Chapter 134 Escape from the Heavenly Decree
Upon hearing this, the old men who had been sitting demurely in their chairs instantly revealed greedy expressions. Their dull, lifeless eyes became much more vibrant because of their greed.
They pointed to their chosen target and ordered Tianluozhao beside them, "Go and capture him!"
The next moment, the Heavenly Decree was activated.
They moved nimbly and quickly darted to the targets chosen by the elders, placing their hands on their shoulders and subduing the scholars.
"Let me go!"
"Get away!"
"I don't want to! Let go!"
The frail scholar was dragged by the people from Tianluo Zhao and was immediately pinned to the ground, unable to move.
"good!"
The elderly people sitting there nodded in satisfaction upon seeing this.
They slowly stood up and walked with trembling steps to their target.
They mimicked the actions of the previous second-rank official, with the thin red lines on their wrists moving towards the wrists of their chosen targets.
In an instant, the scholars who were being held down began to wail in agony, their faces contorted in pain.
It seems this is not the human world.
Instead, it's more like hell.
Shao Yanzhe protected Wen Yanqing and the other two, preventing them from being captured by the Heavenly Decree.
Lord Zhang, who had been watching this scene closely, was not in a hurry. Instead, he held a wine glass in one hand and watched them with great interest.
"Scholar Shao, you should feel fortunate to have been chosen by me. Tomorrow you will become the Second Grand Secretary of the Cabinet, second only to the Emperor. With your current position, you will probably never reach that level in your entire life."
He took a sip of his drink and looked at them with a smile, continuing, "And now, all you need to do is offer your body to become the Second Grand Secretary, something no one else can even dream of."
"You should be thanking me."
"You've studied for so long, isn't it all so that you can rise from humble beginnings to high office?"
"Now that I've given you this opportunity, why are you refusing?"
Shao Yanzhe smiled gently at Lord Zhang: "Lord Zhang is so generous, why don't you give such good things to your own clan members, but instead give them to an outsider like me?"
He stared at him with a puzzled look, then seemed to realize something and said, "Could it be that you have no descendants?"
When Shao Yanzhe unintentionally touched a sore spot, Lord Zhang's expression immediately changed. He shot a sharp look at him, gripped the wine glass tightly, and smashed it on the ground with force.
He has changed bodies countless times, and his original family members have long since disappeared into the river of time.
As for the offspring left behind by the body he used, he treated them as mere toys.
These are not his descendants, and he had no descendants.
"He won't listen to reason, so he'll have to suffer the consequences! All of you, get him here!" Lord Zhang roared, his anger surging in his chest.
"yes!"
The idle members of Tianluozhao slowly surrounded Shao Yanzhe and his group of four, their long swords gleaming coldly in the dim light.
Shao Yanzhe became increasingly calm. He slightly raised his hand, his gaze sweeping around before finally settling on his surroundings.
It was only then that he realized that the giant spiders that had been clinging to the walls had somehow climbed down and occupied the space around the poetry gathering venue.
In the dim, dreamlike state, they looked like a patchwork of messy bushes.
Such a vast number of spiders is an unprecedented honor.
Seeing so many spiders, Shao Yanzhe had an idea.
His attack, originally aimed at the Heavenly Decree, shifted and instead struck the spiders around him.
Upon seeing this, Lord Zhang's expression changed drastically, and he hurriedly shouted, "Quick! Stop him!"
The people of Tianluo Zhao received orders to turn around and stop the spreading literary energy.
But they were too slow, and the spiritual energy landed on the giant spiders.
"squeak!"
When attacked, the spider immediately emitted a sharp cry.
The already restless spider swarm immediately descended into chaos, brandishing its eight slender legs and attacking everything around it.
Everything became chaotic.
Wailing and screaming.
Slaughter, bloodshed.
An ominous atmosphere enveloped the entire Songyuezhai.
Gu Huiming led his men to the outside of Songyuezhai at a leisurely pace. According to his calculations, it was about time.
He smelled the bloody stench in the air, his expression unchanged; he was already familiar with this smell.
The butler following behind him reached out and pushed open the door of Songyuezhai, revealing a dimly lit interior.
Gu Huiming frowned imperceptibly as he looked at the scene inside.
Seeing the unusual silence and darkness, he glanced at the butler.
Upon receiving the order, the steward waved to the people behind him, who then carefully made their way into Songyuezhai. Those carrying torches relit the extinguished lanterns and followed the winding path to the venue for the poetry gathering.
Then they saw many corpses lying haphazardly on the flat ground of the venue.
