Chapter 773: Kinkiller

Tu Jiuniang stared at Tu Feng with tears in her eyes. She bit her lip, but stubbornly refused to give in.

𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦

"Well? Have you nothing to say?" Tu Feng asked.

Tu Jiuniang took a deep breath. Her eyes were red. "Third Brother, call me what you want. I won't let anything happen to my husband. There's no one else for me but him."

"And that's enough for you to kill your entire family?!" Tu Feng's tone was laced with frost.

"The saint used a forbidden technique on us. We had no choice!" Tu Jiuniang exclaimed.

"Nonsense. Lou Yujing could easily have suppressed Fourth Brother and the others with Li Qianjun to guard him. He could easily have broken all their limbs—that would have been better than killing them, at least. Why do you think Lou Yujing had Li Qianjun kill all my siblings?" Tu Feng's eyes were burning with rage.

"He had no other choice at the time..."

"What do you mean, no other choice? It's clear that Lou Yujing intends to take over the green knoll hidden realm and steal the foundation of our clan. He killed us all because he was worried we would stand in his way. As for you, you're just a pawn in his plan to seize control of the realm!" Tu Feng roared.

"No! My husband would never do such a thing," Tu Jiuniang exclaimed.

"And if he does?"

Tu Jiuniang gritted her teeth. "I'll accompany him."

"My dear sister, is this what you've come to? You'll kill the entirety of the Tu clan alongside Lou Yujing? I shouldn't have hoped for anything better from you. I was hoping I'd be able to shock you into realizing what you've done, but I was clearly fooling myself. You're even killing off the youngest kits of the Tu clan, the ones who still consider you their grandaunt! You're chasing them down and killing them to the last. Enemy you are, traitor you are!"

"Third Brother, regardless, I have to advise you to leave as quickly as you can. Once my husband comes back, you won't be able to leave."

"Leave? I do intend to leave—but I'll be leaving with your life as well. What Father, Mother, and all our siblings gave you, I'm taking back with me."

"I won't let you!" Tu Jiuniang shouted.

She turned to run. Tu Feng manifested nine ethereal fox's tails behind his back that reached out for Tu Jiuniang and wrapped her up.

Tu Jiuniang blanched. She shouted, "Everyone, listen to me! Tu Feng isn't dead!"

She intended for the whole city, for the whole empire, to hear her cries. Though she didn't know how Tu Feng had escaped execution, she knew that the Imperial Court needed to maintain its reputation. If it were to discover that Tu Feng was still alive, it would definitely send hunters to chase him down.

"You really are helpless!" Tu Feng thundered.

He flashed toward Tu Jiuniang and met her palm with his own. A frightening shockwave of energy filled the courtyard, but Tu Jiuniang was unable to escape before she was pushed into a black coffin.

"The black coffin hidden realm?" Tu Jiuniang exclaimed.

Xiao Nanfeng had passed his black coffin to Tu Feng, who intended to finish her off within.

Tu Jiuniang's shout had attracted the whole city's attention, but Tu Feng was, at least for the moment, out of sight. No one could confirm what they had heard.

However, plenty of officials frowned upon hearing Tu Jiuniang's shout and flew toward the palace.

A formation shimmered into existence around the palace, blocking those outside from entering.

The guards within the palace rushed into the small courtyard where Tu Feng had been. They dissipated the fog to see a Golden Immortal replacing the lid on a black coffin.

"Who are you? Where's Her Majesty?" a guard exclaimed.

Suddenly, a large group of Golden Immortals from Dazheng took to the air. They had been waiting in ambush. Two of the cultivators looked particularly unfamiliar.

"I'll hand Tu Jiuniang to your main body, then," the Golden Immortal holding onto the coffin said.

"Of course, Your Majesty. I'll deal with the matter quickly," the other Golden Immortal replied.

Clearly, one of these Golden Immortals was Xiao Nanfeng, and the other was Tu Feng's avatar. They had possessed two Golden Immortals' bodies.

"Something's fishy about them. Take them down!" a guard cried out.

"Die!" The guards charged forward.

"You dare?!" Dazheng's Golden Immortals surged forward in defense.

The resulting commotion sent cultivators flying through the air. A huge firestorm erupted, causing countless buildings within the palace to collapse. Smoke and dust rose in a cloud as flames flared.

No one could have expected that enemies had made their way into the palace. How could they have done so? Were there spies?

Hongyue's Golden Immortals had all been deployed to the field given the war at hand, and few remained in Hongyue's capital. There were only two within the palace, but they were suppressed immediately.

The defensive formation around the palace separated what lay within from what lay without. The palace had become an isolated battlefield.

Xiao Nanfeng didn't drop his guard. He stared at a hall not far away, where Lou Yujing had gone into secluded cultivation.

The doors to that hall burst open as a figure enveloped in red light emerged—none other than Lou Yujing himself.

