Chapter 36
The emperor's scheme ran very deep! Who would have thought that the seemingly fatuous emperor is actually more of a schemer than a palace consort?
Jin Linkai is now crying hatefully while covering his face. How would his mother be thankful?! He saw how her mother died after being tortured for many days! He thought that it was because of the power behind his father, who would have thought that it is only because the emperor is more ambitious than they all initially thought! The empty face of his mother rushed back in his mind again. Why empty? Because the damned vicious man dug his sister's eyes by himself, dislocated her nose and sliced off her lips while they were in the palace dungeon!
If not for his mother's transporting talisman which can transport a person to different random places, he wouldn't even be alive now! Though he was still captured a day after his escape, luckily Di Xueyan fell down from the sky, it may not be a gracious fall, as she fell with her face facing the ground, but for the hopeless him at that time, she was like a fallen goddess who was sent from above to save him, not wasting his mother's efforts in vain.
Everyone, excluding the opposing side, feel their heart clench when Jin Linkai suddenly heart wrenchingly shout at the top of his lungs, while holding his head with his hands. He doesn't give a fuck about his image anymore, as the cruel fate of his parents resurfaced in his mind.
Di Xueyan can't help it anymore. If she can only attempt to smash her phone whenever she reads this kind of scene before, now, she knows that she already has a great opportunity to smash the face of the laughing madman in front of her now.
And so she did.
The emperor is caught off guard so he flew for a few good hundred meters once again. His eyes widen in rage when he realized about how many times the young girl in front of him disrepected him!
" You wretched girl! Pay for your impudence!", the emperor shouted while dashing towards Di Xueyan. At first he is dashing slower, but it seems like something came off in his mind, making him looks like a lunatic and displays his full speed. Everyone is astonished as they saw the emperor's feet is not even touching the ground.
' He is flying!', they simultaneously thought.
Those who planned to ally with the emperor is now even more confident and ecstatic. In the eyes of real power, who would dare to even comment about the usage of dark arts of their current emperor? Coupled with the fact that there is a beast so powerful to back them! They can just threaten the people to never let the news of the emperor's usage of dark arts outside the kingdom! Some of them even wanted to just rush out proudly to start bootlicking but still were able to stop themselves from doing something rash.
But the excitement and adoration in their eyes is so apparent that those ministers who had secret grudge with the emperor is now breaking into cold sweats. The possibility of their doomsday is very high that their faces turned grim. They know that they can only put their bets on the white clothed young lady, who is not even bothered with the fact that the emperor is flying right now, in front of them.
Di Xueyan's face turned from calm to mocking almost the instant the emperor showcased his flying skill.
" Seems like your are so proud with your full cycle realm ability huh?", Di Xueyan said mockingly while stretching out her arms in a very unlady like manner, as if the emperor's fast approach is very slow in her eyes.
Even those ancestors can't see clearly due to the emperor's speed, but the hateful girl is still stretching!
The emperor suddenly unleashed his sword. A cold light immediately reflects in the blade's body, blinding the poor spectators. If not for the sword, they can't even see the emperor anymore!
The sword is not an ordinary sword, for it is the personalized sword of the past dark empress, the Dark Blood Blade. Passed down from generation to generation of emperors, the blade already went through multiple wars and bloodsheds, making it looks more menacing and vicious than an ordinary ancient sword. It is even rumored that no one can break the sword into pieces as it contained an ancient forbidden dark arts that no one but the past empress and emperor knew!
In a few seconds, the hundred meters seems like nothing as the emperor arrived directly in front of Di Xueyan while dusts and dirts are scattering all over his back, making the spectator only see the silhouette of a man in front of the white clothed woman.
The cold glint of the blade is very imposing as the emperor raises his hand, aiming to slash the sword in her delicate jade like neck.
If it is in ordinary times, the emperor might feel pity while looking at the perfect neck of hers but, as his sanity is slowly slipping away, he just found himself not giving a damn.
Giving all his strength in just one attack, the emperor gracefully slashed his sword downwards, while his face is smirking, looking amused at the thought of a headless corpse while blood is gushing out of the body, staining the perfect simple white cloth of the girl before him.
