Jiang Mo suddenly

said, "Unbutton your clothes, use a knife to cut a little wound on your chest, and the dragonflies will fly out by themselves."

The armored guards looked at each other, and while they were hesitating, someone had already taken off his armor, unbuttoned his clothes, and lightly cut a knife on his chest.

The tiny insects flew out of the cut wound, flew into the air to find the mother dragonfly, and surrounded her.

Seeing this scene, almost all the armored guards immediately took action, unbuttoned their clothes, and cut their chests.

Countless dragonflies flew towards the mother dragonfly in the air, with some blood on their bodies, dripping on the ground, leaving spots of blood.

Jiang Mo raised his palm to the air, and in an instant, the insects turned into powder and scattered on the ground.

Looking at Jiang Xu who was wailing in pain, a few scattered pictures flashed before his eyes.

Five years ago, it was still a winter night, and it was snowing. The young man was playing and returned to the palace after dark. As soon as he entered the palace, he heard his mother's painful cry.

He hurried to his mother's bedroom and saw her holding her chest in pain, with the devil-like young man standing beside her.

"Your mother is dying!" The young man's smile seemed to come from hell.

"You... run!" The mother's voice reached the boy's ears, "Go... go and beg the prince, don't worry about me..."

But the boy did not leave. He looked at the demon in front of him, his voice trembling slightly, "What do you want me to do?"

"Put this bug into your body, and then do things for me obediently." A small black bug in a crystal box appeared in the palm of the young man's hand. The bug fluttered its wings in the box, staring at the boy greedily.

The boy stood still, the young man smiled and waved, and then a servant walked in front of him, roughly ripped open his chest, revealing his pale and tender skin.

"No... don't! He... he is only twelve years old, you can't do this... you killed me, killed me!" The mother struggled like crazy to stop it, but was pressed to the ground by the guards.

The boy's body trembled slightly, and fear surged in his eyes. He knew something terrible was going to happen. Although he had the ability to escape, he looked at his mother and did not resist.

The young man opened the box and placed it on the boy's chest. The black bug jumped up excitedly as if it had smelled something delicious, and climbed onto the boy's chest. Then, it quickly drilled into the boy's skin, leaving a deep bleeding wound.

The boy's pupils suddenly contracted, and his heart seemed to be stepped on hard. He felt so painful that his whole body was numb, and his body softened and he knelt on the ground.

The young man turned and left, leaving only a cold sentence, "You should be glad that you are a martial arts genius. Being useful is the only value of your life. In this palace, useless people... don't deserve to live!"

Three months later.

The bright moon in the sky shone on the body of the woman in the room. The face of the body was twisted in pain, with eyes wide open and tears hanging from the corners of the eyes.

When the moon finally disappeared, the young man flew out of the window, ran along the roof, and suddenly jumped down and stabbed the young man who was drinking tea with his sword.

But suddenly, his body convulsed, fell from the air, and fell heavily to the ground, spurting out a large mouthful of blood.

Several guards rushed out and punched and kicked the young man who was already unable to get up.

"Okay," the young man stood up, put the small golden box in his arms, turned around and looked at the boy coldly, "Don't beat him to death, I still count on him to help me do a lot of things!"

He suddenly laughed, "With his current skills, he will be able to break through the ninth level before he is twenty years old? No... maybe even earlier."

Late one night not long after, the boy knelt in front of a man in a yellow robe.

"Please, Prince, kill the Third Prince!"

"I am willing to pay any price, including my own life!"

The man laughed, "Do you really not care about your own life?"

"No one in this world cares about me, and I don't care about anyone, including... myself."

"I live only to seek revenge. For me, life now is more painful than death."

The man pondered and said slowly, "Stay alive, this is my first order."

Jiang Ge walked in front of the armored guards and said in a clear voice, "Now that you are free, is there anything you want to do?"

Hearing this, the armored guards all turned their eyes to Jiang Xu, who had shouted until his voice was hoarse.

They had been tortured by the Heart-Eating Boar for a long time, the longest time was five or six years, and the shortest time was more than a year. Although they were forced to obey orders, no one was without resentment in their hearts.

At this time, they only wanted to do one thing.

"You...what do you want to do?" Jiang Xu looked at the armored guards who surrounded him and said in panic.

The armored guards' smiles were filled with murderous intent.

"The Fifth Prince and the Third Prince have a feud over the murder of their mother, but the Third Prince only slashed the Third Prince with his sword. We certainly won't slash more."

"Come on, I'll only slash once and stop after one strike, and we'll be even."

"She has been tortured for so many years, and it was really merciful of him to only slash her once!"

"I heard that the Third Prince was the one who killed the little palace maid back then? What a pity, a good girl turned into a pile of minced meat. And the innocent Fifth Prince was blamed and almost beaten to death."

"Third Prince, wouldn't it be more interesting to watch your body turn into a pile of minced meat while you're still alive?"

"Be gentle, it will be boring if you die!"

After a long time, the armored guards finally stopped and left the yard together.

Jiang Ge was waiting outside the courtyard, sighing, "Doing this in our Jiang family's ancestral hall, I'm afraid the ancestors of the Jiang family will cry!"

The armored guards lowered their heads, not knowing how to respond for a moment.

