Novel Full Chapter 550
Chapter 550: Chapter 75: The Storm Approaches Chapter 550: Chapter 75: The Storm Approaches Having witnessed the murder with her own eyes, even after returning to the basement, Long Hu’s heart still pounded fiercely.
She wasn’t afraid of death, but she couldn’t understand how a member of the Demon Race, a cultivator like Qi Weihuan with almost peak status and cultivation level, could die so easily in such a despicable assassination.
If Long Long knew what she was thinking, he would have scoffed:
You’re just too young, too naive!
No matter the rank of the cultivator, even at the Immortal Rank, under certain circumstances, they could even be killed by an ordinary human with no strength to truss a chicken.
Poisoning is a common scenario.
After all, magical treasures, Flying Swords, Daoist Magic, and Bloodline Supernatural Powers all require the support of True Yuan.
Once the True Yuan is exhausted, they are like fish on a chopping board, completely at the mercy of others.
Even those who claim to be “immortal and indestructible” have their countermeasures…
Perhaps only the legendary “Hunyuan Daluo Golden Immortal” Realm could achieve true immortality.
In any case, Long Long was not Long Hu, he didn’t share the same heart-wrenching grief at Qi Weihuan’s demise; what truly worried him was the series of chain reactions triggered by the emperor’s death.
First of all, the murder was both premeditated and accidental.
Premeditated in that the empress had put a special poison in the emperor’s wine jug to exhaust his True Yuan and render him unable to fight back, and had arranged for guards loyal to her to watch from outside, clearly having planned to subdue Qi Weihuan and then “use the emperor to command the lords.”
The accidental part was naturally Qi Weihuan’s death…
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obviously the guard did not fully comply with the empress’s orders, he had his own schemes in mind.
Otherwise, how could one explain that the guard still decided to kill the emperor despite his True Yuan being exhausted?
It couldn’t merely be explained as a slip of the hand.
Furthermore, given Qi Weihuan’s bloodline and cultivation level, even if he temporarily lost his True Yuan, his physical body’s strength could not be breached by ordinary Fan Tie.
The weapon carried by the guard certainly had major issues, but Long Long and I, hidden behind the wall’s cavity, could only hear sounds without seeing the shape of the weapon…
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Long Long rubbed his temples again, trying hard to prevent his thoughts from drifting without limit.
There’s no need to analyze the motives anymore, the key lies in what comes next.
If I were the empress, faced with the sudden death of the emperor, what would I do?
The first thing would certainly be to shift the blame; there had already been an assassination attempt in the imperial city, so it can all be pinned on the assassin.
As for how the assassin managed to infiltrate the heavily guarded Divine Dragon Tower?
That’s not important, a plausible reason would suffice.
The second thing would naturally be to seize power.
As Qi Weihuan’s legitimate wife, backed by the support of her maternal family from the White Tiger Clan, she could fully take over the authority left by the emperor under the pretext of “raising Qi Weihuan’s children until they come of age.”
However, Lü Ya had a fatal flaw in this regard:
The three children she had given birth to all carried the White Tiger bloodline.
In the Eastern Emperor Realm, the emperor isn’t a loner; behind him stands a whole Demon Race.
The biggest obstacle for Lü Ya in seizing power is the Qilin Clan.
There’s no way they would agree to let three children with the White Tiger bloodline be the successors.
That’s why Lü Ya sent the guard to find Qi Weihuan’s illegitimate child outside the palace right away.
They are Lü Ya’s key trump card in taking over the emperor’s power as empress-but I heard that Qi Weihuan had a brother visiting the North State.
Without the restraint of his elder brother, would this prince still willingly submit to the treacherous sister-in-law and the illegitimate child without a proper title?
It’s foreseeable that in the upcoming days, the imperial city will be swept up in a storm of political intrigue and bloodshed!
If it had been any other time, Long Long would naturally have taken Long Hu and fled as far as possible at the first sign of trouble, since this kind of life-and-death political struggle is completely irrational, and eventually everyone begins to kill each other indiscriminately, which is troublesome if one gets involved.
