As soon as Chen Xi finished speaking, more than a dozen female guards rushed out from behind the screen, forcibly restraining Chen Tianxing.
"Daughter, you can't treat your father like this!" Chen Tianxing exclaimed in a panic.
He knew that once he was driven out of the Star Lord's Hall by those guards, he would never be able to enter freely again.
Chen Xi sneered, "This is your last chance. If you can't find the Yanhuang Cosmic Sword, not only will you be barred from the Star Lord's Hall, but I, as Star Lord, will cripple you into a commoner!"
"What, Chen Xi, you're going to cripple me into a commoner?"
Chen Tianxing stamped his feet in distress and roared, "Why are you treating your father like this?"
Chen Xi's expression instantly turned grim. "Chen Tianxing, don't think I don't know how your mother died?"
"During her illness, you poisoned her to death!"
"I have always remembered this!"
Chen Tianxing said anxiously, "That was to reduce your mother's suffering from the illness. I had no choice but to take that drastic action.
"Don't wrongly accuse your father. You know how heartbroken I was after your mother passed away!"
"Hmph, I'm wronging you?"
Chen Xi said angrily, "The day after your mother died, you were fooling around with other women. Is this how you show your grief?"
"I..." Chen Tianxing was speechless.
Chen Xi shouted to the guards, "Throw him out!"
"Chen Tianxing, if you don't produce the Yanhuang Sword within a month, you are no longer my father!"
"Chen Xing, don't treat me like this!"
Chen Tianxing shouted and yelled, still trying to linger.
However, he was no match for the female guards. They kicked him to the ground and dragged him out like a dead dog.
The Beidou Palace fell silent.
Chen Xi sat alone in the North Half Palace, a feeling of loneliness she had never experienced before overwhelming her.
Ever since her return from Cheng Xiaofan's place a few days ago, she had begun to suspect Chen Tianxing.
She knew very well that ever since she had suffered from vertigo, all the medications she had taken were prescribed by her father.
Yet Cheng Xiaofan had said that these very medications were making her condition worse.
He even predicted that she would suffocate to death within a month.
Could it be that Chen Tianxing had done this intentionally?
Chen Xi even suspected that Chen Tianxing might already possess the Yanhuang Cosmic Sword and was deliberately withholding it.
Chen Tianxing's motive was to wait for her death so he could legitimately ascend to the position of Star Lord.
Once in power, he could use the Yanhuang Cosmic Sword to land on the moon and claim the beauty Chang'e for himself.
She had once overheard Chen Tianxing, when drunk, say that he would consider it worth dying for if he could be close to Chang'e in his lifetime.
Considering all this, Chen Xi realized she had been manipulated by Chen Tianxing from beginning to end.
"This old scoundrel is truly wicked!"
Chen Xi muttered through gritted teeth, "He wants me dead so he can become Star Lord,哼, let him dream on!"
"Guards—"
Hearing Chen Xi's call, more than a dozen female guards immediately reappeared before her.
"Star Lord, do you have any orders?" one of the female guards asked.
A sinister glint flashed in Chen Xi's eyes. "Transmit my command. Dispatch a special police unit to Chen Tianxing's residence immediately. Conduct a house search for the Yanhuang Cosmic Sword."
"Anyone who dares to resist will be killed without mercy!"
The female guard exclaimed, "Star Lord, won't this cause too much of a stir?"
Chen Xi said, "Have the special police officers change into plainclothes. Under the guise of visiting an old minister, conduct a surprise search. Leaking this information is strictly forbidden."
"Understood!"
As the female guard was about to withdraw, Chen Xi stopped her.
Chen Xi paused for a moment and said, "To prevent leaks, the search time will be changed to midnight tonight."
"If Chen Tianxing resists, arrest him under the charge of rebellion!"
"Alright, I'll go and relay the order immediately!" The female guard strode out of the Beidou Palace.
Chen Xi waved her hand at the remaining female guards. "You may all withdraw. I am tired and wish to rest!"
"Yes, Star Lord!" The female guards quickly vanished into the surroundings.
However!
Chen Xi entered her chambers but did not rush to rest.
She stood by a section of the wall for a long time and gently pressed an inconspicuous button on a hidden mechanism.
*Boom!*
The wall slid aside.
A vertical elevator appeared before Chen Xi.
Chen Xi stepped into the elevator, and with a creak, it descended vertically.
The elevator stopped at a depth of over six hundred meters.
Chen Xi stepped out of the elevator and entered a secret chamber. Her eyes fell upon a large stone bed.
On the stone bed lay two young people, a man and a woman, each enveloped in a sphere of energy.
The man looked exactly like Cheng Xiaofan.
The woman was a peerless beauty, exuding an unparalleled elegance.
Chen Xi did not spare the woman a glance, heading directly towards Cheng Xiaofan.
A playful smile appeared on her cold face.
She said, "Cheng Xiaofan, I know very well that if your spiritual awareness still exists, you must hate me to death!"
"But you can't blame me, only your own incompetence, which led to this outcome."
"Long before you died, you once told me when you were drunk that you had another self on Earth, beyond the cosmic wall, and that he would come to find you sooner or later."
"Once you two merge, you will become the most powerful man!"
"You also said that your roots were on that Earth, and that you would eventually return to that Earth, visiting the Yanhuang Planet once every three years."
"At that time, you would support one of the women around you to be the Star Lord!"
"I know the woman you loved the most was the one lying beside you. The Star Lord you would support would definitely not be me!"
"It was at that time, instigated by my father, that I was forced to act against you!"
As she spoke, Chen Xi moved a wooden stool over, sat down, and sighed softly, her gaze fixed on Cheng Xiaofan's face.
She lit a cigarette for herself.
She took a shallow puff.
And exhaled rings of smoke.
After a while, she spoke again, "Cheng Xiaofan, for the past ten years, I have felt pain and regret for what I have done."
"However, I know I have embarked on a path of no return. I can never go back."
"Therefore, to protect myself, I had to harden my heart. I was forced to carry out a massacre against those who were once loyal to you."
"To be honest, the reason I kept you alive until now was to await the arrival of the other Cheng Xiaofan."
"If I'm not mistaken, I can already sense that he has arrived on this Yanhuang Planet, searching for you everywhere!"
"I also anticipate his power, but I have also set a trap for him, waiting for him to fly into it like a moth to a flame, seeking his own demise!"
"Once that Cheng Xiaofan is dead, and I obtain the Yanhuang Cosmic Sword, the moon and the Yanhuang Planet will forever belong to me, Chen Xi."