Chapter 1342 - 1279: Losing Reason
Wei Xiong and Ji Dan followed closely, one was the Left Guard General, the other was the General of Xinyi, both with impressive martial skills.
Before they entered the inner palace, they encountered a group of panic-stricken palace maids rushing out. Tuoba Yilu grabbed one of them and asked, "What causes this panic?"
The palace maid, pale-faced, reported, "There’s an assassin, an assassin tried to kill Lady Xue and the Third Prince."
Tuoba Yilu was furious, "There’s an assassin trying to kill your masters, how dare you all abandon them and flee!"
With that, he decapitated the palace maid.
Blood spurted out, the fleeing palace maids and slaves screamed in horror, turned around in panic, and happened to knock into Tuoba Biyan, who was escaping while clutching his arm. His protectors were immediately scattered, and he was knocked down flat on his back, coincidentally falling right in front of a palace maid holding a dagger.
The enemy was right in front of her eyes, without a second thought, she raised her hand and viciously stabbed downwards. Tuoba Biyan, in panic, reached out and grabbed her hand, the tip of the blade hovering just above his eye...
Tuoba Biyan had also been trained in martial arts from a young age, and the strength of the maid was no match for him. He felt the opponent’s weakness, the tip of the blade slowly rose away from his face, he sneered and gripped her hand hard, ready to seize the dagger and retaliate. The last group of palace attendants frightened by Tuoba Yilu ran back in panic, the ground was cluttered with people who had collided, and two people inadvertently crashed into each other while avoiding those at their feet as well as the two fighting parties...
One person suddenly fell backwards, their back slamming into the hands of the maid and Tuoba Biyan. The four hands competing were struck down by a tremendous force, and the dagger pierced in with a squelch...
Tuoba Biyan first experienced a blackout before his mouth and nose were hit with excruciating pain, his whole body stunned by the impact, only to then feel the searing agony.
Tuoba Yilu witnessing this scene, let out a wail, rushed forward to yank the fallen maid aside, only to find she still tightly clutched the dagger’s handle, and the dagger was buried entirely below Tuoba Biyan’s collarbone. Unsure if the trachea was injured, he opened his mouth and blood gushed out, looking helplessly at his father...
Tuoba Yilu, stricken with grief and rage, grabbed the maid, recognizing her as one of Lady Jujube’s attendants, "Wretched maid, who gave you the nerve, who gave you the nerve?"
Wei Xiong rushed forward, covering Tuoba Biyan’s wound with his hand, but dared not pull out the dagger, knowing well that withdrawing it would mean certain death for Tuoba Biyan.
The maid, her face turning purple from Tuoba Yilu’s grip, struggled and said haltingly, "For... For the lady... revenge..."
Tuoba Yilu screamed, breaking her neck and casting her aside, then seeing the chaos wrought by the palace maids and slaves, recognized them all as Lady Jujube’s people, and immediately ordered, "Kill them all, kill them all!"
Guards rushed in, soon some slaves fled out, kneeling before Tuoba Yilu, saying, "Great King, Lady Xue, Lady Xue was assassinated, she might... might not survive..."
Tuoba Yilu looked down at him, gradually calming down.
Wei Xiong, terrified, looked at him as Tuoba Yilu coldly ordered, "Kill all the maids and slaves in this palace, let them accompany Lady Xue and my son in death!"
The palace attendants, their faces turning pale at the words, immediately knelt and pleaded for mercy.
Wei Xiong and Ji Dan quickly pleaded as well, saying, "Great King, avoiding danger is human nature, please spare their lives, let them atone for their crimes by making contributions."
They continued, "The Third Prince still needs medical treatment, these servants are needed to serve, Lady Xue might still be unharmed..."
Tuoba Yilu half-kneeling on the ground looking at his suffering son, was equally pained, bitterly saying, "They are slaves, protecting their master is their duty, if it were not for their flight, how would my Biyan suffer such a grievous wound?"
Tuoba Yilu, resolute, directly ordered, the slaves of this palace garden, regardless of whether they were Lady Jujube’s people, would all be executed.
The palace maids and slaves trembled, kneeling motionless, not daring to scream, except for Lady Jujube’s people, all shivering awaiting the guards to come and deliver the killing blow.
Lady Jujube’s people, not waiting for the guards to act, glanced at Tuoba Biyan lying on the ground uncertain of life or death, felt their goal accomplished, smiled contentedly, then calmly faced death, slitting their own throats.
The courtyard soon filled with the stench of blood, the doctor arriving to see this scene of human purgatory, couldn’t help but buckle and kneel on the ground.
Upon seeing Tuoba Biyan lying on the ground, he became even more terrified.