World-Ending Demon Emperor
Chapter 905 - 425: The King has passed away! Fang Qingzhuo’s plot to kill her husband!

Chapter 905: 425: The King has passed away! Fang Qingzhuo’s plot to kill her husband!

Duke Turing Tuo could not accept this!

He was not like Chu Ye; he had never been anyone’s subordinate.

He had always been one of the most powerful nobles in the Rage Wave Kingdom, commanding the wind and summoning the rain, and his influence was sky-high.

When King Quo Bian was sidelined, his authority even surpassed that of Zhi Li. Although Zhi Li was the crown prince, whenever they met in private, Zhi Li had to greet him with a bow, showing utmost respect.

Especially after Turing Mo married Zhi Li, the latter would often say that, having lost his parents at a young age, seeing Duke Turing Tuo was like having his father still alive.

Moreover, Duke Turing Tuo controlled half of the Rage Wave Kingdom’s military forces. Simply in terms of power, he had surpassed everyone else. Even Zhi Li’s fate was in his hands. Whenever he decided to play both sides, Zhi Li would be so frustrated he’d wish for death.

For decades, he had been worshipped at all times.

Now, to have him kneel before someone else, and especially before a man like Suo Lun whom he had never deemed worthy, was impossible!

Suo Lun? What was he two or three years ago? Nothing but a useless second-generation scion. It wasn’t only Duke Turing Tuo who didn’t take him seriously; even his daughter, Turing Duo, looked down on him.

And now, to have Duke Turing Tuo actively kneel before him? It simply couldn’t be done.

Duke Turing Tuo’s knees were stiff; he couldn’t kneel down. His spine was stiff; he couldn’t bend.

Most critically, the moment Duke Turing Tuo kneeled, he would face Suo Lun’s blackmail. Even if he managed to save his life, he’d be left with nothing.

At this moment, Duke Turing Tuo still had an army of eighty thousand at his command. And once he went alone to kneel before Suo Lun to pledge loyalty, whether he could return or not was uncertain.

"I, I won’t go," Duke Turing Tuo coldly declared: "I will stay right here, in Baiyun City, waiting. I want to see if that incompetent fool Chu Ye has the guts to attack me; he really only has eighty thousand men from the Northern Legion at his disposal for actual use, the remaining hundred and fifty thousand of the Allied Army from the provinces is nothing but garbage."

Once Duke Turing Tuo made his decision, Turing Chen simply bowed and said no more.

Once Duke Turing Tuo made a decision, no one could change his mind.

Instantly, the eighty thousand-strong army in Baiyun County City began to prepare for war and secure the city. Meanwhile, Earl Chu Ye’s two hundred and thirty thousand army continued to cross the river southward.

Under Suo Lun’s manipulation, a great battle between the two titans of the Rage Wave Kingdom was about to erupt.

And this battle would determine the fate of Duke Turing Tuo.

...

Inside the Ziyu Palace of the Royal Palace!

After being stabbed in the heart, the brocade-clothed old man on the bed did not make any sound, but merely experienced a bout of chest heaving, gasping desperately, and with all his might, opened his eyes to look at Li Chenglian.

Then, those eyes slowly closed, and he exhaled his last breath, dying completely!

The assassins around all directed their gaze toward Li Chenglian, who, though loyal to Zhi Li, was after all a senior eunuch of the Rage Wave Kingdom and was expected to be very familiar with the King.

Looking at the dead face of the brocade-clothed old man on the bed, it indeed resembled the King’s profile.

However, he was at least twenty years older than the King in his memory, skinny to the bone, completely emaciated.

Li Chenglian immediately stepped forward, tore open the old man’s clothes, and revealed his chest.

The chest, so unsightly it was hard to look at, was just a layer of skin wrapped around protruding ribs, not just skinny, but utterly shriveled.

For such a person, death was perhaps a relief.

Despite being left with just a layer of skin, Li Chenglian clearly saw a five-pointed scar on the right side of the chest.

Li Chenglian was elated in her heart; it was indeed the King!

It was a wound left by an assassination attempt during the agricultural ceremony when the King was younger. If not for Jian Ze risking his life to save him, the King would have been killed.

"Yes, it is the King," Li Chenglian declared in a female voice.

At this moment, the Forbidden Army desperately rushed into the palace through the small gates.

But the gates were too narrow, and with two assassins defending from inside, it was essentially an impassable blockade, as many who rushed in as died.

"Bang, bang, bang, bang!"

Outside, Gao Yin activated the mechanisms of Ziyu Palace.

Instantly, all the iron shutters behind windows and doors swiftly retracted, and the entire palace was flung open.

Hearing the palace alarm, Gao Yin’s scalp nearly exploded, completely terrified.

Someone was trying to assassinate the King!

Zhi Li was actually so deranged as to attempt to assassinate the King? Didn’t he realize that, though he couldn’t become the King at this moment, his life could still be spared? For Zhi Yan, a woman ascending the throne, to garner support, it was unlikely she would kill Zhi Li.

Yet Zhi Li insanely attempted to assassinate the King; he was truly seeking his own demise.

The King was Gao Yin’s only master, protecting the King was Gao Yin’s sole mission.

Immediately, he abandoned all else and led the elites of the Shadow Cabinet, riding griffins madly into the Royal Palace, descending upon Purple Jade Mountain.

But it was already too late; Li Chenglian had already led the assassins into the Ziyu Palace. Making a quick decision, he immediately located the external mechanism of Ziyu Palace and fiercely activated it.

Then, he was the first to charge into the palace!

Instantly upon entering, he saw the emaciated old man on the bed, his eyes closed, breathless.

"Your Majesty..." Gao Yin let out a heart-wrenching roar.

This roar was truly like a dying howl as one’s life force was severed.

Hearing this, joy surged in Li Chenglian’s heart!

Then, Gao Yin, seemingly in madness, attacked Li Chenglian and the others single-handedly!

"Let’s go..." commanded Li Chenglian at once.