Upon hearing this, the old Daoist nun's expression suddenly changed. She raised her head in the direction of the Dew Platform and opened her mouth, wanting to say something.
The Tianhai Divine Empress stood at the edge of the Dew Platform, her expression gazing at the southern estate. Her gaze was extremely dignified, like a real ray of light.
From the moment the old Daoist nun entered the capital, she had sensed it.
In the alley, the old Daoist nun had tortured a dog to death and severed Guan Bai's sword-wielding hand, which had already offended her.
Perhaps in the view of many people, both that wild dog and Guan Bai were not worth mentioning when compared to the old Daoist nun.
But the Divine Empress did not think this way, because this was her world.
Under the blue sky, even the most festering wild dog was still her dog. Even the most unimportant person was still her people.
Of course, if the old Daoist nun had obediently retreated after being forced back by Su Li's sword intent, she would have given face to the old Daoist nun's husband and not appeared.
But the old Daoist nun should not have remained in the capital.
This was disrespect to her.
The old Daoist nun especially should not have remained in that estate.
This was an exploitation of her prestige.
The Divine Empress did not like it, so she did not want to hear the old Daoist nun's explanation.
"Scram," she impassively said.
With this word, the jade ruyi at her waist suddenly transformed into a stream of light, flying towards the distant southern part of the city.
The jade ruyi transformed into a black dragon, carrying with it the power of wind and lightning, yet it was noiseless, seeming to fuse with the darkness.
In the entire capital, only two or three people could sense the appearance of this black dragon.
Deep beneath New North Bridge, that little girl, her face brimming with fiendish intent, was currently eating the roast chicken that Chen Changsheng had sent over a few days ago. At the same time, she was softly complaining that it had been many days since he had come to see her. At the same time, she was filled with the hope that she could learn the Mount Li Sword Style from him. In the future, if she could cultivate to Su Li's level, how could the chains on her back still hold her?
Suddenly, she raised her head and frowned, a hint of fear appearing on her small face.
Under the cover of the darkness, the black dragon transformed from the jade ruyi arrived in the southern part of the city.
The word 'scram' exploded in the old Daoist nun's ears like thunder.
Her expression suddenly changed and she no longer hesitated. Turning, she left. At the same time, her horsetail whisk descended, forming layers of jade sea behind her.
With a whoosh, the jade ruyi arrived in the secluded garden, breaking through the horsetail whisk and entering!
The black dragon entered the sea and set off countless storms!
With a bang, the old Daoist nun's back was struck. Her clothes were torn to shreds, and she spat out a mouthful of true blood.
How could she dare to stay any longer? Forcefully supporting her heavily injured body, she used a secret technique and leaped into the night, disappearing from sight.
After a while, a torch was lit in the quiet garden.
Tianhai Chenwu and several of his most important nephews and nephews stood under the garden wall, their complexions extremely ugly.
The old Daoist nun's true blood remained on the walls and bamboos, mottled and suffused with golden light.
"Aunt is angry."
"It's not like we're thinking of killing Chen Chang Sheng, we're just thinking of dampening the Orthodoxy's arrogance … Her Ladyship doesn't even allow this, what does she want us to do?"
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The Pope sat on his chair, gazing at the Green Leaf in the pot that was growing stronger and stronger, thinking about tonight's events. After a few moments of absent-mindedness, he muttered to himself, "Senior Brother, your judgment back then was correct. She truly is stronger than everyone imagined … and I think, this is still not her strongest."
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Besides powerful figures like the Pope and the old Daoist nun, in tonight's battle in the capital, besides Su Li's display of his world-shaking cultivation on the path of the sword, the most important event for many people was the sight of that tyrannical and peerless Black Phoenix. At this moment, everyone finally confirmed that the Divine Empress truly was as rumored, possessing the extremely noble Heavenly Phoenix bloodline. It was no wonder that she doted on Xu Yourong so much. From the perspective of innate talent and bloodline, she truly could treat Xu Yourong as her true daughter.
Only a few people knew that before and after this heaven-shaking battle between the Divine Empress and Su Li, two other battles had taken place in the capital. In normal times, these two battles in the Divine Domain would assuredly incite countless discussions in the world, but tonight, these two battles would inevitably become inconspicuous footnotes.
No one knew that one of the Storms of the Eight Directions, Wuqiong Bi, had once infiltrated the capital in the middle of the night, wanting to go to the Orthodox Academy to help her beloved only son regain some face. In the end, she had been repeatedly suppressed by Su Li and the Divine Empress, two legends. Not only had she failed to regain any face, she had instead been heavily injured and left in an incomparably miserable state.
It didn't take long for the seven letters Su Li had left for the continent to finally be known.
