Daiyu was worried that if Baoyu messed up the performance and exposed Zheng Ya's motives, all their efforts would be in vain.
Zheng Ya watched the spectacle with a faint smile, but seeing Fu Ying's inward shock at the Emperor Chengping's forceful coercion, she calmly retorted, "You, an incompetent and furious emperor, are about to face an unjust and illegitimate retribution..."
"You audacious traitor! Do you really think I dare not exterminate the entire Fu family?" Emperor Chengping roared angrily, his murderous intent radiating the aura of a mid-Foundation Establishment cultivator and an emperor, pressing down on Baoyu.
Originally containing the divine consciousness of a cultivator, and further enhanced by the Five Elements and Eight Trigrams Demon-Suppressing Array, it could easily crush a Foundation Establishment cultivator of the same realm.
Naturally, Emperor Chengping wanted to get the whereabouts of the seal from Baoyu, but he didn't dare to use the Five Elements and Eight Trigrams Demon-Suppressing Array to kill Baoyu. He merely forced Baoyu to submit.
However, Fu Ying is no longer the same as before. Her superpower is at level twelve of the first tier, and she only needs one superpower magic to advance to the second tier.
This level of ability is not high.
However, this incomplete cultivation level is comparable to the peak of the Foundation Establishment stage.
Of course, this is also due to Fu Ying's extraordinary talent. He was born with a Heavenly Spiritual Root, and Zheng Ya helped him awaken his superpowers, achieving the Geng Metal mutated superpower and the psychic spiritual superpower, which far exceeds the strength of ordinary superpowered individuals.
A person with superpowers possesses three essential qualities that combine into one, thus having no drawbacks or weaknesses.
Even if their strength is weak, it's just that their superpower level is low, not that their superpower quality is weak.
At this moment, Fu Ying calmly accepted Emperor Chengping's overwhelming aura: "You're getting impatient, you're getting impatient, you're getting desperate..."
"Shut up, you unfilial son! Do you really not care about the survival of the Fu family?" Emperor Chengping, in a fit of rage, abandoned his overwhelming aura and resorted to coercion and bribery.
The key issue is that the Fu family is involved in the whereabouts of the imperial seal, so they cannot be easily touched.
Furthermore, Fu Zhen and Fu She are both living freely outside; one is Xie Ming's lackey, and the other is colluding with the Great Yan Dynasty.
Whether the two were plotting rebellion or scheming for the imperial seal, they could not abandon the military prestige established by the Fu family ancestors. Once they started their uprising, they would rely on the legacy of the Fu family ancestors.
At that time, the Fu family will be the Achilles' heel against the two.
All of this proves that the Fu family did indeed know the whereabouts of the imperial seal, and Emperor Chengping could not afford to ignore it.
Seeing him weaken, Fu Ying secretly breathed a sigh of relief; she had almost ruined the performance!
As for the purpose of acting to deceive people, what is it?
Zheng Ya didn't say anything, and Fu Ya couldn't figure out why either.
Just focus on one thing: take the blame for the whereabouts of the imperial seal and the crime of treason, and save the Fu family.
Fu Ying was incompetent, naive, and didn't know how to handle worldly affairs, but she did know that the current situation was unfavorable to the Fu clan.
Who caused Fu Zhen and Fu She to rebel against their family and stand on the opposite side of the Zheng imperial power, directly pushing the Fu family into the abyss?
This requires an opportunity to redeem oneself through meritorious service.
Clearly, the whereabouts of the imperial seal is the opportunity to save the Fu family.
But who knows where the seal is?
Sure enough, Zheng Ya sent Fu Ying back to the Fu family's Duke's Mansion to inquire about the whereabouts of Fu Qian's seal. Before Fu Qian could explain in detail, Emperor Chengping appeared and shattered Bao Yu's plan to put on a show, leaving him no choice but to take responsibility.
This was also Zheng Ya's emergency measure, meant to impress and deceive people.
After all, Zheng Ya would also be investigating the whereabouts of the imperial seal from the sidelines, so Fu Ying wasn't acting alone. She immediately laughed and said, "Young Emperor, why don't you ask the Old Emperor..."
That statement is utterly malicious.
The fact that the retired emperor never died, nor that he announced it to the world, indicates that he was still alive.
