My transformation into a beautiful girl started with a hemorrhage.

Hui brushed a few strands of hair behind her ear, smiled seductively, looking just like a courtesan soliciting customers in a brothel, and said, "Shame? What's there to be ashamed of? When I was a dancer, you men were all itching to take me right there and then. Now you're talking about shame?"

However, based on my experience, men your age usually need me to dance to get them excited, otherwise... they'll just want to go but can't get an erection, and can only stare helplessly.

You—shameless!

"Tianji, don't waste words with her, just kill her as soon as possible."

After Xiahou Dun finished speaking, he made another seal and struck Hui.

"it is good."

The Heavenly Ancestor's eyes turned cold, and he charged towards Hui again with lightning speed.

Chapter 235 Guards

The two joined forces once again to launch a fierce attack on Hui.

Ancestor Tianji no longer held back, unleashing all sorts of exquisite sword techniques upon Hui, while Xiahou Dun also struck Hui with various strange hand seals.

In an instant, Hui parried and retreated, making several quick movements and tumbling motions, and the battlefield had already shrunk to more than a thousand meters away.

The fighting stretched from the square in front of the Zichen Hall all the way to the back of the hall, destroying countless palaces, pavilions, and terraces along the way.

The three have now reached the location of the imperial concubines...

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Harem.

Inside the Tangli Palace.

A young woman, whose every gesture exudes elegance and refinement, is meticulously painting. She is radiant with the glow of pearls and the brilliance of jade, and her eyes reveal a scholarly air about her.

She was Consort Hua, and at this moment she was in the palace waiting for news of her coronation ceremony.

Originally, Xia Wuwei's high-ranking concubines were required to attend the coronation ceremony, but Nangong Bingqing said: "I don't want to see these hateful vixens at my wedding with Brother Wei."

Therefore, Xia Wuwei had no choice but to violate ancestral rules and prevent these concubines from witnessing the empress's coronation ceremony.

A glint of malice flashed in Consort Hua's eyes: "Hmph, Nangong Bingqing, I'm waiting for your 'good news'!"

In the ever-changing harem, especially when facing an emperor like Xia Wuwei who craves novelty, she was one of the very few concubines who could maintain her position for a long time, which speaks volumes about her shrewdness.

This is understandable, after all, she is the daughter of the prime minister of the imperial court, a true lady from a scholarly family, and her appearance and temperament are both top-notch.

In addition, these women from wealthy and powerful families had already mastered the skills of palace intrigue from the time they were old enough to understand things until they got married. The environment of the harem was simply a platform tailor-made for them, allowing them to fully utilize their talents.

However, like her, almost all of Xia Wuwei's other concubines were daughters of civil officials in the court, with only a small number being daughters of low-ranking military officers.

That's right, none of these imperial concubines came from aristocratic families.

None of the noble families sent their daughters to the imperial harem, not because they loved their daughters very much.

Rather, it's because...it's meaningless.

Noble families did not need to curry favor with the emperor or consolidate their position by sending daughters to the imperial harem.

Their status stems from the martial arts cultivation of their ancestors.

As long as their family's grandmaster lives, they will not decline.

Even if their daughters were made empresses and enjoyed unparalleled favor in the harem, they could not obtain more, because what they wanted, Xia Wuwei could not provide, and what Xia Wuwei could provide, they did not value.

Therefore,

In this inner palace, when these daughters of civil officials faced Nangong Bingqing...

They had no idea what an 18-year-old Grandmaster represented; they simply naively believed that Nangong Bingqing could do whatever she wanted in the harem because of Xia Wuwei's favor.

So they used the palace intrigue techniques they had learned in the inner quarters on Nangong Bingqing, who was a master.

Bribery, betrayal, poisoning, deception, spreading rumors, provocation, framing, finding fault, feigning cooperation...

The result was predictable!

Nangong Bingqing is not a weak woman like them, but a martial artist, and a grandmaster at that!

She won't talk to you about scheming, intrigue, or palace rules, nor will she talk to you about women's code of conduct.

She only talks about force!

You don't like me? Fine.

Want to kill me? Fine.

The real test is in the hands of the hands.

This is the mindset of a martial artist—a stark truth of the world!

Thus, this group of seemingly weak women were completely bewildered by Nangong Bingqing's martial arts mindset.

Nangong Bingqing ruthlessly killed the concubines who had provoked her. However, most of these murdered concubines were merely pawns, used as pawns. The true power players in the palace intrigue, such as Consort Hua, had been observing everything from behind the scenes.

