Chapter 293 Taking Over the Northern Mang Imperial Court

"From this day forth, let it be proclaimed across the entire grassland!"

"Luan Di Tianye's atrocities are numerous. He has already been slain by the Heavenly Khan's blade. From this day forward, our Northern Mang grassland shall obey all commands of the Heavenly Khan!"

As Pu Cha Shou's voice carried far into the distance, trained divine eagles immediately took flight toward all corners of the grassland, spreading this news to every tribe.

This was a world-shaking event.

The Luan Di Clan had ruled the grassland for over a thousand years, yet today, they had been struck from existence by a powerful figure from the Southern Dynasty.

Although the Luan Di Clan still possessed the power of Celestial Being Experts.

But in this world where individual martial strength decided everything, even if the Luan Di Clan had many ordinary Celestial Being Experts, they could never be a match for Yan Chu, who was at the Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown level.

As long as Yan Chu lived, they would never be able to reclaim their position as Khan.

"Khan, the Left Worthy King and Luantu Kuo and the others took advantage of the chaos to flee. Shall we dispatch knights and divine eagles to track them down?"

The chief of the Naiman tribe asked.

The Naiman tribe was one of the top-ranked major tribes in Northern Mang, and its chief was a Celestial Being Expert.

Centuries ago, during the Naiman tribe's most glorious period, they had possessed as many as three Celestial Being Experts.

However, during the Luan Di Clan's conquest, the other two Celestial Being Experts were killed, and countless members of the tribe were slaughtered, their blood once staining the longest river on the grassland, the Hule River, red.

In the end, only the chief, Wuri Tu, survived. He had no choice but to lead his tribespeople to submit to the Luan Di Clan, becoming one of the many tribes of the Northern Mang Empire.

Wuri Tu's hatred for the Luan Di Clan was carved into his bones.

However, the Luan Di Clan had always been incomparably powerful, and he had never had the opportunity to seek revenge.

Now that Luan Di Tianye had been killed and the others of the Luan Di Clan had fled in the chaos, he naturally did not mind beating a dog that had fallen into the water.

Yan Chu narrowed his eyes slightly, a half-smile appearing on his face.

"Not for now. They won't be able to help themselves and will jump out on their own!"

Upon hearing this, everyone wore thoughtful expressions.

Next, the crowd escorted Yan Chu toward the distant Imperial Court.

Before they reached the Imperial Court, the news that Luan Di Tianye was dead and that Northern Mang had changed rulers had already reached the city.

The entire city had descended into chaos.

Although the Left Worthy King and the others had fled, the members of the Luan Di Clan were still there.

Yan Chu did not even need to lift a finger; the men previously dispatched by Pu Cha Shou, Xiao Wendao, and others had already infiltrated the Imperial Court and begun a massive slaughter of the Luan Di Clan members.

The once high and mighty royal family had absolutely no power to resist in the hands of Celestial Being Experts.

Another Celestial Being Expert of the Pucha Clan, Pucha Shanmian, who had once been enfeoffed as the Gu Du Marquis by Luan Di Tianye, showed no mercy as he slaughtered the royals.

"Spare me!!!"

"Gu Du Marquis! Why?!?"

"You dare to rebel?!? Are you not afraid of the retaliation from our clan's Celestial Being Experts?!?"

"..."

The screams and pleas for mercy resounded through the Imperial City, causing everyone else within the city who heard them to tremble in fear.

Besides Pucha Shanmian, the Xiao Clan, Murong Clan, Qiyan Tribe, Naiman Tribe, and other major clans and tribes all took action without mercy.

Yan Chu deliberately walked slowly into the city to give them time to purge the entire Imperial Court.

This was also the "letter of allegiance" they were submitting.

As long as they took action to slaughter the members of the Luan Di Clan, there would be no room for any turning back.

Pucha Yunge and Murong Yuanshuang accompanied him, one on his left and one on his right.

Murong Yuanshuang's entire body was almost pressed against Yan Chu; the allure of a mature woman and the openness of a grassland girl were concentrated in her alone, and her actions at this moment were extremely bold.

Of course, she had also realized that Yan Chu was quite fond of this, which was why she dared to act this way.

Otherwise, she wouldn't have dared to be so presumptuous even with a hundred times the courage.

When the group arrived at the Imperial Court, the slaughter had already ceased.

The thick stench of blood could be smelled throughout the entire city.

Among those killed, there were no shortage of Great Grandmasters and Supreme Grandmasters.

Having ruled the grassland for so many years, the Luan Di Clan not only had the highest number of Celestial Being Experts among all the tribes on the grassland, but they also had the most Great Grandmasters and Supreme Grandmasters.

With so many experts dead, the stench of blood they emitted was different from that of ordinary people.

Although the Luan Di Clan still had clansmen in other parts of the grassland, the vast majority were in the Imperial Court. After this slaughter, their title as the number one clan of Northern Mang was now a name without substance.

Once the Left Worthy King and the others were found and killed, the Luan Di Clan would truly disappear from the Northern Mang grassland.

