Chapter 428: Xu Tianran's Doomsday Is Approaching
The withered body of the Late Emperor remained thus stiffly frozen in the final posture of his life.
His eyes stared straight ahead, filled with unwillingness as he tried to remember the last sight he had seen in life. His raised right index finger pointed at someone; his finger had always trembled back and forth while he lived, but in death, it finally maintained a permanent stillness.
The Old Emperor of the Sun Moon Empire, a sovereign who had seized the Imperial Throne from his own older brother through bloody means, saw his lamp-burned-dry life come to an absolute end at this moment.
From the time he launched the coup until now, the time he truly ruled the entire Sun Moon Empire, counting it fully, was barely ten years.
Yet the Old Emperor's death was far more useful than his living.
Huo Yuhao in the simulation wore a hint of emotion; he truly had not expected the Old Emperor to be directly angered to death during the Morning Court.
He could finally be considered to have helped He Caitou settle the other's sea of blood and deep grudges.
However, the Old Emperor dying right now brought Huo Yuhao a modicum of trouble. He died too early, too suddenly, leaving behind a less-than-ideal impact.
"Your Majesty!"
Several confidants of the Old Emperor looked upon the Old Emperor's corpse, their voices trembling slightly.
After a brief bewilderment, a trace of joy surfaced in Xu Tianran's eyes, and then he hid this pleasant surprise very well, two lines of tears flowing down the corners of his eyes as he wailed in grief-stricken agony: "Emperor Father--"
The other princes also reacted and followed Xu Tianran in weeping one after another, falling to their knees and crying more