148: Chapter 148 Xia Yan's Dragon-Suppressing Stone VS Emperor Xia's Dragon-Fixing Pearl

"No! This is impossible! This defies logic! This subverts everything I have ever known about power!"

Emperor Xia let out a hysterical roar; he could not accept this cruel reality!

This was even harder for him to accept than Commander-in-Chief Wei Zheng charging into the palace with troops, dragging him off the dragon throne, and holding a blade to his throat!

He whipped his head around, his eyes, already stained red with madness and jealousy, locked onto the figure in hempen clothes still hovering in mid-air, whose expression remained indifferent, as if he had merely swatted away a swarm of flies.

"Lin Feng!"

Emperor Xia's voice was filled with extreme malice, like a demon crawling out of Hell roaring: "Do you think you have won?!"

"You are nothing more than a pathetic tool! A Puppet merely acting as a stepping stone for someone else!"

As these words were spoken, the already deathly silent imperial city grew even more eerie.

Lin Feng finally raised his eyes slowly, his deep gaze fixed indifferently upon him, devoid of even the slightest emotional fluctuation.

This look, this feeling of being completely ignored, caused Emperor Xia's self-esteem to be trampled upon like never before!

"What are you pretending for?!"

Emperor Xia thought Lin Feng was feigning calm, and the fear on his face transformed into a morbid, manic laughter: "You don't even know who you are! You are not some Lin Feng! You are just the tool my dear ninth brother is using for revenge!"

This earth-shattering secret was like a thunderclap from the Nine Heavens!

The Ninth Prince? The Prince of Runan? Xia Yan?! He is still alive?!

"Hahaha! Didn't expect that, did you?! Do you feel cold all over, with your Dao Heart threatening to shatter?!"

Emperor Xia pointed at Lin Feng, laughing until he doubled over: "My dear ninth brother, his schemes are as deep as the sea! He long ago anticipated that he would be suppressed, so forty years ago, he split off a wisp of his life-bound remnant soul and hid it within a token, waiting for the right moment!"

"And you, Lin Feng! A nobody from the Demon Suppression Division, who knows what kind of dumb Luck you stumbled into!!"

Emperor Xia's voice suddenly rose, filled with the thrill of exposing everything:

"He passed on Imperial Dragon Qi to you and helped you cultivate. It looks like he is helping you, but in reality, he is using his own Origin—which belongs to the royal family—to erode you and reshape you, bit by bit! When you grow strong enough to contend with me, he will fully awaken, crawl out from that [dragon-suppressing stone], take over your body, and steal everything you have!"

"Your cultivation, your women, your glory—everything! All of it will be a dowry prepared for Xia Yan!"

"Everything you possess now is not yours! You are nothing but a tool he is using for revenge! A pathetic Puppet!"

These words were like the most vicious curse in the world, each word striking at the heart!

If it were any other Martial Artist, hearing that their lifelong hard work was just to prepare a dowry for someone else, they would likely have had their Dao Heart collapse and suffered from Qi Deviation instantly!

Emperor Xia stared fixedly at Lin Feng, expecting to see an expression of shock, anger, or even collapse.

However, Lin Feng's expression did not change in the slightest.

He just listened quietly, and in his deep eyes, there was even a hint of... mockery?

"Is that all?"

Lin Feng spoke slowly, his voice not loud, yet it clearly spread throughout the entire imperial city.

Emperor Xia's laughter came to an abrupt halt!

"Possession?"

Lin Feng seemed to have heard the funniest joke in the world: "Xia Yan is indeed here, but aren't you overestimating him? Or perhaps... underestimating me?"

"What?!"

Emperor Xia was struck by lightning: "You... you knew all along?!"

"From the moment I got that stone, I knew there was an old thing hiding inside."

Lin Feng's tone was as flat as if he were talking about a trivial matter: "As for Possession? Does he even deserve to?"

"You..."

Emperor Xia was so intimidated by the domineering aura Lin Feng exuded that he retreated again and again.

Impossible! How could he have known? If he knew, why was he not affected? This defies logic!

"Imperial Brother, you are truly... too disappointing."

Just then, a voice full of majesty and age abruptly sounded from Lin Feng's waist.

