King of Creation

Chapter 2092: Chapter 2077: Sky-Shaking Thirteen Executions

Ye Zhen’s body was about to be torn to pieces by the suddenly appearing void blades.

But in that critical moment, Ye Zhen’s body miraculously twisted like an earthworm, and several void blades that appeared out of nowhere eerily scraped past the edges of his body.

One of the void blades dangerously flew past Ye Zhen’s ear.

Witnessing this scene, the two Void Hunting Kings who had thought they had succeeded in their attack, widened their eyes in disbelief.

Ye Zhen, a humble little Second Route Wind Patrol Envoy, surely wouldn’t be aware of the guards’ power in Luoyi of the Great Zhou, but even those Ye Zhen knew of were forces capable of making countless Dao Realm experts suffer defeat.

Therefore, Ye Zhen was well aware of his actions and knew how precious his time was at that moment.

The instant Ye Zhen dashed out of the Mechanical Department hall, he pushed himself to his peak state.

Whether it be speed, Primordial Spirit, or various Secret Divine Abilities.

Ye Zhen understood the formidable strength of the Heavenly Patrol Divine Generals and Void Hunting Kings spread across Luoyi, and that they would be the first to discover and intercept him.

Therefore, Ye Zhen promptly submerged his Divine Sense into the Void-Slaughtering Radiance, making sure that any fluctuation in the surrounding void wouldn’t escape his perception.

To Ye Zhen’s perception, the space blades of the Void Hunters, which appeared without any warning, were like bright weapons easily detectable in advance.

Naturally, Ye Zhen could nimbly evade them.

Without any pause in his speed, Ye Zhen continued charging toward his destination, displaying Wind Flash and Sweep, like wisps of smoke.

The two Void Hunting Kings stood in a daze after their missed attack, and their figures flickered as they vanished from the void.

In the next instant, the two Void Hunting Kings suddenly emerged from a hundred meters in front of Ye Zhen’s path, but just as they appeared, two Small Five Elements Mixed Yuan Divine Thunder Lights blasted at the freshly torn void.

A cry of pain erupted, catching the two Void Hunting Kings off guard, and they were directly blasted back into the space layer.

By the time the two Void Hunting Kings, looking very disheveled, returned from the space layer, the smoke form of Ye Zhen was already heading toward the city gate leading to the Imperial Palace of Luoyi Inner City.

The two Void Hunting Kings’ faces changed drastically.

However, at that moment, besides the guards at the city gate, two teams comprising more than three thousand Imperial Guards bolstered the defenses by moving from the barracks beside the Imperial Palace to the palace forbidden passage.

Seeing this, the two Void Hunting Kings who had repeatedly failed to intercept let out a sigh of relief.

Yet in the next instant, the two Void Hunting Kings who failed to intercept turned into shock and horror, their eyes widened bigger than bells.

Ye Zhen’s toe lightly tapped the ground, and silver ripples spread, causing the formidable Imperial Guards, high in Cultivation, to move exceedingly slowly.

Each one could only watch helplessly as Ye Zhen bypassed the palace forbidden passage.

However, the Commander Captain of this team of Imperial Guards was a Dao Realm expert. Although Ye Zhen’s Geomagnetic Field slowed their speed down a hundredfold, at the moment Ye Zhen surpassed them, the Captain’s eyes burst with Divine Light, resembling material Spirit Light like swords and knives, slashing toward Ye Zhen.

"Halt!"

In his furious roar, the Captain’s sword-blade Spirit Light shot through the air, causing the entire void to tremble.

Understandably, the void barrier of Luoyi is fortified a hundredfold by Formation.

Even the strongest half-step Creation Realm couldn’t breach Luoyi’s spatial walls with brute force.

But the sword-blade Spirit Light shot from the Captain’s eyes made the entire void barrier tremble, demonstrating the powerful might of this Divine Skill.

Moreover, the speed of the sword-blade Spirit Light was incredibly fast.

In an instant, it appeared behind Ye Zhen.

When it was just about to blast into Ye Zhen’s body, green brilliance exploded out of nowhere behind Ye Zhen, instantly forming hundreds or thousands of aqua-green Spirit Shields.

Under the bombardment of the sword-blade Spirit Light shot from the Commander Captain’s eyes, Little Demon rapidly conjured the Yimu Spiritual Shield, which was quickly pierced through.

But within a breath, the sword-blade Spirit Light completely penetrated the Yimu Spiritual Shield.

Yet, by then, Ye Zhen had already appeared dozens of miles away, nearing the base of the Luoyi Imperial City.

As he charged toward the city gate of the Luoyi Imperial City, the Imperial Guards and the rapidly pursuing Void Hunting Kings and Heavenly Patrol Divine Generals were terrified.

Although the Imperial Palace harbors numerous Imperial Guards and a plethora of experts, ensuring Ye Zhen couldn’t break in.

But if Ye Zhen assaults the palace gate, it would be considered a palace breach, indicating a dereliction of duty on their part.

Severe dereliction.

That could cost them their heads.

At the same instant, the Imperial Guards guarding the Imperial Palace noticed the rapidly incoming Ye Zhen and, with one command, raised a formidable Killing Qi around the palace entrance.

More than a hundred specially styled crossbow bolts instantly appeared in the hands of these guards, each emitting terrifying Killing Qi that even daunting Dao Realm experts feared.

Simultaneously, these over a hundred specially styled crossbow bolts locked onto Ye Zhen’s figure.

Almost instinctively, the Captain guarding the palace gate prepared to order a volley, but in that instant, Ye Zhen’s smoky form flickered unexpectedly and arrived before a blood-colored giant drum emitting a faint Blood Light in front of the palace entrance.

