Douluo Continent: The Eternal Order of the Azure Sky.

Because the Sun Moon Empire had taken preventative measures and evacuated personnel in advance, there were almost no casualties. Although the explosion was incredibly powerful, the area where it occurred had already been secretly cleared.

Apart from the necessary extras, the real people of the Sun Moon Empire have already moved away.

Although the economic losses were considerable, they were insignificant compared to the vast and powerful Sun Moon Empire.

However, those who originally belonged to the three great empires were in dire straits.

A rough estimate suggests that nearly one million people have been killed or injured in Pyongyang and the surrounding area. This number continues to rise as excavation work continues.

But most people inside the palace don't pay much attention to this now, and even the bright, sunrise-like spectacle in the sky didn't attract their attention for long.

Soon after, the irritating howling started again.

"Father, Father, how could you leave like this!"

Xu Guoyi's princes, as well as some princes who were relatively high in the succession, knelt before Xu Guoyi's bed, beating their chests and stamping their feet, weeping and wailing, as if they were truly heartbroken over the old emperor's death.

But no one noticed the emperor's clothes, which were gradually becoming disheveled due to the scramble for them, and his disheveled appearance in death. Or rather, even if they did notice, they didn't care.

Xu Guoyi stared wide-eyed, and no one could close his eyes in peace.

The old emperor is dead, and so is Crown Prince Xu Tianran, who was the first in line to the throne. All the princes have their own agendas, and each of them has ambition and scheming in their eyes.

Xu Tianzhen sighed deeply in his heart, stood up, and walked towards the place where the emperor had died.

A neatly armed Soul Guidance Guard blocked her path.

The soul tools they carried were not standard, and they were all extremely fierce, clearly not belonging to the Imperial Guards of the palace.

The princes, their faces flushed from crying, looked at each other.

The brothers all knew each other's true nature, and the fact that they dared to come here tonight meant they had made some preparations and were just waiting to see who would prevail.

But what does Xu Tianzhen mean here?

The Third Prince had subtly observed Xu Tianzhen's attire that evening. She was dressed in bright yellow silk and satin, adorned with a scene of ten thousand dragons galloping, and the eyes of the sun and moon were added with exquisite detail. She wore a phoenix crown and exuded majesty, yet remained composed despite her sorrow.

Whether you look at it at first glance or upon closer inspection, she appears much more composed than him. In fact, the emperor's robes, adorned with dragons reflecting the sun and moon, are even better than his hastily altered bright yellow dragon robe.

Much better.

Could it be that she, a woman, also wants to be the empress?

The reason why we brothers usually spoil her is because she poses no threat to our status. Could she really think of us as some precious treasure that we can only hold onto and never break?

On such a night when ambition and madness burned, someone finally couldn't hold back any longer.

At the third prince's signal, a portly nobleman stepped forward.

He cleared his throat and pointed to the sky outside the window.

There, Kong Tianxu's solar wind had just begun to bloom, illuminating the entire Ming capital as if it were daytime.

"Look, everyone!" he proclaimed. "The sun rises in the east, and auspicious omens descend from the heavens! This is a sign of the chosen one!"

He turned to another handsome young man, his face full of obsequiousness:

"When Prince Tianhe was born, there was a rare phenomenon of the sun rising in the east, which is an auspicious sign! In my humble opinion, Prince Tianhe is virtuous and talented, benevolent and loves his people, and is rightfully suited to inherit the throne!"

Scattered voices of agreement arose, then the nobleman turned to Xu Tianzhen and said with a forced smile:

"Your Highness, you are a woman, so you should go back to the inner palace to do your embroidery. We men will take care of the affairs of the court. Rest assured, after Prince Tianhe ascends the throne, he will surely treat you, his elder sister, well."

Before he could finish speaking...

A flash of blood!

A perfectly round and handsome head, soaring into the sky!

Chapter 323 The Crimson Blood of the King

Blood gushed out like a fountain from the severed neck, splashing onto the gold bricks and staining the robes of everyone around.

The head, with its extremely smooth cut, tumbled several times in the air before crashing heavily to the ground, shattering into several pieces of red and white, intertwined flesh.

A dark red, fawning smile seeped from her eyes, which had snapped open.

A deep crack still lingered in the air, a mark left by the extreme sharpness and speed that pierced through space, exuding a sense of scorching heat that made it difficult to breathe.

The palace gates were wide open.

A figure in white, casually dragging a gun, walked slowly.

He walked slowly past the headless corpse, the Sky-Piercing Spear in his hand slowly drooping and dragging on the ground, the tip of the spear making a piercing scraping and cutting sound as it rubbed against the specially made gold brick floor.

As his muscles moved freely, the tip of the gun twitched slightly, creating a soul-stirring melody in everyone's hearts.

Dark red blood, twisting like a small snake, meandered down from the smooth, water-like tip of the gun blade, flowing into the grooves created by the gun tip kissing the ground, forming blood-red streams that were slowly being filled.

Unstained by blood.

Kong Tianxu.

The crowd's previous clamor vanished instantly, and they were all shocked by what they saw.

Then their expressions changed drastically!

Behind Kong Tianxu, streaks of dazzling lightning, almost continuous, stretched for tens of thousands of meters, starting from the location where the solar wind had erupted and extending into the hall, as if tearing apart the entire night sky!

