123: Crisis Resurfaces

In the Rock Forest, flames soared into the sky!

Fierce beasts within a sixty-mile radius let out terrified shrieks; their instincts drove them to try and escape.

The further they ran, the better, but it was already too late.

Countless fierce beasts instantly melted and evaporated, as if they had never existed!

Rumble—

The palace collapsed, and Mu Yaoling witnessed all the eunuchs of the Prince Shun's mansion die before her eyes.

Some were burned alive, while others had their skin fester and bled from their seven orifices.

Grand Eunuch Xie Rongxuan, a Water Attribute, Four-Star Transcendent Realm expert, wailed and screamed incessantly.

He was the strongest, yet he was being tortured the most painfully!

"Forbidden Curse..."

Chu Wushe looked at the scene before him, sighing at how terrifying the power of a Forbidden Curse was.

A single Forbidden Curse was already this powerful, let alone the fact that Lu Yuan had cast two, one of Fire Attribute and one of Poison Attribute.

Fire governs violence and destruction, while poison governs torture.

Unless one was a Domain Realm expert, no one could withstand these two Forbidden Curses being cast together!

After dealing with all the eunuchs in the palace, Lu Yuan did not hesitate and went to the garden where the heaven and earth spirit treasure were planted.

A rich medicinal fragrance assailed his nostrils; even without eating one, just smelling them could prolong one's life!

"I only want the Yang-natured high-grade heaven and earth spirit treasure; the rest are yours," Lu Yuan said.

Out of the seventy or eighty high-grade heaven and earth spirit treasure, fifty were Yang-natured!

Lu Yuan guessed this had to do with the Emperor of the Great Shun Dynasty having both Gold and Fire Attributes.

These heaven and earth spirit treasure were most likely prepared for him.

Chu Wushe indicated he had no objections.

Lu Yeli was in a peculiar state, and Lu Yuan knew she would agree.

"You can't..."

Seeing Lu Yuan pull up the planted heaven and earth spirit treasure, Mu Yaoling, the only one left alive, tried to stop him.

"Do you want to walk out of here alive?" Lu Yuan said coldly.

Hearing Lu Yuan's words, the armored snake head of Nine Vipers flicked its tongue and crawled onto Mu Yaoling, slithering back and forth.

Mu Yaoling shivered, not daring to speak.

After putting the heaven and earth spirit treasure into special containers, Lu Yuan hesitated for a moment.

"Nine Vipers, Feng Shi."

"Subordinate is here!"

"Deliver these items to the teacher in Pengcheng," Lu Yuan said.

Chu Wushe's blood-red eyes flickered; he knew why Lu Yuan wasn't handing them to Instructor Tang personally.

Right now, no one was certain if Instructor Tang was still alive.

They had gone to great lengths to obtain the heaven and earth spirit treasure, so if Instructor Tang had died...

"Understood!"

Nine Vipers took the special containers with both hands and left with Feng Shi and Lu Yeli, the two members with the Space Attribute.

They were responsible for casting a Space Gate to teleport to the Imperial Capital, and immediately after, Nine Vipers would take a spatial formation back to Pengcheng.

The battle ended, and the Spirit Skill where Lu Yeli and Ke Yueyao summoned their future selves came to an abrupt halt.

"Yueyao, are you okay?" Lu Yeli asked with concern.

"I... I'm fine."

Ke Yueyao shook her head.

Every time they summoned their future selves to fight, it would cost her and Lu Yeli a heavy price.

One of which was the inability to circulate spiritual power for seven days, leaving their bodies in a state of extreme weakness.

Fortunately, the crisis had been resolved, and once they returned to the Imperial Capital.

She and Lu Yeli just needed to stay obediently at Imperial Capital University for seven days.

"You can distribute the remaining twenty high-grade heaven and earth spirit treasure amongst yourselves," Lu Yuan said.

"I'll take six,"

Chu Wushe proposed, choosing to let Ke Yueyao and Lu Yeli have seven each.

After distributing the spoils in a few words, Lu Yuan stood in front of Mu Yaoling.

"What did you call me just now?"

Mu Yaoling: "..."

She stammered, not daring to answer.

"lowborn, Brother Yuan, she called you a lowborn!" Han Junchen answered for Mu Yaoling.

Having taken a dragon blood crystal given by Chu Wushe, his complexion had improved slightly.

Although his waist still hurt terribly, he reckoned he would need to go to a urology department to get it treated.

"Husband, we were at least a married couple once, why must you treat me this way?" Mu Yaoling said to the gloating Han Junchen, her tone aggrieved and lacking her previous arrogance.

