Chapter 1239: 18.77 First Grey Star - His Majesty, Wang Xingmo.
Chapter 1239: 18.77 First Grey Star - His Majesty, Wang Xingmo.
Heavenly Guardian Yi Kun was slow to arrive at the palace; he dressed in regal regalia and did not rush to his purported new residence. As he rode in his carriage toward the palace, he observed that the people of the kingdom were staring at him strangely; however, when he asked his servants to inquire as to why these people would flee, the knights on patrol shot him a cold look.
"My Lord, someone is going on, but the reason is unknown. Would you like me to investigate it?" asked his knight.
Heavenly Guardian Yi Kun thought for a moment and said, "No need. Head to the palace as soon as possible."
"Yes!"
The carriage carrying Heavenly Guardian Yi Kun was moving faster and faster, and even his eldest son noticed that people were behaving strangely toward them, their eyes displaying a secret disdain and contempt. As they got closer to the palace, the carriage came to an abrupt stop.
NEIGH!
"What's wrong!?"
"My Lord, you must see this!"
The scene before Heavenly Guardian Yi Kun made his eldest son Yi Jun throw up, tears streaming down his face from extreme sadness and rage. Yi Kun was confused, but when he came down the carriage and saw the thing hanging at the palace's gates, his face turned completely white with disbelief and rage.
The heads of the two missing heads of the hanging body—the crown prince Wang Xingdi and the queen Xu Siya—are placed on the table like a gift; their expressions are distorted by fear and anger, suggesting that their deaths were inhumane. The headless bodies hang above the palace gates like ornaments. Banners and loop videos featuring these two protagonists are located nearby.
Queen Xu Siya mentioned Heavenly Guardian Yi Kun, and he seems so proud of it as he mocks the bedridden Wang Xingmo. Although Wang Xingmo is crippled, it does not change the fact that he is a member of the royal family. Such crass remarks can be considered treason, adding his betrayal to their oath. He is a sinner all the way around.
The crown prince is also bad; he ordered Wang Xingmo's death and caused the former king, Wang Xingyun to be forced to abdicate. It is unknown what became of the former king, and he disappeared along with the prime minister.
Wang Xingmo, for some reason, recovered from his illness and was able to stand on his own two feet. He inherited his younger brother's vacant throne and stood up for the crown that only members of the royal family could wear. The Noble Faction, headed by Heavenly Guardian Yi Kun, is now considered heretics who should be immediately executed.
When Heavenly Guardian Yi Kun looked up the steps, he saw the icy-faced Wang Xingmo staring down at them, and a few hundred men in knights' armor materialized in the castle and the gates that encircled Yi Kun and his group.
"I've become senile by age. I shouldn't have ignored you just because you are a cripple. A royal family member is indeed still a royal one. You have always known of Xu Siya's relationship with me. Don't you, Your Highness?" Yi Kun asked.
Wang Xingmo responded. "You are even willing to send your own wife to the palace. Sadly, he had a loose mouth and was full of greed and too ambitious. He can't even hide what he wants. Your second son is too arrogant as well, but he is a coward. In the end, he crawled towards me, begging to be spared."
Yi Kun and Yi Jun, whose lovers had promised him the throne no matter what, listened to the terrible fates of their relatives and scowled at the man above the stairs as he told them what had happened to them. Although Xu Siya is Yi Kun's legal wife, he married Wang Xingmo for this reason.
Xu Siya is incredibly devoted to Yi Kun and would stop at nothing to win his hand in marriage. He even risked everything to plot the marriage of Wang Xingmo, the Royal Family's greatest weakness, after learning that the Yi Clan was interested in obtaining the Crown. He even changed his name and called himself Xu Susu, a distant relative of Xu Siya. That is his fake background.
Yi Kun first did not want to let Xu Siya do such a thing because who would be in the right mind to share their wife with others? But his greed and ambitions make him turn a blind eye to almost everything, and in the end, the love between them becomes distorted.
The citizens now look at the Noble Faction with disdain as all the reputation they had built up these years crumbles like a sand castle. They would never have imagined that the weakness they had been trying to poke at was never a weakness but rather a trap that would capture them all.
With the deaths of Xu Siya and the crown prince, the betrayal of the Queen, and the treachery of Heavenly Guardian Yi Kun were revealed.
Rumbles~
The Yi Clan is capable of controlling earth elements. There are four great clans in the capital: the Mo Clan controls water or ice, the Lu Clan controls fire, the Fu Clan controls the wind, and the Yi Clan controls the earth. They had the greatest influence among the common people, second only to the palace.
With this scandal, the people of this kingdom look at them with contempt because nobody likes someone who destroys their family. Yi Kun's temper caused a violent earthquake to appear as he took a single step.
The shaking of the land stopped when a lot more citizens came to look. Yi Kun buried his wife and second son's bodies under the ground.
Heavenly Guardian Yi Kun looked at Wang Xingmo at the palace with bloodshot eyes and said in a threatening voice, "This wouldn't be the end."
"I hope so." Wang Xingmo retorted and gestured with his hands. "Kill them!"
After all the knights surrounding the Yo Clan had jumped on Yi Kun's group, his knights defended them and bought Heavenly Guardian Yi Kun some time to bring out a space teleportation scroll, which ended up costing almost a billion points in the Hunter Hall.
