Chapter 135: Hoodwinking the Sword God, Bringing Dongfang into the Fold
The moon hung at its zenith.
The fighting within the imperial palace continued, but it was nearly over.
Of the Imperial Guard soldiers and Jianghu martial artists involved in the Prince of Fu's heir's rebellion, almost none remained alive and free; they had either been captured or killed.
Corpses lay everywhere across the palace square.
The only people still standing were the remaining court officials and the Jianghu martial artists who had come to watch Ye Gucheng and Ximen Chuixue's duel, along with the members of the Eastern and Western Depots and the Embroidered Uniform Guard.
Everyone looked somewhat stunned.
The series of battles tonight had utterly overturned their understanding of martial arts.
Those terrifying manifestations of heaven and earth, those scenes of utter devastation where a casual strike could turn the world upside down-they would probably never forget them as long as they lived.
Even the court officials who normally looked down on martial men had fallen silent, their faces filled with shock and fear.
Yet the truly terrifying battle had not ended.
Everyone looked toward the distant night sky.
There, four figures fought among the magnificent, towering palace buildings.
The guardians of the Ming Imperial House: Sunflower Ancestor Zheng He and Ghost King Xu Ruowu, along with two Chief Dragon Heads of the Green Dragon Society: Fang Longxiang and Yang Yanyu!
Their battlefield truly could be described as heaven and earth turned upside down.
Four terrifying auras, as deep as abysses and vast as seas, surged and seethed in the night sky. Their figures flashed like lightning amid shrieking winds, and wherever they passed, a building was damaged or simply exploded and collapsed.
They had already reduced that battlefield to an unrecognizable wreck.
By this point, however,