noffsinger Chapter 380: Confrontation between Gods
Chapter 380: Confrontation between Gods
Chu Yanqiu was very satisfied with Shen Wen's current performance. Seeing Shen Wen sitting on the bed, making a fuss about wanting to go to bed and trying to drive him out, Chu Yanqiu sat up from the brocade stool, stretched out his hand and touched Shen Wen's hair and said, "It's too late, have a good sleep." Then he really left Shen Wen's room and left.
Jesse watched him close the door and breathed a sigh of relief. The room suddenly became quiet, and Jesse thought about this and that for a while. Perhaps it was the effect of the tranquilizer, and soon his eyes began to fight, and he fell asleep with his head on the pillow.
Chu Yanqiu returned to the study and asked Chi He who followed him in, "Is there really no trace of that substitute?"
Chihe shook his head and said that he had searched for it until the evening, but there was still no news.
Chu Yanqiu asked again: "Where is the emperor? Are the two young eunuchs still alive? Have they been found?"
Chi He said, "My lord, we have found the traces of the two eunuchs. They were killed in a deserted courtyard in the former Crown Prince's Mansion. Their deaths were very strange. I don't know what hidden weapons they were injured by. I am sending people to investigate the cause of death."
Chu Yanqiu was surprised and asked Chihe to explain in detail the details of the scene where the young eunuch was killed. After listening to what Chihe said, he nodded and said, "It seems that the blood talisman sent by Lord Shen and Tu Yingguang from Sanjianzhai had a fight, and the two young eunuchs were killed. I will ask Shen Wen for the details later. The blood talisman was aimed at Shen Wen, and Shen Wen must know the details."
Chi He also nodded in agreement. He said, "My lord, you mentioned the Tu Yingguang Tu, the head of the Three Houses. Then I remembered that he had a unique hidden weapon in his hand. The wounds he left when he killed people were the same as the wounds on the young eunuch. But the other young eunuch was killed by someone hitting him with a stone."
Chu Yanqiu didn't dwell on these details. He was thinking about the emperor's reaction. His spy was killed in the prince's mansion. If he sent someone to investigate the prince's mansion...
There was no trace of the blood talisman at the assassination scene. That thing was like a cat with nine lives. After being killed, it would come back to life after a while. The people sent by Chihe did not find any trace of the blood talisman, just as he guessed. So the emperor sent someone to the scene...
It would be best if we found out that Shen Wen was kidnapped by people sent by Marquis Shen. Marquis Shen kidnapped Shen Wen, and then divine soldiers appeared in the Shen Mansion and destroyed the Shen residence, while Shen Wen's whereabouts were unknown. In this way, it would make sense for the emperor to keep his eyes on the Shen Mansion.
Thinking of this, Chu Yanqiu leaned close to Chihe and asked him to carefully arrange the manpower.
Fortunately, the people the emperor sent to look for Shen Wen and the two young eunuchs were slow to act.
The shocking news of the sudden destruction of Shen's house affected the emperor's attention. When the emperor received the news of the accident at Shen's house, he focused his attention on investigating the matter of Marquis Shen and was shocked by the whereabouts of the blood talisman for the whole afternoon.
The emperor waited until the evening before he remembered that Shen Wen did not come to the palace as agreed, so he sent out several masters to various places. The news that the masters brought back to the emperor was that Shen Wen and the two young eunuchs went to the former prince's mansion, but Shen Wen was abducted in the prince's mansion, and the two young eunuchs were killed in a deserted courtyard. They died miserably, one had a big hole in his head, and the other had a big hole in his chest hollowed out by a powerful master.
The big hole mentioned here was made by Chu Yanqiu's people to cover up the bullet hole left by the shooting.
Another piece of hollow pendant fragment was found at the scene, which was evidence of the suspect's crime.
When the emperor saw the fragments of the hollow pendant, his face was distorted and his eyes were bloodshot. He dressed up overnight, left the palace with a master, and quietly went to the vicinity of Marquis Shen's mansion.
Old Marquis Shen in the shabby mansion had just taken a tranquilizer and fallen asleep when he was awakened by a master from the Imperial Palace who appeared like a ghost. The old Marquis was carried out of the mansion and met the Emperor in a forest behind the mansion.
Lord Shen knelt tremblingly at the feet of His Majesty the Emperor.
The emperor smiled evilly with half of his face hidden under the black cloak, and said, "It has been many years since I last saw you, my dear minister. I still haven't seen you clearly."
Lord Shen was so frightened that he staggered and almost lost his soul and went to the underworld.
Lord Shen's mind was in a mess and he didn't know how to respond, because the terrible fact that Shen Wen told him was too horrible. If what Shen Wen said was true, then this old master in front of him was a god or a ghost. If he was a ghost, he would be cunning and evil, and if he was a god, he would know everything. Then everything he had done in the past few days would not escape the eyes of the old master.
When Lord Shen was about to face disaster, he instinctively squeezed out two lines of tears like he did when he was young, crawled on the ground, grabbed the emperor's feet with both hands and cried, "Your Majesty, please forgive me. I have my own reasons for doing everything I have done."
This time, the Emperor was also very angry. He kicked Lord Shen away and asked in a low voice, "Then why don't you tell me what your difficulties are?"
Lord Shen did not dare to look at the emperor, and continued crying, "Your Majesty, you can see clearly that various forces in the court are eyeing us covetously. The Ji family will eventually, as I said, unite with the noble forces of the Ji family and other countries to control the country of Daju beyond the imperial power. And His Royal Highness Prince Rui, he took advantage of his nephew's youth and weakness, and had already refined another batch of blood talismans, secretly trying to force his nephew to take his place."
