Great Li Martial God

At the same time, inside the courtyard where the consorts were being held.

The Crimson Cloud Evil Spirit, who had been sitting cross-legged against the wall with eyes closed, suddenly snapped his eyes open. He looked in the direction of something not far away in the darkness.

Then he immediately looked toward Li Musheng.

And after seeing Li Musheng simply glance casually in the direction the Crimson Cloud Evil Spirit had been looking and then show no further reaction, the Crimson Cloud Evil Spirit's gaze shifted, and his figure vanished from where he stood, appearing above the courtyard in the blink of an eye.

In an instant, the true qi of heaven and earth surged and churned around him, and an intangible martial pressure slowly began to emanate.

The Crimson Cloud Evil Spirit's movement naturally drew the attention of the assembled Great Xuan martial world experts, and everyone immediately became alert, correctly guessing that the Great Xuan imperial palace's experts had arrived.

And in the next moment, the martial world experts all felt a deeply icy aura descend from the sky in an instant.

In that same breath, the temperature throughout the entire courtyard plummeted, frost crystallized across the floor and the courtyard walls, and ice crystals formed over the grass and trees.

"Crimson Cloud Evil Spirit. You are carrying our poison in your body and you still dare to act so recklessly? Do you truly think we will not take your life?"

The Crimson Cloud Evil Spirit stood suspended in the air with his hair hanging loose, casually sweeping a hand out. A blaze of scorching fire flashed through the space, intending to drive away the pervasive extreme cold around him.

But the icy air seemed endless and inexhaustible, continuing to pour in from the sky. Even with the Crimson Cloud Evil Spirit pushing back, all he could achieve was a standoff. He could not dispel it completely.

At that moment, the Crimson Cloud Evil Spirit's expression was dark, his gaze fixed on a rooftop not far away in the darkness.

In his line of sight, that rooftop appeared empty. But he knew with certainty that the aura of the eunuch who had just spoken was there without question.

"The Great Xuan imperial palace has kept me sealed away in the Mystic Mechanism Palace without daylight for all these years. I have long since had enough. Tonight, even if the poison takes my life, I will never take another single step back into the Mystic Mechanism Palace."

The Crimson Cloud Evil Spirit's eyes blazed with killing intent, and streaks of crimson fire lines suddenly ignited across his entire body. The man transformed into what seemed like a roaring, blazing furnace, and the violent, scorching aura swept out like a raging surge of waves, rolling directly toward the darkness nearby.

For the Crimson Cloud Evil Spirit with the Life and Death Talisman inside him, he had no path back. He had to strike first.

"Incorrigible."

A sharp, cold voice rang out, this time clearly not coming from the same eunuch as before.

A dark shadow suddenly plummeted from above, and an enormous palm wreathed in black mist and icy black light tore apart the rolling waves of heat and came crashing down toward the Crimson Cloud Evil Spirit suspended in the air.

The Crimson Cloud Evil Spirit looked up sharply and launched his own Fire Cloud Divine Palm in response, sending towering flames surging upward to slam into the descending icy black palm.

For a moment the area blazed with blinding fire light, heat vapor churning and blasting outward in every direction, the surrounding temperature rising sharply as the blistering air waves drove back the earlier chill.

But it was short-lived. In the next instant, a flash of dark icy radiance broke directly through the Crimson Cloud Evil Spirit's Fire Cloud Divine Palm and came straight down to a point just above his head.

The Crimson Cloud Evil Spirit's expression changed sharply.

In his field of vision, the icy radiance that had reached the space above his head had somehow transformed into the silhouette of a gaunt, skeletal figure.

That figure wore the black robes of a palace eunuch, claw-like fingers curved and crooked like dried branches, less than three inches from his skull.

Another instant and those terrifying clawed fingers would have pierced through the Crimson Cloud Evil Spirit's entire head.

But the Crimson Cloud Evil Spirit had absolutely no way to prevent it. His Fire Cloud Divine Art was being suppressed completely by the other's deep and boundless icy energy.

In barely a moment, the blazing fire aura surrounding his body was enveloped by a thin layer of dark black ice, and the immense heat he radiated dropped directly to near freezing.

An irresistible chill swept over him, and even the expression on the Crimson Cloud Evil Spirit's face stiffened under a layer of frost.

But the eunuch's clawed fingers stopped themselves at the very moment they were about to pierce through the Crimson Cloud Evil Spirit's skull.

Then that sharp, effeminate voice sounded in the Crimson Cloud Evil Spirit's ear, "After all those years in the Mystic Mechanism Palace, have you forgotten? This old one was able to subdue and imprison you there in the first place. This old one can take your life just as easily right now."

With that, the black-robed, gaunt, skeletal elderly eunuch withdrew his hand and then swept a casual wave.

The Crimson Cloud Evil Spirit, now an ice sculpture, was sent flying into the courtyard below.

At the same time, the assembled Great Xuan martial world experts in the courtyard had long since found their meridians invaded by the icy energy without even realizing it, and before any of them could even attempt to act, every one of them was immobilized.

"If it were not for the Crown Prince's orders and the use they have for you, I would have already crushed your head into paste."

The gaunt elderly eunuch said coldly to the Crimson Cloud Evil Spirit.

He then swept a look over the courtyard below. But in the next moment, his expression went abruptly still.

At the same time, another elderly eunuch in black quietly appeared at his side.

He seemed to sense his fellow's reaction, and followed the man's gaze. Very quickly his own eyes also sharpened.

The two of them, having received the Crown Prince's instructions, had gone immediately to the Mystic Mechanism Palace intending to carry out Zhao Kuang's orders and capture Li Musheng alive.

But by the time they arrived, Li Musheng had already left with the Crimson Cloud Evil Spirit and the others, and so they had followed their trail here.

What neither of them had anticipated was that during this time, Li Musheng and his group had gone ahead and seized the inner palace's consorts.

"What absolute audacity."

"You are all courting death."

The two elderly eunuchs reacted and immediately erupted in fury, their voices cutting out a pair of shrill and grating shouts.

But even so, neither moved immediately to take the Crimson Cloud Evil Spirit's or the assembled Great Xuan martial world experts' lives.

After all, Zhao Kuang had said he wanted them kept alive and subdued for his use.

The gaunt eunuch's face was extremely unpleasant, and he swept the area with his gaze once more. His eyes finally settled on Li Musheng and Zhao Muning.

And those eyes of his were sharp enough to recognize Zhao Muning's identity at a single glance. In an instant, the fury in his eyes deepened further.

These people had dared to lay hands on both consorts and a princess. It was unlikely even the Crown Prince could spare their lives now.

With that thought, the gaunt eunuch's gaze swung to Li Musheng with a penetrating chill.

Though neither of them knew Li Musheng was the one who had forced his way into the Mystic Mechanism Palace, among those present he was the only true outsider.

And so without question, Li Musheng was the one responsible for all of this.

But at that very moment, before either elderly eunuch could address a single word to Li Musheng, Li Musheng frowned first and asked, "Why are there only two of you? Why did the Great Xuan emperor not come?"

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