Secular world: My destiny has no taboos

Chapter 590-600: The Beginning (Part 1)

"Your Majesty, it seems someone has broken into the palace!" An old eunuch with a full head of white hair walked in through the palace gate and leaned down to speak to the young man sitting on the dragon throne.

Yang Guang, with his hair disheveled and holding a book in his hand, only slightly raised his eyes after hearing the old eunuch's words, his handsome face as calm as still water.
"My lord, tell me, who could possibly travel thousands of miles to harm me?"

Upon hearing this, the old eunuch's face immediately showed horror, his shoulders trembled involuntarily, and his expression was full of fear.

"General Feng has already gone there. The thief who broke into the palace is only at the Divine Realm; he will certainly not frighten His Majesty!" the old eunuch assured him.

Yang Guang smiled dismissively: "Daban, those mediocre people don't know my strength, but don't you know it yourself?"

"What I'm worried about isn't the person who broke into the palace, but the person who hovered over my head that day and almost killed me."

That incident remains unforgettable for Yang Guang to this day.

The feeling of truly facing death kept him up at night for a while.

If it weren't for the Purple Dragon Qi protecting him, he might have been wiped out by the other party that day, becoming the first emperor in history to die suddenly.

"This servant deserves to die for failing to protect His Majesty's safety!"

The old eunuch was bowing low. Although his strength was as high as that of a celestial being, he had been tempered by the majesty of the royal family for many years, and his fear and respect for imperial power had long been ingrained in his bones.

Therefore, when Yang Guang said that he was almost killed, his first reaction was to blame himself.

"Haha, it's not your fault. That person cursed me from thousands of miles away. How many people could have guessed that and could have stopped him?"

"What surprised me was that he eventually stopped."

Yang Guang shook his head and began to peruse the book in front of him again.

"By the way, you said someone broke into my palace?" Suddenly, Yang Guang seemed to have just realized something: "Interesting, I'd like to meet this person who broke into the palace."

Seeing Yang Guang smile, the old eunuch breathed a sigh of relief.

"His Majesty is unlikely to see him again; the person who stormed the palace is probably already dead."

Yang Guang sighed upon hearing this, looking regretful.

However, at that moment, a guard stumbled into the hall, his armor covered in frost, and he looked panicked.

"Your Majesty, the rebels have already reached the Meridian Gate!"

"What?!" The old eunuch was shocked and furious upon hearing this.

His aura surged dramatically, and he even faintly resembled a serpent.

Although eunuchs are castrated, they are able to walk paths that men cannot walk, and even go further than women.

A chilling aura enveloped the hall, and the guard felt as if the eunuch before him had transformed into a venomous dragon dripping with green venom, roaring angrily at him.

"That thief's methods are extremely strange. Although she is only at the Divine Realm, General Feng and hundreds of imperial guards are unable to deal with her."

"Oh? Then I'll have to meet him." Yang Guang's lips curled into a smile, and he said with great interest.

He put down the book in his hand and stepped down from the dragon throne.

"Let's go and see this intruder."

……

On the other side, Huang Shifu was already surrounded. She looked at the Imperial Guards she had frozen and frowned deeply.

"I only want to see your emperor, I don't want to hurt you."

No matter what she said, a steady stream of people continued to gather around her.

An arrow was shot, intending to take her life, but before it could get within two meters of her, the arrow lost power and fell from mid-air.

As time went on, the people who came to stop her became stronger and stronger, and she could no longer withstand the strain and began to show signs of fatigue.

Finally, a tall and imposing figure wearing a tiger-head gleaming armor slowly emerged from the crowd in front of her.

The night watchman, Jin Yi.

He walked into the frozen crowd, looked around, and nodded indifferently, as if praising Huang Shifu for the commotion she had caused.

"Not bad, it took an extremely cold route, but unfortunately it wasn't cold enough for me."

"Snapped!!"

Jin clasped his hands together; his right arm was covered with strange patterns that shimmered with a dangerous metallic luster and exuded a chilling aura.

He slowly raised his right hand, and the skin on his palm suddenly tore open, from which a thick, red liquid flowed out.

The liquid radiated high temperatures, like lava erupting from a volcano.

The collision of the hot and cold air generated a large amount of water vapor, which instantly covered the entire ground.

Huang Shifu's eyelids trembled. She could clearly feel that the aura emanating from the other party was dozens of times stronger than her own, and that arm was no ordinary arm, but rather a divinely created organ of the other party.

Jin Yi's footsteps echoed slowly through the mist, each step feeling like it was treading on Huang Shifu's heart.

He said calmly, "You dare to trespass into the palace as a mere Divine Realm cultivator? You are indeed quite bold. Moreover, you have come all the way here, which is also a dereliction of duty on my part as a night watchman."

