Sword Roaring in the Sky

Chapter 301 The Murderer is the Eighth Prince
Consort Yun, adorned in a phoenix crown and golden robe, gazed at her reflection with self-pity and suddenly asked, "How many days has it been since His Majesty last visited?"

Someone answered in a low voice, "It has been three months since he last came."

Consort Yun sighed, pondered for a moment, and asked, "How did that matter go?"

The young eunuch was terrified and after a long while replied, "I haven't heard anything about Scholar Sun. He's probably still making trouble."

Consort Yun suddenly revealed a smug look and said, "Even with his unparalleled talent, he couldn't withstand this."

"Once his reputation is ruined, what good are his extraordinary abilities?"

"I will show him that martial arts are no match for the will of the people, and cunning is worse than literature!"

The palace eunuchs and maids dared not utter a sound. Just then, a voice as light as snowflakes and as cold as frost said indifferently, "Consort Yun is indeed remarkable. With a cunning scheme, she made Shi Si send a message three thousand miles away, ordering me to come from Jin Diao City to kill you."

"I thought I would never see her bow her head in my entire life."

Yang Diao'er slowly walked into the room, her beautiful eyes filled with a chilling murderous intent.

Sun Yanwan sent her a letter explaining what had happened recently. Yang Diao'er was furious at the time; this little saintess of the Demonic Sect had never been so angry in her life.

Half a day later, Shi Si's letter arrived.

The letter from this fairy master contained only one sentence: "Kill that vile servant girl, and I will personally welcome you into the Sun family."

Shi Si has a sect and family, and she is already legally engaged. If she makes a move, it will inevitably implicate Sun Yanwan and even the Songyang Sect.

Yang Diao'er doesn't have this problem. She is the Holy Maiden of the Demonic Sect. Her father, Yang Wuji, almost killed the ancestor of the Great Lang Dynasty. Now, cities like Jin Diao City and Bazhou City nominally belong to the Xuanhuang Army. If you trace it further back, they are also the territory of the Demonic Sect. Recently, there has been recruitment by the Northern Yan. But it has nothing to do with Great Lang.

How could Shi Si tolerate such a thing?
She would rather personally bring Yang Diao'er into the Sun family than let Consort Yun fail to pass this test.

Even without Shi Si's letter, Yang Diao'er couldn't bear it. After receiving Shi Si's letter, Yang Diao'er rode at full speed to Luojing.

Yang Diao'er used all the connections the Demonic Sect had in Luojing to find out when the Eighth Prince entered the palace. She then bypassed the palace restrictions and broke into Consort Yun's palace.

Consort Yun was horrified and was about to scream when she found herself unable to utter a single word.

Not only her, but also the palace eunuchs and maids were all intoxicated, as if they were in a dream, their faces displaying all sorts of emotions and desires, making them extremely bizarre.

Yang Diao'er walked slowly to Consort Yun's side and said calmly, "I have never felt what anger is in my life."

"Thanks to you, I am now extremely angry. I have even improved my Heavenly Demon Art by one level, and filled in the last missing link of the Heavenly Demon True Meaning."

A magical ice silk fan was placed on Consort Yun's head. Countless terrifying scenes rushed into her mind. At first, they were just human horrors, but gradually they became something otherworldly. Mountain-like flesh demons, giant worms with thousands of limbs and a length of ten miles, and all sorts of legends about hell appeared one by one...

Yang Diao'er hated Consort Yun to the extreme. She unleashed the extraordinary power of the Heavenly Demon Art, which manipulates the mind, without reservation. Consort Yun, who was known for her beauty, twisted and turned her mature and stunning body, her face displaying a myriad of emotions.

After burning half an incense stick's worth of time, Consort Yun's pupils dilated and blood flowed from her seven orifices. She was actually scared to death by the boundless terrifying illusions created by Yang Diao'er's Heavenly Demon Art.

