Chapter 2311 Underground Palace!

Li Yao took another careful look at the black and charred corpse, but he still couldn't tell whether it was poisoned, or whether it was sucked clean by some extremely domineering technique, so he couldn't help frowning. Said: "Why do you say it was poisoned, or was it planted a long time ago?"

Dongfang Wang hesitated for a moment, and said: "Everyone in the world knows that Your Majesty is held hostage by me, and I want to 'hold the Son of Heaven to make the princes', but if I say that Your Majesty actually trusts me very much, and is worried that someone will murder him, So you joined hands with me to play a good show to cover up people's eyes and ears, and actually hid here to seek protection from me, believe it or not?"

"Wow, the truth turns out to be like this, of course I believe it!"

Li Yao said, "It turns out that Prime Minister Dongfang really has no selfishness, he is devoted to the country, he is loyal to His Majesty, and he is as pure as a white lotus flower!"

Dongfangwang coughed and said: "Well, it may be a bit exaggerated to say so, but the relationship between His Majesty and me is indeed not completely opposite. We also have to cooperate in many cases. He wants to use my strength to suppress the other three emperors. The Hou family, and the unstable factors in the palace include Li Linghai!"

Li Yao said: "Is Your Majesty dissatisfied with Her Highness the Queen?"

"It's not dissatisfaction, but fear!"

Dongfang Wang said, "Your Majesty has a deep fear of Li Linghai. He said that in recent decades, especially since the outbreak of the Empire Strikes Back, Li Linghai has changed more and more, and many times he has completely become another person. A person that makes him People who feel creepy and can't even stand upright.

"Don't be afraid of jokes. Your Majesty said that he and Li Linghai haven't shared the same bed for twenty or thirty years. Even when he saw Li Linghai, he couldn't physically awaken a man's ability, but in other concubines, he still has the dragon essence. The tiger is fierce, and the ten daughters of Ye Yu are no problem.

"Also, His Majesty said that Li Linghai often wandered around the palace in the dead of night, doing some sneaky things. He wanted to investigate, but occasionally Li Linghai would disappear without a trace."

"etc."

Li Yao raised his hand and said, "Disappeared without a trace, what do you mean?"

"No one knows exactly how Li Linghai did it. The imperial palace is the key monitoring target of the four major elector families. Surveillance eyes and our eyeliner are placed everywhere. It stands to reason that no one can appear in the imperial palace."

Dongfang Wang said, "However, the imperial palace of the Real Human Empire is said to have been built on top of the ruins of the imperial palace of the Star Sea Empire 10,000 years ago. Although the stars have changed and the sea has changed, there are still countless secrets buried deep in the ground.

"When Black Star Emperor Wu Yingqi supervised the construction of the imperial palace, he used it as the last resistance base of the human empire, so the underground extends in all directions, with a large number of labyrinths, weapon arsenals, and entrances to fragmented worlds, which are connected by secret passages and teleportation arrays. There are all kinds of astonishingly powerful defensive arrays and intricate mechanisms, which can trap even Nascent Souls and even Huashen powerhouses.

"It is said that a thousand years ago, the Black Star Emperor mobilized hundreds of thousands of practitioners to build the 'Underground Palace'. Most of these practitioners were prisoners of war when the Star Sea Republic collapsed. The Black Star Emperor promised that as long as they built the 'Underground Palace', With meritorious deeds, one can transform into an immortal cultivator and start a new life in the Empire of True Humans.

"Unexpectedly, after the 'Underground Palace' was really built, the Black Star Emperor killed hundreds of thousands of practitioners in the 'Underground Palace', and refined their innocent souls into an extremely powerful defensive formation. Afterwards, hundreds of thousands of innocent souls lingered in the deep underground of the palace, and the secret of the 'Underground Palace' was only known to His Majesty.

"Our four major elector families naturally want to discover the secrets of the 'underground palace', but our four families check and balance each other, and no one wants the other family to get the secret first, and it is really difficult to discover the entire underground palace. If it is too high, if you are not careful, it will even cause drastic changes in the crust of the entire Celestial Star, an ecological imbalance, and the environment is so bad that it is not suitable for human survival. The consequences are so serious, and there is not much benefit, so this matter has been shelved.

"According to what His Majesty Emperor Shenwu said, Li Linghai seems to have mastered some method to freely travel through the 'Underground Palace'. This matter is very suspicious. I naturally conducted a secret investigation, and only then did I discover the clues of the existence of the 'Reformers'. I know. The tip of the iceberg of Li Linghai's ambition.

"But at that time, I still didn't expect that Li Linghai's plot would be so big, and the means so subtle and vicious, I thought she was just the kind of woman who appeared endlessly in the past five hundred years and caused troubles in the court.

"So, I only deployed conventional means, wanting her to 'death from illness' and maintain the dignity of the empire, but in fact, I secretly arrested her and slowly processed and tortured her to find out the secrets of the 'underground palace'.

