Fantasy: My Wife is the Empress, and Our Cute Kids Wreak Havoc in the Nine Provinces – Chapter 407

Chapter 407: The Powerful Long Clan

At the same time, the Old Woman had already spread the news that the Empress would be going to Long Province for the ancestral worship ceremony, causing a stir throughout the Nine Provinces.

Officials in Lánzhōu and other places were naturally worried about the Empress’s safety, while those who wanted to overthrow the Nine Provinces Empire were naturally thinking of ways to take this opportunity to assassinate the Empress.

Long Province, Provincial Governor’s Hall.

The Blood Demon Envoy, Long Yuyan, Long Yuxiang, Hegemon Saber Sect Master, Saber Sect Master, the Martial Emperors of Long Province, and three Half-step Martial Gods from the God Realm were all gathered here.

Provincial Governor Long’s gaze swept across the crowd and he said lightly, “Tomorrow, the Empress will come to Long Province for the ancestral worship ceremony.”

“At this time, the Empress still dares to leave the Imperial Capital and come to Long Province for ancestral worship?”

Long Yuyan frowned slightly, a hint of surprise and doubt on his face.

Long Yuxiang also asked doubtfully, “Big Brother, didn’t you say that little girl Long Yufei has already come to Long Province?”

Provincial Governor Long smiled, “That’s right, Long Yufei is indeed in Long Province. I previously thought she was here to represent the Empress in the ancestral worship ceremony in Long Province, but now it seems that’s not the case.”

“Then what is she doing in Long Province?”

Long Yuyan’s eyes flashed slightly and he asked, “I heard that the two brats are Long Yufei’s adopted son and daughter. Could she have come for those two brats?”

Provincial Governor Long shook his head, “That shouldn’t be the case. Long Yufei arrived much earlier than those two brats. If I’m not mistaken, Long Yufei should be here for her.”

“Who?”

Long Yuxiang asked curiously.

Provincial Governor Long smiled, “The Nine Provinces Empire’s Empress Dowager, the Previous Emperor’s Empress.”

“Empress Dowager? Isn’t she dead?”

Everyone was shocked.

Provincial Governor Long shook his head, “I thought she was dead too, but not long ago she suddenly appeared in Long Province, wanting to kill me to avenge the Previous Emperor. Fortunately, with the combined efforts of the three Half-step Martial Gods, we were able to suppress her and imprison her in the Long Province Dungeon. That thing inside her is really difficult to deal with.”

Speaking of this, his eyes were full of amazement. The Previous Emperor’s strength was truly terrifying, to actually suppress that thing with his own power. His strength had probably already reached the Half-step Martial God realm, and with the enhancement of the Imperial Seal, he was probably no weaker than a Martial God.

Fortunately, the Previous Emperor had expended a great deal of energy to suppress that thing, otherwise the medicine he had sent over might not have been effective.

“In other words, Long Yufei is here to rescue her mother?”

Long Yuyan frowned and pondered for a moment before asking, “Why did those two brats come to Long Province? Could it be that they are also here to rescue the Empress Dowager?”

“And the Empress, risking so much to come to the ancestral worship ceremony, could it also be to rescue the Empress Dowager?” Long Yuxiang also said in a deep voice.

Provincial Governor Long smiled, “Regardless of their purpose, I have already set up an inescapable net at the dungeon and the ancestral grounds. This time, I will definitely capture them all in one fell swoop.”

The Blood Demon Envoy, who had been silent all this time, suddenly spoke, “Since the Empress is coming to Long Province, the Imperial Capital will be unguarded. We can split our forces into two groups. You deal with the Empress and her group, while I lead a team to infiltrate the Imperial Palace and rescue the Ancient Blood Demon.”

Provincial Governor Long’s eyes flashed slightly. He looked at the Blood Demon Envoy and said, “Your Excellency Blood Demon Envoy, after my previous probing, I can confirm that the Empire already has a new Guardian Deity. Even if the Empress leaves the Imperial Capital, with the Guardian Deity present, rashly breaking in would only be courting death.”

One of the Half-step Martial Gods from the God Realm said, “We can go together. What’s there to fear from a mere Lower Realm Martial God?”

Their ultimate goal in descending to the Lower Realm was also to rescue the Ancient Blood Demon Prince and bring him back to the God Realm. Through the innate connection between the Prince and the Blood Demon Emperor, they could locate the place where the Ancient Blood Demon Emperor was sealed and rescue him.

