Chapter 104: A Fatal Mistake, Anger Without a Place to Vent

The scene in the imperial study was still familiar, but Lin Ran felt that the atmosphere here was a little strange.

Lin Ran walked in and saw the empress behind the desk and the little girl sitting on her lap.

The little girl sat obediently on the empress’s lap like when Lin Ran first saw her. She looked at Lin Ran blankly with her big black eyes, as if this was the first time she had seen him.

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“The last time we met, she was controlled by the evil aura. After the evil aura was removed, she fainted. It’s indeed the first time we met.”

Lin Ran thought to himself.

As for the empress, she was sitting behind the desk with a frown on her face. Her eyes were filled with complicated emotions, and a few veins were bulging on her fair neck. The expression on her face could almost be described as ferocious!

This surprised Lin Ran. In his impression, the empress did not show her emotions most of the time. Even when King Zhao rebelled, she did not show this kind of expression. What exactly could make her so angry?

As he thought about this, Lin Ran closed the door and walked quickly towards the empress. “Your Majesty, I know you’re very angry now, but I have something urgent to tell you. Huo Qiyun is in a dangerous situation now. I can save him, but I need your help!”

The empress slowly turned her head with difficulty and looked at Lin Ran with an extremely complicated gaze. She gritted her teeth and squeezed out two words.”Help me…”

“Not to help you, but to help me.”

Lin Ran waved his hand and was about to say something when he suddenly realized that inside the collar of the empress’s dragon robe, it was flickering with red light.

“What’s going on?”

Lin Ran’s expression immediately turned solemn. He reached out to help the empress up. At this moment, the little girl suddenly leaped up into the air, flipped over the desk, and landed on the ground. She knocked open the door and rushed out!

The moment the little girl leaped up, Lin Ran suddenly felt a familiar evil aura. However, when he flashed to the door, only Li Tianyi and the ministers were outside with panicked expressions.

Lin Ran suddenly realized something and his eyes were filled with shock. He flashed back to the empress’s side. Just as he released his divine sense, he realized that there was a wisp of evil aura lingering around the empress!

“I was deceived!”

Lin Ran’s heart skipped a beat. He hurriedly summoned the Yin-Yang Sword and absorbed the evil aura lingering around the empress.

When the last trace of black fog fused into the Yin-Yang Sword, the red light on the collar of the dragon robe was extinguished. The empress spat out a mouthful of blood and fainted in Lin Ran’s arms.

The scarlet blood on the empress’s fair skin was dazzling. Looking at her exhausted face, Lin Ran was filled with self-blame.

He did not know how the demon managed to control the little girl again, or if the little girl was the demon’s true body. In short, he personally sent the most dangerous thing in the world to the empress.

Not only that, but in just one day, Lin Ran had made two fatal mistakes!

First, in Mount Sword, because he was in a hurry to move the Sword God’s remains, he did not notice the abnormality of the Ten Miles Dragon Roar.

Now, because he was in a hurry to save Huo Qiyun, he did not notice the faint evil aura.

The first mistake caused Huo Qiyun to be trapped in the mountain, and the second mistake caused the empress to be severely injured.

Anger burned in Lin Ran’s eyes, and the blood in his body surged out of control, making his eardrums buzz.

Li Tianyi was shouting something at the side. Someone rushed over to pull Lin Ran away, and someone went forward to carry the empress away. He couldn’t feel any of this.

At this moment, he could only feel the anger born from extreme guilt and the huge killing intent in his heart that was strong enough to destroy the world!

However, at this moment, Lin Ran didn’t know how to vent his anger.

He wanted to save Huo Qiyun, but he didn’t know how.

He wanted to use brute force to shatter the main peak of Mount Sword inch by inch, but that would definitely affect Huo Qiyun, who was trapped in the mountain.

He wanted to kill the demon, but he didn’t know where it was.

Anger, anger that had nowhere to vent.

Like a red-hot iron rod that was electrified, it stirred in Lin Ran’s mind mercilessly.

After a sharp and intense pain, Lin Ran spat out a mouthful of blood and fainted.

After an unknown period of time, when Lin Ran woke up again, he realized that he was lying in the guard’s barrack. His chest still hurt a little.

Zhou Hao sat by the bed. He was probably here to take care of Lin Ran, but he was sleeping soundly.

Seeing that the sky was already dark outside the window, Lin Ran thought of Huo Qiyun, who was trapped, and looked at Zhou Hao, who was still sleeping soundly. He flashed out of the house and flashed towards the empress’s bedroom under the cover of the night.

When Lin Ran walked into the bedroom, the empress was already awake, but her face was still pale.

The empress was reclining on the dragon couch with Li Tianyi standing beside her and feeding her chicken soup patiently.

Seeing Lin Ran, the empress smiled weakly and moved her fingers. Li Tianyi nodded and left with the palace eunuchs.

“I’m sorry.”

“Thank you.”

Lin Ran and the empress spoke almost at the same time. Then, the two of them were stunned at the same time. The empress revealed a helpless smile, while Lin Ran had a solemn expression.

After a short silence, the empress spoke again. “Thank you. If you didn’t come in time today, I’m afraid I would have been completely possessed by that demon.”

“I’m sorry. It’s all my fault.”

Lin Ran walked to the side of the dragon couch with a dejected expression and picked up the soup bowl left behind by Li Tianyi. As he fed the empress, he told her in detail about the demon breaking out of the seal. He only omitted the part where the Sword God died and lied that the Sword God left to chase after the demon.

The empress listened quietly. Perhaps because she was too weak, she didn’t react until Lin Ran finished speaking.

After a long silence, Lin Ran finally couldn’t help but ask, “Don’t you have anything to say? You can reproach me or hit me.”

“Why should I reproach you?”

The empress chuckled and looked at Lin Ran. “You’ve already done a lot for the Heavenly Saint Dynasty. Besides, it’s not your fault that the demon escaped.”

“But I brought the demon to the palace.”

Lin Ran looked at the empress apologetically and whispered in an almost imperceptible voice, “I caused you to become like this.”

Looking at Lin Ran, who was always happy-go-lucky, suddenly became so vulnerable, the empress couldn’t help but feel her heart ache.

After thinking for a moment, the empress’s gaze gradually became firm.

For Lin Ran, she had to make a decision that went against the rules her ancestors set up.