After slaying the Sakura Country's consecrated imperial ancestor, Qin Yuanfeng walked out of the palace without even looking back. With every step he took, the biting murderous intent radiating from his body spread outward like a physical force, plunging the entire imperial palace and its surrounding areas into an atmosphere of extreme oppression.
Inside the Sakura Country's imperial palace at that moment, utter chaos reigned. Seeing their consecrated ancestor dead, the imperial guards and attendants turned ashen-faced and fled in all directions, their cries of terror piercing the sky as if the apocalypse had arrived. Meanwhile, the imperial realm's experts at the Martial Sage realm and above—including various ninjas, shikigami masters, and Sakura Country onmyoji—experienced a surge of complex emotions after their initial shock. Fear and anger gripped them, but as the pillars of the imperial court, they could not simply back down easily. Thus, they gathered together, preparing to make a final desperate stand.
True qi surged around these experts, flashing with multicolored lights that illuminated the gloomy imperial palace in dazzling hues. Among them were close-combat samurai wielding sharp long sabers, the blades gleaming with a chilling frost imbued with spiritual energy as if they could slice through the void; onmyoji proficient in arcane arts, dressed in ornate robes and chanting incantations, holding talismans that flickered with strange light as they began setting up …
Chapter 267