The Lapdog Wakes Up, Chen Mo Is Killed!

Inside the Princess's Residence, Qin Yun sat in the main hall with a grim expression. After waiting for quite some time, she finally received news.

"Your Highness, Lin Xuan's life has been saved, but..."

"His cultivation has fallen to the Sea-Opening Realm, and ninety percent of his talent is gone."

Bang! Qin Yun slammed her palm viciously onto the table, her expression turning twisted and terrifying.

"Qin Luo, good. What a fine little brother I have!"

"Today's humiliation will be repaid tenfold, a hundredfold someday!"

"Go, have the Dark Hall take action..." Before Qin Yun could finish, her subordinate immediately dropped to his knees.

"Your Highness, you mustn't! If the Dark Hall attacks a prince, it may bring disaster upon the Northern Suppressing Prince's Household! Please reconsider, Your Highness!"

"You dare stop me?" Qin Yun said coldly, making the other man shudder.

After roughly half a quarter-hour passed, Qin Yun's emotions finally settled.

With her Exquisite Ice Heart, she had always been exceptionally calm. But today, her face had been slapped too hard, causing her to lose her reason.

Now, her rationality had returned.

"Tomorrow is the day of the Bloodline Baptism, correct?" Qin Yun asked.

As one of the nominal Vice Directors of the Imperial Clan Court, she hadn't paid much attention to this matter before. But now, this was the only opportunity she knew of to make Qin Luo suffer.

"Reporting to Your Highness, yes. Tomorrow is the Bloodline Baptism."

"Good. Tell those people that I don't want Qin Luo to obtain even the slightest bit of blood energy!"

"Yes!" Her subordinate breathed a sigh of relief and immediately went out to notify those people.

In the Bloodline Baptism, everyone relied on their own abilities. Whoever absorbed more blood energy possessed greater skill.

If you couldn't absorb any, there was nothing to be done about it.

It was open and fair competition. So what if he was a prince?

After Lin Xuan woke up, he stared blankly at the ceiling beams, his eyes devoid of light.

He had actually been crippled. He had become useless. How could he possibly accept something like this?

Li Chang stood beside Lin Xuan. Seeing him in such a state, he consoled him, "There's still a chance. If you can enter the Heavenly Prison and obtain that thing, your cultivation will recover. Perhaps you can even break and then rise anew, becoming stronger than before!"

"That's right, that thing!" Lin Xuan's eyes lit up, as though he had seen hope!

There was naturally a reason he had joined the Demon Suppression Bureau. It was to obtain that thing within the Heavenly Prison. It was the most crucial part of the Great Emperor's inheritance!

If he could obtain that thing, then what was a mere prince of the Great Qin Dynasty?

So what if he killed him?

Seeing Lin Xuan regain his fighting spirit, Li Chang let out a long breath.

He reminded Lin Xuan, "I've already exposed myself, so I need to leave the Imperial Capital. Be careful on your own. Remember to keep a low profile!"

Saint Realm powerhouses of the sects were not permitted to remain in the Imperial Capital for long without an invitation from the Great Qin Dynasty.

He had hidden in the shadows before. Some people knew, but nearly all of them had simply pretended not to.

Now that he had stepped forward himself, it was equivalent to exposing his identity and giving others something to hold against him. If he didn't leave now, the Demon Suppression Bureau would be inviting him over for tea.

"Alright!" Lin Xuan had just recovered his spirits when, after seeing Li Chang off, he heard terrible news.

"Gu Qingxue is dead. After you left, Qin Luo stabbed her to death with a single sword strike!"

Pfft! Lin Xuan spat out a mouthful of blood mixed with clots, instantly becoming utterly dispirited.

"Qin Luo! You and I are irreconcilable!"

"Today, I, Lin Xuan, swear here and now! If I don't kill you, I swear I'll no longer be human!"

Pfft! As he spoke, blood began gushing from him like a fountain. He kept vomiting, vomiting, and his cultivation fell yet again.

