Chapter 283: The Death of the Crown Prince

Emperor Jingtai had a ferocious look on his face, veins popped out on his forehead, and his voice was like thunder.

A moment ago.

He was dreaming of a wise and holy ruler who would live as long as the heavens. He sensed the movement of the fairy lotus seeds and rushed over immediately.

As a result, the fairy lotus seeds disappeared.

Li Mu was in the formation, preparing to escape.

"Die! Die! Die!"

Three times in a row, Emperor Jingtai put his fingers together to form claws and grabbed Li Mu through the air.

Li Mu had a mocking expression on his face and did not make any explanation. Seeing Emperor Jingtai's appearance, he felt a strange pleasure in his heart. .

Emperor Jingtai spent a lot of effort to cultivate the fairy lotus, but he didn't even touch it. At least he had a taste of it.

When people are unlucky, they will feel comforted when they see someone more unlucky than themselves.

"Move the universe!"

Li Mu once again activated the Great Movement Order. Without the forbidden air formation, a gap appeared in the void.

At the same time, he gave Emperor Jingtai a little finger.

"A tyrant! A traitor to the people! Damn it!"

When Emperor Jingtai saw the Great Movement Order, his face changed drastically, and he shouted: "My friend, please stay. I am willing to share the world with you..."

Before he finished speaking, the Great Movement Order shone with a spiritual light, protecting Li Mu and allowing him to drill into the gap.

"Stay!"

Emperor Jingtai roared and punched the crack in the void.

The void shook, the crack twisted and shattered, and quickly closed and disappeared.

"Impossible! This is impossible! My fairy lotus..."

Emperor Jingtai looked ashen, and he muttered unconsciously.

Looking around blankly, the forbidden formation that had been maintained for hundreds of years still had a spiritual light.

The Nine Nether Fairy Lotus floated in the sea of ​​bones, and the only flower stalk had withered. After three hundred years, new lotus seeds would grow again.

"Nothing has changed, only I will die!"

Emperor Jingtai felt his true energy reversed, his internal organs burned, and a mouthful of blood spurted out.

After spitting out a mouthful of blood, the depression in his heart dissipated a lot. After all, he was the emperor who had ruled Dagan for decades, and he would not give up even in desperate situations.

"That little thief looks familiar, I must have seen him somewhere before. Find out his identity and let the Tianji Palace predict his whereabouts!"

For ordinary cultivators, the Tianji Palace is a hidden sect that can only be entered by fate. However, if you still want to be in Dagan, you must have fate with Emperor Jingtai.

Emperor Jingtai knew that the other party had prepared a great relocation order, and there was a high probability that there was a treasure to cover up the secrets of heaven.

"I can't die!"

"I want to become an immortal!"

"I want to live forever!"

"As long as there are enough demons..."

Emperor Jingtai suddenly raised his head and looked to the north, where there were countless demons and monsters!

...

Sun and Moon Cave.

Birds chirping, flowers blooming, mountains and waters, full of vitality.

After Mao Jiu asked Zhou Yi for the secret of entering and leaving the cave, many creatures were transported from outside every day.

It cultivated the magical power of Hutian and used it for transportation, with extraordinary efficiency.

Every time Zhou Yi came in, he could feel that the Sun and Moon Cave Heaven was becoming more and more like a small world.

Sitting under the fairy peach tree, he took out nine fairy lotus seeds and lined them up.

He poured his magic power into the lotus seeds and carefully examined them one by one, and indeed found a strong demonic aura.

The fairy pill refined by Emperor Jingtai had a wisp of demonic aura, and the demonic aura in the fairy lotus seeds was a ball, which was more than a hundred times more concentrated.

Only when you reach the first level of cultivation and take nine fairy lotus seeds in a row can you break through the gap between the immortals and the mortals.

It is equivalent to taking thousands of fairy pills, and the demonic aura enters the body, with inexplicable consequences.

The roots of the laurel tree changed from the ground to the face of an old man.

"Master, this evil spirit is a sign that the immortal plant has been possessed by the devil!"

"Immortal plant possessed by the devil?"

Zhou Yi said, "Tell me what happened in detail."

"Master, you should know that immortal plants are spiritual medicines that can prove the way to immortality. Since they can prove the way to immortality, they naturally have true spirits."

