Chapter 1280: Chapter 1278: The Empress Falls
Back then, upon becoming the Empress, Hongjun Ancestor granted both Haotian and me the ability to self-rescue three times during critical moments. In situations of imminent death, I could directly return to a place I considered safe.
Where is this place? Naturally, the Empress had set it up in her own chambers. Is there a place safer than her own quarters?
This time, however, a mysterious black-clad figure directly stormed into her chambers to assassinate her, something the Empress had not anticipated at all.
Though the self-rescue ability was activated, she did not leave and remained within her chamber.
Severely injured, even moving became difficult, and escaping was naturally not easy at this moment.
As expected, the mysterious black-clad figure managed to find her.
"What grudges do we have, that you must strike me down?" In her heart was a sense of despair, knowing that her fate seemed sealed today. The Empress, with her final unwilling expression, stared at the Evil Corpse and asked.
The self-rescue ability activated three times, seemed like she was constantly being pursued by the other party.
However, with a mindset to quickly conclude the battle, the Evil Corpse had no intention to answer the Empress’s words, lifting a hand to strike down upon her!
"Stop!"
The Empress’s personal maiden hurried over at this time. Seeing the Empress in such a perilous state, she was extremely loyal, shouting loudly and rushing over.
But the Evil Corpse turned its head, glanced at her, and casually cast the Sheep Transformation Technique on her.
The maiden, with her Daluo Golden Immortal cultivation level, instantly turned into a harmless little lamb.
Following that, the Evil Corpse raised its hand again, slamming it down on the Empress’s head!
With one strike, the Empress’s health bar was instantly emptied, and her form fell limply to the ground.
As the Empress took action first, following the depletion of her health bar, all her aura vanished, indicating that she had clearly perished.
Rumble!
With the Empress’s demise, suddenly, thunderous sounds echoed in the sky. In Jiang Liu’s eyes, the colors of the world seemed to have vanished, turning into black and white.
Simultaneously, the sky turned dark as if it was night, with ethereal sounds whispering in his ears, filled with sorrow and lamentation.
Heavens changed colors, the sun and moon lost their light?
Witnessing this scene, Jiang Liu’s heart stirred slightly.
Back when the Future Buddha Maitreya Buddha was killed, similar celestial anomalies occurred, didn’t they? Unexpected that the Empress’s death today also brought about such a phenomenon.
However, considering the Empress’s status, it’s not strange that her death caused such a transformation.
System prompt: Gained 4.2 billion Experience Points, received 350,000 in cash.
Simultaneously with the Empress’s demise, the system prompt arrived as predicted.
A full 4.2 billion Experience Points made the Evil Corpse’s level jump up by one, from level 83 to level 84 in an instant.
System prompt: The power of the Karmic Curse is activated, your level drops by 3, current level 81!
However, before the Evil Corpse could revel in the joy of leveling up, the system prompt sounded again.
Mild distress rose in the Evil Corpse’s heart. What’s going on? The power of the Karmic Curse activated? I dropped 3 levels?
"I just gained 4.2 billion Experience Points, leveling up to 84. But just now, the system prompted me that the power of the Karmic Curse activated, and I fell 3 levels, now down to 81!" Naturally, not intending to hide anything, the Evil Corpse honestly shared his situation with Jiang Liu, lurking in the shadows.
"Don’t say anything more, just leave the Heavenly Court first, this day is changing!" Responding to the Evil Corpse’s words, Jiang Liu sent a reply before opening the Severance page, selecting both the Good Corpse and Evil Corpse for recall.
Upon recall, the Evil Corpse naturally re-entered the Severance page.
Simultaneously, the Good Corpse, entangled with the Jade Emperor in the distance, also suddenly vanished.
With the Good Corpse’s disappearance, the Jade Emperor, encased in the ice from the Ice Barrier, emerged from the frozen state after about a dozen seconds.
Witnessing the discolored heavens and the darkened moon, the Jade Emperor’s face turned extremely grim, feeling a profound sense of unease.
"Yaochi!" The Jade Emperor uttered softly, accelerating full speed towards the direction of the chamber.
Using the ’Lure the Tiger Away from the Mountain’ tactic, diverting me, while infiltrating the chamber and targeting Yaochi? It was something the Jade Emperor had never foreseen!
If this had been known earlier, even with the God-Beating Whip as bait, the Jade Emperor would never have taken the bait.
"Huh?"
As the Severance of Corpses page recalled the Good Corpse and Evil Corpse, Jiang Liu’s gaze fell on the little lamb, transformed by the maiden beside him. In the blink of an eye, as the maiden returned to her original form, her body turned into starlight and similarly vanished.
"The Evil Corpse did not kill her! How did she die?" Secretly puzzled, Jiang Liu pondered this maiden’s sudden disappearance.
