The Path of the Martial Arts BOSS
Chapter 381 - 193: The Eunuchs Are Not Lacking in Experts

Chapter 381: Chapter 193: The Eunuchs Are Not Lacking in Experts

Underground Stealth provided safety yet inevitably some awkwardness. Especially with all sorts of Ghost things underground, it was indeed too much for Qing Yu, who possessed exceptional eyesight, to bear witness.

However, compared to the safety of his life, this awkwardness was trivial. The Phoenix Cry that Feng Guanyu unleashed at last, although filtered by the Circulation Eight Extremes Formation, still reached the outside world.

There were countless masters within the Imperial Palace, and Qing Yu was not so arrogant as to believe he could safely extricate himself amidst the encirclement of these masters.

So, it was best to play it safe. Better to be a bit disheveled if it meant being secure.

And then...

Qing Yu was saved.

After he slipped underground, a figure swooped across the sky, enveloping the entire Eastern Palace with an eerily cold and oppressive presence.

"Who dares to be presumptuous in the Imperial Palace!"

The voice was soft and sharp, and Qing Yu recognized it very well; it belonged to a eunuch. After all, he had absorbed the memories of Lin Pingzhi and Dongfang Bubai, both eunuchs.

This eunuch cultivated Yin cold Martial Arts, a practice typical of men deficient in Yang, and the True Qi was so chilling that Qing Yu could feel it even from his underground hiding.

Extremely strong, unbelievably strong; at least Qing Yu could not fathom his power at present.

’The Imperial Palace sure has its share of powerful eunuchs,’ he muttered to himself and dived another twenty or so meters down.

At that moment, on the surface, the invisible Qi Shield formed by the Circulation Eight Extremes Formation was forcibly marked by the Yin cold True Qi. It looked like a bowl made of frost, upturned over the residential palace of Feng Guanyu.

Moonlight filtered through this frosty Qi Shield and cast a resplendent glow upon the unlit sleeping quarters, transforming what originally seemed a sinister and terrifying chamber into a scene of splendor.

However, the explosion that followed destroyed that beauty completely.

The instant Qing Yu left, twenty-four Black-clothed Men outside the palace simultaneously performed the Forbidden Technique "Heavenly Demon Disintegration Technique." The surging, uncontrollable True Qi filled their meridians, destabilizing the Circulation Eight Extremes Formation, which was already impure due to the mixture of the eight forces.

Then, the Circulation Eight Extremes Formation, formed by the combined True Qi of the twenty-four men, collapsed.

But collapse was far from the end.

Eight strands of Circulating True Energy, each a different color, twined and battled against each other in the sky, devouring Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi, then exploded with a thunderous blast.

"Bang, bang, bang—"

Those who made up the Circulation Eight Extremes Formation also exploded in unison, and the massive Qi Force explosion enveloped the entire sleeping quarters.

And then...

"——"

Dead silence.

The other three occupants of the Eastern Palace were startled by the commotion and came out of their quarters to watch the disturbance from a distance. To be precise, they watched the terrifying Qi Force displayed by the old eunuch.

That old eunuch maintained his arms outstretched, facing the palace swallowed by the explosion.

In front of him, all was silent. The entire sleeping quarters, including the Circulating Eight Forces battling in the air and the blood mist from the bodies of twenty-four Black-clothed Men who had burst apart, were all abruptly frozen in place.

Everything was covered with bone-chilling frost, the entire sleeping quarters turned into a massive block of ice.

"Eunuch Wei, is it he? The peerless master you’ve mentioned before," Feng Chaonan gazed at the figure dressed in purple-red eunuch attire in the distance, and asked the Eunuch Wei by his side.

"It’s indeed him," Eunuch Wei’s voice carried a rare tinge of profound fear, "This is an old monster who has lived for who knows how many years, always lurking in the Emperor’s shadow, silently guarding the Imperial Palace. His strength is unfathomable; I was once glanced at from afar by him and felt as if I was on the brink of death."

"I can see that." Feng Chaonan didn’t know what expression he should make.

Such a terror-inspiring move; saying that a mere glance put Eunuch Wei in mortal peril wasn’t an exaggeration at all.

Feng Chaonan had seen his fair share of grand spectacles and had witnessed such terrifying scenes before, but each time, he couldn’t help but feel his own insignificance.

In front of such a warrior, all his achievements seemed trivial.

"Quick, quick, quick..."

The Imperial Guards arrived belatedly, and although they were actually quite fast, they were still too late compared to the old eunuch. Most importantly, their arrival now was pointless.

"General Lin, I’ll leave this place for you to handle," the old eunuch’s voice, sinister with age yet oddly vigorous, echoed in the ears of Lin Xianzong, head of the Imperial Guards.

"But this..."

Lin Xianzong stared at the giant block of ice engulfing the entire sleeping chamber, swallowing hard. Such a massive block of ice, how to deal with it, and if he wasn’t mistaken, it was where the Eldest Prince was residing, wasn’t it? The Eldest Prince wouldn’t have been frozen to death, would he?

"The Eldest Prince is already dead." As if discerning Lin Xianzong’s question, the old eunuch spoke lightly.

"Before I arrived, the Eldest Prince had already died at the hands of an assassin. The true assassin must have already escaped; those left outside are merely underlings."

Before he acted, the old eunuch had swept the chamber with his Divine Thought; inside there were only two corpses standing upright, the assassin long gone.

Otherwise, the old eunuch wouldn’t have dared to completely encase the chamber in ice. It would be a joke if, instead of dying at the hands of an assassin, the Eldest Prince ended up dead by the old eunuch’s hand.

As for the guards outside the chamber, dazed by the ’Beisu Qingfeng,’ with the Eldest Prince dead, they were bound to be decapitated for failing to protect him. They’d be better off dying painlessly at the hands of the old eunuch.

"You take care of the Eldest Prince’s remains."

Having said this, the old eunuch disappeared into thin air, vanishing like a ghost without a trace.

Lin Xianzong was left standing dumbfounded, gazing at the massive block of ice, unsure of what to do next.

’Speaking of cleaning up, how about you tell me how to do that...’ Lin Xianzong inwardly roared in frustration.

Similarly, inwardly raging forty-five meters below ground was Qing Yu.

At this moment, Qing Yu’s entire body was enveloped by a thin layer of frost, trapped immobile forty-five meters underground.

He had never anticipated that even at forty-five meters underground, he would still be affected. The old eunuch’s cold qi, though diminished after passing through layers of earth, still managed to cover Qing Yu with a thin layer of frost.

The frost wasn’t thick, but it carried a biting chill; Qing Yu’s body wasn’t trapped by the frost, but his spirit was frozen stiff by the cold, unable to move.

Furthermore, he dared not use his True Qi to resist; thus, he was literally trapped underground by the frost.

This assassination attempt on Feng Guanyu was simple, rough, yet extremely effective, and everything had proceeded as Qing Yu had predicted, but in the end, he hadn’t expected to be trapped underground.

’How ridiculous,’ Qing Yu sneered at himself.

The distance between himself and those warriors was still far indeed; he couldn’t even withstand the aftershocks.

Only after sensing that frightening presence above ground leave for quite some time, Qing Yu began to use ’Circulating Fire’ to remove the chill and stealthily made his way underground into the distance.

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