Rumble—!
The magnificent main hall of Phoenix Ceremony Palace collapsed with a thunderous, earth-shaking boom.
A tidal wave of force swept outward, carrying countless bricks and rubble and splintered beams as it madly surged in every direction.
Smoke and dust shot into the sky, obscuring a small section of the imperial city.
Suddenly, amid the billowing dust, a beautiful figure dressed in a bright-red, wide-sleeved Phoenix Robe shot straight up from the collapsed palace, one hand clamped around the neck of a white-browed old eunuch!
She shot up twenty or thirty meters before abruptly stopping in midair. Her sleeves fluttered, making her look like a celestial maiden descended into the mortal world.
Then...
"MLGB! You're an NPC, yet you dare ask whether I'll choose poisoned wine or a silk sash?"
Li Wei's voice was clear and cold, yet carried an uncontrollable irritation. "Why don't you just ascend to heaven while you're at it?"
As she spoke, she lifted a wine jug, stuffed its spout into the old eunuch's throat, and raised her hand, pouring all the liquid inside down his gullet!
"Come on, let's whet your appetite first!"
Gulp! Gulp! Gulp!
"Urgh!"
As the poisoned wine entered his throat, the old eunuch's withered, bark-like eyelids flew open. His pair of sinister, eagle-like eyes bulged round.
And within them were nothing but despair, disbelief, and the bewilderment of having his entire worldview shattered.
He was Yang Degong, the dignified Director of the Imperial Horse Administration and commander of the Imperial Guards, a Third Order peak cultivator.
He was part of the imperial family's hidden foundation, a top expert who ranked among the top three in the Great Jing martial world!
Yet today, he had been lifted by a woman like a chick and carried through the sky by his neck, unable