Eventually, Heavenly Guardian Yi Kun, his son Yi Jun, and his small group of knights vanished from view, leaving only corpses on the ground and the few who were outside the spell effect being captured.
Wang Xingmo, as if expecting this, didn't react much after this group disappeared. Nameless appeared beside his king without a sound.
"Has everything been prepared?"
Nameless nods his head and brings out a flare from his robe. He looks at his master, waiting for further commands.
Wang Xingmo knew that Nameless was waiting for his next command. "Light it up. Burn the territory of the Noble Faction!"
In the Noble Faction's Territory, as if waiting for this signal, throw a torch towards the land covered in gasoline. Under Wang Xingmo's secrecy, the moment the main authority of the Noble Clan was gone, they scattered gasoline in this territory. Now that the signal had been made, they burned it to a crisp. Nameless lit the flare, and red fireworks appeared that were visible even in the morning sky.
Almost everyone saw these fireworks.
Heavenly Guardian Yi Kun teleported to his clan mansion and found it to be a land of crimson flame that was burning everything to the ground, killing and burning every member of his clan, including the servants. Yi Kun laughed and felt an immense amount of rage upon seeing this Heavenly Guardian.
Hahaha~
"You are good, Wang Xingmo. Cruel enough. Merciless and decisive. You can kill anyone involved with me regardless of whether they are innocent or not. Unlike the soft-hearted Wang Xingyun, you are a true tyrant!" Heavenly Guardian Yi Kun said.
The fire and burning buildings were buried, and he began to control every piece of land in this area; a tall wall of earth rose from the ground, and an earth turtle emerged from under it to title the entire ground. Thankfully, the people who remain in his mansion are only a quarter of his original people. He lost a quarter, but he still has a third.
Heavenly Guardian Yi Kun looked at his eldest son. "Yi Jun. Go to the black alleys and hire all the assassins, mercenaries, and killers available. You can hire them at the highest price."
"Yes, father." Yi Jun immediately took off, as this was a race of time. No one knows if Wang Xingmo will block the road for them after cutting off their pretenses. Now, the Royal Faction and the Noble Faction were completely at war.
---
In the palace, the throne room...
A handful of nobles from the noble faction, cowardly rats who ran to the strong and only sided with someone they believed could protect them, were made to kneel before Nameless. Their betrayal of the Nobles Faction would definitely enrage Heavenly Guardian Yi Kun, and now they are requesting protection from Wang Xingmo, the Tyrant King.
"Your Majesty, please accept us, slaves!"
"Please save us. We are forced to do so by Heavenly Guardian Yi Kun."
"We didn't want to serve him, but he is too powerful."
"Your Highness, I..."
Wang Xingmo cast an expressionless gaze upon these nobles, recalling a small portion of his past in which he had pretended to be crippled. These are the nobles who gossip behind his back and regard his condition with a laugh in the pit of their eyes.
He felt even more beneath their gaze than he did as an ordinary person, and now that he had demonstrated his strength and ability to subjugate them, they were kneeling before him like shameless parasites.
He could not help but laugh when Nameless suddenly materialized behind him again and whispered about some changes in the back alleys, where the killers, mercenaries, and assassins move solely on the strength of money and have no connection to the kingdom; now that Heavenly Guardian Yi Kun had made a contract with them to kill him.
Wang Xingmo laughed. "Is he for real? Did he really think that the back alley had no master? I'm going to die laughing at his foolishness."
"Nameless, tell your people to accept the mission with the highest price possible. Tell them to bankrupt the Yi Clan."
The aristocrats kneeling on the floor trembled with horror; they had no idea that the guy sitting carelessly on the throne was in charge of the black market and the back alley. Nameless just saluted before vanishing from sight once more.
Wang Xingmo said, "Surprised? My brother would never make such a dirty place. But for me, it's the strongest support I have. You guys have made me so rich with how much you give those kids of mine with so much work. Just how much do you hate each other?"
---Wang Xingyun's and Fu Zin's situation, meanwhile, is not looking good. Fu Zin is losing too much blood, and they leave the capital without any plans. King Xingyun did not realize that Fu Zin had planned for a scenario like this, where they had to escape the capital, until they met the Fu Clan outside the city.
"Your Majesty, we need to get the Lord treated as soon as possible. He is losing so much blood."
"Is there no doctor among you?" Wang Xingyun asked.
A young man stepped in and said, "Your Majesty, this one is only an apprentice doctor and can't do surgery. I am also not a healer. Most healers had joined the palace, and the doctors joined the back alley."
King Xingyun asked, "Find Doctor Sen! He and Heavenly Guardian Xian Wu had just left the city this morning. As long as we find him, A'Zin can be saved!" He brought out all the healing scrolls in his inventory, but even so, this can only buy a few days to keep Fu Zin alive.
"Also send people to the Aurora Glaciers to find Doctor Guang and Doctor Hei! Hurry!!"
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
Wang Xingyun turned away, gazing off into the distant horizon of the capital city. This time, he made the decision to put Fu Zin's life above all else.
"Your majesty, where should we go next?"
"Don't call me Your Majesty. I am no longer your king. Sigh! We are going to Somatic Town to find a doctor or a healer. Let's go. Don't waste anymore time," Wang Xingyun said.
In order to save his lover, the former monarch of the capital city abandoned both his home and his city, turning away from the life he knew and heading down the new route he had chosen.