Chapter 802 - 230: Red Silk Held Back, Jade Palace Ablaze, A Clean Escape

Chapter 802: Chapter 230: Red Silk Held Back, Jade Palace Ablaze, A Clean Escape

However, what of it?

He raised his hand, casually gesturing.

A dazzling Red Silk floated out from his sleeve, like a serpent slipping through the burning door crack, then appeared at the entrance outside.

The Red Silk fluttered with brilliance, beaming with incredible power.

It undulated like waves, moving gently, an ordinary person might think it’s just a regular red string flying mid-air.

But ordinary people don’t include the one who just arrived.

The red-clothed Little Ghost with a ponytail gripped a short blade, his tongue licking the edge, still staining with many hearts’ blood from worthy opponents who were utterly helpless before him.

His form was like a ripple hidden in shadow, swiftly arriving in front of the peculiar burning palace.

Yu Chang’s cold eyes flickered with a teasing light; in these lands, he could kill whoever he wished.

As for the Empress Dowager...

Her final day had come.

She raised the Emperor, yet became an obstacle herself.

Yu Chang thought so yet suddenly his pupils shrank, his advancing form forcefully stopped.

He saw a Red Silk hovering before the door.

Looking at that Red Silk, he abruptly shivered, and instead of advancing, he retreated.

He could not understand what this Red Silk was.

But he knew it could easily kill him as if crushing an ant.

In no time, a General on a noble steed charged in from afar, followed by many Flying Bear cavalry.

Yet before Gao Kaiping reacted, the white horse transformed by a phantom halted instantly.

The horse’s eyes flickered with green fear, staring at the Red Silk, not daring to advance a step.

Gao Kaiping looked at the Red Silk, momentarily silent.

"General! We..."

A soldier under his command spoke up.

Gao Kaiping signaled him to keep quiet, then gravely watched the Red Silk, glancing at the red-clothed Little Ghost not far off.

In the deadly assassin, renowned as a "nightmare" for two thousand years, he saw a fearful emotion.

...

Time passed, and more time again.

The mystical Red Silk suddenly vanished without a trace.

Only then did Gao Kaiping signal.

Two Flying Bear cavalry with spears lunged into the burning palace, soon returning.

The flame-clad door slammed down with a "bang," revealing clearly a couple embracing on the deep palace ruin.

Faintly visible, the woman wore the Empress Dowager’s dark gold Phoenix Robe, while the man wore the Prince’s Python Robe.

The two clung together shamelessly, gradually consumed... dissolved in the fire.

Gao Kaiping watched silently, waiting until the inside burned adequately before saying: "Extinguish the fire!!"

...

Gulu... gulu gulu...

Xie Wei woke up due to the sound of wheels turning.

She held her forehead, speaking: "My... My..."

After saying a few words, she suddenly recalled her situation, hastily pulling the carriage curtain, yet saw outside vast fields.

Green grass like a carpet, trees lush.

Beyond were rolling mountains.

She pulled open the curtain before her, seeing a gray-clothed man driving the carriage.

This man she recognized, her brother-in-law—Ximen Gucheng.

"Second Sister, you’re awake?" Li Yuan said.

Xie Wei remained silent for a long time, asking: "How’s the Jade Capital?"

Li Yuan replied: "The Empress Dowager and Prince Carefree saw the tides gone and self-immolated in the fire."

Xie Wei suddenly rushed out the curtain, jumping off the carriage.

Li Yuan halted the reins, looked at her saying: "Second Sister, still want to go back? Your people have been penetrated like a sieve."

"Impossible!"

"Nothing is impossible."

"Then... who?"

"A mysterious power just emerged, maybe always there but was dormant."

"What forced them to appear?"

"The Southern Barbarians’ invasion," Li Yuan casually said, "You perhaps didn’t know, the real purpose of invading the Southern Barbarians wasn’t these rivers and lands, but to destroy the Meat Field and Ghost Realm.

Now the Immortal Realm is gone, someone lost patience, emerging from the dark to block these invading Southern Barbarians."

"But why does the Dragon Vein act so?"

"The Dragon Vein aims to help the Emperor guard the land, wanting to resist Southern Barbarians. Yet maybe it hasn’t clearly seen this force."

Li Yuan said, "All my wild guesses.

Nonetheless, at this moment, indeed you should die, thus I helped you perish in the Jade Palace."

Xie Wei stood silently, hands tightly clenched, the winds lifting the disordered dark gold Phoenix Robe, skirt hems revealing white beneath the phoenix shoes.

"Second Sister, you’re not the Empress Dowager now, come with me to the Southern Land, live next to me and Xiaoyu’er," Li Yuan said.

Staring at her toes, Xie Wei softly said: "My... My... I... I better not go."

Li Yuan beckoned with a smile: "Second Sister, those past matters were the Emperor and Empress, Marquis Carefree and Empress Dowager... You’re still Second Sister to me and Xiaoyu’er, she always remembers you, misses you."

Xie Wei bit her lip, looking up briefly at the man on the Imperial Hand Seat, softly asking: "Truly no hope to turn things around?"

Li Yuan countered: "Why overturn here?"

Xie Wei sighed deeply, then quietly said: "Then... then keep our business strictly secret. We... We actually aren’t supposed to."

"It’s the Emperor and Empress, Marquis Carefree and Empress Dowager," Li Yuan emphasized.

Xie Wei nodded, responded "Mm," then re-entered the carriage.

Suddenly, she felt an earnest relief.

Perhaps, it was time for new beginnings.