The Emperor's Domineering Favor, the Evil Consort's Unparalleled Reign

After hearing what Lord Huaijiang said, Ying Li's expression changed slightly. He pondered how to rescue his grandfather and third uncle, and his palms became slightly sweaty.

“I won’t kill you,” Ying Li said. “I won’t kill anyone from your Huaijiang Mansion either. I destroyed the spirit pool and spirit stones of Huaijiang Mansion, so I will leave these spirit stones here as well. I won’t blame you for feeding me poison. After all, at that time, these spirit stones were far more precious than my life.”

As Ying Li spoke, sweat streamed down the face of the Lord of Huaijiang Prefecture. He smiled obsequiously, looking at Ying Li with a fawning expression, and said, "Are you telling the truth?! In that case, thank you so much, Miss Ying Li, thank you so much, Miss Ying Li." He was outwardly fawning, but inwardly he was plotting how to kill Ying Li!

Ying Li was well aware of these people's thoughts. Having experienced much betrayal and cold treatment, she simply couldn't accept flattery.

Ying Li glanced at Jiang Huai and said, "I won't kill you, but I can't just do nothing for Jiang Huai. It's true that you took Jiang Huai in, but since he was a child, you've been thinking about how to assimilate the power within him. Jiang Huai has lived in fear every single day. What do you think can ever repay that?!"

"Well... I was just confused at the time. Besides, Jiang Huai has been stronger than us since birth. How could I possibly beat him?! Miss Ying Li is joking!"

"Hehe, I hope so." After Ying Li finished speaking, he waved his right hand, and the true spiritual energy barrier disappeared. The Lord of Huaijiang Prefecture was overjoyed. He grabbed Jiang Yi and Jiang Heyan and shot off towards the outside of Huaijiang Prefecture!

However, when he arrived in the courtyard, the spiritual array that blocked outsiders from entering the Huaijiang Mansion was instantly opened, and thousands of people suddenly rushed in. Upon seeing Jiang Heyan, they rushed towards her like madmen!

Those who had grudges against Lord Huaijiang seized the opportunity amidst the chaos to steal various treasures from the Huaijiang mansion and kill its rare and precious beasts. Although Lord Huaijiang was fortunate enough to survive, seeing his hard-earned wealth vanish just like that, he seemed to age more than ten years in an instant.

Ying Li and Jiang Huai were truly untouchable. They wanted to report to the Mu Dynasty, but were held back by these ignorant people. If Jiang Heyan couldn't help them resolve the current situation, these thousands of people would probably torment them to death.

"Ying Li, what should we do now?! We can't just go directly to Nan'an Kingdom to find Hou Jingting. We have no leverage, and it's too late to go back to the Ghost Realm now!" Fu Cheng said worriedly.

Ying Li thought for a moment and felt somewhat troubled. After a long while, she said, "Fu Cheng, can you do me a favor?! Go to the Ghost Realm and bring Hou Ning here. We'll split up. Jiang Huai, Miss Li, and I will go to Nan'an Kingdom first. We'll meet up then and figure out a way to rescue him."

“I’m the only one who can frequently enter and leave the Ghost Realm without arousing suspicion. Ying Li, don’t worry, I will bring Hou Ning back as soon as possible! Don’t rush, be sure to discuss things with Jiang Huai!” After Fu Cheng finished speaking, he parted ways with Ying Li and the others and headed towards the Ghost Realm barrier. He had to keep traveling so that he could reach Nan’an Kingdom at the same time as Ying Li.

“Miss Ying, is there anything I can do to help?! You saved my life and took me, a lonely and helpless person, into your life, making me your friend. I want to help you! These people are so wicked, and I want to do my best to make them receive the punishment they deserve,” Li Xiyue said. Ying Li had shown her immense kindness, and she hoped to do her best to help him.

Ying Li glanced at Li Xiyue and opened her mouth to refuse. After all, Li Xiyue had just been reborn, and her gentle and charming nature was not suitable for doing such fighting and killing. However, she thought about it again. Before Li Xiyue was reborn, everything she had experienced was fighting and killing. If a person always lives in a greenhouse, it is tantamount to courting death.

