Heaven Dou City Citizens: Has the Regime Changed? Spirit Hall: We Are Justice

"Hmm?"

Qian Sha Yu keenly sensed the violent emotional fluctuations from Tang Yuehua at his feet.

He turned around.

Looking at Tang Yuehua's terrified, pale, exquisitely beautiful face,

an ingenious yet cruel idea suddenly flashed through his mind.

Qian Sha Yu's crimson eyes made Tang Yuehua's heart tighten.

She instinctively tried to shrink back.

But the blood-red chains wrapped tightly around her, leaving her utterly unable to move.

Qian Sha Yu looked down at her from above.

Then, with the tip of his black leather boot stained in blood, he arrogantly and contemptuously lifted Tang Yuehua's delicate chin.

"Mm..."

Tang Yuehua was forced to raise her head.

Her flawless, exquisite face was exposed to the air.

Her long, fair neck tensed, her eyes filled with humiliation and terror.

"Tang Yuehua, you seem very shocked? Very afraid to see Xue Ye being beheaded?"

Qian Sha Yu looked down at her, the corner of his mouth curling into a teasing, sinister grin.

"Come to think of it, I suddenly remembered something."

"You and your second brother Tang Hao, as well as your nephew Tang San, should be very close, right?"

The moment she heard the names "Tang Hao" and "Tang San," Tang Yuehua's heart violently clenched.

Extreme vigilance and panic erupted in her beautiful eyes!

"Y-you... what are you trying to do?" Tang Yuehua gritted her teeth and demanded, her voice trembling.

"What am I trying to do?"

Qian Sha Yu withdrew his foot and suddenly threw back his head in wild laughter.

His laughter echoed through the empty hall, sending chills down one's spine.

"I was originally thinking that having only Xue Ye the Great, Prince Xue Xing, and Princess Xueke at tomorrow's beheading ceremony would be rather dull."

"But now that we have you, this show will be perfect."

Qian Sha Yu's crimson demonic eyes remained fixed on Tang Yuehua's face.

Enunciating every word, he cruelly declared, "Tomorrow at noon, I'll send you to the execution block as well and publicly execute you!"

"W-what?!"

Tang Yuehua looked as if she had been struck by lightning, her face turning deathly pale.

"She Long! Ci Xue!"

Qian Sha Yu turned his head and loudly ordered, "Immediately mobilize all of Spirit Hall's intelligence networks and spread this news across the entire Heaven Dou Empire as quickly as possible!"

"Say that Tang San's biological aunt, Tang Hao's biological sister, the Clear Sky Sect's eldest young lady Tang Yuehua, will be beheaded alongside the Heaven Dou Emperor at Heaven Dou City's central square tomorrow at noon, and their corpses will be displayed!"

At that,

Qian Sha Yu spread his arms arrogantly, an utterly crazed smile appearing on his face.

"I want to see whether your second brother Tang Hao, the so-called God of Slaughter of this age, and your dear nephew Tang San, who claims to value loyalty and righteousness, have the guts to step into Heaven Dou City and save you!"

"If they dare come..."

Qian Sha Yu pressed a hand against the hilt of the Slaughter Blood Sword, his gaze sinister and bone-chilling.

"I'll feed that father and son to my demonic sword in front of the entire world!"

"If they don't dare come!"

"Then let everyone on the continent see that Tang San is nothing but a coward who watches his own aunt get beheaded and only dares to cower in the back like a crippled stray dog—a hypocritical, two-faced bastard!"

Hearing Qian Sha Yu's vicious scheme to strike at their hearts, Tang Yuehua completely broke down.

"No... don't..."

Tears mixed with blood streamed wildly from the corners of her eyes.

Her delicate body convulsed violently, and nothing remained in her eyes but boundless despair.

This woman wasn't human at all.

She was a true devil!

Heaven Dou City, central market square.

The once bustling streets had descended into chaos.

Several squads of Spirit Hall elite iron cavalry in blood-red heavy armor swept through the streets.

