Chapter 736: Chapter 173: The General Inspector Arrives (Part 6)
The voice was mournful and sharp, causing everyone to shiver.
The crowd turned pale.
They began to believe Mr. Fang’s words.
The scream was filled with unmistakable spite and hatred.
...
Seeing the headless body of his son, the General Inspector, who still held a shred of hope when he came, broke down completely!
His own son—a headless or even a cremated one—could be recognized.
The General Inspector’s tears flowed like a river.
"Who did this?"
"Yixin Sect, Yemo!"
"What exactly happened?"
The General Inspector was like a mad tigress, her gaze sharp and cold.
"This is how it happened..."
The Old Dowager of the Zhu Family, trembling, came up and recounted the detailed events, starting with the patrol of the Guardian Hall, leaving nothing out, afraid of missing anything.
This included negotiations with the Guardian Hall, negotiations with Southeast An Ruoxing, and then how Yemo attacked relentlessly; then Mr. Shang said he was going to the Weiwo Orthodox Southeast Headquarters... and then he was killed on the way, with his body returned along with Yemo’s warning...
"What did the Guardian Hall have to say about this?"
"The Guardian Hall did nothing; because of a prior agreement, we made compensations, and the matter between the Heavenly Palace and Yemo was to be resolved by themselves; so they too..."
The General Inspector took a deep breath, continuously inhaling deeply.
After a long while, he said lowly: "I only have this one son!"
The crowd shivered with cold sweat.
"Zhu Cui, I only have this one son!"
The General Inspector turned his eyes filled with spite towards the Old Dowager, looking at Zhu Shaoyun, and said indifferently: "When I, Gu Yunlan, was pregnant with Meng Yun, I fought with someone, injuring the fetus, and after giving birth to Meng Yun, I couldn’t have any more children."
"Meng Yun in our family... was like a rare seedling from childhood, held dear, fearing he’d be dropped if handled, or melt if spoken of too much..."
"Now, your side had an issue, asked for help, my son came to assist, but died at your place. Zhu Cui, tell me, how should I deal with you?"
"My living son turned into a cold corpse in your house."
Gu Yunlan’s low, suppressed voice said: "Zhu Cui, tell me, what should I do?"
The Old Dowager Zhu Cui fell to her knees with a thud: "General Inspector, I know my guilt! I hope the General Inspector considers my years of hard work without any mistakes... General Inspector, I was someone promoted single-handedly by you..."
Gu Yunlan smiled faintly, yet there was no warmth in her eyes, and she said indifferently: "My son... the son of the Heavenly Palace Star Lord, died so miserably, it wouldn’t do. Someone must stay by his side. Zhu Cui, you who have experienced the world, seen through the mundane, rich in experience, and manage relationships smoothly, are an excellent hand at caring for my son."
She raised her palm, imbued with mountain-like strength, and brought it down gently: "Zhu Cui, you who have followed me for many years, you going down to take care of Meng Yun would put my mind at ease."
With a crisp sound.
The jade-white hand landed on the Old Dowager’s head.
Instantly, her brains were completely scattered, her Divine Soul extinguished, not even letting out a grunt before she swayed and fell limp to the ground.
She bowed in full prostration, as if in homage, precisely in the direction of the headless Shang Mengyun.
Gu Yunlan turned her gaze to Zhu Shaoyun, who went pale and trembled all over, kneeling on the ground: "General Inspector..."
"I won’t kill you. You can’t die yet; this base of yours cannot be lost."
"Thank you, General Inspector."
Zhu Shaoyun was overjoyed.
Gu Yunlan’s eyes flickered with cold light, and she said: "You stay here and wait, Yun Zhi and Yun Xiu."
"Here."
"Come with me to the Weiwo Orthodox Southeast Headquarters!"
Gu Yunlan soared into the sky: "I want to see, in this world, who can protect Yemo!"
...
The Weiwo Orthodox Southeast Headquarters had reached a state of chaos, countless experts had already been dispatched to join the battle; various reports nearly drove the personnel receiving messages at headquarters insane.
Every moment, news returned.
Wu Xiang sat at headquarters, constantly issuing orders.
In the great hall, the Deacons responsible for remote battlefield command relayed orders through the Five Spirits Gu without cease.
"Did the Guardian Southeast Headquarters take too much to handle this time?"
Wu Xiang felt overwhelmed with pressure.
This attack was too fierce!
"Chief, seventy percent of the Main Altar experts are already out, we can’t send more. If we do, the Main Altar will be in danger."
"The remnants of the Heavenly God Sect have retreated into the mountain range of the headquarters; meanwhile, the San Sheng Sect and the Mingguang Sect are present, with the latter maintaining the most complete combat power. The Yixin Sect did not participate in the battle."
"The Three Sects suffered heavy losses."
"Of the experts sent out from the Main Altar, over twenty percent have perished, among them, the third squad of the Battle Platform has been completely wiped out."
"Chief, can we get the Yixin Sect to join the battle?"
The Deacons were pleading for reinforcements.
"The Yixin Sect cannot engage! The opponent’s main objective this time is to target the Yixin Sect, as soon as the Yixin Sect appears, it’s over!"
Wu Xiang was very clear in his mind.
Moreover, he knew even more clearly that this time, he could only rely on the strength of the Southeast to get through.
Headquarters would not provide any support.
Because our Dream Demon and the opponent’s Ningxue Sword were both in Baiyun State, forming a standoff.
And the Dream Demon was already heavily injured, rendering it non-threatening, but the Ningxue Sword still remained in Baiyun State.
This signaled Dongfang Sansan’s message: I am allowing the Southeast Headquarters to act on its own. If you Yan Nan try to escalate, and send your headquarters personnel, I will immediately unleash the Ningxue Sword!
Therefore, if the Weiwo Orthodox Headquarters made any move, the Ningxue Sword would rush in first.
By the time headquarters reinforcements arrived, the Ningxue Sword would have plowed the area a hundred times over—there’s no way around it, the Ningxue Sword is too close!
It was almost as if it were this close on the battlefield!
Yet the Weiwo Orthodox people were too far away.
It was as if Dongfang Sansan used the Southeastern situation to create another so-called ’fair battle’ ground in the Southeast!
However, this so-called fairness was entirely in the Guardians’ favor.
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[Ahem, Ninth lord’s strategy this time doesn’t need much explanation, right? So I won’t explain then. If you need an explanation, just let me know and I’ll happily add a few thousand words of explanation in the next Chapter, hehe.]
