Thus, the Grand Tutor rushed down.
Seeing the Grand Tutor charging down, Zhou Hong immediately entered the main hall.
Indeed, the Grand Tutor, thinking Zhou Hong had hidden in the main hall, sneered, "Do you think you can still escape?"
The next second, the Grand Tutor stormed into the imperial palace's main hall. However, Zhou Hong had already slipped out through the back door.
"Detonate!" Seeing the Grand Tutor enter the hall, Zhou Hong wasted no time and detonated.
"Boom!" The entire hall area was utterly destroyed. A muffled roar spread throughout the imperial palace, but apart from the hall itself, other parts of the palace only experienced minor tremors, with no other damage.
About half a minute later, the atomic bomb formation subsided. Through the thick smoke, a figure stumbled out.
This figure was the Grand Tutor. He was in an extremely sorry state.
"How could this be? What is this thing?" As the Grand Tutor stumbled out, he was dumbfounded. He seemed to realize he had been tricked, falling into the emperor's trap.
"Hahaha." The next second, the emperor's laughter echoed from the sky.
Zhou Hong was already far away. He knew that even though the Grand Tutor had lost most of his strength, killing him would still be as easy as crushing an ant with a single palm strike. Therefore, he could only flee far away.
"Grand Tutor, show me just how arrogant you can be now." The emperor landed in front of the Grand Tutor.
"Your Majesty, you are so despicable, plotting against me."
"So what? You traitorous official, you will surely die today."
The Grand Tutor's face was filled with rage. To resist the atomic bomb's onslaught just now, he had expended most of his strength, making him no match for the emperor. His only chance of survival was to break through on the spot and reach the mid-stage of Nascent Soul.
"I don't want to die. I don't want to die. I must break through on the spot. Perhaps this life-or-death crisis can spur me on; it's an opportunity for me." the Grand Tutor thought to himself.
The emperor did not rush to attack, as the Grand Tutor would not be able to recover his strength anytime soon. He wanted to see what other tricks the Grand Tutor had up his sleeve.
"Grand Tutor, you wanted to eliminate my imperial authority by killing my benefactor, and then have all the court officials support you, right? Unfortunately, man's plans are no match for heaven's. You didn't expect that fate would grant me a noble helper." The king sneered. In his heart, Zhou Hong was his noble helper, not only healing him but also helping him eliminate the Grand Tutor, his greatest enemy. The king didn't know how he could ever thank Zhou Hong enough.
"What exactly was that thing just now? It had such immense power?" the Grand Tutor asked, stalling for time. He seemed to be trying to recover his strength by delaying the inevitable and looking for a chance to break free.
"To tell you the truth, that thing just now was a formation set up by Zhou Hong."
"Impossible." The Grand Tutor shook his head in panic.
"You are a dying man. Believe it if you will. I know you are trying to stall for time, but alas, no matter how long you delay, you will have no chance."
"Ahhhhh!" the Grand Tutor roared.
"Roar all you want, it's useless even if you roar until your throat breaks." The emperor laughed heartily, for the first time in a long time.
"Breakthrough on the spot for me!" The anxious Grand Tutor suddenly shouted.
"Oh ho, still trying to break through on the spot?" The emperor burst into laughter upon hearing this.
"Hurry, break through for me!" The Grand Tutor was on the verge of tears with urgency.
However, the more anxious he became, the more the emperor felt like laughing.
"Alright, it's about time for you to depart." The emperor lost the mood to banter further.
"Die for me!" The next second, the emperor unleashed his strongest killing move and lunged at the Grand Tutor. If it were before, the Grand Tutor would undoubtedly have been able to block it, and the two might have battled for three days and three nights without a clear victor. SudAn XiaoShuo.net
But now, the Grand Tutor was sent flying hundreds of meters away in an instant.
At this moment, Zhou Hong stood on a distant rooftop, seemingly watching the Grand Tutor being killed.
Unexpectedly, after flying hundreds of meters, the Grand Tutor landed precisely on the rooftop below where Zhou Hong was standing.
Zhou Hong's heart tightened. Although the Grand Tutor was at the end of his rope, killing him, a cultivator in the Heartbeat stage, was still as easy as crushing an ant.
"Little eunuch, I'll take you with me to the grave!" The Grand Tutor saw Zhou Hong on the rooftop, and immediately grabbed a handful of dirt from the ground, flinging it violently at Zhou Hong.
Even though it was just dirt, in the hands of a cultivator in the Nascent Soul stage, it was more terrifying than anything.
Zhou Hong's face turned pale with fear. He watched helplessly as the handful of dirt flew towards him, yet he was unable to move. The dirt carried an immensely powerful pressure that pinned Zhou Hong down, rendering him immobile.
It was too powerful, too powerful. It was like an ant trying to resist a human.
"I'm finished. Am I going to perish just like this?" Zhou Hong thought to himself.
"Dark Golden Crow, hurry up and think of a way!"
However, the Dark Golden Crow completely ignored Zhou Hong, as it knew that its seal would never be broken in this lifetime.
Fortunately, at the critical moment, the emperor suddenly appeared and effortlessly blocked the handful of dirt.
"Hoo!" Zhou Hong let out a heavy sigh of relief.
"Zhou Hong, are you alright?" the emperor asked quickly.
"I almost died. Even in this state, he could kill me with a handful of dirt."
"Heh heh, if he wasn't in this state, he wouldn't need a handful of dirt to kill you; a single breath would have blown you to pieces."
"Ah." Zhou Hong seemed to find it hard to comprehend.
The emperor wasted no more words, instantly lunging forward and grabbing the Grand Tutor's head.
"Your Majesty, spare me! Your Majesty, spare me!" After the emperor grabbed his head, the Grand Tutor had no power to resist and hurriedly lowered his face, begging for mercy.
"Hahaha, 'spare me,' you say." The emperor found it incredibly amusing.
Not far away, Lu Qianqian had just arrived. She had heard the commotion and rushed over, her heart filled with anxiety, thinking that her father, the emperor, and the Grand Tutor had finally had their falling out and were engaged in a fierce battle. She assumed the outcome would be fifty-fifty.
However, to her surprise, when she arrived, she saw that her father had already seized the Grand Tutor's head. Lu Qianqian found it unbelievable. When had her father become so powerful?
"Die for me!" the emperor roared, and with a fierce grip, the Grand Tutor's head was instantly crushed.
The moment his head was crushed, a golden infant soul flew out of the Grand Tutor's body, attempting to escape.
However, the infant soul, now separated from its body, was incredibly fragile and was immediately caught in the emperor's palm.
"Ahhh ahhh ahhh." The Grand Tutor's infant soul wailed like a newborn. After more than ten seconds, all its life force completely vanished, turning into spiritual energy in the air, returning to dust.