Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
“Ahhh! Guards!!”
The imperial study of the Tianlong Imperial Palace.
A glimmer of light appeared in front of a round mirror in a secret chamber.
The mirror reflected the furnishings in the secret room.
In an instant, the mirror turned black. Then, a bloody eye appeared in the darkness as it slowly opened.
The entire mirror began to vibrate!
The guards outside the study glanced at each other nervously when they heard the scream. “Hurry and call for the sorcerer!”
With that, the guards at the door started running.
Finally, they ran into the sorcerer, Cheng Ming, and the priest of the Tianlong Temple, Xu Wen. The two men were chatting and laughing as they walked along a small path in the palace.
The sorcerer smirked. “Well, Brother Xu, we’ve done a good job with this setup. We got rid of a useless emperor and his jinx of a daughter. Now, Tianlong will definitely prosper once again. We’ll win every battle, and our people will live in peace and comfort.”
Xu Wen reached out his hand and made a gesture of worshipping Buddha. However, the priest’s eyes weren’t as clear as expected of a priest. “Amitabha. I should have done it. The previous Emperor Mu Feng succeeded the throne fifty years ago. In the early years, we were always a peaceful and prosperous country. Who knew that a woman would turn our entire country upside down? Why did the former Emperor refuse to listen to us and insist on keeping this child? Thankfully, we found out about it and managed to avoid this calamity. If we had gotten rid of her earlier, we wouldn’t have lost so many innocent citizens in vain. They had to go! I will never be able to express my love for the people of Tianlong no matter what I do, even if I were to commit a heinous crime.”
The sorcerer rolled his eyes and cleared his throat. “So, we’ve done something very important and achieved what we wanted. Next, we need to discuss who will succeed the former Emperor.”
As soon as these words were spoken, the two of them seemed to be able to read each other’s minds, and they tacitly looked at each other before simultaneously laughing loudly.
“You’ve always been the one who knows me best.” The sorcerer’s right hand clenched into a fist as he laughed, while his left hand circled the old priest’s back.
“Oh, Sorcerer Cheng, after all these years of being partners, the chemistry between you and me is something that no one in this world can match.”
The two of them burst into laughter again.
Immediately, the royal guard’s roar came from the front. “Sorcerer! Priest! Something’s wrong!”
At that, the sorcerer, Cheng Ming, stopped smiling and looked in the direction of the sound. “What’s the matter?”
The guard had run too quickly and was panting to catch his breath.
The sorcerer smiled kindly again and said in a gentle voice, “Don’t worry, speak slowly.”
The priest once again assumed a praying posture and nodded at the guard. “Please speak, Sir. Why are you in such a hurry?”
The guard came forward and kneeled before he nodded and said, “We suddenly heard a child-like roar from the secret room in the imperial study. I was so scared that I came to find you quickly!”
eImmediately, the cheerful atmosphere disappeared. The sorcerer looked at the old priest and said nervously, “Something’s wrong!”
The priest started to panic too. His forehead was even covered in cold sweat. He had already subconsciously retracted his hand and was already running toward the imperial study!
The old priest thought to himself, ‘The Heavenly God must be angry!’
The imperial study had been set in the center of the palace when the former Emperor was still in power. After the former Emperor died, the sorcerer and priest ordered the servants to set imperial study up in a place where there were few people.
The group arrived at the imperial study. The sorcerer stopped the guard at the door as he ran inside nervously with the priest.
At the same time, a series of human-like screams came from the room.
With a panicked expression, the sorcerer came to a certain scroll hanging in the room and chanted an unknown incantation. With a boom, the scroll instantly turned into a stone door, and then the door slowly opened.
The screams in the room grew louder as the door opened.
“Calm down, Heavenly God! Calm down!” He shouted.
“Honorable Heavenly God, why are you so angry? Have we done something to make you angry?”
With another loud boom, the old priest and the sorcerer knelt in front of the round mirror and kowtowed. Following that, the violent shaking of the Blood Pupil in the arc mirror eased a little, and the child-like screams stopped.
A normal child’s voice came from the mirror. “Cheng Ming, Xu Wen, I trusted you so much and gave you two powers. Is this how you repay me?”
The sorcerer and priest looked at each other in puzzlement, but neither knew what was wrong.
The sorcerer swallowed his saliva, cupped his hands, and said carefully, “I would definitely not dare to slack off. You’ve granted me great kindness. Please let me know what has made you so angry!”
The bloody eye in the arc mirror then disappeared, revealing a man and woman running hand in hand within the arc. The man and the woman had their backs to the sorcerer and the old priest, so the latter two couldn’t see them very well.
Then, the camera zoomed in. The faces of the man and woman appeared in front of the sorcerer and the old priest.
“Take a good look at what you’ve done? Isn’t this woman supposed to be dead? If she hadn’t intruded into my mystic realm, I wouldn’t have discovered that she was still alive! I originally wanted to capture her in one fell swoop, but who knew that the Netherworld Demon Lord would actually have his divine chains undone and escape from my sacrificial mystic realm with this woman? Why did you let her carry a sword?! Didn’t you even consider that this sword could cut through the divine chains?! I can’t interfere with the situation inside the cave. Think about what to do! You’re bunch of stupid pigs!”
Right now, the two men were filled with disbelief and fear.
“This is impossible. I personally saw this woman die in front of us, so we sacrificed her to you! That silver sword was also left to be buried with her by the former Emperor in front of all the citizens of the country. We really had no reason to stop it,” the sorcerer said carefully.
The old priest was terrified by the sorcerer’s explanation. As expected, the sorcerer spat out a mouthful of blood and was knocked to the ground by a force from the mirror!
The sorcerer immediately understood what the figure in the mirror meant. He hurriedly sat up and kowtowed repeatedly. “I was wrong! I was wrong!”
At this moment, the priest softly spoke up, “Heavenly God, this was our mistake. However, you’re omnipotent. If this woman managed to enter the mystic realm alive, it’s only proof that this woman is a jinx to the country and our people. She actually survived. If she isn’t a demonic woman, then what is she? She died in front of me! And this Netherworld Demon Lord… He is the defeated opponent of our Heavenly God. You definitely have a way to deal with them!”
Seeing this, the sorcerer immediately echoed, “That’s right, that’s right! There’s nothing you can’t do! No one can ever match up to you!”
Hearing this, the Heavenly God immediately became elated. “Of course! I am just not too happy with the way things are going. He was so powerful before, but now, he is trapped within my territory! Hahahaha! I can’t even be bothered to mention this woman. She’s just a mere mortal!” The child’s voice in the mirror was clearly filled with joy.
The sorcerer immediately echoed, “That’s right, that’s right! With how omnipotent you are, they definitely wouldn’t come out alive!
Even the most powerful cultivator in this world wouldn’t be able to break through the four mystic realms of you, Heavenly God, let alone this mortal or the defeated Netherworld Demon Lord!
Besides, we drugged him. He has almost no spiritual power and he’s lost all his memories. He’s no different from a mortal.. Even if these four chains are removed, what extraordinary abilities do they have to escape from your mystic realm?”