Phoniex Requiem
Chapter 76: Flowers in Cowpat

Chapter 76: Flowers in Cowpat

Rong Yuehong did not scream in pain, nor did she vomit blood. Instead, he simply groaned and slumped, falling to the ground in a pile.

The sudden shock had cleared his mind. He could feel the spiritual energy quickly leaving his body, including the spiritual vortex swirling within his dantian, which he had built up during decades of effort.

His eyes widened, he saw a dark shadow in front of him. Only then did Rong Yuehong realize that the man who was secretly watching the show was the legendary King of Slaughter, Li Mo.

As Li Mo gestured to Rong Yuehong, a silver needle flew out from his stomach and into his hand once more.

Everyone in the park continued to watch the scene unfolding before them with bated breath, even the empress and emperor himself. It was so quiet that one could almost hear the sound of silver needles landing on Li Mo's palm.

“High-grade hidden weapon, hmm?” The silver needle shone with an ice-cold aura as Li Mo picked it up.

The gazes of the crowd naturally spun into the needles. High-grade weapons were already hard to come by, let alone high-grade hidden weapons.

The smoother the weapon, the harder it was to fake. The silver needle in Li Mo's hand was so thin and delicate that it seemed like it was incomparable in the entire Li kingdom.

The empress finally recovered from her confusion, the event happened so quickly that she did not have the ability to react.

He quickly walked to Rong Yuehong's side and felt his pulse. When he did, his face turned pale.

Rong Yuehong fell gently onto the empress' lap. "Auntie, please save me!"

But the empress let go, and Rong Yuehong's lifeless hand fell to the ground. He could only sigh and say coldly, "You won't die, but your cultivation is gone!"

"missing? Aunt, what do you mean?!” Rong Yuehong looked at the empress in disbelief.

The Empress stood up and flicked the dust from her robe. “ Your dantian has been destroyed. From now on, live your life peacefully as an ordinary girl.”

"No no…!" Rong Yuehong shouted bitterly. “Auntie, I am the most talented descendant of the Rong family! I became the third rank sword master in six years, the fourth rank in ten years, and last month, I even broke through to rank six! Aunty, we can't dump me like this. Please help me!"

The empress frowned. His crying and unsightly nephew made him even more dizzy. Since he had the greatest share of family resources, Rong Yuehong had indeed grown up as a cultivator, but he still seemed to have no brains.

The empress had long warned her brother not to overindulge her nephew, or else his niece would get into trouble sooner or later.

But Rong Tianling did not remember his words, after all, who in Li kingdom would dare to challenge Rong? Even the current emperor had to treat her politely, didn't his daughter have the right to be arrogant?

But he forgot that there was one person that even his family could not afford to offend him. The empress looked towards Li Mo, puzzled.

This Slaying King rarely showed his face in the capital, and never cared about what happened in the court. Why did she suddenly appear at the flower viewing party today?

It had been three years since the empress last saw her. If he had not attacked Rong Yuehong, the empress would most likely not have noticed his presence at all.

"Now that the Slaying King himself has moved against you, no one can save you." The Empress spoke to Rong Yuehong even as she looked at Li Mo. "Actually, you should even thank the Slaughterer King for saving your life."

Li Mo continued to play the needle in his palm until he realized that the empress was waiting for him to speak. "unneeded. I've never been soft. The only reason I didn't kill him was because I thought being deformed would hurt him more than dying.”

Everyone took a breath, as if the garden had suddenly become five degrees colder.

If they could not cultivate, the female noble lineage was merely a tool to forge alliances between families. Moreover, regardless of their status, such women could only be concubines, not full wives.

Since the birth of Rong Yuehong, her talent has made her the pride and joy of the Rong family. She grew up and got used to being above everyone, and it was hard to imagine how she would be squashed under her feet as a concubine.

"No no!" As soon as Rong Yuehong thought about this, he fainted. “Auntie, I don't want to be a useless human being. Please, kill me, kill me!” She cried and howled while hugging the empress' feet.

Tired of all these failures, the empress called the four soldiers, “Send the young lady back to Rong's house! Don't let him embarrass himself like this here!”

Even as he was pulled out, the gathered crowd could still hear him shout, "Yun Ruoyan, I will take revenge on you even if I become a ghost...!"

The empress looked at the soul chasing needle in Li Mo's hand and narrowed her eyes. It was Rong's family heirloom, and she couldn't help but curse her brother once more. Did he give him access to all the family treasures so that he could defile them?!

