Chapter 1823: Vengeance Achieved Today

Vengeance Achieved Today

Chengtian Imperial Palace.

Eunuch Zuo stood under the eaves, looking at the dim sky with continuous drizzle, worry surfacing in his eyes.

"It has been three days since His Majesty entered the Gray World... I wonder how the situation is, and whether His Majesty is safe and sound?" Eunuch Zuo sighed heavily.

He Jing was silent for a moment. "His Majesty hasn't returned for three days, and those people inside and outside the palace have started to get restless again."

"These idiots... are probably hoping His Majesty dies in the Gray World." Eunuch Zuo snorted coldly. "It would be best if he perishes together with those World-Ending Calamities. That way, they could truly rest easy."

He Jing pondered for a moment:

"Does Eunuch Zuo think His Majesty can still return?"

"His Majesty is the true Son of Heaven, blessed by Destiny. Naturally, he can turn danger into safety and return in triumph safely," Eunuch Zuo answered as if it was a matter of course.

The two of them fell into silence under the eaves.

"I heard a new Deputy Director arrived at the White Egret Office recently?" He Jing suddenly asked.

"That's right, it's a youth, directly appointed by His Majesty." Eunuch Zuo nodded. "From what I see, although that youth doesn't have high seniority, he is extremely intelligent. Moreover, having been raised by Marquis Wei since he was little, he has a strong sense of responsibility."

"Truly young and promising."

He Jing's gray hair fluttered gently in the breeze. He looked at the water droplets dripping down from the eaves, not knowing what he was thinking.

"Eunuch Zuo!"

A youth ran over from a distance braving the rain.

Seeing that person, Eunuch Zuo froze, then chuckled. "Truly, Speak Of The Devil."

He Jing also looked in that direction.

He saw Jing Si carrying a thick stack of documents in his arms, rushing directly under the eaves. Water droplets slid down from the tips of his wet hair, and he was panting heavily.

"Young Master Jing Si... no, I should call you Lord Jing now." Eunuch Zuo chuckled. "What matter has you in such a hurry?"

Jing Si looked up and froze slightly upon seeing He Jing was also beside him. He seemed a bit nervous, but still answered truthfully:

"For the past few days, I've been sorting out the intelligence network of the Chengtian Domain... But I keep feeling that there's something wrong with a few intelligence threads. I used the Path of Divination to calculate them one by one, but I can't figure them out no matter what. It's as if... someone is secretly blocking my deductions."

"Therefore, I want to request an audience with His Majesty to report this situation to him... I'm worried that our intelligence network has already been infiltrated."

Eunuch Zuo's eyebrows raised slightly, and the gaze he looked at Jing Si with seemed somewhat surprised.

"What about the Duke of Stars? Didn't you tell him?"

"I did... He told me not to bother him with such trivial matters." Jing Si smiled helplessly.

Eunuch Zuo: ...

"Lord Jing, you don't need to tell me these things... Once you see His Majesty, just tell him the details." Eunuch Zuo paused for a moment. "However, His Majesty hasn't returned yet, you might still have to wait..."

Just as Jing Si was about to say something, a muffled bell chime echoed in the sky above the imperial palace.

Clang——!!!

Before Jing Si could react to what had happened, Eunuch Zuo and He Jing turned their heads simultaneously to look toward a certain direction.

"His Majesty has returned!" Eunuch Zuo spoke in pleasant surprise.

The three of them immediately rushed toward the edge of the Chengtian Domain.

It wasn't just the three of them. Inside and around the imperial palace, a large number of figures also flew out. None of these were nameless minor characters. Jing Si could feel a terrifying oppressive feeling from those figures.

He even saw his own cheap superior, the Duke of Stars.

The Duke of Stars, who turned a deaf ear to matters outside the window, actually also came over to join the fun? As Jing Si thought this, he shifted his gaze to several other figures radiating Demigod's Auras.