The laurel tree said, "If the true spirit of the immortal plant is worshipped by pure incense, the true spirit will fuse with divine power to produce spiritual wisdom, which is what I am like. If it is eroded by the evil spirit of resentment, the true spirit will be possessed by the devil and produce evil spirits."

Zhou Yi frowned slightly. The evil spirit of the demon-slaying department has condensed into spiritual evil, which can be said to be the most concentrated evil spirit in the world.

The Nine Nether Demon Lotus has been trapped in the prison for five hundred years, and has been forcibly fed with three batches of demons to ripen. Now it seems that it has begun to be possessed by the devil.

"What are the consequences of the immortal plant being possessed by the devil?"

Zhou Yi asked continuously: "What is the impact of the devil entering the body on the cultivator?"

"If the immortal plant is possessed by the devil, it will be difficult to reincarnate as an immortal plant, which is equivalent to the end of the road to immortality."

The laurel tree said: "As for the devil entering the body, different immortal plants have different hazards. If I am possessed by the devil, those who are eroded by the devil will have some talents of immortality."

Zhou Yi wondered: "Isn't this a good thing?"

The laurel tree explained: "The devil erodes the soul, and they will become my slaves without knowing it."

"This is troublesome..."

Zhou Yi first thought of Emperor Jingtai, who refined many pure yang immortal pills and rewarded hundreds of officials and relatives.

The smart ones dare not take it, and will find ways to steal the salted eggs, and then flow into various places in Dagan. It is difficult to find out who will eventually fall into the mouth of someone.

There are gamblers in the world who are willing to take risks to prolong their lives even though they know it is a trap.

What's more, the regent prince has taken it and has become decades younger. Will His Majesty harm his own son?

"Emperor Jingtai is really cruel. He used his own son to test the medicine!"

"Li Mu is really lucky. If I hadn't taken the fairy lotus seeds away, he would have become a slave of the magic lotus once he took the lotus seeds. I spent so much effort, but in the end I saved the life of the son of destiny!"

"Luck, heaven's will, are really unpredictable?"

Zhou Yi shook his head and sighed, took out the alchemy furnace, put nine fairy lotus seeds in it, and started to refine them with the spiritual fire.

The demonic energy is difficult for ordinary people to detect and eliminate, but in Zhou Yi's eyes, it is nothing more than that. If he were not worried that the fairy lotus seeds would be damaged, they could be crushed in an instant with great magic power.

"Fairy lotus, magic lotus..."

Zhou Yi thought about how to solve the matter.

There are many forbidden formations underground in the Demon Slaying Division, and there is also an unknown Daqian Taizu, so the consequences of breaking in are unpredictable.

…

Longevity Palace.

The Duke of Chu reported to Emperor Jingtai.

"Li Mu, 23 years old, from Qingyuan County, Luozhou, serves as a junior official in the Ministry of Things..."

"I am blessed with great luck and fall off the cliff at the age of one..."

"I currently live in the Xianyun Courtyard of the East Palace and work as an aide to the Crown Prince. During His Majesty's birthday banquet, the Crown Prince and Li Mu attended the ceremony..."

The Chamberlain was very efficient. In just one hour, he investigated Li Mu thoroughly, including the fact that he asked a pure immortal to tell his fortune.

"The child of destiny! It turns out to be the child of destiny!"

Emperor Jingtai had just regained his calm expression, but became ferocious again, and said in a hateful voice: "I have never imagined that something is wrong with the prince!"

"Let Li Hong come and see me!"

"As commanded."

Eunuch Chu bowed down and went to summon the prince himself, lest he see father and son become enemies and disgrace His Majesty's declaration.

Soon after.

The prince came to the Longevity Palace, kowtowed three times and bowed nine times and shouted long live his father.

Taking the elixir from time to time, the prince's appearance returned to that of a man in his thirties or forties, and he seemed to be in his prime.

Emperor Jingtai looked at the prince's appearance, a cold light flashed in his eyes, and his voice was cold and gloomy.

"Li Mu is yours?"

"Report to Father..."

The prince was frightened when he heard this, but he did not dare to lie: "Li Mu is a branch of the royal family, and his ancestor is the King of Qin. Li Mu has no residence in the capital, and my son and minister thought that he was of the same royal family, so he was allowed to live in the East Palace temporarily."

