Chapter 37

"Senior Brothers, should I inform the seniors here?" Yue Haixie asked with a堆着笑脸 (forced smile).

"No need, is this the imperial palace?" Lin Haoming asked.

"Indeed, this is the Lingxiao Tower specially built for our sect's cultivators within the palace! I am specifically in charge of guarding the teleportation array!" Yue Haixie explained.

"This Junior Brother Li originally comes from the royal family of Southern Liang. He has returned to visit his family, so there's no need to prepare anything," Lin Haoming said.

Hearing this, the old man looked at Li Shun Tian with some surprise, as if he had something to say but found it hard to speak.

Li Shun Tian, noticing this, asked immediately, "Junior Brother Yue, do you know something?"

Hearing Li Shun Tian's question, Yue Haixie hesitated.

Lin Haoming waved his hand, and a spirit stone appeared in his hand. He threw it directly to Yue Haixie, saying, "Just say it, don't beat around the bush!"

Seeing that the other party gave him a spirit stone, Yue Haixie vaguely felt that these two seniors from the sect were not ordinary. Without hesitation, he said, "Senior Brother Li, three years ago, your father, the emperor, passed away. Your two elder brothers fought for the throne, and in the end, your second brother won and killed your elder brother. Your mother was implicated and was sent to the cold palace!"

"What?" Li Shun Tian exclaimed in shock.

Lin Haoming casually asked, "What's wrong?"

"My mother and the mother of my eldest royal brother are cousins, and they have always been close. Where is my mother now? Take me to see her!" Li Shun Tian explained and then ordered directly.

"Yes!" Seeing Li Shun Tian's bad expression, Yue Haixie immediately nodded in agreement.

Lin Haoming followed Yue Haixie out through a hidden door. After coming out, they found that the teleportation array was indeed under a tall tower.

The tower was not very large in area, but it had seven floors above ground. From the outside, the tower was intricately carved and very luxurious. The top floor faintly emitted a flow of mana, and the cultivator at the peak of the Qi Condensation stage was likely cultivating there.

The tower was located in the northwest corner of the imperial palace, a relatively remote area.

Yue Haixie was not significant in the eyes of Lin Haoming and Li Shun Tian, but in the palace, he had a transcendent status. No one stopped him as he walked through the palace, and some even called him Master Yue.

Seeing this, Li Shun Tian's mind also recalled some scenes from the past. He had once aspired to the status of a master, which led him to join the Blood Refinement Sect, but he never expected to live a lowly life there.

"Master Yue, why did you come here?" A eunuch in a brocade robe asked with a堆着笑脸 (forced smile) as the three arrived.

"Lord Liu, how is Lady Wang?" Yue Haixie asked.

Hearing this, Lord Liu was initially stunned, then his gaze fell on Li Shun Tian behind Yue Haixie. He seemed to recognize something and exclaimed in shock, "Ninth... Ninth Prince, it's... it's you!"

"Liu Yang, you still recognize me!" Li Shun Tian, hearing the title of Ninth Prince, felt more and more memories resurface.

Lord Liu also knew that the Ninth Prince had left with a master to cultivate several years ago. He never expected the prince to return. Seeing the prince's appearance, he wondered if the prince had achieved something and come back to visit his mother. Thinking of this, his face turned particularly grim.

Seeing Liu Yang's face change, Li Shun Tian seemed to guess something bad and his face also turned extremely dark. He went up and grabbed Liu Yang, shouting, "What happened to my mother? Is she dead?"

"No... no! Lady Wang is still alive!" Liu Yang shouted.

"Then take me to her immediately!" Li Shun Tian roared.

"Yes! Yes!" Liu Yang immediately agreed.

If it were just any prince, the current Southern Liang had changed, and as the deputy head of the inner palace, Liu Yang wouldn't be so afraid. But the key was that the Ninth Prince was clearly a master! A master was someone even the emperor had to respect!

Almost in a half-push, Liu Yang led them to a dilapidated courtyard.

The paint on the courtyard gate had peeled off, leaving only some red marks to show that it was once a vermilion gate.

Pushing open the gate, they saw a desolate courtyard with overgrown weeds. At the end of the weeds, a woman with mostly white hair sat under a dilapidated eave, staring blankly at a red flower growing from a crack in the broken blue bricks.

"Mother!" Li Shun Tian, seeing the woman, couldn't contain his excitement and shouted, then rushed over.

The woman, hearing Li Shun Tian's shout, finally moved her gaze from the red flower to Li Shun Tian, who was now in front of her. But even looking at Li Shun Tian, there was no emotion in her eyes, just a blank stare.

"How could this be, Liu Yang, explain!" Li Shun Tian, seeing this, became furious.

Seeing Li Shun Tian's anger, Liu Yang was so scared that he immediately knelt before him, not daring to look at him, and stammered, "Ninth... Ninth Prince, calm down, this... this matter... this matter..."

"Hey! Why is the door to the mad lady's room open?"

At that moment, two people suddenly walked in, one a eunuch and the other a palace maid.

The palace maid was fat, weighing at least two to three hundred pounds, and it was unclear how such a woman had entered the palace.

The palace maid was carrying a food box, clearly to deliver a meal.

Hearing their conversation, Li Shun Tian's eyes were already fixed on the two people.

As the two people walked in, the eunuch saw the person kneeling on the ground and was stunned, then exclaimed, "Lord Liu, what's wrong with you?"

Liu Yang, hearing this, turned his head and was about to speak, but Li Shun Tian's mother, Lady Wang, suddenly shouted upon seeing the newcomers, "Don't come over... don't come over!"

As she shouted, she retreated into the house.

Seeing this, Li Shun Tian's anger reached its peak. He grabbed the two people, and before they could react, they lost control of their bodies and flew into Li Shun Tian's hands.

As Li Shun Tian grabbed them, the fat palace maid's food box fell, revealing spoiled meals and moldy pastries inside.

Seeing this, Li Shun Tian's body radiated a cold aura, and he said coldly, "Is this what you feed my mother every day?"

Both were being choked and couldn't breathe, but they heard Li Shun Tian's voice and realized that this person was Lady Wang's son.

Lady Wang had only one son, the Ninth Prince, who was said to have left with a master to cultivate. Could it be that the Ninth Prince had returned after achieving something?

Thinking of this, the two were terrified and couldn't speak.

In fact, Li Shun Tian had no intention of letting them speak. As his anger grew, two streams of chilling cold energy surged from his hands, penetrating their bodies. The two people quickly froze and turned into ice sculptures, standing on the ground.

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