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Chapter 210 (Harvest field) Yan Hu’s POV
I replayed the last few hours in my head. Every movement. Every decision.Malphas was an ancient, terrifying strategist who had manipulated the empire from behind a seal for centuries. Han Jun was one of the brilliant scholars of his generation, cold, calculated, and obsessive.Would two masterminds like them really throw a few hundred disposable wraiths directly at the highest concentration of supreme cultivators in the entire empire just to escape? They knew the Coalition of Seven was here. They knew Han Ruo was here. They knew these wraiths stood zero chance of defeating us.And even more strangely… Han Jun had already escaped in dark smoke. The wraith display wasn't necessary. Why send them here?It can't be merely to harvest souls… If Malphas wanted souls to fuel his core, the capital city was filled with millions of helpless, uncultivated citizens just beyond the palace walls. It would have been a feast. Why waste these creatures against peak sword saints and array masters?
Chapter 209 (Camouflage Battlefield) Yan Hu’s POV
“There's a problem... at the city gates!” The scout fought to breathe, his chest heaving as though he had run straight through a mountain path. “D-dark creatures…” His voice cracked.“They’ve descended through the Eastern Palace Gate!”The hall erupted in murmurs and hurried questions. “What?”“What creature?” “How many?”“Where?”BOOM!The rush of questions was silenced by a loud explosion. The entire palace shook. Dust rained from the carved ceiling. A second explosion followed.Then came the cry. It was unlike anything I had ever heard. Not the howl of wolves. Not the cries of demons.It was a high, shrill, collective screech. A chorus of thousands of dying birds mangled together into an unbearable, pitch-deafening shriek."They're inside!" a commander shouted outside, his voice cut short by a sickening crunch.Every cultivator in the hall instinctively reached for their weapons.“The palace has been breached!” Someone yelled from outside. The relentless tolling of the palace
Chapter 208 (Throne unmasked) Yan Hu’s POV
The procession into the Great Dragon Hall was agonizingly slow and heavy.Palace guards lined both sides of the golden carpet, their knees shaking. Ministers, high officials, military commanders, and Taishis were already standing inside, their faces pale as death. The entire atmosphere in the grand hall felt less like a royal audience and more like Judgement Day.Everyone took their assigned seats along the elevated tiers. The Coalition stood at the front, silent and unyielding like monuments of iron and stone.Finally, the Emperor arrived.Or rather, the figure sitting behind the translucent golden curtain did. He sat upon the grand dragon throne, veiled in shadow, exactly as he had for the past several days.Protocol was observed with chilling precision. Everyone bowed. The Coalition offered formal greetings. The Emperor's voice drifted out from behind the veil, smooth and measured, returning the pleasantries.Everything appeared completely normal.Until the Patriarch of the Lan Cla
Chapter 207 (Her scouting) Yan Hu’s POV
Shuyin didn’t explain much. By now I had realized she had a knack for making people wait. The rest of the day passed in an agonizing, unnatural calmness. Shuyin spent the whole day scribbling on scrolls in her room, while I kept an eye out for Han Jun. Few decrees were issued, and for the first time since recovering the emperor didn’t step foot out of his inner chambers. The normal morning court was abruptly canceled. The cruel silence continued even the next day. I stood beneath the pavilion roof overlooking the vast palace grounds, watching the morning mist drift between crimson pillars.Shuyin had vanished that morning before the break of dawn. She left just a simple instruction. “Watch Han Jun. Do not take your eyes off him.” Great, I was stuck with a dormant Han Jun again. She neither took Qing nor any of the other guards. She left after promising to return before sunset.Today, the calmness was even worse. But what disturbed me most wasn't the Emperor's absence or the org
Chapter 206 (Borrowed Time) Yan Hu’s POV
Night fell over the Imperial Capital quietly amidst the new chaos stirring. I sat near the edge of the pavilion, way past midnight nursing a cup of tea that had long since turned cold as different thoughts rocked my mind. Chen and Wei were still out there. Maybe still in Long clan or somewhere else. They haven't sent us any signal like they said they would. The only proof that they were still alive was the turmoil we saw last night and the rumors spreading. I rested my head on the pavilion pillar, darkness swallowing up the moonlight when movement caught my eye.It was faint, almost imperceptible but I caught it and I knew that figure. Shuyin stepped into the courtyard. She had discarded her official court attire, the shimmering silver-embroidered robes of Lingyin-Jun, replacing them with dark, unadorned clothing.She stood at the edge of the courtyard roof, perfectly still, waiting. She didn't move until a dense cloud passed across the heavens, swallowing the moonlight whole.The
Chapter 205 (Fractured Allegiances) Yan Hu’s POV
Rumors became truth the moment fear found evidence.By sunrise, no one in the Imperial Capital was asking whether the Long Clan heir had returned.They were asking where he was.The disturbance inside the Imperial Treasury had spread through the palace faster than wildfire. The servants whispered in terror, imperial guards stood at their posts with stiff shoulders and eyes that darted anxiously at every shadow.The Long Clan relics had awakened.No amount of imperial suppression could erase what hundreds of witnesses had already seen.The court had no choice but to respond.Every minister, military commander, high and low grade officials, and Taishi stood within the Grand Hall.The atmosphere was unbearably heavy. No one discussed taxes. No one spoke of border reports. Every conversation revolved around only one subject.The Long Clan.I stood several steps behind Shuyin as her personal guard. At the very end of the hall, hidden behind the golden curtain, sat the Emperor. Since Han J
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