Chapter 739: Chapter 678: I am the Upper Heaven Calamity—Plagued by Illnesses!
At Xin Mansion, Xin Jinxing was in the study, comforting his grandfather.
“I know the hardships you have endured over the past decade, and I am also aware of the dissatisfaction and grievances in your heart right now. Grandfather, let handle the matters that follow! If you could find those Heavenly Treasures and Earthly Materials in ten years and have the Offering Hall help concoct that Divine Pill, I can do it too!”
At this mont, Xin Jinxing, with full confidence, reassured his father, Xin Shuxiang, letting his grandfather feel at ease.
“Moreover, you have toiled for ten years for the Town Martial Office, for Kaihuang, for Great Sui! Now that Kaihuang has seized our Xin Family’s Divine Pill, naturally, compensation is due. Thus, Kaihuang will inevitably send soone to help us search for the Heavenly Treasures and Earthly Materials.”
“With the experience of the Grand Offerers of the Offering Hall in alchemy, I fear this ti the concoction of the pills will be even more successful!”
“So, Grandfather, you need not worry. Leave the rest to .”
“Moreover, Daughter knows well, Zhang San’s heart is not with , but has always favored Hu Xingxiang. I… I never wanted to marry anyway, it was just you who ssily matched with soone. Now, it’s just right. In these ten years, I shall rescue my sister, and that will suffice.”
Xin Shuxiang naturally knew that his daughter was comforting him.
Not to ntion the power he possessed ten years ago, even so, he was still severely injured several tis, nearly dying in so secret realms or dangerous places.
Moreover, so Heavenly Treasures and Earthly Materials are rare. He was able to find them initially, but it would be difficult to find them again.
“No need, Jinxing, you’ve grown up so much, you should have your own life. As for Jinlian’s matter, Grandfather will think of sothing.”
Just then, Xin Shuxiang and Xin Jinxing suddenly heard the noise from outside.
Father and daughter furrowed their brows and imdiately walked out.
Especially Xin Shuxiang, his stomach already filled with fire.
If soone were to make trouble now, that would be just too good.
Xin Jinxing was also very annoyed. At this ti, how could soone still co to cause trouble?
However, when the two walked out from the courtyard of the study to the front courtyard, they were taken aback.
At this mont, Kaihuang’s Imperial Guards were in the front courtyard, ready for battle.
Leading them was Cao Deng, a close aide to Kaihuang.
Cao Deng naturally knew about the troubleso deed Kaihuang had committed today, but as the Commander of the Imperial Guards, he naturally had to obey Kaihuang’s orders.
“Principal Officer Xin, sorry for disturbing you late at night. There has just been an incident inside the Imperial Palace. Soone saw your daughter, Xin Jinxing, appear in the Empress’s chamber. So, we need your daughter to co with us to the Imperial Palace. Rest assured, we will not…”
“You fart!” Xin Shuxiang imdiately burst into curses.
“My daughter has been at ho all evening and has never left! Just now, we were both chatting in the study, and she never left ho. How could she possibly go to the Imperial Palace!?”
Cao Deng saw Xin Shuxiang fight three against one in the sky above the main gate of the Imperial Palace today—reportedly two Grand Offerers were seriously injured and one later died because rescue efforts were unsuccessful.
He really did not dare to provoke Xin Shuxiang.
At that mont, a eunuch stepped out from behind the guard squad and, giving Xin Shuxiang a cold look, said chillingly, “Just now, the Empress has passed away. Before that, a junior eunuch keeping vigil outside the Empress’s chamber saw your daughter appear in the Empress’s chamber. Therefore, Xin Jinxing is suspected of assassinating Empress Dugu.”
At these words, all the guards bared their weapons.
anwhile, Xin Shuxiang drew his hand across the Storage Ring on his left.
Instantly, he was armored!
Seeing this, Cao Deng inwardly cursed, imdiately yelling at the guards behind him, “Put down your weapons!”
What a joke, daring to brandish weapons at Xin Shuxiang, do you not want to live, because I certainly do!