The bright red blood flowed across the earth like molten lava, dispelling the surrounding chill and transforming into a large amount of steam that enveloped the two of them.

The imperial guards who had been frozen by Huang Shifu awoke from their icy state. She did not want to take their lives, so she did not completely seal their life force. They awoke quickly after the ice and snow melted.

"Those who are still alive, get out of here immediately. Don't stand here and bother me." Jin Yi said sternly, as if he could see the Imperial Guards awakening in the hazy mist.

"I won't kill you since you didn't intend to, but I don't know what will happen to you if you're caught."

In the short time it took to speak, Jin Yi had already walked up to Huang Shifu, his body half-shrouded in mist, the ferocious tiger head on his armor appearing and disappearing in the mist.

Huang Shifu's heartbeat gradually quickened, and the snow rabbit on her shoulder bared its teeth, revealing a fierce expression.

The man and the rabbit seemed to be in dire straits at this moment.

However, to Jin Yi's surprise, the person in front of him seemed completely unfazed. He had already closed to within five meters of the other party, and with the strength of a Human Immortal, he could have subdued the other party in an instant. Yet, the other party showed no intention of retreating and instead took a step forward.

Huang Shifu took a deep breath and repeated what she had said before: "I am here to see the Emperor, please do not stop me."

"If you won't listen to reason, you'll have to suffer the consequences." Jin's eyes turned cold, and blood gathered in his right arm, making it look less like a human hand and more like a fiery fist formed from magma.

His figure suddenly disappeared from the spot, and when he reappeared, he was already in front of Huang Shifu, his right arm raised high and then falling down.

Before making his move, Jin Yi watched Huang Shifu's fight against Feng Kuanshi, the leader of the Imperial Guards, and clearly knew Huang Shifu's strength. He knew that Huang Shifu would definitely not be able to withstand his punch.

Even so, he still couldn't see any fear in the other person's eyes, or even raise his hand to resist.

However, at that moment, an even more intense chill suddenly erupted from behind Huang Shifu, and a blue phantom emerged from behind her, raising its hand to gently catch Jin Yi's punch.

"boom!!"

A violent wind pressure swept out from between the two sides, instantly engulfing the entire imperial city. The wind pressure carried an extreme chill, and wherever it passed, a layer of frost immediately condensed on the ground.

Jin Yi's body flew out of the mist like a cannonball and slammed heavily against the tall palace wall. He looked at Huang Shifu's slender figure in utter shock, unable to believe that he had been repelled.

"What was that force just now?"

Jin Yi climbed out of the sunken wall and looked down at his right arm. He saw that his right arm was completely frozen, preventing the seepage of blood and the flow of divine power.

Huang Shifu didn't seem surprised by what she was seeing. Since the Immortal Lord of Guanghan had sent her to inform Yang Guang, he must have left something on her to prevent her from easily falling into a life-or-death situation.

Lin Beixuan knew this, which is why he didn't give Huang Shifu anything to save her life, but instead gave her the power to kill.

"Are you still going to stop me?" Huang Shifu looked at Jin Yi, the azure phantom behind her becoming even more condensed.

Jin Yi's gaze swept over the afterimage behind him, and the corner of his mouth twitched slightly.

Although the two had only briefly touched, he already knew that he was no match for Huang Shifu.

Faced with the opponent's terrifying divine power, he was like a person standing under a huge iceberg; how insignificant he was between the two.

His right arm, now completely unusable due to its divine creation, still resolutely stood in front of Huang Shifu.

"I don't know who you are, but the imperial city is a forbidden area, not a place you can just barge into!"

Jin Yi stood with a stern face on the only path Huang Shifu could take. He unfolded his Immortal Realm, and a phantom of a flowing sea of ​​magma appeared within it.

Huang Shifu frowned deeply. She had already wasted a lot of time and didn't want to continue this stalemate with these people. She wanted to see the emperor as soon as possible and clarify things.

Just then, a burst of clapping sounded from not far away.

"Clap clap clap..."

Huang Shifu and Jin Yi both looked in the direction of the sound. Huang Shifu remained expressionless, while Jin Yi quickly knelt on one knee and respectfully greeted the newcomer, "Your Majesty!"

Upon hearing those two words, Huang Shifu's pupils contracted.

This was the first time she had ever seen a real emperor.

I used to only see them on TV, dressed in yellow robes, high above others, wielding the power of life and death in feudal dynasties, possessing an unparalleled aura of kingship.

But the person in front of her was different from the emperor she remembered. He looked somewhat frivolous and didn't seem like an emperor at all; he was more like a street ruffian.

Beside the emperor was an old eunuch who was bowing deeply, but the old eunuch looked at her with a fierce gaze.

Yang Guang looked Huang Shifu up and down, put down his clapping hands, and said with a smile, "I heard you broke into the palace to find me."

Huang Shifu took a deep breath and tried to compose herself: "That's right, I have something important to tell you."

