Inside the Heavenly Palace.
Wenren Xianyi stroked the icy imperial throne, her eyes hollow.
Back then, as the descendants of the Zishu family died off one by one, the Human Emperor, in his most vulnerable moments, indulged in carnal pleasures.
The daughters of the Wenren family were sent into the imperial harem one after another, and she was one of them.
From the subtle, insidious teachings of her elders—that their Wenren family would one day replace the Zishu family—she knew that one day she would bring calamity to the nation and ruin to the people.
Now, all of this was exposed to the eyes of the world.
Ruthlessly laid bare by her father, it seemingly tore away her final shred of dignity.
A heartless father; a Human Emperor who only treated her as half a person, making her Empress merely because she could manage the imperial harem; a dilapidated, crumbling Imperial Dynasty; the filthy deeds she committed for her family; and the endless days and nights of deceit and treachery...
At this moment, the only person she could think of was the polite, refined, and completely upright Li Chang'an.
"Your Majesty!"
The sound of footsteps echoed continuously through the grand hall as cultivators arrived before Wenren Xianyi one after another.
The Divine Shrine, the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion, the Fengyi Guards—these cultivators who had cowered and hidden from the Li Clan's Old Ancestor finally dared to come to the Heavenly Palace after he entered the Wenren Immortal Clan's estate.
...
"We had to wait!"
Under these prying eyes, and before the black mist-shrouded body of Li Wei, Wenren Yiyuan's calmness betrayed an absolute, extreme madness.
"We finally waited it out. We waited until the Human Emperor's life neared its end. He is bound to die sooner or later.
He cultivates the Dao of Karma, one of the highest Dao methods in the mortal realm, and the price he pays is his very life.
He is wildly ambitious, wishing to surpass the immortals and establish his own Immortal Court. One day, he will bring about his own destruction."
"We lay dormant in the shadows. Regarding the Zishu family, which is doomed to perish sooner or later, all we needed to do was wait.
It's not that no half-immortals emerged over the past hundred thousand years; rather, every single one of them was delivered to our Wenren family, becoming the nourishment that fueled our clan."
"But..."
"Ancestor Lan!"
Wenren Yiyuan's fury surged to the heavens. "He occupies the vast majority of the Great Daos in the world, and he has become the greatest obstacle to our Wenren family."
"Yet, this is precisely another opportunity for our Wenren family—the opportunity to dominate the entire world!"
At this moment, everyone looked toward Medicine Mountain.
From beneath the tentacles within Medicine Mountain, members of the Wenren family emerged from the grand array one after another.
Their bodies exuded formidable auras. Void Refinement... Void Refinement realm cultivators empowered over a hundred thousand years by capturing half-immortals, utilizing Wenren Xianyi's status!
Among the over five hundred Wenren family cultivators, more than four hundred were at the Void Refinement realm!
A force entirely capable of overthrowing the Imperial Dynasty!
Of course, that is if... everything proceeded according to the Wenren family's expectations.
"We waited and waited. We waited for Min Tiange, and we waited until the Blood Moon.
The Blood Moon provided a continuous, endless stream of half-immortals, flesh, and blood.
We waited until the descent of the Blood Moon forced Ancestor Lan into a massive battle with the Great Emperors and the Great Golden Immortals."
"Once Ancestor Lan dies, our Wenren family will produce hundreds of Body Integration experts.
By accumulating the foundational power flowing from within the Blood Moon, hundreds of Body Integration experts...
This is a force that not even the Human Emperor possessed during the absolute zenith of the Imperial Dynasty."
"We... are fully capable of overthrowing the Imperial Dynasty, overturning the entire world, and enslaving the immortals. This is a monumental feat that not even the Human Emperor has achieved..."
As his voice fell.
He suddenly looked down.
A long spear radiating a cold glint had pierced straight through his abdomen.
Spatial Dao methods annihilated his Spiritual power, driving straight into his soul, aiming to kill him until his soul was completely scattered and destroyed!
It was the Li Clan's Old Ancestor, Li Wei!
"The Wenren family is indeed mighty, but your skills are lacking. Slaying you is as easy as slaughtering a pig or a dog to me." Li Wei tightly gripped the long spear.
Over a hundred thousand years of scheming, all reduced to fleeting bubbles and illusions.
He raised his head, looking toward the cloudy sky above the Wenren estate.
At this time, Wei Gang, the Junior Commander of Destiny, and the group pursuing him had already appeared.
He thought these people would furiously wipe out the entire Wenren clan upon learning of their grand scheme.
But to Li Wei's surprise, he only saw the complex expressions on the faces of Wei Gang and the others.
"Hahaha!"
Eroded by spatial rules, Wenren Yiyuan instead let out a frantic, unbridled laugh.
The Void Refinement realm cultivators of the Wenren family who had broken out from the grand array filled the surroundings in all directions.
They stood proud of the earth-shattering strength their Wenren family displayed at this moment, while simultaneously burning with fury at Li Wei for murdering their clansman.
"Do you think they will wipe out my Wenren family?"
In the moment of impending death, Wenren Yiyuan remained as arrogant as ever.
He had no fear of death; under the gazes of those cultivators, all that remained in his eyes was the joyful satisfaction of a successful scheme.
"This is an open conspiracy we have prepared for generations. The Imperial Dynasty is rotting, and they are equally rotting."
"With the Blood Moon right before us, they need us. The Human Race needs the Body Integration cultivators of our Wenren family!"
An oppressive might descended.
Li Wei slowly pulled the North Star Spirit-Breaking Spear out from Wenren Yiyuan's back.
The oppressive might originated from Wei Gang; the old man was overflowing with irrepressible fury. "What does Your Excellency take the Imperial Capital for?"
At this moment, Li Wei raised his head, looking at the sky filled with cultivators.
He was like a wolf trapped within a cage.
He took a deep breath and gave a heartfelt reply.
"A cesspit."
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