Case after case, incident after incident-every case had been recorded with exceptional clarity, and the Chancellor recounted them all.
The Female Emperor's expression grew increasingly grave, her gaze increasingly uneasy. Her exquisite face, seemingly tinted with rosy clouds, grew so dark it could almost drip water as she sensed more and more that something was wrong.
More and more people in Capital City were dying mysterious deaths.
Moreover, the frequency of these incidents was increasing wildly.
This proved that uncanny beings were hiding within the thick mist, using the cover of night to spy on Capital City.
Previously, she had always thought that Kyoto of the Tang Kingdom would probably be the last place targeted.
But now it seemed she had been wrong-utterly wrong.
Those beings lurking in the darkness were already growing impatient.
They had even disregarded Kyoto's tight defenses and the Kyoto Grand Array.
They had even disregarded her overwhelming strength as the Tang Kingdom's Female Emperor, capable of sweeping away rotten wood with the force of ten thousand thunderbolts.
Before this, she had always kept this city under control.
No cultivator, however powerful, had dared set even half a foot here.
But now, as the cases multiplied, the resentment in Kyoto would surely deepen. When that happened, would those uncanny beings lose restraint? Would a forbidden land truly appear?
She dared not dwell on it. Her gaze grew sharper and sharper, increasingly brimming with killing intent.
Meanwhile, outside Ganlu Hall, Zhang Jushan, the Tang Kingdom's Chancellor, continued his account.
"On the third day of the eleventh month, as autumn frost formed, the sounds of battlefield slaughter inexplicably arose within General Chen's Residence in Zhengyi Ward. They were particularly intense and loud. The nearby residents all heard them, but none dared approach. One day later, bloody energy soared