"What a royal bloodline!"

Emperor Jingtai asked: "As a descendant of Zhongzong, don't you know the affairs of King Qin?"

"My son will die!"

The prince looked horrified and quickly fell to the ground to plead guilty.

At that time, Emperor Guangming used a branch of the royal family to seize the throne, which aroused opposition from many clans. Among them, King Qin was the biggest supporter of Taizu's direct bloodline.

The result is obvious. Now Taizu's direct line has become a side branch, and the Prince of Qin's Palace has all the members killed.

This kind of scandal of clan killing each other was almost never mentioned by Emperor Jingtai in order to continue the royal family.

If you say it now, you can only be angry!

"Of course you deserve to die!"

Emperor Jingtai waved his hand, grabbed the prince's neck, and said coldly: "Li Mu sneaked into the palace and stole the royal family's treasures, causing the country to become unstable. What do you think we should do?"

"Cough cough cough..."

The prince was breathing hard, his face turned red from holding it in, and he begged: "Father, please calm down... I will definitely find my son..."

"Retrieval? Why do you find it?"

Emperor Jingtai became even more furious after hearing this. He had just asked Supervisor Tiansi to make a calculation.

Yuan Jianzheng studied under the Tianji Palace, and his divination skills were second only to those of the Four Elders of Tianji. As a result, he did not calculate any information from Li Mu.

Based on this inference, even if the Tianji Palace is asked to perform a divination, there will be no trace of Li Mu.

Emperor Jingtai thought of the missing Xian Lianzi, and his decades-long plans had come to nothing, and he became angry and threw the prince away with his hand.

Bang!

The prince's forehead hit the courtyard pillar, blood splattered everywhere, he twitched a few times and then fell silent.

"Hmph! You have caused so much trouble for me, so it would be easy to die!"

Emperor Jingtai's eyes were cold as he looked at the corpse of the prince without any regret.

In the eyes of Emperor Jingtai, the prince was just a puppet and a shield, and in terms of status, he was not as good as Eunuch Chu.

"Big companion."

Emperor Jingtai's voice fell.

"The slave is here."

Eunuch Chu appeared behind him and bowed his head, not looking at the prince lying in a pool of blood.

"The prince... overdosed on pills and died suddenly."

Emperor Jingtai said slowly: "Check the alchemy room to find out who plotted to kill the prince and kill the nine clans!"

Originally, Emperor Jingtai wanted to say that the prince would kill himself, but then he thought that forcing his son to death just because he lost the treasure would lead to rumors of being cold-hearted, so he simply took this opportunity to check the alchemy room.

Li Mu is alone in Beijing, how can he know the maturity date of Xianlian?

There are remnants of fairy lotus petals in the alchemy room, which may be related to this.

Emperor Jingtai is now suspicious of everyone or anything related to Xianlian, and he wants to search for all the souls to refine them.

"As commanded."

Eunuch Chu paused and asked carefully: "Your Majesty, will the news of the prince's death be announced to the public?"

"Well, let's announce it."

Emperor Jingtai said: "At the same time, my decree is conveyed, and the prince's taking the elixir will be a warning to the ministers, royal family and clan of the court!"

"As you command!"

Eunuch Chu prided himself on being ruthless, and upon hearing this, his heart beat faster and he quickly left with the prince's body.

Your Majesty said that the prince died suddenly after taking the pill, so he must really take the pill, and the bloody appearance cannot be spread. There are experts in torture in the Chamber of Servants, who can make corpses traced and confess, and of course the prince can be made to take elixirs.

In the Longevity Palace, silence fell again.

Emperor Jingtai forgot about the death of the prince in a blink of an eye, and settled down to think about the scenes of ripening the fairy lotus.

"Forcing generals to rebel, using disasters to attract demons, expelling people to catch demons, hunting demons for political achievements, and the Northern Xinjiang rebels are all under control from beginning to end!"

"Xu Ni rebelled in southern Xinjiang, and some accidents happened, but in the end it was not too out of control!"

Emperor Jingtai murmured: "Since then, the Holy Mother White Lotus has suddenly fallen, and the inventory of the land has been too smooth, and there is also the list of monsters with inexplicable origins..."

With all this happening, it seems like there is a big hand behind the scenes.

