This was also the cleverness of the Royal Family. If they were to exterminate nine generations, then the Zhu clan, from top to bottom, would fight to the death. But by only severely punishing a small portion of the direct descendants, most of the Zhu clan's Spirit Masters would not choose to fight to the bitter end.
Zhu Yuan clearly understood this point, and his heart was filled with immense sorrow. Considering his clansmen, he, with his spirit power of over eighty ranks, dared not resist. How tragic was that?
But it was at this moment, outside the Zhu Residence, that a woman holding a black cannon slowly appeared, holding a middle-aged man dressed in a white tiger imperial robe hostage. Accompanied by the chilling aura of Nine Yin, she actually forced back more than ten Spirit Emperor-ranked knights, and in full view of everyone, walked up to Dai Chengfeng:
"The Star Luo Emperor is here, who dares to be presumptuous?"
Upon seeing the appearance of the man in the yellow robe, Dai Chengfeng rubbed his eyes in disbelief and called out in shock:
"Your Majesty!"
"Audacious! How dare you hold His Majesty hostage? Men!"
"Wait! Dai Chengfeng, are you trying to rebel?"
The middle-aged man in the yellow robe felt the pitch-black Sky Shattering Cannon at his waist prod him. Cold sweat streamed down the Star Luo Emperor's forehead, and he quickly took out a new imperial decree, ordering:
"This Emperor has wronged the Zhu clan. The Zhu family has committed no crime. The Zhu clan and the Royal Family are, after all, allies of a hundred years. Let us reconcile. This Emperor has just drafted a decree to proclaim it to the world. Not only is the Zhu family innocent, but this Emperor shall also bestow rewards! This is this Emperor's new decree."
"What?!"
"The Zhu clan pardoned, the princes' character is poor, the engagement is dissolved… Zhu clan fiefdom?!"
"A fiefdom of a hundred li around Dragon Rising City?!"
"A fiefdom is a privilege only kings receive!"
When Dai Chengfeng read out the contents of the imperial decree, he was greatly shocked, and the entire Zhu clan, from top to bottom, stared dumbfounded at the young woman who had suddenly appeared.
Only a noblewoman next to Zhu Yuan stumbled and crawled to the young woman's side:
"Zhuqing, you are my Zhuqing!"
"Zhuqing, are you hurt?"
"Hmm, just a little injury."
Zhu Zhuqing nodded slightly, looking indifferently at everyone in the Zhu family, and merely said coldly:
"Take all the valuables you can, and abandon what you must. I can only do this much. You either quickly disperse to Dragon Rising City, or you must seek your own fortune. Otherwise, I cannot protect you."
This time, her surprise attack on the imperial palace, threatening the Emperor to protect her family, and castrating the princes to vent her anger, was actually taking an enormous risk and was already something the Royal Family could not tolerate.
And Dragon Rising City is on the border of the Star Luo Empire, less than two hundred li from the Heaven Dou Empire, and not far from Spirit City.
Once the Star Luo Emperor returned to the palace and realized what had happened, if he summoned a large army to encircle and suppress the Zhu family, even with her Soul Bursting Sky Piercer, she wouldn't be able to protect the entire family.
But at the Empire's border, the clansmen could either enjoy the fiefdom or retreat into the Heaven Dou Empire and Spirit City for safety.
The so-called imperial power connection, glory, wealth, and influence that the Zhu clan desired, she couldn't protect, nor did she want to. The only thing she could do was leave them a glimmer of hope.
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Meanwhile, in the imperial palace, in the White Tiger Hall, blood covered the ground, with more than ten bodies of generals lying scattered, including even two great generals at the Spirit Douluo rank. Their bones and flesh were shattered by a single shot, leaving a huge hole in their bodies.
"Zhuqing, no, no!"
Dai Weisi and Dai Mubai also lay half-dead on the tiger steps, but just remembering the terrifying scene from moments ago, they couldn't help but shriek in surprise.
Their lower bodies were covered in blood!
Only two trembling young eunuchs, holding knives, knelt beside them, sobbing.
In their minds, there was only the terrifying figure of Zhu Zhuqing, alone, fighting her way into the White Tiger Hall to break off the engagement, instantly blasting the eighty-eighth-ranked Imperial Defender General to death with a single shot, forcing the eunuchs to castrate the princes, and then holding the Star Luo Emperor hostage as she left the palace:
"What kind of divine artifact is that object in her hand?!"
"Zhu Zhuqing, you are truly too terrifying!"
"If I can't marry you, I'll marry your younger sister—do you have to interfere with that too?!"
"Ah~ My brother, you've ruined me!"
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