186: Chapter 186 The Human Emperor is Enraged

That aura was filled with corruption, chaos, and ominousness.

Like a drop of thick ink falling into clear water, it instantly dyed the sky of the entire Great Xia Imperial Capital a strange, dark red.

Inside the Imperial City, all the flowers, plants, and trees were withering and dying at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Countless palace maids and eunuchs with low cultivation bases, unable to even let out a scream, dissolved into pools of black liquid under the erosion of this aura.

This was the most absolute blasphemy against life.

"This is... Devilish Qi!"

Inside the library pavilion, Xia Youchu's expression instantly turned incredibly grim.

This Devilish Qi was more than ten thousand times purer and denser than what she had sensed at the Phoenix Ruins!

Furthermore, the location of the eruption was right in the Imperial City's underground palace!

She understood in an instant.

This was a conspiracy!

A shocking conspiracy targeting the Human Emperor and the entire Great Xia Dynasty!

Who was it?

The Abyss Apostles?

She had no time to think further; with a flash of her figure, she rushed out of the library pavilion.

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Zhenbei Princess Manor.

Ling Tian sensed this terrifying aura immediately.

He stood up abruptly from the ground, looking toward the direction of the Imperial Palace, his eyes filled with gravity.

"Such powerful Devilish Qi!"

This power made even him feel a trace of palpitations.

"Poop-scooper, something happened!" He immediately contacted Xia Youchu in his mind.

"I know!" Xia Youchu's voice sounded urgently. "Come to Zichen Hall immediately!"

"Alright!"

Ling Tian did not hesitate in the slightest. He flapped his wings, his massive body soaring into the sky, transforming into a streak of light as he flew rapidly toward the Imperial Palace.

His nearly four-hundred-meter-long body appeared exceptionally conspicuous under the sky that had been dyed dark red.

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Meanwhile, the entire Great Xia Imperial Capital fell into complete chaos.

"Heavens! Why has the sky turned red!"

"I... I can't breathe... Help..."

Countless commoners knelt on the ground, kowtowing frantically toward the direction of the Imperial Palace. They did not know what had happened, only feeling a sense of impending doom.

The War Beasts of the weaker Beast Tamers in the city began to roar uneasily, and some even directly fell into a berserk state, turning on their masters.

Various factions in the city were thrown into turmoil by this catastrophe that descended from the sky.

War Beast Association Headquarters.

President Li Changfeng rushed out of his office abruptly, looked up at the Imperial Palace, his face livid.

"Devilish Qi! Dammit! How could such pure Devilish Qi appear in the Imperial Palace!"

He could not understand it, but he knew that if they did not rush to reinforce immediately, Great Xia would be in danger!

The terrifying aura of a Late Stage Quasi-Emperor erupted from his body. With one step, his figure vanished from where he stood.

West of the city, Zhou Family.

The Family Head Zhou Tianxue and Vice Pavilion Master Situ Ming also sensed this fluctuation at the same time.

"This is... the aura of the Demon Race?" Vice Pavilion Master Situ Ming's expression changed drastically. He tried to divine the situation, but found the Heavenly Secret in complete chaos, unable to calculate anything.

"What terrifying pressure... Something happened to the Imperial Palace!" Zhou Tianxue was full of shock.

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Left Prime Ministers Residence.

Left Prime Minister Ming Shiyuan stood in the courtyard, looking up at the dark red sky, a cold smile curling on his lips.

Finally... has it begun?

He could feel that the source of that Devilish Qi was transmitted into the Imperial City's underground palace through the secret passage he had opened.

Pavilion Master Gongsun Sheng had not lied to him.

Inside that coffin, there really was something terrifying enough to overturn Great Xia.

He gripped the jade bottle hidden in his sleeve tightly, feeling the power radiating from the drop of demon blood inside, his eyes flashing with endless ambition.

Human Emperor Li Xuanyuan, your era should come to an end!

