Chapter 955: No Need, Then—Requesting Moon Tickets

Inside the Imperial Palace of Tongxuan Domain.

The starlight phantom seated there had, at some point, become a solid, flesh-and-blood body—but no one inside or outside the palace knew that the Dongxuan Emperor’s true form had returned.

Suddenly, a golden circular mirror before the Dongxuan Emperor glowed with light.

Within the light, the figures of Xuan Feng True Person and other members of the Break-Limit Imperial Guard squad appeared on the mirror’s surface.

This circular mirror was also known as the Tongxuan Treasure Mirror.

It had been purchased at great cost from the Great Luo Ancestral Court.

Using the Tongxuan Treasure Mirror as its core, the entire Tongxuan Domain’s communication network was constructed, and every Tongxuan Order had split off from it.

As its core, or rather its master, he naturally enjoyed conveniences unknown to others.

For instance, when activated, it could manifest images directly.

With effort, it could even locate the target.

But he rarely used the locating function—anyone he ever targeted had become a corpse.

The Tongxuan Treasure Mirror was one of his greatest secrets and assets.

At this very moment, the Break-Limit Imperial Guard squad communicating with the Emperor had no idea their current situation—including expressions, positions, and surroundings—was fully under the Dongxuan Emperor’s gaze.

【Reporting to the Emperor, our investigation has reached a conclusion; the results are largely confirmed, though details remain unknown. I have already submitted the full findings and final conclusions.】

【Allow me to review them briefly.】

The moment the Dongxuan Emperor saw the conclusions drawn by the Break-Limit Imperial Guard squad, his brow twitched sharply.

Tianfa True Person had been missing for days, vanishing mysteriously two days before his death, with no record of his movements.

Moreover, none of the emergency talismans he had arranged with his subordinates—not even the ultra-long-range mother-child alarm talismans—had been activated.

The conclusion drawn was this: Tianfa True Person had been instantly slain by a powerful Emperor, with no chance to resist.

The one who killed Tianfa True Person was immensely strong—at least a Mid-Limit Emperor, possibly even a High-Limit Emperor!

There were many other pieces of evidence and findings supporting this conclusion.

After reading it all, the Dongxuan Emperor did not rage—he laughed.

“A Mid-Limit Emperor killed Tianfa?”

As Tianfa’s sovereign, the Dongxuan Emperor knew Tianfa’s strength better than anyone.

He knew the man occasionally embezzled and sometimes concealed his true power, but he was largely loyal; his Break-Limit Twelfth-Catastrophe True Person cultivation, combined with his supreme divine ability, the Tianfa Divine Eye, made it nearly impossible for a Low-Limit Emperor to kill him.

Even facing a Mid-Limit Emperor, he had the means to escape.

A typical Mid-Limit Emperor could not kill Tianfa—but rare, exceptionally powerful Mid-Limit Emperors could.

Yet no such Mid-Limit Emperor existed in the Tongxuan Domain, nor among the clans fighting against it.

It must be a High-Limit Emperor then!

But even a High-Limit Emperor could not prevent Tianfa True Person from sending even a single alert.

There was always at least a moment’s time.

Clearly,

the one who ambushed and killed Tianfa was extraordinarily powerful.

Moreover, Tianfa was naturally cautious and rarely left the Tongxuan War Zone.

No powerful foreign Emperor would dare infiltrate the heart of the Tongxuan War Zone alone—if they did, the Tongxuan War Zone must already be compromised.

Or perhaps… it was directly done by that person.

“So your wings have grown full, and you’re ready?”

“Then again, six hundred years have passed—you’ve had time to prepare.”

“I had planned to take one more step myself before giving you the chance to ascend to this level. But you lacked the patience.”

“He who hesitates is lost!”

“If so, I must cut off my own arm.”

Murmuring thus, the Dongxuan Emperor made his decision.

With a thought, his Tongxuan Treasure Mirror immediately sent out a series of orders.

Almost simultaneously, all three Emperors still present in the Star River Manifestation, and all fifty-four Mid- and High-Grade True Persons across the Tongxuan Domain, received the Imperial Palace alert.

Assemble!

Everyone, report to the Tongxuan Imperial Palace within half an hour. Latecomers will be punished by military law.

Those who fail to appear will be deemed traitors—clan exterminated!

At the same moment, within the Imperial Palace, a seven-member Break-Limit Imperial Guard squad stepped out from a starry gate, each with a cultivation base no lower than Break-Limit Eleventh-Catastrophe True Person.

Tongxuan War Zone Headquarters.

Kongyuan Emperor frowned deeply in thought.

The mysterious deaths of Central Minister Tianfa True Person and Yukun Emperor had occurred in succession, making him feel an invisible hand manipulating his fate.

If only one of these events had happened alone,

he would have had confidence to weather the crisis and prevent that one from turning against him immediately.

He could have prepared more thoroughly.

But with both occurring in succession, it was far more dangerous.

Yukun had once been a Sacred Son of the Imperial Palace, a direct subordinate of that one; Tianfa True Person needed no introduction.

Central Ministers could only earn absolute trust from that one after surrendering their primordial blood, tainted with divine soul essence.

Kongyuan Emperor was now weighing two questions.

First: at this crossroads, how should he choose?

He had two options: first, immediately submit a petition explaining everything and beg punishment for negligence—there was a chance he might survive.

If that one moved against him, regardless of the outcome, the entire Tongxuan Domain’s combat strength would suffer devastating losses.

He had commanded the Tongxuan War Zone for six hundred years—was he truly insignificant?

Second: turn against him.

After much deliberation, Kongyuan Emperor made his decision.

Honestly, two hundred years ago, he would have had to submit.

He couldn’t win.

But now, it was different!

The grand strategy he had prepared for Dongxuan over the years was due to be unleashed.

Moreover, at his level, leaving his fate in another’s hands was far too childish.

“It seems there’s no other choice!”

“Guicang, come in.”

At his voice, Guicang Emperor entered the headquarters and, seeing Kongyuan Emperor’s expression, asked, “Great Commander, you’ve decided.”

“Are you afraid?”

Guicang Emperor froze.

Hearing Kongyuan Emperor ask that, Guicang knew exactly what decision he had made.

“Great Commander, what is there to fear? I’ve killed men, crawled through piles of corpses—what’s there to be afraid of?”