Read Novel Full Chapter 1394: Chapter 1388: We Can Never Go Back
Chapter 1394: Chapter 1388: We Can Never Go Back
Amidst the falling snow of February, a spear glint pierced the heavens above the silver-clad Imperial Capital.
The spear light was far too resplendent, reflecting in the eyes of all the cultivators peering into the Wenren Grotto-Heaven.
Perhaps many years from now, they would all remember that vulgar curse echoing within the Grotto-Heaven, as well as that unhesitating spear thrust.
Even those who were unaware of the situation were drawn by the sound, not knowing where that crude insult came from.
But they could clearly feel the helplessness, resolution, and fury contained within that voice.
Everything in the sky began to change.
A formidable, oppressive might left almost everyone in the Imperial Capital breathless.
During the day, streaks of light like shooting stars flashed across the sky, followed by relentless pursuit and slaughter.
Li Wei’s hunt continued; the Imperial Capital was the lone wolf’s hunting ground.
“He is truly mad.”
Inside the Department of Immortal Suppression, Commander Wu Neng gripped his teacup.
The tea inside went from steaming to gradually losing its warmth in the winter air, much like his heart, which had gone from warm to ice-cold after hearing the Wenren family’s secret.
At this moment, his eyes were lifeless and vacant.
“Her Majesty’s decree: Commander, please take action and apprehend the wicked creature, Li Wei!”
Before him were the subordinates of the Department of Immortal Suppression at or above the Divinity Transformation realm, practically filling the grand hall as they knelt.
In the past, when the Empress’s orders were issued, these subordinates would eagerly echo the messenger’s cry in unison.
But today, his subordinates were remarkably silent.
“Why aren’t you speaking?” Wu Neng slowly stood up and walked toward a Body Integration realm subordinate, Wei Chong.
Wei Chong raised his head.
That aged face reminded Wu Neng of when they had ventured into the sea domains tens of thousands of years ago, hunting down Sea Tribe members who had entered the Imperial Dynasty to snack on mortals.
On that day, he had delved deep into the sea domains and faced off against a Mahayana expert of the Sea Tribe.
The sea demon that attempted to flee was dragged back by Wei Chong.
He vaguely remembered that Wei Chong had barely half his life left at the time.
It turned out that while Wu Neng was locked in a standoff with the Mahayana expert, Wei Chong had charged alone into the demon ranks, relying on his very last breath to preserve the dignity of the Human Race.
His brother was old; he too was old, and their hearts had aged.
“There is nothing left to say, Lord Commander.”
Wei Chong replied casually, his face completely expressionless.
Wu Neng understood.
Perhaps Wei Chong not cursing his mother was already showing mercy, leaving him a final shred of dignity.
At this moment, scenes of the Department of Immortal Suppression fighting fearlessly for the nation flashed continuously through his mind. Yet, he shouted angrily, “I order you to speak!”
“Yes, Lord Commander.”
Like a puppet, Wei Chong’s voice was devoid of emotion.
“Li Wei possesses the rules of space and time. He has now come into his own and is an invincible existence within the Body Integration realm.
Even if this subordinate were to act personally, I would only end up losing my life at his hands.”
“You shouldn’t make a move either, my Lord. You might not be able to deal with him, and would only draw fire upon yourself.”
“Once Ancestor Lan dies, regardless of whether the Azure Cloud Li Clan can survive beneath the Blood Moon, the Mahayana experts of our Imperial Dynasty will jointly execute them.
By rejecting the Wenren family’s offer, Li Wei has brought about his own destruction.”
“Our best and most reliable course of action right now is to do nothing.
If Wei Gang dies by Li Wei’s hands, amidst the Imperial Dynasty’s turmoil, we will actually lose a rival competing against us…”
Before Wei Chong could finish his sentence, his expression turned to shock as he met a pair of bloodshot eyes.
Wu Neng grabbed him tightly by the collar.
Spittle flew from Wu Neng’s mouth, burning with a sudden, inexplicable fury. “Is this what I told you to speak about?!!”
