A Trap Within a Trap! Who Was Really the Prey?
The cries of the head eunuch outside the door reached Qian Renxue's ears, and her delicate body trembled violently. Her originally cold eyes suddenly burst forth with an uncontrollable light of wild joy!
It's done!
She had been secretly adding "Seven-Colored Splendor" to Xue Ye's daily diet for over ten years, and was already at the point of exhaustion!
Now that Su Chen has killed Xue Beng and severely Shi Qing, Xue Ye, in a fit of extreme rage and anger, has finally detonated the deadly poison that has been accumulating in his body for many years!
If she were to fall unconscious on Xue Ye, she, as the only legitimate heir apparent, could enter the palace at this moment. With the full support of her teacher Ning Fengzhi, she could then smoothly and bloodlessly take over the Imperial Seal and Tiger Tally, thus completely bringing the entire Heaven Dou Empire under her control!
She had waited for this day for more than a decade, but unexpectedly, it was brought to a head by Su Chen's two slaps yesterday and this morning!
"Heaven is helping me!"
Qian Renxue's breathing quickened, unable to suppress her excitement. She abruptly pulled open a hidden compartment on the low table, took out a palm-sized crimson-gold token bearing the Swan emblem of the Heaven Dou Imperial Family and the crossed sword seal of the Spirit Hall, and tossed it to Su Chen with a flick of her wrist.
"Su Chen, here is the special gold token you requested! Take the token and return to your Skywave Villa to prepare for battle. After today, this Heaven Dou Imperial City will be under my control, and no one will dare to pursue your crime of killing Xue Beng!"
Su Chen reached out and caught the crimson gold token that flew from mid-air. It felt heavy in his hand, and the back was clearly engraved with eight ancient seal characters. "Direct Qualification to the Finals - Independent Seed".
"Uncle She, Uncle Ci, come with me to the palace immediately to assume power!"
Qian Renxue could no longer afford to say anything more to Su Chen. She suddenly stood up, flicked her sleeves, and two dark figures flashed behind the screen. Surrounded by the elite iron cavalry of the Eastern Palace, they galloped towards the main gate of the palace!
Listening to the hurried hoofbeats receding from downstairs, Su Chen looked down at the crimson gold token in his palm.
Based on the current intelligence, Xue Ye was so enraged that he fell into a coma from poisoning. With Qian Renxue accompanied by two Titled Douluo and Ning Fengzhi's support, her entry into the palace to succeed him is almost a certainty.
"This saves us the trouble of the preliminaries, so we can take Yanyan and Lingling to Sunset Forest these next few days to hunt for our Fourth Soul Ring."
Su Chen put aside his thoughts, got up and walked to the window of the Star-Picking Tower. He leaped up and, like a cheetah, nimbly vaulted over the outer wall of the Eastern Palace, following the eaves and brackets.
Su Chen had just walked about a hundred feet west along the Imperial Street when his steps suddenly stopped without warning!
Something's not right!
Snap--Boom!!
A hundred feet ahead, in the direction of the Meridian Gate of the Imperial Palace, a piercing clang suddenly came from above the wide-open gate, as if iron chains had been severed by tremendous force!
Immediately afterwards, a massive Black Iron gate, weighing tens of thousands of kilograms and over three feet thick, crashed down from the top of the city gate, sealing the entire Meridian Gate completely shut!
The heavy, Black Iron gate smashed the Blue Stone ground, stirring up thick dust several meters high, and even the paving stones of the entire Imperial Street shook violently twice!
Moreover, the Heaven Dou Royal Guard were originally on duty on the vermilion palace walls on both sides of the Meridian Gate, which are ten zhang high, have all been replaced at some point.
A row of elite soldiers, clad in unfamiliar, dark heavy armor and with fierce, wolf-like eyes, suddenly stood up from behind the battlements. They simultaneously pushed their heavy armor-piercing crossbows onto the winches, and the gleaming crossbow bolts were aimed at the entire Imperial Street outside the palace walls!
"Close the gate and shut off the valve?!"
Su Chen's pupils suddenly contracted, and he instantly activated the Ancient Truth-Severing Dragon Divine Pupils to its limit. The divine light of his Purple-Gold Double Pupils pierced through the palace walls and looked directly at the Tai Chi Hall in the deepest part of the palace!
At the very instant his Divine Pupils opened.
Boom--!!!
Above the Tai Chi Hall deep within the palace, the roof covered with glazed golden tiles suddenly exploded into countless fragments!
