A Life Nearing Its End

At noon, Imperial City.

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

On the surface, it was to locate and eradicate the source of the curse. But in truth, anyone who knew the Imperial Preceptor's identity understood his real objective.

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

A curse with such terrifying power, one that remained unsolved even now—any Evil Soul Master would probably have the same idea.

At that moment, the nobles who still retained a shred of kindness in their hearts could only watch helplessly as it happened.

Under the current circumstances, they neither dared nor had any way to stop it.

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

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

In other words, even he felt somewhat sorry for Xu Tianchen. But from his position, he could not afford to consider matters too one-sidedly.

Behind Liu Fanhao stood the livelihoods and lives of several hundred members of the Liu Family. When it came to matters of greater importance, his daughter's happiness was truly insignificant.

Besides, Xu Tianchen was already dead. Was he supposed to tear all pretenses 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 among the crowd with an indifferent expression, pretending not to hear