“What else do you want me to say, my Lord?” Wei Chong’s anger also flared.
“Wei Gang was not wrong! Do you still expect me to blindly follow you with pure intentions to defend our borders, slay demons, eradicate monsters, and suppress immortals, just like we did in the past?”
“This is the path you chose! We can never go back, my Lord!”
“We…”
Wu Neng stood as if petrified, staring at the hysterical Wei Chong, until Wei Chong calmed down and uttered his final sentence: “Haven’t we always been like this?”
Always been like this.
Defending the nation’s borders by any means necessary, only to gradually lose their original hearts in the political arenas of the Imperial Dynasty.
Sinking into petty schemes driven by profit, pursuing advantages while avoiding harm, until they lost their bottom line—turning a blind eye to the immortals, to Wenren Xianyi, to the Wenren family…
“Step… step… thud.”
Wu Neng stumbled backward, completely devoid of his soul, until he slumped heavily back into his seat.
His vacant eyes brimmed with a million parts envy.
He envied Li Wei for that uninhibited, unapologetic rejection; he envied that Li Wei wasn’t constrained by Wei Gang’s ‘bigger picture’ and could slaughter recklessly, baring his sharp edge out of pure fury toward the Imperial Dynasty.
Unfortunately, all that envy was ultimately left to the spear tip tearing across the sky, observed only through their prying divine senses.
He looked at his subordinates, who now resembled men in their twilight years.
Pairs of numb eyes stared fixedly back at him.
Meeting Wei Chong’s gaze, his voice was ice-cold.
“You are right. This is what I chose. We have always been like this…”
“Growing old alongside the Imperial Dynasty.”
Far too many people were watching all of this: the spear tearing across the sky, the undying black mist, the continuously rotating Tai Chi diagram.
Li Wei, wreaking havoc in the Imperial Capital, was like a master dancer.
The sounds of slaughter echoing throughout the city and the energy fluctuations of mighty figures were like a hysterical song beneath the setting sun, performing the impending final chapter of the entire Imperial Dynasty.
It was a pity that Li Wei—a gentleman who spouted foul language yet appeared exceptionally transcendent within the Imperial Capital—could never sit at the same wine table with them.
Inside the Heavenly Palace’s Golden Throne Room.
Wenren Xianyi was similarly observing everything outside.
Cultivators hurried in.
“Your Majesty, Patriarch Wenren, he…”
As the news of her father’s death arrived, Wenren Xianyi was surprisingly not angry; instead, she felt mostly a sense of relief and liberation!
Following this report.
The cultivators from various factions kneeling beneath the grand hall all furrowed their brows tightly.
Then, looking up at Wenren Xianyi, who was draped in a gold-threaded phoenix gown upon the Golden Throne Room’s dais, they shouted in unison,
“May Her Majesty the Empress’s lifespan rival the heavens, and may she enjoy immortal blessings for eternity!”
They lowered their heads even further, bowing deeply in reverence to Wenren Xianyi.
They saw it!
The Wenren family’s Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land had already been shattered in the massive battle.
Following Wenren Yiyuan’s death, Li Wei madly slaughtered the Wenren family cultivators.
Fortunately, there were many, many Wenren family cultivators.
Under Wei Gang’s desperate protection, they frantically flew toward the Heavenly Palace.
Nearly five hundred Void Refinement experts.
Without Wenren Yiyuan, they would have no other choice but to pledge allegiance to Wenren Xianyi.
And these people would eventually become Body Integration experts.
At this very moment, Wenren Xianyi truly took control of the entire Wenren Clan!
Amidst the cries of heartfelt submission, under the watchful eyes of the crowd, Wenren Xianyi walked down the jade steps, slowly making her way toward the Human Emperor’s bedchamber.
The door to the Human Emperor’s chamber opened.
Wenren Xianyi saw the aged Human Emperor.
The Human Emperor opened his cloudy eyes, looking at the Empress walking through the ice and snow, and his aged, hoarse voice rang out.
“Wenren Xianyi, oh, Wenren Xianyi. You are far more ruthless than I imagined.”
