God Descent (II)
"Kill!!"
Despite the heavy palace doors separating them, the shouts of battle White Tiger Hall were still awe-inspiring.
The sinister laughter of the Royal Secret Guard, the sounds of swords being drawn and shattering, and the desperate cries and screams of the dying ministers who wanted to surrender filled the remaining officials in the White Tiger Hall with fear, their faces turning deathly pale.
Some timid ministers even cried out of fear, making the atmosphere in the hall even more somber and desolate.
The instigator of all this, the mad emperor Dai Weisi, sat on his throne, coldly surveying his trembling subjects below, a sneer curling at the corner of his mouth.
After an unknown amount of time, the shouts of battle outside the door gradually weakened until they stopped completely!
The hall was silent. Almost all the ministers held their breath, anxiously awaiting the next move of the mad emperor Dai Weisi!
"Boom!!"
Suddenly, the palace doors were flung open, and a biting gust of cold wind rushed in, sending a shiver down one's spine!
Immediately afterwards, one after another, the Star Luo Royal Secret Guard dressed in black silently filed in. Behind them, on the square outside the White Tiger Hall, lay corpses!
The vast majority of these corpses belonged to civil and military officials who intended to surrender.
However, since this is a world where Soul Master strong are respected, and many of the ministers are also Soul Master, their final counterattacks caused considerable casualties to the Royal Secret Guard.
Upon seeing the menacing Royal Secret Guard enter the hall, many ministers, already terrified, quietly hid in the corners of the hall, hoping that the mad emperor wouldn't notice them.
"Greetings, Your Majesty!"
These Royal Secret Guard arrived at the throne of Dai Weisi and knelt on one knee to pay their respects.
Then, one by one, heads wrapped in black cloth rolled to the ground from their waists. These heads were all those of the ministers who had died outside the palace.
"Your Majesty, all the traitors have been executed!"
The leader of the men in black cupped his hands in a respectful gesture and spoke in a solemn tone.
This commander of the Star Luo Royal Secret Guard, whose strength had reached the level of a Title Douluo, naturally did not need to kneel.
As a titled Douluo, one should naturally possess the demeanor and dignity of a titled Douluo. Even an emperor should not allow such a powerful figure to lower himself.
"Thank you all for your hard work."
Dai Weisi spoke softly, his face as gentle as a spring breeze, then changed the subject, saying, "However, there is still one traitor who has not been executed. I ask you all to do me this favor!"
Upon hearing this, the commander of the Star Luo Royal Secret Guard immediately asked in a deep voice, "Whom is Your Majesty referring to?"
"A traitor is, of course,..."
After a pause, Dai Weisi's smile grew colder and colder, and he said in a Youyou voice, "Our Netherworld Duke, Lord Zhu Qingyun."
These words caused an uproar in the audience!
What a joke! The Zhu Family and the Dai Family have been intermarried for generations, and their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Hell White Tiger, is renowned throughout the Soul Master World. They are staunch allies of the Star Luo Royal Family. Even if the entire court of civil and military officials betrays them, the Zhu Family will probably still remain loyal.
Even if the Zhu Family wanted to surrender, no one in the Heaven Dou Empire would dare to believe them!
Their relationship with the royal family, the Dai Family, is so close that they are practically brothers!
Therefore, how could Zhu Qingyun be the traitor?
Has Emperor Dai Weisi truly gone completely mad? He actually wants to kill Zhu Qingyun, the most loyal patriarch of the Zhu Family?
The ministers in the White Tiger Hall were all indignant. One upright old minister even stood up and pointed his finger at Dai Weisi's nose, cursing, "Dai Weisi, you idiot! How could the Dai Family produce such a mad emperor like you? You dare to kill Zhu Qingyun? Do you really want the Star Luo Empire to be destroyed?"
Immediately following, another minister, filled with righteous indignation, said, "Your Majesty, Netherworld Duke is utterly loyal to the Empire. By killing His Highness, you are destroying the very foundation of the Star Luo Empire!"
"By seniority, Zhu Qingyun is your Father-in-law. Although Miss Zhu Zhuyun has been missing for many years, she is still your fiancée as you have not yet established a new Empress! How can you treat your elders like this?"
"The Netherworld Duke is your distant maternal uncle. How could you possibly kill His Highness the Duke?"
"Yes, how will you face the Empress Dowager when she returns?"
"..."
The ministers' loud rebukes infuriated Dai Weisi, but the mad emperor did not show any anger; instead, he smiled broadly.
Upon seeing that radiant smile, the entire hall immediately fell silent.
Which of these ministers didn't know that Dai Weisi loved to kill people while laughing?
Although I had a great time venting, my life is more important, so silence is golden!
