"Those corrupt officials, with their fat bellies, didn't think about serving the country with all their heart and doing practical things for the people. Instead, they were obsessed with murdering loyal officials. Now look what they are, they've been chopped off by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. They deserve it!"
"Didn't the Emperor discover the affair between the Imperial Concubine and the Imperial Preceptor earlier? Guess what happened next? It turns out the Imperial Concubine and the Imperial Preceptor had been together for a long time! In a rage, the Emperor banished the Imperial Concubine to the cold palace and gave her a cup of poisoned wine. The Imperial Preceptor was also thrown into prison. The Second Prince originally wanted to plead for mercy, but ended up getting himself imprisoned. It turns out this guy isn't the Emperor's child!"
"Hiss! If it's not the emperor's, then could it be——"
"It cannot be said, it cannot be said."
Although they said this, these people were still talking about it privately.
As for how the news from the capital spread so quickly, Pei Ji was certainly involved.
At this time, those royal secrets that were supposed to be kept secret had spread throughout the world. People were talking about them everywhere, and they were describing them with such detail that it seemed as if they had seen them with their own eyes.
The government wanted to curb the rumors, but it was powerless.
Are you saying the emperor doesn't care? To be able to endure for so many years and then eliminate the Huo family in one day, the emperor must be quite skillful.
In fact, it’s not that he doesn’t care, but that he simply can’t care, because at this moment he is lying on the dragon bed dying.
After witnessing the love scene between the imperial concubine and the imperial teacher, the emperor was greatly shocked. Later, he learned that the son he had doted on for so many years was not his own son at all. The emperor couldn't hold back on the spot.
The blood and qi attacked his heart and he fell down.
When he woke up again, he had signs of a stroke, his mouth was crooked, his eyes were squinting, and he couldn't even speak.
The disease is very severe.
However, a large part of the reason here is actually the result of the backlash from the woman who had previously unscrupulously taken her essence.
The Imperial Master was planning to have the Second Prince, who had his own blood flowing in his veins, ascend the throne so that he could become the Emperor's father and thus enjoy the fortune of the country. In this way, his path of cultivation would be smooth. How could he really want the Emperor to gain immortality?
Besides, he was just a Qi-refining practitioner who hadn't even touched the threshold of becoming an immortal, let alone the secret of "longevity and rejuvenation". How could he pass it on to the emperor?
The so-called Yin-Yang supplement is nothing more than an evil magic he acquired.
It is indeed effective in the early stages, but this effect is actually achieved by the practitioner overdrawing his future lifespan.
Of course, the emperor didn't know this. If he knew, he probably wouldn't have tried it so easily.
Just when Pei Ji cleaned up those who participated in framing the Huo family and was ready to free up his hands to deal with the National Master, the National Master returned to the emperor.
When the emperor caught the imperial concubine in bed with him, the imperial teacher reacted much faster than the imperial concubine. While the emperor was in a state of mental instability, he immediately hid in a secret passage and tried to escape.
Unfortunately, Pei Ji had already arranged people in advance and they were waiting at each exit.
The imperial teacher ran around in a hurry, but was finally caught in a trap by someone who was waiting for him.
Without the aura of being a national teacher, he was no match for a great inner court expert in terms of fighting ability. After all, what he knew were just some sorcerous tricks that could fool people. He was fine for plotting against others, but when it came to a real fight, he was stretched to the limit.
In the end, he was tied up and locked in a dungeon by Pei Ji's men and became a prisoner.
Pei Ji thought that keeping him alive was still useful, so he only had him tortured severely instead of killing him immediately.
Unexpectedly, Fang Xing still had a trump card, which he used to escape at the critical moment. However, there were reward notices for him posted everywhere, the government was hunting him down, and Pei Ji's men were also searching everywhere.
Fang Xing was not fasting, he was still an ordinary person who needed to eat, drink, defecate and urinate, and he was seriously injured, so he was almost discovered several times.
Later, when he heard that the emperor had suffered a stroke, he decided to risk his life and showed up, saying that he could cure the emperor.
When the emperor knew about it, he blinked and agreed, and ordered Fang Xing to be brought into the palace.
Although he wanted to tear Fang Xing, who cheated on him, into pieces, after lying in bed for so many days and watching his power being rapidly eroded by the prince, the emperor could only endure his anger for the time being.
The prince wished that he would lie in bed like a useless person and never get up again. Although he asked the imperial physician to treat him on the surface, no one knew what he did secretly. Otherwise, how could he not get any better after so many days of treatment?
Thinking of this, the emperor felt secretly resentful.
If I had known earlier, I would have been more ruthless and killed that evil son! Now, he has returned, but he has also turned evil, becoming heartless and killing so many people in such a short time! He even dared to attack his father!
But it's too late to regret now.
Now the only way to deal with that evil son is to get better as soon as possible!
Compared with health and supreme power, cuckoldry becomes insignificant.
It was because Fang Xing saw this clearly that he took this risky move!
Although the emperor wanted to kill him, he also needed him. He would not take his life until he was completely well, and would even save him.
But it was different for the prince. He was eager to execute him immediately.
After entering the palace, Fang Xing took some action and the emperor really got better. He was able to speak and stand up, which was much better than before.
After he was able to speak and move again, the emperor immediately ordered several of his trusted ministers to come into the palace, drove out the serving palace servants, and had a secret talk with him.
What the emperor didn't know was that several ministers left his bedroom, turned around and went to Pei Ji, and told him everything they had in their secret conversation with the emperor.
During the period when the emperor was ill, Pei Ji had used thundering means to seize all the power in the court into his own hands.
It seemed fast, but in fact he had been preparing for nearly a year before that.
He knew the lifelines of all the ministers in the court clearly.
Unfortunately, the emperor didn't know this and was still dreaming of recovering his health, seizing power and executing the prince.
The power changes and bloody storms in the capital city had no impact on Fengchi, which was hundreds of miles away. Those events that would be written into history books in the future were nothing more than after-dinner talk for the common people. The rest of the time, they still had to work hard for food and clothing.
Xue Huan received a letter from the Tianxia Pawnshop, saying that the information she had asked them to investigate had been found.
The Pawnshop has found three places with extreme geological features such as extreme cold and extreme heat, and one of them happens to be in Lingyun Mountain outside Fengchi County.
The other two are located out of town.
Xue Huan planned to go to Lingyun Mountain first to take a look.
Lingyun Mountain is said to be just one mountain, but in fact it stretches for thousands of miles, with hundreds of peaks and ridges of various sizes. Usually people only wander around the periphery. In the depths of the mountains and forests, there are too many strange things hidden that have not been discovered.
Even though Xue Huan relied on the Five Elements Beads and went deep into Lingyun Mountain several times, she was still far from being able to understand it.
There are many mysteries that she doesn't know.
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