Chapter 344: Release poisonous smoke to block all escape routes!
Xiyan pressed herself against the stone door, cold sweat oozing from her palms. Through the heavy stone door, the crisp sound of weapons clashing, mixed with the breathing of the three people, hit her eardrums like drumbeats.
Manluo looked at Chu Jin's red robe being cut into strips by the blade. The wounds were shocking, and there was a hint of uneasiness in her eyes.
She subconsciously put her hand on her lower abdomen, and the little life there suddenly kicked lightly, as if it felt its mother's anxiety.
Manluo couldn't help but pat her belly lightly and cursed softly:
"What are you doing all this trouble for? Are you afraid your father will die? Why did your damn father come to Nanzhao to join in the fun? Can't you just let your mother be quiet for a few days?"
Xiyan looked through her glass eyes at the figures fighting outside like a revolving lantern. She thought of Xiao Nanyan's blood-stained eyebrows and eyes when he broke into the formation, and the paranoid possessiveness in his eyes, and a dull pain arose in her heart.
This fight was clearly caused by her, but she didn't even have the courage to push the door open - once she went out, she would be involved in endless disputes.
Besides, this was a trap carefully designed by the emperor, just to teach Xiao Nanyue a lesson for what he had done to her.
After thinking about it, she didn't want to look at it anymore.
…
At this moment, the battle outside the stone gate has entered a stalemate.
At this critical moment, the roar of a mechanism turning suddenly came from above the dome.
Xie Zhen's cold voice fell with an echo:
"Prince Xiao, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and Master Imperial Preceptor, you three are truly audacious. How dare you trespass into my forbidden grounds? How dare you do this?"
The sound of fighting stopped abruptly.
Xiao Nanyan's black clothes were stained with blood, but his posture remained straight as a pine tree. He looked up at Xie Zhen's calm gaze and bowed.
"Southern Emperor, it was wrong of me to barge in rashly, but..."
His gaze suddenly turned towards the stone gate: "This king has already found out that Xiyan is in this underground palace. I have the audacity to enter the palace today just to find my woman!"
Xie Zhen snorted coldly:
"Didn't you see my Princess Zhaoning with your own eyes yesterday? How come seeing isn't believing?"
A hint of a smile appeared on Xiao Nanyan's lips:
"Seeing is believing, but it's not reality. The one on the rooftop the day before yesterday was the real princess, but the one yesterday was an imposter. I think the Southern Emperor is playing a little joke on us."
Xie Zhen narrowed his eyes slightly:
"Are you so sure, Prince Xiao?" His voice suddenly turned cold.
Xiao Nanyan no longer looked at him, his dark jade eyes fixed on the barrier that prevented him from seeing his lover:
"I believe that the Southern Emperor will not mistake the Southern Empress, and I can naturally tell which one is his woman!"
"You——" Xie Zhen felt a chill rising from his body, and he pressed his jade ring tightly against the edge of the skylight, furious.
"You are so good, Xiao Nanyan! So what if Xiyan is my daughter? You bullied her first, causing her to be heartbroken, and now you want to take her away? "
The luminous stone on the dome made his eyes turn crimson.
"Even if you've broken through two levels of the Thousand Machines Confining Dragon Formation, what good is that? This third level is something even a Golden Immortal wouldn't be able to break. I want to see if you can even take a single step out of the Shuyu Palace!"
At this moment, Chu Jin wiped the sweat from his forehead and glared at Xie Zhen with a sneer:
"Nan Huang, I, Chu Jin, have no interest in your daughter. What I want is my woman, Manluo. She is pregnant with my son. Give her back to me!"
His hoarse roar hit the stone walls of the underground palace, causing waves of echoes.
Before he finished speaking, Xie Zhan's stern face appeared in the skylight:
"Chu Jin, are you worthy of talking about love? That day at Feiyun Temple, if Manluo hadn't been lucky, she would have died in your hands!"
He looked down at the mess on the ground in the underground palace, his handsome face tense.
"Since Manluo has come to Nanzhao, she has made up her mind to break off all ties with you. How can she live a good life with you? You should just give up the idea of taking her away. As long as I, Xie Zhan, am here, you can't take her away!"
Chu Jin was furious, veins popping out on his forehead, and pointed his sword towards the dome:
"Xie Zhan, you despicable villain! Stop using high-sounding words as a fig leaf. You are just coveting my woman, and yet you speak so righteously!"
Xie Zhan sneered:
"Yes, I love her. Even if she has your son, I will still love her and treat her son as my own!"
Chu Jin's body swayed. At that moment, he imagined Manluo holding their son, leaning on Xie Zhan's arms and smiling sweetly, while their son kept calling Xie Zhan "Dad"...
He felt his eyes go dark and he almost fainted:
"You bastard, how dare you! Get off me if you dare, or I'll chop you into pieces!"
"You're about to die, yet you still dare to speak nonsense!"
Xie Zhan was extremely angry. He stopped answering Chu Jin and turned to look at Helian Feng:
"Your Highness, please do not blame me for not remembering our old friendship. You have trespassed into the Forbidden Palace and violated the taboos of the Nanzhao Palace. I have no choice but to punish you according to the palace rules!"
After saying this, he turned around and ordered the guards on his left and right:
"Release poisonous smoke and block all escape routes!"
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