Is This Not All Good News?!

No matter how she tried, An Lingzhen could not understand why Ye Li had attacked the Emperor of Great Sheng.

Could it be that he wanted to experience being emperor too?

That did not make sense either...

By her estimation, Ye Li's true combat strength was roughly at the peak of the second level of the True Spirit Realm.

And he was the kind with an exceptionally powerful physical body.

Once he truly broke through the barrier of the True Spirit Realm, his combat strength would undergo another leap.

With such strength, even if the young man were not the Emperor of Great Sheng, who in the entire Nine Domains Realm would dare raise objections against him?

Unless that person did not want to live!

Li Huaian was jolted back to her senses by the question, and the same urgency appeared on her deathly pale face.

She stared fixedly at Ye Li, wanting only one explanation for Emperor Sheng's death.

Ye Li's expression remained calm as he said lightly:

"Your father plotted rebellion... no, that's not right."

He paused, then chose his words again.

"Your father was planning something ruthless—using the lives of the people across Great Sheng's four territories as sacrifices to forcibly help himself break through to the True Spirit Realm, thereby shattering the curse that limited Great Sheng's emperors to thirty thousand years of life."

After saying that, he seemed to feel that the explanation lacked conviction.

Ye Li shook his head. "Forget it. Let him tell you himself."

Before his words had even faded, he pressed down with his five fingers.

In an instant, an invisible force twisted space, forcibly hauling a soul shadow out of the void!

The soul shadow swiftly solidified into the form of a middle-aged man clad in a black-and-gold dragon robe,