Chapter 244: Chapter 94: The People of this World Won’t Agree! (Extra update! Please subscribe)_6
 

Within the royal family and its kin, only the King of South Ming stood in opposition, seemingly having become completely isolated.

At the same time, as if a chain reaction was set off, like dominoes falling, many court officials could no longer sit idly by and finally stood up, voicing their objections with indignation.

“We do not agree!”

“We do not agree!”

Beneath the chorus of voices, the expression of grief on the King of South Ming’s face slowly receded, as if with a hint of regret, he started toying with the Jade Bead in his hand again.

Looking up somewhat regretfully, he gazed at the blood-stained heavens.

“I originally thought I could go the orthodox way, pressuring with power to have you support me ascending the throne as emperor.”

“It seems that’s not going to work.”

“I can’t be blamed for being too hasty. After all, with Empress Dowager Li and the Duke of the State present, the longer it drags on, the less likely it becomes for me to legally succeed to the throne.”

“I gave you a chance, and you didn’t take it.”

“If the Bureau of the Lamp hadn’t eradicated those Devil Clan infiltrators earlier, you wouldn’t have had the chance to speak up.”

“In the end, it seems it will take some time.”

The King of South Ming muttered to himself.

His voice was not loud, yet everyone could hear him clearly.

The King of South Ming sighed.

“Begin.”

As his words fell,

everyone’s face changed slightly. Before they could react, the very court officials who had just been kneeling at the King of South Ming’s feet, pleading for him to ascend the throne, turned like unleashed tigers on the old court officials who had just spoken against him, rushing to slaughter them.

On Shenyue Mountain, intense Qi fluctuations erupted all at once.

At the same time.

Behind the King of South Ming, high in the sky, the Inferno Hell opened, and a deity slowly emerged, as if under the True Solar Fire, the deity invoked changes and flew towards the royal kin, slashing horizontally at them.

Ordinary people would not dare to kill those with royal blood.

Even those loyal to the King of South Ming would not dare to show the slightest disrespect to Empress Dowager Li and the others.

The King of South Ming would not allow them to act either.

Killing the royal family could only be done by his own hands.

The dreadful might of the King of South Ming’s solar power was terrifying. Among the royal kin, Empress Dowager Li, Wu Yuemei, and even Empress Wang, under such an attack, had little power to resist.

Empress Dowager Li sighed weakly, her aged face appearing slightly withered. Using her frail body, she protected Wu Yuemei and those around her behind herself.

“It is I, the old woman, who has let everyone down.”

At this moment, Empress Dowager Li believed she had dragged everyone down with her.

If she had not vehemently opposed the King of South Ming, perhaps he would not have been able to bring himself to kill.

She had not anticipated that the King of South Ming would truly wish to eradicate the entire royal clan.

Although there were many Imperial Guards in Shenyue Mountain, with Emperor Zhou dead and the new emperor yet to be established, they were mostly bewildered and lost in the face of this sudden shift in the situation.

Rushing to counter the attack of the rebelling officials was already extremely difficult.

They had neither the opportunity nor the strength to oppose the King of South Ming, whose cultivation realm was infinitely close to the Heavenly Human Realm.

The King of South Ming had cultivated for several hundred years, but his strength had not yet reached the Heavenly Human Realm, even after undergoing numerous Blood Pool purifications.

One could imagine how lacking his original talents must have been.

Now, with the royal blood in his body drawn out by the Queen of the South Ming, his strength had already reached its limit—he might never attain the Heavenly Human Realm in this life.

But this was not important.

He had the Devil Emperor and the Demon Emperor behind him. In the King of South Ming’s eyes, even the Duke of the State could do nothing to him.

Just as the King of South Ming’s attack was about to hit the royal kin, two figures suddenly appeared.

Raising their Qi in both hands and wielding Divine Power, they blocked the King of South Ming’s attack.

It was Qian Siyuan and Li Zhengyang.

“Oh? The people from the Bureau of the Lamp, it seems I did not notice your presence just now.”

When the King of South Ming saw Qian Siyuan and Li Zhengyang, he was slightly startled, as if struck by a thought.

Suddenly, he seemed to sense something, noticing that the noise around his ears was getting quieter.

The previously inconspicuous Silver Lantern Catchers of the Bureau of the Lamp appeared from nowhere, in the trees, inside the halls, everywhere filled with black-clad constables.

Wearing various lamp badges on their chests, they looked solemn as they surged from all directions.

Apparently prepared, without a hint of panic, they silently drew their knives and charged at the renegade officials.

The rules of the royal ceremony were the same as those in the court.

All officials, even guards, were not permitted to carry weapons or Different Treasures.

Yet judging by the state of these Bureau of the Lamp members, they were fully armed to the teeth.

The corner of the King of South Ming’s mouth twitched slightly, as he had never expected the Bureau of the Lamp, which always acted by the book, to one day break its own rules.

When one side was armed and the other was not, even those whose Cultivation Realm differed by a great margin could engage in a struggle.

Based on the number and quality of officials he had bought over and won over in recent years, even without his intervention, he would have been able to crush everyone present.

Yet he had not anticipated that the Bureau of the Lamp would disregard martial ethics and bring weapons.

In just a moment, the previously tumultuous Shenyue Mountain quieted down.

Many officials were continuously being slain by the Bureau of the Lamp constables.

The King of South Ming could even see several Silver Lantern Catchers specifically capturing officials loyal to him and, as if cleaning them up, presenting them to the Town-Nation Duke’s Heir for execution.

Seeing this scene, the King of South Ming felt as if he had been insulted.