Old Refining Spirit

"This wolf totem is not your own power. Sealed within it is the remains of an ancient, bloodthirsty evil spirit that your Sirius Kingdom has worshipped for generations."

Li Xuangeng tapped his long, slender fingers lightly on the armrest of his wheelchair, revealing the secret in a single sentence.

"Bringing it to the Great Abyss is like bringing an extremely greedy 'boss' on a mission. You promise it that as long as it helps you keep things under control, you'll provide it with an endless supply of Great Abyss blood and energy as a 'performance reward.' You're indeed a clever broker."

Ulanba's expression changed, because Li Xuangeng was absolutely right! This totem was a sacred object of the Heavenly Wolf Kingdom, and he was merely its driver. Once he could no longer satisfy the totem's bloodlust, the totem would turn against its master!

"But the worst thing in the world is to make grand promises and then fail to deliver."

Li Xuangeng's lips curled into a mocking smile as he pointed to the group of Dayuan officials around him, whose faces were grim.

"Look at all these civil and military officials around you. Do you think they're afraid of your totem? No, they're a bunch of ancient zombies and mutants, even more vicious than your totem, who have drained their own lifeblood! They don't have any 'living' blood in their bodies for your totem to absorb!"

Upon hearing this, the expressions of all the civil and military officials changed, and a murderous intent was hidden within them.

"Those sixteen Imperial Astronomical Bureau sorcerers around your totem, drained of their life force, were nothing more than a few insignificant 'discarded pawns' thrown out by the imperial court. Now, your totem has tasted the sweetness of success, and its appetite has been completely inflated. But..."

Li Xuangeng paused for a moment, then his voice suddenly turned extremely cold, striking directly at Ulanba's weak spot.

"The emperor and officials of Da Yuan will never willingly offer themselves up as food for you. And Da Yuan's army has already sealed off the outskirts; you can't capture any civilians. Now, your 'superior' is hungry, and it's starting to get restless. What will you offer to fill its stomach?"

"You...you're talking nonsense!" Ulanba's forehead veins bulged. He turned around abruptly and found that the dark red membrane on the surface of the Greedy Wolf Totem was throbbing wildly, and the outstretched blood-red tentacles were actually reaching out uneasily towards him, their master!

Like a tyrannical boss who is enraged and desperate for a reward, taking the life out of a subordinate who has failed to perform his duties!

"Sowing discord? Useless! I have the holy blood of the Heavenly Wolf Kingdom protecting me; it won't turn against me!" Ulanba roared, his bravado masking his inner weakness.

"Yeah?"

Li Xuangeng chuckled softly. He slowly took out a small white jade bottle from his sleeve. It contained a drop of top-grade medicinal juice brewed by his junior sister Bai Zhi using "Centennial Rehmannia". Although it could not be used for combat, it contained the purest and most potent herbal life force.

"Workplace balance often only requires a tiny straw to break it completely."

Li Xuangeng flicked his finger.

"Snapped!"

The drop of medicinal juice, brimming with life-giving energy, did not attack Ulanba, but instead landed precisely on the wriggling amniotic sac of the Greedy Wolf Totem!

"boom--!"

It was like a drop of boiling oil falling into a raging fire! After tasting this drop of supreme vitality, the Greedy Wolf Totem's already extreme hunger and bloodlust were amplified ten thousand times! It completely lost control!

The totem let out a terrifying shriek unlike anything human had ever heard. Hundreds of thick, blood-red tentacles suddenly changed direction, completely ignoring the so-called "Holy Blood Protection" contract, and pierced into Ulanba's body like steel spears!

"Aaaaaahh ...

Ulanba let out a desperate and piercing scream. He never imagined that his prized trump card would be completely torn up by the temptation of a single drop of medicine.

"Help me! Help me..."

In just half a breath.

The once arrogant Great Shaman of the Heavenly Wolf Kingdom was drained of his life force by the totem he brought, turning him into a dried-up mummy in front of the entire court of the Great Abyss.

After the totem absorbed Ulanba's energy, the internal energy reached a critical point. With a muffled "bang," unable to withstand the violent and unbalanced energy, it exploded from the inside into a pile of foul-smelling bone fragments and minced meat.

Without bloodshed.

He didn't use a single bit of his true energy, nor did he even leave his wheelchair.

Li Xuangeng, relying solely on his profound understanding of "yin and yang, cause and effect" and "supply and demand logic," used leverage to turn a potential diplomatic crisis that could have jeopardized the fate of the Great Yuan Kingdom into a ridiculous internal strife farce.

The entire hall fell silent. From behind the Emperor of Dayuan's imperial carriage came a low, unreadable panting breath.

Wrapped in a white fox fur cloak, Li Xuangeng leaned back in his wheelchair, coughed lightly twice, and wore an extremely elegant smile on his pale face.

"It is only natural that such a person, who abuses his position to forcibly withhold his subordinates' rations, would be attacked."

He turned his head slightly and "looked" at the unfavored prince Xiao Jin, who was watching everything with a shocked and extremely fanatical gaze from a corner of the palace wall in the distance.

The chessboard is in place. The true, bloody reshuffling of the Great Abyss Dynasty officially begins from this moment.