A glint passed Di Xueyan's eyes. She can't believe that a sword can emit such blood thirsty coldness. She doesn't know why, but as the sword is nearing her body, her body is beginning to feel warmer than usual. She became hotter and hotter as the sword is only six inches away from her.
She also didn't know why she has a sudden urge to stop the sword using her fingers, in which she did. She pinched the ongoing sword between her middle and index finger as if it is nothing. Unbeknownst to her, the moment she pinch the sword, the emperor got almost blinded with the sudden change of her eye color, from dark brown to gold.
Everyone quietened down. Never would they imagine that someone can touch the sword lightly as if the force exerted by the emperor is very light.
Of course, Di Xueyan already expected the outcome. No matter how good the sword is, if its master is not strong enough, its power will be in vain.
A few seconds later, a sudden crack broke the eerie silence. Everyone is wide eyed as they saw how a small crack appeared in the rumored undestroyable sword! Just because of a pinch!
The crack became bigger and bigger, while a single shake can not even be seen in the two fingers sandwiching the sword. It made all the people doubt if the sword is really the legendary sword or just a thin piece of wood?
Even Di Xueyan can't believe that she can destroy the sword as even she can feel the faint aura of moon's ore, the most indestructible ore of this continent. It may not be a pure moon's ore, but even a three percent moon's ore is enough to strengthen the sword for up to twenty percent. The thing is, moon's ore is very precious and rare as it can only be extracted in a full red super moon, which only happens once every 50 years in this continent.
Di Xueyan is confused as she can feel that the moon's ore in the sword is about sixty percent, but didn't dare to show it in her face. Never would she had thought that she can pinch such rare material into pieces.
How would she know thought that the remaining ore used in the sword is a black tanzanite? Black Tanzanite has dark properties that also contributes a lot with the strengthening of the sword, but it can be destroyed by two factors, opponents with extreme dark attributes or extreme light attributes. Of course, these attributes only existed in ancient times, as the fewer the qi spirit lingering around the continent, the fewer chance will someone has a pure light or dark element. What ancient dark ritual? If the Black tanzanite alone will encounter these types of opponents, no matter how powerful the ritual was, it would be reduced to nothing!
The emperor was astonished as he saw the sword that was cherished for countless generation, crumbled. His face turned twisted as he glares at the young woman in front of him. He stretches his hands to strangle her when the girl took that as an opportunity to break his hands off.
Di Xueyan's eyes are full of disgust as she thought about how the emperor nearly touched her soft neck.
' Only my baby can touch me!', she protested in her mind. She thought that only her beloved has the rights to take liberties of her, but the prerequisite is, she should find one first.
" You shameless old coot!", Di Xueyan's eyes are raging with disgust and relief. She may have no baby as of this moment, but who knows if she'll find one? Wouldn't it be embarrassing?
She seems to forget that she used to place her past crush's hand on her neck when her past crush was comatose. Since they were close, she was entrusted with his safety for a half a day while his mother was resting, giving her the guts to imagine him, kissing her while taking liberties of him. Of course she already long forgotten about that memory as it was so embarrasing because she was caught by the mother and since then, she never had the guts to show her face in front of his family when he woke up.
Di Xueyan took advantage of the emperor's momentary lapse of attention and immediately summons her little katana to completely destroy the wretched blade of the emperor.
The blade immediately turned into dust which made the emperor roar in rage, black veins are popping in his neck and forehead.
She waves her katana at the side and a purplish green fire immediately covered it, starting from the base until the tip.
She is about to attack the emperor, making him taste the feeling of his soul burning in hell, and slash the katana with the fire of nirvana, in which she masters after many years of training in her mother's realm, directly in his twisted face, when suddenly, a high pitched but seemingly deep roar suddenly reverberates accross the kingdom, making her took a few steps back.
She looks at the direction of the courtroom and saw a formless black creature shooting up from the roof, while what looks like a mouth is still wide open as the seemingly two voiced roar is still echoing around.
The weird creature seems to be trying many different shapes as it stretches from here to there, looking like a poor black slime.
Only when it looks like a chinese dragon, does it seems to be satisfied and stopped fidgeting about.