Qian Country Capital City.

Grand Commandant's Mansion.

A middle-aged man sat in the Grand Commandant's chair, dressed in luxurious silk, his face chiseled as if carved by knife and axe, his eyes were cold and sinister, exuding an aura that was impossible to ignore.

In the center, there were many scattered corpse pieces.

Some had been pieced together, vaguely recognizable as the faces of Yuwen Dong, Sun Gu, and a few others.

Below, some attendants knelt with their heads bowed and eyes down, not daring to look up. The hall was silent, like the dead.

The fourth son of the Grand Commandant had died tragically in Bingzhou, and these people, lucky to have survived, dared not return directly to the capital.

After several days, risking their lives, they went to the valley and collected the bodies of Yuwen Dong and others, bringing them back to the Capital City.

Yuwen Dong's tragic death was expected to have angered the Grand Commandant.

They recounted the entire process once, having knelt here for an hour.

Yuwen Mao, the Grand Commandant, sat above, speechless after hearing their story.

The air seemed to have frozen.

Everyone dared not breathe deeply, drenched in sweat, afraid of attracting wrath upon themselves.

"What happened?"

At that moment, a voice came from outside the door.

Someone strode inside quickly.

The many attendants quietly exhaled in relief.

This person's appearance made the deadly silence in the hall loosen slightly, and the pressure just pressing down on their hearts lightened significantly at that moment.

Someone stole a glance and recognized the newcomer as Sun Tianlu, one of the Thirty-Six Marshals of the Profound Celestial Sect!

This man never used weapons, relying on his fists alone to fight across the land, capable of contending against divine weapons, hence called the Profound Celestial Divine Fist.

Sun Tianlu, already over sixty, with white hair and beard, stepped into the hall, and upon seeing the bodies laid on the ground, his eyes burst with a chill, and his face changed!

Yuwen Mao said, "Tell the process again."

The leading attendant recounted in full detail what happened after they arrived at Mist Rain Village.

Upon hearing about the purple-clad woman's actions, Sun Tianlu's pupils slightly contracted, a trace of dread flashing in his eyes.

His gaze fell on those bodies, then he looked up at Yuwen Mao, asking gravely, "The Evil Emperor?"

"It should be so."

Yuwen Mao nodded and said, "To have cultivated the Profound Nether True Qi to such an extent, reaching the level of Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown and Mastery, apart from the Evil Emperor, there's no other."

"The Evil Emperor should be eighty or ninety by now, right? But from the description, how could they seem so young?" Sun Tianlu was puzzled.

"I don't know."

Yuwen Mao shook his head.

Then something stirred in his heart, as if he realized something, lost in thought.

"How did you get entangled with her?"

Sun Tianlu furrowed his brows deeply.

Yuwen Mao said, "According to their description, Madam Lu's swordsmanship should be the White Bone Swordsmanship, she is most likely the Evil Emperor's disciple."

"That person omitted such crucial information, he tricked us!"

Sun Tianlu's fists clenched, bones cracking audibly.

"It's unlikely he intended to."

Yuwen Mao mused, "A mistake occurred in the process. Qin Xi was kidnapped, not to mention, that Lu Qing also escaped, and even managed to cross two provinces, fleeing to Martial General Mountain. This, I'm afraid, he never anticipated either."

Sun Tianlu came to the bodies, nudged with his toe, picked up the Grand Commandant's Order from the ground, and upon seeing the fingerprint on it, frowned, "This finger power, it must have been a Grandmaster who acted."

"Yes."

Yuwen Mao nodded.

Sun Tianlu asked, "There doesn't seem to be a Grandmaster like them described among Qian Country's Grandmasters, could it be a remnant of the previous dynasty?"

Yuwen Mao said, "This person is extremely powerful, used a Disguise Technique, didn't reveal any move, should be afraid of exposing their identity, they might still be from Qian Country."

"Who could it be?"

Sun Tianlu's mind went over known Grandmasters, but had no idea.

"Anyone could be."

Yuwen Mao said indifferently.

Sun Tianlu asked, "The Evil Emperor has been hidden for many years, thought she was long dead, how come she appeared there?"

Yuwen Mao said, "That's Martial General Mountain, the place where the Former Emperor Wu died."

"So what?"

Sun Tianlu was puzzled.

Yuwen Mao slowly said, "Back then, the Emperor Wu and the Evil Emperor were once a pair of celestial lovers, but later due to fate, they separated and couldn't stay together."

Outsiders might not know about this, but Yuwen Mao, having followed the Emperor Wu for many years, had heard about it.

The Emperor Wu initially didn't participate in the world's contention for power.

That was a connection made when the Emperor Wu wandered the Jianghu as a young man.

Sun Tianlu was taken aback.

He hadn't expected such a past between the Former Emperor Wu and the Evil Emperor.

Sun Tianlu frowned and said, "Since there was such a matter, when the previous dynasty was destroyed and the Emperor Wu died, why did the Evil Emperor never appear?"

Yuwen Mao's eyes flashed with sarcasm, shaking his head, "Emperor Wu sought power across the land, ascended the throne, and established another woman as empress, the Evil Emperor hated him intensely, why would she help?"

"Ha."

Sun Tianlu sneered, "Emperor Wu was truly foolish to the extreme, the Evil Emperor had such extraordinary skills, why separate from her? Even if he had to flatter her, he should have brought her into the palace!"

Yuwen Mao gave Sun Tianlu a faint glance, secretly disdainful.

Was Emperor Wu such a person?

Furthermore, Sun Tianlu also underestimated the Evil Emperor.

"The Evil Emperor gained fame and achieved the Grandmaster of Transformation Realm, but that was later."

Yuwen Mao slowly said, "When the two first met, they were just young people who had just entered the Jianghu, who could have known the encounters that would follow?"

"Do you know how the Evil Emperor's infamy in evil was made? It was because after the two severed ties, the Evil Emperor then changed greatly, moody, killing countless in the Jianghu!"

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