Marry the Demon Sect Girl with No Bride Price

Chapter 746: Chapter 406: Vengeance Fulfilled

Western Emperor Palace.

Celestial Martial Hall.

"Empress..."

The Imperial Army and Golden Snake Guard stared blankly at the top of the Celestial Martial Hall.

Si Minglan’s hands were thrust into Lin Yuan’s chest, and Wu Tai’s long sword pierced through Lin Yuan’s heart from behind.

Lin Yuan spat a mouthful of fresh blood, splattering onto the red phoenix robe, making it appear even more vivid and crimson.

She clutched Si Minglan’s hand, her voice hoarse: "I never intended to kill Si Yuanwu..."

Si Minglan sneered coldly: "It doesn’t matter anymore, you are about to die."

"Yiren, Zhou..."

Lin Yuan murmured these two names, her eyes suddenly gleaming brightly. The phoenix robe swelled, and spiritual power surged violently, forcing Si Minglan and Wu Tai away.

Si Minglan was already severely injured; now struck by the spiritual power emitted by the phoenix robe, her face turned even paler.

Wu Tai coughed up a mouthful of blood, falling to the ground with a wretched scream.

"This phoenix robe is actually a magical artifact?! Wu Tai’s sword missed by two inches!"

Si Minglan’s pupils constricted slightly. She saw Lin Yuan, stripped of the phoenix robe, with the Phoenix Crown falling from her head, her long black hair spilling out, wearing a white dress close to her body.

Her graceful and voluptuous figure appeared before Wu Tai, and the Cyan Peak Sword thrust towards him!

"Mother, don’t!"

Wu Tai shouted hoarsely, and Lin Yuan’s sword paused, ultimately not stabbing down.

At this moment, Si Minglan pounced again, and Lin Yuan gritted her teeth, throwing the Cyan Peak Sword. The three-foot Cyan Peak suddenly exploded in mid-air, countless shards turning into sharp glints shooting in all directions!

Si Minglan hurriedly stopped, her hands emitting a red glow to block the incoming shards.

The surrounding archers screamed and fell to the ground.

When they looked up again, Lin Yuan’s figure had already fled far away.

"Did the Empress... escape?"

"The Emperor is dead, the Second Prince committed regicide, the Empress has been deposed, what is to become of the West Imperial Dynasty now?"

The Imperial Army and Golden Snake Guard exchanged glances, momentarily leaderless.

Si Minglan slowly stood up, looking at the soldiers below:

"I am the National Guardian Duke. Now that His Holiness has passed, the West Dawn Bell must be rung to summon all civil and military officials to the Celestial Martial Hall to discuss the enthronement of a new ruler!"

Si Minglan’s words startled everyone, and the Chief Eunuch quickly ordered someone to ring the West Dawn Bell.

Immediately, the resonant sound of the bell echoed throughout the entirety of West Imperial City.

The city’s civilians heard the bell and knelt down:

"His Holiness has passed away?!"

"His Holiness, His Holiness has passed away!"

"How could this happen?"

Before long, civil and military officials and all the princes hurried to the Celestial Martial Hall. Seeing the ground littered with corpses, they were shocked.

Then they saw Si Minglan standing on the hall’s top, and the older officials were suddenly horrified:

"S-Si Family’s criminal daughter?!"

The Imperial Army commander next to them quickly said: "Lord Zuo, before His Holiness passed, he personally confessed and exonerated the Si Family, declaring Si Yuanwu’s spirit to be enshrined in the Grand Ancestral Temple, and si Minglan to be conferred as the National Guardian Duke!"

Lord Zuo, with hair and beard all white, was startled: "How could it be?! The Si Family colluded with the Demon Sect in rebellion, and the evidence is conclusive. How dare you falsely convey the emperor’s decree?!"

Several other older ministers beside him exclaimed:

"How dare you slander the Empress Dowager! Are you conspiring with Si Family’s criminal daughter to rebel?!"

"Where is His Holiness? Where is he?!"

"The Emperor is here!" An icy voice rang from the top of the Celestial Martial Hall.

