Chapter 87 This old man is too smart, he must not be allowed to stay

[The Emperor, in compliance with the Will of Heaven, proclaims…]

The entire coronation ceremony was extremely lively.

All the forces that had powerful masters sent people to participate.

The people watched from afar outside the palace gate.

However, behind this lively and jubilant background was the Huang family's great elder who was on high alert.

There were only two elders left in the Huang family, and they were searching the crowd carefully.

This scene made the major forces who came to watch the ceremony a little confused. What were the two elders of the Huang family doing hiding in the crowd? But after thinking about it, everyone understood that they were worried that someone would disrupt Huang Zhongtai's coronation ceremony.

Royal remnants?

The remnants of Routu?

Tang Ruowei also followed her master and was also on the viewing stand at this moment.

She was not very familiar with Huang Zhongtai, but she knew that Chu Ning and Huang Zhongtai had a good relationship.

No one told her about the grudge between Chu Ning and Huang Zhongtai.

"Who is the Huang family guarding against? Even the great elder of the first-grade master has come out in person."

"Even if there are still remnants of the royal family alive, it is impossible for them to come out and cause trouble at this time. Those people are not fools."

An old man spoke calmly, and his words were recognized by others.

In this battle, almost all the royal family members died, and the only remnants were some small shrimps. Even the royal family themselves knew that only small shrimps could survive.

If any powerful master escapes, their alliance will do their best to capture him.

It’s hard to say whether these small fry have the ability to cause trouble, but even if they do, they won’t come.

The remnants of the royal family were definitely not the kind of young and foolish people, but the ones with deep scheming. All the young and foolish people had been killed long ago.

"No matter what the Huang family is defending against, according to the agreement, when Huang Zhongtai ascends the throne, he should make every effort to break through to the Grandmaster level, and then open the blockade."

The coronation ceremony involves many ceremonies, and even if it is shortened as much as possible, it still takes two hours.

At this moment, an hour has passed.

Huang Zhongtai's face was calm, but only he knew that the further time went by, the slower time seemed to pass.

When will Chu Ning appear?

Are you waiting for the moment when you ascend the throne?

For the first time, he discovered that a person’s absence was far more tormenting than his presence.

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The backyard of the palace.

Although it is guarded by imperial guards, it is currently the place with the laxest security in the entire palace.

These guards surrendered later, and the Huang family members were now focusing on guarding the palace of the previous dynasty.

"Lao Hei, do you think Huang Zhongtai is suffering right now, wondering when I will make my debut?"

In the backyard of the imperial palace, Chu Ning moved as if he were in an empty place, searching quickly.

Outside the city gate, he did not kill the soldiers who were chasing Qi Xue, and gave their names, just to convey a message to Huang Zhongtai.

Here I am! I came to the capital before your coronation ceremony.

Do you think I am here to cause trouble? With Huang Zhongtai's character, he would definitely think that I was trying to sabotage his coronation ceremony, exposing my master's strength in front of everyone, and stating that I was also practicing the Tiancan technique.

Because only in this way can the benefits be maximized. In order to avoid being kidnapped by Huang Zhongtai, other forces will secretly support him even if they do not openly turn against the Huang family.

What's more, I'm already a master, and he's still a military general, so it would be more beneficial for him to choose me.

This is from the perspective of those masters themselves. If it is from the perspective of the forces behind them, then I would be even more suitable.

Huang Zhongtai has the Huang family behind him, but he has no one behind him. He is the type who fights alone and will not have any conflict of interest with them.

"To be honest, it would be a pity to appear at the coronation ceremony at this time, pull Huang Zhongtai down from the dragon throne, and show off in front of everyone's attention...

Chu Ning shook his head. He had never thought about actually confronting Huang Zhongtai at the coronation ceremony.

Letting those soldiers go was a deliberate attempt to reveal the information to Huang Zhongtai.

One is to deliberately make Huang Zhongtai suffer, and the other is to distract Huang Zhongtai's attention.

He made Huang Zhongtai think that he would sabotage his coronation ceremony, and sent most of the people to the front court so that he could uncover the secrets in the harem.

The actions of Wushuangmen and Jiuxuan Pavilion to steal people's money made Chu Ning understand a truth: it is more profitable to show off in front of others and steal people's money behind their backs.

This time he came to the harem to find some secrets of the royal family of the previous dynasty.

The royal family of the previous dynasty leaked the Tiancan technique to others, hoping that someone could practice it successfully, just like his cheap master Liang Jiulin.

But there is still a problem facing the royal family. Now that they have found such a person, what should they do next?

You can't really train yourself to become a grandmaster.

Aren’t you afraid of raising a tiger that may cause trouble?

So the royal family of the previous dynasty must have had some solution.

When searching a palace, Chu Ning's eyes lit up and he looked towards an ancient well inside.

To get to the bottom of things, you need to have a pair of sharp eyes.

Chu Ning relied on his spiritual sense along the way. Every time he entered a courtyard, he would expand his spiritual sense, just like having a built-in radar scanning function. If he didn't find any abnormal places, he would change it.

Now his spiritual sense discovered that there was a secret passage on one side of this ancient well.

With one step, Chu Ning floated into the well, but stopped when he was still one meter away from the water surface.

