Chapter 379 Avoiding a Final Battle
In front of the Hall of Calming Purity, on one side were Mingde Emperor Xiao Ruojin, the golden Lanyue Marquis, Yong’an Prince Xiao Se, White Prince Xiao Chong, Red Prince Xiao Yu, Langya Prince Xiao Lingchen, Grand Eunuch Jin Xuan, Eunuch of Incense Jin Xian, successor of the Heart sword Lei Wujie, Hallmaster of Bai Xiao Hall Ji Xue and the mysterious black-robed man who came with Xiao Yu.
On the other side were three of the former Five Grand Eunuchs, Zhuo Xin, Zhuo Sen and Zhuo Luo, as well as Jin Wei Gonggong. Because Xiao Lingchen suddenly tore up the scroll and denounced them angrily, the two sides had become a distinct challenge of power.
But the true power was actually below the Hall of Calming Purity.
The Langya Army’s thousands and tens of thousands of soldiers.
But Ye Xiaoying never said a single word. Xiao Lingchen was still young. Through this period, although all the soldiers pledged their allegiance to him, he still relied on Xiao Ruofeng's glory. Ultimately, the real commander-in-chief of the Langya Army was the imposing golden-armoured general. But his face remained clouded without any trace of expression.
The Mausoleum Guards Sovereign Army hesitated but their arrival was more like a symbolic gesture of imperial authority. When it came to real military strength, between Lei Wujie and Ji Xue, their one sword and one staff could wipe them all out.
Zhuo Xin sighed. "If you miss a move in chess, you’ll lose the entire game."
"From the start, it was a mistake to place your bets on me," Xiao Lingchen said haughtily. "How presumptuous are you people, to think you could read the minds of our Xiao Clan imperial family?"
"My name is Zhuo Xin, but I could never see through the hearts of others. It was my mistake." Zhuo Xin raised his head and looked at Xiao Lingchen. "But even so, there will be a battle in the end."
"You’ve lost that chance," Xiao Se said coldly.
"When it comes to chance, you have to try it to know. We’re already very old, so old that we can see our own deaths. But, we don’t want to die just like that in the Imperial Mausoleum." Zhuo Xin’s old and raspy voice suddenly became clear. Suddenly, he shouted sharply, "Kill Mingde Emperor!"
Jin Wei was first to draw his sword and he lunged straight at Mingde Emperor.
Jin Xian also drew his sword and the frost aura on the sword was biting. Before anyone else could react, he had already clashed with Jin Wei’s Abyssal Eye sword.
Among the Five Grand Eunuchs, the two of them used swords. One was the Eunuch of Sword, and earned his name with a sword, while the other was once the Snowstorm Sword who once made a name for himself in the martial world. Who had the more powerful swordsmanship? This topic was always hotly debated by the citizens of Heavenly Revelations City.
Today, this question could finally have an answer.
"Jin Wei, why must you do this?" Jin Xian Gonggong shook his head.
"Unrestrained but shackled, unfettered and I’m free. But who likes to be shackled?" Jin Wei Gonggong reached out his hand and lightly flicked the blade of his sword. All the talisman seals on the blade dropped onto the ground.
This sword of slaughter once accompanied the founding emperor of Beili across all his battlefields. All its restraints had finally been released and the resentful spirits that had been suppressed in the blade could no longer be suppressed.
Jin Wei's eyes were filled with a ferocious light. This Eunuch of Sword who claimed to be able to use the power of Unrestrained to kill someone in the Heavenly Realm, was finally about to use one sword to enter straight into the Unfettered Heavenly Realm.
With his path exhausted and at the end of the road, there would be no more shackles!
Could Jin Xian Gonggong’s sword of frost and ice suppress this hostile aura?
On the other side, the three eunuchs leaped up at the same time and aimed straight for Xiao Lingchen.
This was their true goal.
At Mingde Emperor’s side were two of the Five Grand Eunuchs, Lanyue Marquis, three Princes of consummate skills, the successor of the Heart sword Lei Wujie and the mysterious black-robed man. It was almost impossible for the three eunuchs to break through them.
