Bringing advanced martial arts techniques to a low-level martial arts world

Chapter 74 Auspicious Signs Appear

The moon is bright and the stars are few; the sky is cloudless.

The moonlight stretched the shadow of Sheng Wansong long as he strolled toward the majestic Forbidden City.

Night raids on the imperial palace have become an indispensable element in martial arts stories.

Hong Qigong hid in the palace for three months, enjoying all the imperial cuisine; Ximen Chuixue and Ye Gucheng fought a decisive battle atop the Forbidden City; Yuan Chengzhi infiltrated the palace to assassinate Huang Taiji.

The palace is a forbidden place for ordinary people, but for martial arts masters, it is a public toilet that they can come and go as they please.

Within the imperial palace of this world reside the Eastern Depot and the Imperial Guards, among whom Yu Huachun, the supervisor of the Eastern Depot, is a renowned master in the martial arts world, second only to the peerless grandmasters of Wudang and Shaolin.

Ordinary experts would not dare to trespass.

But for Sheng Wansong, it was no different from a public toilet.

He swaggered in through the city gate with his hands in his pockets. The guards outside the main gate of the Forbidden City kept their eyes straight ahead and their internal energy was stable; they were all second-rate masters.

However, when Sheng Wansong walked past these second-rate masters, they did not react at all, as if Sheng Wansong were a ghost, an invisible person.

The palace maids, eunuchs, and imperial guards along the way all treated Sheng Wansong as if he were nothing, letting him walk right past them.

Unless Sheng Wansong wants to be discovered, no one can possibly find him.

"The security inside the Forbidden City is surprisingly tight."

Sheng Wansong watched as squads of guards passed by him, lost in thought. "It's rumored that the emperor himself is impotent, so he's especially afraid of being cuckolded, and therefore he's particularly strict in monitoring his concubines. It seems the rumors are true."

"I wonder where that Pill Pavilion is hidden?"

Sheng Wansong wandered around the Forbidden City, but he couldn't find the legendary Dan Pavilion. Instead, he wandered into the inner palace where the imperial concubines lived.

"Business comes first."

Although I really want to see what kind of beauty the emperor's concubines are.

But the children's lives are more important.

Sheng Wansong used great perseverance to change his direction.

The Forbidden City covers hundreds of hectares, with its palaces and courtyards interspersed with hidden chambers, making it no easy task to find immobile infants within its walls.

Fortunately, Sheng Wansong's hearing was far superior to that of ordinary people. While strolling through the palace courtyard, he vaguely heard mournful cries.

He followed the sound, but instead of finding the Dan Pavilion, he found a livestock shed.

Even before you get close, the pungent smell of livestock mixed with the acrid stench of blood hits you.

Sheng Wansong frowned, his inner strength dispelling the stench and blowing open the door. Inside the livestock shed, chickens, ducks, pigs, dogs, cattle, and other meat livestock were kept.

At the feeding troughs of each creature, there were mottled bloodstains and remnants of meat.

"Since the ingredients for the elixir of immortality have already been found, these babies are no longer of any use."

Sheng Wansong's face remained calm, and he had found the answer in his heart.

The old emperor didn't simply abandon useless infants, nor did he send them out of the Forbidden City to be raised by others. Instead, he simply threw them into the livestock shed to feed the animals.

There was a fat white pig that was gnawing on a round object in the middle of the night. Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be the head of a baby that had been mostly eaten away, with a bloodshot eyeball embedded in the remaining half of the head, making it look ferocious and terrifying.

boom!!!

That night, a deafening roar echoed through the Forbidden City, like a thunderclap.

The entire livestock shed was blown to smithereens, and all the livestock inside turned into a bloody mist.

A tremendous roar swept through the entire city of Ning'an, waking even the deepest sleepers from their slumber.

Everyone looked out the window.

Above the night sky, the once clear clouds suddenly surged and churned, like a stampede of ten thousand horses approaching from afar, instantly obscuring the bright moon and blocking out the entire night sky.

The white clouds accumulated and grew thicker, gradually becoming dark, ink-like clouds.

The heavy clouds pressed down, as if the dark clouds looming over the city were right before our eyes.

Dark thunder rumbled through the clouds, its rumbles echoing through the air.

Ouyang Xue stretched her hand out the window, and a snowflake gradually landed in her palm.

"It's snowing."

She looked ahead with a worried expression.

This is definitely not a normal celestial phenomenon; something big must be happening.

At first, it was just a few snowflakes, but in an instant, it turned into a blizzard, and the temperature suddenly dropped to freezing point, as if it were the dead of winter.

The surface of the cooled tea in the cup on the table was instantly covered with frost.

"What happened?!"

Everyone in the rooms rushed out and gathered together, only to find that one person was missing.

"Where is Young Hero Sheng?"

An Lan raised her hand. "Master said he's going out for a walk."

Compared to the unease of the others, An Lan was excited.

She was quite familiar with this kind of coldness.

Shangguan Hong forced a smile and jokingly said, "Could it be that you went to the brothel?"

An Lan, puffing out her cheeks, retorted defiantly.

"Our master would never go to a place like that!"

"Little Sister Anlan, Miss Shangguan was just joking."

Ouyang Xue tried to touch An Lan's head, but An Lan dodged her.

She dashed to the window and peered out at the sky from the windowsill.

Within the time it took to exchange a few words inside the room, another strange change occurred in the sky.

Amidst the swirling snow, a colossal ice face, constructed from dark clouds and scattered snowflakes, appeared prominently above the Forbidden City, its area completely covering the entire city.

"Hehehehe!"

The ice surface roared with laughter, stirring up howling winds that echoed above the capital city, sounding like the raucous laughter of demons.

This scene, which resembled the descent of a demon god, filled everyone with fear and dread, yet none of them noticed it.

An An's expression was one of fervor.

She recognized the face; it was the same face her master wore when he rescued her.

The ice sheet pressed down, and the instant it touched the roof of the Hall of Supreme Harmony, the highest point in the Forbidden City, the glazed tiles were instantly enveloped in a layer of solid ice.

The chill spread along the bricks and tiles.

This technique, which causes the sky and earth to change color and disrupts celestial phenomena, is the Cold Heaven Technique, one of the Four Absolute Techniques of the Sacred Heart.

As the ice continued to drop, none of the experts in the Forbidden City dared to resist, and they all scattered and fled.

"Emperor's Heavenly Thunder".

The final move of the Four Sacred Heart Techniques: Emperor's Heavenly Thunder.

It transforms ice into lightning, striking the enemy and exploding like thunder.

With a flick of his finger, Sheng Wansong unleashed a bolt of ice lightning that struck the imperial guard who was using his lightness skill. The lightning exploded, shattering the guard into countless fragments.

Amidst the roar, no blood was left; everything was frozen into ice powder.

All the palace buildings in the Forbidden City have been covered by a thick layer of ice. All the experts who were capable of escaping have been killed. The remaining palace maids and eunuchs are trembling and crying in despair.

"Young Master Sheng, if you don't stop now, who knows how many people will freeze to death tonight."

Unable to escape, the palace maids and eunuchs could only watch helplessly as death approached, gazing in despair at the demon god in the sky.

Among these people, some were involved in the matter of the infants, but most were simply unaware of what was happening.

Not only in the Forbidden City, but throughout the entire capital city, the temperature plummeted.

Without proper precautions against frostbite, many people with weak constitutions may fall seriously ill, and some may even die as a result.

"Fine."

Sheng Wansong did not directly dispel the cold sky, but instead formed a hand seal.