Everything happened so fast. In the blink of an eye, while everyone was still frozen in reflexive shock, they saw only a blood-red heart held aloft in the palm of a long Skull Claw weapon.
The bright red liquid seeping from the heart did not drip down at all. Instead, it was absorbed by the Skull Claw's black talons.
Gradually, even the Skull Claw's talon tips seemed to have been stained a dark red.
The scene was like Purgatory returning to the mortal world.
The clamor in the hall abruptly fell silent, replaced by a deathly stillness.
Only when Tantai Yugui saw that heart did he subconsciously lower his head and look at his own chest.
In a daze, he discovered that despite the protection of his Second Generation Mecha, there was still a pitch-black round hole in his chest.
In that instant, he could not even feel pain. He only felt incomparably light all over, as if he were about to drift away with the wind at any moment...
The shackles that had seemed to bind him ever since he learned the truth of his origins finally crumbled away in that instant.
I'm finally free...
Once he died, the child in Ying Wuxin's belly could ascend the Throne, right? By then, not only the Grand Princess, but even the Grand Princess's entire family, along with the entire Zong clan, would be within Ying Wuxin's power to handle! The massacre of more than three hundred members of the Ying Family would finally be vindicated as well...
At least, before dying, he had still done one good thing.
His life had not been completely worthless.
Tantai Yugui crashed to the ground. Though his eyes remained open, a faint smile rested on his lips.
From the ceiling, Xia Chujian saw everything clearly,