[Your clan united to suppress the Wu tribe's intrusion into the border. One of the masterminds behind the fall of Shadowfell Prefecture's pass is Crown Prince Fei Heng.]
"You truly were the mastermind."
Li Wei looked down at the ground.
Lying on the ground was a corpse dragon bound by the Heaven-Imprisoning Lock.
Turbid blood flowed beneath the corpse dragon, and corpse energy surged toward the heavens.
At this moment, Li Yaozu stood with his sword, putting on quite the demeanor of a Sword Immortal.
He remained perfectly still, letting the gentle breeze blow his hair, his back facing the struggling corpse dragon.
Just now, taking advantage of the clan members bombarding and suppressing the corpse dragon with all their might, Li Yaozu had also seized the opportunity to deliver the heaviest blow to the corpse dragon.
However, although Li Yaozu looked full of an ethereal, otherworldly aura, the clan members could still feel his sense of life's vicissitudes and melancholy.
Li Wei scratched his face. Let Yaozu be.
This kid was instantly killed in the Immortal Domain back then, instantly killed at the Mountain of Esoteric Stratagems, and just now, instantly killed by the corpse dragon again.
His feelings must be very complicated right now.
"Let me go! Why must you oppose me? Why?!! We are friends!!!"
Fei Heng roared, his divine soul surfacing on the dragon's head.
"Are we?" Li Wei asked softly.
"I..."
But before he could finish speaking, his eyes were already vacant.
As the Li family members gathered, Li Wei's long spear pierced into his Body Integration divine soul without hesitation. Spatial Spiritual power began to ravage his divine soul.
He saw the cold gazes of the Li family members. It was disappointment, indifference, and also anger.
They were still the same. Toward enemies, they would never say too much; there was only extermination.
As his divine soul annihilated bit by bit, Fei Heng's gaze gradually lost focus.
The memories of being brought back to the Azure Cloud Prefecture back then surfaced before his eyes bit by bit.
Working at sunrise, returning at sunset.
That was a tranquil world.
Walking on the forest paths of Merit City's outer city, carrying a hoe, those carefree commoners would greet him.
When he was free, he would go to the inner city, play chess with the senior retainers of the Li Clan, and listen to the amusing stories of those old fellows.
He could also go to the Li Clan's station in Merit City.
Centuries had passed, and the Li Clan hadn't treated him as an outsider. Occasionally, at the banquets following the Li Clan's grand sacrifices, there would be a seat for him.
But on that day, he heard about Crown Prince Sheng's death.
He went to ask the Old Tree and Li Changsheng; he went to tell Li Yunbing and Li Kuangren that he was going to be the Crown Prince.
He vaguely remembered the Li family members advising him. The Imperial Capital was a place of trouble and conflict, and it was absolutely not the perfect time to go.
Once he stepped out of Merit City, everything changed.
The corpse dragon's Spiritual power was dissipating.
The long spear was pulled out from his glabella, leaving a transparent blood hole in his forehead.
The figures of the Li family members gradually blurred in his eyes.
He seemed to see Merit City again.
"Can I... can I still go back? I want to go back..."
"You can't go back."
"I... I didn't do anything wrong."
Fei Heng's eyelids gradually grew heavy.
A wind mixed with the smell of blood blew.
As his world turned dark, a hoarse voice rang in his ears: "You did very well. You just lost, that's all."
Lost... losing was fine too.
The Crown Prince, who harbored grand ambitions but built his Great Dao upon the lives of countless human race members, dropped his head.
His expression was peaceful, and he no longer had any breath.
The Li family members stood in front of Fei Heng for a long time, remaining silent.
They also hadn't expected that Crown Prince Fei Heng, who had spent three hundred years with their family, would end up like this today.
"Let's go."
Li Wei took a deep breath, had the clan members store away the corpse, and headed toward where Nun Dairou was.
The clan members followed Li Wei without a word.
