Chapter 447: Wait
Lu Zhiheng's brows jumped and he subconsciously took two steps back.
His eyes were fixed on Su Tan.
"What do you mean by that?"
Lu Zhiheng's thoughts were in a mess right now, and Su Tan's words made him feel terrified.
Even her confidants felt that Su Tan's words were too bold. She actually - she actually began to doubt the emperor!
Although Su Tan did not say it explicitly or hint at it, she felt that Emperor Qinglong was the one who did it.
But Su Tan said this, she said that Master Ye was just a cover, and the real purpose of the person behind it was to make them suspect Master Ye of everything.
Master Ye is the favorite of Emperor Qinglong. Without the permission of Emperor Qinglong, who could easily order Master Ye to do something?
Who else could easily ask Master Ye to cooperate in a performance?
The only one who can do all this is the emperor!
Because the emperor represents the supreme imperial power, no one dares to disobey him as long as he gives an order.
It was really too bold for Su Tan to say this.
But Lu Zhiheng's eyebrows twitched violently.
A bad feeling swept over him.
Su Tan looked at him quietly.
"Your Highness, you've thought it through clearly now, haven't you? There are many things that don't require me to remind you again and again. Now that you've thought about it yourself, you shouldn't be avoiding it."
"If you hadn't thought of this yourself, perhaps you wouldn't have asked anyone to search your father's private vault in the first place."
How much dignity and honor does Master Ye have that he can deceive the almighty emperor to cover up his crimes?
This is simply too ridiculous.
But if—Su Tan laughed sarcastically twice.
But what if the emperor is not covering up Master Ye’s crime at all?
But he is covering up his own crimes.
Su Tan originally didn't want to think of people in such a bad way.
Her father was loyal to the emperor and patriotic. Although she did not go home often, she could see his loyalty every time she was with him.
Everyone can see that from the beginning to the end, my father almost gave everything for the kingdom of Dong Chu.
He had been planning for half his life just to make Emperor Qinglong sit more firmly on the throne. His father said that Emperor Qinglong was a good emperor.
Su Tan believed her father's words very much, so she believed whatever her father said.
My father thought that Emperor Qinglong was a good emperor, and Su Tan often thought so too.
If it weren’t for the Yingzhou snow disaster.
Maybe she will always think so.
She will continue to deceive herself like this, just like her father.
Just like Lu Zhiheng.
But now, Su Tan has told herself again and again not to use her imagination to frame anyone, because anyone may not be the same as she thinks.
No matter what, she couldn't keep stubbornly believing that Emperor Qinglong was truly a good emperor.
As early as the snow disaster in Yingzhou, Su Tan had gradually realized that Emperor Qinglong was not at all what his father thought.
Neither she nor Lu Zhiheng should continue to deceive themselves or have any illusions about Emperor Qinglong.
Emperor Qinglong was a man who would not hesitate to kill even his own wife and children.
This person is selfish and cold-hearted, and only thinks about himself in everything.
How could he truly care about the people of Dawn?
How could he care about the lives of the people? When those living baby girls did not affect his interests, he could certainly be a good emperor.
But what if Emperor Qinglong suddenly needed the corpses of so many baby girls?
Su Tan was unwilling to think of a high and mighty monarch in this way.
But Su Tan had long been disappointed with Emperor Qinglong.
It would be fine if I hadn’t thought of it, but now that I have thought of it, I will naturally prepare for the worst.
Song Tingchen closed his eyes tightly.
His fingers trembled a little.
Suddenly, he said to Su Tan, "Excuse me for a moment. I have something more to tell you."
Su Tan looked at him deeply, then hummed, "Okay."
There is no one around now, and even his confidants have been sent away.
Lu Zhiheng finally seemed to have exhausted all his strength and asked Su Tan, "Is there any secret technique in this world that requires the use of a large number of baby girl corpses to forge?"
"For example... for example, is there any elixir whose ingredient is the corpse of a baby girl?"
Su Tan frowned.
Lu Zhiheng's question really hit the nail on the head, because she didn't know either.
"...Your Highness, please allow me to check."
"My master and my senior sister are in the capital now. I'll use the sound transmission talisman to ask."
It's not her fault that she doesn't know the answer to any of the questions. It's really because Lu Zhiheng asked this question. If he had asked the evil cultivator, he might have given Lu Zhiheng an answer quickly.
But Su Tan also practiced in the legitimate Xuanmen, so he can be considered a decent person.
Decent people like them are absolutely not allowed to know things that only evil cultivators would know.
Lu Zhiheng's sudden questioning of these questions was, to some extent, an offense to these Xuanmen cultivators.
"While we are in the sect, we are absolutely forbidden to inquire about these evil arts. In fact, if we are found to have read these things, we will be expelled from the sect."
