CHAPTER 1487: CHAPTER 1494: CONFRONTATION (2)

Empress Dowager Mo saw General Li Kaifeng actually about to execute torture on her, and in a rage mixed with indignation, she shouted loudly, "Audacious and insolent! Li Kaifeng, I am the Empress Dowager, and you, as a mere subject, dare to inflict torture upon me? Do you still claim you harbor no thoughts of rebellion?"

Li Kaifeng looked at Empress Dowager Mo and said with a cold smile, "You are a daughter of the Mo Family. Since the Mo Family has been involved in plotting treason, you cannot claim to be innocent either, nor are you worthy to hold the position of Empress Dowager anymore." Having said that, he turned to his subordinates and shouted, "What are you waiting for? Are you not going to carry out the torture on Lady Mo?"

Empress Dowager Mo was quivering with such fury that her whole body shook, and pointing at Li Kaifeng with trembling hands, she said, "I am the Emperor’s biological mother; how could I possibly help others conspire for my son’s country? It’s clearly you who harbors the ambition of a wolf, scheming against the Emperor in secret, and now trying to pin the crime of rebellion on both myself and my family..."

At this moment, Li Kaifeng was preoccupied with wanting to force Nangong Yi and Cai Wei out. He had no time to bicker with Empress Dowager Mo. Seeing that the guard brought the torture instrument, he waited with cold eyes to see the Empress Dowager being tortured.

Empress Dowager Mo had always been accustomed to her high status. Even when she was once slighted by Empress Jin, she had never been in such a disgraceful situation before. She screamed as the executioner guard grasped her and forcibly fitted the cold iron torture instrument onto her hands. No matter how much she shouted and cursed, Li Kaifeng remained unmoved.

On one side, the Retired Emperor still had his eyes closed, maintaining the same unmoving appearance of an old monk in meditation, as if he could not hear Empress Dowager Mo’s cries and curses, and as if the person about to be tortured had nothing to do with him, not even worth a copper coin.

Cai Wei, in the Space, saw that the torture instrument had been put on Empress Dowager Mo’s hands, and knowing the timing was almost right, pulled Nangong Yi by the hand, saying, "Let’s go out!"

With that, in a flash, she appeared with Nangong Yi on the roof of the Royal study.

Once Nangong Yi got out, he saw his mother being roughly dragged around by a group of men, with the torture instrument already fitted to her hands. He became furiously enraged in an instant, drew his soft sword, and was about to leap into action.

Cai Wei pulled him back, saying, "Don’t rush; watch me!"

Having said that, she released the white-haired tiger and instructed, "White-haired Tiger, go, play with them a bit, but do not harm anyone’s life."

The White-haired Tiger, upon receiving the command, let out a loud roar and leaped down from the roof of the Royal study, pouncing toward the people below like the weight of Taishan Mountain bearing down on them.

The guards below who were preparing to torture Empress Dowager Mo were suddenly met with this sight and became utterly dumbfounded. They forgot even to draw their swords, let alone proceed with the execution.

The moment the White-haired Tiger’s claw touched the ground, it was like a sweep of wind, pouncing, slashing, tearing, biting, shaking, and grabbing, leaving all the guards surrounding Empress Dowager Mo battered and bloodied, yet none were wounded in any vital point.

Empress Dowager Mo, who had already been subjected to the torture device, was filled with sorrow and anger. Upon seeing the Giant Tiger that appeared out of nowhere, she was so frightened that her heart nearly leapt out, and she almost fainted. In the moment before slipping into unconsciousness, however, she caught sight of her son and daughter-in-law standing side by side on the roof, and her dimming heart was suddenly filled with light.

Suppressing her urge to faint, she stared intently at her son and daughter-in-law atop the roof, with tears running down her face, she murmured, "Yi’er, you’ve finally come back. Do you know how your mother has endured these days since you went missing..."

Chang Mei, looking down at the chaos below, eagerly said, "Master, let me go down and help as well, I am quite awesome, please let me go!"

Cai Wei, standing on a high spot, looked down at Li Kaifeng walking out under the escort of dozens of guards and pointed at him, saying, "You and Brother Ying go catch him for me; how you deal with him is up to you, but do not harm his life."

"Alright!"

Chang Mei and Brother Ying, seeing there was a fight to be had, cheerfully agreed and like arrows, they darted straight toward the direction of General Li.