Chapter 75 Reaching the Highest Point
Pei Yunjing's threat to "go to Cining Palace to retrieve the Phoenix Seal" completely shattered the Empress Dowager's last shred of dignity.
She slumped on the soft couch, panting heavily, her eyes unfocused, clearly on the verge of collapse.
"Empress Dowager! Your Majesty the Empress Dowager!"
Gui, the old servant who had served the Empress Dowager for half her life, now had her cloudy old eyes filled with resentment and bloodshot veins as she saw her mistress being humiliated like this.
She knew she couldn't stop the regent, but her mind, which had been brainwashed by the "rules of hierarchy" her whole life, completely lost its rationality at this moment.
"Stop! You're not allowed to leave!"
Granny Gui suddenly rushed out, and although she dared not approach Pei Yunjing, she pointed at Tangli in his arms and hysterically cursed:
"A cunning fox flatters its master! A scourge upon the country and its people!"
"You're nothing but an unloved illegitimate daughter of the Tang family! A worthless piece of trash! What are you being so pretentious about?!"
"What is the Empress Dowager's status? What is your status? You have no manners, crying and wailing like this! You lowly wretch deserve to be beaten to death with sticks!"
A concubine's daughter.
lowly.
No rules.
These words were like poisoned nails, driven hard into Pei Yunjing's Achilles' heel.
Pei Yunjing, who had already turned to leave, suddenly stopped in his tracks.
Tangli nestled in his arms, and could clearly feel the man's once steady chest now heaving violently due to extreme anger.
The murderous aura that had just been suppressed suddenly exploded like a volcanic eruption!
"……court death."
Two words, as light as the wind, yet as heavy as a mountain.
Pei Yunjing slowly turned around.
His eyes were no longer cold, but chillingly empty.
The next second.
"Bang--!!!"
Pei Yunjing's figure blurred, moving so fast that only a blur remained.
His heavy black combat boot, imbued with thunderous internal force, slammed into Granny Gui's chest!
"Crack!"
The sickening sound of a sternum cracking echoed throughout the stadium.
Before Granny Gui could even let out a scream, she was kicked away like a tattered rag doll!
She flew several meters, crashing heavily into the white marble railing of the high platform, then slid down like a lump of mud, spitting out blood, and died on the spot.
Everyone stared in horror at the man who exuded an aura of brutality.
In the Imperial Garden, in front of the Emperor and Empress Dowager, he kicked the Empress Dowager's wet nurse to death.
Pei Yunjing withdrew his foot and casually straightened his clothes, as if he had merely kicked away a stone blocking his way.
He raised his head, his gaze passing over the corpse and landing on the two chairs on the high platform, symbols of supreme power—
One is the Empress Dowager's Phoenix Throne, and the other is the Emperor's Dragon Throne.
Above that lies the highest point, overlooking all living beings.
Pei Yunjing suddenly smiled.
That smile was wild and wicked, exuding an aura of domineering power that seemed to want to trample the world underfoot.
"A concubine's daughter? Has no manners?"
He lowered his head and glanced at Tang Li, who was still somewhat dazed from the commotion in his arms. The madness in his eyes gradually turned into a stubborn tenderness.
Then, he looked at the civil and military officials kneeling on the ground, trembling, and his voice, like a resounding bell, vibrated in everyone's ears:
“You all spout nonsense about benevolence, righteousness, morality, and hierarchy.”
"Since you all like talking about rules so much..."
Pei Yunjing suddenly exerted force with his arms, lifting Tangli in his arms upwards once more, turning her into an extremely stable horizontal embrace.
Holding that fiery red robe, amidst countless shocked and terrified gazes, he actually strode forward towards the high platform that symbolized the pinnacle of imperial power—
We climbed up step by step!
"Then I will teach you today."
As Pei Yunjing walked, he coldly declared:
"What are Pei Yunjing's rules?"
He ignored the Empress Dowager's fear, ignored the young emperor's trembling, and ignored the ancestral rule that "subjects are not allowed to ascend the Dragon Platform."
step.
Two steps.
Three steps.
Black combat boots clattered on the white marble steps.
Every step they took trampled on imperial power.
Every step is reshaping the rules.
Tangli was held in his arms, her gaze rising higher and higher with his steps.
She looked down at the powerful and wealthy people below, who were usually high and mighty, but now they had become tiny black dots like ants.
She looked up at Pei Yunjing's cold, hard jawline, her heart pounding so hard it felt like it was going to jump out of her throat.
This madman...
What is he going to do?
Finally, Pei Yunjing reached the highest point.
He did not stop at his regent's throne.
Instead, carrying the pear blossoms, he went straight over the phoenix throne and the dragon chair, standing at the highest point of the palace—
On the viewing platform in the Imperial Garden.
At this moment, the setting sun, as red as blood, cast extremely long shadows of the two people, enveloping the entire Imperial Garden.
Pei Yunjing turned around to face the people kneeling at his feet.
His eyes were disdainful, his arrogance reaching its peak:
"In this Great Sheng Dynasty."
"What I like is the noblest."
"Those whom I favor are the most law-abiding."
"Anyone who disagrees..."
Pei Yunjing drew his "Delusion-Slaying" sword half an inch from its sheath, and a dragon's roar resounded through the sky:
"Then come up here and ask the sword in my hand!"
Tang Li leaned against his chest, watching the scene of thousands of subjects kneeling in worship, and listening to his extremely domineering declaration, she felt her eyes slightly hot.
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