So Ying Li said, “I happen to have a favor to ask of you. Here are ten spirit stones. Absorb all the spiritual energy from these spirit stones and then release it throughout Huaijiang Mansion. This way, everyone else in Huaijiang Mansion will be thrown into chaos, and no one will spread our news. We can then get to Nan’an Kingdom as soon as possible to save my family.”

After speaking, Ying Li handed the spirit stones to Li Xiyue. The latter nodded and absorbed the spiritual power from the ten spirit stones one by one. Following the method Ying Li had taught her, she spread the spiritual power throughout the vast Huaijiang Mansion. All the spirit beasts and spirit masters were alarmed, and Huaijiang Mansion fell into panic. Seeing that things were getting more and more chaotic, Ying Li quickly pulled Jiang Huai and Li Xiyue away, letting these people fight among themselves.

Time is of the essence, the life of the Ying family. If Ying Li is even a fraction slower, the danger to the Ying family will increase. News of her leaving the Ghost Realm will surely reach the Spirit Realm, where the Mu Dynasty will then rule. It will be even more difficult for her to act and save people.

"Let's hurry, hurry up!" Ying Li kept urging them on the road, and Jiang Huai and Li Xiyue didn't complain at all. Finally, a month later, they arrived in Nan'an Kingdom.

Returning to this familiar country, Ying Li couldn't help but feel a pang of heartache. Chen Qingyan and Erniang were from Nan'an Kingdom. If they hadn't met Ying Li back then, if Yuan Hua hadn't implicated innocent people, they wouldn't have died!

Ying Li clenched his right hand tightly, inquiring about the direction of the capital city of Nan'an Kingdom. He originally thought that after arriving in the capital city of Nan'an Kingdom, he would just not hear any news about the Ying family members, just like at the Huaijiang Mansion. However, when Ying Li and the other two disguised themselves and arrived at the gate of the capital city of Nan'an Kingdom, Ying Li was stunned.

Her right hand trembled slightly as she looked up at the city gate, her eyes gradually reddening. Ying Xue, dressed in a linen robe, bare-handed and barefoot, with a thick rope tied around her neck, had been hanged on the city gate tower of Nan'an Kingdom!

Her body floated slowly and forlornly in mid-air. In the winter air, her body was covered in bruises and wounds, making her appear long dead. Black blood still flowed between her legs, and the cold wind ruffled her filthy hair. Ying Xue's lips parted, revealing a pale, slender lip that swayed in the wind.

Jiang Huai walked up to Ying Li, put one arm around her, and covered her eyes with the other. The moment his palm touched Ying Li's cheek, Jiang Huai felt a burning sensation in his palm.

Ying Li didn't cry. She took a step back, wearing a heavy cloak that covered her eyes. However, Li Xiyue saw that Ying Li's indifferent eyes were slightly red. Her face was pale, and there was no color in the corner of her mouth. She stared very intently at Ying Xue's body.

"Ying Li, that girl who died tragically, who was she...?" Li Xiyue asked, noticing that Ying Li's eyes were slightly red, guessing that the tragically deceased woman was probably a member of Ying Li's clan.

Ying Li smiled, her eyes fixed on Ying Xue's swaying body, her right hand clenched tightly. She pretended to be nonchalant as she stared at Li Xiyue, her voice growing colder, "She's my second sister. We grew up together. When I was little, I was seen as a good-for-nothing, always bullied—by my own family and by outsiders. My second sister was always there, and she never bullied me first, nor did she ever help me. I hate her! I hate her!"

Li Xiyue looked into Ying Li's eyes and said, "Since you hate her, aren't you happy that she's dead?! Why do you look like you're about to cry?!"

"Only I can touch her, no one else can! Do you understand, Xi Yue? She's my second sister. She coldly watched me being bullied for fifteen years, she watched me get beaten to death by my eldest sister! I hate her, but I won't allow anyone else to touch her! I won't!" Ying Li said stubbornly, his body shooting towards Ying Xue!

"Ying Li!!!" Jiang Huai shouted, but Ying Li was extremely fast. In the blink of an eye, she had already reached the city gate. With a light wave of her right hand, the rope binding Ying Xue's body broke, and Ying Xue's body swayed and fell down. Ying Li caught Ying Xue, whose two arms were swinging in the air.