The ministers fell silent, Zhu Qingyun panicked.
In fact, Zhu Qingyun had already panicked the moment Dai Weisi pointed out that he was a traitor.
After all, the Zhu Family was indeed colluding with the Heaven Dou Empire and was ready to open the city gates and surrender at any time.
The ministers' support allowed Zhu Qingyun was already quite shrewd, to maintain his composure.
But now that the ministers were all silent, Zhu Qingyun felt uneasy and panicked, feeling isolated and helpless. Cold sweat poured down his forehead.
"Your Highness, why are you sweating in this cold weather?"
Dai Weisi, sitting on the throne, looked at Zhu Qingyun, who was sweating profusely, and sneered.
"This..."
A flicker of panic crossed Zhu Qingyun's eyes, but he quickly took a deep breath and said in as calm a tone as possible, "I have been falsely accused of being a traitor, and it is only natural that I would break out in a cold sweat."
"Oh, so you think I'm framing you?"
Dai Weisi said with a half-smile.
"Your subject dares not."
Zhu Qingyun stiffened his neck, cupped his hands in a gesture that appeared polite but was actually arrogant and domineering.
At this point, Zhu Qingyun had no way out and could only confront the emperor head-on.
"Since it's a frame-up, then explain to me what's going on with this letter!!"
Dai Weisi suddenly stood up, angrily flicked his sleeve, and a gold-embossed letter with a golden Swan engraved on it shot towards Zhu Qingyun like a blade, accompanied by a whooshing sound!
Zhu Qingyun used his Soul Power to take the letter, opened it, and discovered that it was actually a secret letter that Xue Ke had written to the Zhu Family not long ago.
This greatly alarmed Zhu Qingyun. This letter should have been destroyed! How could it have appeared intact?
However, the key issue now is not that, but how to destroy the letter again.
Once this letter is destroyed, Dai Weisi will likely have no reason to target the Zhu Family.
Even a mad emperor like Dai Weisi wouldn't dare to take action against a deeply rooted aristocratic family like the Zhu Family without any reason.
Thinking of this, Zhu Qingyun immediately channeled his Soul Power, shattering the letter into dust. Then, feigning anger, he looked up at Dai Weisi and shouted, "Your Majesty, you've gone too far by framing our Zhu Family with a letter of unknown origin!"
"Oh, you don't know its origin? How could you not know its origin? Wasn't that a letter written to you by Empress Xue Ke of the Heaven Dou Empire, with your daughter Zhu Zhuyun acting as the messenger?"
Dai Weisi sneered, "If it weren't for the great power of my ancestor Evil Eye Saint King, I really wouldn't have known that that little bitch Zhu Zhuyun had returned."
"Furthermore, do you think that by shattering the letter, you'll remove my reason to kill you? There are far too many reasons to kill you, not just this one!!"
Before he finished speaking, Dai Weisi's Space Soul Tool flashed, and a stack of gold-embossed letters appeared in his hand. Most of these letters were engraved with a golden Swan pattern on their envelopes, while a few were engraved with a cat!
That's the emblem of the Netherworld Cat Family.
Upon seeing the stack of letters, Zhu Qingyun's vision went black, and he almost fainted.
Even without looking, Zhu Qingyun knew that those letters were secret correspondence between the Zhu Family and Xue Ke!
But these secret letters had Mingdu been shattered and destroyed, so why did they end up in Dai Weisi's hands?
What Zhu Qingyun didn't know was that the Dai Family's ancestor, the Evil Eye Saint King, had already become First-Level God, the White Tiger God, with the help of the Divine Realm.
Everything within the entire Star Luo City will be perceived by the White Tiger God.
In other words, the Zhu Family was noticed by the White Tiger God from the very beginning.
Moreover, the First-Level God also possess an extremely powerful ability: the ability to reassemble atoms, which is the ability to create objects, and even living beings!
Restoring the shattered secret message is essentially reassembling the disintegrated atoms.
Therefore, whenever Zhu Qingyun shattered a letter and thought no one knew, the White Tiger God would quietly restore the shattered letter.
Most of those secret letters came from this source.
"Come, everyone, take a look! See what this self-proclaimed loyal Netherworld Duke has actually done!!"
Dai Weisi's words gradually became stern, and then Dai Weisi waved his hand, and the stack of gold letters fell into the hands of some of the important officials present.
The ministers quickly opened the letter, read it through, and their expressions all became surprised and suspicious!
Well, Zhu Qingyun, you look so handsome, but I never expected you to be capable of such heinous acts as betraying the Star Luo Empire, betraying your allies, and betraying your marriage partner!
Immediately, these ministers, who were loyal to the Star Luo Empire, glared angrily at Zhu Qingyun, wishing they could chop him into mincemeat!