The ministers looked in terror, witnessing Wu Zheng’s corpse being held aloft by a mass of spiritual power, slowly descending from the sky.

Everyone knelt down, weeping bitterly:

"His Holiness!"

"Is His Holiness truly deceased?!"

"Oh, His Holiness!"

Lord Zuo’s eyes shifted, suddenly raising his hand to point at Si Minglan:

"It must be you, this criminal daughter, who assassinated His Holiness for revenge!"

"Lord Zuo, mind your words!" said an Imperial Army commander to him:

"We were all present and can attest that the National Guardian Duke speaks no falsehood. His Holiness had already absolved the Si Family, naming Si Minglan the National Guardian Duke. It was all the doing of the Demon Queen Lin Yuan!"

Upon hearing this, the surrounding Imperial Army unanimously agreed, willing to testify.

"Are you conspiring to rebel?!"

Lord Zuo pointed at the Imperial Army, loudly chastising.

"Zuo Lin!"

Suddenly, an eerie and cold voice echoed, and everyone looked up to see Si Minglan, dressed in red, floating in mid-air, overlooking the group of old ministers who followed Zuo Lin to accuse her.

"Shen Yuanzhi, Zhang Luoxin, Feng Zhen, Li Xi, Chen Nanxun, Fang Kelin, Xu Changsheng..."

Si Minglan’s cold and fierce gaze swept over the faces of this group of old ministers, reciting their names one by one, totaling several dozen people.

"Twenty years ago, to curry favor with Lin Yuan and Wu Zheng, you submitted memorials accusing the Si Family of colluding with the enemy and treason!"

"As high-ranking ministers, you knew the Si Family case was riddled with doubts, yet you ignored the truth and became accomplices just to please the Emperor and Empress!"

"Seventy-one lives of the Si Family, all are on your heads!"

The old ministers, led by Zuo Lin, immediately changed their expressions, pointing at Si Minglan in the sky:

"Bold criminal daughter, this is the Imperial Palace; even if the late Emperor named you a Duke, you dare not utter such wild words here!"

"Hahaha!" Si Minglan suddenly laughed:

"Do you really think I care about a mere title?"

"What does the fate of the West Imperial Dynasty have to do with me?"

"I summoned you here merely to gather you together, for ease of killing."

"You, you, you... don’t come any closer!" Zuo Lin raised his hand at Si Minglan, suddenly sensing a deathly aura and stumbling backward in fear.

The other elder ministers were equally terrified, about to turn and flee when Si Minglan swiftly raised her hand, and a giant claw mark descended.

It split the group of old ministers right in the middle.

Ah!!

Ah!!!

In an instant, limbs danced, and blood rained from the sky.

All thirty-some ministers who had once slandered the Si Family were reduced to a field of fragmented bodies.

Si Minglan slowly descended, looking up at the myriad of tokens floating in the air, kneeling down:

"Father, Mother, Brother, Second Brother, Third Brother... Lin Yuan is the only enemy left of the Si Family. Once I kill her, I’ll come to reunite with you all."

Si Minglan bowed to the tokens in the air, while soldiers and civil and military officials exchanged glances.

Now that the Emperor is dead, the Empress deposed, and the oldest ministers also all dead.

The vast West Imperial Dynasty surprisingly had no one to take charge.

"National Guardian Duke, what... should we do now?"

An Imperial Army commander stepped forward, asking in a low voice.

Truthfully, he was also at a loss, not knowing what to do.

At this moment, the highest-ranking noble present was the newly appointed National Guardian Duke, so everyone instinctively looked at Si Minglan.

Si Minglan rose, scanning the surroundings, her gaze landing on a pale-faced young man.

This person, named Wu Heng, was the Sixth Prince of the West Imperial Dynasty.

Wu Heng stared at Si Minglan dazedly, his eyes full of reverence and admiration. Si Minglan looked at him, her eyes suddenly flashing with red glow, smiling:

"The Eldest Prince is dead, the Second Prince committed regicide, naturally only the Sixth Prince is qualified to be the new ruler."