While Qin Feiyang and the others were hurrying toward the God Clan, the Divine Kingdom Master finally gathered up his inner grief at Emperor Capital Mountain and slowly closed the ice coffin.
Seeing this, a trace of sneer crept into Dong Tianchen's eyes.
The good show was about to begin.
With a wave of his hand, the ice coffin vanished, and the Divine Kingdom Master then looked at Dong Yuexian and Inner Demon, saying calmly: "Now, tell us everything one by one—the secrets you haven't dared to speak of!"
"There are no secrets." Dong Yuexian shook her head.
The Divine Kingdom Master said, "Yuexian, do not assume you can act wildly just because your grandfather dotes on you."
Dong Yuexian's pupils contracted, and she lowered her head in panic, completely at a loss.
"Yuexian, hurry up and speak!" the Emperor and Empress urged.
Dong Tianchen looked at Dong Yuexian with amusement and smiled, "Sister Yuexian, if you don't dare say it, I can do it for you."
"Shut up!" Dong Yuexian's eyes were filled with fury.
"Alright, alright. I'll shut up, I'll shut up." Dong Tianchen nodded, his face full of playful mockery.
Let's see how you talk your way out of this!
Inner Demon clenched his hands slightly.
This guy was truly becoming more and more arrogant.
"Yuexian!" Ji Suyi urged.
Because on the Divine Kingdom Master, they could already distinctly feel a trace of rising anger.
Dong Yuexian was frantic with anxiety.
The Emperor looked at Inner Demon and said in a deep voice, "Lu Yuntian, you tell us."
Dong Tianchen sneered, "He'd dare even less."
The Emperor frowned. What on earth was going on?
Dong Tianchen glanced at Inner Demon and mocked, "Since it concerns his very life, would he dare speak?"
Yet before his voice even faded, murderous intent surged wildly in Inner Demon's eyes. In a flash, he appeared right in front of Dong Tianchen, slammed a palm directly onto Dong Tianchen's lower abdomen, and the Power of Laws surged forth torrentially.
Puff!
Dong Tianchen vomited a mouthful of blood, and his sea of Qi shattered on the spot.
This turn of events exceeded everyone's expectations.
Even Dong Yuexian had not anticipated that Inner Demon would strike so suddenly.
"What are you doing?" Dong Tianchen glared at Inner Demon in shock and anger.
In his view, Inner Demon was at Emperor Capital Mountain, with the Emperor and Empress and the Divine Kingdom Master right beside him; even if Inner Demon were given a hundred times the courage, he would not dare to kill him.
Yet who could have expected that this guy simply did not play by the rules.
Inner Demon grabbed Dong Tianchen by the throat, his gaze incomparably cold, and said, "It seems that after all these years in the Secret Realm, you still haven't figured out my personality and methods."
"You dare!" Dong Tianchen roared.
If his sea of Qi were intact, he wouldn't be afraid.
Even if Inner Demon's strength surpassed his, killing him would be as hard as ascending to heaven, because he possessed the God-Slaying Domain, which could render him invincible for half an hour.
But now, with his sea of Qi shattered, he was like a helpless little chick; for Inner Demon to kill him, all it took was a flick of the finger.
"Don't do anything rash! This is Emperor Capital Mountain!" Dong Ping snapped out of his daze and hurriedly shouted at Inner Demon.
Meanwhile, Dong Xin stood to one side, remaining silent.
In truth, she had already anticipated this moment.
Dong Tianchen had kept provoking him and acting arrogantly—sooner or later, he would enrage Inner Demon.
She only hadn't expected it to come so quickly, nor had she expected Inner Demon to strike right in front of the Divine Kingdom Master and the Emperor and Empress.
However, Inner Demon turned a deaf ear to Dong Ping's words, murderous intent flickering in his eyes.
Dong Yuexian also hurriedly pulled Inner Demon's hand, anxiously advising, "Don't be impulsive! You must not make a catastrophic mistake!"
"Lu Yuntian, what on earth are you doing?" The Emperor and Empress could not help shouting coldly as well.
Inner Demon glanced back at Dong Yuexian, then slowly loosened his grip on Dong Tianchen's throat.
"I thought you actually had the guts to kill me! Looks like you're scared too!" Dong Tianchen sneered.
The moment these words left his mouth, Inner Demon's murderous intent skyrocketed. He chuckled grimly, "I have to admit, you really have a lot of courage, provoking me over and over again."
"Much obliged," Dong Tianchen said coldly.
"It seems you really think you have nothing to fear! You truly believe that here at Emperor Capital Mountain, I wouldn't dare touch you? You really think that with the Emperor and the others present, I wouldn't dare kill you? Let me tell you, there is nothing in this world I wouldn't dare do! Pay the price for your stupidity!"
With a ferocious grin, Inner Demon grabbed Dong Tianchen's head once more, and the power of the Law of Life and Death erupted like a torrent.
"Ah..."
With a miserable scream, Dong Tianchen's head burst open on the spot like a watermelon.
"What?"
Everyone present was dumbfounded on the spot.
The very first thing Dong Yuexian did upon snapping out of it was to cover Xiaoxi's eyes.