When they saw that Nangong Bingqing had killed so many concubines and was still unharmed, these palace intrigue masters truly panicked. They unusually put aside their personal grudges and united to decide to eliminate Nangong Bingqing first.

They got to work very quickly.

However, when they joined forces to make their move, they discovered that the only way to kill a grandmaster was through poison!

Moreover, they simply couldn't obtain the poison that could kill a grandmaster.

They had no choice but to settle for second best.

If I can't kill you, I'll kill the baby in your belly.

"By now, the bastard in Nangong Bingqing's belly should have already miscarried!"

Haha, so what if he's a grandmaster?

The law doesn't punish everyone; they can just find a scapegoat when the time comes.

"You can kill us all!"

Consort Hua muttered to herself in a cheerful mood.

but,

While waiting,

Especially as the coronation ceremony was about to begin,

A sudden clap of thunder sounded, followed by a light drizzle.

Consort Hua thought it was autumn rain.

The rain stopped quickly, and the sun shone brightly again.

Sometimes she felt like there was an earthquake, but Consort Hua didn't pay attention to it, thinking it was just her imagination.

However, after a while...

It became noisy outside her Tangli Palace.

Consort Hua said to the palace maid serving her, "Go and see what's going on outside?"

"Yes, ma'am."

After the palace maid finished speaking, she was about to leave.

At this moment, another palace maid, Xiao Cui, rushed in and said to Consort Hua in a panic, "Your Majesty, something terrible has happened! People are dead! So many people are dead! It's chaos, complete chaos! Your Majesty, we must run!"

Consort Hua looked at Xiao Cui, who was flustered and at a loss, and her eyes turned cold. This maid was usually dull-witted. If it weren't for the fact that she was her mother's personal maid, she would have dragged her away and punished her for 'disrespect' long ago.

"Xiao Cui, you are a palace maid of Tangli Palace. Watch your behavior and don't tarnish my reputation. Explain clearly what you mean by 'many people died'."

Consort Hua displayed the composure and elegance of a noblewoman, as if she would remain unfazed even if the sky were to fall.

Xiao Cui gasped for breath and said urgently, "It's martial artists! There's a fierce battle between martial artists at the coronation ceremony! Many people have died!"

"Martial artists!" Consort Hua understood, and said disdainfully, "Just a bunch of brutes. With the Imperial Guards protecting the palace, they can't cause any trouble."

"No, Your Majesty. We were wrong, we were all wrong. It was an Innate Martial Artist, an Innate Martial Artist!" Xiao Cui said, her face turning pale as if she had remembered something terrible.

Consort Hua remained calm and composed. She had no idea what the Innate Realm meant and said dismissively, "Of course I know that martial artists are powerful, but the lowest-ranking members of the Imperial Guards are third-rate martial artists, not to mention that the court has ten Grandmasters. No matter how powerful an Innate Realm martial artist is, can they be more powerful than a Grandmaster? Don't make a fuss!"

Xiao Cui cried out in distress, "Your Majesty, the innate masters are truly amazing! Countless Imperial Guards and Imperial Bodyguards have died simply because they got too close!"

If you get too close, you'll die?

Consort Hua looked at Xiao Cui with suspicion, thinking to herself, 'Has this maidservant lost her mind?'

She was about to reprimand him.

A man's voice came from outside: "Xiao Cui, I told you to leave this palace immediately, but you wouldn't listen and insisted on caring about this concubine."

"Who is it? Guards, seize the person making a ruckus outside the palace!" Consort Hua roared angrily. How dare someone shout in front of her Tangli Palace!

"Oh, still dreaming of being an empress?"

A captain dressed as a member of the Imperial Guard strode across the gates of Tangli Palace and entered.

"You are—" Consort Hua sensed that the visitor was hostile.

"Never mind who I am, I'm not here to see you."

After the man finished speaking, he ignored Consort Hua and looked at Xiao Cui beside him, saying gently, "Xiao Cui, let's leave this palace quickly. This place will soon be affected by the battle of the innate masters, and no one will survive."

"How dare you! Do you know who I am? How dare you disregard me? Be careful, or I will punish you for the grave offense of disrespect and chop off your head!"

Consort Hua roared, her beautiful and dignified face filled with authority.

But the man scoffed, "Heh, you want to chop off my head?"

finished,

Clang—!

With a swift motion, the man drew his sword, and his inner force burst forth from the blade, slicing the two thick supporting pillars of the Tangli Palace in two.

"I'd like to see how you're going to chop off my head."

Before submitting to the imperial court, the man was already a second-rate martial arts expert, and his unruly nature was the essence of a martial artist.

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