Chapter 295: The Emperor's Hole Cards
"Your Majesty, the Praetorian Guards have killed and injured a hundred people!"
"Your Majesty, General Yan died in battle!"
"Your Majesty, the anti-thief has broken through Panlong Square!"
"Your Majesty, Gonggong Lin and Master Zhang also died at the hands of the anti-thieves!"
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The old emperor sat on the dragon chair and listened to the reports of the people below in turn, all bad news. That thief Xu Lin really dared to enter the palace, what did he want to do? Do you really want to kill the king?
The elite of the Imperial City Guards was wiped out, and the eighteenth return of Tianluo Temple was seriously injured, and no one in the palace was the enemy of this anti-thief.
"Rice bucket! It's all a bunch of rice bucket waste! The old emperor roared.
The pen, ink, paper, and inkstone on the table had been thrown more than three times, and the eunuchs and palace maids beside them were cautious, for fear of being implicated. There have been several unlucky ghosts who have been beaten to death by the emperor before, and it is very likely that it will be their turn next.
But no matter how angry the emperor was, Xu Lin was still approaching the Jinluan Palace. It can't be stopped by a large army in an open place, let alone wait for Xu Lin to enter the inner courtyard of the palace, this complex terrain causes Xu Lin to face fewer enemies, so it is even more unstoppable.
Inside and outside the palace, there are countless masters of returning to the void, but as long as they can't stop Xu Lin's sword, they are no different from miscellaneous soldiers. Because Xu Lin had an artifact fire tongs that could quickly restore his true qi, the war of attrition didn't mean much to him.
Along the way, Xu Lin had killed more than 300 people, and there were more than 30 masters of returning to the void.
Although the Wu Dynasty has many masters, not all of them are in the palace, and there are many masters scattered all over the world. Therefore, thirty returns to the void are already all the high-end combat power in the imperial city.
But none of this made any sense, at most, they could only desperately make Xu Lin have one more wound on his body, but they couldn't stop him from moving forward.
Xu Lin walked past several tall palaces, and he didn't know what the layout was in this palace, but it was definitely right to go to the center. As long as this emperor has even the slightest bit of courage, he should wait for him on his dragon chair.
Of course, if the emperor confessed like the crown prince and was ready to hide, then Xu Lin would have no choice but to cut down his dragon chair, demolish a few more palaces and leave. The palace is too big, and it is not easy to find an emperor.
The murder of the monarch was originally a whim. Xu Lin intuitively told himself that doing this would be of great benefit to his martial arts realm, so he did so, it was the first time in his life that he chose to fight hard without doing any detailed planning.
Now it seems that it is not bad, although there are more than ten wounds on his body, and the excessive blood loss makes him feel a little weak, but at this time, he has completely mastered the stunt of sending a mind first.
Even though the injuries on his body were getting worse and worse, Xu Lin was killing people faster and faster. When he met a master of returning to the void, without his hands, Xu Lin felt that he had gained insight into everything about the other party, whether it was the operation of the true qi or the moves he was about to use, he had a clear sense.
This is the feeling of merging the Dao, the martial arts are spiritual, and after reaching the extreme, all martial arts have no secrets in front of Xu Lin's eyes. In the state of caring first, Xu Lin shot so fast that others couldn't see it clearly, and they didn't even understand what was happening, and the opponent was already in a different place, until his head fell to the ground, and he didn't realize that he had died in Xu Lin's hands.
Walk all the way, kill all the way, originally couldn't keep your hands, but then you can slowly get hurt and not kill. This shows that Xu Lin's martial arts are much more sophisticated than those outside the palace, and it seems that he is only one step away from Hedao.
After passing through the two bloody corridors, leaving behind a place of seriously injured and wailing wounded, Xu Lin finally walked in front of the Jinluan Palace. At this time, the emperor was still in the Jinluan Palace, so there were more than a thousand people surrounded outside, inside and out, and there were still five remaining masters who were mixed in with these guards.
Seeing the plaque, Xu Lin smiled: "This word is not much more beautiful than mine." β
Hearing Xu Lin's words, someone loudly refuted: "Boldly rebel against the thief, this is mentioned by the ancestor of this dynasty himself!" β
Xu Lin followed the prestige and saw a young general glaring at him. This person looks about the same age as Xu Lin, but he seems to have a lot of status in the army, and at least he is a third-grade military attachΓ©.
"Who are you?" Xu Lin asked curiously.
"This general's name is Chai Yun, and he is the one who took your life, you thief have memorized it!" After introducing himself, this Chai Yun waved his hand, and the soldiers behind him shot arrows at Xu Lin.
"Again."
Xu Lin shook his head, didn't this group of people know that the same methods had long been ineffective?
With a wave of the fire tongs, thousands of sword shadows rushed straight into the sky, colliding with the rain of arrows.
