"His Majesty approaches! Bystanders, stand aside!"
A retinue of attendants and guards escorted a Dragon Carriage toward the Imperial Family Inspection Team's offices inside the Imperial City, while the Sun Moon Empire's civil and military officials followed on foot. Traveling abreast of the emperor was an act of treason; even the princes born of the same mother as him had to resort to this most primitive means of getting around.
Fortunately, the offices were not far from the Golden Hall. Moreover, every official, civil or military, possessed some cultivation, so the walk was hardly tiring.
Yet when they arrived at the Imperial Family Inspection Team's offices, they immediately heard a series of sharp blows striking flesh. Looking over, they saw a burly man with unusually muscular arms viciously beating a beautiful young married woman dressed in a scarlet gown.
"Little bitch, tell me-are you going to submit or not?!"
The burly man swung his arms, mercilessly smashing his fists, each as large as a cooking pot, into the woman's body as he questioned her with roaring laughter.
Beside him stood another man with an enormous head, snickering with a gleam in his eyes. Terrifying spiritual fluctuations raged through the air, forming invisible whips that lashed the woman in red before him as sinister laughter spilled from his mouth.
Both their physical and spiritual attacks were unmistakably at the Soul Douluo level. Although the woman in red wore a sufficiently powerful protective soul tool, all she could do under their joint assault was scream repeatedly in agony.
Judging by their behavior, the two seemed to enjoy beating her and had no intention of removing her protective soul tool. It was like pounding a turtle with an exceptionally hard shell-the pleasure lay in unleashing violence to their hearts' content.
"Uh..."
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