So many years had passed; they had long since learned to let go of many things.
...
"..."
Within the Dao arena of the two Body Integration experts, a silence fell.
The two Body Integration experts had been engaged in a technique battle, but suddenly, several figures intruded.
"So fast?" Perfected Qinghe blinked, breathing a sigh of relief in his heart.
Fei Heng must have escaped; otherwise, how could the Li family members have arrived here without a scratch?
Nun Dairou, on the other hand, was trembling continuously.
As Li Yaoqing revealed her strength and astonishing medical arts, Perfected Qinghe began fighting her without any scruples, and Nun Dairou was actually gradually falling to a disadvantage.
And now... the few from the Li Clan had arrived.
"You... you killed Fei Heng!" Nun Dairou's teeth were chattering!
Her Buddhist light could pierce through the void, keeping an eye on everything illuminated by its radiance.
She had seen everything on the battlefield!
Even now, she found it hard to believe.
The Li Clan Ancestor's long spear had pierced into Fei Heng's dragon head.
Li Yunlin, at the peak of the Void Refinement realm, had unleashed a full five Void Refinement techniques.
Li Yunbing used the Hidden Void Needle and unleashed the Thunder Roc.
Li Tianqi's array formation was formidable, a Tier-4 grand array that had been charging for a long time.
Li Kuanghua's Buddhist Dharma, Li Changyao firing a supreme-grade Dharma Treasure arrow, plus Li Xinnian's Blood Spirit Dharma Body.
With just a single combined strike, exactly when Li Yaozu broke the corpse dragon's Daoist technique, the Heaven-Imprisoning Lock suppressed Fei Heng!
Even if he had only just entered Body Integration and his Dao-Glimpse was incomplete, he was still an almighty expert.
Yet, he was suppressed by these Void Refinement cultivators in such a short time...
Couple that with her already being at a disadvantage, how could she not be afraid?
"What???" Perfected Qinghe was completely stunned, and then his expression drastically changed.
"You dealt a lethal blow?"
That was the Crown Prince! Acting in such a manner was tantamount to rebellion!
Unless...
"What do you mean we killed the Crown Prince?" Li Changyao frowned.
"A demoness is a demoness. I clearly saw you kill the Crown Prince."
"That's right."
Li Yunbing smiled faintly. "It's also our fault for protecting him poorly, allowing the demoness an opportunity to strike."
"I saw it too."
Zhou Chengli, the old gentleman, lowered his head and sighed.
"His Highness the Crown Prince was captured by the demoness.
Upon hearing that the demoness wanted to manipulate him, the Crown Prince died a heroic martyr's death, fighting the demoness to the bitter end."
The other few from Highsun City exchanged glances and chimed in one after another.
"I saw the same."
"Demoness, how vicious your heart is! A Bodhisattva statue, yet you kill our dynasty's Crown Prince!"
"I will fight you to the death!"
Everyone wore expressions of grief and indignation.
Seeing this, the corners of Perfected Qinghe's mouth twitched, but he also breathed a sigh of relief.
"This is for the best. No one knows what happened here.
In order to survive, these people won't dare tell the world that the Crown Prince cultivated demonic arts and committed those conscience-less acts."
At this moment, Perfected Qinghe seemed to understand.
The Li Clan brought the people from Highsun City here to be witnesses. Otherwise... he could not possibly have let the Li Clan kill the Crown Prince.
"This Shadowfell Prefecture... whose chess game is it, exactly?" Perfected Qinghe let out a bitter smile.
"How dare you slander me... Shameless!!!"
Nun Dairou looked around at the faces of these people, blushing with anger.
But upon hearing this, everyone turned their heads and stared fixedly at Nun Dairou, glaring until she felt a chill spread through her entire body.
Barrages of Spiritual power poured out toward her!
At this time.
In the distance, a figure landed exactly where Fei Heng had died. Looking at a puddle of corpse blood on the ground, his expression was gloomy.
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