At the beginning, Xu Lin tried 10,000 times and created the 10,000 sword technique, and once imagined that one day he could slash out 10,000 sword shadows with a wave of his hand. Later, he found that this idea was too unreliable, because the true qi required to give birth to ten thousand swords with one sword was extremely huge, and it was simply impossible to do it.
And now, with a swing of Xu Lin's sword, there were really more than 10,000 sword qi flying, completely erasing the arrow rain in the sky with more numbers and more intensive attacks.
Whether it was an arrow made of fine iron or a hardwood arrow shaft, it was completely destroyed under Xu Lin's sword aura. The sword qi rushed backwards, and these arrows turned into a rain of fire and ashes, falling on the heads of this group of soldiers.
If you are lucky, you will be blinded by black ash, and if you are unlucky, you will be hit by molten iron, and your flesh and bones will be melted and you will die on the spot.
As for Chai Yun, he was the one who was unlucky, his helmet and shoulder armor were hit by molten iron, which made him scream and had to take off his armor on the spot.
"With this ability, you still dare to shout?" Xu Lin said disdainfully.
This kind of character is not even a return to the virtual realm, I really don't know where the courage comes from.
Xu Lin didn't know who this Chai Yun was, and among the generals mentioned by King Zhaoyang, there was no name of this person, so he felt that he was an insignificant little person. In fact, Chai Yun was a concubine and the eldest son-in-law of the old emperor.
There are not many princes in this dynasty, but there are many princesses, and Chai Yun is the lucky one who took the eldest princess. And the Wu Dynasty did not have the rule that a horse could not be an official, on the contrary, with the help of the eldest princess, Chai Yun had already achieved the third-grade military attache without going through the martial arts hall and the foreign assignment, and became one of the commanders of the Praetorian Guard.
This person probably usually listens to a lot of flattery, even the generals who have returned to the virtual realm dare not slack off on this concubine, making him feel in his heart that returning to the virtual realm is nothing more than that. Therefore, when I saw Xu Lin, a thief, I couldn't wait to come out and make meritorious contributions.
Anyway, he didn't have to charge on his own, just command the soldiers to kill.
Chai Yun originally thought that he could start a wishful calculation, who would have thought that the anti-thief martial arts in front of him were so high that it was unbelievable, and with a wave of ten thousand swords, he broke through the air and directly erased the rain of arrows fired by hundreds of people, this is still a person?
Xu Lin didn't bother to pay attention to this kind of jumping clown, thinking about whether to do it again and kill a way out.
At this moment, he saw that several figures among the soldiers who had been killed suddenly got up and threw a bunch of hidden weapons at him.
There are all kinds of hidden weapons, such as darts, thistles, poisonous needles, and so on. It's hard to imagine how a guard of the Imperial City could have such a mess on his body. You must know that the army pays attention to orders and prohibitions, and hundreds of people are like one person, so the weapons are all standard, and few people will carry these hidden weapons that only these Jianghu people will use.
Moreover, they were obviously all dripping with molten iron, even if they couldn't die for a while, how could they endure this severe pain and continue to attack Xu Lin?
Xu Lin was only surprised by the blink of an eye, this fierce posture was too familiar, so that he could quickly judge that these were not Imperial City guards at all, but players!
There are players who can blend into the palace, and they are also in the realm of transforming gods, this group of players is really pervasive. Are the people of the Imperial City Guards all stupid, most of the players are of unknown origin, how did they get into the Praetorian Guards?
Xu Lin forgot one thing, money can make ghosts grind, thousands of taels of silver are thrown out, and the quota for mixing miscellaneous soldiers is still very simple. Originally, miscellaneous soldiers were not qualified to enter the palace, and at most they did some small patrol errands outside the palace.
But Xu Lin made too much movement today, no matter what kind of formation, whether it was a general or a small soldier, they were all pulled to the palace to rescue them, and the players successfully mixed into the frontal battlefield. Seeing Xu Lin's 10,000 sword tricks astonishing, the players were not only excited, but also chose to sneak attack.
What is it if you are poured with molten iron, you can still exert all your power after the pain is shielded, at most, it is just that you need to take drugs constantly in a continuous burning state.
Xu Lin didn't say anything polite to these players, and with a wave of his sword qi, he killed them on the spot. It's just that, like the Edgeworth, players are very good at rebirth tactics, as long as the spawn point is bound to the palace, they can quickly join the battle again.
Xu Lin knew this very well, so he didn't plan to delay time.
Anything, as long as a player participates, it almost always ends up winning the player, because this ability to die and be reborn is too much to rely on. No matter how high Xu Lin's martial arts are, he doesn't want to spend it with the players.
