Chapter 869: Chapter 868: Funeral for the Heavens

Chapter 869 -868: Funeral for the Heavens

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The battle between the two Semi-Immortals over the Immortal Peach made the conflict between the Second Prince’s side and the Meng Family seem insignificant.

Meng Potian, stepping on a masked acquaintance, stared eagerly at the Iron Armored Divine Being and the ancient Qiongqi battling in the sky above the Imperial City, suddenly recalling Old Ma’s assessment of Lu Yang.

“Your Meng Family could afford to buy half of the Imperial City, right? Lu Yang’s luck could destroy half of the Imperial City.”

Even if the Imperial City were built to be extremely strong, it couldn’t possibly withstand the full-force battle of two Semi-Immortals.

Fortunately, these two Semi-Immortals hadn’t reached the end with their Dao Fruit Outlines, otherwise the Imperial City would have been destroyed even faster.

“Inverted Heavenly Gang Formation, True Shadow Exchange!” General Yu pointed at Jin Caiwei and her shadow began to rise, gradually taking the form of Jin Caiwei, only it was an outline without any detail.

General Yu could not only use his own shadow to dodge fatal calamities but could also control other people’s shadows to attack them.

“Troublesome!” Jin Caiwei frowned; she had heard from her father that Immortal Jiuchong often used this technique to exhaust his opponents when he was a Semi-Immortal. After the opponent overcame their own shadow, they would be nearly drained of strength, making it extremely difficult to deal with.

But that was for other people.

“Get back!” Jin Caiwei, employing the outline of the Plane Dao Fruit, flattened the rising shadow back into a plane, suppressing it for now. She would deal with her own shadow slowly after the battle was over.

Jin Caiwei patted her Storage Ring, and countless bone shards flew out. These bone shards were polished to extreme sharpness, capable of cutting through hair upon blowing.

“Go!”

The choice of bone shards was because at this level, most cultivators could control metal, and by using bone or other special materials as weapons, they could avoid being controlled.

Countless bone shards flew through the air, leaving startling gashes in space. General Yu parried with a flourish of his spear, but although there were many bone shards, he had faced even more of these kinds of razor-sharp flying dagger attacks, so this level was nothing to him.

However, as soon as the Fire-tip Spear touched a bone shard, the tip of the spear was chopped in half, frightening General Yu from no longer daring to resist and forcing him to flee and dodge.

How could there be bone shards so sharp in the world!

General Yu didn’t know that these bone shards had already been pressed into planes, devoid of the concept of height.

A weapon that wanted to be sharp needed to have an edge as thin as possible, and the ultimate thinness is to become a plane without height.

Without the Immortal Artifacts coming into play, no matter how good your weapon material, it would be cut through by these bone shards.

“Still dawdling over stealing a peach.”

Accompanied by the cry of a phoenix, a colorful phoenix soared across the sky, looking down on the two battling Semi-Immortals below.

All birds revere the phoenix, and among phoenixes, the colorful ones are the most revered. Naturally, the colorful phoenix was none other than Jiang Lianyi, one of the Four Imperial Protectors of the Heavenly Court.

“It’s the Nanji Nirvana Great Emperor Jiang Lianyi!”

The entire Imperial City could see the battle between the Semi-Immortals, and Jiang Lianyi made her appearance in the full view of everyone. Anyone who cared even a little about the Demon Territory could recognize Jiang Lianyi.

“Two out of the Four Imperial Protectors appearing, this is a sign of turmoil.”

“Speaking of which, there has never been an occasion when more than two of the Heavenly Court’s Four Imperial Protectors appeared at the same time.”

Compared to the less famous Jin Caiwei, Jiang Lianyi’s presence was much more known.

Although, for cultivators, the existence of General Yu was also the stuff of legend, he paled in comparison to the famed Jiang Lianyi from Ancient Times.

The crowd gasped as three Semi-Immortals appeared in the sky above the Imperial Palace all at once. Since the founding of Great Xia, there had never been a battle of this scale, especially not within the Imperial City.

“Space, lock down.” Jiang Lianyi immediately used the outline of the Survival Of The Fittest Dao Fruit as soon as she appeared, locking down the space around General Yu.

Jiang Lianyi could shatter space, which meant she was stronger than space itself, and thus could manipulate some of the power of space.

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In Ancient Times, Jiang Lianyi had already compared strengths with an unascended Immortal Jiuchong, far more familiar with how to deal with the Yin-Yang Dao Fruit Outline than Jin Caiwei.

Attacking the Yin-Yang Dao Fruit Outline with Five Elements Spells was futile; if you attacked with fire, he would counter with water, negating any attack effect, and a better method was to use Body Cultivation or to directly attack with weapons, but the best way was to manipulate space and time.

General Yu was locked in place, several shards of bone piercing through his waist and cutting him in half.

Jin Caiwei pouted; it was dreadful that just as she gained the upper hand, Jiang Lianyi suddenly burst in and stole her thunder.

As the three Semi-Immortals battled fiercely, Lu Yang, exhausted to death, finally made it through most of Imperial City and finally saw the Imperial Palace.

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Within the Imperial Palace, Emperor Xia, lying on the sickbed, had become skin and bones, his lips parched, with all kinds of spirit pills and precious treasures piled beside the bed that could extend one’s lifespan just by their mere presence.

But for Emperor Xia, whose lifespan was exhausted, they were of no use.

His eyesight was hazy, as if he sensed the great battle of the three Semi-Immortals outside the palace, and felt Lu Yang rushing towards him with the life-saving Immortal item.

He struggled to turn his head, but now, he was so weak that even turning his head was impossible, and he could only move his eyeballs.

He knew that Lu Yang wanted to save him, but he also knew that he wouldn’t last until then.

“I… I… still have so much to do…”

He had not yet spread education, had not reduced the cost of medical treatment, had not cleared the officialdom of corruption, had not exterminated the Demon Cultivators, had not eradicated the Ancient Cultivators…

Most importantly, he had not designated his successor.

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However, at this moment, Lu Yangxin’s heartbeat quickened; no, not only his, but all the citizens of Great Xia’s hearts inexplicably accelerated, as if something bad was happening, touching the hearts of all.

A red glow shot up into the sky from within the Imperial Palace, the light ribbon-like, drifting in the air as if a lost person searching for their future direction.

Lu Yang showed a confused expression, not understanding what had happened.

Meng Potian and Meng Kuang saw this scene from afar, sharing the same sensation as Lu Yang, the difference being that they knew what had happened.

Emperor Xia’s funeral ceremony commenced without naming a successor, and without Jiang Pingan to soothe the Power of National Fate, it went out of control and unbound.

If one wished to control the Power of National Fate, they would either have to wait for Jiang Pingan’s return or for one of the princes to ascend the throne.

Neither of those methods was feasible at the moment.

Because an Immortal had appeared.

“Finally, I have waited for this opportunity.”

A deep laugh echoed through the heavens, merely by the sound of which the clouds above Imperial City dispersed, and the Jinsha River that flowed through the city came to a halt.

The old man with gray hair walked through the air with his hands behind his back, arriving above the Imperial Palace, utterly indifferent to the shocked or angry glances from below. Instead, he gazed at the bewildered national fate with a smile, intoxicated by the sight.

Lu Yang and Jin Caiwei were very familiar with this gray-haired elder; they had just met him not long ago.

The Dean of Taixue Academy, Qi Xiuya.

But he had another, more resounding identity and name.

The first Imperial Teacher of Great Yu, Guan Shanhai.