However, the problem lay in the excuse Lü Ya had used, “an assassin has struck.”
If Long Long and Long Hu suddenly disappeared from the basement where they were imprisoned, wouldn’t that be an automatic confession that “we are the assassins”?
Therefore, even though they knew a storm was coming, they could only obediently stay here, hoping that the Azure Dragon Clan could provide some semblance of support.
If I can guess this, the clan must have gotten some information, right?
It couldn’t be that they haven’t heard anything, right?
——
At the top of the Divine Dragon Tower, where the Emperor had perished.
The Qilin ancestor stood in place, staring at the spot where Qi Weihuan had died, silent.
Lü Ya was beside him, holding a child and weeping, repeating the same blatantly flawed lies until the Qilin ancestor lifted his cold eyes, and her crying abruptly stopped.
Each member of the Demon Race might have multiple Immortal Ranks, but the ancestor was always the oldest among those with the Immortal Rank.
After all, the Demon Race’s path of cultivation is too singular, mostly relying on purifying their own bloodline to grow stronger, so it makes sense that the older one is, the stronger one is.
In the clan, the ancestor has the final say, but usually doesn’t interfere too much with the clan’s affairs, only occasionally showing support for the clan leader.
Now that the leader of the Qilin Clan had died, if Lü Ya could persuade this Qilin ancestor, her path to seizing power would be more than half completed.
On the other hand, she might need to consider how to flee Central State.
In her heart, Lü Ya grew ruthless and decided to lay all her cards on the table, venomously saying:
“Ancestor, you must ensure that His Majesty’s child inherits the throne!
If Qi Weihong seizes power, both this child and I will sooner or later have no place to be buried!”
“Moreover, Qi Weihong has always been close to the Xuanwu of North State!
Do you still remember, ancestor, back when His Majesty was still in seclusion, how Qi Weihong sought help from the Xuanwu to fight for the succession, offering countless outrageous conditions?
His Majesty had said before that if it were not for concern over North State’s attitude, he would have flayed that traitor alive long ago!”
The Qilin ancestor just looked at her coldly, still not speaking.
To be fair, if there was even a sliver in Qi Weihong, that deceitful wretch, that could be supported, why would the ancestor hesitate about having this bastard child succeed to the throne?
He would have already slapped this White Tiger harlot, who had murdered her own husband, to death!
But Lü Ya was right about one thing, Qi Weihong was too selfish, sacrificing the clan’s interests for his own benefit.
Not to mention his year-round flirtations with the Xuanwu of North State, he even disregarded the clan’s opposition and married a woman from the Xuanwu Clan, not to mention the most rebellious act when he once sought to use the Xuanwu ancestor to contend with him, the Qilin ancestor, for the succession!
To invite outsiders into a clan war is a taboo in any Demon Race!
If Qi Weihuan were still alive, Qi Weihong’s existence could be regarded as negligible.
But now that Qi Weihuan had suddenly passed away, if Qi Weihong were to inherit the throne…based on what the Qilin ancestor knew about him, he would definitely bring the Xuanwu Clan’s power into play to contend with the opposing forces within the Qilin Clan.
Even a bastard child’s ascension was better than this traitor who disregarded the clan!
With this in mind, the Qilin ancestor finally made a decision, and said in a cold voice:
“If this child has inherited Qi Weihuan’s bloodline, then to become the next leader of the Qilin Clan, he must step into the Demon King Realm within a thousand years!
You go and tell the White Tiger ancestor, this is our Qilin Clan’s bottom line!”
“Your servant thanks the ancestor!” Lü Ya, overjoyed, quickly bowed to the ground in gratitude, not forgetting to forcefully press down the child beside her as well.
The bastard child did not have a high cultivation level and his Spiritual Wisdom was not yet mature; he did not even understand what was happening, but as Lü Ya forcefully pressed his head to the ground, the pain caused him to cry helplessly.