The second person to be completely stunned was Zhi Li!
He first gathered all his spiritual power, directing it towards Tuli Yang!
No mistake, this was absolutely the real Tuli Yang. This appearance, this height, especially this ferocious and terrifying face.
Genuine beyond doubt. It would probably be impossible to find a second such person.
How could he possibly not be dead? And Tuli Wen, how was he also not dead?
Immediately, Zhi Li felt his scalp tingle repeatedly, his entire body chilled repeatedly.
Facing Tuli Yang’s appearance, although he would not suffer the same incomparably terrible fate as Tu Lingduo.
Yet complete disgrace and ruin were unavoidable.
For quite some time, Zhi Li could not feel any warmth in his body.
This matter was too terrifying! The consequences, too severe!
Zhi Li’s gaze shot like lightning towards Li Zhu at his side. This assassination was led by him. What was going on?
And Li Zhu was also completely stunned. He had personally witnessed Tuli Yang being shot dead by Fen Mo with an arrow. That poisoned arrow was given to Fen Mo by him personally, absolutely lethal poison, death upon contact!
After the assassination concluded, Li Zhu had also immediately gone to finish off Tuli Yang, directly piercing his heart.
But Fen Mo moved faster, directly hoisting Tuli Yang’s corpse onto his back, preparing to throw it into the surging river waters several hundred metres below to destroy the evidence.
Left with no choice, Li Zhu could only carry out the silencing ahead of schedule, surrounding and killing Fen Mo.
As a result, Fen Mo, carrying Tuli Yang’s corpse, leapt from the cliff, falling into the river waters.
At that time, Li Zhu had shot out countless poisoned needles, all piercing into Fen Mo’s body.
Still the lethal poison from the Demon Continent, certain death upon being struck, absolutely fatal.
But even so, Li Zhu was still not reassured, and still sent people to search downstream in the river.
In the end, they found Tuli Yang’s corpse nearly a hundred li downstream.
Of course, the reason they knew it was Tuli Yang was because the hair was identical, and the height was under one metre fifty.
As for the specific facial features, the entire corpse had already swollen from the water, then been gnawed beyond recognition by fish in the river.
Tu Lingduo forcibly suppressed her nausea to identify it, discovering a curved arc birthmark on the waist, finally confirming this was Tuli Yang.
Even so, Li Zhu was still not reassured, preparing to test the blood.
Every person’s dragon bloodline was different. After dripping into the testing agent, it would display a different pattern.
At that time, not a drop of blood could be found on Tuli Yang’s corpse. It had long since flowed clean, washed away completely by the river waters. Finally, Li Zhu extracted the heart from within the corpse, and in the corners of the heart’s blood vessels, found traces of blood.
Then he sent it to the Divine Dragon Temple for dragon bloodline identification!
When the identification results came out, the dragon bloodline reaction of this corpse was identical to Tuli Yang’s.
The final confirmation: this was Tuli Yang!
Therefore, Tuli Yang was one hundred percent dead. Why had he appeared before them?
…
Suo Lun laughed wildly, “Tu Lingduo, you’re quite puzzled, aren’t you? Tuli Yang was clearly already dead, so why has he appeared before you again?”
At this moment, Tu Lingduo seemed to finally awaken. Her desperate eyes filled with one final counterattack.
“Fake, the Tuli Yang beside you is fake.” Tu Lingduo shrieked, “This is a substitute you found. The real Tuli Yang was already killed by the assassin you sent out. Not only I saw it then, over two hundred Tuli family warriors also witnessed it.”
At this time, the Tuli family warriors were completely stunned, looking at Tuli Wen and Tuli Yang with utter disbelief.
They recognised at a glance that these two were City Lord Tuli Wen and Young Master Tuli Yang.
But after hearing Tu Lingduo’s words, the Tuli family warriors who were present then instinctively nodded. Yes, they had personally witnessed Tuli Yang being shot dead.
“Shot dead by whom?” Suo Lun asked.
“By your trusted confidant, the Dragon Archer Fen Mo!” Tu Lingduo said, but after speaking, she regretted it, because Suo Lun was waiting for her to speak this name.
And this name would become a massive flaw.
“Fen Mo, your half-sister is calling you.” Suo Lun said.
Then, Fen Mo slowly walked out!
Li Zhu’s eyes widened once more. Wasn’t Fen Mo long dead? Killed by his poisoned needles!
Fen Mo infused his voice with dragon power, slowly saying, “My true identity is an illegitimate son of the Tu Ling family, a secret spy of the Black Ice Mansion, who infiltrated the Silver Wolf Legion and Suo Lun’s side under Tu Lingduo’s orders. Tu Lingduo once had me find City Lord Tuli Wen’s place of imprisonment, then she sent out assassins to kill him. The purpose was to allow Tuli Yang to inherit the city lord position ahead of time.”
