Chapter 686: Chapter 686: 687

Chen Yuanyuan appeared almost delirious, crawling on the ground, her voice hoarse with exhaustion from screaming between life and death.

Running away in reliance on others, with her cultivation level rendered useless, she felt as if she had been thrown into the deepest valley.

The elder brother from her clan, whom she had depended on the most, was killed by Li Xiaobai right from the start, shattering her dreams of controlling an army of two hundred thousand and declaring herself queen.

And the principal culprit of all this was the demon head in front of her!

“What are you all standing around for, hurry up and kill him, whoever kills this man will be handsomely rewarded by the Imperial Court!”

Chen Yuanyuan scolded.

“If you hadn’t mentioned it, I would have forgotten about your father. He stepped over my junior sister’s corpse to ascend to the throne; you should be satisfied now and can die.”

Li Xiaobai’s eyebrows slightly raised, and with a casual wave of his hand—and before she could speak—a golden Primordial Spirit reached out from afar and touched Chen Dian’s forehead, turning his Divine Soul to dust.

This old man had been the Emperor for no more than a few minutes, a mere formality before meeting his end as a decapitated corpse.

“Who here holds the highest official rank?”

Li Xiaobai surveyed those around him and asked.

“Re… replying to Young Master, this old man holds a third-rank position, I suppose that makes me the person here with the highest official rank!”

An elderly man shakily stepped forward from the crowd, having originally planned to slip away with the rest, but being old and weak, with no significant cultivation level, he wasn’t able to make it out before he saw the Grand Emperor fleeing in panic and was filled with a sense of foreboding.

Now with this demon head taking control, who would dare to remain at the scene? That would truly be courting death.

“From now on, you are the Prime Minister. I don’t care who the new king is. However, starting today, this woman is sentenced to serve as a military prostitute at the border, dedicating herself daily to the soldiers. Do you understand?”

Li Xiaobai spoke indistinctly, this woman enjoyed using tactics in bed, so let her spend her whole life unable to leave it.

“Thank you, my lord!”

The old man’s face brightened, never expecting to stumble upon such good fortune; this being was even more terrifying than the Grand Emperor, and his position as Prime Minister was secure!

“How… how dare you do this to me, I’m the daughter of the Chen Family, you can’t treat me this way!”

“You’ve already destroyed my cultivation, I beg you, please let me live, I will die without my cultivation in the army!”

Chen Yuanyuan’s face was filled with terror as she crawled to Li Xiaobai’s feet, begging incessantly.

Unfortunately, Li Xiaobai paid her no mind, signaling to the golden Primordial Spirit, “Let’s go and settle the score with that Grand Emperor!”

“Simple, he’s to the east.”

The golden Primordial Spirit nodded, having come into contact with the other’s Divine Soul before, allowing him to distinctly sense the location of the Emperor’s Divine Soul.

With a step forward, his form turned into a golden light and re-entered his forehead. Li Xiaobai’s feet pushed off the ground, his body soared like a great roc taking flight, Inner Strength exploded in the void, and in a moment, he was gone without a trace.

Inside the grand hall, the civilian and military officials watched the retreating figure, and each let out a sigh of relief.

“Someone come, the Prime Minister orders that this malicious woman be taken to the frontiers. Move quickly, take her to the Celestial Prison, and once Young Master Li has executed that old thing, send this poisonous woman immediately to serve as a military prostitute at the border!”

With Li Xiaobai behind him, the old man’s backbone straightened with confidence, immediately declaring his allegiance.

He felt no pressure now. With the Grand Emperor fleeing, what else was there to fear? Undoubtedly, Li Xiaobai’s power and cultivation were unfathomable; in this world, no one could rival him.

“You vile woman, your malicious intent is clear, and I’ve long found you disagreeable!”

“Indeed, to think you would dare scheme against Young Master Li, you must have the gall of a bear and the boldness of a leopard. Colleagues, let’s take action together and tie up this woman!”

“After successively killing her own brother and father, this woman is a calamity, a harbinger of disaster!”

“You should be thankful, Young Master Li was kind enough not to kill you on the spot, only sentencing you to become a military prostitute!”

“To be personally exiled to the borderlands by Young Master Li himself is your honor!”

Seeing the previously third-rank official transform into the Prime Minister, second only to one person, the other officials’ minds came alive. They quickly made their stance clear, distancing themselves from the Grand Emperor’s faction and hurling cold jeers and warm ridicule at Chen Yuanyuan.

“You will regret this, I swear, I will make you all pay!”

Chen Yuanyuan’s eyes brimmed with venomous hatred, her face etched with madness.

“Yuanyuan, listen to your brother’s advice. Life is like that thing, if you can’t resist it, learn to enjoy it.”

The elder who had been promoted to Prime Minister patted Chen Yuanyuan on the shoulder, speaking with a joyous smile on his face, clearly not intending to take her seriously. With a wave of his hand, several officials standing by hurriedly carried her out of the great hall.

Although Li Xiaobai was not present, the new Prime Minister had been born, and it was still necessary to curry favor with him.

…

At the same time.

In the center of the Imperial City, hundreds of meters in the air, two figures were swiftly chasing one another.

Li Xiaobai’s speed was terrifyingly fast, almost visibly closing in on the robed elderly man ahead of him. His longsword danced up and down, the pitch-black Sword Qi crisscrossing into a net that forced the old man to a halt.

“Li Xiaobai, don’t go too far. You may be skilled, but I’m not someone who can be easily manipulated!”

The robed elder bellowed in rage, unable to comprehend how this young man before him possessed such unimaginable, terrifying strength. His resentment towards the Chen Family surged as he recalled that if it weren’t for Chen Yuanyuan delivering that woman to his bedchamber, he wouldn’t have offended this madman.

“Wretch, die!”

Li Xiaobai hissed softly, his Inner Strength surging forth and transforming into towering Sword Qi that pierced the heavens, slashing towards the old man’s throat.

The thick, ink-like aura that seemed about to drip water swirled around, emanating a putrid stench and continuously washing over the elder’s body.

The elder’s eyes were full of fear, not daring to resist in the slightest; the black aura exerted a lethal threat, even more dangerous than the sky-shattering Sword Qi.

His body dived downward, utilizing qinggong at low altitude to speed away, attempting to use the dense crowd below as cover to delay Li Xiaobai’s onslaught.

Unfortunately, he was a moment too late. As he descended, a strand of bizarre, ink-black aura slipped from his left pinky. In an instant, the blackness spread across his palm, turning it numb and devoid of sensation.

And the aura continued to spread. In the blink of an eye, it had climbed up his arm. From the shoulder blade down, his entire arm was almost completely numb, no longer registering the limb’s presence.

The elder’s face was stricken with horror. Just a touch of it had such a terrifying effect; he knew without asking that his left hand was beyond saving.

“Blood Demon Explosion!”

A resolute look flashed across his eyes as he roared towards the sky.

The Internal Cultivation Technique within him operated, and his entire left arm exploded, turning into a mist of blood. At the same time, his inner strength climbed steadily, his speed reaching an extremely terrifying height. He became a series of afterimages dashing wildly among the people below.