The Divine Martial Stars

Chapter 761 The Egotistical Emperor

Capital of the Qin Dynasty.

The depths of the Imperial Palace.

“Ah...”

A ghost-like figure was sitting cross-legged in complete darkness. Suddenly, he groaned with pain and opened his bright eyes. Red blood slowly oozed out and streamed down the area between his eyebrows.

Swoosh!

Four ghost-fire floating lamps around him lit up by themselves.

The dim, blue light poured onto the body of the ghost-like figure, making it look like a translucent sculpture. The figure was very strange. The huge head was about two-thirds of the body’s size, and the torso was only about one-fourth of the body’s size. The limbs were short and small.

“Who is it? Who has broken my Soul Spell so quickly... Well, I have to be careful.”

He reached out his hand, wiped away the blood oozing from his glabella, and stuck out his tongue. Surprisingly, he could lick his glabella with his tongue! His forked tongue was like that of a viper, and he looked like neither a human being nor a demon or monster.

Just then, he heard footsteps outside the door.

“Your Highness the Imperial Preceptor, the food sent by His Imperial Majesty has arrived.” A high-pitched voice rang out. Tinged with Yin Qi, it was obviously the voice of a eunuch from the imperial palace.

“Good. Bring it in,” said the Imperial Preceptor.

His voice was even thinner and more high-pitched than that of a eunuch. It sounded like an elongated silk thread that might break at any time.

Then, the voice of a young woman crying and begging for mercy came from outside the door.

Qin Zheng, the emperor of the Qin Empire, was pacing back and forth in the hall.

He looked a little anxious, as if he was waiting for something.

The palace maids and eunuchs serving him clearly felt that he was very irritable and completely different today. Today, he was not like the confident and authoritative emperor who had everything well in hand. For this reason, the palace maids and eunuchs acted very cautiously and hardly dared breathe.

About two hours ago, a concubine who was extremely favored by the emperor broke into the conference hall. If she had done that in the past, the emperor would at most say a few words to reprimand her and allow her to stay and serve him. Today, however, the impatient emperor directly ordered the imperial guards to drag the concubine out and bludgeon her to death.

In the past year or so, everyone had felt the change of the emperor. He lost his former gentleness and kindness and became more and more irritable and ruthless.

Even the imperial princess came to the Imperial Palace less frequently.

It was said that a year ago, the two siblings, who had once depended on each other for survival, became a little estranged and had furious arguments with each other.

“Why haven’t we received any further information?” Qin Zheng looked anxious.

Today, he decided to do something big.

The preliminary news came, but further information was needed for confirmation.

This made him feel a little uneasy.

Creak!

The door of the conference hall was suddenly pushed open.

“Bastard! Who broke in without prior notice? Guards! Drag him out and bludgeon him to death!” Annoyed, Qin Zheng shouted loudly without even looking back.

“You’ve become so impetuous.”

A calm voice with terrifying power came from outside the door.

The look of Qin Zheng changed abruptly. He turned around and saw a slender figure standing at the door. The visitor was draped in golden sunshine, and the edges of his white robe looked as if they were gilded. Qin Zheng suddenly felt like he was choked by an invisible hand, unable to utter a word.

“How dare you! Who dares to talk to His Imperial Majesty like that?” A white-haired, white-browed old eunuch shouted in a high-pitched voice. He swung his horsetail whisk, and numerous white threads ripped through the air toward the white-robed person like steel needles.

Obviously, he was a eunuch in the Void-breaking Realm.

“Stop.” Qin Zheng immediately gave an order after he recognized the visitor.

However, it was already too late.

Before the white threads reached the point within ten meters of the white-robed figure, they stopped and then flew back even faster. In the air, the threads were twisted into the shape of a fist that punched the chief eunuch in the Void-breaking Realm, sending him flying backward. He crashed into the resplendent, dazzling wall of the conference hall, leaving a human-shaped hole as the wall caved in.

“Your Honor... Mr. Li, I didn’t know it was you.” Qin Zheng looked a little flustered. He gradually calmed down and said, “Please forgive me for my ignorance.”

The visitor was Li Mu.

Li Mu stood at the door of the conference hall and stared at the young emperor of the Qin Empire, who looked a little nervous. The emperor now looked completely different from that guileless and ambitious little boy who studied hard so as not to make his sister sad.