"You clearly didn't treat me like a human being!"

Recalling the experiences of these past few days, Han Junchen was ashamed to the extreme.

Thinking that Lu Yuan had listened to the whole thing, he was even more ashamed!

"These heaven and earth spirit treasure were prepared for His Majesty," Mu Yaoling answered Lu Yuan's question obediently.

Her father's name was Mu Zhenxiao, the younger brother of the Emperor of the Great Shun Dynasty, ranked eighth.

Mu Zhenxiao was deeply valued by the Emperor of the Great Shun Dynasty and was conferred the title of Prince Shun!

The character 'Shun' was the national title of the Great Shun Dynasty, so being conferred as Prince Shun was enough to show that Mu Zhenxiao was no ordinary person.

Lu Yuan scanned the collapsed palace and looked up at the full moon hanging in the sky.

He had heard of Mu Zhenxiao's name in history books, as well as Mu Yaoling's.

The records regarding Mu Yaoling were sparse, the general meaning being that she kept many male concubines.

Every time a male concubine failed to satisfy Mu Yaoling, she would torture him to death using cruel methods.

"It feels like ancient people traveled to the modern era," Xiang Xinyan said.

Who could have imagined that the twenty-five or twenty-six-year-old Mu Yaoling was actually an ancient person, and her actual age was over three hundred years old!

"Why did you all fall into a deep sleep?"

Lu Yuan asked a question that everyone wanted to know.

That was the reason for the fall of the Great Shun Dynasty back then!

If there were a survey asking which dynasty made people feel the most disgusted.

Then there was a high probability it would be the Great Shun Dynasty!

The disgusting part was that the Great Shun Dynasty was capable of resisting the demon invasion, yet overnight, the Emperor, the royal relatives, and the elite of Great Shun disappeared into thin air.

According to statistics, over twenty million commoners died at the hands of demons during that period.

Over twenty million people, what kind of concept was that?

Truly corpses strewn across the fields, rivers of blood!

The dynasties established afterward were unable to resist, and vast territories were occupied by demons!

"This servant doesn't know either; I only know that on that day, a blood moon hung in the sky. Before that, His Majesty had ordered my father to extensively plunder the people's wealth."

Mu Yaoling recalled events from over three hundred years ago.

"My father returned from the imperial palace in a rush that day and instructed me not to act rashly after waking up and to take good care of these heaven and earth spirit treasure." Mu Yaoling glanced at the depths of the palace from the corner of her eye and retreated without leaving a trace to keep a distance from Lu Yuan.

"A blood moon hung in the sky?"

"Mm-hmm, it was terrifying; rumors of the apocalypse arriving were spreading at the time."

Mu Yaoling changed the subject and began to beg for mercy.

"Can you not kill me? I am willing to serve you, or I can serve both of you together." Mu Yaoling looked at Lu Yuan, then fixed her beautiful eyes on Chu Wushe.

Lu Yuan: "..."

Was this begging for mercy? It was clearly a reward!

"I am very skilled; I will definitely make both heroes linger and forget to return, especially that hero." Mu Yaoling winked at Chu Wushe repeatedly.

"Not interested."

Chu Wushe refused coldly.

Compared to romance, he was more interested in how to defeat Lu Yuan.

When she had kept a sufficient distance from Lu Yuan and the others, Mu Yaoling took a deep breath.

"Father, are you still not preparing to wake up? Your daughter's life is in danger!"

Father?

Mu Zhenxiao was also sleeping in this palace!

Thunder Attribute, Four-Star Saint Realm.

Lu Yuan thought of the historical records regarding this Prince Shun!

Bang, bang, bang—

A coffin made of sandalwood in the depths of the palace floated in the air.

The coffin exploded!

A Middle-Aged Man wearing royal robes stared indifferently at Lu Yuan.

He was in his early fifties and looked somewhat similar to Mu Yaoling.

He was none other than Mu Zhenxiao, the younger brother of the Emperor of the Great Shun Dynasty, ranked eighth and conferred as Prince Shun!

"Damn it!" Lu Yuan looked at Mu Yaoling, who was not far away.

Clatter—

Blood Butcher was quick-witted and threw out the serrated chain blade, grabbing Mu Yaoling and pulling her over.

"Father..."

Mu Yaoling, who was being choked tightly by the neck by Blood Butcher, called for help.

Everything happened in a flash; Lu Yuan did not know if the bargaining chip in his hand was heavy enough.

Would Mu Zhenxiao choose to let them leave safely because of Mu Yaoling?