144: Chapter 144 Soaring Killing Intent!

Not passed away due to illness...

Not passed away due to illness!

These six words caused Chen Zhiwen's pupils to instantly contract into the most dangerous needle-like points!

The hand he had placed on the table had unknowingly clenched into a fist, his knuckles turning white from excessive force, emitting a "clack" sound.

"Then... why?" His voice already carried a hint of irrepressible trembling; that was not fear, but the precursor to extreme rage.

Bai Xiaosheng closed his eyes, seemingly unable to bear looking at Chen Zhiwen's expression, and spoke in a heavy, sorrowful tone that sounded almost like a verdict:

"It was Consort De! It was the Second Prince's mother! Back then, when she saw that Consort Ye was highly favored and had given birth to you, a prince, she grew jealous and resentful, fearing that Consort Ye would threaten her and the Second Prince's position..."

"So, she... she secretly colluded with... the Heavenly Spirit Sect!"

"Heavenly Spirit Sect?" A cold, sharp glint flashed in Chen Zhiwen's eyes. The Heavenly Spirit Sect, one of the Ten Great Sects!

"Yes!" Bai Xiaosheng opened his eyes abruptly, his own eyes burning with anger. "The Heavenly Spirit Sect specializes in refining various bizarre Medicinal Pills and poisons. Consort De, through her Family influence outside the palace, made contact with an Elder of the Heavenly Spirit Sect. That Elder provided her with a chronic, exotic poison called 'Soul-Eroding Powder'."

"This poison is colorless and odorless. After entering the body, it does not take effect immediately but acts like a maggot on the bone, bit by bit eroding a person's vitality and Soul, creating the illusion of the body increasingly decaying and running out of oil and lamp. Even the most brilliant imperial physicians in the palace could not detect it at all!"

"Consort Ye was fed this deadly poison by Consort De in her food day after day, year after year, and that is why... why..."

Bai Xiaosheng could not continue.

And Chen Zhiwen could no longer hear anything.

Soul-Eroding Powder...

Chronic exotic poison...

In his mind, his mother's deathbed face, pale as paper, her dull, lusterless eyes, and her body, emaciated from the torment of illness, instantly appeared.

He had always thought it was the ravages of illness.

But it turned out... it was the poison of the human heart! It was a conspiracy and murder, day after day, year after year!

His mother did not die of illness!

She was... poisoned to death by someone!

"Ah—!"

A roar, suppressed to the extreme and seemingly emanating from the Nine Nether Hell, erupted from the depths of Chen Zhiwen's throat!

In an instant, a sky-high Killing Intent that could not be described in words erupted like a volcano that had been dormant for billions of years!

Boom!

The entire Fifth Princes Residence, no, half of the Great Xuan Capital City, violently trembled at this moment!

With the study where Chen Zhiwen was located as the center, a visible streak of blood-colored Evil Qi, mixed with overbearing Sword Intent and the Aura of thunder that destroyed everything, shot into the sky, tearing through the clouds and dyeing the firmament red!

Inside the study, it was as if it had transformed into an Asura blood domain!

"Crack! Crackle!"

The rosewood chair beneath Chen Zhiwen, along with the sturdy desk, could not even withstand a single breath the moment they came into contact with this Killing Intent; they cracked inch by inch, and finally, with a "bang," turned into powder filling the air!

The space around him twisted violently, emitting groans of being unable to bear the burden. On the walls, hideous cracks spread crazily like spiderwebs. The tiles on the roof shattered one after another under the impact of this Aura!

The entire study was, in an instant, teetering and on the verge of collapse!

Bai Xiaosheng's face was as pale as paper. Faced with this Killing Intent that threatened to freeze and tear his Soul apart, he felt like a small boat in a raging sea, ready to be crushed into pieces at any moment. The spiritual energy in his body had long been suppressed to the point where it could not circulate, and even breathing had become extremely difficult.

Had it not been for his firm will, he likely would have already suffered a mental breakdown and passed out under this pressure.

"Your Highness!"

Leng Feng, who was to the side, roared, his body also erupting with sharp Killing Intent, turning into a black blade Aura that protected Bai Xiaosheng, blocking most of the pressure for him.

Even so, Leng Feng, this powerhouse of the Grandmaster Realm, was tense all over, sweat on his forehead, and the veins on his hand gripping the blade were bulging.

He looked at Chen Zhiwen in horror.

He had followed Chen Zhiwen for many days and had never seen... him so out of control, so insane!

At this moment, Chen Zhiwen's eyes were blood-red, his black hair danced without wind, and his body was intertwined with lightning and Sword Qi, like a vengeful demon god returned from Hell!

That Killing Intent was so pure, so condensed, as if it wanted to overturn heaven and earth, and slaughter this universe!

In his spiritual sea, the ancient prison suppressing pagoda was trembling wildly, emitting bursts of humming sounds, seemingly soothing, and seemingly resonating!

And that black gilded light sword, which had always been silent, erupted with unprecedented desire. On the blade, streaks of blood-colored patterns lit up, emitting a bloodthirsty, fierce light!

"Consort... De..."

"Heavenly... Spirit... Sect..."

Chen Zhiwen spat out these names, one word at a time.

With every word he spat out, the Killing Intent around him grew a fraction stronger, and the blood-colored Evil Qi over the entire Capital City churned even more violently!

Countless Cultivators in the Capital City, at this moment, looked up in horror toward the direction of the Fifth Princes Residence, feeling the terrifying pressure that made their hearts shatter and almost forced them to kneel on the ground, their faces bloodless, trembling.

"That... that direction is the residence of His Highness the Fifth Prince!"

"This... this is... the Fifth Prince's Aura!"

"Heavens! What happened? Why is there such a terrifying Killing Intent?"

Deep within the imperial palace, in a quiet bamboo forest.

That figure, who had already appeared somewhat hunched, suddenly raised his head. Two rays of sharp light shot out from his turbid eyes, instantly piercing through the Void Realm and looking toward the direction of the Fifth Princes Residence.

"This Killing Intent... Zhiwen!" Chen Heng's expression instantly became extremely grave. "What could possibly happen to make him move with such true rage, to the point that his Dao Heart nearly lost its guard?"

He could feel that contained within this Killing Intent was endless grief and bone-deep hatred.

...

In the ruins of the study.

Chen Zhiwen slowly closed his eyes.

When he opened them again, the blood color and lightning filling the sky, like a tide, all rolled back and submerged into his body again.

The sky-high Killing Intent disappeared.

The violent Aura calmed down.

It was as if the earth-shattering scene just now was merely an illusion.

However, Bai Xiaosheng and Leng Feng knew that it had not disappeared, but had been compressed, condensed, and settled into the depths of his bottomless eyes by him in an even more terrifying way.

At this moment, Chen Zhiwen had returned to his usual calmness, but that calmness was even more unsettling than the previous violence.