Chapter 563: The Emperor's Descent upon the Hou Family, the Fate of Ziwei Descending to Earth
Chapter 563: The Emperor's Descent upon the Hou Family, the Fate of Ziwei Descending to Earth
Wu Daozhang got up and pounced on Li Manning.
Caught off guard, Li Manning was brought down to the ground.
Her features remained contorted and grotesque.
Even so, Wu Daozhang didn't spare her.
"You wretched woman, it's all your fault. I'll take care of you right now."
He crudely tore at Li Manning's tattered clothes.
Ling Xuzi paid no attention to this. He approached Nangong Yunlong, who was consumed by despair.
The arrival of the Hou family's secret guards and Ling Xuzi made it clear to him that the situation was lost.
Ling Xuzi stood before him and said, "Mr. Nangong, it's time for you to accept your fate."
"Accept my fate?"
Nangong Yunlong's brows revealed arrogance. "If I were to accept my fate, it would be a path of death!"
To accept one's fate meant to give in to death.
How could he willingly meet his demise like this?
Ling Xuzi remained calm, his expression unchanged.
"Five years ago, I advised Mr. Nangong to stop in time. If you had, perhaps there would still be a glimmer of hope for the Nangong family."
Nangong Yunlong remembered it well.
Five years ago, he had tried to win over Ling Xuzi.
But the latter had given him a stern lecture.
If it weren't for Ling Mountain Gate's crucial influence in this land, he would have sent someone to deal with Ling Xuzi long ago.
Ling Xuzi saw the fierceness in Nangong Yunlong's face.
His voice was indifferent. "The fate of the Nangong family has come to an end."
Nangong Yunlong's face turned pale with anger. He refused to accept his fate and spoke in a low voice, "Until the very end, everything is still uncertain."
He hadn't died yet. The collapse of a great family couldn't be accomplished overnight.
Ling Xuzi pointed his finger towards the sky outside the window.
"Look, that faint star next to Zhiwei, on the verge of extinction. That is the fate of the Nangong family. For the past five years, it has been revolving around Zhiwei, each movement consuming its own brightness, becoming dim and murky. Now it resembles a funnel, completely depleted of its energy. Its demise is inevitable."
Ling Xuzi withdrew his gaze and looked at Nangong Yunlong beside him.
"Mr. Nangong, within ten days, there will be no Nangong family in the capital. A new star domain will replace it."
Nangong Yunlong cursed, "Nonsense! I don't believe in all this!"
Although he claimed not to believe, his eyes revealed a fearful and anxious despair.
In the span of five years, the Nangong family had reached its current height, with Nangong Yunlong investing too much of his effort. To suddenly hear that it would all vanish, how could he accept it?
"Zhiwei is the emperor star surrounded by countless other stars. The emperor star descends upon the Hou family, with the fate of Ziwei descending to earth. Born into a family, one becomes the head of a household; born into a nation, one becomes its ruler."
"Mr. Nangong, what can you compare to the Hou family? Is this the price you pay for challenging the impossible?"
Ling Xuzi fixed his gaze upon Nangong Yunlong.
It was with this slightly profound look that he gave Nangong Yunlong a glimmer of hope.
Nangong Yunlong took two steps forward, his face filled with pleading. "Master, is there still a chance for the Nangong family?"
Ling Xuzi adjusted his daoist robe, showing little emotion. "Yes and no."
Nangong Yunlong furrowed his brows. "What do you mean?"
Ling Xuzi smoothed his robe sleeves and casually said, "The Nangong family has offspring left outside."
"Nangong Chang has a child?!" Nangong Yunlong's voice trembled in shock.
He had only one heir, Nangong Chang, and throughout all these years, no child had been born.
Could it be that his son had a child with someone else outside?
Nangong Yunlong urgently asked, "Are you saying that the child is the hope of the Nangong family?"
Ling Xuzi looked at him with a compassionate gaze. "There is hope for a comeback in a hundred years."
Nangong Yunlong's excitement faded from his face, and he suddenly burst into laughter. "A hundred years, ha-ha-ha..."
He wore a mocking expression, full of despair. "In a hundred years, I will have long turned into dust. What do I care about the disputes and turmoil of the major families?"