"As for Your Majesty, since you have come to seek my protection, and you've 'turned yourself into a trap' like this, I will naturally be disrespectful.

"I have no ill intentions towards His Majesty, but he was dazzled by the successive victories of the Empire Strikes Back, and his whole body swelled up, giving birth to ambitions he couldn't bear. As the Prime Minister of the Empire, I naturally have the obligation to beat him up. , Let him calm down, recognize the reality, and don't be used by people with ulterior motives.

"Unexpectedly, the secret arrest operation against Li Linghai did not go well, what was caught was only a double, and the real Li Linghai escaped long ago.

"In desperation, we had no choice but to poison this double, wanting to announce that Her Highness the Empress had passed away, and using this method to minimize the threat of Li Linghai, who would have thought that would have greatly underestimated her.

"Your Majesty has been fine since accepting my protection, but when the 'cannibalism training incident' and the 'Blood Alliance incident' broke out one after another, I was most caught off guard and devastated, without warning, in just half an hour Within a short time, all the liquid around his body evaporated, and he became like this, not even a wisp of remnant soul remained.

"At that time, there were several doctors and meditators accompanying His Majesty, and they immediately rescued him. They injected hundreds of medical medicines into His Majesty's body, but to no avail. It was as if there was a miniature black hole in His Majesty's body. Sucked him alive to... sucked dry!

"Neither sooner nor later, just when I was in the most difficult time, His Majesty died so strangely, it was clear that someone was going to frame me, drive me to death, and make me take the blame! Indeed, Your Majesty died at my hands , I can't speak clearly, let alone tell anyone, I can only wait to die!

"This, such an interlocking conspiracy, such a vicious potion, was not done by Li Linghai, who else?"

"but"

Li Yaodao, "Why did Her Royal Highness do this, why did she kill the king and kill her husband?"

"Maybe His Majesty knew too many of her secrets, and was even thinking about abolishing the queen, so she acted first; or maybe, she just wanted the four major elector families, and even the entire empire to be in chaos!"

Dongfang Wang said, "As you said just now, as long as the Dongfang family cedes a lot of benefits and then welcomes His Majesty Emperor Shenwu back, the four major elector families and the reformers can still maintain a reluctant balance. Perhaps this scene is not what Li Linghai wanted. See, she just wants to make the empire into chaos?

"His Majesty Emperor Shenwu has been in power for sixty years. Among all the majesties of the empire, he has been in power for a long time. He can be the emperor for sixty years. Naturally, it is because the four major elector families have a relatively good relationship with the current interest pattern. Satisfied, there is no need to push back easily.

"Because of this, and the fact that the empire has focused on war in the past twenty years, it has not even established a crown prince.

"Originally, our four major electors all wanted to consider the establishment of a prince after the war is over and divide the benefits of post-war reconstruction, and consider the prince as a transaction condition.

"The current situation is so critical, His Majesty's death immediately pushed the four major elector families and the reformists to the forefront.

"For the reformers, your slogan is 'respect the emperor and fight against rebellion, and reform the gods'. Now even the 'Emperor Shenwu' himself has been murdered by the 'rebels'. You will never let go of the chief culprit, and you will even bring disaster to the nine clans." Only by completely destroying the Dongfang family can your righteousness be maintained, right?

"For the Dongfang family, originally many collateral branches could come out to clean up the mess. As long as my branch is sacrificed, it is possible to keep the family alive. But when such a bad thing happens, everything becomes unknown, maybe The remnants of the Dongfang family are desperate to jump over the wall and fight to the death!

"For the other three major elector families, they naturally have their own opinions on the candidate for the crown prince, and they must support their own interests.

"Nowadays, the empire is facing a major change that has not been seen in a thousand years. Regardless of the front line or the rear, interests in various fields are being reshuffled. Whoever's puppet can become the emperor will naturally occupy a great advantage, and even replace the Dongfang family and become the new one. The 'First Family'!

"Therefore, for the candidate for the new emperor, there will inevitably be a bloody battle, and there will be no handover!

"Li Linghai is so insidious, there must be someone behind him. As long as she plays a trick, are you afraid that the three major elector families will not fight and become a mess?"

Although his speech was somewhat incoherent, Dongfang Wang had recovered the level that the prime minister of the empire should have in terms of computing power, and he analyzed the whole matter clearly one by one.

Hearing that Li Yao was sweating profusely, his heart felt cold.

"I still can't figure it out."

Li Yao murmured, "The empire is in chaos, what good is it for Her Highness the Empress?"

"I don't know how the chaos in the empire will benefit Li Linghai."

Dongfangwang gritted his teeth and said with difficulty, "I only know that if the empire is calm and you can go through the transition period of power safely, then Li Linghai will always be just a little queen. The slightest storm will eventually disappear in obscurity among the stars!

"She has done so many things with great deliberation, she will never be willing to be annihilated like this, never!"