After Being Preached by my Senior Martial Brother

Feng Xuan not only didn’t want to run, but was also eager to try.

“Don’t worry. I’m very powerful.” He was even so inflated that he didn’t want to maintain his mortal persona anymore.

Feng Xuan nuzzled against him in his arms, obediently saying. “You used to protect me like this too. Now it’s my turn to protect you.”

Qi Zhuoyu stared at him.

Feeling he had caught the key point.

Used to?

If this little imperial consort wasn’t a mortal, did it mean they knew each other before?

Having seen his own father turn into a blue-black zombie monster before his eyes.

Qi Zhuoyu’s mind, originally not very materialistic or superstitious, instantly accepted the fact that there were demons and monsters in this world.

In his dozen or so years of life, he had never seen such a strange and beautiful youth.

If referring to those grateful demons in strange tales, it didn’t quite fit either.

Then it could only be a connection from a previous life.

After all, if he could accept the existence of supernatural beings.

Then those stories of reincarnation in tales were also very believable.

Qi Zhuoyu had no time to think further, as the ground of the imperial palace was already shaking uncontrollably.

The palace walls cracked open with huge gaps, as if something was traveling underground. Many palace maids and eunuchs who couldn’t escape in time fell into the giant crevices, as if swallowed by this terrible crack.

The crack continued to advance, instantly reaching Chengming Palace.

Qi Zhuoyu looked at Feng Xuan, stepping aside a bit, as if preparing to watch his performance.

Feng Xuan suddenly felt a bit uncomfortable. As soon as Qi Zhuoyu moved away, he couldn’t help but take a few small steps, burrowing back into his arms, whispering. “You can hold me, I can still fight.”

What a clingy demon in human form.

As the rumbling sound approached, the emperor’s expression was nearly crazed. “The National Teacher is here! I’m about to become immortal! You’ll all die!”

Such a standard cannon fodder line.

Seeing the grand display this National Teacher you summoned has made, it feels like once he arrives, the first thing he’ll do is eliminate you, his useless ally.

And it really happened that way.

Just as the emperor finished speaking, an incredibly large centipede emerged from the underground crack, its body covered in wet yellow slime, painfully eye-searing.

Help.

Feng Xuan wanted to gouge out his eyes after one glance.

What kind of National Teacher is this, how could it be such a large centipede demon!

Then before the emperor could finish gloating, he was eaten in one bite by the centipede demon.

It even chewed a couple of times, looking like it had bitten him quite thoroughly, probably beyond saving now.

After eating the emperor, the centipede demon seemed to have greatly increased its demonic power.

Its eyes greedily stared at Feng Xuan, showing that it had some cultivation and knew that Feng Xuan’s primordial spirit was a rare, pure, and greatly nourishing one.

But this centipede demon, how to put it, had some cultivation, but not much.

For example, it didn’t see through Feng Xuan’s true form, otherwise it wouldn’t dare to be so bold as to attack the Crown Prince of the White Jade Capital.

It probably didn’t see through Qi Zhuoyu’s true form either.

It was only out of instinctive fear of Qi Zhuoyu that it deliberately gave him the fate of a star of solitary destruction, to suppress him.

The centipede demon rose to the sky, looking several hundred feet tall.

The mortal strategists and guards who were rebelling were already stunned and sitting on the ground, completely unable to move. They had agreed to rebel and usurp the throne, but no one said anything about fighting monsters during the rebellion! And such terrifying monsters at that! Which usurper in history books ever fought monsters?! Huh?! It’s completely unreasonable?!

Among them, there was one particularly loyal one who was still thinking about protecting the Seventh Prince.

He rolled and crawled up from the ground, running towards Qi Zhuoyu with a knife, the words “Your Highness, Your Highness be careful” not yet out of his mouth.

Then he saw the jade-like youth in the Seventh Prince’s arms.