“You’re lying…” Tu Lingduo shrieked hysterically.
“Bitch, shut your mouth!” Tuli Yang could no longer endure at this moment, shrieking sharply, “You bitch, pretending to be paralysed to avoid sleeping with me. Mouth full of promises saying you would help me rescue Father, yet you sent out assassins to kill him. I was so devoted to you, so considerate and caring, yet you committed adultery with Zhi Li, attempting to conceive his child then kill me, allowing your bastard offspring to inherit the Luanyang city lord position. You not only murdered your husband, but also plotted to seize my Luanyang family’s century-old foundation!”
These words, like a level twelve storm, swept across the entire field!
Especially the lords present, their hearts trembled violently!
Too despicable, too shameless, too terrifying!
Zhi Li, as the future king, committing adultery with a lord’s wife was one thing. After all, everyone’s private lives were chaotic.
But you sleep with someone’s wife, then want to kill the man, and seize his fief.
This… this completely trampled upon everyone’s bottom line, a deeper bottom line than the so-called assassination of lords.
If Zhi Li acted this way, would not all the lords in the future have no path to survival?
Especially among the lords present, some had already sent their wives to Zhi Li’s **? Would that not mean their own lives and fortunes were in danger?
At this moment, cold sweat burst from Zhi Li’s head. He knew he had encountered the most terrifying crisis.
Calm, calm. The more critical the moment, the more one must remain calm!
“Hahahaha…” Zhi Li let out a great laugh, seizing the initiative and attracting everyone’s attention.
“Suo Lun, what excellent methods you have, finding a substitute to wash yourself completely clean.” Zhi Li laughed wildly, “Substitute Master Tuli Yang, may I ask you a question?”
Tuli Yang’s gaze towards Zhi Li truly seemed about to spit flames, grinding his teeth as he said, “Ask away!”
Zhi Li said, “You just said that I planned to commit adultery with Tu Lingduo, have her become pregnant, then kill Tuli Yang, allowing my son to inherit the city lord position, correct?”
Tuli Yang nodded, “Yes, that was your malicious scheme.”
Zhi Li said, “Then the plan must proceed thus: first I commit adultery with Tu Lingduo and make her pregnant. Then she sleeps with Tuli Yang, so Tuli Yang will believe the child is his. Finally, we must wait until after the child is born, confirm it is a boy, and establish him as Luanyang city lord heir, before we murder Tuli Yang. Only then would this conform to reason, correct? Otherwise if she gave birth to a girl, all previous efforts would be wasted.”
“Yes.” Tuli Yang said.
Zhi Li sneered, “Then that doesn’t make sense? We should wait until after the child is born, and confirm it is a boy, before we murder Tuli Yang? Why strike several months ago? At that time, Tu Lingduo had not even confirmed her pregnancy!”
These words caused an uproar among the crowd!
Indeed, this was a flaw. If Zhi Li’s plan was this, he must wait until after the child was born and the Luanyang city lord heir confirmed, before killing Tuli Yang. It was absolutely impossible to murder him several months prior!
Tuli Yang shrieked, “That was because I discovered your adultery ahead of time! That night, you married Tu Lingmo, yet you and Tu Lingduo were fornicating right in my room. After I discovered you, I scratched Tu Lingduo’s face, nearly disfiguring her.”
These words caused everyone to look towards Tu Lingduo’s face.
At this moment, faint red marks still remained on her face. Several months ago, she had claimed she disfigured herself to demonstrate her will to remain chaste and widowed.
Tuli Yang continued, “Zhi Li originally wanted to kill me on the spot, but this bitch Tu Lingduo said I couldn’t be killed now. They needed to create the illusion of a public assassination, then frame City Lord Suo Lun.”
Fen Mo said, “That night, Tu Lingduo came to me with a face full of wounds, asking me to assassinate Tuli Yang. And promised me that once I completed the mission, she would allow me to return to the Tu Ling family.”
Tuli Yang said, “Zhi Li then gave me a medicinal potion to drink. After drinking it, the person remained alive, able to eat and walk, yet the entire person seemed to have lost their soul, like a walking corpse. The next day, Tu Lingduo took me parading through the streets, leaving the royal capital in an open carriage, returning to Luanyang City, and even putting on a display of affection. Tuli family warriors, didn’t you all find my gaze vacant and my behaviour strange at that time?”
These words caused not only the Tuli family warriors, but even the nobles present at the time to feel it was very strange.
Firstly, after attending Zhi Li’s wedding, no one else was in a hurry to leave. Only Tuli Yang was eager to hurry back.
Going back was one thing, but why sit in an open carriage, putting on a display of being incomparably affectionate with Tu Lingduo?