"You're Xiao Nanfeng, aren't you? To think you would have been able to sneak into my palace," Lou Yujing thundered.

"Your Majesty? You still have an avatar here!" Hongyue's cultivators surrounded him in relief.

Xiao Nanfeng easily recognized that this was Lou Yujing's Golden Immortal avatar who had met him in Yongding several days ago.

"Lou Yujing, today is the day you'll die," Xiao Nanfeng declared.

"How overconfident you are. Since you're here now, you might as well not leave."

Lou Yujing's avatar revealed a black coffin, whose lid was wide open. A huge group of zombies rushed out, with plenty of Golden Immortals among them.

"Kill them!" Lou Yujing commanded.

The zombies roared in outrage and shot toward the Golden Immortals that Xiao Nanfeng had brought with him.

"Kill them!" Xiao Nanfeng echoed.

"Understood!" Dazheng's Golden Immortals rushed toward the zombies.

Fighting ensued the moment the two sides met.

Xiao Nanfeng headed straight for Lou Yujing. "Hegemon's Fist!"

Countless fists struck at Lou Yujing, whose face turned cold. He retaliated with a punch of his own, causing an explosion. He was sent stumbling back.

"Impossible! How could you be able to suppress me with a Golden Immortal's body?" Lou Yujing shot forward again, unwilling to back down.

An intense fight unfolded between the two cultivators. Lou Yujing was forced back again and again. Xiao Nanfeng's Hegemon's Fist was simply too potent for him to block. The zombies all around him were rapidly suppressed by Xiao Nanfeng's forces as well.

Fuming, Lou Yujing shouted, "Citizens of Hongyue, I am your emperor, Lou Yujing! Forces from Shenfeng and Dazheng are attempting to attack Hongyue's capital and destroy Hongyue. I ask that you raise your right hand and lend me your strength to eradicate these evildoers!"

The golden dragon within the sea of fortune high overhead roared, transmitting Lou Yujing's words to all the citizens of Hongyue.

The people's eyes widened in disbelief. Even so, they all raised their right hands and lent Lou Yujing their power.

Intense power surged toward the sea of fortune. The golden dragon absorbed the power and shot down toward Lou Yujing, who was far below.

Incredible power entered Lou Yujing's avatar, causing his strength to rise explosively.

Xiao Nanfeng grimaced. Knowing that the situation was unfavorable to him, he shouted, "Everyone, to me!"

"Understood!"

His Golden Immortals rushed to him as he uncorked a gourd and sucked them all inside. Then, he sent the gourd into his mindscape.

After that, countless zombies swarmed over Xiao Nanfeng.

"Die!" Xiao Nanfeng shouted.

The Golden Immortal that Xiao Nanfeng had possessed exploded, sending zombie bits flying. Meanwhile, Xiao Nanfeng vanished entirely.

Lou Yujing, who had drawn on imperial might and reached the peak of strength, suddenly discovered that his opponent was missing. He was taken aback. Had he done all that for nothing?

"Are you hiding in the red moon illusory realm? Do you really think you can escape?" Lou Yujing thundered.

He punched toward where Xiao Nanfeng had vanished. A huge hole opened up in the void, radiating with light. Lou Yujing had broken into the red moon illusory realm by force.

Within, Xiao Nanfeng frowned. He turned tail and ran.

"You won't get away!" Lou Yujing shouted.

Lou Yujing rushed into the red moon illusory realm, giving chase after Xiao Nanfeng.

Outside Taixu, Ye Sanshui blocked the Taiqing burial pagoda's advance and was intermittently able to attack Li Qianjun, leaving him flustered.

Meanwhile, the Demon Child continued to grow in strength as the battle progressed, leaving trails of blood all across his body. Li Qianjun became more and more injured. At this rate, he was certain that he would die to a thousand cuts.

"Die!" Li Qianjun shouted, his eyes flashing.

His Boundless Immortal sword slashed at the Demon Child, who retaliated with a series of lotus swords.

The techniques crashed into each other as a firestorm formed around them.

The Demon Child charged forward as he made to seize Li Qianjun's Boundless Immortal sword.

"Explode!" Li Qianjun shouted.

The Boundless Immortal relic exploded in a wave of intense heat that engulfed the Demon Child at close range.

"Demon Child!" the cultivators afar cried out.

Who could withstand such an explosion? The flames slowly dissipated, revealing what lay within. The Demon Child stood blackened, his clothes all but scorched by the flames. Blood spurted from his charred skin as he fell to the ground, spitting out a few mouthfuls of blood as he attempted to stabilize himself.

Rather than cry out in pain, he focused on Li Qianjun. His eyes brimmed with hatred. "Li Qianjun, now that you don't have that sword to defend yourself, you're done for! Haha!"

The Demon Child rose into the air and sent another flurry of swords straight toward Li Qianjun.

"No!" Li Qianjun shouted in fear.