Killing the Heart

The Yin Shang army charged forward, meeting the Xiqi army head-on, needle point against needle point.

The Imperial Carriage was guarded at the center of the army, with Wen Zhong, Zheng Lun, Chen Qi, Deng Jiugong, Zhang Kui, and the others protecting it at its side.

Only Yin Jiao, when he saw the Yin Shang army arrive, showed no joy on his face. Instead, a complicated look surfaced there.

He silently pulled up the hood of his cloak, hiding himself from the person on the Imperial Carriage whom he did not want to face.

"My King!"

Lu Chuan cupped his fists and bowed.

Di Xin nodded, then glanced at the black-robed figure beside Lu Chuan. He wanted to call out, but when the words reached his lips, he simply could not force them out.

Facts proved that when people were in the heat of anger, they were capable of doing anything.

Back then, he had not possessed his current strength, and he had been in a situation where enemies ringed him on all sides, so he had been especially sensitive and suspicious.

That weakness had also been exploited, and thus the Nine-Tailed Fox and Fei Zhong had conspired to set up the vicious scheme that came later.

First, they sent people from East Lu to sneak into the Royal Palace and assassinate him. Then, during interrogation, they had the assassin identify Queen Jiang and Jiang Huanchu as the ones who had ordered him to kill Di Xin, so that Jiang Huanchu could ascend the throne.

Between him and Queen Jiang, it had originally been a political marriage without feelings.

Perhaps that woman was East Lu's eyes and ears. At first, that was what he had thought, so he had guarded against her deeply, kept her at a respectful distance, and