The Myriad Willows Garden outside Hanqiu City had been burned to the ground. It was truly impossible to conceal this matter, and the Zhu clan of Tianliang County and the Emotion-Severing Sect suddenly became much more low-key. At the same time, the Longevity Sect's Elder Liang suddenly died of an illness, and two more elders were afflicted with serious illnesses. Thus, the first generation of experts that had survived that upheaval ten-some years ago withered away. The Longevity Sect announced to the world that it had immediately secluded itself for three years. Even the imminent confluence of the north and south was to remain uninvolved, no longer expressing any opinion.
In such a short period of time, so many major events had occurred. Everyone knew that this was assuredly related to Su Li.
What truly shocked the entire world was naturally the battle between Su Li and the Tianhai Divine Empress on that snowy night in the capital.
When the news that Su Li had accompanied the Holy Maiden in seclusion had first arrived, many southerners believed that he had been unable to resist the pressure of the people of Zhou and had thus become a deserter. However deep their love had been, how deep their hatred was now. This was especially the case when those youths of the south who had once idolized him mentioned him, their words were filled with disrespect and incomparable hatred.
However, Su Li was still Su Li. As the tallest and most towering tree in the south in the last several hundred years, how could he have left because he wanted to escape? How could he have left so calmly, silently, inconspicuously, and even somewhat aggrieved? Before leaving, he had to settle all his grudges.
He had once cold-blooded and mercilessly killed many people. The world had many reasons to hate him, to hate him, but he did not have too many places in the world that he needed to hate. Looking back over the past few years, only the humiliation and injuries he had suffered on his journey south from the snowy plains of the land of demons had not been washed clean. Those shameless people who had stirred up internal strife in Mount Li were still alive, so the Myriad Willows Garden had been burned down, Zhu Luo had been crippled, and the Longevity Sect had gradually disappeared into the long river of history. As for the word 'grudge' in front, it was naturally settled by the letter in Chen Changsheng's bosom, the sudden gift of tens of thousands of acres of fertile land to Scholartree Manor, and the amnesty personally issued by a famous assassin by the Tianhai Divine Empress.
Of course, in his final moments, he did not forget to do something that he had actually always wanted to do, but never had the chance to do.
A true contest with the Tianhai Divine Empress.
Many years ago, when Su Li was still very young, he was already the world's chief assassin on the Ranking of Assassins. Countless people had been willing to spend countless sums of money, even a province or a county, to hire him to assassinate the Tianhai Divine Empress, but he had never accepted, not even hesitating to part ways with his subordinates.
After a few years, he had already become the most senior martial granduncle in the Mount Li Sword Sect. The Chen Imperial clan, many important figures of the south, and even the elders of his hometown, had put on countless pretexts of righteousness, words of sincerity, and even tears streaming down his face, requesting him to take his sword and enter the capital to eliminate the scourge that was the Demon Empress for the people of the world, but he had still not agreed.
Ten-some years ago, the Longevity Sect and the Liang Household had worked together to capture his pregnant wife and force him to kill Tianhai, but he had still not done so.
It was not because he did not have his current level of cultivation in the path of the sword and did not have the confidence to challenge a true Saint, nor was it because he did not want the current situation to be in turmoil and the human world to fall into internal strife, thus giving the demon army a chance to invade the south. It was because at that time, it was others who wanted him to challenge Tianhai.
Su Li had this sort of personality. If someone wanted him to do something, the more he would not do it. Now that he was about to leave this world, no one would dare to order him to do anything, nor would anyone dare to bother him. On the contrary, he dearly wanted to test just who was stronger between him and Tianhai.
The final result was no result, but he was confident that he would be very satisfied.
When he left this world, Su Li made it very lively for a period of time. At his core, he was a very lively person. He was very worried that a world without him would be too boring. Perhaps he was also very worried that after he left this world, it would be a very long time before he could see so much liveliness.
When he ascended the stage of this world, he was incomparably glorious, shockingly talented, dazzling to the extreme. When he left this world, he was similarly vigorous and elegant. He was confident that this world would never be able to forget his name, even if he might not appear for a very long time.
He had another goal in doing this: to establish might for Mount Li, for the southerners.
The Burning Heaven Sword illuminated the capital, illuminating the night sky together with the Wooden Phoenix sword.
He was telling the Tianhai Divine Empress and the Pope that after the confluence of the north and south, they had to treat the southerners a little better.
At the same time, he was telling the entire continent not to take advantage of his absence and try to do anything to Mount Li.
Otherwise, all of you will die a very ugly death like that elder of the Longevity Sect, your homes and mountain gates burned to the ground like the Myriad Willows Garden.
All of this.
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(Tomorrow's chapter, above.)
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