On his left, there was a secret passage that was large enough for one person to enter. However, with the water being ten meters deep and dark, it would be impossible to find it if one stood at the mouth of the well and looked down.

After stepping into the secret passage, Chu Ning first huddled his body and rested as he walked down, but after walking up about twenty steps, the surroundings became spacious.

This secret passage is shaped like a gourd. The entrance is narrow, but the space becomes larger as you go deeper.

When entering through the mouth, it is very narrow at first, but then it becomes passable.

After walking a few dozen steps, the view suddenly became clear. (This move... This move is called beginning-end correspondence in writing.) When he reached the end of the stairs, Chu Ning leaned against the wall, took out a tinder from his pocket, flicked it with his right hand, and the tinder landed on the brazier dozens of meters away.

Boom! Flames lit up in the brazier, and Chu Ning immediately looked around.

This is an underground square, the ground is paved with a whole piece of marble, under the light of the flame, the natural candlelight flows slowly.

The two complement each other, making the square bright.

There was also fluorite on the stone wall above his head, but Chu Ning's eyes were on the center of the square.

There is a circular pool that seems to be naturally formed. The water is clear and rippling. At the bottom of the pool are pieces of stones shining with green light.

Spirit stone!

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Chu Ning stood by the pool and saw the spirit stones embedded in the bottom of the pool, but he was not in a hurry to dig them up.

In addition to the spiritual stones, the entire bottom of the pool is also covered with intricately carved mysterious runes, which vaguely reveal a mysterious power.

"A formation?"

The two formations obtained from Wushuang Sect allowed Chu Ning to at least see a pig run, even though he still couldn't kill one.

Could the formation of the previous royal family be the formation that sealed this world? "Old Black, what do you think?"

Chu Ning asked the black snake, and the black snake crawled out of his sleeve and wrote on the ground: "It's not that formation, this seems to be a teleportation formation."

"This is also a teleportation array. Could it be possible that this teleportation array can break through the blockade of the large array and allow people to leave here?"

Thinking of this possibility, Chu Ning's eyes lit up, because he felt that his guess was very likely to be true.

Otherwise, there would be no use for such a formation left by the royal family of the previous dynasty.

The teleportation array that I learned can be activated with just one spirit stone. Of course, the distance is not far, but there are more than twenty fist-sized spirit stones under the pool.

Not to mention that these spirit stones look much more advanced than the two he got from Wushuang Sect.

This spiritual stone is transparent and pure, just like colored glaze.

Even though he knew that this was a teleportation array, and even though it could teleport people out of the Liang Dynasty, Chu Ning had no intention of trying it. Who knows where it would lead to.

Let’s dig for spirit stones.

This is good stuff.

Just as Chu Ning was about to destroy the teleportation array, a voice came from somewhere in the square.

"Sir, wait a minute."

At the end of the square, a figure walked out of the darkness.

Chu Ning raised the corner of his mouth, without any surprise on his face. It was impossible that the royal family of the previous dynasty did not arrange guards for such a place.

Even if everyone runs away, there will still be people here.

An old man walked out of the darkness, but he was not at the Grandmaster level, but a fourth-rank general.

"The remnants of the Liang family dare to show up!"

Chu Ning shouted, but the old man was not frightened by Chu Ning's words. Instead, he narrowed his eyes and said, "Young Master, why do you have to scare an old man like me? You have cultivated to the level of a Grandmaster at such a young age. I think you have also cultivated the Tiancan technique. With Huang Zhongtai's character, he will not let you go."

This old man is not stupid. He probably showed up when he was hiding in the dark just now because he figured this out.

I know that I and Huang Zhongtai are not the same kind of people.

"Your guess is correct, but don't forget the purpose of your royal family having people practice the Tiancan technique. Huang Zhongtai is my enemy, but so is your royal family."

"It was before, but not now. Now our Liang family will still be a helper to the young master. At least we have a common enemy."

The old man's attitude was very positive, using the Liang family instead of the royal family.

"How can a nearly wiped-out force help me?"

"My Liang family is indeed in danger now, so you don't need to provoke me with words. Since I dare to show up, I must have something that you can appreciate."

"Have you ever heard a saying?" Chu Ning suddenly asked.

"?"

"This old man is too smart. He must not be allowed to stay."

The old man's mouth twitched. Is there such a thing?

"My name is Liang Dehai. I don't know your name, sir."

Liang Dehai went straight to the point.

"Ji Yang."

"Ji Yang? So you are Ji Yang. Fourth brother really found a good candidate for our Liang family." Liang Dehai's face was filled with shock.

Chu Ning pondered.

Fourth brother?

Is it Liang Jiulin? So this is also a prince, a prince hiding in the dark?

"Even if my Liang clan has ill intentions towards Master Ji, at least until today, we have not used them on Master Ji. However, Master Ji took this opportunity to take away a lot of medicinal herbs and pills."

Liang Dehai finished speaking, and without waiting for Chu Ning to respond, he continued: "I am not asking you, Master Ji, to acknowledge this favor. I just hope that the grudge between Master Ji and my Liang family will be written off, and then I can negotiate a deal with Master Ji."

(End of this chapter)