At this moment, the heads of the various clans and tribes present wanted to find them even more than Yan Chu did. As long as they remained at large, they would feel as if needles were pricking their backs, worried about the retaliation of the Left Worthy King and the others.

They returned to Luan Di Tianye's imperial palace.

Outside the palace, the Empress Xiao Yuanjia had already received the news and was waiting outside the palace gate with the palace retinue to welcome them.

She was still wearing that white sable fur coat, which concealed her exquisite and curvaceous figure.

But Yan Chu had felt those curves not long ago; they were breathtakingly moving, soft, and delicate.

However, he hadn't had the chance to savor them thoroughly yet.

Now, he could finally enjoy it to his heart's content!

Beside Xiao Yuanjia was her cousin, Xiao Nanxu.

On the other side was a stunning beauty whose appearance was on par with Xiao Yuanjia's.

However, unlike Xiao Yuanjia's charming and alluring appearance, this woman had a look full of exotic flair, her skin glowing white, somewhat resembling the women of the Western Regions.

Even more marvelous was that the woman constantly emitted a strange fragrance.

This scent was the woman's natural body fragrance, a lingering, fresh aroma that was unforgettable and surpassed all the precious spices in the world.

She was none other than Luan Di Tianye's other empress, Yilanduo, known as "Hidden Fragrance Filling the Sleeves."

This name was not misapplied; she was indeed an orchid blooming on the grassland, and her fragrance would naturally attract swarms of bees.

Xiao Yuanjia looked over with a smile in her charming eyes, and Murong Yuanshuang, who was snuggled up beside Yan Chu, hurriedly straightened up a bit.

Unlike the superficial charm she displayed, Xiao Yuanjia's allure was charming to the bone.

Every frown, every smile, and every gesture carried a Soul-stirring charm; she could be called the most alluring woman Yan Chu had ever seen.

Even the peerlessly graceful Empress Dowager Empress Dowager Yuwen Feng could not compare.

The two did not possess the same temperament.

"Greetings, Your Majesty, the Khan!"

Xiao Yuanjia curtsied and bowed gracefully,

"Yuanjia, along with the palace concubines, respectfully invites the Khan to take control of the Imperial Court!"

Behind her, the many concubines and guards in the imperial palace all bowed and said:

"Respectfully invite the Khan to take control of the Imperial Court!!!"

Those who were able to welcome him here had all been purged once.

They would not have any loyalty to Yan Chu, but they were definitely all people who had stained their hands with the blood of the Luan Di Clan.

Yan Chu looked around the scene at this moment.

Standing here were the highest-ranking nobles and Clan Chiefs of the entire Northern Mang.

And all the concubines of the Northern Mang Khan now belonged to Yan Chu alone.

With a single command from him, these women would all pose in various positions.

He truly felt the benefits of power.

The power of life and death! The ability to take whatever he desired!

The imperial power and wealth of the human world were within his reach, and no one dared to resist!

...

While the massacre against the Luan Di Clan was taking place within the Imperial Court, the Left Worthy King and Luantu Kuo, along with four other Celestial Being Experts of the Luan Di Clan, had fled thousands of miles north of the Imperial Court to the extremely cold ice plains, known as the Forbidden Zone of Life.

Here, the land was covered by deep ice and snow all year round.

If an ordinary person came here and just wanted to unzip their pants to urinate, they would be frozen into an icicle and would snap if bent.

Even martial arts experts with cultivation could not stay in this environment for long.

Because the Origin Qi of heaven and earth here was frozen by the extreme cold and could barely flow.

Only experts at the Great Grandmaster level or above could survive here for a long time.

Beneath the frozen soil and ice, there were some rare Heaven And Earth Treasures that would grow during specific seasons, so in the past, the Northern Mang Imperial Court would dispatch a team to come deep into the ice plains to harvest them.

At other times, basically no one would appear here.

"Hateful!!!"

Luantu Kuo was furious, his hair standing on end as he slammed a palm into a distant ice lake with a boom.

Boom!

The ice layer, several zhang deep, exploded, and ten thousand qing of lake water surged up. A large spray of water shot into the high sky and instantly condensed into ice mist.

The lake water refroze at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Luantu Kuo's expression was angry and gloomy, filled with both the surging rage from the slaughter of the Luan Di Clan and the helplessness of being unable to take revenge.

The others wore the same expression.

Among the six, besides the Left Worthy King and Luantu Kuo, there were two up-and-coming Celestial Being Experts of the clan, Luan Di Huai and Luan Di Zhan Feng, who had only opened one Divine Treasury, as well as the two clan elders who originally guarded the Chilie Mountain blessed land, Luantu Zhan and Luantu Yan.

They had all been present at the battle between Yan Chu and the Khan.

When they saw the Khan, who held the sun-shooting divine bow, being slain by Yan Chu, they knew they were absolutely no match for him and had quietly fled in the chaos.

Even if someone had noticed at the time, no one had the guts to become enemies with six Celestial Being Experts, so no one had blocked them.

They had not expected that after they fled, the Luan Di Clan would be slaughtered instead.

"The five great clans and the Xiao Family, along with those tribes like the Naiman, are all traitors! Cowards!!"