But at this moment, Xiao Lingchen only had Ji Xue by his side.
The three eunuchs shook the horsetail whisks in their hands at the same time. The horsetail whisks stood on their ends, looking like ruffled birds taking off in alarm.
Their murderous aura surged into the sky!
Xiao Yu, who was watching the battle, showed a bit of surprise. He had never witnessed such a terrifying murderous aura even from the Hidden River Patriarch, Su Changhe. The three eunuchs had been secluded in the Imperial Mausoleum for so many years and unsurprisingly, their martial arts had already reached the highest level of the Unfettered Heavenly Realm.
Ji Xue gritted her teeth and raised her Dragon-Carved Staff, but suddenly, another staff appeared behind her and matched her move almost simultaneously. Xiao Se had already anticipated the intention of the three old eunuchs and immediately flashed to Xiao Lingchen's side. Of course, the one in the red shirt was right at his heels.
Heart sword.
"Multifarious sword!" Lei Wujie yelled angrily.
Xiao Lingchen sighed wryly. "Don’t you guys believe that I’m also a martial expert? Do you have to be so anxious to protect me?"
"Stop kidding around," Xiao Se growled under his breath. "They’re really going to kill us all here."
Zhuo Xin Gonggong’s horsetail whisk wrapped around Lei Wujie’s Heart sword and instantly suppressed his Multifarious sword. Zhuo Sen Gonggong’s horsetail whisk and Zhuo Luo Gonggong’s horsetail whisk also wrapped around Xiao Se’s and Ji Xue’s staffs.
"Thoughts are boundless, breaking all with multifarious forms." Zhuo Xin Gonggong suddenly pointed a finger at Xiao Lingchen.
This finger was very famous, its name, Break the Heavens.
It was the most famous finger technique in the Beili Imperial Palace, but the person who practised it must have at least fifty years of martial power. Without that, he couldn’t exert its power. But, if one could exert that power, then this finger was like its name, one finger to break the Heavens.
Xiao Lingchen's eyes widened and he struck his palm out, trying to stop that finger.
But only Xiao Se knew that Xiao Lingchen's martial arts was really not that great. From a young age, he was better at military arts like archery and horse riding. When facing such an ultimate martial expert, he was not a match at all. Xiao Se immediately made a decision. He abandoned his Wuji staff, darted across and landed right in front of Xiao Lingchen.
He bore the brunt of this Break the Heavens finger straight on.
Instantly, a scent of sweet blood rose in his throat.
"Jin Xuan, go," Mingde Emperor called out in a low voice.
Jin Xuan shook his head. "Your Majesty, they may turn to attacking you any time."
"I'll go." Xiao Chong leaped up, Sword Drawn with Fury.
On the other side, Jin Wei Gonggong and Jin Xian Gonggong had fought from the Hall of Calming Purity to outside the hall. Their swords clashed once again, and they landed on the palace walls.
The two fell to the ground with their swords.
Jin Wei Gonggong’s sword had broken and dropped onto the ground, and his fingers were still affected by a wisp of cold aura. Jin Wei Gonggong inserted his sword back into its sheath and said faintly, "In terms of swordsmanship, you are indeed better than me."
Jin Xian Gonggong vomited a mouthful of blood, his face terribly pale, and he was barely able to stay on his feet.
But right in the middle of Jin Wei Gonggong’s chest, a blood stain started to spread gradually but his expression showed no trace of pain. “It was my fortune to be able to go all out in a duel before I die. I also have no regrets dying by your hands."
"Why do it?" Jin Xian Gonggong could only force out these three words in the end.
Jin Wei Gonggong sighed. "If it weren’t for shifu, I would have died when I was five years old. I wanted to do something for him."
Jin Xian Gonggong shook his head and had nothing else to say.
Jin Wei Gonggong propped himself up with his sword, forcing himself to remain on his feet. "There’s one more thing I want to tell you before I die."
"What?"
"The one who killed Jin Yu… wasn’t me, and wasn’t Jin Yan. We don't have that ability." After saying these last words, Jin Wei finally closed his eyes.
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