Xie Linyuan didn't even lift his buttocks.
His gray monk's robe fluttered without wind, and nine golden wheel phantoms flashed behind his head. He then pushed forward with his right palm.
Without any fancy moves, the purest Buddhist First Rank energy struck Eunuch Shuangxi directly in the chest.
Bang!
With a muffled thud, Eunuch Shuangxi, who had temporarily leaped to the Peak Second Rank,
The red-robed figure, moving so fast it was impossible to see its shadow, paused for a moment in mid-air as if it had crashed into an iron mountain.
Click!
Eunuch Shuangxi grabbed Kim Seon-a's right wrist, the bone dislocated on the spot, and her entire forearm twisted into a pretzel.
"Ah--!"
He let out a piercing scream, and his entire body flew backward at twice the speed he had come from.
His back slammed into two pillars as thick as bowls, breaking them in succession. He fell heavily back to the side hall next to the charcoal brazier, spitting out a mouthful of blood mixed with fragments of internal organs all over the ground.
Xie Linyuan withdrew his hand, closed his eyes again, and without even glancing at Kim Seon-a, coldly uttered four words:
I promised.
Kim Seon-a gripped the half-drawn sword, panting heavily. Her white silk robes stretched taut across her chest. She glanced at Xie Linyuan in the corner but ultimately remained silent.
In the front hall, Lin Qingdai also came to her senses.
She bit her lip, a fierce glint in her eyes, and with a flourish of her fine iron spear, the shaft of which, like a dragon emerging from the sea, struck directly into the breastplate of a palace guard!
"My father's talisman is not something you castrated dogs are worthy of taking!"
The guard's sternum caved in when she struck him with her spear in a fit of rage, and the embroidered spring knife slipped from his hand.
"Get down on your knees!"
Taking advantage of the opportunity, Tuoba Mang broke free from the sword formation, and with his bare feet, he kicked off the ground, sending two heavy iron hammers, each weighing over a hundred pounds, crashing down with a whooshing sound.
With two loud clangs, the other two guards raised their swords to block, but their Hundred-Refined Embroidered Spring Blades were smashed into two bent pieces of iron!
The hammer, still brimming with power, grazed one of the guards' ears and struck his shoulder, shattering his collarbone into fragments.
Lin Qingdai swept her spear horizontally, the butt of the spear striking the last man heavily in the back. Murong Xue then kicked another man to the ground.
In less than three moves, the four arrogant imperial guards were all pinned to the brick floor like dead dogs.
The side hall fell silent again, with only the crackling of the charcoal brazier remaining.
Lin Qingdai, carrying a blood-dripping spear, walked step by step to the half of the Grand Commandant's Residence's bronze talisman.
She bent down to pick up the bronze talisman, her fingers tracing the familiar notch on it. She turned to look at Gu Moran and exhaled.
"I was so scared! That old man... my dad didn't betray us!"
Your Highness, this bronze talisman is indeed my father's personal possession, but..."
"But this is from three years ago when a thief from the Jianghu broke into the Grand Commandant's Residence; a box of old seals was stolen from the study."
This half of the broken talisman was lost back then; the Ministry of War had already filed it as invalid.
Gu Moran walked over, took the half of the bronze talisman from Lin Qingdai's hand, casually tossed it back on the ground, and patted Lin Qingdai's cold cheek.
"If your father were willing to exchange you for silver, he wouldn't have stuffed all the heavy armor from his private treasury into your dowry ship."
You actually believe a eunuch's dying tantrum?
Lin Qingdai's tense shoulders suddenly slumped. She looked down at her toes, a blush rising to her ears, and mumbled:
"This humble general acknowledges his mistake."
The moment Gu Moran scanned the bronze talisman with the system 'Eye of Detection, he not only saw through this stolen item from three years ago,
Following the violent fluctuations in Eunuch Shuangxi's mind, the panel directly revealed the third page of hidden entries!
