98: You want to be buried alive with my Holy Empress, my master, you dog emperor? Are you out of your mind?

Great Liang Imperial Dynasty.

Inside the Holy Emperor's sleeping quarters.

Xuanyuan Baizhi, dressed in a bright yellow imperial robe, leaned against the Dragon Throne with a pale face.

"Lost..."

"Little Thief, you truly are a jinx~" Recalling Cao Meng, the culprit who caused her efforts to fail, Xuanyuan Baizhi's sacred face showed little resentment, only helplessness.

"If I had known you had such great ability to overturn the Li Clan Sword Tomb, I wouldn't have gotten involved..."

"If I had known it would end like this, I should have listened to you and used your Pure Yang Sacred Body to Breakthrough to the Saint Realm~"

"Now, it's too late to say anything!"

Thinking of the outcome she might soon face, a hint of regret inevitably appeared on Xuanyuan Baizhi's beautiful, immortal face.

Ultimately, this was still a world of the strong.

If she were a Saint Domain Master.

With her nineteenth Realm Time Sword Immortal power, she would have been able to resolve the situation.

Unfortunately, she was only an Earthly Sword Immortal.

Although both Earthly Sword Immortal and Saint Domain Sword Immortal could be called Sword Immortals, the difference in their strength was like heaven and earth.

With the destruction of the Li Clan Sword Tomb, Xuanyuan Baizhi also lost the one hundred thousand imperial iron cavalry under her control.

This was an army of one hundred thousand composed purely of Cultivators.

With a divine general leading them, they could even slay saints and destroy immortals.

There was also the previously destroyed Yanbei Royal Residence, which was her biggest support in the imperial court.

But now... outside the hall, Saint Domain Masters under Crown Prince Xiao Ce were eyeing her covetously.

That Dog Emperor Xiao Li was also about to be finished.

The key was... "I wonder how that Little Thief is doing now. After I die, will he occasionally think of me, his Cheap Master?" Xuanyuan Baizhi sighed softly.

In her final moments, her mind recalled that scoundrel Little Thief, that handsome face.

"Master, is that Little Thief you're talking about me?"

Just then, a familiar voice sounded in her ear.

"Cao Meng?"

Xuanyuan Baizhi shook her head blankly, "I must be going crazy. That Little Thief should be holed up in White Deer Academy right now. Moreover, this Holy Palace Forbidden Ground is guarded by several Saint Domain Masters at the door. How could he get in?"

"Hey, beauty, I'm right in front of you. Why don't you look at me?"

The helpless voice sounded again.

"Ah~"

Xuanyuan Baizhi looked sideways.

She saw the Thief Cao Disciple standing next to her Dragon bed, arms crossed, smiling at her.

"You Little Thief, how did you get in?!"

Xuanyuan Baizhi was greatly alarmed... Suddenly, a cold wind blew in from outside.

The Holy Empress shivered, looked down, and quickly tightened her loose robes.

"Of course, I walked in."

Cao Meng said with a smile, pouring himself a cup of tea.

"Walked in?" The Holy Empress looked outside suspiciously.

Indeed, the aura of the Saint Domain Master was still there.

"What are you doing here? To be buried with me?!" Xuanyuan Baizhi growled in a low voice:

"However you came in, go out the same way. Just remember to avenge me!"

Just then, a eunuch's loud cry suddenly came from outside the hall.

"His Majesty the Emperor arrives!"

"It's too late, hide first!"

Xuanyuan Baizhi pointed to the large wardrobe nearby, "Hurry!"

"Uh, this..."

Cao Meng was stunned. Why did he feel like he was a secret lover hiding from someone else's husband?

But he still obediently hid inside the wardrobe.

In a short while, footsteps approached.

Cao Meng peeked through the cabinet crack.

He saw several beardless, castrated eunuchs carrying long swords, escorting a Dragon palanquin inside.

On the palanquin, an Old Emperor, wearing a five-clawed golden Dragon robe, with white hair and beard, and a face like withered tree bark, was half-reclining.

Behind him was a group of imperial guards.

The Old Emperor was half-reclining, his breath faint.

He looked so frail that a fart could kill him.

"Greetings, Your Majesty!"

Xuanyuan Baizhi bowed respectfully, her expression calm.

"Baizhi, quickly, quickly dispense with the formalities~ cough cough cough~"

The Old Emperor brightened up upon seeing Xuanyuan Baizhi, even struggling to sit up.

"All of you, withdraw!"

"This, Your Majesty, your safety..." The leading white-haired eunuch hesitated slightly.

"Safety? Haha, Grand Consort, I am a dying man. The edict of succession has already been written. Is safety still that important?" The Old Emperor laughed miserably, his smile terrifying.

"But~"

"There are no 'buts'. I only wish to be with my beloved Empress in my final moments! You all may leave~"

"Yes!"

The eunuch didn't insist and turned to leave.

"Dragon Qi dissipating, Luck lost, he is indeed about to die." Cao Meng looked closely and saw that the Old Emperor's true Dragon Qi was almost gone.

"Empress, come here, sit by my side."

After all the attendants had left, the Old Emperor looked at Xuanyuan Baizhi with anticipation and beckoned to her.

Unexpectedly, Xuanyuan Baizhi didn't give him a good look: "Your Majesty, just speak your mind."

"Alas, it seems the Empress still hates me."

The Old Emperor smiled tragically, a trace of reminiscence flashing in his dim old eyes: "Twenty years ago, when I first met the Empress by the Luo River, I was truly astonished. Your beauty and charm made me unforgettable. At that time, I decided that in this life, I would marry no one but you."

"Indeed, Heaven opened its eyes and granted my wish."

"Empress, tell me, how have I treated you all these years?"

"Very well." Xuanyuan Baizhi nodded.

"Yes, very well." The Old Emperor chuckled, "I know you have always resented me for using unscrupulous means to force you to marry into the imperial palace."

"You also gave me a beautiful dream that spanned twenty years. For these twenty years, I only wanted to live happily with a woman, but I never thought it was all a dream. You actually used your maid to replace yourself. Haha, am I really that worthless?"

"Exactly." Xuanyuan Baizhi was too lazy to say more to him, her tone filled with nothing but contempt.

"Haha, good!"

Upon hearing this, the Old Emperor's eyes turned red, staring fiercely at Xuanyuan Baizhi, "Good, Xuanyuan Baizhi! If not for an outsider offering a pill that restored my sanity, I would probably have been dreaming until my death!"

Hoo~

After a series of gasps, the Old Emperor gritted his silver teeth.

"Empress, you are truly ruthless. All these years, you have controlled the government, suppressed my Imperial Dynasty's princes, and seized the Great Liang's Luck for your own use. Have I ever said a word?"

"You wanted to emulate the Empress of Southern Chu and Empress Wu Zhou, seizing power after my death, and I turned a blind eye!"

"Tell me, what must I do to win your true heart?"

The Old Emperor grew more and more indignant as he spoke, his old eyes turning red.

"Xuanyuan Baizhi, you have such a hard heart!" The Old Emperor looked at Xuanyuan Baizhi with deep resentment. After a long while, he took a deep breath:

"Since you can't think straight, then so be it!"

"If I can't have your heart, having your person will suffice. To sleep with you eternally in the imperial mausoleum after death, it will not have been in vain for me, the Emperor, to have ruled Great Liang for fifty years!"

Hearing this, Cao Meng in the wardrobe also shivered.

This Old Emperor, what a ruthless method.

The Empress buried alive with him.

Crazy even in death~