Azur Lane: I Crossed the Graduation Port Area

Chapter 1243 The Invisible Breath Above the Imperial City (3000 words)
The festive atmosphere in the imperial city of Natlan Zhongzhou and Dongzhou is completely opposite. A bloody purge has been going on since last night.

Countless officials and their families who had connections with Master Jiang were arrested in public by Yan Tiansi and the monks of the Wu family who broke into the mansion.

In just one night, the Taifu faction that had been competing with the Grand Master and the Wu family in the court collapsed, and almost all officials in the imperial city were in danger.

Meanwhile, inside the imperial prison, Imperial Tutor Jiang, who had reached the Nascent Soul stage, was sitting alone in the cell, looking calmly at the gloomy-faced Grand Master of the dynasty, Wu Pengcang, who was standing outside the Xuantie prison gate.

"Master Taifu, as a senior official who has trained several generations of emperors, don't you know how serious a crime it is to hinder the emperor's wedding?"

Wu Pengcang looked at the white-haired old man coldly, his tone full of hatred and viciousness:

"Because of your willfulness, more than a hundred court officials were dismissed from office, and tens of thousands of people were implicated.

"You killed the future emperor who was personally appointed by the emperor in front of all the officials in the court. I can't believe that you can do this..."

Master Jiang ignored Wu Pengcang's sarcasm and continued to look at the great state teacher outside the prison with a calm look.

"You can't hold it back anymore? I thought you and the Wu family would save more time."

After a long while, Master Jiang finally spoke slowly.

But upon hearing this, Wu Pengcang sneered disdainfully:

"Don't think I don't know what you are planning. In the face of absolute power, even if your people team up with the King of Dongzhou, they will only seek their own death."

After saying that, Wu Pengcang raised his hand, and a scarlet crystal fragment slowly emerged from his hand:

"Surely you know what this is?"

Master Jiang stared at the scarlet fragment floating in Wu Pengcang's palm, which was constantly emitting energy fluctuations. A trace of horror finally appeared in his cloudy eyes:
"Did you, the Wu family, really completely refine the corpse of the evil king? Don't you know that it contains the ancient evil demon..."

"Oh, this is the key to becoming the master of Natlan and leading to eternal life."

Wu Pengcang's face was made to look extremely gloomy by the scarlet energy light. He interrupted Master Jiang's words in a low voice and grabbed the fragments.

The next second, his originally handsome face suddenly became distorted, and Wu Pengcang's aura also suddenly underwent a terrible change.

Master Jiang stood up suddenly, his face turning extremely pale.

This familiar and disgusting smell awakened the horrible memories that he had buried for so long that he didn't want to recall them again.

"Eternal life, yes, eternal life...

"The end of the road is eternal life. This is such an easy-to-understand truth. Why do the royal family choose a life as short as a mayfly generation after generation?
"I want to become the master of Natlan, and I also want to pursue eternal life!

"This is my way!"

Wu Pengcang's voice gradually turned into hysterical madness, and this familiar ferocious tone made Master Jiang finally unable to control himself and shouted:
"Obstacle! Oboirdock!
"Nathlan, which has been defended by generations of emperors with their lives, will surely perish at the hands of you villains!"

However, Master Jiang's curses could not reach the ears of Wu Pengcang, whose cultivation level was constantly improving and was about to break through to the realm of asking for the way.

And he also understood that Wu Pengcang came to see him specifically so that he could witness with his own eyes the moment when he broke through to the realm of asking for the way.

At the same time, the ground of the magnificent imperial city began to tremble, and the sky began to become gloomy.

Emperor Natlan has been placed under house arrest in the deepest part of the palace by the Wu family.

She curled up in the corner of the room, her childish face looking up at the dark sky, despair and fear making her whole body tremble.

As an emperor, she knew clearly what the changes in celestial phenomena meant.

The ancient evil demon suppressed by the God-killing Curse is trying to come into the world again.

And she will be the first sacrifice for the evil to break free from its shackles and be transformed into an unspeakable monster.

But just as the pressure in the imperial city gradually dropped, Wu Pengcang's momentum became stronger and stronger, as if a demon god had descended to the world...

"It's all in vain!!!"

A roar that seemed to come from the highest heaven exploded in the sky above the imperial city.

As the roar came, all the Natlan people in the imperial city raised their heads in fear and clearly saw that a swirling black vortex had appeared in the sky at some point.

The next second, nine dark and ferocious dragon heads poked out from the air vortex.

A giant beast that looked down upon all living things appeared in the world, shattering the air pressure that had just gathered above the imperial city into nothingness.

But the scarlet eyes of the nine-headed dragon exuded endless resentment, and it stared in one direction.

Imperial Prison.

Before the Natlan people in the imperial city had time to think, crisp explosions suddenly sounded on the streets of the city.

The bodies of all the direct descendants of the Wu family, whether they were Nascent Soul ancestors or mortals, exploded and turned into black dust.

