Ex-Wife is a Big Villainess
Chapter 207 - 129: The Death of the Crown Prince!_2

Chapter 207: Chapter 129: The Death of the Crown Prince!_2

Yelv Shenye seemed to sense something, and suddenly turned his head back, his sharp gaze shooting toward the hidden location of Jiang Shouzhong and his companion like lightning.

Jiang Shouzhong’s hair stood on end, and his heart skipped a beat, feeling a cold and fierce aura rushing toward his face, almost suffocating him.

Before Yelv Shenye could speak, the Crown Prince Zhou Wei he was holding suddenly acted strangely, making a weird choking sound from his throat, as if something was stuck, uttering unintelligible noises, and his body began to tremble uncontrollably.

Yelv Shenye’s brows furrowed, as he looked down.

"This kid couldn’t have been scared stupid, right?"

The big man laughed.

The spasms in the Crown Prince’s body grew more violent, his body emanating streaks of golden, leaf vein-like patterns. His eyes bulged, the eyeballs filled with red-webbed lines, resembling entangled blood vessels.

A bad premonition suddenly rose in Yelv Shenye’s heart.

He threw the Crown Prince to the ground, pressing a hand against the other’s chest, and suddenly a golden, mysterious pattern of light emerged around the Crown Prince, pushing Yelv Shenye back several steps.

"Mr. Shenye!" Yelü Miaomiao exclaimed in shock.

"It’s the formation eye!"

"It’s the Heavenly Execution Formation’s formation eye!" Yelv Shenye said in horror.

What!?

The crowd was incredibly shocked upon hearing this.

Even the tormented Crown Prince was momentarily at a loss.

As the pattern appeared, the stars in the sky began to shift, as if responding to changes in the celestial patterns, countless stars seemed to be drawn by a mysterious force, slowly converging into a golden formation above the palace in the sky.

Inside the formation, the golden light was dazzling, the chilling intent to kill permeated the air, and long swords shone with golden light as if Divine Weapons were descending, their aura formidable.

The Heavenly Execution Formation, officially activated!

Where the formation eye was, there the Formation was too!

Yelv Shenye, with a look of disbelief, muttered to himself, "I understand now, I understand now, it’s all been a trap from the start! The divine destiny of the heavens was never on the Crown Prince! It’s an illusion! All illusions! This is a trap set by that damn Emperor sacrificing his own son!"

"Scatter!!"

Yelv Shenye roared.

In an instant, the sound of roaring from the sky above the palace echoed thunderously, stones exploded, and countless fine golden swords poured down like a torrential rain.

The most powerful among them, a giant golden sword, aimed directly at Yelv Shenye!

The ceiling of the palace, ruined by the flying swords, collapsed in an instant, debris rained down, and the whole palace shook violently, thunderous noises continuing. For a moment, it was as if night had fallen, with tumultuous waves of air rolling in.

And in the moment when the killing swords of the Heavenly Execution surged forward, Qiuye, with a look of panic in her eyes and instinctively wanting to protect Jiang Shouzhong beneath her, found herself being embraced by the man who held her tightly.

As the palace collapsed, the ground beneath them cracked, the two sinking downward, and the tilted walls collapsed amidst the shaking, burying them under the rubble.

"Silly girl, this time I will protect you."

As the walls fell, the man’s gentle voice reached the girl’s ears.

——

It couldn’t be said how much time had passed when, from a silent corner of the ruins, the sound of stones and gravel being disturbed could suddenly be heard.

Jiang Shouzhong, enduring the pain in his back, stood up, brushed away the soil and rocks pressing on his body, and looked around, only to see the dust still unsettled, a scene of utter disarray. Fortunately, Qiuye lying underneath him wasn’t harmed.

However, the girl’s previous injuries were severe, and under the disturbance of the rubble, she had passed out again.

Jiang Shouzhong carefully propped the girl up against a piece of broken wall.

His gaze swept across the area and caught sight of a corpse not far away, splayed out. Its flesh was indistinct, and the bone and meat were hard to distinguish, but he could still faintly identify it as the burly big man from before.

The big man’s head was nearly severed in half, a sight too horrific to endure.

A chill ran down Jiang Shouzhong’s back.

From the conversation he had overheard, he knew they had gone to the palace to snatch something called the Divine Luck, and the fact that they had captured the Crown Prince was testament to their high cultivation levels; he hadn’t expected them to die so completely under the mysterious Heavenly Execution Formation.

But why was he perfectly fine, without suffering any damage from the golden swords?

"Cough, cough..."

Suddenly, a coughing noise abruptly broke the silence.

Jiang Shouzhong’s expression tensed, and he looked up warily, only to see a familiar figure staggering out from the ruins.

It was the Crown Prince, Zhou Wei!

At this moment, Zhou Wei’s hair was in disarray, his clothes were torn and dirty, and his face was covered in dust, hardly resembling the grace of the Crown Prince of the past. Especially since one of his legs was crushed under a rock, bloodied and mangled.

Upon seeing Jiang Shouzhong, the Crown Prince also froze.

He would naturally not be unfamiliar with this person, with whom he had clashed twice before.

If it weren’t for being preoccupied with assimilating the Supreme Heavenly Luck these past few days, his sister would probably have had this man killed already, and he had found out that this person before him was named Jiang Mo, who lived in Changqiao Street.

"How come you are here?"

The Crown Prince spoke hoarsely, his throat seeming as though it had been scrubbed with sand, aching intensely.

He looked at his bloody leg, and in a hurry, tore off a piece of cloth to wrap around the wound as a temporary measure.

Jiang Shouzhong mentally weighed his options and said helplessly, "I was having a rendezvous with my wife by the Huailan Lake, when an earthquake came out of nowhere, and I ended up here."

The Crown Prince glanced at Qiuye and felt she looked vaguely familiar, as if he had seen her somewhere before. Qiuye, too, was covered in dust at the moment, making it difficult to discern her once delicate and beautiful features from a distance.

Zhou Wei, at the brink of mental breakdown, didn’t have the luxury to think too much and gasped out urgently to Jiang Shouzhong, "I know you’re Jiang Mo, a stealth agent for the Liushan Division. You might not know my identity, I—"

"You are the Crown Prince," Jiang Shouzhong said calmly.

Startled, Zhou Wei nodded and, dragging his injured leg, said, "Then I’ll cut to the chase. Get me out of here quickly. If there are any barbarians still alive and they find this place, both of us are dead men."

Jiang Shouzhong pointed at Qiuye, "Sorry, I need to take care of my wife."

Enraged, the Crown Prince retorted, "At a time like this, you’re still concerned about some woman! You are an official of the Dazhou Court, and your duty is to be loyal to the Dazhou Imperial Family! Loyal to me, the Crown Prince! If anything happens to me, you will not get away with it. Do you understand? If you save me, the Crown Prince, what woman, what glory and wealth would you lack!"

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