’s heart was filled with endless rage.

It was at this moment he heard a low whisper, audible only to him.

”Do you desire more power?”

”Joseph, you’re a genius and should not be targeted and shackled like this. Your legend should not end here!”

”Betray the Knight’s Code, what it can grant, I can as well.”

”Come, believe in me, my child!”

Joseph’s lips, bitten hard enough, turned pale, with blood seeping through the gaps between his teeth.

More and more knights who had braved birth and death with him were having their throats slit, discarded like trash.

Watching this scene, Joseph’s once-held faith collapsed in an instant.

”Tell me your name!”

”My name is Corruption.”

...

This was the darkest and most tragic part of the Empire’s history.

It was a day destined never to be recorded in the annals.

A large number of citizens died in the Imperial main city. Ferdinand, the nurtured successor, and his fiancée, the future Empress Tina, were cut in half, dying from loss of life.

Numerous buildings were destroyed, and knight troops suffered heavy losses!

That day marked the fall of Joseph the Imperial Sword, abandoning his beliefs, descending into darkness.

If not for the Empire’s residual strength, and the full might of the Imperial Relics Knight’s Code suppressing the fallen Imperial Sword,

the fall of the Imperial main city would have been imminent.

At a time when manpower was needed, the Empire, suffering such a blow, sought to use Joseph’s hand to slaughter other forces in the City of Extreme Evil, thus sparing his life.

Joseph was exiled to the City of Extreme Evil, his honor as the Imperial Sword erased, leaving only the name of the Fallen Knight.

...

Scenes of the past flashed like a revolving lantern in his mind.

Joseph’s consciousness, from muddled, gradually became clear.

In his ears, that once-appearing voice resurfaced.

”I can grant you endless life, boundless power, let you live again!”

Live again... Joseph, looking at his headless standing posture, only then realized his head was placed in his own hand.

The face within the helmet gave a tragic smile.

”Forget it.”

The Headless Knight placed the head in his hand back onto his neck.

Then, he removed his helmet with both hands, discarding the armor that had accompanied him through countless battles, planting his feet firmly on the ground.

It was the appearance of a youth, with brittle yellow hair hanging loose and a gaunt visage.

After millions of years, his countenance seemed to remain at the moment of his fall.

Joseph looked back over his shoulder.

From the door leading to endless corrupt darkness, the voice of temptation continued to sound.

Joseph looked down at his hands.

With his last strength, he clawed with his right hand, puncturing his heart area, taking out a black heart still beating thumpingly from his body.

”Goodbye.”

Joseph’s dry voice rang out, gripping the heart fiercely in his hand, crushing it to pieces.

As the heart shattered, dark liquid splattered everywhere.

The enticing whispers finally disappeared from his ears.

In this instant, the darkness in Han Zhan, Gongyang Jin, and Bob’s eyes also gradually retreated, with the once ”frozen” scene coming alive again.

Gongyang Jin still maintained the posture of swinging a sword.

In the next moment of awakening, the Xuanyuan Sword struck that door.

Without any accident or resistance, the door leading to the Land of Corruption was stirred to shreds, disappearing completely!

Simultaneously, in the ears of Gongyang Jin and Han Zhan, the prompt from the Slaughter Battlefield sounded:

”You have successfully killed an enemy camp character, Social Level 4, Spit-upon.”

”You have received a ten million point reward.”

Looking at the Fallen Knight lying in a pool of black blood, the man stripped of armor, gaunt to the point of no longer resembling a human.

Next to him, a colorful Character Identity Card shimmered vibrantly.

There is a chance for the corresponding Character Identity Card to drop upon killing an enemy character.

Did something really drop?

Han Zhan picked up the card, on which was an image of a naked man bound to a cross.

——You are a being despised and hated by the entire world, you know well, their contempt stems from their fear.

——And you deeply loathe this world as well!

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