[Ding! Deeply connected intelligence unlocked!]
[The "mysterious prince" Shuangxi raised by Shuangxi at Cold Mountain Temple on the outskirts of Beijing—true bloodline test: he is a descendant of the Great Yan Emperor!]
[Birth mother's identity: Lan'er, a palace maid in the Imperial Wardrobe Bureau (the younger sister of Eunuch Shuangxi )!]
[Event Recap: More than twenty years ago, Gu Debai, the former Vice Commander of the Qi and Lu Guard and Imperial Uncle, took Shuangxi's younger sister, Lan'er, as a concubine.]
The emperor entered the palace for a banquet and raped Lan'er behind the artificial hill in the garden, resulting in her pregnancy.
At that time, the current emperor had just ascended the throne and his power was not yet secure, so it was not easy for him to be known for forcibly taking his brother's wife.
To save their lives and seize immense wealth, the siblings Shuangxi insisted that the illegitimate child in their wombs was a descendant of the dragon.
The emperor, wary of the maternal relatives, secretly bestowed Shuangxi upon Shuangxi and ordered her to send Lan'er out of the palace to give birth to and raise her child in secret at Cold Mountain Temple.
Later, the emperor became obsessed with elixirs and long forgot about this matter.
Shuangxi, however, secretly colluded with Gu Debai, deceiving him into believing that he was the father of his child. He also joined forces with the Ministry of War, intending to use the opportunity of regaining military power and the wealth of Iwami Silver Mine to support the one from Cold Mountain Temple to ascend the throne!
Gu Moran almost burst out laughing when she saw the incredibly melodramatic text on the panel.
Good heavens!
His own cheap imperial uncle, whose leg had been cut off by Pu Yunshan in Hanseong, had actually been cuckolded by the old emperor on his bed?
And the dead eunuch on the ground, for the sake of his own sister's child...
They're actually running around the world looking for Gu Debai conquer the world?
Even Shuangxi himself probably thought that Lan'er had willingly accepted the emperor's favor.
They had no idea it was rape!
Gu Moran walked up to Eunuch Shuangxi, raised her right foot,
The black leather combat boots landed directly on Eunuch Shuangxi's right wrist, which was already broken in two, and the toes rolled half a circle clockwise.
"Ah--!
It hurts so much!
Eunuch Shuangxi was convulsing violently on the ground, his face, covered in white powder, was covered in cold sweat.
Gu Moran looked down at him, squatted down, rested her elbows on her knees, lowered her voice, and slowly said in a voice only the two of them could hear:
" Eunuch Shuangxi, when you said that the Grand Commandant betrayed me, you acted quite convincingly."
"There's one thing I need to ask you on behalf of my good royal Gu Debai."
Upon hearing the name " Gu Debai," even the screams of Eunuch Shuangxi stopped, and his unfocused eyes suddenly fixed on the spot!
Gu Moran smiled even more gently as she watched his reaction:
"A few days ago, at the Bell Tower Street in Hanseong, I encountered my uncle Gu Debai, who had faked his death five years ago."
"He revealed everything he had to save his life."
He said that back then, behind the artificial hill, it was your own sister Lan'er who deliberately betrayed him and seduced the drunken emperor.
The illegitimate child born is now being raised on the back mountain of Cold Mountain Temple.
"He also said that once he takes control of the military in Goryeo and Kyushu Island, and returns to the capital to inherit the throne, the first thing he'll do is chop you and your nephew into mincemeat and feed them to the dogs."
"Impossible! You're talking nonsense!"
Ignoring his shattered wrist, Eunuch Shuangxi sprang to his feet, veins bulging in his neck, and screamed in a hoarse voice:
How could Lan'er possibly seduce the Emperor?
besides.
He Gu Debai that Bai had sworn a solemn oath that if things succeeded, he would make my nephew the crown prince and Lan'er the Lan'er dowager!
"How could he possibly dare kill my nephew!"