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"A… Angier!" Xie Liao Xuan immediately ran to embrace Anqier's stiff body. Glittering white blood seemed to gush from Anqier's wounded chest.
This is impossible! How could his woman be treated this way when he wasn't around? How can the heavenly palace act unfairly like this, even though the agreement has been carried out lawfully and fairly! So how can a woman be lifeless like this? No, no, this isn't true. Even though Angier is half Goddess, but she already has half her essence. So, no matter how injured she was, she would never die. She just needed healing because her body was immortal. Except, that forbidden object was being used to injure Angier until his woman lost her life like this.
Xie Liao Xuan also examined Anqier's injured chest, and his eyes widened at the shards of sky lead from Tong cave. And all this time, not a single God or Goddess, not even a resident of the heavenly kingdom, dared to take the tin of the sky. There is only one, yes, there is only one God who is brave and has the right to go in and out of that cave.
"What happened?!" asked the Emperor of heaven. It seemed that he was quite shocked, seeing the woman who his son loved had died. However, what shocked him was how could a Goddess especially see from her sparkling white blood—which meant that if she was the highest Goddess here, she could die? Supreme Goddess? If it's true that that figure is the highest Goddess, isn't destiny to be the wife of his son?
"Crown Prince Xie Liao Xuan—"
"His Majesty the King! What happened to this!" cut off Xie Liao Xuan as his father was about to speak. "Father has promised me, that Father will allow me to marry Dewi Anqier as long as I succeed in defeating the Demon King. As long as I can bring the Demon King's head here! And look… look, Your Majesty!" said Xie Liao Xuan while pointing at a box that one of his soldiers was carrying. Make the soldier open the box. All the Gods and Royal Highnesses looked wide-eyed when they found out that the contents of the box were the head of the Demon King. The ruler of the demon king was even fated to be indestructible and invincible by anyone in this world. But today, the Crown Prince had beaten him with his own two hands. "I have brought the Demon King's head for Your Majesty! I have kept my promise! But why should it be like this? Wasn't Your Majesty the one who told the servant that Your Majesty just wanted to see Anqier reflect on her mistakes? But why doesn't Your Majesty take care of it for the servant?!"
The King was also sad, seeing his son hysterical and devastated like this. Really for whatever reason, he didn't expect this to happen either. He didn't expect that an irresponsible person like this would kill the woman his son loved. How could that be? Whereas he had just planned with his wife to pick up Angier to clean up and rest since the Crown Prince had already finished the fight. But, before he got there, what happened was a very sad sight.
The celestial Emperor walked over, and then he crouched down to make everyone there kneel. He touched his son's shoulder, tears in his eyes, wanting to see his son's pain.
"Xie Liao Xuan, my son. I promise you to find out who killed your woman. Trust me as your father. I will punish anyone who has caused sorrow in the heart of my beloved son."
"Father…" Xie Liao Xuan whispered. "Why can Father let Anqier be like this, Father!"
"Xie Liao Xuan. Stop like this, you are the Crown Prince. You don't deserve to be weak in front of Gods and Goddesses and the higher ups of the heavens like this," said his father again.
"Your Highness the Crown Prince, isn't this one of the very odd things. Goddess Anqier is one of the Goddesses here. Moreover, her blood is sparkling white, she is the highest Goddess in the sky. Shouldn't the Goddess be immortal? No celestial being can die. Unless they were in the healing stage of an even serious wound. Isn't this too weird? Unless..." who deliberately hung up Li Zeng Xi's words. Then he flicked his robes, then drew closer to Xie Liao Xuan. "Unless Goddess Anqier, was injured by using a weapon made of lead taken from a vat cave,"
Suddenly, Li Zeng's narration made everyone there into a commotion. What Li Zeng said is also true. There is no story that an immortal can die unless he is injured by a weapon made of lead—moreover, a pure figure from the sky.
Everyone seemed to be muttering, while Li Zeng Xi now grabbed the Crown Prince to stand with him.
"Servant with you, Crown Prince. I will help to expose this injustice…" he whispered to Xie Liao Xuan. "Sorry, Your Majesty the King, it's not that I'm accusing or anything. However, I would like to ask your advisor, has there been no foreign figure sneaking around taking lead from the cask cave without the Emperor's knowledge? Because, the only God who can enter there is only the adviser of His Majesty the King,"
"Don't be presumptuous of you, Counselor Li Zeng! It's not that you're my son's advisor that you're making baseless accusations like this against my advisor! It's presumptuous to say such dirty things! Once again you accuse my advisor, I assure you that you will receive punishment from me!" angry with the King.
Li Zeng Xi immediately knelt in fear in front of the King, and then he knelt while apologizing many times.
"Lifetime. Until tens and hundreds of years I live here. My life is a truth, the purpose of my life is a blessing. That's why I'm destined to be the advisor of the Heavenly Emperor. And if there is a misrepresentation of the accusation of that nature, it really hurts my feelings," said the King's adviser.
"My apologies, Your Majesty!" Li Zeng said.
However, just as Xie Liao Xuan was about to lift Anqier's body, an object fell from Anqier's grasp. Everyone resisted, making Li Zeng hastily pick up the thing.
A hairpin crowned with a bluish-purple pearl, with a peacock on it. And everyone knows who the hairpin belongs to. Xie Liao Xuan and the King looked wide-eyed in shock. The same goes for Li Zeng. Then he said,
"Doesn't this hair ornament belong to the King's adviser, His Highness the Crown Prince?" he said then.
Xie Liao Xuan also put Angier down, and he took the hair ornament while squeezing it tightly. His jaw tightened, his eyes seemed to sharpen as he looked at his father's advisor.
"Is that you?" Xie Liao Xuan asked his father's advisor.
"No, Your Highness the Crown Prince. How can you be a servant? In fact, I've been with His Majesty the King all day. Maybe a servant?!" replied his father's adviser.
"Is that you?!" Xie Liao Xuan repeated, even now his face turned violent. "In this celestial realm, no one can enter the barrel cave to retrieve the tin except you. And no one has this hair ornament but you. And you're still dodging all the wrongs you've done, Advisor to the King!" Xie Liao Xuan snapped.
"Servant—"
Prenk! Jrep!!!
Everyone there fell silent, as Xie Liao Xuan quickly drew the sword that he had sprinkled with the remaining lead on Anqier's body, then he stabbed it perfectly into the chest of his father's advisor. Even his father froze to see his son's cruel treatment.
"H... His Majesty the Crown Prince, not the culprit's servant," the advisor stammered until he finally slumped helplessly.