Quick Travel to the Clouds

Chapter 524 The Princess Who Wants to Compilation 21

Huang Yuqing tilted her head slightly, her gaze finally landing on the Second Princess lying on the ground. Her eyes were still as cold as ever, but they lacked the sharpness of scrutiny and instead held a frightening, unquestionable command.

"Yunli."

"Son...son, I'm here!" Huang Yunli shuddered, her voice distorted by fear.

"I order all of your personal guards to immediately remove their armor and surrender their weapons, and be taken into custody by the Iron Feather Guards."

Every word Huang Yuqing spoke was crystal clear, leaving no room for maneuver. "You and all your generals are confined to your respective tents from today onwards. Without my personal order, you are not allowed to leave! The Iron Feather Guards will guard the outside of the tents. Anyone who dares to move will be killed without mercy!"

"Mother Queen!" Huang Yunli suddenly raised her head, her eyes filled with unbelievable fear and grievance, "Your son... Your son is innocent! You can't..."

Before she could finish her words, she was forced to swallow back all her words because of Huang Yuqing's icy eyes that seemed to see through everything.

That look told her that, at this moment, any explanation was a sophistry, any grievance a pretense, and any struggle would be seen as resistance. In the face of absolute power, her status as a princess was as fragile as thin ice.

"Execute." Huang Yuqing no longer looked at her, and her voice was as indifferent as if she was talking about the weather.

Several Iron Feather Guards in black armor stepped forward silently, their cold gazes falling on the Second Princess and her generals, like beasts locking onto their prey, pressing the hilts of the swords at their waists.

The silent feeling of oppression makes people unable to have the slightest thought of resistance.

Under the shadow of death, Huang Yunli's personal guards were stripped of their armor and weapons one by one by the Tieyu Guards and taken away from the main tent in humiliation and fear.

After dealing with the second princess, Huang Yuqing's gaze slowly swept over the other officials and generals in the tent who were silent as a mouse. The heavy pressure made everyone hold their breath.

"The same applies to you." Her voice was low, but clear to everyone's ears. "Without my decree, any collusion, visitation, or transmission of information is prohibited. Wait for the results of the thorough investigation. Violators...will be punished with the same crime."

This was a complete blockade. The entire imperial camp instantly transformed into a giant cage, controlled by only one person—the ruthless queen, perched high in the center of the storm.

Huang Yuqing then slowly turned around and cast her gaze towards the increasingly dark night outside the tent.

On the horizon, dark clouds rolled like ink, and the dull thunder was getting closer and closer. Winding and dazzling lightning briefly tore through the darkness, illuminating the cold and hard lines on her face like a sculpture and her deep and calm pupils.

The strong wind made the flags flutter and also blew her hair away, like flames dancing in the dark night.

"Promulgate the order." Her voice was still crystal clear in the whistling wind, carrying a kind of determination to perish together with the enemy. "Announce to all the ministers accompanying you: these scoundrels are causing chaos, harming the pillars of government, and threatening the emperor."

"I swear hereby - anyone involved in this matter, regardless of status, relationship or distance, will be exterminated, their entire clan destroyed, their very roots shattered, their souls scattered, and their bodies forever barred from rebirth!"

Every word was like a sharp blade tempered with blood, slamming to the ground with a loud sound, carrying with it the terrifying chill of exterminating nine generations of a family. It swept through the entire camp with the strong wind and struck at the heart of every prisoner.

This is not a promise, it is a curse, a curse from a queen, foreshadowing that what is coming will be a real storm of destruction, a blood for blood, a tooth for a tooth.

And in the almost solidified shadows of rotten leaves at the edge of the camp, those cold eyes witnessed the Second Princess and her confidants being escorted out of the main tent by the Iron Feather Guards, like stray dogs, and also heard the Queen's solemn oath that resounded through the night sky.

The aura around him seemed to grow even heavier, like a shadow blending into the rock, slowly retreating backwards into the darkness, disappearing into the swamp-like thick night and the howling wind, as if he had never appeared.

The queen stood alone at the tent door, and the candlelight behind her cast her tall shadow on the camp, like a sharp sword piercing the sky.

Lightning streaked across the sky, illuminating the world in a pale white. In the momentary light, there was no expression on her face, only endless coldness and the confidence to control everything.

Bean-sized raindrops finally fell, hitting the soil and stirring up a tiny cloud of dust, which was quickly washed away by more rain.

The rain finally came.

The prelude to cleansing the filth has already begun, and how brutal will this bloody cleansing be... We can only wait for the sword at the center of the storm to chop into the throat of darkness.

Iron Feather was like a night owl, circling under the thunder, about to tear open a corner of the truth hidden deep in the jungle for their emperor.

The miasma and danger of the Lost Valley failed to stop the thundering pace of the Iron Feather Guard.

Xiao Jin personally led the spearhead team, cutting through the fog like a tempered blade.

With the sharpness of the tracking experts and the support of the "Shadow Bee", they intercepted the wounded figure who was escaping in an extremely hidden cave in the valley.

A silent and brutal fight broke out in the narrow cave.

The pursuers had a will as strong as steel, and the wounded fought hard like trapped beasts. The swords flashed and blood splattered.

Finally, after paying the price of several elite casualties, Xiao Jin finally used the fine steel chain specially made by the Iron Feather Guard to tightly entangle the ferocious and cunning target - a man with a broken leg, covered in blood but still with eyes like a poisonous wolf.

At the same time, the "Shadow Bee" discovered a few hastily buried worn-out clothes, half a bag of dry food, and... a blood-soaked map fragment depicting the detailed layout of the area near the main tent of the camp!

More importantly, a metal waist plate that was smashed but the core was intact was found among the rocks.

The emblem on the waist badge is not used by ordinary bandits, nor is it used by any organization in the current dynasty - it is a coiled snake totem with a black iron chain piercing its body!

This totem, along with some special branding symbols on the captured person, were quickly compared and confirmed in the top-secret files of the Iron Feather Guard.

Xiao Jin immediately sent the badge, map fragments and the still-breathing prisoner back to the camp overnight.

Before dawn the next day, when this bloody evidence along with the preliminary confession was presented before Empress Huang Yuqing, the suffocating silence was finally broken by a sneer that seemed to come from the Nine Nether Hell.

"Remnants of the previous dynasty... the bastard 'Black Dragon'!" Huang Yuqing's fingers tightly grasped the cold waist badge, the edge almost digging into her palm. "Good, very good! After disappearing for over thirty years, now you dare to stretch out your claws and touch my tiger whiskers!"

Her voice was no longer just cold, but also filled with a raging rage that threatened to burn everything.

The direction of the investigation suddenly became clear, and all the doubts seemed to have found their answer: the precision and viciousness of the attack, and the knowledge of the royal family's whereabouts (the second princess's hunting route was not a spur-of-the-moment idea).

Specially made armor-piercing arrows, and the extremely poisonous withered leaf green that they raised, the goal was definitely not as simple as just killing a guard or a noble lady.

Aigis's death seemed more like a poisonous bait carefully planned to cause chaos, attack the second princess, and even tear the royal family apart!

"Disband the camp immediately! Return to Yujing!" The Queen's order was firm and without any hesitation.

At daybreak, the huge camp began to be dismantled in a suffocating and strict atmosphere.

Yesterday's prosperity and joy are gone, leaving only chaos, the smell of blood and fear that penetrates the bones.

Lines of black armor stood tall, blocking the main roads. Their sharp eyes scanned every moving figure like hawks, be they noble ministers or eunuchs and servants.

Any slightly unusual behavior could lead to a cold interrogation.

The eradication of the camp was more like a brutal purge.