But Jiang Ge said, "But I forgive you, and this matter will not be pursued. You have suffered a lot in these years, and now you can do what you want. Although I have always been at odds with the third prince, after all, death is the greatest, and I will do my best for him. Each of you can get 100 taels of silver from me, and no one will stop you from going anywhere in the future."

After a long silence, an armored guard suddenly shouted, "I am willing to be loyal to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!"

As soon as he opened his mouth, many armored guards followed and shouted, "I am willing to be loyal to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!"

Jiang Ge smiled, "But I am different from the third brother. I can only accept people who are truly loyal to me. If you are loyal to me, I will not let you down even if you die. If you betray me... I will kill you without mercy! But I will not use despicable means to control and threaten you. Before you betray me, I am willing to believe in your loyalty and will always believe in it!"

The armored guards said in unison: "We are willing to be loyal to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince until death!"

Jiang Ge glanced at Jiang Mo, but saw that he closed his eyes, frowned tightly, and his body was shaking violently.

"What's wrong with you?" Jiang Ge was slightly stunned, "Didn't you free the snake a long time ago?"

Jiang Mo tapped the ground with his toes, flew up with the force, and entered the empty ancestral hall.

Then a loud "boom" was heard from the ancestral hall, and an invisible wave of air gushed out from the ancestral hall, causing the surrounding walls to collapse. For a moment, even the air seemed to stagnate.

Through the broken walls, smoke and dust could be seen rolling in the ancestral hall. The entire ancestral hall collapsed.

When the smoke and dust dissipated, Jiang Mo's figure appeared in the ruins.

Everyone's eyes were fixed on Jiang Mo, with strong shock in their eyes.

"Is this... seeing the ninth level breakthrough?"

"Nine level breakthrough... so scary."

"The ancestral hall is gone!"

"It seems... unimportant."

Jiang Ge's eyes were a little more alert. He walked towards Jiang Mo and asked, "What are your plans next?"

Jiang Mo saw through his thoughts at a glance and said calmly, "I have no interest in what you are planning. You can do whatever you want. I will not help you or stop you. But there is one thing... how do you plan to deal with Concubine Meng?"

Concubine Meng is Jiang Xu's mother and also Jiang Xu's accomplice in all his evil deeds over the years.

Jiang Ge smiled and said, "Her son died suddenly, so she will naturally be overly sad. I heard that she has always been in poor health, and I am afraid she will not live long!"

"So... it makes sense." Jiang Mo nodded.

Jiang Ge's eyes suddenly became sharp. He stared straight into Jiang Mo's eyes and confirmed again: "You... definitely won't help him, right?"

He originally wouldn't mind Jiang Mo too much, but now that Jiang Mo suddenly broke through the ninth level, he had to be on guard.

"I have suffered a lot these years," Jiang Mo said slowly, "When I was suffering and about to die, did he help me?"

Jiang Ge's lips showed a little more smile, "Indeed, when Jiang Xu forced you to admit that you killed the palace maid, he knew it, but he went with the flow and still let you take the blame. Such a heavy punishment, ordinary people can't stand it for three days, but he wanted you to be punished for seven days, simply wanting to kill you. If I hadn't privately instructed the executioner to take care of it secretly, you would really have been beaten to death."

He sighed. Jiang Ge said, "He also knew that you and your mother were planted with heart-eating snakes, but he didn't care and let you fend for yourself. And now, even if you have the ability to help him, you won't do it, right?"

Jiang Mo gently raised his right hand, looked at the deep scar on his hand, and slowly said, "What you like to do has nothing to do with me, you don't have to tell me."

Jiang Ge finally smiled with relief, turned around and waved to the secret guards and armored guards behind him, saying, "Follow me!"

While the people of Tancheng were happily making dumplings at home, the palace was already a river of blood.

The Imperial City Guards fought with the secret guards and armored guards until dawn, and were finally defeated. Seeing that the situation was hopeless, the surviving Imperial City Guards chose to surrender.

The emperor sat on his throne calmly, like a tiger with all its teeth plucked out.

"My third brother's Iron Guards are really powerful, and they are indeed carefully selected experts. They are only a small team of 400 people, but they are more powerful than an army of 5,000. In recent years, he has recruited experts from all over the world and used Heart-Eating Dragons to control them to work for him. It's a headache for me!" Jiang Ge wiped the blood off his sword and sheathed it. The sound of metal colliding made the emperor raise his eyelids and sigh for a long time.

"Your secret guards are not bad either, they are better than I thought." The emperor said, with some sadness in his eyes, "Your third brother... died?"

"He died tragically." Jiang Ge did not hide it, and even exaggerated his tone.

The emperor was silent for a while, then asked, "What are you going to do to me?"

"After you abdicate, I will build an underground palace for you to enjoy your old age. All of your concubines will go to the underground palace to accompany you... except for Concubine Meng." Jiang Ge said.

"Concubine Meng? What are you going to do to her?"

"Jiang Mo asked me to kill her to avenge his mother, so I couldn't not do it. But don't worry, she won't die too painfully, but she won't die too easily either, after all, she has to give an explanation to Jiang Mo."

The emperor was slightly startled, "Why do you want to listen to Jiang Mo?"

"Oh, because he has broken through the ninth level."

"He has broken through the ninth level... why didn't he come to save me?"

"... You are so embarrassed to ask?"