These corpses included human corpses and spider corpses.
The human corpses and spider corpses were mixed together, and the overwhelming stench of blood filled the air, making the scene resemble hell.
But they ignored the scene before them and began searching for survivors.
Unfortunately, everyone here has already passed away.
"Boss, what should we do now?" a soldier asked in a low voice.
"Go and report to the master first."
Upon receiving the news, Gu Huiming's eyes immediately darkened. He took a deep breath and stepped into Songyuezhai.
When he arrived at the venue and saw the chaotic scene before him, his face turned very ugly.
"Go and find out what happened!"
"yes!"
Soon, the scouts returned.
"Sir, there were no survivors. The two sides fought for some unknown reason, resulting in mutual destruction."
Gu Huiming looked at the scene before him with a cold face, then turned and left with a flick of his hand.
The butler quickly followed, waving to the people behind him: "Clean everything up!"
He quickly caught up with Gu Huiming: "Sir, what should we do now?"
His face showed some worry. Those who died were all the adults' loyal allies. As long as they were kept alive, they would continue to obey the adults' orders.
Gu Huiming's face was unusually grim as he walked, he hadn't expected such an unexpected turn of events.
Just when his plan was about to succeed, this unexpected event caused a flaw in his plan.
Just then, his gaze swept across a certain spot and paused, noticing faint traces of blood on the steps beneath his feet.
He took a few steps forward and saw snowflakes the size of grains of rice extending all the way to the road ahead.
The butler, who had been keeping a close eye on Gu Huiming, also noticed this.
"My lord, what is this...?"
Gu Huiming looked in the direction where the bloodstains disappeared: "Send someone to chase after them."
"yes!"
A few streets away from Songyuezhai, Shao Yanzhe, Wen Yanqing, and a few scholars who had miraculously survived were running away in a disheveled state.
Shao Yanzhe followed at the back, clutching his arm. A little blood seeped from the wound, spreading down between his fingers. He quickly wiped it with his sleeve.
The wound on his arm was caused by an accidental injury from the sharp legs of a spider. The wound was deep and it would be difficult to stop the bleeding in a short time.
However, this was nothing to him.
It's enough that they managed to escape this time.
Previously, due to the chaos created by Shao Yanzhe, they took advantage of the melee to escape from Songyuezhai.
As they got further and further away from Songyuezhai, they finally felt a little more at ease.
"Thank you so much for saving my life, brother!" a scholar said as he ran.
"Thank you so much for saving my life, brother!"
The scholar's expression of gratitude reminded the other scholars, who also chimed in with their thanks.
"I was also trying to save myself," Shao Yanzhe said honestly.
"No, whatever the reason, you saved our lives, that's a fact."
"If you ever need my help in the future, I will go through fire and water for you!"
"Me too!"
"Me too!"
Shao Yanzhe simply smiled at them and said, "You're welcome."
"Do you have a safe place to stay?" he asked.
“Well, we all came from other places. If the shopkeeper sees us like this, he will probably be frightened and expose us. We should find a cave to hide in first, and then come out when things have calmed down.”
Shao Yanzhe thought for a moment and said, "Alright, but it's getting late now, and I'm afraid the soldiers guarding the city gates won't let you leave."
Upon hearing this, those people exchanged bewildered glances, realizing they had indeed somewhat forgotten about this point.
"Then, what should we do?"
Shao Yanzhe said, "Why don't you come back with us and hide?"
The scholars looked at each other and quickly nodded in agreement.
With the same goal in mind, Shao Yanzhe took the lead this time and went straight to the Zhou residence.
Instead of going directly through the door, they jumped over the wall to get there.
"Who's there?" Zhou Jiming, who happened to be passing by, noticed the commotion and immediately shouted.
“Brother Zhou, it’s us.” Shao Yanzhe offered himself up.
"What happened to you guys?" Zhou Jiming looked at the disheveled appearance of the people in front of him, and quickly led them into the room, found some medicine and white cloth, and bandaged Shao Yanzhe's wounds.
Shao Yanzhe gave him a general account of their experience.
"Sigh, I never expected this poetry gathering to be just a pretext. I wonder what the final outcome will be."
Zhou Jiming said with lingering fear, "That was really too dangerous. Let's leave Kyoto as soon as possible!"
“Great! We’ve got the documents now, so we’ll leave tomorrow,” Shao Yanzhe replied decisively.
The others immediately nodded in agreement.
Just then, a servant knocked on the door from the outside.
"Your Highness, someone is knocking on the door. They say that people from the Heavenly Net Order have come to search for fugitives."
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