Life Nearing Its End

At noon, the Imperial City.

On the square paved with azure jade bricks, the Heaven Worship Ceremony was still underway. Next, the Sky Wind City Lord's corpse would be brought out, and the mysterious Imperial Preceptor would personally purify his soul.

It was ostensibly to locate and eradicate the source of the curse. But anyone who knew the Imperial Preceptor's identity understood his true objective.

He clearly wanted to uncover the root cause of the curse and claim it for himself!

Any Evil Soul Master would probably have such thoughts upon encountering a curse so terrifyingly powerful and still without a solution.

At this moment, the nobles who still retained a trace of goodwill could only watch helplessly as it happened.

Given the current situation, they neither dared nor had any way to stop it.

Among the officials, the one with the ugliest expression was undoubtedly Liu Fanhao, the Liu Family head.

By now, he had been branded a fence-sitter by the entire noble circle of Mingdu. He truly did not know what feelings he should wear when Xu Tianchen's "corpse" appeared.

In other words, even he felt somewhat sorry for Xu Tianchen. But in his position, he could not afford to consider things too narrowly.

Behind Liu Fanhao stood the livelihoods and lives of hundreds of members of the Liu Family. Before matters of such gravity, his daughter's happiness was truly insignificant.

Besides, Xu Tianchen was already dead. Was he supposed to tear relations apart with the most powerful Crown Prince in the Sun Moon Empire over a dead man?

If he did, plenty of people nearby would be ready to laugh at him.

Thus, he could only stand impassively among the crowd, pretending not to hear the discussions surrounding him.

Meanwhile, inside a hall at the edge of