"Ha, royal dignity! Even if Your Majesty and the others kill me, so what?"

"Your Majesty, why are my guards so obedient to your orders?"

Zhu Yang raised his hand and waved to his attendant, who immediately understood and went out to call another team of guards in to arrest all the guards.

The Empress immediately said, "How could that be? They must have thought something had happened in the Imperial Study, which is why they rushed in."

"Yes, this is the Imperial Study after all. How could they not be anxious when they heard me calling?"

Shu Jianyue rested her chin on her hand and watched the Empress make excuses. Yes, excuses.

This is a problem that anyone with eyes can see; no matter how much you try to explain it, it's just sophistry.

Zhu Yang waved his hand, "Heh, I have a brain. You probably don't even believe what you're saying yourself."

"Li Feifei, you're quite something. You've only been in the palace for a year, and you've been Empress for only half a year, yet you've already bribed all the guards in my study."

"So, are all the people in the Imperial Hospital under your control?"

There's no need to check for the poison in my body anymore.

The Empress immediately prostrated herself, "Your Majesty, I am innocent! How could I possibly bribe your guards? They were only acting rashly."

"Your Majesty, I rarely come to the Imperial Study. How could I possibly have the opportunity to bribe them?"

After reading Li Zhong's words, Li Ming also ran over and knelt down. "Your Majesty, the Empress has always been gentle and virtuous. How could she do such a thing? It must be a misunderstanding, Your Majesty."

Zhu Yang sneered, "Take these people away and interrogate them properly. No matter who bribed them, I will make sure they remember this lesson well."

"Empress, I have never treated you badly, even if I say nothing else."

"What, do you want to be like Linglong and become emperor yourself?"

The Empress quickly shook her head, "Your Majesty, how dare I harbor such a presumptuous thought? I beg Your Majesty to investigate thoroughly!"

"Don't worry, I will. You were chosen by me after half a year of searching. How could I easily misunderstand you?" Zhu Yang spoke softly, but the coldness in his voice was undeniable.

Before choosing Li Feifei as his empress, he conducted a thorough investigation to confirm that she was without fault before bestowing the title upon her.

However, he turned out to be an ambitious person.

Having watched the show to the fullest, Shu Jianyue coughed lightly and said, "Li Guozhang, could you please tell me about the relationship between your Li family and Fuchen Mountain? How come they're so close that they gave you the Yunxiao Auction House?"

Seeing Zhu Yang's expression, the Empress knew that things couldn't be resolved today.

He glanced at Shu Jianyue and stood up abruptly. "What's there to say? Yunxiao Auction House now belongs to the Li family."

"What, you want to take it from our Li family?"

Seeing this, Li Ming stopped kneeling and stood behind Li Feifei with an arrogant expression.

Zhu Yang looked at their arrogant demeanor and sneered, "Robbing, that word is quite fitting for your Li family."

"What, you're not pretending anymore?"

Shu Jianyue looked at them with a half-smile, "If you reveal the mastermind behind this, I will spare your lives."

"Ha, how ridiculous. Do you really think that just because you come from the Eight Desolations, you're something special? You'll spare our lives, but we'll see if you have the ability." After Li Feifei finished speaking, she made a hand gesture, and a group of guards rushed in from outside the door.

The guards who had been escorting her out also appeared behind her.

Zhu Yang's face turned ashen. "You really want to rebel!"

Shu Jianyue rested her chin on her hand without moving, and said with a smile, "Wow, pretty impressive! Evil cultivators are different, aren't they? They can summon henchmen with just a flick of their wrist, amazing!"

"A heretical cultivator!" Zhu Yang exclaimed in shock, standing up abruptly.

Shu Jianyue waved her free hand dismissively, "Don't make a fuss, you're supposed to be an emperor."

"You didn't even bother to find the Empress properly, you had to bring back a heretical cultivator instead. Your luck is truly unbelievable."

"I didn't know she was an evil cultivator!" The people he sent out to investigate all brought back good information; otherwise, why would he have made her empress?

It seems he was bribed.

Zhu Yang suddenly felt that he was just an empty emperor, with no subordinates he could trust.

Li Feifei looked at Shu Jianyue and sized her up. At first, she just thought she was beautiful, but she was just an empty shell.

Now it seems that's not the case at all. They didn't even make a move, yet they saw that they were evil cultivators!

Who are you?

"You can tell I'm a heretical cultivator just from one of my gestures?"

Shu Jianyue shrugged. "Of course not. I also know that you are from that evil cultivator family that fled Fengxian a few years ago."

"But you guys are pretty impressive, managing to turn so many people to work for you."

Li Feifei looked at her and laughed contemptuously, "If we didn't have this ability, why would we have come back?"

"Want to know the relationship between Floating Cloud Mountain and the Li family? Ha! Floating Dust Mountain will also belong to the Li family from now on. What do you say the relationship is?"

Li Feifei burst into laughter after she finished speaking.

Shu Jianyue watched with a smile, and everyone in the hall was laughing at her.

Seeing this, Li Feifei's laughter caught in her throat, and she almost choked.

Shu Jianyue raised her hand and said, "Keep laughing. We'll talk after you've laughed enough."

Seeing that she was being looked at like she was an idiot, Li Feifei was so angry that she wanted to tear her face apart.

However, as soon as he raised his hand, intending to make a move, he discovered that he couldn't use his spiritual power at all!

"What happened?"

Shu Jianyue leaned back in her chair, picked up the spirit elixir, and said leisurely, "From now on, Fuchen Mountain belongs to your Li family?"

"I really didn't know about this. Tell me, how did Fuchen Mountain become part of your Li family? Let me broaden my horizons."

"Hmph, Fuchen Mountain is now under the control of our Li family. As for the process, does it matter?" Li Feifei wasn't stupid; she had already begun to suspect the identities of these two people.

But I just can't figure out who they are. "Who exactly are you people, and why are you always here inquiring about Fuchen Mountain?"

Shu Jianyue drank the last bit of spiritual elixir in her cup and laughed, "Oh, I forgot to introduce myself. I am Shu Jianyue, the grandmaster uncle of the Hunyuan Immortal Sect."

"That is, the founder of Fuchen Mountain, the former master you now speak of."

Li Feifei stared at her in astonishment, "How could that be? Didn't they go to the Eight Desolations..."

Shu Jianyue put down her cup and looked at her. "I didn't know until I came back that my things were coveted by so many people."

"Tell me, how did you acquire Cloud Sky Auction House? What happened to my former manager?"

"If you don't tell me, then I'm sorry, but you'll all have to go through the underworld."

Li Ming was completely stunned; his previous arrogance had vanished completely.

Li Feifei took a small step back. Although she had never met the master of Fuchen Mountain, she had heard of him.

The rumors say he's incredibly powerful, practically invincible throughout the Ten Domains; otherwise, he wouldn't be able to venture into the Eight Desolations.

Now that we've been caught red-handed, what do you think we should do?