However, Jiang Liu did not delve deeply into this question, instead quietly retreating, departing from the Heavenly Court.
Now that the Empress is dead, the heavens must change; this place of trouble is best left as soon as possible!
Even though Jiang Liu was currently in the guise of the Sandalwood Merit Buddha, he did not dare let others easily discover his whereabouts.
After all, what reason did he have to come to the Heavenly Court without cause? Moreover, he possessed the strength to slay the Empress as well. If his whereabouts were exposed, the Jade Emperor would surely suspect him.
"I, Haotian, as Lord of the Three Realms and the Great Jade Emperor, now seal the entire Heavenly Court! No one may leave the Heavenly Court!"
However, just as Jiang Liu was preparing to leave without a sound, the voice of the Great Jade Emperor echoed throughout the Heavenly Court.
With the Jade Emperor’s words, the entire Heavenly Court was suddenly enveloped by an incomparably mysterious power, intertwined with the destiny of the Heavenly Court!
With the Jade Emperor sealing the entire Heavenly Court, it was naturally impossible for Jiang Liu to leave!
Although, with Jiang Liu’s Quasi-Saint level strength, breaking through this seal to leave was not difficult, doing so would inevitably alarm everyone, wouldn’t it only increase his own suspicion?
Thinking it over, Jiang Liu sighed inwardly, choosing not to leave immediately but to hide in the Heavenly Court for a while, waiting for this storm to pass.
After pondering for a moment, Jiang Liu happened upon the Glycyrrhiza Garden nearby, seemingly with nowhere else suitable to go.
Jiang Liu quietly concealed himself within the Glycyrrhiza Garden, where the fairies tending the flowers and plants were of low cultivation, making it not difficult for him to hide here.
But with the heavens and earth losing color and the sun and moon losing light, countless Great Supernatural Power Experts knew of the Empress’s fall, with varying reactions from different forces.
"The Empress was actually killed? Who exactly did it? What on earth happened?" In the Buddhist Sect, Tathagata and Randeng Buddha felt more puzzled; unannounced, the Empress had fallen!
The fall of a Quasi-Saint level strong being is a rare event over millennia, but recently both Maitreya Buddha and the Empress fell in succession.
Maitreya Buddha’s situation was slightly better, acting quickly enough to at least reclaim his True Spirit, which to some extent counts as resurrection, but what of the Empress?
"This is bad! Something has happened!" In the mortal world of Chang’an City, the Supreme Elder Lord, participating in a Mahjong Saint tournament disguised as an elder, upon learning of the Empress’s fall, dramatically changed his expression, abandoning the tournament to quickly head toward the Heavenly Court.
"This Immeasurable Kalpa is indeed terrifying! Even the Empress has fallen? Isn’t she the second Quasi-Saint to fall during this kalpa?" In the Netherworld Blood Sea, upon learning of the Empress’s fall, Ancestor Minghe was equally shocked.
At the same time, he decided that at this final juncture, during the Immeasurable Kalpa, he must be even more cautious and not leave the Netherworld Blood Sea even a step.
In the Jade Emperor’s palace of the Heavenly Court, the Jade Emperor naturally arrived swiftly.
Bursting into the palace, the Jade Emperor naturally saw the corpse of the Empress, which caused his aura to erupt uncontrollably.
"Who is it? Who killed the Empress!?" In great anger, the Jade Emperor demanded.
"Reporting to Your Majesty, the perpetrator was a mysterious figure in black..." Upon the Jade Emperor’s inquiry, several Heavenly Soldiers and Generals guarding the palace responded.
Actually, the Jade Emperor already had suspicions from seeing the True Martial Soap Carved Flag on the silver-robed figure.
"You all were the ones guarding this palace. The Empress has fallen, so why are you all unharmed?" In great anger, the Jade Emperor’s gaze fell on these Heavenly Soldiers and Generals, asking coldly.
This question left the Heavenly Soldiers and Generals glancing at each other, each horrified, kneeling to the Jade Emperor in salutation: "We are guilty and beg Your Majesty’s forgiveness!"
A mysterious figure in black, a Quasi-Saint level powerhouse, is not someone they could resist, anyway.
Seeing the Jade Emperor so furious, they dared not argue, only pleading for mercy.
"Hmph, such a heinous crime, how can I forgive you?" But in such anger, how could the Jade Emperor listen to pleas for mercy?
With a cold snort, he raised his hand, striking the pleading Heavenly Soldiers and Generals!
The kneeling Heavenly Soldiers and Generals didn’t even have time to scream before they were instantly reduced to ashes, disappearing without a trace.
After exterminating these Heavenly Soldiers and Generals, the Jade Emperor then carefully collected the Empress’s body, moving swiftly toward the direction of the Ksitigarbha Cave...