Ying Xue's cheeks were sunken and thin, all the tendons in her hands and feet had been severed, her neck was covered in purple and blue marks, her entire neck was broken, her spine was broken into segments, and her consciousness had dissipated. What Ying Li was holding now was nothing more than a dead body.

"Ying Xue! Ying Xue! Wake up! It's me, Ying Li, your little sister, Ying Xue. When we went to Bixia Palace, didn't you promise Grandpa? You promised to listen to your brother and take good care of your sister. You promised, Ying Xue!!! Ying Xue!" Ying Li held Ying Xue's body, calling her name repeatedly, but Ying Xue was dead and could no longer answer.

A tear fell from the corner of Ying Xue's eye. It was as if Ying Xue had been waiting for Ying Li for a long time. The tear fell to the ground, and her body finally began to rot in the winter. It was decayed, her body was ruined, and she could never be resurrected.

"Ying Li, the dead cannot be brought back to life. Ying Xue's body had been broken for a long time. Those people seemed to know you could revive people with the Bone Ring. Ying Xue was thoroughly killed. While she was alive, her consciousness had already dissipated. After going mad, she was hanged alive at the city gate. Ying Li, pull yourself together! Ying Zhe, and your grandfather and third uncle are waiting for you to save them! Ying Li!" Yin Lie comforted her from within the Bone Ring. He was also filled with indignation after seeing Ying Xue's death. Could such methods really have come from the hands of the well-regarded Lord Hou Jingting of Nan'an Kingdom?!

What a bunch of hypocrites!

"I want revenge! Ah! I want revenge!" Ying Li looked at the tears in Ying Xue's eyes in his arms, his whole body trembling as he said these words with hatred. Ying Li's spiritual power kept increasing, at an extremely terrifying speed.

The power of thunder gathered in the air, and lightning kept flashing across the withered bone ring on Ying Li's right hand.

"Ying Li, no! Control yourself! If the Ghost Domain Thunder Technique appears, there's no Fucheng here to shield you from it, no Jue Ling Great Sage to cover your tracks. Everyone will see your Ghost Domain Thunder Technique, and they'll surround you from all sides. What will you do then?! Ying Li?!" Jiang Huai said worriedly.

But after seeing Ying Xue's death, Ying Li was almost driven mad! She put Ying Xue down, stood up, turned around and looked at the high city wall of Nan'an Kingdom. A strange smile appeared on her lips, a crescent-shaped scar on her forehead suddenly appeared, and purple lines kept moving across her face.

"Hiss! Hiss! Hiss!" Ying Li's blood python coiled behind him, and the blue divine fish beast roared in from the horizon, bringing wind, rain, lightning, frost, and snow! All of these arrived the instant Ying Li smiled!

"Roar!!!" The Wolf Hunter Spirit and the Heavenly Dog Spirit roared out from the Xuan Jin at some unknown time, now more than three times larger than when Jiang Huai last saw them! Anger breeds power, and their master's anger is their rage! Even the Heavenly Dog Spirit bared its teeth and stared at the towering gates of Nan'an Kingdom! They wanted to kill! They wanted to fight for their master!

Bloodshed fueled his power. Ying Li turned to face Jiang Huai, a sinister smile playing on his lips. "They killed my second sister! They killed my second sister! Jiang Huai! I can't tolerate this! I can't tolerate this! Ying Xue, the Ying family is in my blood. They harmed my people, they harmed the Ying family! I, Ying Li, will make them all pay with their lives!!!"

"what!!!"

Ying Li's roar ripped through the sky, thunder roared, and a torrential rain was imminent. Frost Dance Technique wrapped around his fingertips, Ying Li raised his right hand, aimed at the city gate, and smashed it down with tremendous force!

Frost flies, sword dances! The sounds of "Bang! Bang! Bang!" echo between heaven and earth! Divine beasts! Spiritual guides! The spirits of heaven and earth! A spiritual barrier! Everything I possess—I will use these things to exact revenge on you hypocrites! Come!