He had just considered how to take the needle from Li Mo when he said coldly, "This is something Rong gave me directly, so I'll take it as a gift."

The queen's eyes twitched, but she said nothing.

“Fourth brother, I didn't expect you to join the party as well,” Li Xiu greeted Li Mo before turning to the eunuch beside him. "Suppose the start of the banquet."

The eunuch immediately stood up straight and loudly announced, “Then the banquet began! Young master, young lady, please sit.”

"Empress, it's time to start the banquet." Li Xiu smiled at his companion, who was still standing and staring at Li Mo.

Unwilling to hand over the family heirloom, but equally unable to disturb Li Mo, the empress could only follow quietly behind the emperor.

The descendants of the nobility immediately tidied themselves up and sat back down in his chair, as if nothing had happened.

On the other hand, Yun Ruoyao stared at the empty chair next to her vigilantly. If Rong Yuehong was a rank six swordsman, then what about Yun Ruoyan, who played with him during the duel?! How could someone cultivate so quickly? Did he somehow break through to the seventh rank within two weeks of entering the imperial territory? Is Yun Ruoyan indeed a demon ?!

He looks around. Not finding any signs of Yi Qianying or Pei Ziao, he became even more panicked.

Yun Ruoyan sat down beside Li Mo. Just as he was about to wake up, a hand stretched out in front of him.

He's a little confused. It was this hand that caught the high-grade hidden weapon right in front of him. How strong was his cultivation to achieve such a feat?

Li Mo reached out his hand, grabbed his wrist, and pulled it into his lap.

This made the crowd, who had just calmed down, pant once more. The Slaughter King, pulled the ugly girl into his lap. Although Yun Ruoyan did not look so pitiful as before, but... was she really the Slaughter King type?

Li Qianhan had found a seat elsewhere to leave the two of them with plenty of space.

Faced with the anxious gazes of the audience, Yun Ruoyan began to blush. Although she had lived two lives and was not the inexperienced girl she seemed to be, she was naturally still a reclusive and conservative woman.

Even when the aphrodisiac has taken possession of his body, he has escaped the need to be ****. How could he let someone take advantage of him now? Of course, what he didn't realize was, in the eyes of the crowd, it was him who was utilizing Li Mo, not the other way around.

"Take me off," muttered Yun Ruoyan, pushing Li Mo's chest.

"Pull it down" he whispered back. “Isn't it fun to rely on others? You did really well just now.”

Just new? Yun Ruoyan hesitated for a moment. Oh my God, it's a matter of life and death! How can it compare to the present ?!

"I am honored to ask for protection from you, Slaughter King, but I cannot be so irresponsible as to lock you up like a leech," Yun Ruoyan replied eloquently, saying, still trying to escape from his grasp.

Li Mo did not seem to be using any strength. He did not hurt Yun Ruoyan at all, but he could not make her let go of her grip. Even after struggling for half a day, Yun Ruoyan could not break free. He turned to look at her furiously, but only saw her dark eyes sparkle. It made her even more angry, but she stopped fighting back.

After all, he was not the type of person who would try to break a stone with an egg, if the opponent was really too strong for him to handle, then he would have to find another way to retaliate.

Only when the girl on his lap stopped struggling did Li Mo relax and look at his surroundings. As if it was a razor-sharp weapon, his gaze caused everyone who landed within it to wriggle and turn.

"Brother, won't the banquet begin?" In the end, he looked towards Li Xiu and asked coldly.

“True, right, it's time to get started. As usual, the banquet was organized by the empress.” After Li Xiu finished speaking, he could only glance at Li Mo and Yun Ruoyan, still on his lap.

'I've never seen Li Mo care about anything, so why would he defend a girl now?!'

A few days ago, when the Yue emperor sent messengers to complain about how Li Mo had killed his own nephew because of a female slave, Li Xiu thought that his brother had finally found the love of his life. However, Li Mo seemed to have released the slave once he saved him.

After further investigation, Li Xiu's confusion was resolved when it turned out that the female slave was a beast's skin.

But what happened today? Was her brother really interested in that Yun girl?

When Li Xiu smiled, his eyes turned into a thin crescent moon, and no one knew where he was looking as he did so. As he sat smiling at the end of the table, his students, like tadpoles, swam to the corner of his eyes and focused on Yun Ruoyan. He was in the right position to see Yun Ruoyan's birthmark, which was dark red to almost black.

Li Xiu could not help but twitch. Could this ugly girl really like her brother?