"It seems that you have been discovered." Emperor Wenhua said calmly, "During this period, the guards changed frequently, and from time to time there were guards on duty going door to door asking for secret handover orders."
"So that's it." Ling Duanshang thought to himself. People who were enchanted by his evil spirit illusion will have a short recovery time. During this time, people will become sluggish and forget what happened before. If Emperor Wenhua That being said, it must be the change of guard or general who discovered something was wrong with these people.
Immediately, Ling Duanshang turned sideways and was about to go out. Although he had already met Emperor Wen Hua, Ling Duanshang didn't want to alert the enemy, but instead harmed the old man and the others.
"Wait!" Emperor Wen Hua's voice suddenly came, "Now that the entire palace is under martial law, the group of immortal cultivators will inevitably be dispatched. You will only be discovered if you go out at this time! The safest place now is here!"
"Why would I trust you?" Ling Duan Shang slightly tilted his head and asked coldly.
Emperor Wen Hua's face darkened, and he sighed: "I am not a foolish emperor!" Emperor Wen Hua's voice was rarely sonorous and powerful.
Ling Duanshang¡¯s face was expressionless when he heard this, but he nodded
"Bang!" There was a deep sound of pushing the door, and the door of the West Palace bedroom suddenly opened. The hazy and dim moonlight shone down, which was a little cold, but was quickly covered by the red of the torch behind.
Emperor Wen Hua sat in front of the court. As the people outside the door strode in unscrupulously, he raised his neck and stared straight away with a rather majestic gaze.
"Gou Zihua, why do you come to my bedroom late at night and disturb my peace?"
The person who took the lead was obviously the Zaifu Gou Zihua, and now it's been several years. Not only is this man not getting older, but his face is rosy and his complexion is much younger. It seems that the Immortal Cultivation Sect has given him many benefits over the years.
Hear Emperor Wenhua¡¯s rebuke. Gou Zihua said with a smile: "Your Majesty has misunderstood Wei Chen. Wei Chen found out that an assassin broke into the palace late at night. He was worried about the emperor's body, so he came to escort him!" After saying this, Gou Zihua looked around and his eyes fell again. He said to Emperor Wen Hua: "Your Majesty, the night is so deep, why don't you take a rest early?" The implication is that Emperor Wen Hua has something in his heart.
Emperor Wen Hua stood up immediately, stepped in front of Gou Zihua, and sneered: "The world is in chaos. The traitorous ministers in the court are in power, and the people of the world are in dire straits. I am afraid that when I fall asleep, I will see the dead loyal minister Liang Dong in my dream and look for me! On the contrary, Gou Zaifu, you are going to do it during the day Taking care of government affairs. You have to worry about my safety at night. If you are so tired, why not go back early and rest?"
"The emperor is considerate of me, and I am grateful!" Gou Zihua chuckled and pretended to bow. "Weak ministers must work diligently in government affairs to repay the emperor's kindness!"
After saying that, Gou Zihua looked at the young man dressed as a Taoist priest next to him. This man had a strange face. He folded his hands and kept them hidden in the wide sleeves of his robe until Gou Zihua asked with his eyes. The man just opened his eyes and shook his head lightly.
Gou Zihua smiled again and said: "It's cold here in the West Palace. It seems that the assassin doesn't want to stay any longer. Your Majesty, I will leave now!" After saying this, he led a group of people to leave.
Emperor Wenhua sat back slowly, his eyes extremely cold.
A moment later, a figure appeared on the beam, and then floated to the ground.
Ling Duanshang's eyes fell on Emperor Wen Hua. For the man in front of him who once occupied the throne of Weiguo with great glory, Ling Duanshang really had no extra words. He just said: "Thank you!"
After a long while, Emperor Wen Hua raised his head again, stared at Ling Duanshang and said, "I know the purpose of your coming here this time!"
"I'm sorry for Duke Ling Zhong, and I'm even more sorry for your Ling family If I hadn't mistakenly believed the traitor's slander, how could I have abandoned Duke Ling Zhong's memorial? Then the traitor Gou Zihua wouldn't have been reused!"
"The matter has come to this, and your self-blame is useless!" Ling Duanshang said slowly, looking down at Emperor Wen Hua, who had his head buried.
Hearing these words, Emperor Wen Hua suddenly raised his head, but Ling Duanshang saw a trace of ferocity in his eyes, and the murderous intention contained in this ferocity was clearly pointed at him.
Ling Duanshang naturally didn't care. As the saying goes, pitiful people must be hateful. It is not unreasonable why Emperor Wenhua ended up like this. Although he respected Ling Tiancheng quite a lot, he was headstrong and never wanted to do anything in his life. The same goes for listening to other people's advice. He couldn't listen to Ling Tiancheng's words, but he was happy to hear Gou Zihua's slanderous words.