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Provincial Governor Long frowned slightly, thought for a moment, and said, “No, you are the most important part of my plan to assassinate the Empress. If you go to the Imperial Capital, let’s not even talk about whether you can kill the Guardian Deity and rescue the Ancient Blood Demon. Now that the Ascension Gate has been sealed by the Old Martial God, it is impossible to enter the God Realm through normal means. Even if you rescue the Ancient Blood Demon, you won’t be able to return to the God Realm.”

“This!”

The three Half-step Martial Gods from the God Realm were all stunned. They hadn’t really thought about this point.

They were only focused on rescuing the Ancient Blood Demon Prince, and hadn’t considered how to return to the God Realm after rescuing him.

Provincial Governor Long smiled, “I read in the ancient records of the Long Clan that a hundred thousand years ago, the Nine Provinces relied on the Path to Heaven to enter the God Realm. The ancestor of my Long Clan was the first to enter the God Realm through the Path to Heaven. Thousands of years after he entered the God Realm, an Ascension Gate appeared on the Nine Provinces Continent. As long as one’s cultivation broke through the limits of the Martial God realm, there was no need to traverse the Path to Heaven, and one could directly ascend to the God Realm through the Ascension Gate. Since then, cultivators from the Nine Provinces Continent have successively ascended to the God Realm, including several ancestors of my Long Clan.”

Hegemon Saber Sect Master said in surprise, “Provincial Governor Long, are you saying that the fact that cultivators from the Nine Provinces Continent can ascend to the God Realm is due to that Long Clan ancestor?”

Long Yuyan nodded, somewhat proudly, “That’s right, it was our Long Clan ancestor who secured the opportunity for ascension for the Nine Provinces Continent.”

“How did he do it?” Saber Sect Master was somewhat shocked.

The Ascension Gate had existed for nearly a hundred thousand years, and everyone thought it had existed since the beginning of the Nine Provinces. No one expected it to be related to an ancestor of the Long Clan.

Long Yuxiang said lightly, “How that ancestor did it, no one knows. The Long Clan’s ancestral worship ceremony also has another name, called the ‘God-Connecting Ceremony.’ It is the only way for us to communicate with the ancestors who have ascended to the God Realm. At that time, all Long Clan descendants will receive blessings from the ancestors in the God Realm. Their talent and physique will be greatly enhanced. Especially the Nine Provinces Emperor who controls the Imperial Seal, who receives the greatest blessings.”

“That’s right, before the establishment of the Nine Provinces Empire, the Imperial Seal was called the Divine Bestowal Seal. It was stolen by the ancestor of the current Imperial Family,” Provincial Governor Long said in a deep voice.

Long Yuyan and Long Yuxiang exchanged glances, but did not expose Provincial Governor Long’s lie.

“The Long Clan ancestor had such abilities?”

When Saber Sect Master and the others heard this, they were immediately filled with envy. No wonder the Long Clan was so powerful, it turned out they received blessings from gods.

Look at the Long Clan, every Nine Provinces Provincial Governor was a member of the Long Clan, and all of them were Martial Emperors.

Apart from the Long Clan, no other power could achieve such a level. It was simply terrifying.

One of the Half-step Martial Gods from the God Realm hesitated for a moment and asked, “Is the ancestor you mentioned named Long Aotian?”

“Exactly.”

Provincial Governor Long asked with some surprise, “You know him?”

“We’ve heard of him.”

The three Half-step Martial Gods exchanged glances, and they all saw a trace of shock in each other’s eyes.

Long Aotian, one of the three God Venerables guarding the seal of the Ancient Blood Demon Emperor. No one had ever seen his true face, but who in the entire God Realm didn’t know the name Long Aotian?

Of course, they couldn’t say these words.

They just looked at Provincial Governor Long and the others, their hearts filled with a complicated feeling.

Long Aotian was guarding the seal of the Ancient Blood Demon Emperor in the God Realm, while his descendants in the Nine Provinces were actually helping them rescue the Ancient Blood Demon Emperor’s son. It was truly ironic. They wondered if Long Aotian knew, would he be so angry that he would kill his way back to the Nine Provinces from the God Realm and exterminate these unworthy descendants?