Previously, Tuli Yang and Tu Lingduo had not been so high-profile? Moreover, Tuli Yang’s behaviour that day was indeed extremely abnormal, somewhat vacant.
Fen Mo said, “Tu Lingduo and I agreed that the assassination of Tuli Yang would take place at Black Crow Valley. So the next day, I led a massive assassin team to assassinate and ambush Tuli Yang’s party in Black Crow Valley. Of course, the entire assassin team was dispatched by Zhi Li and the Tu Ling family. The leader was Li Zhu, the trusted eunuch by Prince Zhi Li’s side. The poisoned arrow that shot Tuli Yang was also given to me by him personally. Of course, when shooting Tuli Yang, I swapped the poisoned arrow for another type of poisoned arrow. After being poisoned, one immediately enters a death-like state, breathing stops, heartbeat stops, creating the illusion that Tuli Yang was dead!”
Immediately, Tu Lingduo recalled that when she went to touch Tuli Yang’s carotid artery then, there was indeed no pulse.
Fen Mo continued, “After we assassinated Tuli Yang and half the Tuli family warriors, we deliberately released Tu Lingduo, allowing her to return and report the news. Truly strange, I am a Dragon Archer. I could shoot Tuli Yang dead, so why could I not shoot Tu Lingduo?”
These words caused another uproar among the crowd.
Yes, if it was Suo Lun who ordered the assassination, why kill only Tuli Yang and spare Tu Lingduo?
“That was because Suo Lun lusted after my beauty.” Tu Lingduo screamed.
Fen Mo ignored her, continuing, “After assassinating Tuli Yang, Li Zhu decisively turned hostile, wanting to kill me to silence me. Fortunately I was well prepared, carrying Tuli Yang as I leapt from the several hundred metre cliff, entering the surging river waters. Li Zhu, you must be quite puzzled. Why, after shooting so many poisoned needles into my body, do I still not die?”
These words caused Li Zhu to instinctively reveal a curious expression. It was precisely this expression that completely betrayed him. By the time he came to his senses, it was already too late.
“That was because I was wearing platinum soft armour. Regarding your despicableness, no matter how highly I estimate it, it would not be excessive. How could I be careless?” Fen Mo said, “Lord Suo had long known you would certainly murder Tuli Yang, so he had long prepared a corpse of identical height, and made an identical hairstyle, even adding a fake birthmark on the waist. As for the facial features, they had long swollen from the water, and been bitten beyond recognition by fish and shrimp, completely unidentifiable. Not only that, I also drained the blood from within the corpse, then extracted a tube of blood from Tuli Yang’s body and injected it into this corpse’s heart. So after you fished out the corpse and extracted blood for dragon bloodline testing, you would reach a conclusion: this corpse is Tuli Yang.”
These words caused Li Zhu’s face to change colour, Zhi Li’s face to change colour, Tu Lingduo’s face to change colour.
Tu Lingduo’s gaze had now become desperate yet crazed.
And the gazes of the ten thousand vengeance troops below looking towards her had also become twisted and terrifying.
Right at this moment, Zhi Li suddenly laughed wildly, “Substitute Tuli Yang, there is still one massive flaw in your words. You said I was discovered by Tuli Yang while committing adultery with Tu Lingduo, so I had to kill him ahead of time. Then may I ask, where did Tu Lingduo and I commit adultery?”
Tuli Yang said, “At the Young Lord’s Mansion, in my temporary room.”
Zhi Li laughed wildly, “My Young Lord’s Mansion, this is completely my territory? If I were committing adultery with Tu Lingduo, how could you possibly discover us, how could you possibly know?”
These words caused everyone to fall into confusion once more.
Indeed, this was another massive flaw. On Zhi Li’s own territory, how could his adultery with Tu Lingduo possibly be discovered by Tuli Yang?
Tuli Yang said, “At that time I was entertaining guests for you at the wedding banquet. Someone passed me a note telling me you and Tu Lingduo were committing adultery. Moreover, she had drugged me in advance, stuffing me into a hidden compartment in the wall. After I woke up, I witnessed the scene of you and Tu Lingduo committing adultery.”
“Who? Who passed you the note? And who hid you in the wall compartment, allowing you to discover our adultery?” Zhi Li shrieked, “You find that person for me, otherwise you are talking nonsense, you are a substitute found by Suo Lun!”
When Zhi Li spoke these words, he was quite confident. Because the maid Cai Yi who passed the note to Tuli Yang had not successfully escaped. After Li Chenglian laid out a dragnet, she was found within merely three days, then silenced.
Tuli Yang immediately showed anxious expression, because he truly did not know who that person was.
“I don’t know who that woman was, but there was indeed such a person.” Tuli Yang said anxiously.
