I, a spoiled young master, conquered the Crown Princess right from the start!

puff.

A soft sound.

Lu Tianxing's body froze in mid-air; his outstretched hand was only three inches from Bai Zijun's head.

The sneer and disdain on his face froze completely.

A thin line of blood slowly emerged from between his eyebrows and then spread downwards.

The next second, he was like a watermelon cleaved in two by the sharpest blade, silently splitting in two, his blood and internal organs spilling onto the ground with a "splash".

The entire venue was deathly silent.

Uncle Fu and the surviving Xuanjia guards around him all gaped, dumbfounded.

Xiao Nihuang's beautiful, spirited eyes widened in shock, her mind in turmoil.

One sword!

Just one sword strike!

A royal elder at the peak of the Void Realm... just like that, he died?

"These... these old guys actually crawled out of the imperial tomb." Chu Tianyuan muttered to himself as he looked at the two halves of the corpse. For the first time, his usually calm face showed an extremely solemn expression. "It seems that the world of the Great Qian Dynasty is really about to change."

He turned his head, glanced at Bai Zijun who had expressionlessly withdrawn his left hand and pointed his sword, and ordered in a deep voice, "Uncle Fu, find a decent box, put this old man's head in it, and send someone to deliver it back to the palace tonight, as... our Prince's Mansion's return gift to His Majesty."

"Yes, Your Highness." Uncle Fu was startled and quickly responded and withdrew.

After dealing with all this, Chu Tianyuan didn't say anything more, only gave a few instructions, and then walked alone towards a secluded courtyard deep inside the Prince's Mansion.

That courtyard was a forbidden area of ​​the Prince's mansion; no one but himself was allowed to set foot there.

Passing through the overgrown courtyard, Chu Tianyuan pushed open the stone door of a long-sealed secret room.

Inside the secret chamber, there was nothing but a towering statue, three zhang tall, standing in the very center.

The statue's face was blurry, yet it exuded an aura of vastness and dominance that seemed to come from the ancient past.

On the offering table in front of the statue, a small white jade bottle, about the size of a palm, sits quietly.

Chu Tianyuan walked to the statue, straightened his robes, knelt down solemnly, and kowtowed three times respectfully.

"Ancestors above, your unworthy descendant Chu Tianyuan pays his respects."

He slowly rose, picked up the white jade bottle, uncorked it, and a drop of essence blood, radiating a dazzling golden light and containing endless life force and terrifying energy, slowly floated out of the bottle.

Chu Tianyuan looked at the drop of blood essence, a complex look flashing in his eyes, which then transformed into endless determination.

"I thought I would live out my life in this northern wilderness in an ordinary way."

"But I never expected that my Chu family would produce a true prodigy."

"The hope of my Chu family has reappeared. Since that's the case, I, as the grandfather, can't be too useless and give people the impression that my Chu family is easy to bully!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he opened his mouth and swallowed the drop of golden blood essence into his stomach!

boom!!!

An indescribable, terrifying energy, like a volcano that had been dormant for millions of years, suddenly erupted within his body!

Golden divine light burst forth from every pore of his body, illuminating the entire secret chamber as a golden ocean!

His body began to tremble violently, his bones cracking and popping, and his full head of black hair instantly turned into a dazzling gold, moving without wind!

A terrifying aura slowly revived from the depths of his bloodline...

The Imperial Palace, the Imperial Study.

Lu Tianqian paced anxiously back and forth in the hall, waiting for the news of the massacre of the Zhenbei Prince's Mansion from the Fourth Elder, Lu Tianxing.

In his view, with a clan elder at the Void Realm personally taking action, the Zhenbei Prince's Mansion, apart from that old scoundrel Chu Tianyuan, had no chance of escaping unscathed.

Just then, a young eunuch came running in, his voice shrill and filled with fear.

"Your Majesty...Your Majesty! The Prince of Zhenbei's Mansion...the Prince of Zhenbei's Mansion has sent a congratulatory gift!"

"A congratulatory gift?" Lu Tianqian frowned, a sense of foreboding rising in his heart.

He strode out of the imperial study and saw a black-armored guard standing quietly outside the hall, with an exquisite wooden box in front of him.

Upon seeing Lu Tianqian emerge, the Xuanjia Guard opened the wooden box expressionlessly.

A head with its eyes wide open in death was starkly displayed before Lu Tianqian.

"Four...Fourth Elder!"

When Lu Tianqian saw the face of the head clearly, he felt a darkness before his eyes, as if struck by lightning. He staggered back a few steps and collapsed to the ground.

died?

The four clan elders, all at the peak of the Void Realm, are dead just like that?!

The news quickly reached the other three elders who were meditating. Upon learning of Lu Tianxing's tragic death, they were furious!

"This is outrageous!"

"How dare that mere Prince Zhenbei's mansion murder an elder of my Lu clan! They've rebelled! They've truly defied the heavens!"

"Let's go! Come with me. Tonight, we'll make sure that Prince Zhenbei's mansion is utterly wiped out!"

A terrifying aura of the Celestial Realm and two auras of the Void Realm surged into the sky, and three aged figures transformed into streaks of light, carrying overwhelming killing intent, heading straight for the Zhenbei Prince's Mansion.

However, one night passed.

The next morning, when Lu Tianqian awoke from his fear and unease and stepped out of his bedchamber, three eunuchs knelt tremblingly before him, carrying three identical wooden boxes.

Lu Tianqian's heart sank to the bottom.

He reached out with trembling hands and opened the three wooden boxes one by one.

Three heads, all with their eyes wide open in death, were neatly arranged there.

These were the other three clan elders who stormed into the Zhenbei Prince's Mansion in a fit of rage last night!

"ah--!"

Lu Tianqian let out a shrill scream that was so mournful it was inhuman. He could no longer bear the enormous blow, his eyes rolled back, and he fainted.

When he slowly regained consciousness, he seemed to have been drained of all his energy and was in a state of madness.

"To the imperial mausoleum! Quickly! To the imperial mausoleum, find the retired emperor!"

……

Outside the capital, on the official road.

Chu Feng, accompanied by Zhuge Xuan and Zhuge Yue, was leisurely walking towards the capital.

Just as they were about to reach the city gate, a series of heavy yet orderly footsteps came from ahead.

An army clad in dark gold armor, wearing ferocious masks, and exuding an overwhelming aura of malevolence blocked their path.

It is the Golden Guard!

The leader of the Golden Guard pointed at Chu Feng from afar, his voice cold and devoid of any emotion.

"Target confirmed, kill without mercy!"

"kill!"

The three thousand Golden Guards roared in unison, without uttering a single word. They instantly raised their specially made armor-piercing crossbows, and a rain of arrows, like a black storm of death, swept over Chu Feng and his companions.