Just like that, the two looked at each other. After a while, the ferocity in Emperor Wen Hua's eyes gradually disappeared.
"I will tell you the whereabouts of Duke Ling Zhong." Emperor Wen Hua's voice was a little weak, like a wounded beast growling in his throat, "But, Ling Duanshang, you have to promise me something!"
"You said it." Ling Duanshang said coldly, Emperor Wen Hua wanted toWhat he did was nothing more than taking Gou Zihua's life. This is what he must do. Of course, if he is asked to do something unethical, he will weigh it carefully.
"Kill Gou Zihua! Kill the whole Gou family! Leave no one alive!" Emperor Wen Hua's eyes became extremely ferocious again.
Ling Duanshang looked at him coldly, but shook his head and said, "I can only promise you to kill Gou Zihua and those who participated in framed my Ling family."
Emperor Wen Hua seemed to have known the result. He nodded expressionlessly and said, "That treacherous minister Gou Zihua, if I hadn't insisted on asking, he would never have told me!"
"Ling Zhonggong is now under the Chaoguang Palace!"
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Ling Duanshang's figure was like the wind, and he suddenly landed at the corner of the palace gate. He raised his eyes slightly and looked in the direction of Guangbao Palace. He stepped a little closer and disappeared into the night again.
Ling Duanshang naturally knew that in the Chaoguangbao Palace, that was where the Weiguo Emperor went to court every day. Gou Zihua really hated the old man so much that he imprisoned him under the Chaoguangbao Palace, where he was trampled on by hundreds of officials every day and suffered humiliation.
Thinking of this, Ling Duanshang's eyes were already red, and the evil energy around his body was rising and falling, contracting and rising like breathing.
After passing through a group of palaces and pavilions, we arrived outside the Chaoguang Palace. This place was not as heavily guarded as imagined. It must be that not many people knew where Ling Tiancheng was being held. If too many people were sent to guard it, it would look abnormal and must be a monster. .
However, Ling Duanshang was still cautious. He had already noticed that there was a murderous intention hidden here, and it must be a means of cultivating immortals!
After using evil spirit illusion to deal with the guards, Ling Duanshang landed in front of the palace gate. He was so close to the main hall, and when he looked around, the door seemed to be shrouded in a layer of mist, making it blurry.
Ling Duanshang quickly circled outside Chaoguang Palace and found that the entire hall was surrounded by restrictions. There seemed to be no chance at all.
Ling Duanshang is not a master of formations, and has never even learned the basics of formations. However, he knows very well that once this restriction is broken with force, those cultivators will be alarmed, and the old man and the others will also be in danger.
After thinking for a while, Ling Duanshang walked to the door of the hall again, and saw a flash of blood in his eyes. The muscles in his left hand suddenly swelled, and layers of scales appeared on the palm. At this moment, Ling Duanshang's consciousness Concentrating it in the palm of your hand can activate the purple aura. In an instant, the scales on Ling Duanshang's left hand disappeared, and at the same time, circles of strange purple lines appeared. When his left hand returned to normal, a huge phantom of a claw appeared in front of him. Following the movements of his left hand, And change.
Without much hesitation, Ling Duanshang raised his hand and grabbed it in front of the door. His grasp was extremely precise. He only grabbed the dense clouds in front of the door without touching the door.
There was no sound, and the mist where the purple hand phantom touched dissipated into nothingness. This was just the dissipation of the restraining power in front of the gate, and the entire restraining formation did not change. This time, Ling Duanshang's eyes had already used motion capture to the extreme. He could see clearly that within the shadow of the purple hand, the restraining power was directly stripped away, as if the evil spirit and the vitality of heaven and earth were incompatible with each other. , but here the purple-hand phantom has an absolute advantage, stripping away the forbidden Yuan Power.
Ling Duanshang immediately raised his hand and shook it, and the phantom of his purple hand moved directly in front of the door. At the same time that the power of prohibition dissipated, he raised his hand and pushed the door open a gap, and then he jumped in.
There is no prohibitive force in the Chaoguang Palace. Dozens of long-lasting incense lamps are lit around it, making the interior quite bright.
The main hall has an unobstructed view.
Emperor Wen Hua did not inform about the mechanism that entered the underground. He must not have known about it, and Ling Duanshang did not intend to look for it one by one. It was almost the third watch, so he had to hurry up.
Standing in the middle of the hall, Ling Duanshang pinched his sword fingers with both hands. In the next breath, he connected his hands and pointed them downwards. Thin wisps of sword energy shot towards the ground, but did not damage the surface and disappeared as soon as they touched it.
In just two breaths, Ling Duanshang's closed eyes suddenly opened. He immediately moved his feet and was already in the east corner of the hall. He then made a fist with his right hand and struck the floor without any fancy.
"Crack!" There was a slight crackling sound, and the floor turned into pieces, and then a faint hole was revealed