Secular Immortal of the Nine Realms Chapter 79: Immemorial Mausoleum

It was late at night, but the battle outside the city walls continued to rage on.

Longdu’s key strategy behind this operation revolved around ‘surprise’, with Marquess Xianyu and his forces wreaking havoc from the inside to slow the deployment of troops and eliminate key personnel.

Marquess Xianyu was a Ki Manifestation martial artist, after all. Once Fang Chen was suppressed, he would be able to march into the imperial palace to have a heart-to-heart talk with the emperor.

If things had gone down as they had planned, they would have Great Xia’s capital under their control within two hours.

Unfortunately, Marquess Xianyu had fallen in defeat, and the Ki Control martial artists under his command died out. Their strategy had failed. Great Xia had no trouble mobilizing their troops to the four city gates, and with their turf advantage, they easily warded off the Longdu cavalrymen.

The Longdu cavalrymen never received the promised signal from the inside. Instead, their commanders were slowly being picked off by Xu Ge and the others. This crushed their morale. They began to retreat while fending against Great Xia’s soldiers, leaving many corpses in their wake.

Fang Chen continued combing the capital bit by bit with his soul.

I don’t see any Blood Spirit Cultists, and the key suspects are moving normally. I can’t tell who the spy is, or whether those colluding with the Blood Spirit Cultists played a role in orchestrating this invasion.

Fang Chen brought his soul toward the imperial palace.

A group of officials were gathered outside the Imperial Library. From time to time, a servant would arrive to deliver updates on the battle, and the knowledge that they had managed to push back Longdu for now made them heave a sigh of relief.

In the Imperial Library, a grim-faced crown prince eyed the emperor in his peripheral vision before hesitantly speaking up, “Father, Marquess Xianyu died in Xu Ge’s hands. Mysterious experts also appeared at the four city gates. Xu Ge and Huang Sihai were among them, which suggests that

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