Chapter 200: Heaven Tilting

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Yang Lizhang looked puzzled.

Ji Tianrui did not continue, but turned to look at the Xiaolingwei.

During the time the two were talking, the Xiaolingwei had gradually calmed down, and Zhu Shoujing had also calmed his stray true energy, slowly raising his head to look over.

"Alright, now is not the time for idle chat. The Xiaolingwei has already reacted, and the experts sent by the Emperor should be arriving soon."

"Since the Jianwen Emperor has been released, and Lord Li has been made to see the Emperor's origin, our trip can be considered complete."

"For the rest, we just wait for the actions of the Jianwen Emperor and Lord Li, and we will act according to the plan."

Ji Tianrui tapped her feet, and her whole body rose into the air like a wild goose, stepping on the eaves and flying toward the dense forest outside the imperial mausoleum.

Yang Lizhang was sick of her secretive attitude of only saying half of what she meant, but he had no choice; he frowned, then pursued Ji Tianrui with light kung fu, drilling into the dense forest, leaving no trace.

Not to mention how the Xiaolingwei lost track of the two and finally returned to the imperial mausoleum helplessly;

Also skipping over the large eunuch in the python robe named Huang Jin who arrived here, hurriedly dispersed the Xiaolingwei, covered the traces of the tomb in the Xiaoling Mausoleum and the Emperor's mausoleum; then divided the twenty experts into two groups, pursuing the traces left by Ji Tianrui and the Jianwen Emperor respectively.

Let's go back to Li Miao.

At this moment, he was walking slowly in a dense forest deep in Tianshou Mountain.

After a night of chaotic fighting, it was now close to the Yin hour, and sunrise was not far off; it was the coldest time of the day. The cold wind blew through the leaves, blowing down dew, hitting Li Miao's silver-white long hair.

He did not retreat from the "eight-hour" state.

Because he still had a fierce battle to fight.

After a while, Li Miao walked to an open space covered with rubble.

This place should have been a landslide before, with rubble covering it, breaking the trees here. Then the trees rotted, leaving this open space covered with stones.

Li Miao stood in place, twisting his fingers and pondering for a moment.

Then, he nodded, raised his hand, and tightened his cuffs.

He jumped a few times in place, threw out a few punches at will, and made a shrill sound of wind. He shook his neck and loosened his shoulders. He stamped his feet, stomping two huge deep pits into the ground beneath his feet.

"Not bad."

Li Miao smiled.

Then he raised his hand and used a Profound Heaven Finger, piercing a piece of ground covered by rubble in front of him.

Boom!!!

The moment the sharp true energy pierced the ground, the ground exploded with a roar, and the originally fine stones were suddenly blown like dust, forming a dense mist of dust, blocking Li Miao's line of sight.

Li Miao raised his hand and struck with a palm.

Moving Mountains and Reversing Seas!

The vigorous true energy struck out with a roar, dispersing the mist of dust.

Revealing a withered and shriveled figure, hairless and toothless, skin pitch black, wearing a decayed bright yellow robe, embroidered with nine five-clawed golden dragons. A pair of eyes were vibrant, embedded in eye sockets where even the eyelids had withered.

It was exactly the Jianwen Emperor!

Li Miao chuckled.

"I have found this place and stamped my feet twice as a knock, why does Your Majesty avoid seeing me?"

"This is not the style of an enlightened ruler."

Li Miao had been tossing and turning in the imperial mausoleum for most of the night, and the time he could maintain the two paths perfected was not much. There were three choices in front of him.

One, chase Ji Tianrui.

Two, stay, find an opportunity to explore the tomb inside the Xiaoling Mausoleum; perhaps he could discover more secrets hidden behind the scenes of the Great Ming.

Three, come directly to find trouble with the Jianwen Emperor.

These three choices would inevitably consume a lot of time, and before falling into a deep sleep, Li Miao could only pick the one he valued most.

He chose the Jianwen Emperor.

Going to the imperial mausoleum tonight was itself to explore the secret of why the Great Ming's Heaven-Man experts did not appear in the world. If he ran into the Ming Sect and Ji Tianrui, he would kill them along the way; if he didn't run into them, he wouldn't be in a hurry.

But, from the moment he saw the Jianwen Emperor strike Yin Ruihua and Zhu Shoujing, everything else had to be ranked behind.

The capital Li Miao relied on for his life was martial power beyond the ordinary.

This martial power came, firstly, from Li Miao's shocking bones, and secondly, from the effort and sweat he put in.

Of course, the "eight-hour work system" also played a negligible role.

And Li Miao was not the type to pick up a pie falling from the sky and stuff it into his mouth with peace of mind. If he didn't figure out the origin and principle of this thing, he couldn't be at ease.

Although in the stories he read in his previous life, a "golden finger" brought by an "outer-realm heavenly demon" was standard, nothing strange.

But, this golden finger suddenly turning against him at the end, becoming the villain's scheme/the chess piece of the mastermind/a hidden danger, or even becoming the big villain himself, fighting to the death with the protagonist, was also not a strange trope.

Since he saw something similar in the Jianwen Emperor, Li Miao would absolutely not let go of the opportunity to investigate.

Ji Tianrui's purpose in releasing the Jianwen Emperor was still unclear. If Li Miao hadn't figured it out yet and the Jianwen Emperor was schemed to death by Ji Tianrui, that would be a regret too late to remedy.

The Jianwen Emperor had lain in the tomb for over a hundred years; although he didn't know why he could live until now, looking at that mummy-like appearance, he knew his state couldn't be good.

Strike while the iron is hot. There was no better opportunity than now.

So, it reached the current situation.

The Jianwen Emperor looked coldly at Li Miao and said slowly.

"Who, are, you?"

"A nobody, not worth mentioning."

Li Miao waved his hand.

"I didn't come here to make things difficult for Your Majesty. As long as Your Majesty can clear up my confusion, I will leave immediately, how about it?"

The Jianwen Emperor did not answer.

Li Miao sighed.

"Fine, I don't think Your Majesty is someone easy to talk to."

"Then, let me learn Your Majesty's methods."

Boom!

In an instant, the rubble under Li Miao's feet exploded. In the blink of an eye, he had arrived in front of the Jianwen Emperor, "One Blade" slashing down diagonally!

Before reaching him, the sharp true energy had already torn through the air, making a shrill hiss!

The Jianwen Emperor's eyes condensed.

In an instant, the wind and clouds changed.

Li Miao looked around.

He was no longer on the flat ground covered with rubble, but had arrived at a great hall.

The hall was paved with gold bricks, and there was a throne in the middle, with four pairs of furnishings in front of the throne: treasure elephants, Lu Duan, cranes, and incense pavilions.

It was exactly the Hall of Supreme Harmony in the Forbidden City, the most noble place.

On the throne sat a young man in his twenties, with a square face and large ears, sword-like brows and bee-like eyes, wearing a dragon robe; he looked at Li Miao with a serious and cold expression.

He raised a hand from the armrest and covered it toward Li Miao from afar.

Boom!!!

When fighting Zuo Lishan on Mount Tai, it was always said to be "like heaven tilting," but in reality, it was just an exaggerated description.

But this young man struck down with a palm.

Heaven, truly fell down.

Watching the sky falling rapidly above his head, feeling the earth constantly trembling and groaning under his feet, Li Miao chuckled, raised his hand above his head, extended two fingers, and then suddenly clenched his fist at his waist.

Black Pole Floating Pagoda!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 201 =====