Simultaneously, inside Xin Mansion, upon receiving the news, many attendants along with Xin Jinxing’s four aunties imdiately donned their armor.
In less than a quarter of an hour, nearly a hundred attendants and four robust aunties burst out from Xin Mansion.
Everyone was clad in armor and wielding weapons, as if prepared for a fierce battle.
Xin Jinxing still hadn’t figured out what exactly was going on. After all, he hadn’t left ho at all today. How could he possibly have gone to the Imperial Palace?
Could it be that soone wanted to harm Grandfather?
But for Xin Shuxiang, it was much simpler.
Because of Empress Dugu, she was already unable to protect one daughter. Now, if anyone dared to touch her other daughter, it would be a fight to the death!
Cao Deng, having followed Kaihuang for so many years, was seeing for the first ti soone refusing a summons and even facing them with drawn blades.
“Principal Officer Xin, there’s no need to be nervous, and everyone, please don’t misunderstand. I believe in the loyalty of the Xin family. It’s just that this matter is quite peculiar, so we need Miss Xin Jinxing to co to the Imperial Palace to assist with the investigation. Or else… let’s wait for the people from the Town Martial Office to arrive, and you can discuss and decide then. There’s no need to rush,”
Cao Deng knew that although he was there to arrest soone, it was best not to resort to violence if possible.
After all, if it really ca to a fight, the three hundred Imperial Guards he brought would not be enough against Xin Shuxiang alone.
Just then, a woman’s voice ca from behind the Xin Mansion.
“No need, I know what’s going on with the Empress.”
At that mont, in the cold night wind, Xin Jinlian, clad in a thin gossar dress, walked out.
Just as Xin Jinxing was about to drape his coat over his sister, he heard her say, “The person who appeared in the Empress’s chamber was not my sister Xin Jinxing, but , Xin Jinlian.”
“Empress Dugu did not die by my hand, but because her ti was up. I rely went to see her one last ti.”
Upon hearing this, everyone was incredibly shocked.
Xin Shuxiang felt that his younger daughter seed a bit different from usual.
Xin Jinxing looked at his sister, who was usually frail and sickly, and his mind was filled with countless doubts.
For so reason, Cao Deng always felt that Miss Xin Jinlian seed even more terrifying than Xin Shuxiang.
At that mont, dozens of figures approached from a distance, leaping onto the surrounding walls. The leaders were the Town Demon Office’s Principal Officers Sai Baihua and Baili Tu, along with the newly appointed Chief Xie Longtao.
At the sa ti, dozens of Martial Artists from the Town Martial Office squeezed in through the main entrance, led by Zhang San, with Xu, Wei, Ling, and Wang Ziteng beside him.
The Town Demon Office, having heard that they were going to arrest soone at the ho of a Town Martial Office official, was overjoyed, except for Baili Tu, the Family Head of the Baili Family.
They had been waiting for years to see the Town Martial Office get into trouble.
So, once Xie Longtao arrived, he imdiately asked Xin Jinlian, “Then what about you? How did you manage to enter the Imperial Palace in the middle of the night, and how did you know that Empress Dugu’s ti was up?”
At that mont, everyone felt the hostility from the Town Demon Office arrivals.
Especially Cao Deng, who was itching to rush over and slap the new Chief of the Town Demon Office!
If you can’t speak properly, then don’t speak!
Xin Shuxiang is still here, right?
What are you asking for?
What if a fight breaks out?
At this mont, Xin Jinlian slightly turned her body, glanced back at Xie Longtao behind her, and smiled seductively.
That single smile made Xie Longtao’s heartbeat quicken and his throat involuntarily dry.
He knew it wasn’t any kind of enchantnt, but for so reason, the image of Xin Jinlian’s smile seed branded in his mind, impossible to forget.
“My na is Xin Jinlian, daughter of Xin Shuxiang. Moreover, I have another identity—”
At this point, Xin Jinlian turned her head to look at everyone present, even catching the gaze of a few unruly Grand Offerers and twenty or so Offerings from the Offering Hall lurking in the shadows of the night.
“Upper Heaven Calamity of the Path of Calamity—Plagued by Illnesses.”
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