"An Evil Infant in the Venerable Realm!!"
"Ninth Prince, you... you are Xiao Yan?... And you can even control an Evil Infant!!"
Yan Ding's voice could not conceal the shock in his heart.
A mighty expert at the Nirvana Realm Peak and one of the Yan Family's strongest figures, he could not help but look tense before Chu Yun.
"Elder Yan Song should know this better than you."
"Yan Family Head, by revealing all this to you tonight, I have already shown my greatest sincerity."
"I can even give the Yan Family a promise."
"One day, when the struggle for imperial power is over, the Yan Family will become the foremost great lineage in the Imperial City!"
Chu Yun had displayed his own value, then painted them both a grand vision.
Not only did that vision smell enticing, but with Chu Yun's capabilities, he truly could make it a reality.
Yan Ding's pupils trembled as he turned to look at Yan Song.
The latter nodded. "Family Head, it is indeed as His Highness says. All of it is true."
"In my view, His Highness's talents far surpass those of the Crown Prince."
"Since the Yan Family must choose a side, I am more inclined to stand with His Highness."
Yan Song's crucial support also caused Yan Ding's resolve to waver.
Still reeling from his shock, he seriously considered the matter.
Tonight, he had finally seen Chu Yun's value in full.
The mere fact that Chu Yun controlled an Evil Infant in the Venerable Realm was enough to influence the direction of the entire situation.
After much careful deliberation, Yan Ding's expression hardened as he made his decision. "Good!"
"Since Your Highness is so sincere, my Yan Family will never betray Your Highness's trust!"
"From this day onward, the Yan Family is willing to obey Your Highness's commands!"
With the Yan Family submitting, Chu Yun laughed in high spirits. "Good, Family Head Yan Ding. I guarantee that one day, you will be glad you made an incomparably correct decision tonight!"
Half an hour later, under a moonless sky and howling wind, Yan Ding and Yan Song quietly left beneath the cover of night. No one discovered that they had come to the Prince's Mansion.
The Yan Family's choice of side also expanded the network around Chu Yun once more.
In the early hours of dawn.
Chu Yun sat upright on the fishing platform in the rear courtyard, while Luo Feng stood quietly and steadily behind him. The two seemed to be waiting for something.
Ding!! Venerable Wan Lei destroyed Hundred Snake Island. Host obtained 3000 Editing Points. Venerable Wan Lei destroyed Thousand Leaf Pavilion. Host obtained 2800 Editing Points. Venerable Wan Lei tortured Old Man Puxun to death. Host obtained 1200 Editing Points. Venerable Wan Lei tortured One-Eyed Old Ghost to death. Host obtained 900 Editing Points.
The system's mechanical notifications rang one after another in Chu Yun's mind.
Venerable Wan Lei had indeed not disappointed him. In just one day, he had helped him earn more than ten thousand Editing Points!
The efficiency was simply too high!
However, after destroying so many forces, word would surely spread by tomorrow.
Moreover, those who had died were all pillars of the Empress Faction.
If he were the Empress, he would certainly realize that someone in the Venerable Realm had acted. If Venerable Wan Lei struck again, his efficiency would inevitably be affected somewhat.
At the same time, Luo Feng received a message.
He immediately said, "Your Highness, it is done. Tonight's street patrol has already been transferred away."
Hearing this, Chu Yun raised his eyes slightly and looked at the bright moon overhead, a faint wicked smile appearing on his face. "Then let us depart."
"Yes!!"
Imperial City, Li Family.
The Li Family was a renowned noble lineage within the Imperial City, with an ancestor at the Nirvana Realm Peak.
Their current Family Head was also a powerful expert at the Middle Nirvana Realm.
Though their foundations could not compare to the Yan Family's, among the great lineages of the Imperial City, they were still enough to rank among the top five!
In the dead of night, within Li Manor.
Li Feng, the Li Family Head, was sleeping peacefully in bed with his two wives.
Suddenly, Li Feng's eyes snapped open, and he instantly sat up!
"Who is it?!"
His pupils shrank. The entire room was brightly lit, yet the two wives lying beside him had already become cold corpses.
A faint smile rested on Chu Yun's face. He sat on the table with one foot planted on a chair, watching Li Feng with an amused expression.
"My wives!!"
"I'll kill you!!!"
Seeing that his women had lost all life, Li Feng's face twisted in shock. Rage instantly rushed into his mind. With bloodshot eyes, he erupted with Nirvana Power in one hand and lunged toward Chu Yun.
Chu Yun neither dodged nor evaded, merely watching him with calm composure.
"An ant dares to harm my master?"
"What do you take this true body for?"
Suddenly, a sinister shadow flashed past the doorway. A young man appeared before Chu Yun and casually released Evil Infant's Tendrils with one hand. Myriad streams of evil qi flooded the room and directly sent Li Feng flying.
Those Evil Infant's Tendrils tightly coiled around his entire body. Li Feng's skin felt as though pain had pierced into his marrow, while the power of his soul was firmly suppressed by the Evil Infant's power.
Bang!!
Li Feng's body smashed heavily into the ground. The intense agony made him tremble all over, his features twisting in pain. "V-Venerable Realm..."
"Y-you... who exactly are you people?"
"My Li Family... serves the Empress... Aren't you afraid that the Imperial Advisor and the Empress... will seek revenge on you?!" Li Feng said painfully, using all his strength.
That young man was naturally Ye Tun.
After refining those three Nirvana Realm Evil Infants, he had successfully broken through into the Venerable Realm. He truly had to thank Meng Ruoxue for that.
Listening to Li Feng's words, Chu Yun's lips curled into a faint smile. "This prince is Chu Yun, Ninth Prince of the Great Xia Dynasty."
"What?!"
"Y-you are Chu Yun?!" Li Feng's eyes widened. Shock, hatred, fury, grief, and all manner of emotions appeared on his face.
Li Feng's anger had reached ninety-three percent.
"Not a hundred percent yet..."
Seeing this, Chu Yun immediately formed another idea. "Bring him out. Let their whole family be reunited."
"Yes, Master."
Ye Tun grinned wickedly.
He immediately dragged Li Feng along with Evil Infant's Tendrils and followed Chu Yun.
The Li Family's central courtyard plaza.
A barrier of evil qi isolated all traces of activity. Neither sound nor sight could pass through it.
Chu Yun and Ye Tun brought Li Feng into the barrier.
The next instant, Li Feng's expression changed from rage to terror. "Grand Elder!!"
"Ancestor! Even you..."
Seeing the scene before him, Li Feng fell into complete despair.
At that moment, every one of the Li Family's thousand-plus clansmen in the plaza within the barrier had been suppressed in place by Ye Tun's power.
Among them were the Grand Elder, also at the Nirvana Realm, as well as the Li Family's ancestor.
Luo Feng and the Sky Demoness stood coldly on either side, their gazes fixed upon the Li Family members without a trace of pity in their eyes.
In the struggle for imperial power, the first to fall beneath the butcher's blade were the subordinate forces of each camp.
Luo Feng understood this, and so did the Li Family.
They simply had never imagined that Ninth Prince Chu Yun possessed such powerful experts at his side!
It was completely beyond all expectation!
"Ninth Prince, can you give my Li Family a chance?"
"As long as you spare my Li Family today, we are willing to leave the Imperial City and never again meddle in matters of imperial power!"
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