The greatest saint of all time!

Chapter 66 Shadow 1!

"Don't panic, Eunuch Wei!"

Wang Ji, who was engaged in a fierce battle with Consort Shu, took a moment to respond.

"The palace is fine; His Majesty made arrangements in advance!"

"What?"

Wei Jiuqian and Consort Shu were both stunned, and their hands involuntarily slowed down for a beat.

"impossible!"

Consort Shu screamed as she fended off Wang Ji's relentless attacks.

"My senior brother is a powerful expert at the eighth level of the Heavenly Origin Realm. Apart from that old codger, who in the palace can stop him?"

"I knew all along that old codger was in seclusion and wouldn't come out! That's why I acted..."

"Ha, ha ha! Naive! Utterly naive!"

Wang Ji laughed wildly, and with a few more strokes of his greatsword, he caused Consort Shu's tiger's mouth to split open, and bright red blood flowed freely.

"Do you really think His Majesty is the kind of person who would sit idly by and wait for his death?"

"To tell you the truth! His Majesty knew everything the moment you stepped out of the palace gates!"

"He anticipated that you traitors would resort to desperate measures, and deliberately set up this deadly trap!"

"Shadow Guard Commander Shadow One has never left His Majesty's side for a single moment!"

"Shadow One?"

Upon hearing this name, Consort Shu's previously composed face drained of all color almost instantly.

Shadow 1.

It was a legendary creature that obeyed only the emperor and had never revealed its true form to the world, leading many to mistakenly believe that it was merely a tool for the emperor to bluff.

After all, according to rumors, this person is a genuine and terrifyingly powerful expert who has already reached the peak of the Heavenly Origin Realm.

Looking across the vast Great Yan Dynasty, those who openly display their Tianyuan Realm abilities are extremely rare, numbering only a handful.

As for peak Heavenly Origin Realm experts, apart from behemoths like the Ziyang Sect with unfathomable depths, they are extremely rare in other places.

"So the Commander-in-Chief of the Shadow Guards isn't Wei Jiuqian! Shadow One... really exists!"

Consort Shu muttered to herself, looking somewhat lost and dejected.

Wang Ji sneered, his eyes filled with undisguised mockery.

"Do you really think His Majesty is unaware of the little schemes you've been up to in the palace?"

"His Majesty is merely using a scheme to lure the snake out of its hole."

"You and your so-called senior brother, in the end, are nothing more than two pawns on His Majesty's chessboard!"

"From the very beginning, you had already lost! And lost completely!"

Upon hearing these words, Consort Shu felt a chill run through her body, as if she had fallen into an ice cave.

original……

Was all of this just that man's scheme?

Could it be that royalty truly lacks familial affection?

He even schemed against his own bedmate.

They even went so far as to use their own lives as bait to set up this shocking killing trap!

"Lu Tianxing...you have such a cruel heart."

Consort Shu roared through gritted teeth, her eyes filled with resentment and venom.

If what Wang Ji said is true, then she's probably really in trouble this time.

Not only is there no hope for the throne, but she herself will likely perish here.

After more than a decade of painstaking planning, it all came to nothing in the end.

"ruthless?"

Wang Ji sneered and swung his greatsword down again.

The sword energy pierced the sun like a rainbow, heading straight for Consort Shu's head.

"To deal with traitors like you, no amount of ruthlessness is too much!"

"Prepare to die!"

……

The Imperial Palace.

The Imperial Study.

The once solemn and majestic hall was now filled with a suffocating atmosphere of death.

Lu Tianxing sat steadily on the dragon throne, his expression remarkably calm.

He stared intently at the man in black who had appeared silently in the hall, his face showing no sign of panic or even the slightest emotional fluctuation.

It was as if he had already anticipated this scene.

"You must be... someone sent by Consort Shu, right?"

Lu Tianxing asked calmly.

The man in black held a sword in his right hand, his figure completely shrouded in a cloud of black mist, making it impossible to see his face.

"So what if it is? So what if it isn't?"

The man in black snorted coldly.

"Lu Tianxing, all you need to know is that today is your death day!"

"You've sat on this throne of Great Yan for long enough; it's time for someone else to sit on it!"

Before the words had even finished, the man in black suddenly attacked.

In an instant, a jet-black sword light appeared out of thin air and stabbed down toward Lu Tianxing's chest.

This sword strike was as swift as a dragon in flight and as fast as lightning, leaving only a faint black mark in the void.

Faced with this deadly attack, Lu Tianxing remained motionless, even leisurely picking up a teacup from the table.

Just as the black sword light was about to hit Lu Tianxing, with a whoosh, an invisible sword aura shot out directly from the shadows in the corner of the imperial study.

This sword energy was incredibly sharp, striking first despite being launched later, and instantly cleaved the black sword light in two.

Undeterred by the remaining force, he lunged at the man in black.

The man in black shuddered and staggered back several feet, barely managing to dodge the attack.

Then, he suddenly turned around and stared intently at the shadow in the corner of the imperial study.

"Who goes there?!"

Suddenly, a man wearing a bronze mask slowly emerged from the previously empty shadows.

He was tall and slender, and his aura was extremely restrained.

If he hadn't shown himself, no one would have sensed his presence; it was as if he himself were part of the darkness.

"Peak of the Heavenly Origin Realm?"

"When did the Great Yan royal family produce a powerhouse of this caliber?"

The man in black spoke with fear.

The royal patriarch is currently in seclusion.

He would never act rashly unless the capital city was breached and the country was destroyed.

It was precisely for this reason that he dared to break into the palace without restraint.

But now, a peak expert at the ninth level of the Heavenly Origin Realm has suddenly appeared, disrupting all his plans.

Faced with the man in black's questioning, the masked man remained silent, only giving him a cold glance before disappearing in a flash.

The next moment, a dazzling sword light filled the entire imperial study.

"not good!"

The man in black cried out inwardly, trying to dodge, but it was too late. He could only muster all his strength to summon a black shield and hold it firmly in front of him.

The sword light and the shield collided violently in an instant, unleashing a deafening roar.

A terrifying energy storm swept out, blowing the roof off the imperial study.

Countless gold bricks and jade tiles turned to dust.

Even the incredibly sturdy palace walls collapsed under this attack, turning into ruins.

Amidst the billowing dust, two figures moved with lightning speed, colliding violently in mid-air.

Each of their encounters triggered a violent spatial tremor.

The man in black was forced to retreat under the masked man's attacks, and had almost no chance to fight back.

Lu Tianxing remained seated on the dragon throne without making any movement.

The ground around the dragon throne had already been shattered, and there was nothing left within three feet of him.

However, within three feet of him, there was an invisible barrier that kept all the aftershocks of the battle at bay.

Lu Tianxing sighed softly.