When I stopped licking, the lady panicked.

"Young Master's foresight is unparalleled; how could you possibly fathom his true nature?" Xuan Ming's tone remained icy, as sinister as his name. "Yun Cheng, will you yield, or not?"

"No way!" Yun Cheng said viciously, "You think you're worthy to hurt my father!"

"Then I'll have to deal with you too." After saying that, Xuanming suddenly transformed into a black shadow, and then the other black-armored soldiers swarmed forward.

The two groups instantly became entangled in a fierce battle.

The four guards brought by Yun Cheng were all at the Earth Profound Realm, but the Black Armor Army, as the foundation of the Lin family, was even more formidable.

Figures moved about in the jungle, and after a few rounds, all four guards were eliminated.

At this moment, only Yun Cheng remained in front of the carriage.

The black-armored army slowly approached. Yun Cheng stood there expressionless, then suddenly let out a sinister laugh.

Xuanming frowned, and without wasting words with him, directly ordered his men to attack.

As a result, just as the Black Armor Army was about to swarm forward, the corpses of the four guards suddenly stood up.

This scene startled the Black Armor Army, causing them to retreat in disarray.

Xuanming's expression was grave. He asked, "Not dead?"

But when the four guards looked up, the cold moonlight shone on their faces, and their stiff features and lifeless eyes clearly said that they were dead.

But if he's dead, why can he stand up?

Just as Xuanming and the others looked puzzled, Yun Cheng suddenly slapped a guard on the head.

The guard's body convulsed rapidly, as if struck by lightning.

As the convulsions became faster and faster, the guard's body swelled up even more.

Finally, with a muffled "bang," the guard's body exploded, turning into a bloody mist.

A crystal-clear spine was suspended perfectly in mid-air.

Yun Cheng grasped the spine with one hand, and the other bones seemed to be summoned, converging towards the spine.

Immediately, the entire spine transformed into a spine sword, which Yun Cheng grasped in his hand.

This scene stunned the Black Armor Army. Even though they were well-informed, they had never seen such a bizarre move before.

Not to mention them, even Lin Xuan, who had lived two lives, had never seen such martial arts.

The moment the spine sword was drawn, Yun Cheng's aura underwent a dramatic change. Streams of black energy surged from his body, instantly turning the entire world pitch black, even obscuring the moonlight with dark clouds.

Immediately, Yun Cheng vanished from the spot, and the sounds of fighting and screams echoed throughout the forest.

……

At this very moment, outside the imperial city.

"You really killed the Emperor's brother-in-law?" Luo Qingxue was shocked, her face pale. She covered her mouth and looked at Lin Xuan in disbelief. "Are you crazy? Tomorrow is the enthronement ceremony. All the imperial relatives will be there. You killed the Empress's brother. How are you going to explain this to His Majesty?"

Lin Xuan said, "Therefore, I need your help."

"Me? I'm just a woman, how can I help you?" Luo Qingxue said.

Lin Xuan said, "You are not just a woman, you are also the daughter of the Left Prime Minister."

Luo Qingxue sighed and said, "But my father has long lost power in the court. His Majesty has reduced his power and concentrated all power in his own hands, greatly strengthening the central government. Some people even say that His Majesty wants to abolish the position of prime minister."

Lin Xuan said, "If the emperor really wanted to abolish the prime minister, he would have done so long ago. The fact that he hasn't done so only shows that the left and right prime ministers still wield considerable influence."

"If we don't do something now, it will be too late when the day comes that we are deposed as prime minister."

Luo Qingxue sighed and said, "If it's just my father alone, I'm afraid..."

"It's not just your father, there's also the Right Chancellor," Lin Xuan said.

Luo Qingxue was taken aback and said, "The Right Prime Minister is also willing to help you?"

"The Right Chancellor has always been on good terms with my late father, so he will naturally help me," Lin Xuan said.

Luo Qingxue remained silent for a moment, but in the end, she chose to believe the man in front of her.

She didn't understand why she trusted Lin Xuan, but compared to Xiao Zhan, she felt more at ease with Lin Xuan, so she simply helped him.

"Alright, I'll talk to my dad." Luo Qingxue nodded.

Lin Xuan smiled slightly and said, "Thank you."

Luo Qingxue snorted, saying with a hint of reproach, "You scoundrel, you actually know how to say thank you?"

Lin Xuan smiled but remained silent.

Suddenly, the night sky took an unexpected turn; a dark cloud obscured the moonlight, plunging the area outside the city into complete darkness.

Lin Xuan immediately sensed something was wrong, and an ominous premonition rose in his heart.

Just then, a figure suddenly appeared in front of them.

Lin Xuan immediately summoned his demonic spear and shielded Luo Qingxue behind him.

Although Luo Qingxue was quite powerful, as a woman, she still longed to be protected by a man.

When Lin Xuan's strong arms shielded Luo Qingxue, Luo Qingxue's heart suddenly started racing.

"Who!" Lin Xuan pointed his gun forward.

"Young...Young Master..." Xuanming's weak voice came from under the dark night sky.

Upon hearing this, Lin Xuan was taken aback and exclaimed, "Xuan Ming?"

Xuanming fell to the ground and crawled with difficulty to Lin Xuan's side.

Lin Xuan squatted down and lit a tinderbox, only to see a person with gouged eyes, bleeding profusely, and covered in wounds appear before him.

"what!"

Luo Qingxue screamed in fright and instinctively threw herself on Lin Xuan.

Lin Xuan patted Luo Qingxue on the back to comfort her, and then looked closely at the person in front of him. It was Xuan Ming.

"Young Master... is that you?" Xuanming's eyes had been gouged out, and he could not see the scene in front of him at all.

He groped his way through the darkness and finally found Lin Xuan.

"It's me, Xuanming. What happened? Didn't I tell you to stop Yun Cheng from breaking into the prison?" Lin Xuan asked.

Upon hearing Yun Cheng's name, Xuan Ming's body suddenly trembled, as if he had recalled some terrible memory.

"Young...Young Master, they're all dead..." Xuanming said, trembling.

"Who died?" Lin Xuan asked, puzzled.

"My... brothers who went with me are all dead..." Xuanming said, then suddenly laughed, as if he had gone mad.

Seeing his erratic behavior, Luo Qingxue and Lin Xuan exchanged bewildered glances, wondering what had happened.

"What did Yun Cheng do to scare the leader of the Black Armor Army like this?" Lin Xuan muttered to himself.

"He's not human! Young master, he's not human! He pulled out a spine, right in front of us, he pulled a spine out of the corpses, and those corpses came back to life! They all came back to life! We're dead, all of us are dead!"

Xuanming was acting erratically, spouting nonsensical things.

"Spine removal?" Lin Xuan frowned, suddenly remembering what Long Die had said before.

The name of a sect suddenly appeared in his mind at this moment.

"The Bright Soul Sect!" Lin Xuan frowned. "Yun Cheng, is he from the Bright Soul Sect?"

Luo Qingxue looked at Lin Xuan with a puzzled expression and asked, "What is the Minghun Sect?"

"You don't know?" Lin Xuan looked at Luo Qingxue in disbelief.

He had seen the memories of Master Xiaoxiang, and those memories told him that the Minghun Sect belonged to the imperial court.

However, it's quite strange that Luo Qingxue, as the daughter of the Left Prime Minister, a high-ranking official in the court, had never even heard of the Minghun Sect.