102: Chapter 102 The Prince of Zhenbei flees the capital in panic; I sign in for the Nine Transformations of the Dragon.

The night was as dark as ink, and fierce winds churned the dark clouds, completely swallowing the once-bright moon over the Yankang Capital.

Deep within an extremely hidden mass grave in the northern outskirts of the capital.

"Boom!"

A long-abandoned, nameless, withered grave was suddenly and violently blasted open from the inside, sending soil and rotting bones flying in all directions.

Immediately after, several figures, looking utterly disheveled and panicked to the extreme, scrambled out from that malodorous underground secret passage.

The leader, with disheveled hair, was covered from head to toe in nauseating, foul-smelling mud.

His black, four-clawed python robe, which originally symbolized supreme power, was now tattered and torn by the thorns in the secret passage.

He had even lost one of his cloud-patterned court boots, leaving only a single white sock caked in mud.

This old man, panting heavily in the mud like a stray dog, no longer held even a shred of the dignity of someone who once held the court in his grip.

He was none other than the peerless, formidable, and feared hero of the Yankang Kingdom—Prince Zhenbei, Ling Yinfeng!

"Your Highness... Your Highness, are you alright?!"

Several death warriors of the Divine Treasury Realm, equally disheveled and heavily wounded, rushed forward, terrified, trying to help him up.

"Get lost!"

Prince Zhenbei shoved the death warrior away. He suddenly turned his head, his cloudy, bloodshot eyes staring fixedly at the distance, dozens of miles away.

At the still brightly lit Yankang Capital, his eyes filled with a mixture of intense resentment and deep... fear!

Just half an hour ago, the intelligence network he had planted throughout the capital sent back a top-secret message that made his blood run cold.

The undercover agents of Liqing Palace, the water route gang members of the Dragon Control Sect, and even the elites of the Heavenly Demon Sect were all secretly and with terrifying efficiency, frantically gathering evidence of his collusion with the Southwest rebels!

And the hub of all this pointed directly to that Princess Mansion, which seemed to be decadent and filled with nightly revelry!

At that moment, Prince Zhenbei finally understood. That madman in white named Ye Xiu was not some lecherous ghost who only thought with his lower half!

He had exploited the stereotypes of everyone in the world, turning those stunning beauties into the deadliest blades in his hands.

Without anyone noticing, he had stripped away everything Prince Zhenbei had plotted for over a decade!

Since Ye Xiu dared to establish his authority publicly at the Imperial Academy martial arts arena, and since even the Imperial Preceptor and the Ancestral Master treated him with such respect, what did that mean?

It meant that the Emperor and the reformist faction had long tacitly approved of Ye Xiu's power of life and death!

As long as Ye Xiu obtained ironclad evidence, the terrifying sword light from that Princess Mansion tonight would slice open the gates of Prince of Zhenbeis Manor and execute his entire clan!

"Ye Xiu... you absolute devil..."

Prince Zhenbei trembled uncontrollably. He knew too well Ye Xiu's Immortal King style of acting, which treated rules like dirt.

Facing such absolute martial suppression and intelligence superiority, the only outcome of staying in the capital was to become a headless corpse!

Therefore, this arrogant hero didn't even care about his family or the century-old foundation of his manor. He activated his deepest life-saving secret passage and, like a rat in the sewer, fled the cage that had trapped him overnight!

"Go! Set off for the Hundred Thousand Mountains immediately! As long as I reach the Southwest, with a million rebels under my command, even Ye Xiu won't be able to kill me easily!"

Prince Zhenbei bit his lip until it bled with extreme resentment, and under the guard of his remaining death warriors, he stumbled and vanished into the vast night.

...

Meanwhile, inside the Princess Mansion, in that luxurious bedchamber that was filled with spring scenery but had also been transformed into the highest-level intelligence room.

Xue Biane and Si Yunxiang were still immersed in the extreme shock brought by that earth-shattering intelligence, unable to recover for a long time.

Just then, Ye Xiu, sitting grandly in the center of the soft couch, saw his golden and silver eyes flash slightly. His gaze seemed to pierce through the layers of the Void Realm, looking directly toward the northern outskirts of the capital.

The corners of his mouth slowly curled into a mocking arc that saw through everything. "Old fox, you run quite fast. However... running is good."

The moment Ye Xiu finished muttering to himself! "Ding!" A crisp, pleasant, mechanical notification sound, which only Ye Xiu could hear, suddenly exploded deep within his mind!

[System detected: Because of the Host's thunderous methods and the pressure from the top-secret intelligence network, the core villain node character of the original tales of herding gods, 'Prince Zhenbei', has suffered a collapse of his Dao Heart and has fled the city overnight!]

[The killing tribulation of the Yankang Capital has been resolved in advance! The pattern of the world's Luck has been severely altered by the Host!]

[Congratulations to the Host for successfully changing the trajectory of the Heavenly Dao and Luck! Obtained one 'Heaven-Defying' grade supreme Sign-In opportunity!]

Hearing this long-awaited System notification, a wave of intense, fanatical excitement surged in Ye Xiu's heart!

He had long known that in this vast Xuanhuan world, to obtain the top-tier System rewards, one must crush those predetermined fate trajectories.

Prince Zhenbei fleeing meant that one of the major tribulations of the Yankang Kingdom in the original story had been completely nullified; this reward was definitely extraordinary!

"System, Sign In immediately!" Ye Xiu shouted in his heart without hesitation.

[Ding! Sign In successful!] [Congratulations to the Host for obtaining the supreme Physical Body Cultivation Technique Breakthrough reward: Nine Transformations of Dragonization · Ultimate Ascension Card (Two)!]

[Detected that the Host's current "Dragonization Technique" is stagnant at the seventh transformation 'True Dragon Blood'. Do you want to use the card immediately to perform the Ultimate Ascension?]

"Use it! Use them all!" Ye Xiu took a deep breath, and a brilliant divine light erupted from the depths of his eyes.

"Nine Transformations of Dragonization"! This was the most domineering and terrifying existence among the Green Emperor Cultivation Techniques he was Cultivating!

The seventh transformation already gave him the terrifying giant strength to go head-to-head with a Divine Bridge Realm expert. If he could break through two realms and directly reach the Great Perfection of the "Ninth Transformation"... then his Physical Body would truly transform into an immortal and indestructible — Eternal True Dragon!

"Boom!!!" The moment Ye Xiu confirmed the usage, the sky above the originally peaceful Princess Mansion, the night sky originally covered in dark clouds, was suddenly torn apart!

An extremely thick, purple-gold beam of light, like a divine punishment, pierced directly through the roof and poured into Ye Xiu's body without reservation!

"Urgh!" Even with Ye Xiu's Heart-Nature, under the infusion of this extremely violent, heaven-opening True Dragon power, he couldn't help but let out a low, deep roar like a dragon's cry!

The anomaly exploded throughout the entire bedchamber!

"Sect Master! What is wrong?!" Xue Biane and Si Yunxiang, who were still kneeling on the ground, along with Ling Yuxiu, Qiu Dieyi, and the other stunning beauties on the couch, were all terrified by this sudden and terrifying anomaly!

But before they could get close, a terrifying, domineering, purple-gold pure Yang Qi and blood, which exceeded the limits of this world's Law, erupted from every pore of Ye Xiu like a volcanic eruption!

"Crack! Crack!" Under the impact of this pure Yang Qi and blood, the cold jade screens made of millennium black ice and the extremely hard golden-thread nanmu tables and chairs in the bedchamber instantly turned into fine powder!

The temperature in the entire room soared at an incredible speed!

"This... what kind of power is this?!"