When His Majesty the Emperor heard this, he was already very surprised, and his eyes flashed with coldness.
Lord Shen, who was lying on the ground crying, only heard His Majesty say, "You will tell me these things in detail later. I want to ask you, did you bring Shen Wen back to the Shen Mansion? You are so bold that you secretly called upon the heavenly soldiers and generals that I gave you to keep? Look at the mess you have made now. How can the heavenly soldiers and generals walk around freely in the world? They are divine soldiers who have cultivated into spirits. They don't obey the discipline of an old man like you, and they have completely demolished your huge mansion. Fortunately, the murders and destruction happened in your mansion, and they didn't run out of the mansion to mess up the entire capital, otherwise I would never forgive you."
Lord Shen's sobbing voice gradually became smaller. He listened to the emperor's words and felt that there was a little difference. Could it be that His Majesty was not a god? But a ghost?
Lord Shen realized it later. He couldn't help but look up and ask, "What did your majesty say? Shen Wen?"
His Majesty the Emperor patiently repeated, "I heard that it was you who brought Shen Wen back to the Shen residence?"
Lord Shen's mind was spinning rapidly. He said, "Your Majesty, have you heard about it? Doesn't Your Majesty know? Shen Wen has been snatched away by the second son of the Ji family. The three brothers of the Ji family are all ambiguous with Shen Wen. I think that even if Your Majesty secretly asks people to look for him, Shen Wen may not be found. If the three brothers want to hide someone, they must be very secretive."
Lord Shen's former eloquence has returned, he is very good at this kind of thing. The little emperor is a bastard, his behavior is unpredictable, how could His Majesty the Emperor trust him so much? He should just put the blame on the son of the Ji family. His Majesty the Emperor has long been wary of the Ji family. He must seize this opportunity. If he cannot overthrow the Ji Guogong Mansion, he must also throw that monster Chu Yanqiu out of the Daju Dynasty.
When the Emperor heard that the three Ji brothers all loved Shen Wen, his expression became heavy.
Under the cover of pitch-black night, no one noticed that in the deserted and almost flat ground of the Shen’s residence, a few people quietly took a person out of the Shen’s shabby house, and then quietly took the person back into the shabby house.
It is late at night at this time when people are just falling into a deep sleep, and there is still a long way to go before the sun rises.
The emperor secretly returned to the palace. At the gate of the Forbidden City, he turned around and said to his most loyal secret guard, "Take your men to the Duke Ji's mansion to check quietly. Don't get close to Chu Yanqiu's yard. Be careful."
After receiving the order, the secret guard of the palace immediately took a few people to carry out the task.
The emperor arrived at the north gate. The guards guarding the gate knew that the emperor was going out, so they followed the orders and did not close the city gate tightly. As long as they found out that His Majesty had returned to the palace, they would open the city gate immediately.
At this time, the city gate was open with a gap half a person's width waiting for Your Majesty to enter.
When the emperor saw the tiny gap in the door, his brows furrowed, thinking that the gate guards really did not know the rules. He was the king of a country, and even if he had to go out at night to conceal his presence, he should not really squeeze through the gap in the door like ordinary young masters. Shouldn't he open the city gate and kneel to welcome the emperor?
The secret guards behind the emperor respectfully opened the door and closely escorted the emperor into the city gate.
As the emperor walked away, he said to the head of the secret guards in dissatisfaction: "Tomorrow you go to the Ministry of Justice in person and ask them to replace the guards at the north gate. They are so disrespectful."
The secret guard immediately realized that it was the gatekeeper who was disrespectful to His Majesty, and hurriedly bowed to accept the order.
However, as they walked in the dark city gate, they felt something was wrong. They walked two or three miles and found that they were still in the city gate. The gate was only a few meters deep, so how could they never get to the end?
Everyone had a bad feeling and immediately surrounded the emperor and kept on guard. The head of the secret guards swallowed and said to the emperor, "Your Majesty... have we entered some kind of Bagua formation? Why can't we get out?"
The emperor's eyes were different from theirs. He could see the essence of some things in the blink of an eye as long as he wanted to. His Majesty the Emperor and the secret guards walked around in a circle again, and His Majesty the Emperor felt something was wrong. He clearly sensed an invisible attack force coming for him, from the direction of the city gate. He focused on the black hole at the city gate that looked like the bloody mouth of a ferocious beast. The powerful black fog that was about to destroy the world, the black fog filled with endless resentment, rushed towards the emperor's body at a rapid speed.
His Majesty the Emperor could not bear the outer skin of flesh after all. He shook his body, and this skin was peeled off as easily as taking off clothes, revealing His Majesty the Emperor's true body.
The moment he turned around, the scene in the city gate changed into some other place, a bright, wide and majestic temple hall.
In the center, the golden throne of ten thousand dragons was shining brightly, and below it, two immortals from outer space were standing facing each other on both sides.
These two people, on the left is an old man in plain Taoist robe with gray beard and a very different demeanor, and on the right is a peerlessly handsome man in black clothes with a solemn and elegant demeanor.
His Majesty the Emperor knew both of these people. On the left was Yi Dao, the national preceptor, and on the right was Chunyu Lihe, the chief deity of the Western Palace.
The Emperor was very angry at this time. He snorted, "Who allowed you to make a scene in the court? You are so bold. I just left the palace and you acted like the monkeys in the mountains. Are you going to rebel?"