My All-Heavens Chat Group-Chapter 418 - 30 Bad Leader Arrives (Second Update)_1
"Who are you?"
Li Xingyun’s pupils contracted. "How do you know?" he asked, surprised.
The news that he was a Descendant of Li Tang was considered highly confidential.
No more than a handful of people in the world knew about it.
He hadn’t expected to be discovered just after leaving Sword Cottage.
"You may call me Prince Qi, or Empress!"
Behind the red gauze curtains, Empress Shui Yunji lay languidly on her couch, her fair, jade-like hand gently stroking her pet cat, Pip.
Two legs, smooth as mutton-fat jade, were stacked atop one another, slightly bent, and exceedingly enticing.
"Prince Qi Li Maozhen? You’re actually a woman?"
Li Xingyun was new to the world and had not heard of the Empress of Huan Yin Sect. In the original story, it was Scholar Zhang Zifan from the Tongwen Pavilion who told him about her.
However, Prince Qi Li Maozhen was a high-ranking official, and Li Xingyun had heard of him when he was a prince.
He just never imagined Prince Qi Li Maozhen would turn out to be a woman.
Or... this person wasn’t Prince Qi Li Maozhen at all. She was an imposter. But none of that mattered. What mattered was...
"What exactly do you want by capturing me? What have you done to my junior sister? If you dare harm my junior sister, I will never let you off!" Li Xingyun roared, his voice harsh and severe, at the figure faintly visible behind the red gauze curtains.
"Rest assured, your junior sister is fine. This Palace will grant her a great natural fortune by offering her as a sacrifice to the great Lord of Hongmeng, allowing her to ascend to God’s kingdom and become a fairy or a divine spirit!" Shui Yunji said indifferently.
"What? You want to sacrifice my junior sister to that damn Lord of Hongmeng?"
Li Xingyun was furious. Although he did not know who the Lord of Hongmeng was, he surmised it must be a divine spirit. This Empress actually intended to sacrifice a living person to a god.
And it was his junior sister, whom he loved the most.
Unforgivable.
"You bastard, I’ll kill you!"
Li Xingyun could no longer hold back. He struggled to break free from his sealed acupoints and charged at Shui Yunji.
"How dare you!"
"Impudence!"
Brahman Heaven, Ji Ruixue, and the others were shocked that Li Xingyun had managed to break free and was charging at Empress Shui Yunji.
If he offended the Empress, they would be unable to escape the blame even if they died ten thousand times.
THUMP.
Just as Li Xingyun was about to charge into the curtained area, Shui Yunji gently struck out with her palm, sending him flying backward like a kite with a snapped string.
From start to finish, he didn’t even get a glimpse of what Empress Shui Yunji looked like.
SPURT.
A mouthful of blood sprayed out as Li Xingyun attempted to rise, only to be seized by Brahman Heaven and the others.
"We are incompetent and have disturbed Your Majesty. Please punish us," Brahman Heaven and the others pleaded, restraining Li Xingyun as they knelt on the ground to beg forgiveness.
"I’ll deal with you lot later!"
Shui Yunji looked at Li Xingyun, filled with disdain as she observed his powerless raging. I struggle to understand why, in the original future, I would have liked this little brat. Was it because he was a Descendant of Li Tang? Or because he had grabbed my chest?
"Guess whether I will kill you or not?"
Shui Yunji sat up, one long, creamy-white leg stepping out from behind the curtains.
What long legs!
Li Xingyun gulped, staring dumbfounded at Shui Yunji as she stepped out from behind the curtains.
He hadn’t expected this demoness to be so beautiful.
But thinking of her words, he defiantly said, "Hmph, kill me if you want to! If I so much as frown, then I’m not Li Xingyun!"
"Oh, quite the hero. Then This Palace shall grant your wish!"
Shui Yunji raised her fair, jade-like hand and struck down towards Li Xingyun’s crown.
This palm strike.
It was without the slightest bit of mercy.
Even a Martial Artist of the Big Heavenly Position would perish in an instant.