People would change.

However, some people had changed so much that they made others feel strange.

Li Mu’s eyes passed over the young emperor and fell on the place behind the emperor where sunlight could not reach. There was a golden dragon throne in the shadows. It signified nobility and power, but it looked a little cold.

“First, immediately stop attacking the ten cities and nine regions. Second, explain to me why the troops dispatched by you offer poisoned wine in the name of ‘congratulation’, plot against the delegation of the Great Moon Empire, and attack Yu Hualong, the emperor of the Great Moon Empire, and Li Anzhi, the little princess of the Great Moon Empire,” Li Mu said very slowly as he stared at the young emperor of the Qin Empire.

“That ... I didn’t ...” Qin Zheng swallowed hard subconsciously.

Li Mu interrupted him and said, “You are the emperor of an empire, so you’d better think carefully before you speak. Don’t refrain from admitting what you have done. Listen to me carefully. I’ll give you one last chance.”

“Don’t say I haven’t warned you in advance.”

Qin Zheng took two steps back. His heart was pounding wildly.

He hurriedly took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down. Then, he gestured for a little eunuch next to him to ask someone to come here as soon as possible. After that, he said slowly, “Your Honor Mr. Li, after all, I am the emperor of the empire and the ruler of the world. You came uninvitedly and barged into the conference hall, which was an offense. Now, you speak to me in such a tone. Do you think it’s right for you to do so?”

“The ruler of the world?” Li Mu looked at the young emperor, who was fierce of visage but faint of heart, and asked, “Who do you think is the ruler of the world?”

“Of course it’s me.” Qin Zheng held his head high and said matter-of-factly.

Li Mu smiled and said, “You’re wrong.”

“Oh? What do you think, Your Honor?” Qin Zheng was angry, but he laughed.

Li Mu said, “Whoever I say is the ruler of the world.”

“How dare you!” Infuriated, Qin Zheng said, “Li Mu, if it weren’t for the old friendship’s sake, I could kill you and your entire family on the ground of what you said just now. Do you believe it?”

Li Mu shook his head and said, “If it hadn’t been for the old friendship’s sake, you would have died a long time ago. You’re like a frog in the well that doesn’t know the immensity of heaven and earth. Not to mention you—the emperor of a small country on the Heavenly Land, even the overlords of Brilliance Immortal Star Region are nobodies in my eyes... You’re just a fool.”

A strong aura surged out from Li Mu.

Qin Zheng backed away in terror.

“Ha-ha-ha, where is this wild dog from? How dare he spout nonsense in presence of His Imperial Majesty so arrogantly in the Imperial Palace?” A thin, high-pitched voice sounding like a piece of elongated steel wire that might break at any time rang out in the conference hall.

As soon as Qin Zheng heard the voice, the look of panic on his face suddenly vanished, and he felt greatly relieved.

“Honorable Imperial Preceptor, you’re finally here,” he said excitedly.

The sound of that high-pitched voice drifted about in the conference hall, giving people a mysterious and creepy feeling. “Rest assured, Your Majesty. I won’t let anyone threaten Your Majesty. If anyone dares sprout nonsense in presence of Your Majesty, I will make it so that he can never speak.”

The Imperial Preceptor sneered. His voice was both ear-piercing and heart-piercing.

Qin Zheng nodded his head repeatedly. “Don’t kill him... After all, he was once my benefactor... Just destroy his cultivation achievements.”

“When his cultivation achievements are destroyed, he will be under my control.”

“Alas, Your Majesty is indeed benevolent. We should kill such an arrogant person that oversteps his boundaries...” The Imperial Preceptor said in a thin, high-pitched voice that seemed to be tinged with regret.

Before his voice faded off...

Li Mu directly stretched out his hand. “You ignorant bastard, show yourself!”

A giant white hand made of natural qi appeared. It reached into the conference hall and groped in the ripples of black shadows as if it were groping for fish. Suddenly, a strange body with a big head and a small torso was pulled out of the darkness.

“Ah, it’s you! You’re the fellow...”

That figure screamed shrilly and struggled desperately, full of shock and horror.

The young emperor of the Qin Empire stood there frozen to the spot.