Nine Nether Dragon Emperor

Chapter 414 414: There's Always Someone Trying to Harm Me!

"Brother, the Imprisonment Space I'm guarding is just ahead," Zhao Yuan said, fawning ceaselessly over Ning Xuan as he pointed forward.

Ning Xuan gazed at the lush, flower-filled area and patted Zhao Yuan's shoulder sympathetically. "This must be difficult for you."

He said this because, along the way, Zhao Yuan had shared a great deal of information about the most powerful Cultivator in this Imprisonment Space. If Zhao Yuan wasn't lying, then that guy was a complete psychopath!

When Ning Xuan passed through the Defensive Barrier and entered the Imprisonment Space, the corner of his mouth couldn't help but twitch. He saw an old, white-haired man with no beard, dressed in a Dragon Robe. At that moment, the man was sitting upright on the Dragon Throne, with more than ten eunuchs kneeling below him!

"General Zhao has returned from Jiangnan?!" the old man in the Dragon Robe exclaimed upon seeing Zhao Yuan. His eyes lit up with joy as he stood. His voice, however, held none of the dignity an emperor should possess. It was the shrill, grating voice of a eunuch.

"Long live Your Majesty, long may you reign!" Zhao Yuan dropped to one knee, tugging on Ning Xuan's arm just before he did.

Ning Xuan didn't move an inch.

"My loyal subject, where are the chosen maidens?" the old man asked, ignoring Ning Xuan and staring intently at Zhao Yuan.

"Your servant deserves death!" Zhao Yuan bowed low, his voice trembling. "They were detained by the Happy Forest."

"What?! The sheer audacity of the Happy Forest, daring to touch my women! Someone, guards…"

The moment the old man spoke, Zhao Yuan knew things were about to go wrong. He wanted to stop Ning Xuan, but it was already too late.

"You damned eunuch, you're not even a man, yet you're still lost in these grand daydreams! I have never seen anyone so shameless!" Ning Xuan shouted, pointing right at the old man's face.

"You… what did you say?" the old man stammered, looking at Ning Xuan in disbelief.

"I said you're a damned eunuch! And a twisted pervert! These men had no quarrel with you. It's bad enough you castrated them, but you also force them to kneel before you every day. Are you insane?!"

As soon as Ning Xuan spoke, all the kneeling men turned to look at him, their faces filled with gratitude. They were supposed to be enforcers! This Imprisonment Space might have a rule that the strong preyed on the weak to become stronger, but this eunuch's methods were simply too vile. By the time they realized they had been castrated, an unknown amount of time had already passed. A loophole in the rules had been exploited against them!

To make matters worse, the damned eunuch had a body as tough as bronze and iron. They couldn't lay a scratch on him. The more they fought, the more damnably excited the bastard became. In the end, they despaired, compromised, and grew numb.

"You've got guts! Everyone here fears me. It has been many years since I met a young man as courageous as you!" After being berated by Ning Xuan, the old eunuch surprisingly didn't get angry. Instead, he walked over, intending to pat Ning Xuan on the shoulder.

The kneeling enforcers all looked on with anxious faces.

"Dodge, quickly!" Zhao Yuan's telepathic voice urgently rang in Ning Xuan's ear.

Ning Xuan was just about to move.

"Heh heh…" The old eunuch chuckled, and then his hand landed on Ning Xuan's shoulder, patting it three times.

It's over! Zhao Yuan slumped to the ground. He had once desperately wanted to see Ning Xuan crippled, but that was before. His opinion had truly changed during their journey here. At this moment, his heart was filled with immense regret for bringing Ning Xuan to this place.

But just then, a voice cut through his despair. "I don't feel anything. Are you sure you did anything at all?"

Zhao Yuan looked up and saw the young man staring at the eunuch with a puzzled expression. The eunuch's face was a mask of disbelief as he suddenly seized Ning Xuan's wrist.