Several powerful auras of Titled Douluo, exceeding Level 90 and reaching extreme ferocity, were no longer concealed and surged into the sky like a cluster of volcanoes erupting!
In the upper left corner, a gigantic [Clear Sky Hammer] Martial Soul Avatar, tens of feet long, jet black, and Entanglement in rolling killing intent, appeared out of nowhere and crashed down with the force of a thunderbolt.
In the upper right corner, a hundred-foot-long [Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon] roared and soared into the sky, tearing the clouds above the palace to shreds with its raging purple-blue lightning!
Immediately following was the mournful and furious roar of the Snake Lance Douluo, She Long.
A giant, two-headed, bluish-purple serpent, surrounded by a barrage of thunder and giant hammers, charged wildly left and right, its scales mingling with a horrific rain of blood that splattered everywhere.
On the other side, a dull thud echoed as the Pufferfish Martial Soul was smashed to pieces by a blunt weapon, and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect Sword Douluo Chen Xin hastily engaged in battle with the Seven Kill Sword!
In just a few breaths, the entire inner court of the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace was completely transformed into a bloodbath of slaughter Asura Titled Douluo!
Looking at the domineering and ferocious Clear Sky Hammer phantom and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon lightning above the Tai Chi Hall, and then at the ten-thousand-pound Meridian Gate that had been sealed off in front of him, Su Chen's mind instantly connected all the abnormal clues in a flash!
"What a wicked scheme to assassinate the emperor, seize the throne, and lure the enemy into a trap!"
A cold glint flashed in Su Chen's eyes, and his killing intent instantly reached its peak.
Qian Renxue and Ning Fengzhi are both key pieces in his plan to control the Heaven Dou Empire, plunder the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect School's treasury, and seize the Angel God Armor. He hasn't even fully exploited their value yet, so how could he tolerate those scum from the Clear Sky Sect and Xue Xing intercepting and killing them halfway?!
Moreover, in the aura of the Clear Sky Hammer above the Tai Chi Hall, besides the titled elders of the Clear Sky Sect, there was clearly also Tang Hao and an extremely sinister and viscous dark bloody smell. Tang San's spineless dog actually followed Tang Hao out of the Slaughter City!
"Trying to cause trouble in Heaven Dou City? Have you even asked about the Dragon Emperor Spear in my hand?"
Su Chen acted decisively, condensing his level 52 pure Yang Soul Power into two lines that instantly transformed into two deafening sound transmissions, one aimed at the Skywave Villa and the other at a height of a hundred feet in the sky:
"Dugu Bo! Xue Xing has colluded with the Clear Sky Sect and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan Sect to commit regicide and rebellion! Qian Renxue and Ning Fengzhi are being besieged and killed by Titled Douluo in the Tai Chi Hall! Immediately abandon the outer perimeter of the villa and rush to the Meridian Gate of the Imperial Palace to join me in breaking through the city and killing the enemy!!"
The moment the sound transmission exploded, Su Chen didn't hesitate for even a moment.
Boom!!
Black, black, black, black!
Five deep, abyss-like black Soul Ring rose fiercely from beneath Su Chen's feet, with the blood-red dragon pattern on the fifth ring, which had been 50,000 years old, shining brightly!
Sizzle!
Su Chen's robes tore apart inch by inch, and eight External Soul Bone [Ice-Fire Dark-Gold Dragon Emperor Spear], each four meters long and thirty thousand years old, suddenly burst forth from his body! He exerted force with his leg muscles, and his whole body transformed into a crimson-gold afterimage that tore through the long street, rushing straight towards the Meridian Gate of the Imperial Palace a hundred feet away!
"Fire arrows! Quickly fire arrows and kill him!!"
The rebel commander on the Meridian Gate roared in terror when he saw Su Chen charging in alone.
In an instant, hundreds of heavy armor-piercing crossbows simultaneously fired their bolts, unleashing a dense swarm of steel bolts, each accompanied by a piercing whistle, raining down upon Su Chen!
Su Chen charged forward at breakneck speed without flinching or dodging. Crimson-gold dragon scales from his "Chaos Ancestral Dragon Ice-Fire Golden Body" appeared on his body, allowing the clanging armor-piercing crossbow bolts to shatter into countless pieces of iron upon impact.
Using the violent propulsion of the eight dragon Emperor Spear on his back, he leaped three zhang high in one step. The Pure Yang Dragon Fire and the mysterious ice Dragon Qi on his right claw intertwined violently. He aimed at the three-foot-thick, ten-thousand-jin Black Iron dragon-severing gate in front of him and slammed it down with the force of splitting mountains and rocks!