The drum’s name—Sky-Shaking!

As Ye Zhen stepped into the Blood Light radiating from the Sky-Shaking Blood Drum, his aura suddenly became blurry.

At the same instant, the Captain responsible for the palace gate, with the most severe expression, slowly swallowed the word ’kill’ he was about to utter.

The facial expressions of the Void Hunting Kings and the Heavenly Patrol Divine Generals outside the city gate between the inner city and the Imperial City, along with the Commander Captain outmaneuvered by Ye Zhen, also relaxed.

The Imperial City of Great Zhou, imposing and impenetrable, anyone approaching within ten meters without cause—dies!

Colliding with the prohibitions of the Imperial City, extermination of the entire clan!

However, at the gate of the Imperial City, there is one safe place—the Sky-Shaking Drum!

Anyone entering within a hundred breaths under the Sky-Shaking Drum cannot be harmed, and the aura emitted by the Sky-Shaking Drum actively conceals and protects the entrant.

And this Sky-Shaking Drum is Ye Zhen’s target for this trip.

The next moment, Ye Zhen lifted the Deputy Director of the Armory Division, Ren Xinsu, held in his hand, and without even using the drumstick, he aimed Ren Xinsu’s head at the Sky-Shaking Drum and slammed it fiercely towards the drum.

"You... you... what are you doing?"

Ye Zhen’s action made the blood drain instantly from Ren Xinsu’s face, turning as pale as paper, and both his voice and whole body began to tremble uncontrollably.

Ren Xinsu had already guessed what Ye Zhen intended to do.

"Madman! You are a madman!"

The next moment, Ren Xinsu’s head crashed heavily into the surface of the Sky-Shaking Drum.

Bam!

A dull sound like thunder spread towards the deepest parts of the Imperial City.

Upon suddenly hearing this drum sound, the eunuchs carefully attending within the city initially froze, then their expressions turned to complete astonishment.

The Sky-Shaking Drum!

For many years, someone actually struck the Sky-Shaking Drum!

In Great Zhou, every time the Sky-Shaking Drum is struck, it heralds a storm of blood and gore.

Yu Chaoen, the Chief Eunuch of the Internal Affairs of Great Zhou, who was reprimanding a set of bureau eunuchs, initially froze upon hearing this drum sound, then shrieked like a snake whose tail had been trodden upon, rushing like the wind towards the Shadow of Plum Blossom Palace where the Benevolent Emperor Ji Long was resting!

Inside the Shadow of Plum Blossom Palace, the Benevolent Emperor Ji Long of Great Zhou, who had just placed the peeled grape into his mouth, heard this long-silent drum sound.

He froze abruptly, and the grape just placed in his mouth fell out.

The next instant, the Benevolent Emperor Ji Long stood up fiercely, his face turning dark as rain.

For any emperor, the sounding of the Sky-Shaking Drum in itself is nothing, but the significance behind it is very troubling.

The sounding of the Sky-Shaking Drum represents a grave injustice under the reign, one with no avenue for redress.

For an emperor who seeks reputation, the implications are self-evident!

Almost simultaneously, the various ministerial residences of Luoyi Inner City, the Prince of Political Affairs Residence, upon hearing this drum, rose with heavy expressions.

Those who neglected it were quickly reported by the stewards, their expressions instantly as heavy as a mountain.

For a time, the entire Luoyi was enveloped in an incredibly oppressive atmosphere due to this sound of the Sky-Shaking Drum!

Everyone looked towards the direction of the Imperial City.

The sound of the Sky-Shaking Drum presages a momentous event!

The drum is named the Sky-Shaking Drum.

Also named the Sky-Shaking Blood Drum!

In Great Zhou, there is only one heaven—the Holy Son of Heaven, Great Zhou, Benevolent Emperor Ji Long!

Anyone, as long as they can strike the Sky-Shaking Drum, can alarm the Holy Son of Heaven, Great Zhou, Benevolent Emperor Ji Long.

According to the ancestral system of Great Zhou, the day the mountain drum is struck, the reigning son of heaven must set aside current matters to receive the person who struck the drum.

However, there are numerous rules as well.

Those who sound the Sky-Shaking Drum without cause, be executed!

Those who strike the Sky-Shaking Drum without having no redress, be executed!

Those who sound the Sky-Shaking Drum not concerning matters of life and death, be executed!

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All rules in all number thirteen in total, also called the Sky-Shaking Thirteen Executions.

In any case, it means that the Sky-Shaking Drum is not something you can indiscriminately strike, so many rules exist firstly to avoid constant disturbance of the emperor, and secondly for the face of the Great Zhou Empire.

The Sky-Shaking Drum serves as the final channel for redress for the people of Great Zhou, but it is also the face of the Great Zhou Empire.

If the Sky-Shaking Drum is frequently struck, it represents the decay of either the populace or officialdom in Great Zhou, only bringing disgrace to the monarch and ministers of Great Zhou.

Therefore, there are the Sky-Shaking Thirteen Executions.

And precisely because of these Sky-Shaking Thirteen Executions, the Sky-Shaking Drum is seldom struck.

The last time it was struck was one hundred and twenty years ago.

Half a quarter-hour after Ye Zhen struck the Sky-Shaking Drum, Feng Tingji, Minister of Justice, hurriedly entered the Imperial Palace Study.

Upon seeing the face of the Holy Son of Heaven, Great Zhou, Benevolent Emperor Ji Long, which was as heavy as water, he immediately prostrated himself, removed his official cap, and held it high with both hands.

"Your Majesty, the sound of the Sky-Shaking Drum signifies a grievance; your servant is guilty! Please, Your Highness, first punish your servant for failing to notice!"

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