Legend of Dragon Son-in-law - Chapter 2666
Chapter 2666: Chapter 2666: Dragon Slayer
Seeing the scene in front of him, Julius Reed seemed to finally understand Seven Gem Slope’s personality.
Growing up in this kind of environment, there’s no way she could have turned out with a good temper.
So this was the real reason Seven Gem Slope’s temperament had changed.
But what about the Swordsman?
Where did he take her?
Julius Reed looked around and realized he couldn’t see anything at all.
And then, all of a sudden!
The scene before his eyes flickered.
He was still standing where he had been.
But the house in front of him was now full of festivity.
It looked like they were hosting an event.
Quite a few people were standing around. The man who had come out earlier to look at Seven Gem Slope was now wearing a long cyan robe, standing right at the door.
“Congratulations to True Lord Qingping!”
“True Lord Qingping, ten thousand years birthday, what a joyous occasion! I heard your young master’s cultivation has surged and is about to surpass you?”
“True Lord Qingping is about to become a clan with two True Lords!”
People came up one after another to offer congratulations.
They were all dressed in splendor, and without exception, they were all men.
Among the thousands coming and going, there was not a single woman.
The man called True Lord Qingping stood at the door, extremely pleased with himself, clasping his fists non-stop and returning the well-wishes.
“Oh! King of the Nine Provinces, you came as well?”
Just then, a mounted column suddenly appeared in the distance.
Hundreds of white horses were pulling a massive dragon chariot, thundering toward them.
At the sight of this chariot, the people around all dropped to their knees.
Only True Lord Qingping remained standing where he was.
A True Lord, before an emperor, did not have to kneel.
“It’s your ten-thousand-year birthday, True Lord Qingping. How could I possibly not come?” A man leaped down from the dragon chariot, landed in front of True Lord Qingping, and smiled. “I came in a rush and didn’t bring much of a gift. True Lord, don’t you hold it against me.”
“For the King of the Nine Provinces to come at all already gives my Hawthorne clan immeasurable face!” True Lord Qingping beamed with delight as he walked side by side with the King of the Nine Provinces into the courtyard.
The courtyard was huge, filled with banquet tables.
The dishes on them were all rare delicacies.
“Hawthorne Seven Gem Slope, here to wish Father a happy birthday!”
Just then, a woman’s voice rang out.
Julius Reed turned his head to look.
It was the exact Seven Gem Slope from the painting!
Exactly the same!
From the painting, you could only see that she was beautiful.
But actually seeing her in person, Julius Reed finally realized that Seven Gem Slope had a very distinctive aura about her.
In modern terms, she was a bona fide domineering big sister type.
“You?” True Lord Qingping froze for a moment. “A troublemaker. Drag her down and chop her head off!”
“Master!”
The steward hurriedly whispered, “Many years ago, there was a woman who left a child at your gate. That child was Seven Gem Slope!”
“What?” True Lord Qingping had countless sons and daughters; obviously, he couldn’t remember something like that.
“Impersonating my daughter—kill her!” He still gave the order without a hint of hesitation.
“Wait. Is Father really going to kill even me?” Seven Gem Slope wasn’t angry at all. She even had a smile on her face. “I came to give you my birthday congratulations.”
“Absurd!” Before True Lord Qingping could speak, the King of the Nine Provinces said impatiently, “Even if you really are True Lord Qingping’s daughter, do you not understand our rules? Is this the kind of occasion a woman should attend? How can a mere woman use her clan’s surname?”
These were the rules!
Throughout the entire banquet, aside from Seven Gem Slope, not a single woman appeared.
It seemed to validate the King of the Nine Provinces’ words.
Women weren’t even allowed to use the family surname.
“Let me ask: who made these rules?” Seven Gem Slope smiled as she walked up to a table.
The people on both sides tried to stop her, but she brushed them aside as if it were nothing.
