Chapter 1651
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Chapter 1651 True Emperor, False Emperor
Forbidden Palace.
Lin Qiye, Gongyang Wan, and Wu Quan’s three figures moved continuously through the scattered palace buildings.
In this vast imperial palace, finding Huo Qubing was not an easy task, especially since they occasionally needed to stop and kill some overlooked counterfeits. The three searched for a long time but couldn’t find any trace of Huo Qubing.
“Have you seen the Marquis since entering the palace?” Lin Qiye asked.
“Yes, but only when we first arrived,” Gongyang Wan nodded. “He wanted to bring me to see the Emperor, so he ordered people to put shackles on me and lock me in a prisoner cart, then brought me into the palace… Hmph, he held the [Heart-Returning Parasite] in his hand, and with just a thought from him, I couldn’t escape at all. There was no need for such a big show—it was just for the Emperor and others to see.”
“After entering the palace, you just waited in front of that hall?”
“Yes, it seemed the Emperor was meeting with others, so I was left there. He said someone would come to bring me in shortly… but until now, no one has come.”
Lin Qiye frowned, deep in thought.
Huo Qubing bringing Gongyang Wan into the palace was most likely to propose establishing the Demon Suppression Bureau. However, so much time had passed, and the Marquis shouldn’t have forgotten about Gongyang Wan… Could something have happened to him?
Or perhaps even Huo Qubing had been replaced?
That shouldn’t be possible… Huo Qubing was the pinnacle of human capability and possessed [Emperor’s Dominion]. Even if that mist could create an identical copy of the Champion Marquis, killing and replacing him silently in such a short time would be virtually impossible.
“Is it possible the Marquis is no longer in the palace?” Wu Quan suddenly spoke up. “With such major events happening outside, he should be aware of them. What if he’s already gone outside the palace?”
“Yes, we can’t rule out that possibility…”
While pondering this, Lin Qiye’s peripheral vision swept across the surroundings, and he suddenly froze in place.
“What’s wrong?” Gongyang Wan frowned, seeing Lin Qiye stop abruptly.
Lin Qiye didn’t speak. He extended his hand and pointed to the distance.
The two followed his gaze and saw that not far away, under the night sky, a section of the palace wall had collapsed. By the flickering firelight nearby, they could see a pool of crimson blood staining the ground.
“There was a fight here?”
“It’s [Life-Extinguishing Moon Flash],” Lin Qiye said gravely, staring at the savage blade marks on the ground. “Only [Life-Extinguishing Moon Flash] could cause damage in this pattern…”
“Zhan Yuwu? Who was he fighting?”
Lin Qiye remained silent. He walked to the collapsed ruins and, through the gap in the palace wall, could see the devastated Chang’an city under the night sky.
“It seems something has indeed happened to the Marquis…” Lin Qiye murmured.
“Look, the sky over there, why is it changing color?” Just then, Wu Quan suddenly spoke up, pointing at the sky beyond the city wall as if he had discovered something.
Lin Qiye looked in that direction, and when he clearly saw the approaching prismatic mist beyond the city wall, his pupils contracted violently!
“That thing can move on its own?!”
Lin Qiye certainly remembered that prismatic mist—the current state of Chang’an was entirely due to it. He had planned to wait until the chaos in Chang’an subsided before personally visiting the ravine to see what that mist was all about, but he never expected it could move to Chang’an on its own!
“This is bad!” Lin Qiye’s mind raced as his legs pushed off with force, his figure shooting across Chang’an’s sky like a cannonball, flying straight toward the edge of the city wall!
The prismatic mist’s coverage area was vast. Back in the ravine, it had easily enveloped an army of thirty thousand and silently created identical counterfeits in an extremely short time. If that thing were to cover the entire city of Chang’an…
This most prosperous and central imperial capital of the Han Dynasty would be completely replaced by counterfeits, possibly even becoming a nest for Clone-system creatures!
Gongyang Wan and Wu Quan also realized the severity of the situation and followed closely behind!
Lin Qiye’s figure tore through the wind, the prismatic sky rapidly expanding before his eyes. He traced a long arc through the air, finally crashing down in front of Chang’an’s city wall, creating a deep crater with a radius of dozens of meters.
Amidst the flying debris, Lin Qiye’s eyes locked onto the prismatic mist. It was less than ten miles from Chang’an, and the mist was moving quickly. By his estimation, it would take no more than ten minutes for the mist to pass through the city wall and enter Chang’an.
“Lin Qiye.”
A voice came from atop the city wall. Hearing this voice, Lin Qiye’s eyes brightened slightly.
He turned to look and saw that Huo Qubing had also arrived before this mist. He had removed his original armor and was wearing a black marquis robe, holding a long spear, his expression extremely grave.
“Marquis, are you alright?”
“I’ve sustained some injuries, but it’s nothing,” Huo Qubing shook his head. “The urgent matter now is to stop this mist from entering the city, or it will surely throw the world into chaos… But this mist is very strange. Lin Qiye, are you willing to go with me?”
Lin Qiye stared at Huo Qubing’s figure under the night sky, opened his mouth, but didn’t answer. He couldn’t determine whether the current Huo Qubing was a counterfeit, so naturally, he couldn’t directly agree to join forces with him.
“Lin Qiye? You’re here too?”
At the same time, another figure flew in from the distance. Hearing this voice, Lin Qiye’s body suddenly trembled.
He turned around in astonishment to see another Huo Qubing, wearing blood-stained armor and holding a long spear, arriving at his side.
Lin Qiye’s mouth opened slightly, his expression immediately turning grim!
Two Huo Qubings?!
At such a critical moment?!
He had considered the possibility that Huo Qubing might have been copied by that mist. After all, [Emperor’s Dominion], though powerful, was not unique in this world. Back then, his own counterfeit in the mist could even roughly imitate the Primordial Spirit Embryo, so copying a human’s Forbidden Domain shouldn’t be difficult for it.
But until now, Lin Qiye had only been considering whether Huo Qubing might have been replaced. After all, since leaving the ravine, no second Huo Qubing had appeared… He never imagined that this time the mist would change its approach, going from impersonation to presenting a “choose one of two” scenario.
So the prismatic mist hadn’t failed to copy Huo Qubing back then; after copying him, it simply hadn’t tried to replace him, because even it couldn’t silently kill the real Huo Qubing in a short time. So it had kept the copy hidden in the mist until it reached Chang’an’s outskirts, and only then revealed the counterfeit?
With the prismatic mist approaching the city and two [Emperor’s Dominion] wielders appearing simultaneously… In the past, this would have been an extremely difficult choice, but fortunately, they now had another trump card.
Lin Qiye turned his head to see two streaks of light cutting across the night sky, landing behind him.
Gongyang Wan saw the two Huo Qubings, was startled for a moment, then the corners of her mouth curved slightly upward…
