novelraw Chapter 475 - 249, Old thief, I swear to kill you!_3
Chapter 475 - 249, Old thief, I swear to kill you!_3
A glint of coldness flashed deep in Xu Xing’s eyes.
He was not afraid of known enemies; he dreaded unknown ones who harbored deep hatred and resentment towards him.
The Flying Feather Immortal Palace has an order that immortals and mortal beings do not interfere with each other, so he didn’t take revenge on my kin. However, those who are not protected...
Xu Xing hurriedly released his Divine Sense to inspect the depths of his Fengling tomb.
His Divine Sense passed through layers of earth and stone walls, finally arriving at the tomb chamber. Inside, the coffin was broken open. The burial golden-threaded jade clothing and puppet were scattered carelessly on the ground.
The puppet’s head was nailed to the tomb door’s beam with a glaive.
Carved on the Jade Wall of the tomb chamber were lines of abusive words cursing him, each word seething with hatred and resentment.
Mine is just a Clothes Tomb; it doesn’t matter if it’s destroyed... But if it’s Yunniang’s tomb...
Xu Xing took a deep breath, withdrew his Divine Sense, and looked at the Side Tomb Chamber.
One look and his anger instantly blazed, his eyes practically splitting with fury.
He saw that in the tomb chamber, the Empress’s coffin had also been broken open. The Burial Goods inside were scattered everywhere, and various Treasures littered the floor.
"Where are the bones?"
"Could it be... he even reduced Yunniang’s bones to ashes?"
Xu Xing suppressed the inferno in his chest, his gaze growing colder, the fists hidden in his sleeves clenching tighter and tighter.
Emperor Kai Ming!
Emperor Yongshun!
Emperor Zhong Yuan!
Emperor Jianchu!
Emperor Zhaoshun!
Emperor Tai Wu!
Emperor Jingjia!
Emperor Guangwen!
These were the imperial mausoleums of eight Emperors of the Xu Imperial Family.
Xu Xing began to investigate each one. Just as he had found with his own, the coffins of the six Emperors from Emperor Kai Ming to Emperor Tai Wu had been broken open, their dragon-robed skeletons carelessly tossed aside. Only Emperor Jingjia and Emperor Guangwen, who had died in recent decades, had been spared.
"If I do not avenge this deep hatred, I swear I am not human," Xu Xing’s face turned frigid as he spoke in a low voice.
He let out a few cold laughs, his clenched fists slowly unclenching. Then, with a flick of his sleeve robe, he used his Great Magical Power to restore the desecrated coffins in the imperial mausoleums.
Since he doesn’t dare to defy the Flying Feather Immortal Palace’s order that immortals and mortal beings must not interfere with each other, his cultivation must be at most in the True Monarch Realm.
If he were a Dao Lord, one of their high-level members, then annihilating a kingdom and exterminating its imperial family, while somewhat aligned with the demon way, wouldn’t be a major issue...
Having calmed down, Xu Xing began to carefully analyze his opponent, searching for the culprit through any Trace Clues.
However, every profession has its experts. The Yama Palace’s Shadow Assassination Hall gathers intelligence from all under the sky and compiles the Heaven, Earth, and Human Three Ranks. They... perhaps they have the means to find out who the culprit is...
Xu Xing pondered for a short while, then decided to seek help from the Shadow Assassination Hall, an organization of the demon way.
I just don’t know if Big Brother and Second Brother are still alive...
He took out a voice transmission talisman, imbued it with a thread of his Divine Sense, and sent it off.
This was the contact method King of Might had given him back when they cooperated on Hangu Mountain to kill an assassin from the Shadow Assassination Hall.
Nearly two hundred years had passed since then, and whether King of Might was still alive was an unknown.
「Seven days later.」
Just as Xu Xing was about to give up on King of Might as a contact and was considering other ways to reach the Shadow Assassination Hall, King of Might finally replied.
The two agreed to meet in Shenjing.
Inside a private room at an inn, Xu Xing and King of Might shared a drink. King of Might then downed several more cups of fine wine, his gaze fixed on Xu Xing, filled with myriad emotions.
"It’s been many years, Fourth Brother," King of Might began, sighing deeply. "You’ve already achieved the Nascent Soul Realm. This humble elder brother... I am truly overcome. Although I’ve long known you were an Immortal Genius, a true Pride of Heaven, I never imagined your cultivation would break through to the Nascent Soul Realm in less than two hundred years, making you one of the foremost cultivators in East Huangzhou. It’s beyond anything I expected."
"Second Brother, you’ve also reached the Returning Core Realm and become a Manager in the Shadow Assassination Hall, making quite a name for yourself in the Cultivation World," Xu Xing replied, shaking his head. "I am merely a step ahead for now; the future is always uncertain."
After these words, seeing that King of Might seemed to have finished with the initial pleasantries, Xu Xing changed the subject to the main reason for their meeting.
"Little Brother wishes to ask the Shadow Assassination Hall to help me investigate who desecrated my Fengling tomb, and was so depraved as to even take revenge on my descendants..." Xu Xing said, his eyes turning cold as he cupped his hands towards King of Might.
"This..." King of Might exclaimed, his expression changing drastically. He found it hard to believe. "To think someone would be so audacious as to desecrate Fourth Brother’s tomb... and even your wife’s remains..."
He could understand taking revenge by killing, even if it meant rivers of blood. But to vent hatred on the bones of the dead... such people he had only read about in history books, never encountered in reality.
After careful consideration, King of Might tried his best to console Xu Xing, choosing his words carefully. "Fourth Brother, please try to calm down for now. Zhang’er’s and your wife’s remains are those of mortals, nothing particularly special about them. If we’re talking about connection, Zhang’er shares your bloodline; targeting his remains would seem more logical for someone wanting to get at you..."
"Yet, the culprit ignored Zhang’er’s remains and only took your wife’s... This doesn’t make sense. Perhaps... perhaps your wife is still alive..."