If Gu Qingxue had merely become Qin Luo's concubine, Lin Xuan wouldn't have been so heartbroken.

But he believed that after seeing him wounded by Qin Luo, Gu Qingxue had refused to yield even in death, which was why Qin Luo had killed her.

Gu Qingxue had died for him!

Nothing was deadlier than invisible delusions!

Lin Xuan fell gravely ill and nearly lost his life.

Qin Luo had already refined almost all of Gu Qingxue's origin, and his cultivation had stabilized at the peak of the Divine Ability Realm.

"Next, I should advance into the Spirit Transformation Realm."

The Spirit Transformation Realm mainly cultivated the soul. Unfortunately, he didn't have enough Villain Points, and Qin Luo lacked any particularly powerful soul-cultivation techniques.

"After I come out, I'll go take another look through the royal treasury."

As a prince, he naturally had the right to obtain royal cultivation techniques. The royal treasury was on an entirely grander scale than the treasury of the Taixu Sacred Land.

There were quite a few Saint-tier cultivation techniques and martial skills within it. As a prince, he was qualified to obtain them.

No reason not to use what was free.

Today was the day of the Bloodline Baptism. After bidding Su Qianchen farewell, Qin Luo headed toward the Imperial Clan Court.

Unexpectedly, the moment he stepped out of the residence, he ran into someone—Chen Mo.

"Were you waiting here specifically for me?" Qin Luo asked.

Chen Mo nodded with a complicated expression. "I wanted to say thank you."

Qin Luo found it absurd. A lapdog actually had a day when he woke up?

He had killed the goddess of the lapdog before him. Not only was Chen Mo not thinking of revenge, he was actually thanking him?

"You slapped me awake and made me realize that I was nothing but a joke before. And by killing Gu Qingxue, you allowed me to sever my ties of love."

"I broke through three cultivation levels in a single night. I felt I should come thank you."

Qin Luo was somewhat dazed. He hadn't expected that, as a villain, there would come a day when another villain thanked him.

That was right. Chen Mo before him wasn't exactly a good person either. In the Imperial Capital, he was something of a petty tyrant. The only exception was that he was devoted to Gu Qingxue, deeply and wholeheartedly.

If Qin Luo was a great villain, then Chen Mo before him was a minor villain.

Qin Luo gave him a strange look. Perhaps he should recruit this minor villain as one of his own?

"Once I return from the royal Bloodline Baptism, come find me at my residence," Qin Luo instructed him.

Chen Mo froze. He wasn't stupid, so he naturally understood that Qin Luo wanted to recruit him.

After hesitating for a moment, he nodded. "Alright. In that case, Your Highness, I'll take my leave first."

After leaving, Chen Mo headed toward the Heroic Martial Marquis Household.

Before he even reached the Heroic Martial Marquis Household, he saw Qin Luo again on the street.

That left him stunned.

"Your Highness the Ninth Prince, didn't you say you were going to participate in the Bloodline Baptism?" Chen Mo asked.

Qin Luo looked at him, a wicked smile curling across his lips. "No rush, no rush. I think that before attending the Bloodline Baptism, I should kill you first!"

Whoosh! Qin Luo unleashed his sword and charged straight toward Chen Mo.

A powerful aura locked Chen Mo in place, rendering even Chen Mo, a Divine Ability Realm cultivator, completely unable to move.

Pfft! The sword struck Chen Mo squarely in the chest. Disbelief filled his face, and none of the life-saving treasures his grandfather had given him could be activated.

"You're not... you're... Saint..." Chen Mo pointed at Qin Luo, trembling.

Bang! Qin Luo kicked Chen Mo flying and shouted, "What are you? You dare steal women from this prince!"

After saying that, he turned and swaggered away.

The people nearby immediately erupted into uproar. Once they recognized Chen Mo, someone cried out sharply.

"Something terrible has happened! The Heroic Martial Marquis's grandson has been killed!"