Yang Diao'er killed Consort Yun, then closed the Ice Silkworm Fan and activated the Heavenly Demon Art. In an instant, the heart meridians of everyone in the palace were severed by a wisp of true energy, and they died silently and without pain.

Yang Diao'er chose a palace wall, carried over Consort Yun's corpse, tore off half of Consort Yun's gold skirt, dipped it in some blood, and wrote: "The murderer is the Eighth Prince!"

"Today I kill my mother, tomorrow I kill the emperor, how delightful..." Half an hour later, the palace discovered that Consort Yun was dead, and also found the Eighth Prince's treasonous "message".

As for whether it was true or false, there was no time to distinguish them. An imperial edict was issued from the palace to place the Eighth Prince under house arrest, which alarmed the entire Da Lang Dynasty.

Huo Feihu, the Marquis of Wujun, who was about to leave Luojing to pursue Sun Yanwan, learned of this news and told his servants not to make any more preparations for leaving. He then set off in his carriage to see Grand Tutor Wenxi.

Upon seeing Marquis Wu, Wenxi couldn't help but smile wryly and ask, "Guess who made the move?"

Huo Feihu said, "The person who made the move possesses a strange and domineering Heavenly Demon Skill. It could be Yang Wuji, the Peacock King, or the woman among the Twin Kings of Harsha."

Wenxi sighed and said, "I have investigated the palace. This person came and went without a sound, leaving no trace. The Peacock King may not be able to do it, and the Harsha King is even less likely to be able to do it. I'm afraid it was Yang Wuji who made the move."

Huo Feihu agreed wholeheartedly, but was filled with doubt and couldn't explain it. He asked, "Why would Yang Wuji take action?"

Wenxi was also puzzled and said, "Could it be that Yang Wuji took action out of anger because he loves his son-in-law? But Yang Diao'er was forcibly abducted by Sun Yanwan and is still imprisoned in Songyang Mountain. She can't show her face in public yet, so it's not like they love each other!"

Huo Feihu said awkwardly, "I asked someone to act as matchmaker so that we could get married. Before the marriage, I had never met my wife and didn't know much about the love and affection of such young people."

Wenxi chuckled and said, "I shouldn't have asked you about this."

Both of them knew that the framing of Sun Yanwan must have been done by Consort Yun. In order to help the Eighth Prince win the struggle for the throne, this consort would stop at nothing.

Neither of them understood why someone from the Demonic Sect would make a move.
At this moment, the Second Prince was also hosting a banquet for Hei Guanghan. He said with lingering fear, "Consort Yun is really bold. She actually did such a thing."

"But why would the leader of the Demonic Sect make a move?"

"Wasn't his daughter kidnapped?"

"What kind of father-in-law/son-in-law relationship did he have with Sun Yanwan?"

"Besides, even if he were the real son-in-law, the dignified leader of the Demonic Sect wouldn't personally come to Luojing to kill a woman in the inner palace."

Hei Guanghan smiled slightly and said, "In this world, if you know the truth, you can simply laugh it off; if you don't know the truth, guessing will only add to your troubles."

"It is a cause for celebration that the Second Prince has been able to extricate himself; why should he be so troubled?"

"Hei Guanghan congratulates the Second Prince, for he has one less rival from now on."

"Although this matter is certainly unrelated to the Eighth Prince, his confinement is unlikely to be lifted."

The second prince was slightly relieved and said, "It's all thanks to the help of the Black Attendant; otherwise, this matter wouldn't have been resolved so easily."

The Second Prince originally thought he was going to take the blame for this whole affair, but little did he expect that Hei Guanghan's actions, though unbelievable in their outcome, would clear his name and extricate him from the matter.

He also didn't want to be suspected of framing Sun Yanwan.

This matter is too vicious. Even if it ruins Sun Yanwan's reputation, the Second Prince himself will also be tainted. Any man who gets involved will not have a good ending.

(End of this chapter)