Free Web NovelChapter 645: Chapter 196: Black Lotus Blooms in Jade Capital City, Burial Garb Awaits at the Alley’s End
If this truly were the Emperor, it would be a tragedy of deep-seated enmity, gritted teeth, unyielding resolve, enduring humiliation for a greater cause, ultimately leading to revenge.
However, the Emperor is completely impersonated by Li Yuan.
This is nothing more than an adult-rated drama disguised as a green story.
At this moment, Li Yuan is sitting upright in the Golden Dragon Palace Carriage, occasionally peering through the curtains at the terrifying army outside from a unique perspective he had never considered before.
These troops are united in momentum, seemingly as one...
And he is wrapped in the center of these monsters.
Three thousand Ghost Riders, eight thousand Flying Bear Army, and thirty thousand Hanzhou Iron Cavalry formed an unstoppable iron triangle.
Yet within this iron triangle, the combined Flying Bear Army and Hanzhou Iron Cavalry are no match for the Ghost Riders.
Up to Hanzhou, there’s fundamentally no effective resistance possible.
Whether it’s the Five Elements Forces, the Buddhist and Daoist sects, or the local Commanders, it’s all the same.
Several considerable sieges were easily quelled by the Hanzhou Iron Cavalry even without the Ghost Riders getting involved.
No one can withstand such an army!
Logically, the Emperor, possessing such formidable power, should have proceeded cautiously, first subduing those unruly forces and Commanders surrounding the Jade Capital, before entering the city.
But the journey was rushed.
The army advanced like a spear directly striking the Yellow Dragon.
More than a month later,
The thunderous sound of the Iron Cavalry was already at the gates of Jade Capital City.
The iron armor, gleaming with a chilling light not to be confronted under the May sky.
The Exotic Beasts were fierce, their wrinkled armored bodies making one shiver with fear.
The Jade Capital City is a city of high walls, yet on the day the army arrived, the two sides hadn’t even exchanged words before a beautiful silver-haired youth from the Ghost Riders rode out on an Exotic Beast.
Peng Mingyi raised his hand to shade himself from the sun, looking up with a smile at the towering city walls, at the jagged battlements, and the solemn faces of the soldiers behind them—some of those faces were of middle-aged men, some youths, and possibly even raw recruits...
To the side were Daoists in old robes, watching the army besieging the city with a cold gaze from the windy ramparts, their eyes eventually resting on Peng Mingyi.
Li Yuan knew that in order not to arouse the suspicion of "Peng Mingyi," "Zhao Guyue," "Firefly Demon" and others, Lü Xuanxian had not informed the people here about the Lotus in advance.
How many people die has never concerned Lü Xuanxian.
His concern is whether the end of the world would come, whether the Human Race would perish.
The Lotus is terrifying; Lü Xuanxian once candidly told Li Yuan that "Peng Mingyi" had many trump cards and many flowers.
He had witnessed Peng Mingyi being assassinated, yet it was as if his body existed in another world, entirely unreachable.
Moreover, no one knew which was the original flower until Peng Mingyi planted the Lotus in the Ghost Jade Pool.
The singular opportunity was the moment the real Lotus was planted in the Jasper Pool, at the instant when "Peng Mingyi" and "Zhao Guyue" fell into a state of "rigidity."
At that moment, the true Lotus appeared.
At that moment, Peng Mingyi also appeared.
Simultaneously, the Exotic Beasts within the Ghost Riders would be considerably weakened due to losing ""Peng Mingyi’s" control.
Outsiders couldn’t notice, but that moment was the flaw.
As long as someone took action, the process would surely be interrupted.
Thoughts flashed through Li Yuan’s mind as he gently lifted his finger, pushed open the curtain, and looked into the distance.
Peng Mingyi’s silver hair was flying, and before the city walls, he asked, "Are you... suffering greatly?"
On the city walls, in the shadows, a Daoist in a worn robe, without a word, subtly moved his finger, secretly controlling the sword, with lightning sparkling along the blade...
"Go!"
The Daoist softly shouted, and a purple lightning bolt grew between his two fingers.
The purple lightning contained a frosty blue, charging relentlessly, with vigor concealing dragons and tigers, inch by inch killing off evil intent.
This was Daoist Qingfeng from the Celestial Master’s Mansion; he was a True Master of the Outer Mansion, with a Realm at the Fourth Grade for just over twenty years, yet he was also extraordinary, coming today to seek an opportunity to possibly take down one of the strong figures on the opposite side.
With both sides at odds, there was nothing to mediate.
As for the power of the Exotic Beasts, while the Jade Capital is a place of hidden talents, how it would go upon invasion is uncertain.
In a flash, the lightning had already reached Peng Mingyi.
With such power, how could Peng Mingyi resist a sword strike from a Fourth Grade powerhouse in an ambush?
He was pierced by the sword immediately.
But in the next moment, a strange thing happened.
Peng Mingyi’s body shimmered as if real yet illusory...
The violent sword seemed to pass through a mere dream.
Daoist Qingfeng raised his finger slightly, casting a remarkable talisman into the air, and instantly... a Celestial Thunder full of Yang Qi split through the daytime clouds, about to fall.
At this moment, without further words, Peng Mingyi waved his sleeve, tossing a Lotus into the air.
It was a Black Lotus, scattering in the wind as soon as it entered the air.
Li Yuan’s pupils constricted, staring at the dispersing petals.
The sky underwent bizarre changes, with a single petal suddenly transforming into a hundred flowers, and a hundred flowers again into ten thousand, which continued to multiply.
They multiplied so excessively, so indescribably, it could make someone with a fear of dense objects shriek!
The black on the flowers spread like ink in water, suddenly revealing their original white petals...
The white petals formed a river, instantly layering the entire city wall.
The black, however, poured down like a sudden storm, flitted like ghosts, fast and furious.
And at this moment, a clap of thunder suddenly roared, with the Celestial Thunder falling onto the flower river, yet disappearing at a visible pace...
Although the Celestial Thunder composed of Yang Qi was terrifying, the Yin Qi of this flower river was even more fearsome.