"Mother, I'm not scared. Back in the Starry Sea, I saw this kind of thing all the time." Xiaoxi pulled Dong Yuexian's hands away, looked at Dong Tianchen's lingering soul, her smooth forehead furrowing tightly as she snorted, "He deserved it! Who told him to make my daddy angry?"
"Xiaoxi, don't talk nonsense," Dong Yuexian reprimanded in a low voice.
"I'm just telling the truth," Xiaoxi huffed.
"This girl..." Dong Yuexian sighed helplessly.
With his murderous intent peaking, Inner Demon grabbed Dong Tianchen's Divine Soul.
"No!" Dong Ping finally regained his senses and roared frantically.
"Stop!" The Emperor and Empress also cried out anxiously.
For one, Dong Tianchen was their flesh and blood; for another, the Divine Kingdom Master was standing right there. To kill Dong Tianchen right in front of him—was that not courting death?
Dong Tianchen was, after all, the grandson of the Divine Kingdom Master.
Yet even the shouts of the Emperor and Empress were useless.
Right now, nothing could stop his murderous intent.
"You dare!" the Divine Kingdom Master finally spoke.
His tone carried a terrifying, oppressive might.
Without exaggeration, a single word from him was enough to awe thousands of troops and horses—the Emperor and Empress, for instance. If they were in Inner Demon's shoes right now, they would undoubtedly have obediently released Dong Tianchen's Divine Soul.
However, could Inner Demon be compared to them?
He was a master who feared neither heaven nor earth, a fellow who even dared to challenge the Ice Dragon and the Swallowing Heaven Beast, let alone the Divine Kingdom Master!
Dong Ping said in a deep voice, "Inner Demon, you'd better think this through. If you kill my older brother, you won't survive either!"
"Inner Demon?" Hearing this name, the Emperor and Empress froze slightly.
Where did this name come from?
They had assumed it was just a nickname everyone had given Inner Demon, never once suspecting that he was actually Qin Feiyang's Inner Demon.
"Survive?" The corners of Inner Demon's mouth curled up as he looked at Dong Tianchen's brother and sneered, "Even if I don't kill him now, would he let me survive? If he intended to, he wouldn't have come to blackmail me in secret."
Dong Ping fell silent, because this was the truth.
"You really are insatiable. Entering the Secret Realm, it was always us protecting you and taking care of you, and it was also us who gifted each of you a True Meaning of Profound Truths. Even a dog knows how to show gratitude! But what about you? You actually took advantage of someone's plight to blackmail me? Do you know that age-old saying? The greedy snake attempts to swallow an elephant!"
Inner Demon clenched his large hand, and a terrifying aura erupted from his palm.
"No! Grandfather, save me!" Dong Tianchen shrieked.
The Divine Kingdom Master's gaze turned icy, and he shouted, "I told you to stop! Did you not hear me?"
At the same time, a monstrous divine might surged toward Inner Demon, enveloping him.
Yet Inner Demon merely looked calmly at the Divine Kingdom Master and violently tightened his five fingers. Accompanied by a shrill, miserable shriek, Dong Tianchen's Divine Soul was annihilated on the spot.
"Bastard! Inner Demon, I will not let you go!" Dong Ping roared, his eyes splitting with rage, his teeth bared in fury.
This was his own biological brother; how could he not be furious?
Boom!
The Divine Kingdom Master's oppressive might crashed down overwhelmingly, instantly trapping Inner Demon in the void. An icy chill pierced straight to his heart.
This was pressure from the Divine Kingdom Master!
He could sense that the Divine Kingdom Master was extremely furious at this moment.
"Grandfather, no!" Dong Yuexian cried out.
"Great-grandfather, don't hit my daddy!" Xiaoxi also shouted in a panic.
The Divine Kingdom Master turned a deaf ear, his eyes locked fixedly on Inner Demon.
To kill his grandson right in front of him? Was this a direct challenge to his majesty?
Furthermore, Dong Tianchen possessed the God-Slaying Domain; in the Central Dynasty, he was a super powerhouse.
Dong Tianchen's death was an enormous loss to the Central Dynasty.
In truth, with the Divine Kingdom Master's strength, he could easily have stopped Inner Demon and saved Dong Tianchen before the fatal blow was struck.
Unfortunately, he had been too arrogant, believing that a single cold shout from him would be enough to cow Inner Demon.
It was only the moment Dong Tianchen died that he abruptly realized this was a young man who dared to pierce the heavens.
"How could it come to this..." The Emperor and Empress looked at each other.
This Lu Yuntian was simply far too impulsive!
Even if he wanted to kill Dong Tianchen, he shouldn't have done it right in front of Father!
"Since things have come to this, don't blame me for lacking integrity." Hatred filled Dong Ping's eyes as he turned to look at the Divine Kingdom Master, the Emperor, and the Empress, saying in a grim voice, "Grandfather, Sixth Uncle, Sixth Aunt, this man is actually..."
"There's no need for you to say it, I'll do it myself." Inner Demon smiled coldly, looking at the Divine Kingdom Master. "With you here, I certainly can't run away. So lift your suppression, and I'll reveal my true identity."
"True identity?" The Emperor and Empress looked at each other, their faces filled with suspicion.
As for Dong Yuexian, her heart tightened to the absolute extreme.