The Weather Changed Again
When Jun Changxiao appeared in the palace, Empress Lingping, Tuo Ling, and the others were all dumbfounded!
How had he gotten in?!
How had he entered so silently?!
Were all the experts lurking in the forbidden palace and the generals and soldiers guarding it day and night blind?
Thud!
Thud!
Just then, several Soul Clan martial artists of the Void Crossing Realm flew in with all sorts of fancy maneuvers, then lay heavily injured before Jun Changxiao.
Empress Lingping and Tuo Ling released their Spiritual Sense and discovered that people had fallen all along the path outside.
So this was the rhythm of being bulldozed straight to the high ground!
Tap, tap, tap.
The three Hall Masters, clad in black and wearing masks, walked in and stood behind Jun Changxiao, every bit the most professional and formidable bodyguards.
"Lingping."
Rose Empress walked in and said, "Your era ended thousands of years ago."
Empress Lingping angrily said, "You stole my era from me!"
Rose Empress looked at Tuo Ling and coldly said, "Ever since the first Empress ascended the throne, the law had decreed that the capable should occupy it. What was wrong with my defeating her openly and honorably?"
She had once been Empress Lingping's guard. Later, as her status and strength rose, she initiated a battle for the imperial throne according to Soul Clan regulations. In the end, she won and gained the recognition of the civil and military officials, becoming the fourth Empress.
The procedure had been correct.
What fault was there?
"Hmph."
Tuo Ling said indifferently, "Though you defeated Empress, the Nine Hall Masters were absent. Without their recognition, you are unworthy of inheriting the Empress's throne."
He had seized upon the absence of the Nine Hall Masters as an excuse and desperately