Chapter 15

Royal Palace, Golden Phoenix Temple.

"I heard that the little emperor escaped from the palace."

"Has he decided to escape?"

"Haha, he can't run away."

"Yes, the imperial guards have been dispatched to bring him back. He's just a yellow-haired child with no power to even restrain a chicken. Naturally, he would be caught."

Upon learning that Zhao Hao had left the palace, in the Palace, hundreds of civil and military officials were whispering to each other.

"Ling Ling Ling, Ling Ling Ling..."

At this moment, outside the hall, a creepy metallic sound rang.

The officials, who were whispering to each other, looked out of the hall and trembled.

They saw a young man, covered in blood, dragging a long sword with blood dripping from it, striding towards the Golden Phoenix Temple.

"Li Tianba seeks to usurp the throne, and to do so has traded the kingdom's lands and humiliated the imperial power. Li Tianba's family is dead, and those who conspired with him in this, this is the end!"

That boy was exactly the yellow-haired child in the mouths of the officials, Zhao Hao.

"It's the little emperor, he, he killed the Grand Marshal's guards and his family!"

"What's going on? How is this, how is this possible?"

"What does he want to do..."

Zhao Hao dragged his sword and strode forward, at this moment, Li Yao was chained and being dragged on the ground using an iron chain. The manner of his appearance shocked the civil and military officials.

"Dong Zhuo, keep watch outside the gate, no one is allowed to enter. Those who dare to step into the hall, behead them, and smash their remains to bits!" Looking at the three armed forces behind him, Zhao Hao deliberately increased his voice as he ordered Dong Zhuo to prevent their interference.

"Yes!"

Dong Zhuo stood outside the hall with his huge sword, his body was burning with black flames, as he stared at the army.

Zhao Hao dragged Li Yao's corpse and walked directly into the magnificent hall. Foot-shaped blood stains were left on the ground wherever he stepped, stretching to the front of the throne.

"Boom, boom boom, boom boom boom..."

The head on the corpse broke away from the body and rolled to the feet of a civil official.

The head had a distorted expression. The official looked and found it was Li Tianba's son, Li Yao. This scared the civil official so much that he almost pee his pants.

Is this the puppet emperor? Is it that weak and incompetent waste? No, absolutely not!

Feeling that the situation did not look good, some of the officials turned around to escape from the hall.

"This is the first time I've come to court and it appears there's someone who won't give me face and wants to leave?" Zhao Hao, squinted and asked.

The officials who wanted to escape were so frightened that they flinched and inched further away from the entrance.

Zhao Hao sneered, and then ordered: "Die Wu, close the door."

"Yes."

With a wave of her butterfly-colored sleeves, a burst of colored light burst out, and the magnificent door was closed tightly with a 'bang'.

Under the bang, the officials' hearts trembled as a bad premonition rose in their hearts.

Looking at the gathered officials who were shocked, Zhao Hao felt satisfied.

The civil and military officials were divided into two columns, standing on the left and right of the main hall respectively. The defeat of the Divine Dragon Empire led to the loss of the grandeur of the officials' gathering which was present in the previous dynasty. It was said that there were hundreds of civil and military officials in the current regime, but currently, there were not more than a hundred people.

"I have a question and I want honest answers. I want to know, Are you my ministers or Li Tianba's ministers?" Zhao Hao asked straightforwardly.

There was a brief silence in the hall.

Zhao Hao smiled faintly. He understood clearly what the silence meant.

If the ministers were loyal to him and he asked about this, as per the custom, the hundred officials should have knelt down and shouted, "Long live the emperor."

Li Tianba had been in control of power for ten years, and his influence was deeply rooted, it couldn't be easily shaken. In this way, Zhao Hao had no scruples, and next, he would slash the thorns with no regard.

At this moment, the leader of the civil officials walked out without any courtesy, and said angrily: "Zhao Hao, you're taking advantage of the Grand Marshal's march to run riot. You've killed the Marshal's family, dragged a corpse into the Golden Phoenix Hall, and closed the gates of the palace. What do you intend to do?"

Yan Gang, the current prime minister, and the number two figure in the imperial court was the head of the civil officials. He was responsible for overseeing Zhao Hao's imprisonment and controlled the court and the opposition. It was he who conspired with Li Tianba to get rid of all the ministers who were loyal to the Zhao royal family, and then to promote his confidant position, imprisoned Zhao Hao and abolished his cultivation qualifications. Yan Gang's advice and instigation were indispensable to Li Tianba's current rule.

This person, to Zhao Hao, was as guilty of death as Li Tianba.

Yan Gang had analyzed the situation in silence for a moment and thought he could come out on top. There was a young girl beside Zhao Hao who seemed to be his protector, but there were still seven or eight generals in the court. He himself was also a powerhouse at rank 7 of the battle spirit realm, and Zhao Hao was nothing to be afraid of.

"Li Tianba betrayed the country and humiliated the emperor. I killed his whole family to atone for his mistakes." Zhao Hao said, looking at the officials, and then said with a cold smile: "You imprisoned me for ten years but I've just closed the door for a while and you can't bear it already?"

Under Zhao Hao's gaze, the officials shuddered in their hearts.

Behind Yan Gang, a civil official came forward, and stepped directly towards Zhao Hao without any show of respect. He pointed at Zhao Hao and stammered: "Little, little emperor, you, you dare to rebel?"

This stammerer was the younger brother of Yan Gang.

"Hahaha." Zhao Hao laughed.

"You still dare to laugh!" Yan Ji didn't put Zhao Hao in his eyes at all.

Zhao Hao sneered again and said: "I am of the orthodox royal lineage. I want to kill the rebellious ministers but in your eyes, it turns out I'm the one staging a rebellion." With cold eyes, he suddenly drew out the sword of the king, swung the sword and cut it down at Yan Ji.

"brush!"

Half of Yan Ji's head was shaved off, and he fell down the stairs, splashing blood in the hall.

[Hint, you get 50 experience points.]

[Ding! Congratulations, you've obtained a treasure.]

"…."

Seeing Yan Ji who was killed with a swipe like a mosquitoe, the Hundred Officials were shocked.

Yan Ji would never have thought that Zhao Hao who had set foot in the Golden Phoenix Temple for the first time would draw his sword and kill at the slightest disagreement. It was extremely decisive and completely unpredictable!

This Yan Ji probably had low IQ and despite his cultivation level being very low he still dared to show off because of his brother. He was an official who relied entirely on going through the back door of the system, but he was worshipped as a scholar and was a second-ranking member, so he was also judged by the system as a minor boss hence the equipment drop.

Zhao Hao took a quick look to check the treasure that he had obtained.