“Hahaha…” Zhi Li, having seized upon Tuli Yang’s flaw, immediately laughed wildly, “You’re flustered, you’re guilty, because you’re lying. Suo Lun, the substitute you found isn’t up to par!”
“I’m not lying, everything I said is true, you adulterous couple…” Tuli Yang appeared even more agitated, seemingly revealing even more flaws.
“A cornered dog will jump over the wall…” Zhi Li laughed wildly.
Tu Lingduo found a lifeline at this moment, shrieking sharply, “You’re lying, Suo Lun you despicable and shameless person. You not only murdered my father-in-law and husband, but actually found a pair of substitutes, attempting to reverse black and white. You animal inferior to beasts, what face do you have to live in this world?”
At this time, Tuli Yang lost even more of his reason, lunging forward abruptly, shrieking, “Bitch, I’ll kill you, I’ll kill you…”
Zhi Li laughed wildly, “Now the truth is already very clear. After assassinating City Lord Tuli Wen and Tuli Yang, Suo Lun incurred the wrath of the world, leading to the siege by all under heaven. So he became afraid, found a pair of clown-like substitutes, attempting to reverse black and white and frame the murder of Tuli Yang upon Tu Lingduo and my heads. What a pity, fake will always be fake. You cannot deceive these wise eyes, you cannot deceive so many wise and righteous souls present!”
Zhi Li and Tu Lingduo were indeed shameless beyond measure. Even at such a juncture, they still called a deer a horse, reversing black and white!
Tu Lingduo’s face was crazed at this moment. Her originally incomparably beautiful face was twisted, appearing incomparably ferocious.
“Clown substitute of Tuli Yang, you said someone at the Young Lord’s Mansion warned you and helped you discover my adultery with Zhi Li. Find that person, find her…” Tu Lingduo shrieked hysterically, “You find her, and we’ll admit it. You can’t find her, and you’re shameless slander, you’re a substitute found by Suo Lun!”
“Suo Lun, your name is truly fitting. Suo… Lun, you animal who exterminates human relations, not only raping your own elder sister, but also defiling your own half-sister.” Tu Lingduo appeared crazed, “Now, you actually reverse black and white again, finding two substitutes to slander Tu Lingduo and Prince Zhi Li. You said someone helped Tuli Yang discover our adultery, you find her!”
Tu Lingduo, feeling she had escaped death, was now truly nearly losing her reason.
“Find her, find her…” Tu Lingduo repeated continuously, her voice incomparably high and sharp!
And right at this moment, a figure slowly walked out, appearing beside Suo Lun.
“Since Miss Tu Lingduo is so eagerly hoping for my appearance, then here I am.” This woman sneered.
And when Zhi Li saw this woman, it was truly like a thunderclap from a clear sky, completely stunned.
And when Tu Lingduo saw this woman, she also revealed an utterly desperate light.
Because this woman was Jian Liu, Zhi Li’s trusted Dragon Warrior, plus his most trusted mistress.
Jian Liu said, “You all know me. I am the legitimate daughter of the Jian family, Prince Zhi Li’s mistress. Everyone knows me, right? My relationship with Zhi Li is an open secret.”
Indeed, all the nobles of the kingdom knew that Jian Liu was Zhi Li’s most trusted woman.
Jian Liu smiled, “That night, the one who wrote the note to warn Tuli Yang was me. The one who helped Tuli Yang discover Zhi Li’s adultery was also me. As for the maid Cai Yi, she merely delivered a note for me. As for what was written on the note, she had no idea at all. So Zhi Li, you found the wrong traitor!”
Boundless, endless fury surged to the heavens!
Jian Liu had followed Zhi Li for many years, his most trusted mistress. He had never expected that at the critical moment, she would betray him.
“Bitch, you bitch, I’ll kill you, I’ll tear you to pieces!” Zhi Li roared madly.
Jian Liu smiled, “Tu Lingduo, you strut around with your belly every day, afraid others won’t know you’re pregnant. But I know your pregnancy is fake. Zhi Li had you countless times, yet never got your belly big. You even have to pretend to be pregnant, how exhausting. Now, lift your skirt before everyone and let them see your belly. Is it a fake pregnancy or not?”
Immediately, everyone’s gazes turned towards Tu Lingduo’s lower abdomen.
Jian Liu shrieked, “Tu Lingduo, lift it up, let everyone see your belly!”
Immediately, Tu Lingduo’s body trembled violently. Boundless darkness and terror surged up from the back of her skull.
Her gaze finally became utterly desperate!
Jian Liu’s appearance was Suo Lun’s killing blow, completely ending Zhi Li and Tu Lingduo’s crazed counterattack!
From this point, Tu Lingduo had no possibility of turning the tables whatsoever!
Completely and thoroughly, disgraced and ruined!