A Blade Stops the Palace Coup

"I won't let you."

Yuan Yu twisted his wrist, and the Sun Wheel Blade slid along the side of the Angel Sacred Sword. A burst of gold light exploded between the two weapons, and he used the momentum to push Qian Renxue into midair, while pulling Tang San back to the other end of the roof.

Tang San wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth. "Are you going to help her?"

"I want her to stop."

"She poisoned Xue Ye and killed two princes."

"That's why she has to answer for it." Yuan Yu looked at Qian Renxue, who was unfurling her six wings once more. "She has to survive to answer for it."

Hearing their words, Qian Renxue tightened her grip on her sword. "Yuan Yu, you promised you wouldn't leave me behind."

"I didn't promise to help you seize the throne."

"Everyone in this palace wants to kill me."

"With me here, no one can kill you in the chaos. If you keep fighting, the life Xue Ye just saved, along with Snake Lance, Pufferfish, and all those in the palace who followed you for years, will be dragged into this."

Qian Renxue did not answer. The Angel Domain contracted once more, its golden light pressing down entirely on Yuan Yu. She wanted to force him to make way, and also wanted to see where the boy who had followed behind her since childhood would ultimately let his blade fall.

Yuan Yu drove the Sun Wheel Blade into the roof tiles.

Eight artifact aspects rotated along the wheel. The Four-Sided Rock Aspect first pinned down the palace walls beneath his feet, the Wheel Wind Banner caught the shattered tiles, the Water-Aspect Mystic Bottle absorbed the venom left by Pufferfish, and the Flame-Aspect Treasure Furnace swallowed the