Nonsense! How could my adopted son be a villain?

The stone heart beat slowly in Yu Jun's hand, just like a normal heart, but its color was different from a normal heart; it was not red, but a dark stone gray.

Because it was only half a piece, and the surface was covered with cracks, it looked as if it would break at any moment.

This is the half of the soul pearl that Jin Kui voluntarily gave away.

Yu Yun looked down at the stone heart in her hand, her expression complicated.

However, she did not waste time indulging in these useless emotions. She immediately began to refine the stone heart and absorb it into her body.

Then, when Yu Jun's spiritual energy flowed into the stone heart, the cracks on the surface of the stone heart spread out like a spider web, and the latter half of the stone heart turned into fragments like tofu dregs, falling from Yu Jun's fingers.

Yu Jun narrowed her eyes slightly: "Fake?"

In a flash, she realized something and looked down at Princess Huai'an, who was lying on the ground, barely clinging to life after losing her heart.

Princess Huai'an's eyes were tightly closed, her face contorted with the pain of having her heart ripped out, but she seemed unwilling to die. Even though she only had one breath left, she refused to swallow.

"It really is you."

Yu Yun's gaze shifted to Yu Xian, and when she saw Yu Xian's expression suddenly become calm and composed, she revealed a look that seemed to be both sighing and sad: "It's a pity that Mother is dead, otherwise she should have seen with her own eyes what kind of thing she has fallen for."

Although I had long known that Yu Xian's ability to abandon his mother and climb the social ladder by marrying the Princess of Huai'an was surely for the sake of his family's interests, and that he might not have been sincere at all.

But she thought that since the two had been married for so many years, and in public Yu Xian had been very caring towards Princess Huai'an, even giving her half of the Soul Pearl that he had tricked from his mother in order to save her, there must have been some genuine affection in his actions.

But now it seems that Yu Xian is still the same as always, only interested in interests and not in feelings.

Princess Huai'an is nearing her end, and even half a Soul Pearl cannot save her. She can no longer be Yu Xian's help, so she cannot even choose how she dies.

Yu Xian had already arranged her fate.

—Only if the Prince of Huai'an dies at the hands of Yu Yun can we ensure that the Prince of Xixiang will not take his anger out on Yu Xian in the future.

Seeing that she had seen through his plan, Yu Xi was not flustered. He had been planning this for a long time, and Yu Yun was already trapped.

"If you obediently surrender and hand over the other half of the Soul Pearl, I will spare your life for the sake of Jin Kui."

Yu Yun laughed mockingly, bent down and gently stroked the pale cheek of Princess Huai'an, and asked softly, "Look, this is how you repay me for what you took from my mother. I suppose you're not willing to die like this, are you?"

Princess Huai'an's eyelids trembled, but she was unable to respond.

"If you are unwilling to die like this, why not serve me?"

Puppets sprouted from Yu Yun's fingertips, and the invisible threads, accompanied by Yu Yun's gentle voice, burrowed into the seven orifices of the Princess of Huai'an.

Princess Huai'an's eyelids trembled more violently, and bluish-black blood vessels bulged out from under her skin. Then her limbs began to twitch uncontrollably.

Yu Xian narrowed his eyes, looking at Yu Jun warily: "What are you going to do? Do you think this desperate struggle will work?"

Yu Yun turned around and looked at him with a smile. With a slight movement of her fingers, Princess Huian, who had been slumped on the ground, stood up again like a puppet. She opened her thin eyelids, revealing a pair of bloodshot eyes, staring straight at Yu Xian with a deep-seated hatred that wished she could devour him alive.

"It is still unknown who is struggling in their death throes."

Yu Yun moved her ten fingers in quick succession, and the puppet threads trembled incessantly at her fingertips. In just a moment, many puppets emerged from the house and the bushes.

Most of them wore the uniforms of servants from the princess's mansion, and when they did not receive instructions from their masters, they hid in the crowd like normal people.

But once their disguise is removed, their eyes roll upwards, leaving only the whites of their eyes staring straight in Yu Xian's direction. If Yu Yun lightly flicks the puppet strings, they can fight to the death at any moment.

Yu Xian was prepared. Yu Yun was not without a backup plan either.

Beneath the barrier, the puppets and the Golden Scale Guards each occupied one side.

Yu Yun and Yu Xian also adopted a pincer movement.

Yu Xian drew a long spear from thin air, slammed it down, and swept it horizontally towards Yu Yun, his voice booming like thunder: "Kill them all!"

The Golden Scale Guards, like a school of fish, instantly formed ranks and charged towards the puppet.

Yu Yun spread her ten fingers and swept them across the countless puppet threads as if playing a zither. In the next instant, her figure vanished like smoke and reappeared behind Yu Xian.

Below the two, the puppets and the Golden Scale Guards were locked in a fierce battle.

Yu Xian's first attack failed. He gathered his strength again, and the long spear in his hand almost left afterimages as he swung it, each move a deadly strike aimed at Yu Yun.

This wasn't the first time he had clashed with Yu Yun. This daughter had inherited Jin Kui's bloodline, but she had surpassed her master in every way. Her methods were extremely difficult to deal with, so it was best to end the battle quickly.

Therefore, his spiritual power was almost burning at its peak, and he used every shot mercilessly, quickly and accurately taking Yu Yun's life.

But he knew Yu Yun well, and Yu Yun knew him well too.

Yu Yun's fingers never stopped, but her figure was elusive and unpredictable. Every time Yu Xian's spear pierced her, she had already appeared at the next spot.

Both of them moved extremely fast; to the naked eye, their afterimages in the air appeared as if they were in slow motion.

They fought fiercely for hundreds of rounds, and neither could gain the upper hand for the time being.

Yu Xian's spiritual power could not support such a rapid attack, and his attack speed gradually slowed down. At the same time, he vaguely felt that something was wrong.

Yu Yun had been severely injured by him earlier, so her spiritual power shouldn't be so strong right now.

After the fight, he was still struggling, but Yu Jun still looked calm and composed.

Looking down at the battlefield, although the Golden Scale Guards were all elites, they were still just mortals. The puppets, fearless and painless, quickly gained the upper hand and began to turn the tables and annihilate the Golden Scale Guards.

Manipulating so many puppets must require even more effort.

wrong!

Alarm bells rang in Yu Xian's mind, but he couldn't immediately figure out what was wrong.

If you can't figure it out, just break through all ten techniques with one brute force.

Yu Xian gathered his energy again, and his spiritual power transformed into raging flames that covered the surface of the spear, sweeping outwards.

Yu Yun used the tip of the spear to step on it, and lightly rose into the air. Her gentle eyes smiled as she looked down at Yu Xian: "Father, I have won this round."

Yu Xian looked up at her, puzzled.

The next instant, his hair stood on end, and he instinctively wanted to dodge, but the puppet threads that had been laid out around him at some unknown time blocked his way.

Yu Xian froze, and before he could turn around, he was tightly embraced by a pair of soft yet strong arms.

The skin on his arm was an unhealthy grayish-white, covered with bluish-black veins.

It's Huai'an.