The next moment, the eunuch staggered back more than a hundred feet. He stared at Ning Xuan from the corner, his eyes filled with terror, and murmured, "Auspicious Earth Aura… It's actually the Auspicious Earth Aura…"

Ning Xuan himself couldn't help but feel a jolt of shock. This eunuch might be a pervert, but his strength was terrifyingly real. He could actually perceive the world-destroying Auspicious Earth within his body!

Zhao Yuan and the other enforcers dressed as eunuchs stared at Ning Xuan, their faces a picture of shock. They didn't know what Auspicious Earth Aura was, but they could all clearly see the absolute terror on the eunuch's face.

"My Lord, I, your humble servant, have waited so long for your arrival!"

The eunuch started to kneel, then suddenly remembered the Dragon Robe he was wearing. He fumbled to take it off, wanting to offer it to Ning Xuan but not daring to approach. Finally, with a THUD, he dropped to his knees. Holding the Dragon Robe high above his head, he began shuffling across the ground toward Ning Xuan. It looked for all the world like he intended to support Ning Xuan's ascension to the imperial throne!

Zhao Yuan and the others were even more astounded. Although the eunuch was imprisoned here, he had countless followers. With this single gesture, if Ning Xuan ever got out and reached the Emperor Capital, a single call to arms would have innumerable people laying down their lives for him!

Ning Xuan's face darkened. "Stop right there! I have no interest in that thing!"

"Don't! Mister Ning, no, My Lord, please accept it!" Zhao Yuan's telepathic voice sounded again, far more urgent than before.

Ning Xuan shook his head.

"My Lord! This eunuch was once the Emperor's personal attendant! He was imprisoned here for trying to help Princess Ye Qingqing ascend to the throne! He commands legions of powerful experts. If you accept, they will all serve you!" Zhao Yuan was nearly delirious with excitement.

Before, hoping Ning Xuan would take him away was just an unrealistic fantasy. But now, if his lord accepted this, he was certain he could leave this place as soon as Ning Xuan got out! If that happened, he would become a founding minister!

Unfortunately for him, Ning Xuan had other ideas.

"What the hell?! This eunuch committed a crime punishable by the execution of nine generations of his clan! Are you trying to get me killed?!" Ning Xuan exclaimed, utterly aghast.

He became even more reluctant. He had little interest in the throne to begin with. Moreover, if this eunuch was so powerful and still couldn't succeed, then the Emperor he opposed must be even stronger! He wasn't stupid. Only an idiot would agree to this.

"My Lord, what the eunuch did was not rebellion, but an attempt to right a terrible wrong. Princess Ye Qingqing is the Emperor's legitimate daughter, but the current Emperor is an imposter, the result of a fraudulent swap for the true heir!" Zhao Yuan revealed after a moment of hesitation.

Ning Xuan was dumbfounded. "What did you say the princess's name was again?"

"Ye Qingqing. You should have already met her. Oh, and Master Zou—he's actually Ye Qingqing's teacher."

Holy hell! Ning Xuan was completely floored. He had originally assumed the powerful Cultivators imprisoned in the Heavenly Principle Star Realm came from different eras or even different planes of existence. As it turned out, the few he'd met were all from the same place! Ye Qingqing, Master Zou, and now this eunuch… they were all part of the same faction! And if each of them was so incredibly powerful yet still couldn't escape being imprisoned, just how strong was their enemy?!

Ning Xuan couldn't help but ask Zhao Yuan, "What is their background, exactly?"

Instead of answering, Zhao Yuan asked a question of his own. "Have you heard of the Big Dipper Star Domain?"

Ning Xuan grunted in affirmation. The Big Dipper Star Domain contained the Seven Realms. He not only knew of it, but he had also already visited two of them.

"The place they come from stands above the Big Dipper Star Domain! To be precise, once Ye Qingqing ascends to the throne, she will rule over the entire Big Dipper Star Domain!"

A tremor went through Ning Xuan's mind, and he was so stunned he exclaimed aloud, "You're from the Chi Ming Dynasty?!"

These words weren't spoken telepathically. Ning Xuan had lost his composure because the most critical item needed for Sister Meng Luo's revival was located within the Chi Ming Dynasty's Imperial Secret Vault.