He stretched out his hand, his expression not even changing, and just made a virtual grasping motion in the air. That terrifying centipede monster seemed to have its heart seized by something, hanging motionless in mid-air. Though it had no human face, at this moment, everyone almost empathized with its pain and despair from its expression.

If the demon generals from before were here, they would probably sigh and say:

Actually, Feng Xuan and their Demon Lord, this husband and wife, were quite similar in some ways, such as crushing a demon’s soul. Feng Xuan’s originally clear and cold features now forcefully carved out some of Qi Zhuoyu’s former ruthlessness. The next second, with a wave of his hand, red lotus karmic fire seemed to spurt out from hell, its tongues instantly engulfing the centipede demon’s entire body.

At this moment, the red glow of the karmic fire almost illuminated the entire imperial palace.

Countless people witnessed an almost terrifying scene that night: the huge body of the demon burning in mid-air, unable to even let out a dying scream, with large chunks of fire falling from its body, instantly creating several meters deep craters where they hit the ground.

Then in the blink of an eye.

The karmic fire engulfed the demon corpse, burning the centipede demon’s body to ashes.

For a long time, no one in Chengming Palace dared to make a sound.

People involuntarily swallowed, then turned their trembling pupils towards the “consort” they once thought was weak and powerless.

A huge centipede demon was gone just like that.

The National Teacher who had dominated the court and country of Great Xin Dynasty for decades, dead just like that.

Oh right.

The emperor seemed to have died too.

All within a few breaths of that youth.

Dying as insignificantly as an ant by the roadside.

Or perhaps.

Whether it was the emperor or the National Teacher, in that youth’s eyes, killing them was no different from crushing an ant.

What kind of terrifying beauty is this?!

Not sure, look again.

Who exactly is the monster?

The loyal strategist who was closest to Qi Zhuoyu just now, and who had watched Feng Xuan’s demon-slaying process carefully.

It took him a while to find his wits, then he shakily spoke, a bit disbelievingly. “Your Highness… have we… succeeded?”

This could be said to be the fastest usurpation in history.

From storming into Chengming Palace to the emperor and National Teacher being eliminated together, Feng Xuan finished it in two moves.

The guards had no sense of participation throughout, as if they had plotted in vain.jpg

Qi Zhuoyu also came to his senses, withdrawing his gaze from Feng Xuan, and spoke with complex emotions. “Mm.”

He slowly said, “Today, the late emperor has passed away due to severe illness, passing the throne to this prince. I accept the mandate of heaven, following the last order of the Great Xin Emperor, to ascend to the imperial throne.”

As soon as he finished speaking, someone reacted.

Hurriedly getting up to kneel down, shouting “Your Majesty.”

After three shouts of “Long live”, the scene finally stabilized.

No matter what, they had gotten rid of that old emperor, and it seemed the Seventh Prince could ascend to the throne smoothly. The people of Great Xin Dynasty could finally end the days of being harmed by that demon National Teacher.

Now there was only one remaining question.

The strategist closest to them, trembling, looked at Qi Zhuoyu and spoke. “Your Majesty, about Young Master Xuan…”

As a strategist who had discussed matters with His Majesty in the flower hall, he of course knew of His Majesty’s favor towards this Young Master Xuan. If it were before, with Young Master Xuan being the late emperor’s consort, it would be a great sin for His Majesty to want to marry him!

But after tonight, they had experienced such outrageous things as learning the original emperor was actually a demon, and nearly battling a centipede demon National Teacher for 300 rounds. With these two shocking events preceding, the young emperor wanting to marry the late emperor’s consort seemed like a trivial matter in comparison.

As long as it wasn’t too excessive, the court officials would turn a blind eye and let it pass.

But the bad thing was, everyone had just witnessed with their own eyes.

How this Young Master Xuan had casually, expressionlessly crushed a terrifying centipede demon.

This…

This power was even more monstrous than the monsters!

Qi Zhuoyu said, “What about Young Master Xuan?”

The strategist swallowed. “Young Master Xuan… Young Master Xuan seems to have some unusual aspects.”

