Lu Nianxin stood on the ground with a knife in her hand. The strong wind blew, and her clothes rustled in the wind. Her heroic posture and supreme domineering aura made people look up to her.
All around, those ministers who were loyal to the Yue family looked at Lu Nianxin with admiration, tears welling up in their eyes again, but unlike the previous despair, this time, they shed tears of joy.
Lu Nianxin slowly turned around and looked at the Wu family members.
"Your Majesty, please be wise. Today's rebellion was committed by the traitor Wu Tianxiong alone. We were completely unaware of it. Please forgive us, Your Majesty." An old man from the Wu family was the first to kneel on the ground, followed by a large group of people kneeling down.
"I beg the Queen Mother to understand. We were all coerced by the traitor Wu Tianxiong and had to submit to his tyranny." Those rebellious ministers who defected to Wu Tianxiong and cheered for him also knelt down and kowtowed for mercy. They were unaware that their heads were covered in blood.
Lu Nianxin glanced at them coldly, but said nothing. She turned around and said to Yue Fanchen, "Take their bodies out and show them to the rebellious city guards and imperial guards."
Yue Fanchen responded, picked up the bodies of Wu Tianxiong, Lin Weicheng, Mo Yunhai and others, and quickly walked out of the imperial garden.
Soon, the shouting and screaming outside subsided, the mastermind was executed, the situation was hopeless, and no one dared to continue rebelling.
Until this time, the Wu family and the rebellious ministers were still kowtowing continuously, their faces covered in blood, a horrible sight.
However, no one felt pity. Although these people were heartbroken and full of remorse, if the Queen Mother had not recovered her strength, even if the Yue family abdicated the throne, they could only survive for a few days at most, and in the end they would still not be able to escape the disaster of being exterminated. What was there to sympathize with them?
"Mother, how should we deal with these traitors?" Yue Fanyi looked at them with disgust and asked respectfully.
"You are the king of a country, so you should make the decision yourself on such matters." Lu Nian thought to himself.
She only protected the Yue clan with her powerful military force, but was unwilling to interfere in state affairs, and she did not want her meddling to affect Yue Fanyi's prestige as a ruler. She was very clear about the differences between family and state.
"Take them to the Heavenly Prison and keep them under strict guard, awaiting their fate." Yue Fanyi decisively ordered the imperial guards who had just arrived to "rescue" him, a fierce light inadvertently flashing in his eyes.
Soon, all the members of the Wu family and those rebellious ministers had their cultivation sealed and were taken away.
Mu Hanyan knew that death was waiting for those traitors, but the Wu family members might have a chance to survive because of the friendship between the ancestors of the Wu and Yue families. Of course, those who had some cultivation would either die of illness in prison, commit suicide because of their serious sins, or accidentally bump into the prison wall while playing hide-and-seek. The old, weak, and sick who could finally come out alive would most likely be exiled to the bitter and cold frontier and eventually be forgotten.
However, these matters were not Mu Hanyan's concern. The struggle for imperial power was inherently cruel. Since the Wu family had ambitions to seize the throne, they should have considered the worst possible outcome.
"Let's end the palace banquet here today. I'm a little tired." Lu Nianxin said to the ministers.
Although the final result was exactly what she wanted, after experiencing such a storm, the palace banquet naturally could not continue.
All the ministers stood up and bowed to Lu Nianxin and others to say goodbye. When it was Mu Hanyan's turn, his face was even more respectful.
They all knew that with Mu Hanyan's age and strength, her future achievements were unpredictable. It would be surprising if she even surpassed Lu Nianxin. Even if Lu Nianxin were no longer alive, no matter how incompetent the Yue family's descendants were, as long as Mu Hanyan was there, the Yue clan's throne in Shangyue would be unshakable.
She is the new guardian of the Yue family after Lu Nianxin.
Just as everyone was saying goodbye and leaving, suddenly, Tian Annan's body, which seemed to be stiff with death, jumped up, crashed through the palace wall, and then flew away.
Everyone was stunned: this old man was actually pretending to be dead. Seeing Tian Annan completely motionless and lifeless earlier, everyone thought he had died from the combined attack of Lu Nianxin and Ye Lanxun. Who knew he was actually faking death, playing it until everyone relaxed their vigilance against him, and then he took off running.
This time, even Mu Hanyan was completely caught off guard. She wanted to chase him, but it was too late.
"What a pity, he escaped like this." Mu Hanyan said regretfully.
Despite Tian Annan's disguise, Mu Hanyan's keen senses allowed her to recognize him from the fluctuations in his aura as he left. She also finally guessed the origin of Jing Jianjue and the others' sword formation. In fact, the old man's sword formation was derived from his private collection of secret techniques from the temple, and it was similar to the sword formations of Jing Jianjue and the others. She had already suspected this, but she didn't know the relationship between Jing Jianjue and the others and her, so she couldn't be sure.
This old man is too powerful and very scheming. He is even good at pretending to be dead and escaping. It would not be a good thing to let him escape.
"Forget it, let him go. With grandma's knife and my sword just now, even if he doesn't die, he will be seriously injured. It will take him dozens or hundreds of years to recover his strength." Ye Lanxuan said indifferently. He had enough confidence in his current cultivation level.
Only after hearing Ye Lanxuan say this did she feel relieved.
After all the ministers left, only a few people from the Yue family were left in the garden, as well as Ye Lanxuan, Hua Yue and others beside Mu Hanyan, all of whom were their own people.
"Mother, when did you lift the ban and regain your strength? Why didn't you tell me? You made me so worried." Yue Fanyi said to Lu Nianxin with a wry smile.
"I was scared too before. Mom, can you please tell me in advance if something like this happens again? Do you know that it will scare people to death?" Yue Fanchen said with lingering fear.
Mu Hanyan was stunned. They really didn't know what was going on. She had thought that her two uncles were better than her grandmother and their acting skills were even better than her grandmother's.
"If I tell you, with your heartless character, how can you possibly hide it from that old fox Wu Tianxiong?" Lu Nianxin said disapprovingly.
She is indeed an old fox. Not only did she deceive outsiders, she also deceived her own family. Mu Hanyan looked at her grandmother with admiration.
"My precious granddaughter is really amazing. She is the most patient and worthy of being my biological daughter." After scolding the two brothers Yue Fanyi and Yue Fanchen, the grandmother habitually praised Mu Hanyan and flattered herself.
Mu Hanyan wiped the cold sweat from her forehead and looked at her grandmother speechlessly: Please, it’s not that I can’t keep my composure, I was just so focused on watching your superb acting skills that I was secretly happy in my heart and didn’t care about other things. Also, I am your biological child, but they are not, don’t you know that saying this will make people very sad.
Sure enough, the two brothers Yue Fanyi and Yue Fanchen on the side both looked like they wanted to cry but had no tears.
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