The Emperor Emeritus's hostility towards Xie Ming and Zheng Ya, as well as his scheming against Wu Wei, all made Zheng Ya realize that the Emperor Emeritus must know some secrets, which is why he chose to be hostile to Zheng Ya instead of being on good terms with the Qian Yuan Immortal Sect.
That would mean abandoning a sect that wholeheartedly assisted the rise of the Zheng imperial power.
This is enough to show that the retired emperor may have known that Zheng Ya fabricated the identity of the Qian Yuan Immortal Sect and the interdimensional traveler, which is why he chose to become hostile and antagonistic.
So how many secrets did the retired emperor actually know?
This was one of the ways Zheng Ya sent Baoyu to confront Emperor Chengping and gather information about the retired emperor.
Little did the Emperor Emeritus know that he had given up on Emperor Chengping and only told Emperor Chengping about the secret of the seal, thus whetting Emperor Chengping's appetite.
When this was brought up, Emperor Chengping's face turned as black as ink: "You scoundrel! The Emperor Emeritus was seriously injured by the demonic dragon and fell into a coma. He has not yet woken up. How dare you, a rebellious son, speak such nonsense?"
"Haha, I heard that the young emperor murdered his father..." Fu Ying's words were shocking, and Emperor Chengping was so angry that he once again activated the Five Elements and Eight Trigrams Demon-Suppressing Array to imprison Baoyu: "You unfilial son, how dare you slander me, you are truly courting death..."
The great formation began to vibrate with a "hum".
The ripples of the array spread throughout the capital, allowing Zheng Ya to hide in the void and once again experience the charm of the array. He marveled at it, sensed a strange energy, and sneaked into the palace.
Taking advantage of the situation, the evil spirit Wu Wei enhanced his soul power source outside his body, concealed his form, and moved stealthily within the Five Elements and Eight Trigrams Demon-Suppressing Array as if it were empty.
Emperor Chengping failed to notice anything unusual, but Zheng Ya, with his keen senses, caught it: "The big fish has taken the bait?"
"Really? Why can't I sense her presence?" Daiyu shared vision with Zheng Ya and had the connection with the strange treasure, but still couldn't sense any sign of the big fish.
It should be noted that ordinary invisibility talismans and secret techniques for concealment cannot escape Daiyu's perception of plants and trees.
After all, Daiyu possessed the Crimson Pearl Fairy Grass, a rare treasure that was born with her. With the catalysis and improvement of Zheng Ya's other rare treasure, she grew to the point where she could sense plants and trees over a thousand meters and be all-encompassing.
Even so, Daiyu did not sense any sign of the big fish.
Zheng Ya only caught a faint energy fluctuation from the giant fish's cultivation, and suddenly realized: "It seems that I need to develop my supernatural spiritual abilities and escape techniques."
"Ah, can't you travel through space?" Daiyu asked in confusion. Zheng Ya smiled bitterly: "That's just me attaching spatial power to my body. Traveling through space will cause spatial fluctuations, so there's no secrecy at all."
Look at how that big fish stealths; it's like it comes and goes without a trace, a master thief's secret technique..."
A buzzing sound rang out in the palace dungeon. Someone had touched the array inside the dungeon.
"How dare you! You're courting death..." Emperor Chengping roared, using the Five Elements and Eight Trigrams Demon-Suppressing Array to teleport to the dungeon, interrupting Zheng Ya's train of thought and topic.
But then a large fish abducted the retired emperor and hid in a corner of the dungeon, remaining motionless.
Emperor Chengping, having missed his target, flew into a rage and issued an edict: "You scoundrels! Guards, immediately seal off the palace! Do not let a single fly escape! Track down the thieves who kidnapped the Emperor Emeritus!"
"Yes, sir!" The Imperial Guards and the Imperial Retinue responded swiftly, surrounding the palace in less than a minute and searching for the thieves who had kidnapped the Emperor Emeritus.
Zheng Ya was puzzled: "The big fish has disappeared? How is that possible?"
"Oh no, how could this happen?"
Could it be that the big fish used some kind of escape technique to quietly break out of the encirclement and escape with the Emperor Emeritus? Daiyu was greatly surprised and distressed!
Are you worried that Zheng Ya's entrapment plan has fallen through?
Zheng Ya had sensed the large fish hiding in a corner of the dungeon, waiting to watch the show, but suddenly lost the energy fluctuations. "It probably used some kind of escape technique and got away..."
"Oh, then your whole plan is ruined..."
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