Fortunately, he was well aware of the players' weaknesses, so he didn't wait for them to come back to life, and immediately chose to break through. Xu Lin didn't have time to find out how many players were hiding inside, so this time he didn't let go of it, and the sword qi swept out a bloody path and rushed directly into the Jinluan Palace.
The old emperor was still sitting on the dragon chair, looking at Xu Lin with an angry expression.
"Oh, I didn't run, but I have a bit of backbone." Xu Lin said to the old emperor, and then cut off the two pillars with a backhand sword, causing the gate of the Jinluan Hall to completely fall, blocking his own back road, and also preventing those guards from chasing.
Although there were still two rows of palace guards guarding the old emperor in front of him, this bit of manpower didn't mean anything to Xu Lin at all.
"Anti-thief! I'm going to put your whole family to death!" The old emperor said angrily.
"In terms of courage, the second prince is probably born to you, and in terms of wisdom, the crown prince should also be born to you. Yes, at least your concubine didn't steal people behind your back. Xu Lin said as he waved the fire tongs to kill the guards in front of him, and had already walked to the top of the steps and stood face to face with the emperor.
He thought that this emperor should be a little frightened, but Xu Lin only saw anger on his face, and he did not become afraid. Not only that, but when he reached this close distance, he said disdainfully: "You think you can kill me? β
"The so-called people are all enemies at hand, do you still think those armies can keep you?" Xu Lin smiled and prepared to send this emperor on his way.
"Stupid man, do you think the emperor is so easy to kill, if it is really that simple, how can this Wu Dynasty be passed down to this day?"
Hearing the emperor's words, Xu Lin frowned, but he didn't hesitate at all, and stabbed at the emperor's chest with a sword qi. The sharp sword qi that was obviously able to break the jade and divide the gold fell on the dragon robe, but it seemed to be offset by something, and it collapsed directly.
And the emperor was hit by this sword, but he didn't retreat half a step, and it didn't have any effect.
"What's weird about this dragon robe?!"
It doesn't seem impossible, the Wu Dynasty has been passed down to the present, and it is not surprising that there are treasures
Xu Lin's sword qi burst out, bypassing the dragon robe on his body, and stabbing directly into the emperor's throat and eyes and other exposed places. As a result, it seemed that there was a layer of power stronger than true qi protecting him, allowing him to withstand Xu Lin's sword qi unscathed.
"Hahaha, no matter how high your martial arts are, what's the use, it's impossible for the true qi of returning to the virtual realm to break through my Nine Dragons Immortal Clothes, this is the magic weapon left by the immortals." The emperor said proudly.
It turned out to be an immortal magic weapon!
It seems very reasonable to think about it, Xu Lin can rely on his adventure to find the Immortal Cave Mansion of the Three Stars Cave of the Inclined Moon, the Wu Dynasty has ruled the world for so many years, and it is not strange to be able to find another Immortal Cave Mansion. Maybe he has already obtained the immortal inheritance before dominating the world, so he has the opportunity to overthrow the previous dynasty and sit on the world.
What this emperor used to plot against King Zhaoyang was not a broken immortal weapon, so it was not surprising that there was a complete immortal weapon in the royal treasury.
It's just that Xu Lin didn't expect it to be a defensive type of immortal clothes, which made him a little clueless. Whether he attacked with sword qi or with the fire tongs itself, the dragon robe on the emperor's body could always perfectly block all attacks.
Xu Lin had seen this kind of method, and it was beyond the scope of the use of true qi, but directly converted the aura of heaven and earth into mana for defense. Martial arts cultivation, from internal force to true qi, this is a qualitative change, the strength of true qi far exceeds the internal force, and when it comes to the realm of merging the way, the transformation of true qi into mana is also a transformation.
Xu Lin wanted to use his true qi to break through the defense of mana, but it was impossible to do it in a short period of time.
"Anti-thief, you can't kill me. And you, you will surely die! The Emperor roared loudly, as if to vent all the humiliation he had suffered.
The emperor wanted to see Xu Lin's panicked or resentful expression, but he didn't. Xu Lin just thought quietly for a while, and then said to the emperor, "Your Nine Dragons Immortal Clothes' defense is really invulnerable?" β
"Of course, this is an immortal magic weapon, how can a mortal like you break it." The emperor said confidently.
"If that's the case, why were you afraid that King Zhaoyang would enter the palace and kill you, and you pretended to be sick for seventeen years?" Xu Lin asked.
"This ...... Nonsense, with the protection of the Nine Dragons Immortal Clothes, I am not afraid of the sky and the earth. The Emperor's face turned red and he retorted sharply.
Xu Lin smiled: "Then try it." β
As soon as the words fell, Xu Lin pulled a belt from the eunuch next to him and tied up the emperor, and then slashed the roof of the Jinluan Hall with another sword, pulling the emperor to jump up.