Nine Nether Dragon Emperor-Chapter 212: Heavenly Palace? What a piece of trash!
"No, I didn’t move..."
"I was just..."
Someone pleaded for mercy, but before they could finish, they were slain by the sword light. In mere moments, dozens of people were annihilated.
"Ning Xuan, you’re just indiscriminately..."
Again, the speaker was silenced forever before he could finish.
"Today, not a single one of you present will escape!" Ning Xuan’s voice was bone-chilling, like a demon emerging from the Nine Nether.
"How dare you! Do you really think—" another man bellowed, having made thorough preparations.
But it was still useless.
The brilliant sword light descending from the sky was like a heavenly punishment that nothing could block. In just a few moments, almost everyone present, including members of the great noble families, had been wiped out.
The handful of people who remained were in utter despair.
Just then, a voice arose from the void. "Ning Xuan, isn’t that enough?"
A figure promptly landed in front of Ning Xuan.
WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!
Armored soldiers descended behind the figure, blanketing the area in a deadly aura. At the sight of them, the remaining Martial Artists were overjoyed.
"Law Enforcer, save us! Ning Xuan has gone mad!"
"No, no, no, he’s a devil! He’s been possessed by a demon!"
Seeing these newcomers was like grasping a life-saving straw, for this was the enforcement team of the Heavenly Palace. The Heavenly Palace was the supreme authority of the Cloud Summit Heavenly Palace. Some even claimed its Palace Master was a venerable being from the Heavens Beyond who had yet to sever their Dao. Although no one had ever seen this master, and it was not even known if they were male or female, whenever experts descended from the Heavens Beyond, they always visited the Palace Master first. Over time, this rumor came to be accepted as fact. Consequently, the Heavenly Palace’s law enforcement team naturally held supreme authority.
"A mere Dao Body dares to give me orders? Scram! Or I’ll kill you too!"
However, facing the enforcer, Ning Xuan remained as domineering as ever.
Behind him, the eyes of Qian Yourong and San Wu, who knew exactly what the law enforcers represented, sparkled brilliantly.
"Ning Xuan, how dare you! Do you have any idea who you’re facing—" someone scolded angrily.
The result? He was slain in an instant.
The faces of the others changed drastically. They had thought their safety was guaranteed with the law enforcer’s arrival, but this Ning Xuan was completely lawless. He did not even show a shred of respect for a Heavenly Palace Law Enforcer.
"Do you know who I am?" the Law Enforcer’s Dao Body asked, clearly surprised.
"Why should I care who you are?!" Ning Xuan retorted forcefully.
"Very well! You want to participate in the Ten Clans Tournament, don’t you? Let me tell you right now, that’s impossible!"
As a Heavenly Palace Law Enforcer, revoking a single participant’s spot was a trivial matter. A few of the remaining Martial Artists from the noble families were secretly ecstatic. Ning Xuan being barred from the competition was absolutely fantastic news.
"I don’t care," Ning Xuan shrugged, completely unfazed by the threat.
The Law Enforcer’s Dao Body was stunned.
Not long ago, a man named Sun Zhu had come to him asking about a spot in the competition. Somehow, the two of them ended up drinking together until they were muddled. He had revealed many secrets of the Heavenly Palace, and in return, the man had told him who it was that wanted to compete. That was the reason for his threat. This man had pulled strings all the way to him just to compete, so why did he seem so utterly unconcerned?
Intuition told him Ning Xuan was about to stir up trouble, but he had no idea what he planned to do.
He immediately demanded, "What are you planning? I’m warning you, do not do anything reckless!"
"I haven’t had my fill of killing today. I also know that some of those who attacked them earlier were from the noble families. Since that’s the case, I’ll pay each of the noble families a little visit. If I happen to run into any young prodigies, all the better."
Hearing this, the faces of the remaining Martial Artists went pale. Now they all understood his plan.
So, they won’t let him compete? Fine, he’ll just kill all the other competitors! Damn. He was not just threatening the law enforcer; he was planning to take on all the noble families by himself!
"There’s nothing I enjoy more than obliterating prodigies," Ning Xuan smiled at them.
Some who heard this instinctively wanted to scoff, but when they saw the corpses littering the ground and the dark clouds still churning in the High Heaven above, they fell silent. Ning Xuan alone might not be a match for them all, but with the woman by his side, the outcome was uncertain. Having been part of the battle, they now knew that Ning Xuan and the woman possessed terrifying synergy when they fought together.
"Do you take the Heavenly Palace for..." the Law Enforcer’s Dao Body began to speak, but before he could finish, the sword light fell again.
The final expression in the Dao Body’s eyes was one of terror and disbelief.
He had been supremely confident, certain that even if Ning Xuan dared to attack, he could easily dodge. In fact, he had hoped Ning Xuan would make a move, as a successful defense would have elevated his prestige to new heights. But in the end, he could not escape his fate of being suppressed and slain.
With the Law Enforcer’s Dao Body annihilated, the soldiers who had arrived with him were utterly dumbfounded. Since the founding of the Heavenly Palace, no one had ever dared to be so audacious. Now, a young man had just exterminated a Heavenly Palace Law Enforcer in front of everyone. Even if it was only a Dao Body, it was a direct representative of the Heavenly Palace.
This was horrifying. The other Martial Artists were even more dumbstruck.
"Go back and tell the Heavenly Palace that if they’re going to take sides, they should send someone competent. If they send trash like this again, I’ll lose all respect for them," Ning Xuan said, though he made no move to kill the soldiers.
In the distance, the belatedly arriving members of the Kong Family and Qian Fanfan, who had returned with her people, felt their vision go dark at his words.
"Brother, we can’t wade into these muddy waters!"
"He’s right! That’s the Heavenly Palace! How does he dare?"
"The kid’s insane! Even if he can help the Young Master, he has to stay alive to do it!"
"Let’s go. We can’t afford to offend one side, and we can’t afford to provoke the other. We’ll just pretend we were never here!"
In the end, that settled it, and they quickly departed.
"Fanfan, are you trying to doom our family to utter ruin?!" an elder next to Qian Fanfan demanded, his face pale with fright.
That girl... she’s always causing trouble for her father, but is she trying to drag her grandfather into it now?! She claimed only the Wu Family was involved and that Ning Xuan was on the verge of crushing them and having them removed from the noble family roster. It was because of these assurances that he had been persuaded to bring their elite forces. And for what? This wasn’t just a feud with the Wu Family! This lunatic seemed determined to make an enemy of the entire Cloud Summit Heavenly Palace! If the Qian Family actually sided with Ning Xuan, we would undoubtedly be doomed.
The elder sighed, then suddenly tensed.
Qian Yourong!
"Why is your aunt over there?!" he immediately demanded of Qian Fanfan.
"Uh, well..." Qian Fanfan’s eyes darted around as she tried to come up with an excuse.
"Tell me the truth! Or you can get lost and head straight to Qianling City!"
Qian Fanfan’s expression changed drastically. Not long ago, Qian Duoduo’s family had handed Qianling City over to the clan, only for it to be immediately turned into a place of exile.