Emperor Jingtai had previously focused on ripening the fairy lotus, and even if he noticed something strange, he didn't care much about it.

The Immortal Lotus matures and becomes a saint on the spot, and all the conspiracies and calculations come to nothing.

"If there is really a mastermind behind the scenes, Li Mu is very likely to be a scapegoat, and someone else stole the Immortal Lotus..."

A cold light flashed in Emperor Jingtai's eyes. He believed in his martial arts intuition and began to think about how to investigate the person behind the scenes.

Wherever he passed, there must be traces. Compared with Li Mu, who was alone, the mastermind who continuously controlled many things would leave more traces, which would be easier to investigate.

As for whether the prince's death was unjust, it was not within the scope of Emperor Jingtai's consideration at all.

…

The regent prince took an overdose of elixir and died suddenly!

When the news first came out, the officials and royal family members in the court thought it was a rumor.

It was not until the East Palace hung a nine-foot white banner and the prince cried with the coffin that it caused unrest in the capital.

The officials in the court looked down on the regent prince, who looked like a monarch, but they all hoped that the prince would be in power so that the monarch and the ministers could be compatible.

The royal family members didn't care who was in power, but how the prince died. If it was as they had guessed, they all began to think about leaving Luojing temporarily.

The regent died, and Luojing was in mourning.

Emperor Jingtai personally issued an order to hold a funeral according to the emperor's etiquette to commend the prince for his meritorious service as regent.

According to the news from the palace, when Emperor Jingtai heard that the prince had died suddenly, he actually covered his face and shed tears.

Such palace secrets were widely circulated in Beijing, and the people praised Emperor Jingtai, saying that he was not only a wise ruler, but also a father who had lost his beloved son!

The only strange thing was that after the prince's death, no one presided over the government, and the officials in the court faced the empty dragon chair every day.

The officials stood in the Hall of Supreme Harmony for two hours, and when they heard that there was nothing to do, they left one after another.

No one wrote a letter to ask for the establishment of a new monarch or regent.

This day.

The study room of Yan's mansion.

Many civil servants gathered together to deal with matters submitted by various places, which seemed to have become a small court.

This was the case when the former crown prince was the regent. The officials of the six ministries handled the matter and then handed it over to the crown prince to circle and stamp.

A servant's voice came from outside the door.

"Master, King Kang sent another invitation, inviting you to the banquet tomorrow."

Yan Gao closed the memorial and said with a light cough.

"Just refuse it, and say that I am not feeling well these days. I can only appreciate King Kang's kindness."

"Yes, sir."

After the servant left, the civil servants in the study whispered to each other.

In the past few days, several princes have invited Prime Minister Yan to the banquet, and also invited several deputy assistants and officials from the six ministries.

The princes have only one intention, hoping that all officials will report to His Majesty to preside over the government. Whether it is returning to the court or establishing the crown prince or other princes as regents, the clan government will fully support it.

Yan Gao and several deputy assistants seemed to have discussed it beforehand. They all claimed to be sick and were willing to go to court facing the empty dragon throne.

The assistant minister of the Ministry of Personnel could not help but ask: "Master Prime Minister, the country cannot be without a monarch for a day. Shouldn't we make a memorial and establish a new monarch as soon as possible?"

"Who said that the country has no monarch? Isn't His Majesty in the Wanshou Palace?"

The study room is full of Yan Gao's confidants, so there is no need to be too cautious when speaking.

"Now His Majesty's mind is strange, and you need to be cautious in everything you say. If you misunderstand the emperor's intention, the Ministry of Internal Affairs will come to your door tomorrow."

Yan Gao snorted coldly and said: "According to the Great Law, the Imperial Clan House has the power to act in an emergency. The old foxes dare not make a memorial, but just want to push it to us to test the fire pit. To put it bluntly, the Li family is not in a hurry, so why should we be in a hurry?"

The study room was suddenly quiet, and the last sentence was suspected of usurping and making false remarks.

The Minister of Works quickly changed the subject and said, "Sir, the Ministry of Internal Affairs is arresting people everywhere now, which is beyond the scope of its authority. Do you want to report it together?"

"No need to trouble, wait a few more years, maybe it won't take a few years."

"I still have a hundred years to live, why bother with the current anger..."

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