The imperial palace was serene with thousands of palaces.
Feng Feiyun rode the Samsara Wheel while wielding his weapon essence. He went deeper into the harem. There were many formations here but they were all broken. Clearly, someone else got in before him.
"Halt, intruder."
A grey-robed man stood at the top of a palace that was over a hundred feet tall. He carried an iron sword on his back, and his eyes seemed particularly empty, as if there were two black pearls embedded in his eye sockets, completely dull and lifeless.
Despite his ordinary appearance, his power was not to be underestimated. He had reached the early half-step level.
Half-step was a big realm divided into early, intermediate, and late. The gap between these three levels was quite large. Unless one was extremely talented, it would be very difficult to fight against someone of a higher level.
Feng Feiyun didn't stop and asked: "Which sect are you from? You dare to enter the forbidden harem?"
"I don't belong to any sect. The world is vast, I can go anywhere."
The grey-robed man's beard was three feet long, and his voice was somewhat sinister. Listening to it, it would cause one's heart to be in turmoil.
"Hmph, would you dare to say this if the emperor was still here?"
Feng Feiyun was very disdainful. Not to mention a half-step like him, even an Enlightened Being wouldn't dare to casually take a step inside.
The man in gray said emotionlessly: "Brat, I know who you are. Don't think that just because you're called the number one genius of the Jin Dynasty, you can compete against the older generation.
This old man has cultivated for six hundred and forty years, and has experienced no less than ten thousand battles. To be able to fight ten thousand battles without dying, how can a junior like you compare? "
"I also know who you are."
Feng Feiyun's steps were like a swimming dragon. He arrived below the man and entered his unique domain. It was as if he was walking into a muddy swamp. His body became a bit sluggish.
Any half-step Giant must have cultivated a domain.
This domain was very similar to the qi images of geniuses. If they could fuse their qi images with the domain, they would become even stronger.
The reason why a half-step Giant was called this was because of the formation of a battle domain.
"You know who I am?" The man in gray was a bit surprised.
"You cultivate the Evil Wind Dao, and your eyes have been refined into Blood Cloud Pearls. It's obvious that you're from the Dark Realm of the Evil Dao. You should be one of the Grand Elders of the Dark Realm, right?"
The Dark Realm and the Beiming Clan have always been good friends. Plus, Feng Feiyun's experience allowed him to guess this old man's identity.
While the man was distracted, Feng Feiyun used his Swift Samsara to its fullest extent. His body turned into a gust of wind while his weapon essence pierced forward like a bolt of lightning.
The gray-robed man was horrified. A junior was actually this fast? His eyes almost blurred. He used a speed divine ability of the corrupt path to get far away. But the Heavenly Weapon Essence had left a bloody mark on his chest. It had almost pierced through his heart.
The man in gray felt a chill run down his spine. At the same time, the sound of metal tearing through the wind came again. This time, he couldn't see the opponent at all.
Two black pearls fell out of the man's sunken eye sockets.
This was originally his eyeball, but after he cultivated the Blood Cloud Pearl, his eyeball absorbed too much blood and turned black.
The two eyeballs turned into two blood clouds. One of the blood clouds was shaped like a round blood lake, while the other was shaped like a half-moon blood lake.
This was a type of heaven-defying evil technique that required refining the blood of over a thousand people to successfully cultivate. Its might was not small at all. It instantly crushed the two palaces to the side and razed them to the ground. The ground was covered in rubble and crushed stones.
And this was only the power of the blood pearls.
Feng Feiyun wasn't afraid despite facing a half-step. A white dragon flew out from the weapon essence. It was more than ten meters long and pierced through the clouds to strike the man in gray's chest.
"Boom!"
A bloody mist erupted. Three of the man's ribs were broken. His robe was torn to shreds as blood fell down from the wound.
The sounds of battle alerted the concubines in the harem. Most of them had a bit of cultivation, but it wasn't high. They flew out of their palaces and looked at the shockwaves of the battle in the distance with indescribable shock.
"Why is there a battle in the harem?"
"Where are the experts guarding the harem?"
"Why isn't the Jin Emperor suppressing them from afar?"
…
A shockwave of energy slammed into the neck of a beautiful concubine. Half of her snow-white neck was sliced off, causing blood to gush out like a fountain. She struggled on the ground for a long time, but she didn't even have time to take a spirit pill before she died completely without a sound.
This was only the aftermath of the attack.
