Three nights running, and the woman emperor finally conceded!

If she had held out any longer, Ning Chen would have been the one to concede.

Ning Chen had won. He would settle with that old rogue Prince Rui for the Great Xuan, and then come back to the Wu Kingdom and settle the Tuoluo Kingdom for the woman emperor.

In fact, the Tuoluo Kingdom was an enemy of the Great Xuan just as much as of the Wu Kingdom.

That night, when the great battle was over, Ning Chen lay with his arms around the woman emperor, her body slick with fragrant sweat.

"Do me a favor?"

The woman emperor shook her head, something close to fear in the gesture. "I really can't anymore!"

Ning Chen's forehead filled with black lines. Never mind her, he thought — he had refined out that breath and had the Nine Yang Decoction for Nourishing the Source behind him, and even he could barely hold out.

It was true after all: you could work an ox to death, but you would never wear out a field. (TL Note: a crude Chinese saying about a man and a woman in bed. The field is the one who lasts.)

"What I want is for you to talk to the Xuan Emperor about building a city on the border between the Great Xuan and the Wu Kingdom."

"Build a city?"

Ning Chen nodded. "The Great Xuan and the Wu Kingdom would split the cost and build Xuanwu City... I know building a walled city is no simple thing. It takes a lot of manpower and money."

"Don't worry. The Wu Kingdom's share, I'll put up myself."

The woman emperor asked in surprise, "You want to be the city lord?"

Ning Chen nodded.

The woman emperor said, "Why go to all that trouble? Take your pick of the Wu Kingdom's cities."

Ning Chen shook his head. "I'm building Xuanwu City with myself in mind... My position right now is awkward. Prince Xuanwu — the title amounts to one woman married to two husbands."

"I want ground of my…