destiny eternal calamity

Li Wei's clothes were torn, and his bark mask had long been shattered.

He stood there for a moment, then picked up the remaining hilt of the bronze ceremonial sword, used his Great Divine Palm to blast open the collapsed blockage, and walked out of the tunnel.

They even remembered to restore the floor tiles and futons.

The commotion from the fight between the two was so great that the ground nearby trembled, and the palace servants indeed thought it was an earthquake, causing chaos.

The earthquake actually felt like a magnitude 3 earthquake, but its long duration caused such panic among the palace staff.

The two were fighting with less than 10,000 tons of force, and they were some distance from the ground, so the fighting was only felt within a few hundred meters of them. The entire city of Zhuolu was not affected much.

Seeing that no palace servants were paying attention to the ancestral hall, Li Wei quickly ran out.

On the way, he peeled a piece of bark from an ancient tree in the palace to use as a mask.

Back at their lodgings, the two beauties were still under hypnosis.

Li Wei then washed the blood off his body, changed into a loose robe, and covered his wounds.

With the power of returning to the origin of all things, these wounds will probably heal quickly.

He thought about it and decided that he should not tell Ji Youguang that he had killed his father.

In this world, the hatred of killing one's father is not so easy to resolve.

Even if he had a thousand reasons, he might not be able to convince Ji Youguang not to hate him or even take revenge on him.

If he didn't expose it, Ji Youguang wouldn't have to bear the heavy pressure of revenge, and he wouldn't fight to the death because of his suspicions.

After organizing his thoughts, Li Wei went straight to sleep.

The next morning, Ji Youguang indeed came directly to see him.

"Your Highness, there was an earthquake in the palace last night, and Father Emperor has disappeared!"

"Slow down, don't panic. Didn't you say before that the Human Emperor hadn't been seen for a long time? How do you know he's disappeared?"

"Before the earthquake last night, the guards at the ancestral hall saw my father. He told them to stay away and went into the ancestral hall alone. Then the earthquake happened shortly afterward, and my father hasn't come out of the ancestral hall yet."

"Did you go to the ancestral hall to check?"

"I checked, there's no one inside." As a member of the Xuanyuan clan, Ji Youguang dared not use his divine sense to explore the ancestral hall, so he did not discover the secret passage below.

"Take me to see it," Li Wei said, standing up.

When we arrived at the ancestral hall, Zhong Kui's shadow was also there.

"Brother, there's a cavity underground."

Zhong Kuiying roughly guessed that it was Li Wei who made the commotion last night. Seeing that he seemed completely unaware, she knew she had to play along and pretend that she had just discovered the secret underground.

Li Wei nodded, closed his eyes, and used his divine sense to investigate.

"Here it is!" He removed the futon, opened the floor tiles, and a secret passage appeared before them.

Besides Li Wei, Zhong Kuiying, and Ji Youguang, there are two other people here: one is Prime Minister Li Mu, and the other is Li Loumin, the clan leader of the Li Lou clan. She is Ji Yuanhong's second wife after the death of Ji Youguang's birth mother, Xiling Shi.

The group walked into the tunnel together.

Before long, the group saw the horrific battlefield and Ji Yuanhong's corpse.

"His Majesty!"

"Father!"

Li Loumin, Ji Youguang, and Li Mu were all greatly alarmed.

Li Wei was somewhat surprised to see them so grief-stricken.

It doesn't seem like acting.

Indeed, Ji Yuanhong was corrupted by the "demon" only two hundred years ago, and he was not possessed, but his personality changed drastically.

Given his inherent personal charisma, it's not surprising that these people admire and respect him.

Li Wei pretended to survey the surroundings, then walked to the stone door. Taking advantage of the fact that the others weren't paying attention, he gathered his true energy in his hands and enlarged the pit he had dug under the door. Then he lifted the stone door with force.

He then led the group to discover Ji Yuanhong's crimes.

"These things must never be known to the public," Li Mu said in a deep voice.

"How could His Majesty do such a thing..." Li Loumin was somewhat unable to accept it.

"The Prime Minister will go out and tell the ministers that the Emperor's condition worsened and he passed away in the early hours of this morning."

After Ji Youguang finished speaking, he walked up to Li Wei, who was still supporting the stone gate.

He noticed that Li Wei had changed into the change of clothes that Xuanyuan had prepared for him, and that his mask seemed to be new as well.

"Your Highness, I will seal this place permanently. Kunlun can send people to monitor whether my Xuanyuan clan is colluding with the Immortal Realm in the future. I hope Your Highness will speak well of my Xuanyuan clan in front of the Queen Mother of the West."

"It's not that my Xuanyuan clan is greedy for power, but this Xuanyuan Alliance is a human force that my father built through hundreds of years of hard work. Only the Xuanyuan clan has enough prestige within the alliance. If the royal family were to change hands so easily, it would probably not be a good thing for humanity!"

Ji Youguang's voice was deep, and Li Wei felt as if he knew something.

After thinking about it, he realized what he said made sense, and besides, he had indeed killed the man's father, so he said:

"Kunlun and I certainly support Xuanyuan's re-election as leader of the alliance, but the opinions of the tribal chiefs are also very important."

"They only recognize the strongest among them. Can you subdue those clan leaders?"

"His Highness's words are enough. I didn't have confidence before, but now I do."

After saying that, his aura surged rapidly, and he had already reached the Heavenly Fate Realm!

His father's death made him defy fate.

From then on, they no longer needed to fear the challenges from other tribes.

Li Wei nodded, and seeing that everyone had left the secret chamber, he lowered the stone door.

The murderer who killed Ji Yuanhong must be a cultivator at the Heavenly Fate Realm. Moreover, at this moment, it is necessary to cover up the cause of Ji Yuanhong's death, so it is not advisable to conduct a large-scale search.

So they all tacitly refrained from mentioning the search for the murderer.

After covering Ji Yuanhong's body with a white cloth and carrying it out, Ji Youguang ordered the craftsmen to block up the secret passage.

Then came the announcement of Ji Yuanhong's death and the decree to pass the throne to Ji Youguang.

Li Wei also represented Kunlun in supporting Ji Youguang.

Ji Youguang's succession to the throne was certainly without any objection within the Xuanyuan clan.

However, the news caused a huge uproar in the Xuanyuan Alliance.

"Can the throne of the Human Emperor be passed down from father to son, just like the position of clan leader?"

"Even the position of clan leader is held by the strongest heir, and sometimes it can be taken by an even stronger member of the clan. Why should the position of Emperor be decided by the Xuanyuan clan themselves!"

The Xuanyuan Alliance was not a unified empire, nor even a feudal system.

In theory, all tribes, including the Xuanyuan tribe, are equal.

Ji Yuanhong was able to become the Human Emperor, and Zhuolu City was able to become the center of the human race, because he was the first Heavenly Mandate cultivator of the human race, not because he was a member of the Xuanyuan clan.

Faced with these dissenting voices, Ji Youguang did not ask Li Wei to lend his support again.

They simply announced that they would set up a fighting arena in Zhuolu City.

Anyone who disagrees with his succession to the throne can come up and challenge him.

Of course, they must be human experts at the Dharma Aspect level or above.

In the past few days, Li Wei and Zhong Kuiying have been investigating the area around Zhuolu City and found the foundation of the sacrificial array set up by Ji Yuanhong.

It must be a formation taught by the immortals, with excellent concealment.

If Zhong Kuiying hadn't been somewhat knowledgeable, they really wouldn't have noticed.

This formation is so massive that Ji Yuanhong probably prepared it for decades, with many parts buried underground.

Li Wei and his team could only destroy some key nodes exposed on the surface.