The sudden chill in the air silenced the noisy crowd. The emperor, empress, and the princes and imperial physicians all turned around in alarm, only to see a handsome young man with flowing silver hair, whose exquisite features left everyone speechless, sit up.
The second prince's expression immediately changed, and he blurted out, "Weren't you dead?!"
Long Xun did not speak.
He ignored everyone.
After getting up, he simply selected a Tian Ce outfit – Hundred Battles Sealing the City.
That is, Dingguotao.
Under the watchful eyes of the royal family members in their finest attire and the ministers of the Imperial Medical Academy, Long Xun, who had just been wearing only a pure white undergarment, was instantly covered from head to toe in a thick silver armor. His silver hair was automatically styled into a bun without any wind, and the crimson feathers of his crown hung down to his back. A strand of silver-white bangs fell from his forehead, and strands of hair emerged from his dragon horns and flew diagonally backward. His dragon tail swayed faintly behind the silver armor.
He resembled a general returning from the battlefield, his shirt, not fully closed, revealing his fair yet extremely muscular chest and abdomen, which inexplicably gave him an air of unruliness and wickedness.
This unexpected turn of events turned the princes' faces deathly pale. The Seventh Prince forced a smile and tentatively asked, "Ninth Prince, are you... alright now?"
Before the Heavenly Dragon Dynasty was discovered, the current emperor had eight princes.
The eldest, third, fourth, and sixth princes died young. The second prince was the most popular candidate for the throne. The fifth prince was ambitious and secretly fought against him. The seventh prince subtly instigated the two princes. The eighth prince kept a low profile and tried to lull the others into a false sense of security.
They fought fiercely, but unexpectedly Long Xun appeared. If there were no other reason, the throne would surely fall to him.
No one dares to underestimate the favored ones; the only way to deal with them is for them to die.
Therefore, in the original story, Long Xun never encountered any dangerous accidents, as they would all be fatal.
Anyone who would target him has a motive, and everyone is a suspect. Even the emperor might be behind it all.
They thought that even if it didn't work, the Ninth Prince wouldn't care about their little tricks, given his usual oblivious attitude. But now, seeing his pure golden eyes replaced by dark gold, and his murderous aura, they couldn't help but feel regret.
How dare mortals offend those favored by Heaven!
What kind of ferocious beast have they released?!
In the past, Long Xun would have ignored these people because their petty actions were meaningless to him.
But now...
These greedy, delusional, power-hungry, and ruthless humans.
How are you similar to someone else?
The young man in silver armor took a step forward. With just one step, his father, his elder brother, and the imperial physician standing beside him involuntarily stepped back!
Their killing intent was intense; even though it was just a casual step, it felt as if they had already walked through hell.
Fear made them retreat involuntarily!
Even the emperor abdicated!
Before they could even get angry, a flash of dark light appeared, and the seventh prince, who had just spoken, stared wide-eyed in horror, clutching the bloody hole that had suddenly appeared in his throat in disbelief, and fell to the ground with his eyes wide open in death.
Cold sweat instantly soaked the backs of the survivors' clothes. They dared not make a sound as they watched the fierce-looking young man with silver armor and hair, dragon horns and a dragon tail, casually raise a spear that had appeared in his hand at some unknown time. The spear tip lightly tapped the ground, making a tinkling sound that sent chills down their spines.
"Treating human life like dirt... that's the feeling, no wonder you like it." Long Xun's cold and indifferent voice contained a hint of cruel pleasure. His expression was indifferent, as if killing a person or blowing away a speck of dust was not worth his attention, but the deep, dark gold in his eyes seemed to be surging with black waves.
At that moment, it seemed as if he wanted to follow that urge and kill everyone present.
Even the emperor, princes, and imperial physicians all felt as if they were already dead, their bodies ice-cold, their hearts stopped beating, and their minds blank.
No one dared to speak.
Long Xun casually poked at the Seventh Prince's corpse with the tip of his spear, seemingly chuckling, but his face still held that cold, disdainful, and exhausted look. He then raised his eyes to look at the Second Prince.
He said, “I killed him because he said something to me that displeased me. You also said something to me, cursing me to die. If I only kill him and not you, wouldn’t that be unfair?”
Humans fight for inexplicable reasons, and now he is using the same inexplicable reason to tell them that they must take their lives.
The Second Prince's expression was priceless, a mixture of absurdity and despair. He couldn't even find a reason to die, and thus he fell to Long Xun's gun.
The others dared not speak, fearing they would be found with a reason to be killed.
It wasn't until that cold figure, dragging his gun, slowly walked away amidst the clattering sound of the gun tip scraping the ground that the others gradually came to their senses.
At this moment, no matter how many thoughts or intrigues they had before, the entire royal family was left with only one thought.
The one favored by Heaven, Long Xun, must die!
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