Judging from the trajectory of that lightning, could it be that he was previously at the core of that explosion that resembled the birth of a new star?

It's even possible that he was the one who released the explosion!

But the explosion had only just stopped! How could they have arrived so quickly from such a long distance?

What terrifying speed!

First Soul Skill: Berserker Lightning Flash.

This comes from the innate soul skill of the super soul beast, the Thunderous Vulture. In the beginning, what attracted the most attention from others was its terrifying single-target destructive ability.

With a lifespan barely exceeding a thousand years, it has achieved an attack effect surpassing that of the vast majority of ten-thousand-year soul skills.

But if that's all there is to it, how can it be considered a super soul beast's signature move?

As Kong Tianxu's cultivation level increased day by day, and after this soul ring evolved to the 100,000-year realm, the truly terrifying side of the Mad Demon Thunder Flash was finally revealed at this moment.

If its destructive power is only top-notch, but what if it also has auxiliary effects comparable to teleportation, or even teleportation itself?

Don't forget, like the Solar Storm Domain, this soul skill has never had a single attack effect, but is a rare composite soul skill!

With Kong Tianxu's current physical strength and soul power cultivation, he is already capable of using the Mad Demon Lightning Flash again with almost no burden after a very short time interval.

In addition to his spiritual power cultivation and control at the tangible and tangible level, he can even split into thousands of lightning clones the instant he uses his soul skill, with each lightning bolt being a teleportation.

He was confident that even a top-tier expert like the Beast God Di Tian, ​​who truly mastered the power of space, could not be faster than him.

Kong Tianxu walked gracefully to the side behind Xu Tianzhen.

Overwhelmed by his aura of instantly killing one person while traversing ten thousand meters, the well-armed Soul Guidance Guards in front of him parted to make way, retreating to both sides like a tide.

He and Xu Tianzhen exchanged a glance, everything understood without a word.

Ye Xishui's figure appeared beside Kong Tianxu at some point, as if she had always been standing there. Facing the dim light in the hall, her face, which resembled that of a young woman, was divided into two colors: cold gray and warm yellow, making her stand quietly like a sculpture.

The aura was just ordinary.

This undoubtedly gave many people a misconception.

A fatal illusion.

"Kong Tianxu, how dare you murder Duke Minghuang in broad daylight! You are utterly audacious!"

"Rebellion! Rebellion! This is the palace, not a place for you to run wild!"

"Guards! Where is the Protector of the Nation? Quickly! Seize this traitor!"

Shouts rose from all sides, but none of the loudest shouters dared to take a step forward.

Especially the nobles who were just moments ago so arrogant, now shrank back and hid behind the guards.

Not to mention them, even those high-level Soul Masters they recruited and nurtured from various places, many of them felt their scalps tingle when they recalled Kong Tianxu's previous moves.

"Please calm down, everyone! Today, our father has passed away, and our elder brother, the Crown Prince, has also been assassinated. This is a day of national mourning, and there has been enough bloodshed already. Why add more bloodshed?"

A voice broke the brief silence.

The Third Prince stepped forward from the crowd, a warm smile on his face. He opened his arms and subtly stood in front of Xu Guoyi's corpse, his face full of sincerity.

It seems like they're delaying something.

“Prince Tianxu, Duke Minghuang spoke rudely today, insulting Sister Tianzhen. He deserved to die. He was killed! If it were me, I wouldn’t have been able to tolerate it either!”

The Third Prince took a step closer to Kong Tianxu, his sincerity deepening.

"I, Xu Tianci, am making this clear today," he said, glancing around and raising his voice, "Prince Tianxu is my brother. To harm him is to harm me! Anyone who dares to cause him trouble because of this is going against me!"

Upon hearing this, the nobles who had been shouting fell completely silent.

The group exchanged bewildered glances, their faces showing a strange expression.

Kong Tianxu ignored him and continued forward with Xu Tianzhen.

The third prince looked at the crowd's reactions with satisfaction, then turned around:

“However, Tianxu, this is the imperial palace, and Father’s body is still here. As his daughter, Tianzhen should be keeping vigil before the coffin. If word gets out that you are causing trouble here with her, it will not be good for Tianzhen’s reputation.”

"Here's what we'll do. You take Tianzhen back to rest first. We brothers will handle the matters at the mourning hall. Don't worry, Tianzhen will be well taken care of. Father Emperor doted on her the most, how could I, as her elder brother, mistreat my own sister?"

While seemingly supporting Kong Tianxu, he subtly glanced in a certain direction outside the hall.

At the same time, one of the old men beside him quietly got up and subtly formed an encirclement with several other high-level soul masters.

Kong Tianxu remained silent.

He merely glanced at the Third Prince indifferently before continuing to walk forward.

It was like a dragon glaring angrily! In that instant, the Third Prince felt a terrifying pressure bearing down on him.

He felt as if an invisible giant hand was choking him, making it difficult to even breathe. The two level-eight soul-guided shields he carried close to his body simultaneously burst out with dazzling light and shattered at the same time!

The Third Prince's expression finally changed. He subconsciously took a step back, cold sweat pouring down his forehead.

He made a gesture towards the old man from before.

Figures dressed in uniform soul-guided armor surged in from all directions, completely surrounding the hall, and a strong soul-guided aura suddenly began to emerge from outside the hall.