The Hidden Dragon Guard's Last Stand

The Capital Protection Array had been breached, and the inner palace of the imperial city lay within arm's reach.

Just then, the winds and clouds churned overhead, while ghostly shadows filled the palace.

As if they had appeared without a sound, a full hundred people emerged.

More than thirty stood above, dressed in Scholar's Robes. Some cradled books, some held golden brushes, some carried rulers, and some bore chessboards. Even suspended in the sky and along the corridors, they displayed the bearing of scholars to the fullest.

More than sixty stood below, their faces covered by yellow scarves. The moment they appeared, they stood utterly still, the Heaven and Earth Origin Qi they gathered almost solid.

Though there were only a hundred of them, utterly incomparable to the thousands of troops and tens of thousands of students who had stormed the inner palace, every one of them stood like a mountain or towering peak—like a hundred colossal mountains that had suddenly risen before the crowd.

Zhang Juzheng's expression changed abruptly. "Hidden Dragon Guard!"

The moment those three words entered everyone's ears, all of them were shocked.

They had entered the imperial city, faced off against the Imperial Guards, broken through the Capital Protection Array, and come all this way with remarkable ease—so easily that they had begun to drift. Yet those three words instantly dragged them back to reality.

They made them understand that the ruler of a nation was not to be taken lightly.

The Great Cang Imperial Dynasty's thousand-year foundation was far from ordinary.

There was such a force. Ordinary people had no idea they existed, and they never appeared before the public. But when the emperor's life was threatened, they would emerge. Once they did, they could overturn heaven and earth with a wave of their hands.