Yang Guang stared at Huang Shifu for a while, and the surrounding mist slowly condensed into a chair behind him. Without looking at him, he bent down and sat down, propping his elbows on the chair, and said with great interest.

“Interesting. I didn’t expect that there would still be some of you common princes remaining in Jingzhou. What I didn’t expect even more is that you actually dared to break into the palace.”

Yang Guang shook his head and sighed, "I'm in a good mood today, so tell me. If you can convince me, I might be able to spare your life."

The old eunuch stood behind Yang Guang, seemingly wanting to say something but holding back, his eyes growing even fiercer, as if he were about to strike and kill Huang Shifu at any moment.

A gust of wind blew by, slightly dispersing the fog that had gathered on the field.

Jin Yi walked to Yang Guang's side, his eyes warily fixed on Huang Shifu.

Immediately afterwards, more figures appeared behind Yang Guang, their eyes fixed on Huang Shifu with menacing intent, like fierce dogs about to be released from their cages.

Having confirmed that the person in front of him was Yang Guang, Huang Shifu had no intention of causing any more trouble, so he went straight to the point.

"I have come here by order of the Immortal Lord of the Moon Palace to inform the rulers of past dynasties of something."

Guanghan Immortal Lord...

Upon hearing these four words, Yang Guang's smile gradually faded, and he tapped his fingertips lightly on his knee, as if he were deep in thought.

He frowned and stared at Huang Shifu: "The Twelve Zodiac Gods, the mortal masters?"

Yang Guang originally came here just to have some fun, but he didn't expect that this worldly prince would actually reveal the name of the worldly master.

Huang Shifu continued talking, recounting in detail what the Guanghan Immortal Lord had instructed her to do, and also told Yang Guang that the Beiming Lord had agreed to a ceasefire.

During Huang Shifu's speech, no one interrupted, but they would occasionally glance at Yang Guang, who was sitting in the mist chair.

Yang Guang said coldly, "Young Master, do you know what the consequences will be if you lie to me?"

Huang Shifu frowned: "I'm only responsible for relaying the message. Whether you believe it or not is up to you."

The old eunuch stared at Huang Shifu, his expression unfriendly: "Your Majesty, could this person be a delaying tactic deliberately sent by the Lord of Beiming to buy us time?"

Yang Guang didn't speak, but looked at the illusory figure behind Huang Shifu.

The extreme chill had not yet dissipated. Although it was not directed at anyone, no one present could fail to sense the terrifying pressure emanating from the phantom.

It's not some minor deity or immortal being; it's the true aura of gods and immortals.

Yang Guang silently exhaled and said calmly, "The Immortal Lord wants us to unite and resist those things behind the door."

"Indeed, we should take a longer-term view. The most important thing right now is the enemy outside the region, not the few prefectures in front of us."

He slowly stood up and bowed to Huang Shi, saying, "I will carefully consider what you have to say, young lady."

Huang Shifu was surprised that Yang Guang was so easy to talk to, and for a moment he was not able to react. After a while, he slowly nodded.

"Farewell!"

Huang Shifu glanced at Yang Guang and the people behind him, then turned to leave.

But at that moment, the old eunuch beside Yang Guang suddenly launched an attack, and the terrifying pressure of the Immortal Realm instantly enveloped Huang Shifu's head.

"His Majesty is grateful for your act of delivering the message and will not punish you, but how can we, your servants, be humiliated in front of our master? You think you can just come and go as you please after storming the palace?"

The old eunuch's voice was incredibly cold. His Immortal Realm expanded along with his surging divine power, like a raging wave, rushing towards Huang Shifu.

At the same time, Jin Yi also suddenly attacked, his left arm wrapped in divine power and swung out fiercely, the resulting wind and waves even causing the surrounding palace walls to crack.

"you!"

Huang Shifu suddenly turned around, and the illusory figure behind him, which was about to dissipate, solidified again, as if it was about to open its eyes.

She traveled thousands of miles to send a message, hoping that all dynasties could prioritize worldly affairs like the Northern Underworld Army. She only broke into the palace because she couldn't find any other way to see Yang Guang.

Unexpectedly, Yang Guang, who seemed to be magnanimous in letting her go, allowed his subordinates to attack her.

Huang Shifu looked at the two people who were attacking, a faint killing intent appearing in her eyes. This time she was truly angry.

Just as the illusory figure of the Moon Goddess was about to take a step forward, an even faster force appeared.

The jade pendant that Lin Beixuan had given to Huang Shifu sensed the killing intent emanating from Huang Shifu and flew out like lightning, blocking the old eunuch and Jin Yi.

Immediately, Lin Beixuan's voice came from the jade pendant, accompanied by surging flames of calamity, and exploded in the domains of the old eunuch and Jin Yi.

(End of this chapter)