The most uncontrollable thing in this world is the human heart.
When practicing with righteous methods, the progress of cultivation will never be as fast as that of practicing with evil methods.
If a person is obsessed with improving his cultivation, at this time he suddenly remembers what he has overcome in the past, and suddenly remembers that as long as he stops practicing evil magic, he can make rapid progress.
Can anyone really stand the test?
If a disciple of the sect suddenly embarks on the path of evil cultivation, who knows how many evil things he will do and how much impact it will have on the sect.
To put it in a more terrifying way, if there really are upright people secretly colluding with evil cultivators, it is possible that the entire sect will be sacrificed.
No one can gamble on a person's heart like this.
Therefore, even for a sect like theirs that can be considered decent, they are forbidden to traverse things that only evil practitioners would traverse, let alone learn these evil techniques.
However, Su Tan looked at Lu Zhiheng quietly, and suddenly asked, "Your Highness, have you already had any doubts?"
"Your Highness, no matter what the truth turns out to be, you already suspect your father would do such a thing, don't you?"
Lu Zhiheng closed his eyes in pain and managed a "hmm" as a response.
Although he already had doubts, he still couldn't help but naively think that maybe Emperor Qinglong was not such a person, maybe he had misunderstood everything.
Unfortunately, things don’t always go as we wish.
When he thought this, his father really disappointed him.
Su Tan used the sound transmission talisman to ask his master if his senior sister had any evil magic related to it.
This matter is a serious trouble and should not be underestimated.
Her master contacted his fellow disciples and the entire sect overnight. He originally wanted to read the books overnight, but then he thought that the progress would be too slow.
There are so many books on cooperative cultivation, who knows on which page the truth will be recorded. By the time they find out the truth, who knows how many children will suffer.
So these people from the sect decided to go all out and use a surprising tactic.
They directly captured several evil practitioners and interrogated them overnight.
I have to say that this efficiency is much higher than flipping through the books by myself. After being tortured severely, those evil practitioners soon couldn't bear it anymore and confessed the truth.
It is said that there is a record in an ancient book that such evil magic really exists.
If anyone eats the elixir made from a certain part of the corpses of nine hundred and ninety-nine baby girls, he can truly achieve it and ascend to heaven immediately.
This is also one of the ways of ascension in the ruthless way.
However, because this move is so inhumane and abhorrent to both humans and gods, not many people would actually use it.
But - but it is said that after knowing the answers given by the evil cultivators, all the people in Xuanmen greeted the eight generations of ancestors of those evil cultivators overnight.
——This is sheer nonsense, so sensational! Who said that this is the way to practice the ruthless way?!
——This is simply alarmist!
——To dispel the rumor, can you please take care of the life and death of those of us who practice the ruthless way? The ruthless way is not really cold and heartless. We who practice the ruthless way will not always kill people who are on the right path!
The so-called ruthless way means to have great love for all the people in the world and to be truly impartial and unbiased.
The Tao is ruthless, but it is also compassionate.
Talk about abusing and killing baby girls and using this kind of elixir to ascend to heaven. This is simply ridiculous!
When the news reached Su Tan, he was silent for a long time.
She looked at Lu Zhiheng quietly.
"Your Highness, perhaps now you can finally accept reality."
As everyone knows, Emperor Qinglong has been taking elixirs and has always wanted to achieve immortality.
Later, Emperor Qinglong wanted to become an immortal.
But he is an emperor, and now he is old. How could he be willing to start practicing from scratch?
If he were to take the path of evil cultivation - if he were a monarch who was a little more gentlemanly, perhaps he would never use such a method.
After all, this method is too bloodthirsty, and anyone with a conscience would not do such a thing.
But how could Emperor Qinglong be a man with a conscience?
He doesn't care about those lives.
He also didn't care about the pain his people would suffer after losing their children.
After all, he himself is the kind of person who can abuse and kill his own children at will.
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince died in his hands.
The former queen died in his hands.
If you count carefully, there were many concubines and royal heirs, and they were probably the first to die under Emperor Qinglong.
How could Emperor Qinglong think that ordinary people would be heartbroken after losing a child?
Lu Zhiheng's body shook.
He could hear his breathing becoming labored.
He closed his eyes tightly.
"Wait a little longer."
He was not trying to believe that Emperor Qinglong was still a good person.
It's not self-brainwashing. Emperor Qinglong might still be a good father, or he might even come to his senses.
He was just waiting for his heart to harden and colden little by little.
Wait until he can kill Emperor Qinglong without hesitation.
Lu Zhiheng's fingers tightened. "I need to wait for news from my confidant. If all this is true, he deserves to die!"
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