"Your Highness?"
Ju Zi hurriedly stood up, but there was some confusion in her eyes. If the old emperor was killed by people from Shrek and the other empires, wouldn't that be a wonderful thing?
That way, not only could Xu Tianran ascend the throne, he could also present the irrefutable fact of their assassination of the emperor to the people, declaring that the Three Great Empires and Shrek had gone too far in bullying them, and find a suitable pretext for launching a war. Wasn't that enough?
"Go, now!"
Xu Tianran's eyes were wide and round, like an owl ambushing prey in the night, a vicious light flickering in them. "Those people are going to treat that undying old bastard! Would killing that old bastard even require them to act?"
"Those bastards from Shrek and the Three Great Empires are actually this vicious! They came up with the poisonous scheme of treating my imperial father to deal with me. They really came prepared!"
Hearing Xu Tianran say this, Ju Zi instantly understood the gravity of the situation as well. Her face turned deathly pale, and she hurried away.
At that moment, a bang rang out above the Imperial Palace in Mingdu, and a burst of white light suddenly exploded in the pitch-black sky, illuminating the dark night as brightly as day.
A figure hovered conspicuously in the sky, his black robes fluttering gently in the night breeze.
He simply stood upon the void, like a towering monument.
His face was expressionless, yet his aged features bore an indescribable pride and majesty.
"Well, well, well, since when did the Dragon Emperor Douluo become someone's guard dog? People's hearts truly aren't what they used to be!"
A strange voice rang out. The sky seemed to split open as a dense, dark-green