Chapter 83: Chapter 69: Rushing to the Imperial Mausoleum

’I think... it’s called Yin Qi?’

’I really don’t understand this world anymore.’

’Grandmasters, Qi Cultivation Immortals... they keep popping up. I wonder how much longer my cover will last...’

In Mortal Cultivation, a First Grade could part rivers and borrow the wind and snow of the heavens.

It was hard to imagine,

just how much stronger a Grandmaster, or even a Qi Cultivation Immortal, would be.

Riding clouds and mist, like ghosts or gods.

It wouldn’t be an exaggeration.

’The Corpse Refining Order still has seventy percent of its Yin Qi. It can probably refine seven more First-Grade Peak corpses, or perhaps one Grandmaster...’

Su Chen remembered.

During the Jianwu Period.

When the Little Emperor ascended the throne, he had sealed the main body of the Grand Ancestor of Liang, Emperor Jianwu, inside the Black Coffin.

There really were the remains of a Grandmaster-level Demon Fiend in the Imperial City.

’Where was that Black Coffin again?’

Just as Su Chen continued to browse through the Immortal Technique Manuals,

A knock came from the door of the Library Pavilion.

A Little Eunuch had come to announce that the Regent Crown Prince was inviting the Captain of the Western Depot to the Imperial Study for a meeting.

’Usually, don’t they look for Xuan for this sort of thing?’

Su Chen was puzzled.

"Chief Steward Ye is not in the Imperial Palace. As a First Grade, he has likely gone with the other National Guardian First Grade masters to pursue the Immortal Fate."

The Little Eunuch also wore a Profound Black Robe, but he didn’t dare show the slightest disrespect before Su Chen, who wore the same.

’He went to the Imperial Mausoleum?!’

’How is that any different from seeking death?’

’Foolish.’

Nevertheless, Su Chen went to the Imperial Study.

Inside the Imperial Study.

The room was filled with vermilion robes.

The Governor of the court, the National Guardian General, the Chief Eunuch of the Imperial Seal, Marquises and Nobles, and so on...

In comparison,

Su Chen, in his Profound Black Robe, seemed particularly out of place.

"Who is this person?"

"A Profound Black Robe... that’s the lowest rank of Eunuch, isn’t it? Did he wander into the wrong place?"

"You’ve forgotten."

"There’s a lucky fellow in the Western Depot. He has no cultivation whatsoever, but he received a gift from Lord Xu of Old Liang and inherited his legacy..."

"Oh, so it’s him."

The gazes that had been on Su Chen were all withdrawn. With no cultivation, he wasn’t worth mentioning—a mere ant.

They couldn’t even be bothered to spare him a second glance.

If not for the Military Supervision Bureau needing a representative, and the Killing Sin Tiger happening to be absent, this Black-robed Eunuch wouldn’t even have the right to stand here.

Only one person cast him a kind gaze.

He had an elegant, scholarly air.

His eyes held a sense of compassion for the world.

The Governor of the court.

"Eunuch Xu, it’s been a long time,"

he said with a gentle smile.

Seeing this,

Su Chen had no choice but to exchange a few pleasantries with him.

Soon,

the Regent Crown Prince arrived.

The Flame Emperor was in his fifties, so this Crown Prince was in his thirties. His steps were unsteady, his eye sockets were sunken, and his face held an irrepressible look of triumph.

He consciously imitated the Flame Emperor’s mannerisms and bearing.

Unlike the Flame Emperor, who was deep and calculating with countless ambitions, this Eldest Prince was so shallow he could be seen through at a glance.

"You are all pillars of the Great Zhou."

"There is no need for ceremony."

"I, with my Father Emperor’s approval, have become the Crown Prince. I hope you will all offer me your guidance..."

The Eldest Prince, his face beaming with joy, clasped his hands in salute to the crowd.

Speaking of which,

this Regent Crown Prince had a connection to Su Chen.

The Flame Emperor, fearing that the Wind Snow Little Grandmaster would settle scores with him later, had fled too quickly. Only after leaving the Imperial City and rushing to the Barracks did he remember that no one was left to manage the imperial court.

Thus, with a single Imperial Decree, he had hastily promoted his eldest son to Regent to make do.

He even gave him the title of Crown Prince for it.

This meeting in the Imperial Study was meaningless. The Crown Prince simply wanted these titans of the Imperial Capital to know that he was now the Crown Prince, and that they should start flocking to his side.

Soon,

the crowd dispersed.

The powerful figures, each capable of making the Great Zhou tremble with a stomp of their foot, left with furrowed brows. They simply couldn’t imagine...

...why the great Flame Emperor, the man who had eliminated all the Kings and killed his own father to take the throne, would place such an ignorant fool in the position of Crown Prince.

Su Chen left as well.

For some reason, he felt that this Crown Prince was very familiar, and that his gaze had lingered on him, however faintly.

’It must be my imagination.’

’This is the first time I’ve met this Crown Prince. If Xuan weren’t away, I would never have been summoned...’

The Imperial Study grew quiet.

The Crown Prince fell silent. The frivolous, shallow expression was gone, replaced by a pair of cold, dark eyes that stared intently in the direction Su Chen had left.

"Xu Ge from the pharmacy? You’re not even bothering to change your identity now, are you?"

Beneath the Imperial Study,

a flight of deep, dark stairs appeared.

The Crown Prince walked down into an icy cavern. Inside lay a fresh, flayed corpse, its blood still warm.

The Crown Prince’s human skin peeled off his body, revealing his hideous Demon Fiend face. His body was covered in black scales, a creature neither human nor beast.

He was the one who had given the Black Abyss information about that Gate in the Great Liang Imperial Mausoleum. It didn’t contain some Great Liang treasury, nor was there any Secret Treasure Pearl.

All that lay inside were the slumbering ice coffins of the Great Yu Dynasty...

The Yaksha Ghosts were merely an appetizer.

Three hundred years of the Heavenly Fall Era, five hundred years of Great Yu, three hundred years of Zhou and Liang—that Gate has been opened. The Grandmasters and Qi Cultivation Immortals from the past millennium are about to be awakened one after another.

"I practice the Three Corpses Technique, a Cultivation Skill, and have three lives."

"My treacherous son betrayed me, and the Grand Ancestor of Liang fell."

"The Spiritual Embryo Secret Technique, Jianwu reborn, was annihilated, Divine Soul and all, by his One Sword. And then there’s this Tianwu Remnant Body, which I had given up on after it was nearly assassinated by the Black Abyss..."

"Su Chen! Just you wait."

...

Several more days passed.

The imperial court remained calm and stable. That fool of a Crown Prince actually had some skill, managing the affairs of the state smoothly and properly.

「In the Library Pavilion.」

After half a month of studying the Immortal Technique Manuals, specifically searching for content that even Human World Cultivators could memorize, Su Chen finally understood the difference between cultivation and the Immortal Path.

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