"Zhu Qingyun, I never expected this! You actually dared to betray the Star Luo Empire!!"
"Traitors should be punished by everyone!"
"Your Majesty, please execute Zhu Qingyun!!"
The ministers who had just defended Zhu Qingyun have now transformed into key ministers on Emperor Dai Weisi's side, tasked with suppressing the traitor!
"Hahaha, Zhu Qingyun, do you have any last words?"
Dai Weisi pointed at Zhu Qingyun and laughed heartily.
Zhu Qingyun remained silent, silently circulating his Soul Power, preparing to rush out of the palace at any moment.
At this point, what's the point of all this nonsense?
"Oh no, Your Majesty! Zhu Qingyun is circulating his Soul Power!"
The Royal Secret Guard commander, who had already reached the level of a titled Douluo, suddenly spoke up.
"What? Kill!"
Dai Weisi was furious upon hearing this and immediately gave the order.
In an instant, the commander of the Royal Secret Guard transformed into a black shadow and attacked Zhu Qingyun!
At this moment, Zhu Qingyun had already Martial Soul Possession!
Zhu Qingyun's eyes suddenly changed color, his left eye becoming dark green and his right eye becoming clear blue. His hands transformed into cat claws, and his entire being became ethereal. Eight Soul Ring —yellow, yellow, purple, purple, black, black, black, black—slowly rose up!
Immediately afterwards, Zhu Qingyun suddenly shot towards the gate of the main hall, leaving a faint afterimage, as if in a ghostly dream!
"Zhu Qingyun, come back here!!"
The Royal Secret Guard Commander gave a cold shout and then stretched out a hand. A huge suction force suddenly burst out, which actually slowed down Zhu Qingyun's speed and made Zhu Qingyun's figure stop temporarily!
In that brief moment of pause, the commander of the Royal Secret Guard caught up with Zhu Qingyun unleashed a palm strike at him!
Faced with the powerful palm strike from the Royal Secret Guard Commander, Zhu Qingyun dared not take it head-on. His Soul Ring lit up instantly, and he flashed, creating multiple clones!
This is a powerful Soul Skill possessed by most members of the Netherworld Cat Family — Netherworld Shadow Clone!
These clones look exactly like Zhu Qingyun's original body, and for a short period of time, they all possess offensive capabilities.
"Boom!"
With a loud bang, the Royal Secret Guard Commander instantly blasted one of Zhu Qingyun to pieces. However, the Zhu Qingyun he blasted was just a clone.
Meanwhile, the rest of Zhu Qingyun, who was a combination of clones and his original body, shot out in multiple directions, intending to interfere with the pursuit direction of the Royal Secret Guard Commander.
In fact, if only the Star Luo Royal Secret Guard were blocking him at this moment, Zhu Qingyun would have already successfully escaped.
Because this Netherworld Shadow Clone, when cultivated to the Soul Douluo level like Zhu Qingyun, is almost identical to the real one, even a titled Douluo like the Royal Secret Guard Commander would find it difficult to distinguish.
Soul Master below the Title Douluo, namely the ordinary Star Luo Royal Secret Guard, could not keep up with Zhu Qingyun's speed.
However, the Royal Secret Guard Commander was not the only Title Douluo present!
Below Dai Weisi's throne sat a whole row of the Spirit Hall titled Douluo elders!
These elders of the Spirit Hall had been watching the show without participating, but as allies of the Star Luo Empire, they could no longer just stand by and watch the traitor Zhu Qingyun flee.
They should at least fulfill their obligations as allies.
Several elders of the Spirit Hall exchanged glances, then vanished from their spots in a flash.
The next second, each of these Spirit Hall elders intercepted both Zhu Qingyun's clone and his main body!
"BOOM BOOM BOOM!!"
One powerful Soul Skill after another was unleashed, instantly blasting away Zhu Qingyun's weakly defensive clones, leaving only his main body.
"Pfft!"
Zhu Qingyun's physical body was clearly not in good shape either. He was severely injured by a sword strike from Ye Xingyun, the newly promoted elder of the Spirit Hall Star God Douluo, and spat out a mouthful of blood.
Surrounded by several titled Douluo, Zhu Qingyun immediately felt despair.
At this point, Zhu Qingyun turned to look at Dai Weisi, who sat high on the throne, and sighed, "Dai Weisi, no matter what, your royal Dai Family is likely doomed. You should know how powerful that young master of the Xuanyuan Family is!"
"Unfortunately, Zhu Qingyun, you won't live to see this day!"
With a cold wave of his hand, Dai Weisi sent the Royal Secret Guard Commander smashing Zhu Qingyun's head with a single blow!
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