"They dared to destroy my Luan Di Clan; sooner or later, we will take our revenge!"

"And that Yan Chu, a person from the Southern Dynasty, actually dared to usurp the position of Khan. By what right does he?!?"

The few people present had gloomy expressions and remained silent, speechless in the face of Luantu Kuo's hysteria.

"Left Worthy King, tell us, what should we do now?"

Luan Di Huai looked at the silent Left Worthy King.

The Left Worthy King's eyes flickered; he was also in a state of utter confusion.

Just a moment ago, his Luan Di Clan was still the royal family of the entire Northern Mang, holding a supreme status on the great grassland, while the Southern Dynasty was so oppressed that they could only send brides to seek peace.

Yet how did the situation suddenly turn out like this?

Where on earth did this Southern Dynasty person named Yan Chu crawl out from?

He had never heard of such a Celestial Being Expert in the Southern Dynasty before.

If it had been an expert from decades ago, he could not have possibly not heard of him.

At this moment, though the world was vast, he did not know where to go.

Take revenge? They were definitely no match; they would only die at Yan Chu's hands, and then the Luan Di Clan would truly be wiped out.

Without the six of them, the Celestial Being Experts, it was only a matter of time before the other members of the Luan Di Clan scattered across the grassland were exterminated.

But where could they flee?

Right!

The Left Worthy King suddenly remembered something and asked the two clan elders beside him:

"Two elders, did the High Priest tell you where he was going before he left?"

As things stood, the only backer he could think of was the High Priest.

The High Priest could foresee the disaster befalling Northern Mang today, and he must surely be able to find a way to deal with Yan Chu.

Luantu Zhan and Luantu Yan, two old men with gray hair, looked at each other, and Luantu Yan slowly said:

"Before the High Priest left, he seemed to mention that he was going to find the origin of the eternal heaven. Only by obtaining the blessing and protection of the eternal heaven could he kill the Flame Demon who came from the Southern Dynasty."

Upon hearing this, everyone was somewhat pleasantly surprised.

Legends of the eternal heaven had always been widely circulated on the great grassland.

For thousands of years, whether it was the current Northern Mang or the tribal Imperial Courts of the past, they all worshipped the eternal heaven as the supreme deity.

But no one knew where the eternal heaven actually came from.

Because everything originated from the Longevity Cult, even the Longevity Demonic Technique that the Luan Di Clan cultivated was the same.

Although they had never seen the eternal heaven, everyone on the grassland firmly believed in its existence.

Because they had seen the Wolf God and the Eagle God.

These were the two deities under the command of the eternal heaven.

They had once descended into this realm with divine oracles and Incarnations, which the Celestial Being Experts present had all seen with their own eyes.

"Then where is the origin of the eternal heaven? Let's go find the High Priest now!"

Luan Di Huai said impatiently.

Luantu Zhan said with a solemn expression:

"The legend of the eternal heaven comes from the Extreme North!"

"My ancestors on the grassland once received the guidance of the eternal heaven in the Northern Sea, and later traveled south to the great grassland, establishing the grassland Imperial Court!"

"The Extreme North?"

Luantu Kuo exclaimed in a low voice.

The Extreme North was a true no-man's-land.

There, the air had completely stopped flowing, and no living creature could survive; even a Supreme Grandmaster who ventured deep inside would be frozen into an ice sculpture in an instant.

That terrifying chill had almost touched upon some kind of rule.

Even Celestial Being Experts, who had opened their Divine Treasury and had the power of the Divine Treasury circulating to protect their bodies, could not stay in that environment for long.

Moreover, in the Extreme North, there were all kinds of mysterious species.

The most widely known among them were the North Sea Undead.

These were incorporeal spirits, different from the Primordial Spirit cultivated through martial arts; they were like evil ghosts that had escaped from the icy Hell, capable of freezing a Celestial Being Expert's Primordial Spirit and taking Possession of their Physical Body.

Under such circumstances, even Celestial Being Experts dared not venture deep into the Extreme North.

If one were not careful and encountered a large group of North Sea Undead, they would likely die and their Dao would vanish.

One must know that the North Sea Undead were extremely sensitive to the aura of the living.

Even if you were a person who practiced an ice-attribute Cultivation Technique and could lower your body temperature to an extremely low level, you would still be sensed by the Undead.

Even though the few of them were all Celestial Being Experts, their expressions changed somewhat upon hearing of the Extreme North.

The High Priest's cultivation was unfathomable, even above that of the Khan, and he dared to venture deep into the Northern Sea alone.

But they were not the High Priest.

Rashly entering the Extreme North, they might remain there forever.

Or they might be taken over by the North Sea Undead through Possession, appearing in the world again with a different Soul.

"But the Extreme North is vast and boundless; how would we know where exactly the High Priest went in the Extreme North?"

At this moment, the Left Worthy King asked another question with a furrowed brow.

The Extreme North was vast and boundless. It was no smaller than the great Northern Mang grassland.

Searching for a person in such a vast territory with such harsh environments was no different from looking for a needle in a haystack.