World-Ending Demon Emperor
Chapter 902 - 424: The King’s Demise! Zhi Li’s Swan Song!

Chapter 902: 424: The King’s Demise! Zhi Li’s Swan Song!

Zhi Li entered the royal city without anyone knowing. In the public’s opinion and impression, he should still be in the southern border fortress!

Riding the griffin back to the royal city, he did not even enter the residence of the young lord; instead, he secretly infiltrated the Dragon Temple.

The Zhi Du Sanctuary is a vast castle estate that, including the area of the Tribunal, even surpasses the royal palace.

As one of the sixteen Judges, Fu Lingxi owns a separate castle, and it was in the secret chamber underneath this castle that Fu Lingxi met with Zhi Li.

"Your Highness, the young lord, are you hiding anything from me?" Fu Lingxi asked.

"Hiding from you?" Zhi Li replied with a bitter smile, "What else could I be hiding now?"

Fu Lingxi said, "After the defeat, what does His Highness Zhi Li plan to do?"

Zhi Li replied, "Recruit literary and martial talents opposed to Suo Lun, then lead them to enter the Flame Empire to establish an exile government, continue the fight against Suo Lun to the end, and resolutely refuse to recognize the legitimacy of Zhi Yan’s succession."

Zhi Li is a very intelligent and cunning person; he certainly would not tell anyone about something as grave as assassinating the King.

Moreover, seven parts of what he said were true, three parts false. If he hadn’t been forced by circumstances, he would have indeed gathered his forces and fled to the Flame Empire. How could he possibly go on to assassinate the King, embarking on this near-certain path of death?

Fu Lingxi immediately thought that the scheme Zhi Li mentioned was indeed feasible and even the best option.

Once Zhi Yan ascended the throne but without the protection of the Dragon Temple, the Flame Empire and the Xiliang Kingdom would surely launch an army of a million to strike while the iron is hot. At that time, the Zhi Yan regime would not be possible to withstand, and the situation in the Rage Wave Kingdom would be as precarious as a pile of eggs, presenting an opportunity for Zhi Li’s comeback.

If Fu Lingxi had to choose, she too would take this path.

"His Highness Zhi Li, don’t be in a hurry to leave the Rage Wave Kingdom; just stay in Zhi Du, and go nowhere else," Fu Lingxi said.

"Why?" Zhi Li said in astonishment. "I am now like a wall everybody pushes down. Apart from my closest confidants, anyone might betray me."

"Just quietly wait and see; do nothing else," Fu Lingxi insisted.

"Change?" Zhi Li asked, "What change? What could change?"

Fu Lingxi shook her head and said, "The current situation is still unclear. In any case, don’t do anything next; just wait quietly like this, absolutely do not leave the Rage Wave Kingdom!"

Zhi Li couldn’t help but be stunned, his heart pounding fiercely.

Fu Lingxi told him to do nothing, but he was already in the midst of doing something earth-shattering, and by this point, it was too late to stop.

...

The royal family of the Rage Wave Kingdom had a total of more than twenty griffin beasts, out of which fifteen were given to Suo Lun, leaving only ten for the King’s Gryphon Knight squad.

Elder Gao and others rode eight griffin beasts back to the royal city to save Zhi Ning and her child.

However, the objective of these more than ten masters was not to protect the King, but to save Zhi Ning and her child.

Therefore experts like Li Chenglian focused entirely on the residence of the young lord and the Zhi Du Sanctuary.

It was impossible to snatch someone from inside the Zhi Du Sanctuary, so the only chance was to take them from Zhi Li when he transported them out of the Zhi Du Sanctuary and then hijack them on the way.

Of course, to do so will also have terrifying consequences. Firstly, the Martial Arts power around Zhi Li far surpasses Elder Gao, and moreover, he has Suo Lun’s son as a hostage.

In short, the rescue of Zhi Ning and her child has become exceedingly thorny.

Despite the immense power of the Shadow Cabinet, they were indeed oblivious to Zhi Li’s entrance into the royal city.

The more than ten experts brought by Li Chenglian, and a considerable part of the Shadow Cabinet’s force in the royal city, were all invested in the rescue of Zhi Ning and her child.

The force protecting King Zhi Bian did not increase, but rather decreased.

Because who would have thought that Zhi Li would assassinate the King? No one but a madman would do such a thing.

...

Li Chenglian had only five griffin beasts at his disposal, with a total of twenty-two powerhouses participating in the assassination of the King!

Though only twenty-two in number, they were definitely the elite of the elite, condensing the cream of the crop of Demon Continent and Yin Zhou forces within the Rage Wave Kingdom.

It was because Zhi Li had the support of Yin Zhou’s young master Fang Qingyi and the Princess Yuanyuan of Yaozhou. Among the assassins for the King, there were as many as eight or nine experts of the level of Zhuang Zhixuan.

The rest were at least of the same level as City Lord Tuli Yun, surpassing Yan Nai’er and Turing Chen.

Even Eunuch Li Zhu did not qualify to be among those twenty-two assassins.

So although there were few in number, it was an immensely powerful Martial Arts force.

As soon as the five griffin beasts entered the airspace of the Rage Wave Kingdom, they were immediately spotted by a patrolling psychic.

"Who is it? Elder Gao, or a special envoy of Lord Suo Lun? What’s the password?" The patrolling psychic immediately sent out a warning.

Every time a griffin entered the royal airspace, it was either Suo Lun’s men or Elder Gao’s men. But there was always a special contact password, and it was actively transmitted by those entering the airspace.

But this time, these griffin beasts came in silently which made the patrolling psychic very nervous, as if facing a formidable enemy.

Of course, there was no response from Li Chenglian’s side!

The patrolling psychic immediately tried to blow a horn to alert the palace below.

However, it was too late!

Soon, he felt his body completely paralyzed, unable to move or make a sound.

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