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Imperial Palace, in front of Zichen Hall.

This place had already turned into a living Hell.

The hard white jade plaza was covered by a layer of strange black slime, which was constantly bubbling and emitting a pungent stench.

A large number of golden-armored guards lay on the ground, their bodies twisted, their skin covered in black pustules; clearly, they had been completely contaminated by the Devilish Qi and had lost their lives.

Human Emperor Li Xuanyuan hovered in mid-air, his body radiating a brilliant golden light that formed a huge shield, protecting Crown Prince Li Chengqian, Princess Li Leyao, and the remaining guards within it.

His expression was unprecedentedly grave.

Opposite him, in the center of the originally magnificent plaza in front of Zichen Hall, the ground had split open into a huge abyss.

A huge, pitch-black coffin was slowly rising from the abyss.

The coffin was covered with countless twisted and evil demonic runes, emitting a terrifying aura that made one's Soul tremble.

It was precisely this coffin that released the Devilish Qi contaminating the entire Great Xia Imperial Capital!

"What kind of demon dares to act presumptuously in my Great Xia Imperial Capital!"

Human Emperor Li Xuanyuan roared, his voice like rolling thunder, containing supreme imperial might.

He pointed his finger, and a thick beam of golden light, like a sword of a Heavenly God, tore through the Void Realm and slammed fiercely toward the black coffin!

This strike contained the Law power of a Yuan Emperor-level powerhouse and was enough to easily obliterate any Quasi-Emperor!

However, a bizarre scene occurred.

When the golden light beam came within three feet of the black coffin, it was like a clay ox entering the sea, dissolving instantly without stirring up the slightest ripple.

Human Emperor Li Xuanyuan's pupils constricted violently.

"Click... click..."

Just then, the lid of the black coffin emitted a teeth-grinding friction sound and slowly... opened a crack.

Boom—!

A pitch-black Devilish Qi, a hundred times denser than before, shot up into the sky from the crack, forming a huge pillar of devilish energy that pierced through the heavens and earth!

The defensive array of the entire Great Xia Imperial Capital shook violently under the impact of this devilish pillar, emitting waves of overwhelming wails.

The dark red in the sky became even deeper, as if endless fresh blood were flowing within it.

"Father Emperor!" Princess Li Leyao screamed in fright, clutching tightly to the hem of Human Emperor Li Xuanyuan's robe.

Crown Prince Li Chengqian also turned pale, his eyes filled with fear.

Human Emperor Li Xuanyuan did not speak, just staring fixedly at the black coffin.

He could feel that an incredibly terrifying existence was waking up inside the coffin!

The coffin lid opened wider and wider.

Finally, amidst a "rumbling" loud noise, the entire coffin lid was flipped away by a great force!

A figure slowly... sat up from the black coffin.

It was a majestic body three meters tall, covered entirely in black bony armor, with the armor covered in ferocious bone spurs.

He had long, dark red hair, scattered casually behind his shoulders.

The most eye-catching part was his forehead.

There, a diamond-shaped black crystal was embedded, like a beating devilish heart, emitting an evil light.

He slowly opened his eyes.

They were a pair of eyes without pupils, only pure, bottomless darkness.

Being stared at by those eyes, Human Emperor Li Xuanyuan actually felt a trace of chill originating from the depths of his Soul.

"Human Race... Emperor?"

The figure spoke, his voice hoarse and ancient, as if coming from the abyss of eternity.

"What a... weak Bloodline."

He slowly stood up from the coffin, stretched his muscles and bones, emitting a series of "cracking" sounds.

With his movements, a terrifying pressure at the Yuan Emperor level descended with a boom!

"Devil Emperor!"

Human Emperor Li Xuanyuan's expression changed completely.

This was actually a Devil Emperor body possessing Yuan Emperor-level strength!

How on earth was this thing transported into the Great Xia Imperial Capital?!

Who on earth betrayed the Human Race!!!