"No, no, no, this is impossible!"

Located in the imperial prison blocked by countless formations, Wu Pengcang was blocked from breaking through by the roar that almost shattered his soul, and a mouthful of dark blood spurted out of his mouth.

He sat down on the ground, and with horror on his face, he threw away the fragments he was holding in his palm.

Before the scarlet fragment hit the ground, it was entangled and wrapped by countless black auras that appeared out of nowhere, and then dissipated into nothingness.

"Your master doesn't dare to act rashly, so who do you think you are?"

Just as Wu Pengcang was trembling and watching everything in front of him that was beyond his cognition, suddenly, a strange man's voice with a cold tone rang in his ears. "I think you are the great master, huh, half a step to ask, you are lucky, getting rid of some cause and effect can let you live a little longer."

Wu Pengcang looked around, but no matter how he searched with his spiritual sense, he could not find the owner of the voice.

The fact that his tribesmen were constantly dying out made a chilling assumption flash through his mind.

The fear on his face gradually turned into despair, and he roared unwillingly:

"You are the bastards of Saint Lothalon's heresy! Everything in Xizhou is also your fault!
"Do you think you can destroy Natlan by attracting other evil demons?
"No! Natlan will never perish! Natlan will never bow to you pagan bastards!

"I am different from you! Your God is dead! But I will live forever, and Natlan will..."

Before Wu Pengcang's incoherent roar ended, his body exploded and turned into wisps of black air.

Master Jiang stared at all this in a daze. He couldn't believe that the great master who had seemed so invincible just now and was about to step into the realm of asking for the way with the help of the ancient evil demon's power, had disappeared like that.

"Another fool who thinks he can drive away wolves and tigers. Maybe I understand what it means to be in vain.

As the man's voice sounded again, the black giant beast hovering in the sky of the imperial city began to gradually dissipate.

It was only then that Master Jiang collapsed to the ground.

He just felt that everything that had just happened was like a nightmare, and only now did he wake up from the nightmare.

As he watched the evil spirit that was about to break through the suppression being crushed by the dragon-headed monster that appeared in the air, the curled up Emperor Natlan buried his head in his knees.

Tears rolled down her face.

Although the great national teacher is dead, the ancient evil demon still exists.

One day, the ancient evil will break through the blockade within her bloodline.

But I managed to escape this time, but what about the next time? What about the future?

Although she has been the emperor for only a few years, crazy people like the Wu family who are bewitched by evil spirits will always appear again and again.

The deep despair made the emperor, who was alone, sob.

Only at times like this did she dare to reveal her cowardice.

She missed the happy times when her father, mother, brothers and sisters were all together.

The God-killing curse and the heavy sense of responsibility passed down from generation to generation have long made the girl breathless.

The Grand Master is dead, but what about the future of Natlan?
"I don't want to be an emperor anymore, I just want to live like an ordinary person...

"Father, brother, what should I do... grunt..."

Just as the girl was choking with sobs, a thin human-shaped black mist slowly and silently gathered in front of Emperor Natlan.

After watching in silence for a long time, a gentle male voice sounded faintly from the black fog:

“As entrusted by your brother and sister, I will definitely help you resolve the God-killing Curse from the root.

"Until then, keep this Mind Cube with you and remember to protect yourself."

"?!"

The girl, with tears still hanging from her eyes, suddenly raised her head and saw a blue cube with white particles swirling around it being handed to her by the human-shaped black mist that was still dispersing.

"You... who are you? Were you responsible for the death of the Grand Master and the nine-headed black dragon?
"Are you the incarnation of heaven, or a foreign god?"

Hearing the girl pretending to be calm and speaking in a majestic tone even though she was obviously terrified, the human-shaped black mist that had almost dissipated beyond recognition seemed to recall something and chuckled.

“Donghuang, I am the commander from Donghuang and a member of Xinghuo.

"When I see you, there will be no more emperors and no more evil demons in Natlan.

"So, you must persevere until that day comes."

As the last almost inaudible words fell, the human-shaped black mist in front of her completely dissipated.

Only the black-haired girl was left kneeling on the ground, staring blankly at the blue Rubik's Cube caught in mid-air with both hands.

As the white light particles in the blue Rubik's Cube gradually stopped rotating, the girl's originally lifeless eyes finally regained their luster.

"Donghuang... Commander..."

After several hours, the chaos in the imperial city finally settled.

All the civil and military officials and Master Jiang who were imprisoned in the imperial prison by the Wu family were rescued.

But when they returned to the court, they found that their emperor was still sitting on the dragon throne with a calm expression.

It's as if everything is under control.

But for some reason, these officials who were very good at observing people's words and expressions always felt that there was a kind of vitality and spirit on the face of their stern emperor that they had never seen before, and that was of a similar age.

On the desk in front of their emperor, there were many memorials from various states regarding the Spark Column.

(End of this chapter)