Damn it! I can’t believe I’m going to die just as I started adventuring in the Jianghu. This world is too dangerous!
Li Xingyun felt despair in his heart, knowing his death was certain.
BANG.
The biting astral wind howled, whipping Li Xingyun’s hair across his face, making it sting.
I’m not dead!
Li Xingyun froze for a moment, then saw a tall, imposing, and mighty figure standing before him.
This figure was tightly wrapped in clothing, wearing a mask and a bamboo hat, exuding an aura as deep as the ocean. He had extended a hand to block Empress Shui Yunji’s lethal palm strike.
It was this world’s Big Boss Yuan Tiangang.
He had lived from the Taizong era to the present and was already more than three hundred years old. His greatest wish was to assist the Li descendant, Li Xingyun, in restoring the nation and rebuilding the glorious era of the Tang Dynasty.
He was aware of Li Xingyun’s every move.
The moment Li Xingyun was captured by the Huan Yin Sect, he knew.
"It’s you!"
Li Xingyun was stunned, then overjoyed.
He recognized the strange person before him.
This strange person was the one who had taught him his martial arts.
"Li Maozhen, you have some nerve! Knowing His Highness’s identity, you still dare to harm him? Are you committing lèse-majesté?" Yuan Tiangang’s aura was as deep as the ocean as he stared at Shui Yunji and questioned her.
In truth, he could have saved Li Xingyun earlier. However, a few days ago, he had suddenly noticed the Ziwei Star stirring, indicating that the general state of the world was undergoing a great change.
And the source of this change was in Qi Country.
Therefore, he hadn’t saved Li Xingyun on the way but had instead kept him under covert protection, following him all the way to the Huan Yin Sect. He wanted to see what exactly had happened in Qi Country that it had somehow exceeded his control.
"Bad General Yuan Tiangang!"
Shui Yunji looked at the towering figure before her, with his bamboo hat, and thought of the future she had seen through Dog Son, feeling both admiration and disgust.
She admired Yuan Tiangang’s painstaking care and devotion towards Li Xingyun, which was nothing short of exhaustive and would only cease upon death. It was a pity Li Xingyun was just a hopeless good-for-nothing.
Her disgust, however, stemmed from Yuan Tiangang’s inhuman, ghost-like appearance, especially since he had to sustain his life by preying on pure young maidens. Although I also kill without blinking an eye, as a woman, I could not feel the slightest bit of fondness for someone like Yuan Tiangang.
"It seems you know quite a lot!"
Yuan Tiangang surveyed Shui Yunji. At this moment, he could confirm that the change in the astral phenomena was because of her.
There must have been some tremendous change in Shui Yunji.
"I know far more than you can imagine!"
Shui Yunji stood opposite Yuan Tiangang. Though quite tall for a woman, she still looked petite compared to his imposing bulk.
However, her aura was not the least bit weaker.
"Then what do you know?"
Yuan Tiangang was somewhat curious. Now he felt he couldn’t see through Shui Yunji!
"I know that the Dragon Spring Sword is in your hands. I also know about the Dragon Spring Treasure, and that you have a fake Li Xingyun. I know that Xuanming Sect’s Meng Po, Twelve Dipo Baili, Chi Li, as well as Mirror Heart Demon, Huiming, and others are all Bu Liang agents!"
Shui Yunji’s words stirred Yuan Tiangang’s usually imperturbable heart, making him feel for the first time that matters were slipping from his control.
Information such as the existence of a fake Li Xingyun and the true identities of Xuanming Sect’s Meng Po and the others as Bu Liang agents was top secret. Logically, Shui Yunji should have had no way of knowing.
Even if she had accidentally learned some details, she couldn’t possibly know this much.
Yet, somehow, she did.
"How do you know this?"
Yuan Tiangang’s killing intent surged. It seemed that Shui Yunji could no longer be left alive.
Originally, Shui Yunji was supposed to have a romantic entanglement with Li Xingyun and ultimately become his ally, but things were different now.
Shui Yunji had changed.
As for why these changes had occurred, he couldn’t figure that out either.
"Because I have met the supreme Immortal God."
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