Chapter 273: The Palace Coup

Several people quickly left the sleeping quarters. By this time, the Imperial Guards outside the palace had already been completely wiped out by the people brought by the Tang Sect and Prince Xue Xing.

However, there were still others rushing over from outside.

These were all guards of Heaven Dou City.

But upon seeing Prince Xue Xing and Xue Beng, they quickly retreated after receiving orders.

The entire Heaven Dou City soon stabilized once again.

Snake Spear Douluo, along with Xue Qinghe and Pufferfish Douluo, also left the palace grounds.

"Uncle She, return to the palace immediately and confirm the death of Emperor Xue Ye!"

"Xue Qinghe must inherit the throne; otherwise, all our efforts will have been in vain!"

Snake Spear Douluo nodded, leaving Xue Qinghe and Pufferfish Douluo behind.

He took flight and vanished in the blink of an eye.

Watching his departing back,

Xue Qinghe's heart grew extremely uneasy.

Half an hour later, Snake Spear Douluo finally returned: "The palace is under control, and Emperor Xue Ye has disappeared."

"It's over!"

Xue Qinghe sighed, stumbling and nearly falling to the ground.

"To think we would fall here!"

Snake Spear Douluo She Long couldn't help but say,

"Xue Ye was deeply poisoned and is sure to die."

"As long as we announce to the public that the Emperor has passed away, it won't be too late to deal with those people after successfully ascending the throne!"

"Everything still has a chance!"

Xue Qinghe gave a bitter smile.

"If they discovered that Xue Ye's poison truly couldn't be cured, they could have easily let him wake up temporarily."

"But now that they have taken Xue Ye away, it proves they have the confidence to cure him."

"With Xue Ye alive, we have no chance at all!"

"Only if he dies can Xue Qinghe control the situation!"

"Once Xue Ye wakes up and discovers the collusion between Xue Qinghe and the Spirit Hall, then Xue Qinghe will be finished."

"Take our people and withdraw from here!"

"At the same time, tell the Crossbow Legion outside to withdraw immediately!"

"Prevent them from receiving any decrees from Xue Ye."

"The power of the Crossbow Legion is very strong; it must absolutely not fall into the hands of the Heaven Dou Empire."

Hearing Xue Qinghe's words, She Long was shocked to discover that she actually intended to abandon years of planning.

"Young Master, you have been lurking in the Heaven Dou Palace for so many years—could it be, could it be that we are just giving up like this?"

Qian Renxue took a deep breath. Twenty years of lurking!

Although she maintained her appearance very well, her actual age was about the same as Xue Qinghe's.

She had spent the ten most beautiful years of a young woman's life lurking, using special transformation techniques every day to change her physique and present herself as a man.

How could she be willing to fail just like this?

However, although Qian Renxue was a woman, she possessed the temperament of a generation's hero; she was very clear about the current situation.

Although she was unwilling to admit it, she had indeed lost this time.

"When it is time to cut, one must cut, otherwise one will suffer from the chaos!"

"Leave Heaven Dou City immediately!"

On the other side, Yang Wudi, Tang San, Prince Xue Xing, and Xue Beng quickly returned to the Tang Sect with Emperor Xue Ye.

Yang Wudi quickly began to remove the toxins from Emperor Xue Ye's body.

He continuously employed his methods,

Finally...

He still couldn't save him.

Emperor Xue Ye had no breath left.

He was dead.

In an instant, everyone was stunned.

"Imperial Brother is dead!"

Prince Xue Xing's eyes widened; he never imagined that Emperor Xue Ye would actually die!

The treatment process had been going well, and they could see his condition improving—how could he suddenly stop breathing!

Especially when everything was developing in a positive direction,

a disaster had occurred!

Xue Beng was also stunned; he fell to his knees with a thud and began to wail.

"Father Emperor!"

"Father Emperor!"

"Sigh,"

Yang Wudi sighed.

"I have done my best."

"Emperor Xue Ye was poisoned too deeply; there wasn't enough time. I needed one more hour."

Yang Wudi's face was extremely pale.

The previous battle, combined with the exhaustion of trying to cure the poison over the past few hours, had left this Medicine Hall Master extremely fatigued.

He said to Tang San: "Sect Master, I have a few words to say to you."

Tang San nodded and followed Yang Wudi outside.

"Sect Master, aren't you curious why I was able to remove Emperor Xue Ye's poison?"

Tang San said: "I presume that poison has something to do with the Medicine Hall. Or perhaps with the Elder's Breaking Clan."

"It doesn't matter. If the Elder doesn't want to say it, you don't have to. I trust you."

Yang Wudi shook his head and said: "No, I must tell you about this."

"I don't want the future relationship between the Tang Sect and the Heaven Dou Empire to be affected because of a traitor from our Breaking Clan."

"A traitor?" Tang San's heart stirred; he had already guessed the gist of it.

A trace of sorrow appeared in Yang Wudi's eyes. This was the first time Tang San had seen such an expression on this staunch old man.

"That's right. The poison Emperor Xue Ye was afflicted with was produced by our Medicine Hall. Or rather, it is one of the forbidden deadly poisons of the Breaking Clan, called Seven-Colored Mottled Poison."

"This deadly poison is created by mixing seven originally non-toxic drugs together. Its greatest characteristic is its high degree of concealment."

"Because the seven materials used to make it are non-toxic themselves, they can be administered continuously in a certain ratio. Even the most cautious person will be eroded by it unknowingly."

"Moreover, once all seven drugs are consumed, the poison will take effect immediately. It isn't intense at first, but the victim will feel extremely painful."

"The Seven-Colored Mottled Poison will continuously erode the victim's life force until their life ends."

Yang Wudi's voice was very low.

Tang San noticed that while he was speaking,

the clothes on his body were also trembling slightly, clearly suppressing his agitated emotions by force.

"Because of the diversity of the formula, mixed poisons are inherently the hardest to cure, and this deadly poison, researched by our Breaking Clan for many years, is even more impossible for outsiders to cure."

"Even if one consumes antidote drugs of the level of heavenly treasures, it can only suppress it temporarily, and when it backlashes, it will erupt even more violently."

"There must have been some poison expert suppressing it before, otherwise he would have died long ago."

"After this deadly poison was researched, because it was too overbearing, it was listed as one of the clan's forbidden drugs."

"Back then, after the Clear Sky Sect closed its doors, our four single-attribute clans had to fall apart, and we were targeted by the Spirit Hall."

"Among them, not only did my only son die tragically in that battle, but my own younger brother, Yang Wushuang, was also abducted by them in that battle. Since then, there has been no news of him."

"In the Breaking Clan, only Wushuang and I know how to use this Seven-Colored Mottled Poison. When I saw this deadly poison on Emperor Xue Ye, I realized that Wushuang was not dead after all."

"Instead, he became a lackey of the Spirit Hall."