Jing Si looked at those faces, matching them one by one in his heart with the names on the secret file.

"Li..." Seeing the person arriving beside him, the Duke of Stars' eyes lit up slightly. He subconsciously wanted to say something, but after a moment, he changed the address. "Duke of Medicine, you've come too?"

The Duke of Medicine smiled slightly. "His Majesty personally led the expedition, fighting alone in the Gray World. He is bound to be covered in wounds... Naturally, I have to come over to receive him."

"Thank you for your hard work."

In front of the Duke of Medicine, the Duke of Stars swept away his original casual laziness, instead appearing somewhat constrained.

Taking in this scene, Jing Si was only surprised for a moment in his heart before a sudden realization dawned on him... That makes sense. The Duke of Medicine's past life was that person, after all...

The two belonged to the same dynasty in their past lives, but for the Duke of Stars, he probably had read the Duke of Medicine's works during his youth. It was completely normal for him to harbor admiration for him in his heart.

Besides these two Dukes of the State, another two or three Dukes of the State successively arrived at the edge of the domain. Jing Si's gaze fell on one of them, doubts flashing in his heart.

It was a man wearing coarse cloth and sackcloth. Unlike the powerful auras of the other Dukes of the State, his sense of presence wasn't high, as if he was just a rustic villager. However, the faint aura radiating from his body represented his Demigod Tier rank.

This is the Demigod of the Path of Strategy, the Duke of Chill, right...

These few Dukes of the State who had died and come back to life today were all existences with illustrious reputations in history in their past lives. But only this Duke of Chill hadn't left the slightest trace in the history books.

But thinking about it carefully, it was also very reasonable. History books were originally just a one-sided record of an era, only focusing on the political system centered around imperial power. Meanwhile, most of the branches of the Path of Strategy were labeled as "heretical" in different eras, so naturally, they wouldn't be emphatically recorded by the history books.

Who knows where His Majesty fished up this Duke of Chill from?

Oom——

A fierce wind mixed with a fishy stench rolled over from the end of the barren Gray World, blowing the hems of the clothes of the crowd at the edge of the domain to flap.

Jing Si frowned, suppressing the instinct to vomit, and looked toward the direction the fierce wind was blowing from...

Above the barren earth, space was torn open like a page of paper, and a figure appeared out of thin air. At this moment, the pupils of all the figures who had come to the edge of the domain to welcome him contracted abruptly.

It was an incomplete figure draped in a blood-stained Emperor's Robe.

Ferocious lacerations pierced through his body. His entire left arm had disappeared completely, and his right leg looked as if it had been gnawed by some beast, exposing eerie white bones...

Fresh blood murmured downwards along the corners of his clothes. Even so, the back of the Emperor's Robe was still straight as a ramrod. He tightly gripped a sword with one hand. Those exhausted golden pupils radiated a heart-palpitating pressure, like an Emperor walking out from a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood. His broken body seemed to hold up heaven and earth.

The instant he saw that heavily injured and dying figure, Jing Si's heartbeat skipped a beat!

He... is the Emperor of Chengtian?

Having suffered such heavy injuries, he could actually still be alive? And could still walk back from the Gray World on his own??

Before Jing Si could recover his senses, the Duke of Medicine's figure was about to fly out from within the domain. But as that imperial silhouette shook his head slightly at him, the Duke of Medicine's figure still stopped in mid-air...

Ying Fu's figure just stepped across the sky above the Chengtian Domain step by step like this. The blood-stained Emperor's Robe obscured the sky like a red cloud, causing countless citizens in the city to look up.

In the next moment,

A voice mixed with mighty imperial might echoed in every corner of the Chengtian Domain.

"The Calamity of Taboo, Calamity of Corruption, Cessation Calamity, and Calamity of Delusion have been executed... Of the Six Great Extinctions, four are dead. The Gray World's general trend is gone."

"The deep-seated blood feud of all living beings in the world for three hundred years..."

"Is avenged today."