A simple, ancient stone tablet, pitch-black all over and seemingly containing nine small golden dragons swimming within it, flew out from Lin Feng's waist, hovered in mid-air, and radiated a magnificent, upright Imperial majesty.

It was the [dragon-suppressing stone]!

Xia Yan's remnant soul had actually revealed itself voluntarily!

"Ninth brother! You really didn't die!"

When Emperor Xia saw this object, his eyes instantly turned red; it was a flame woven from jealousy and hatred!

"Imperial Brother, you are wrong."

Xia Yan's voice drifted out from the dragon-suppressing stone: "I do not wish to perform Possession on young friend Lin. A Prodigy like young friend Lin, who appears once in an eternity, possesses a Dao Heart so firm and a will so terrifying that it far exceeds our imagination. How could a mere wisp of a remnant soul shake him?"

"I have remained until now only to borrow young friend Lin's power to suppress you, a rebel who colludes with Heavenly Demons, disrupts the imperial court, and poisons the common people!"

"Rebel?! I am the Son of Heaven! I am the orthodox ruler of Great Xia!"

Emperor Xia went completely insane, slamming his hand against the dragon throne, and a sinister, blood-red pearl—seemingly containing the wailing of billions of wronged souls—appeared in his hand!

"Ninth brother! Do you think your schemes are foolproof?! Do you think you can win just because you found this variable, Lin Feng?!"

"I have long been prepared for you! You have the [dragon-suppressing stone] bestowed by Father Emperor, and I have the [dragon-fixing pearl] I crafted myself, which can restrain all the Dragon Veins in the world!!"

Hum!

As soon as that blood-colored [dragon-fixing pearl] appeared, an evil, cold, and domineering aura instantly enveloped the entire imperial city!

The Dragon Veins beneath the capital let out a painful wail!

"You actually used the blood essence of the common people and the Dragon Qi of the national fortune to refine such an evil object!"

Xia Yan let out a roar of shock and anger: "You are mad! You are shaking the very foundation of the nation!"

"Foundation of the nation? I am the foundation of the nation!"

Emperor Xia held the [dragon-fixing pearl], its blood-red light erupting and shooting straight at the dragon-suppressing stone!

"For me... Fix!"

Boom!

Gold and red—two diametrically opposed Imperial auras collided violently in mid-air!

The golden [dragon-suppressing stone] represented orthodoxy, protection, and Legacy.

The blood-colored [dragon-fixing pearl] represented tyranny, plunder, and destruction.

The golden light of the [dragon-suppressing stone] was instantly suppressed by that eerie blood-red light!

Xia Yan's remnant soul was already weak, and it was naturally restrained by the [dragon-fixing pearl]. The nine golden dragons on the surface of the stone let out mournful cries as their light rapidly dimmed.

"Hahaha!"

Seeing this scene, Emperor Xia laughed wildly again: "Ninth brother, in front of this [dragon-fixing pearl] that has absorbed half of Great Xia's Luck, you are nothing but trash!"

"Lin Feng! Do you see? Even Xia Yan's Imperial Dragon Qi has been suppressed by me! What can you, an outsider, possibly do?!"

Emperor Xia seemed to have regained a shred of confidence; his final psychological tactic was to crush Lin Feng's "reliance."

However, Lin Feng just watched all this quietly.

He even reached out a finger and, with great interest, flicked the [dragon-suppressing stone] that was being suppressed and trembling incessantly.

"Noisy."

He said indifferently.

"What?" Emperor Xia's smile froze once again.

"I said, you two, and these two broken beads of yours..."

Lin Feng slowly raised his head, his cold eyes sweeping over Emperor Xia, then over the [dragon-fixing pearl], and finally landing on the [dragon-suppressing stone].

"Are all too noisy."

"Arrogant!"

Emperor Xia was completely enraged: "You dare to be stubborn when death is at your doorstep! I admit you are strong, but in the end, you are still a Mortal! I will now let you witness what true despair is!!"

He held the [dragon-fixing pearl] high, pouring all of his remaining life essence into it, while simultaneously frantically activating the formation beneath his feet that had been prepared for a long time...

"Nine Heavens Blood Sacrifice Array, open!"

"With my imperial blood! I welcome the Heavenly Demon... to descend upon this world!!"