“Outrageous! That’s ancestral teaching! Rules that have been in place for thousands, tens of millions of years!” True Lord Qingping slapped the table and shouted angrily, “Drag her out and kill her! She’s spoiling my mood!”
“Exactly! A woman, and she’s this arrogant!”
The people around all started hurling curses.
It seemed the King of the Nine Provinces’ ideology had long grown deep roots in their hearts.
“Then I suddenly want to ask something.” As Seven Gem Slope spoke, she lifted one foot and planted it right on top of the table, smiling as she continued, “Back in the day, there was a rule that once a True Lord died, all the guards around him had to be exterminated along with their clans.”
“That rule had been around for who knows how many years, but later it seems it changed. If I remember correctly, the King of the Nine Provinces of that time died like that. Then, thousands of years later, their entire clan was wiped out.”
Seven Gem Slope frowned slightly and took a breath. “If I’m not wrong, it was done by some attendant. And after that, it seems… that rule suddenly disappeared, didn’t it?”
When she finished speaking, unease flickered in everyone’s eyes.
Indeed, that had happened.
Precisely because it had happened, many True Lords and emperors had been forced to abolish that rule.
So the people around them wouldn’t decide they had nothing left to lose and kill them first.
The most critical thing was that once a True Lord and a King of the Nine Provinces died that way, they set a very bad precedent.
People who came after would very likely imitate it.
They had no choice but to do away with the rule.
“Insolent! How dare you put your foot on the table!” True Lord Qingping was furious. He felt utterly humiliated.
But just as he struck out, Seven Gem Slope simply flicked her sleeve.
True Lord Qingping’s attack was dissolved on the spot.
The surroundings fell into dead silence.
No one had expected things to turn out like this.
“Courting death!” Enraged, True Lord Qingping quickly drew the sword at his waist and slashed straight at Seven Gem Slope!
“Father, you’re old. When you’re old, you shouldn’t celebrate birthdays anymore.” Seven Gem Slope drew her Longsword with a backhand motion and collided with True Lord Qingping head-on!
Clang!
With a crisp ring, True Lord Qingping’s sword was knocked flying.
Julius Reed watched with relish.
So Seven Gem Slope was this domineering!
But if that Swordsman was Seven Gem Slope’s master, and his own past life was that Swordsman…
Julius Reed stopped thinking about it and simply watched quietly.
True Lord Qingping clearly hadn’t expected to be humiliated this badly.
“Allow me.” The King of the Nine Provinces’ face was dark.
A woman dared to step on his table.
And she spoke so disrespectfully, dragging up those incidents from the past that True Lords and emperors all preferred to avoid mentioning.
He had to kill this woman!
The King of the Nine Provinces stood up, and a powerful killing aura erupted from his body!
As that killing intent surged forth, dragon phantoms manifested one after another around him.
“Someone once told me, there’s only one person in this world who can command nine-dragon marks.” Seven Gem Slope held up nine fingers, looked around at the crowd, and smiled. “You should all remember this. From now on, mortal emperors will only have eight dragons. Whoever bears nine dragons dies.”
“And the one who bears nine dragons is the true king of this world.”
As she spoke, Seven Gem Slope turned her gaze to the King of the Nine Provinces.
“Presumptuous!” The King of the Nine Provinces struck without hesitation!
The dragon souls coiling around him surged toward Seven Gem Slope in an instant!
This was his sure-kill move!
The King of the Nine Provinces, emperor of the Mortal World, a man at the pinnacle of Martial arts!
“Borrow a sword from the heavens and cut off a dragon!” Seven Gem Slope raised her sword toward the sky.
And outside the gate, Julius Reed saw that the Swordsman had somehow appeared without him noticing.
The Swordsman drew the sword at his waist and swung it forward.
That Sword Qi poured straight into Seven Gem Slope’s sword!
She brought it down in a brutal strike!
Boom!
With a thunderous crash.
The table was blown to pieces on the spot.
Only eight dragons remained circling the King of the Nine Provinces!
One had been severed!