When the other concubines saw this, their faces turned ashen and they all fled far away. Only a few concubines with powerful cultivations were still watching from afar. They all came from powerful celestial sects and cultivated ultimate techniques. Their own cultivation levels were high.
A concubine with snow-white skin said: "One is a Divine King while the other uses a heretical merit law. He's a half-step Giant."
"Big Sister Xue Fei, should we help the Godking drive away the enemy?"
Another concubine in pink asked. Her cultivation was quite high as well. Her gestures carried a beautiful dao rhythm.
Consort Xue shook her head: "I heard from Consort Beiming that the Jin Emperor has gone to the royal sacred ground for seclusion. Once the new emperor ascends to the throne, we will be taken there as well, never to come out again.
It's obvious that this is a power struggle between the new Emperor. It's best if we don't get involved. If we help the wrong person by accident, not only will we die without a burial place, even the families behind us will be implicated. "
These concubines were powerful but they didn't dare to take action for fear of offending others.
They had lost their power after the emperor's abdication. If they didn't know how to protect themselves, they would die.
Every power struggle was bloody, and many people would die.
The upper echelons of the royal family had always turned a blind eye to this kind of struggle, because only the side that emerged victorious in the struggle for power was the most powerful side. They could only be at ease if the dynasty was handed over to such a person.
What they needed was a strong and decisive ruler, not a weak and incompetent coward.
Feng Feiyun wasn't even twenty yet but he could already fight against a half-step Giant. His weapon essence was mysterious and sharp. It pierced through the air and left nine bloody marks on the grey-robed man.
Feng Feiyun went deeper into the harem. Each step was accompanied by a slash. This supreme elder who was two levels higher than him couldn't fight back at all. More and more wounds appeared on his body. Each step left a bloody footprint on the ground.
"Is this what you've achieved after living for 640 years?
I haven't even cultivated for six years yet I can kill you a thousand times over. "
Feng Feiyun put away his weapon essence and channeled all of his power. 9,998 beast souls appeared on his arms. He took two steps forward and slammed down on the grey-robed man.
"Pluff!"
The grey-robed man staggered and almost knelt on the ground after enduring Feng Feiyun's earth-shattering attack.
He was defeated by a youth who wasn't even twenty yet, and in such a miserable manner at that.
The man still wanted to resist, but Feiyun's palm came down and directly forced him to kneel on the ground. His two hands pushed against the ground, causing cracks to appear on the ground like a dense spider web.
"Whoosh!"
With a flash of the saber, a bloody head flew out and hit the red palace wall with a bang. Then, it rolled on the ground like a ball.
A half-step Giant was killed by Feng Feiyun's saber.
The concubines in the distance glanced at each other and stared at Feng Feiyun. He was even stronger than the Jin Emperor when he was young. His murderous aura forced them to retreat.
Feng Feiyun straightened his body and glanced at them before rushing deeper into the harem.
The concubines followed behind Feng Feiyun and said: "Looks like something big is happening there. Let's go check it out as well."
They didn't dare to get in front of Feng Feiyun. No one knew if there were other dangers up ahead.
A black cloud rose from a palace as five old men rushed out. They were all powerful eunuchs wearing dove-dove-colored robes. Their faces were white and beardless. Their yin energy was thick as they attacked Feng Feiyun at the same time.
At least twenty techniques were aimed at Feng Feiyun's head.
These old eunuchs were bribed by the Beiming Clan. Some of them were spies in the palace.
"You court death!"
Feiyun's weapon essence turned into more than one thousand white swords. They looked like a white rain of light, flying straight for the enemy.
All the techniques were pierced and the palaces collapsed. The corpses of the five old eunuchs fell down from the sky. Their bodies were riddled with bloody holes just like a beehive.
Feng Feiyun's expression became colder as he walked through the ruins. He quickly made his way to the five massive palaces in the center. The palaces had white pearls on top like five mountains.
Feng Feiyun had been here before and met Ji Lingxuan in one of the palaces. It didn't take long for him to find the one Consort Luo was talking about.
This palace was under the control of the Beiming Clan. There were at least one hundred cultivators here. More than twenty qi images soared to the sky with battle energy. The pungent stench of blood permeated the air.
Feng Feiyun was fearless. He wouldn't hesitate even if it was a dragon's lair or a tiger's lair. The moment he entered the first level, he saw corpses strewn all over the ground. Blood flowed into streams — all of them were eunuchs and maids. Five cultivators in black robes were inspecting these corpses. They would kill anyone alive.