They plastered red notices bearing Spirit Hall's highest holy insignia across every bulletin board in Heaven Dou City.

On the notices,

the black characters were shocking to behold,

each word seeming to radiate an icy, bloody stench!

[Heinous Crimes! Notice of the Heaven Dou Royal Family's Crimes and Punishment!]

[Investigation reveals: Heaven Dou Emperor Xue Ye and Prince Xue Xing acted against all reason, secretly colluded with Spirit Hall's top-secret wanted criminal Tang Hao, and indulged fallen Soul Masters in wreaking havoc throughout Heaven Dou!]

[Worse still, in order to consolidate imperial power, Xue Ye the Great secretly poisoned and murdered loyal officials, killed Crown Prince Xue Qinghe, and sold out his country for glory. His crimes are monstrous, and he deserves death!]

[Today, Spirit Hall's righteous army has set things right and captured the chief culprits Xue Ye, Xue Xing, Xueke, and the rest of these rebels!]

[To quell public outrage and restore justice to the world, they will be publicly executed tomorrow at noon in Heaven Dou City's square. They will be beheaded before all and their bodies displayed for three days!]

"What? Xue Ye the Great is going to be publicly beheaded?"

"The Heaven Dou Royal Family... colluded with wanted criminal Tang Hao? Sold out their country for glory?"

"My heavens! Spirit Hall actually captured the emperor and is going to publicly behead him?"

"The Heaven Dou Empire is changing rulers!"

The moment the notices appeared, monstrous waves swept through all of Heaven Dou City.

Countless commoners and low-level Soul Masters gathered before the bulletin boards.

Seeing those clearly listed "crimes," every one of them turned pale with fright!

Several unsolved cases in Heaven Dou City over the years, nobles secretly abducting common women for their vile pleasures, even the unsolved case of the previous Spirit Hall Pope's murder...

Qian Sha Yu casually pinned them all on Xue Ye the Great, Prince Xue Xing, Tang Hao, Tang San, and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

Who cared whether it was true or false?

With tens of thousands of corpses lying in Heaven Dou City after Spirit Hall bathed the entire city in blood, who would dare investigate the truth?

It was merely Qian Sha Yu finding a righteous-sounding excuse for murder.

What made countless Heaven Dou citizens suck in a cold breath even more was that

beneath the emperor's list of crimes,

more than ten glaring blood-red wanted notices were posted in succession!

[Wanted Notice for Rebel Accomplices: Rebel leader Tang San, accomplice Ning Fengzhi, remnants of the Shrek Seven Monsters, the Four Single-Attribute Clans... Anyone providing clues will be rewarded ten thousand taels of gold!]

"Hiss! Even the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect has become a wanted rebel faction?"

"The heavens have truly changed. From today onward, the Heaven Dou Empire belongs to Spirit Hall!"

Panic and shock spread like a plague,

and all of Heaven Dou City fell into the suffocating turmoil of a changing regime!

In a dark, damp mountain forest a hundred li from Heaven Dou City.

The setting sun, red as blood, slanted through the dense woods.

The smell of blood in the air became especially pungent beneath the crimson sunset.

More than a hundred Soul Masters in tattered clothes, covered in blood, lay scattered across the clearing.

Faint cries of pain and groans rose and fell, the atmosphere so oppressive it inspired despair.

This was a small portion of the Four Single-Attribute Clans who had barely escaped Qian Sha Yu's catastrophe.

"Ah...!"

Niu Gao, the Defense Clan's patriarch, was bare-chested, a savage sword wound on his chest so deep that bone could be seen.

As his clansmen applied medicinal herbs to it, the pain made him bare his teeth.

Beside him,

Tai Tan, the Strength Clan's patriarch, had blood smeared across his face.

He leaned dejectedly against a tree trunk.

Bai He, the Speed Clan's patriarch, was even paler.

As he looked at the wounded clansmen around them, his eyes were filled with sorrow.