Wenren Xianyi’s footsteps paused for a moment.
The Human Emperor continued,
“A long time ago, Li Wei threatened you, saying he would wipe out the Wenren clan. You were the only one who knew about this.
From that moment on, you should have moved the Wenren clan’s Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land near the Heavenly Palace, but you didn’t do so.”
“From that very moment, you have been planning to kill your father.”
Wenren Xianyi stared deeply into the Human Emperor’s eyes, speaking in a soft, gentle voice,
“He had to die. He controlled absolutely everything in the Wenren family. Even after becoming Empress, I have always lived in his shadow.”
“The Imperial Dynasty was never mine. I know that even though I am the Empress, the people of the world will never submit to me because I am a woman.”
“My father merely treated me as a puppet, but even a puppet has its day of breaking free.”
“The moment I saw Li Wei, I knew my true opportunity had arrived!”
“I will be the ultimate victor.”
At this moment, even the Human Emperor couldn’t help but feel a chill.
He couldn’t fathom how the innocent girl once sent from the Wenren family could turn into such a monster.
He saw strands of karmic lines.
From the moment Wenren Xianyi collaborated with Min Tiange to summon the Blood Moon in the Western Frontier, an appalling scheme began to take shape.
The Blood Moon began to swallow the Western Frontier.
Wenren Xianyi, who originally could only use her status as ‘Empress’ to play various factions against each other, began to dread the dangers surrounding her.
Moreover, Wenren Xianyi had always been a puppet of the Wenren family.
“The clan beneath the skirts”… how could the cultivators of the Wenren family possibly accept such a reputation?
In reality, the Wenren family’s true trump cards were all in the hands of Wenren Yiyuan and the older generation of cultivators!
This Empress began seeking a method of liberation.
Thus came Uncle Rain.
Bewitched by Wenren Xianyi, Uncle Rain headed to the Azure Cloud Li Clan, which was at the height of its prominence, thoroughly enraging Li Wei.
When Li Wei made his threats, it wasn’t as if the Imperial Capital lacked the means to stop him.
Yet Wenren Xianyi simply allowed Li Wei to make his threats and allowed him to leave.
Then came the relentless advance of the Blood Moon.
She wanted to kill Ancestor Lan, aiming for the Daos he occupied, forcing everyone in the world to be complicit with her in her dirty deeds.
Once people are in the same boat, any single move could capsize it.
The people of the Imperial Capital feared capsizing and being reduced to mere beasts of burden.
And now…
Li Wei’s reappearance had clearly played right into Wenren Xianyi’s hands!
The horror in the Human Emperor’s heart turned to pity.
“For all of this, you personally buried your father’s life. Was it worth it?”
“It was worth it. I was born to be nothing more than a tool for the immortal clan’s political marriages.
In the Heavenly Palace, I am like a caged bird, my life thinner than paper.”
Wenren Xianyi looked down at the Human Emperor sitting on the floor.
She reveled in the joy of being able to look down on everything and control everything at this moment.
“But I can control my own destiny. I am no one’s plaything.”
She turned around, reaching out her hand to catch the snowflakes falling from the eaves, as if she had grasped the entire mortal realm beneath the February snow.
“You will not win forever. A gambler always has a day of losing.”
The Human Emperor advised sincerely.
“But I won today, didn’t I?” Wenren Xianyi sneered coldly, departing into the wind and snow, leaving behind the dying old man in the room.
Watching the fading figure of Wenren Xianyi, the Human Emperor let out a long sigh.
He then looked toward the sky, where a sliver of spear light still lingered in the vast expanse.
The corners of the Human Emperor’s mouth curled up slightly.
He saw Wenren Xianyi, whose life was thinner than paper.
But on this day, he also saw Li Wei, whose ambitions were higher than the heavens!
He knew clearly that under the protection of this mysterious Li Wei, there existed a group of indomitable Li Clan members.
Standing opposite the Blood Moon, they were giving their absolute all to protect the Human Race’s final pure land.
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