"Even if the outcome of the competition between the Nangong and Hou families ends in the Nangong family's victory, can you ensure that the Nangong family will forever stand tall after ten years, thirty years, or even fifty years? With the emperor star seated in the Hou family and the assistance of influential figures, the Nangong family, even if it takes the throne, lacks the same power as the Hou family to become the ruler of the world."
"Mr. Nangong, I'm telling you all this only to repay the debt of gratitude that the Nangong family owed to my mentor decades ago."
After finishing his words, Ling Xuzi turned and walked away with resolute steps.
Inside the golden light barrier,
Wu Daochang and Li Manning engaged in a fierce battle.
Li Manning couldn't break free and was suppressed by Wu Daochang.
Her ghostly body was devoid of protective clothing, subjected to inhumane humiliation by Wu Daochang.
As they approached the final barrier, Li Manning's eyes turned bloodshot, consumed by madness.
She wanted to die together with this murderer.
Perhaps stirred by the madness emanating from her, Ling Xuzi paused in his departure.
Frowning, he fixed his intense gaze on Wu Daochang.
When Wu Daochang revealed an obscene object and quickly raised his hand to strike, Ling Xuzi intervened.
"Ahhhhhhhh!!!"
Wu Daochang, tormented by pain, let out a heart-wrenching scream.
His miserable cries echoed through the room.
Taking advantage of the opportunity, Li Manning managed to free herself and her ghost body transformed, donning clothing.
Her nails, stained with red, rapidly elongated.
Her razor-sharp nails pierced into Wu Daochang's chest, emitting a glint of blades.
She forcefully tore out his dark and filthy heart.
But that wasn't enough. Her bloody nails slowly dug into Wu Daochang's polluted eyes.
Those eyes had seen things they shouldn't have seen, and she intended to destroy them.
"Ahhhhhhhh!!!"
"You filthy bitch, get away! Go away!!!"
Even Ghosts feel pain, and Wu Daochang writhed on the ground in agony.
But Li Manning didn't stop there.
Now she was the one in control, holding Wu Daochang's life in her hands.
Thinking about what her son had suffered at the hands of this ghost before his death, Li Manning wished she could flay Wu Daochang's skin and break his bones.
And she actually did just that.
Li Manning placed her nails on top of Wu Daochang's head and slowly peeled back his scalp.
Dark, blood-like fluids dripped onto the ground.
The scene was extremely gruesome, cruel, and unbearable to witness.
Unable to bear it any longer, Ling Xuzi spoke up, trying to dissuade her. "Spare him while you can. Today's actions will be repaid in the realm of the underworld when you pass away."
Li Manning is also an evil ghost, but there is something familiar about her.
Ling Xuzi sensed a unique mark on her that belonged to Lady Hou, Third Young Master Hou's wife.
He deduced that this ghost must have some connection to Third Young Master's wife.
However, Li Manning paid no attention and continued forcefully tearing off Wu Daochang's scalp.
Every time she exerted force, filthy black liquid would flow down Wu Daochang's scalp like a stream, dirtying the ground.
Seeing Li Manning's refusal to listen, Ling Xuzi sighed and raised his hand to make a gesture.
An invisible white light emanated from his hand.
Inside the golden barrier, Li Manning was forcibly separated from Wu Daochang.
She was suddenly pushed away, her hands covered in blood, and she was in a disheveled state.
The impending satisfaction of revenge had made her lose herself, with only thoughts of vengeance and hatred remaining in her heart.
Her bloodshot eyes were filled with madness as she stood up and charged at Wu Daochang once again.
Her ghostly body collided with an unknown barrier and was repelled.
In that short span of time, Wu Daochang had already fully recovered.
The scalp that had been peeled off from his head quickly regenerated.
Even his eyes, which had been gouged by Li Manning's sharp nails, were restored to their original state.
And even the grotesque object that Ling Xuzi had severed miraculously reattached itself.
Wu Daochang's grotesque and repulsive face also regained its ghost-like pale blue color.
He stared at Li Manning with a gaze that was even more ferocious and terrifying than hers.
Even as a ghost, apart from the injuries he suffered in the underworld's Yin division, Wu Daochang had never experienced such harm.
When Li Manning charged at him once again, Wu Daochang also moved.
The hatred between the two ghosts had reached a state of madness.
They both wanted to kill each other.
Ling Xuzi's golden barrier was not something to be taken lightly.
It was not something they could break through in such a short time.
Both ghost were repelled by the central barrier.
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