World-Ending Demon Emperor
Chapter 904 - 424: The Tragedy of the King! Zhi Li’s Ultimate Song!_3

Chapter 904: 424: The Tragedy of the King! Zhi Li’s Ultimate Song!_3

At this moment, he stopped disguising his voice as female.

Gao Fu said, "We eunuchs are the house slaves of the royal family. We participate in disputes between masters, but to lay hands on killing our master would be a violation of heavenly laws. That year, Zhi Lan, neither Da Gao nor I made a move."

"I also do not wish to..." Li Chenglian said.

"Phssh..." Over a dozen swords suddenly tore through!

Instantly, Gao Fu’s body was ripped into dozens of pieces, dying a gruesome death.

This Martial Arts Grandmaster from the Rage Wave Kingdom, almost no one knew his name; even in death, he left no renown.

This Martial Arts Grandmaster remained completely silent from start to finish.

From discovering the assassin til his last moment, he did not even raise his voice.

...

Li Chenglian approached the grand gates of Ziyu Palace and touched them.

"Steel plates, three inches thick!"

A master from Demon Continent stepped forward, pulling out a dark blue dagger.

Indeed, it was a dagger, about seven inches long.

A Dragon Gold Dagger, and it was coated with a potent poison!

"Phssh..." This Dragon Gold Dagger easily pierced the thick steel gate and then began to cut through.

A minute and a half later!

"Boom!" A loud noise erupted as a huge hole was cut into the gates of Ziyu Palace.

At the same time, countless members of the Forbidden Army had already reached the summit, beginning to clash fiercely with Li Chenglian’s assassins!

The masters from Demon Continent, even those from Yin Zhou are the same; their martial arts enhanced rapidly by Heretical Magic and drugs, thus their foundation is unstable.

In battle, they are incredibly fearsome and lethal, killing as swiftly as lightning.

Just now, several hundred Samurai from the Shadow Cabinet were cleanly slaughtered within minutes.

But these people, what they fear most is a large-scale army. Their unstable foundation means their Dragon Force quickly depletes. Once their Dragon Force runs out and they are entangled by a large army, death is certain!

"Quick, into Ziyu Palace!" Li Chenglian said.

"Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh..." Instantly, the remaining dozen or so assassins dashed through the gate hole and into Ziyu Palace like lightning!

...

At this moment, in the center of the palace, on a couch, lay a gaunt old man.

Surrounded by curtains, it was hard to see clearly.

"Is this the King?" Li Chenglian was shocked.

King Zhi Bian, although not very tall or robust, still had an upright stature, around 177 cm tall.

But the gaunt, hunched old man on the bed seemed so frail that he was almost a dried husk.

After a slight hesitation for half a second, Li Chenglian drew another sword.

A sword specifically for assassinating the king, called Embroidery Needle, over a foot long and as fine as a needle, leaving nearly no wound when plunged into a body.

He walked to the bedside, aimed at the old man’s heart, and thrust fiercely.

"Phssh..." Without any resistance, it directly pierced through the heart.

...

Meanwhile, inside Zhi Du Sanctuary!

Fulingxi was playing chess with Zhi Li when she suddenly heard a distant commotion, and swiftly rushed to the top of the castle.

It was coming from the direction of the royal palace; alarms blaring, flames reaching toward the sky!

Someone was attempting to assassinate King Zhi Bian!

Fulingxi’s body trembled uncontrollably, unable to believe her eyes.

Had Zhi Li gone mad? To think he would attempt to assassinate the King!

Any sane person would never commit such a foolish act as assassinating the King.

Fulingxi immediately rushed back inside the castle, screaming at Zhi Li, "You’re insane, completely insane, to have done something like assassinating the King? Even if you kill the King a hundred times, you can’t ascend the throne."

In his heart, Zhi Li knew this well but he had no other choice. Turing Tuo might surrender to Suo Lun at any moment, and might reveal the fact of his Demon Bloodline to Suo Lun.

Thus, Zhi Li was left with no choice but to pursue this perilously slim chance of assassinating the King.

After killing the King, he would firmly deny any involvement with this act and instead call it Suo Lun’s plot.

He would claim that the King was already dead, and after Suo Lun’s victory, staged a play of assassinating the King then framed it on Zhi Li, aiming to drive him to his doom.

Of course, this rationale is absurd.

But in this world, countless acts of calling a deer a horse and distorting right and wrong exist!

Most importantly, Zhi Li still held a hostage, Suo Lun’s biological son.

In that case, even if Suo Lun knew of the Demon Blood in him, he would certainly not dare to make it public!

Then, Zhi Li would use the over ten thousand troops at hand along with the literary and military officials of the royal city, to forcibly ascend the throne.

Most crucially, he needed the support of the Dragon Temple.

If Holy Priest Ge Li and Chief Judge Luo Ge were willing to acknowledge his kingship, then this act would be half successful.

And, with Suo Lun’s son in his grasp, Suo Lun would not dare use military force to attack the royal city.

Once he forcibly ascended the throne, just stalling for one or two months would see through the most dangerous period, and then the various lords and aristocrats would once again start to take sides.

After all, all the lords and aristocrats were displeased with Suo Lun.

"Let’s go, take me to see Zhi Ning and her son. It’s time I got close to my nephew," Zhi Li said. "Mistress Fulingxi, as the child’s grandmother, would you accompany us?"

Zhi Li sneered, following a Holy Temple Monk to the tower where Zhi Ning and her son were imprisoned, finally ready to cross the last line of human decency.

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