The strategist gritted his teeth, thinking they couldn’t have the Great Xin Dynasty marry a demon empress right after getting rid of a demon National Teacher.

He said in one breath. “We subjects witnessed with our own eyes, Young Master Xuan crushed a demon zombie’s head with his bare hands!”

Qi Zhuoyu said carelessly. “Young Master Xuan has been stronger than normal people since childhood.”

Feng Xuan: ? Why does this excuse sound so familiar?

The strategist looked up and said again, “We subjects also witnessed with our own eyes, Young Master Xuan conjured flames in his palm and burned the centipede demon to death!”

Qi Zhuoyu spoke, “Young Master Xuan’s body temperature is higher than normal, so when it gets hot, he easily catches fire. Is there a problem?”

Feng Xuan: .

Help. How did it seem like a decent excuse when he made it up himself?

When the big devil said it so seriously, it sounded so ridiculous!

The strategist seemed not ready to give up, “Young Master Xuan…”

He looked up to see Qi Zhuoyu staring at him with an ambiguous smile that didn’t reach his eyes, which were completely cold.

His face was written all over with the words “You’re looking for death right now”.

The strategist: “…”

A thrilling rebellion ended just like that, with another fall of heavy snow.

The strategists and guards all withdrew from Chengming Palace.

In an instant, only Qi Zhuoyu and Feng Xuan were left in the great hall.

Suddenly alone, Feng Xuan’s mind was still a bit chaotic.

Mainly because he hadn’t figured out what kind of demon he should pretend to be.

But Qi Zhuoyu wasn’t in a hurry to ask him, he just pinched his face. “Tired?”

It was fine before he asked, but now that he mentioned it, he really was a bit tired. After all, it had been a long time since he had personally crushed a demon’s soul, and using karmic fire consumed a lot of spiritual power.

Qi Zhuoyu held his hand and walked to the bed.

He scanned the great hall, and at some point, the shattered stones and demon zombie corpses in the hall had all disappeared. It was restored to Chengming Palace’s usual magnificent and extravagant appearance.

Feng Xuan noticed his gaze and said softly, “You’ve just ascended the throne. If you spend a lot of silver on repairing the palace, you’ll be impeached by the censors.”

What a little demon.

Quite knowledgeable about frugality.

Feng Xuan sat on the bed, seeing that Qi Zhuoyu still showed no intention of asking.

Finally unable to resist, he looked up at him. “Don’t you have anything you want to ask me?”

Qi Zhuoyu stared at him and calmly said, “I’ve long known you’re not an ordinary person.”

Feng Xuan: “.” Okay, his acting was indeed very bad.

“You’re a demon.” Qi Zhuoyu said with certainty.

Feng Xuan: “…” He took back what he said about his bad acting. Did he look unlike a god somewhere?

Qi Zhuoyu continued. “I’ve heard that in ancient times, when the human king offered incense at the divine temple, he was disrespectful to the goddess. Later, in anger, the goddess sent down three demons to conceal their demonic forms, enter the palace, and confuse the emperor’s heart.”

Feng Xuan had heard this story too.

It was said that among the three demons, the fox demon was extremely beautiful and charming. Did the big devil suspect he was a fox spirit?

Feng Xuan thought his despicable senior brother was quite good at roundabout compliments, and said happily, “Do you think I’m that fox demon?”

Qi Zhuoyu looked at him and said, “The fox demon enslaved the people, was treacherous and vicious, cruel and tyrannical.”

His little demon was just thinking about being frugal for him.

The implication was that it couldn’t be him.

The next second, Qi Zhuoyu said, “That fox demon had a fellow disciple, lazy and carefree, unambitious, but with looks even surpassing the fox demon.”

Feng Xuan: ? Wait. Wasn’t the fox demon’s fellow disciple a nine-headed crow chicken demon??

Qi Zhuoyu very confidently concluded, kissing his lips, seeming very pleased as if he had guessed correctly. “So, you’re a chicken demon.”