Chapter 601 Suicide Out of Fear of Guilt
But when exactly did it begin? You see, during this period, Emperor Ming was still kind and gentle to him, never blaming him in the slightest, and not even suspecting him.
The empress gritted her teeth and continued to plead for Xuanxu with a reluctant expression.
"Your Majesty, there must be some misunderstanding that has caused the Dao Ancestor and the Imperial Preceptor to become enemies. However, this matter of the demon is no small matter, so please be cautious, Your Majesty."
Emperor Ming's sharp gaze swept over the Empress, and he said in a cold voice.
"Be cautious? This sorcerer poisoned my pills. If Princess Ling hadn't returned in time, I would probably have been killed by him long ago! And yet the Empress still tells me to be cautious. How can I be cautious? Do you have to kill me before you'll admit what Xuanxu really did?"
Lisa coughed lightly and raised her finger to swear.
"I can testify that I also had the nation's foremost physician, Physician Wu, examine His Majesty, and the elixir His Majesty took was indeed poisonous."
When she realized that her scheme had been exposed, the empress turned pale and knelt on the ground in a panic.
"Your Majesty, I know nothing about any of this... I absolutely did not mean to defend Xuanxu!"
"I just can't understand why the Imperial Advisor is a demon, and why he would want to harm you. Could there be a misunderstanding?"
Jiang Ning stepped forward coldly and took out the pill that Xuanxu had given to Emperor Ming.
“Your Majesty, this elixir contains cinnabar poison and the thousand-day red that can kill a person in a thousand days. The elixir is precious and was personally refined by Master Xuanxu and given to Father. You are not going to try to deny it and say that someone else poisoned it, are you?”
"This...this..."
The Empress's eyes flashed, she gritted her teeth, and looked at Jiang Ning angrily, saying, "Even if the pill was personally given to the Emperor by Xuanxu, there are many people and eyes in this Imperial Study. Who knows if someone secretly poisoned the Emperor and framed the Imperial Preceptor!"
Emperor Ming looked at the Empress with a cold expression and eyes full of disappointment.
"The Empress always protects the Imperial Preceptor, which means they have an extraordinary relationship. It's quite a pleasant surprise."
The empress trembled with fear and tried her best to explain.
"Your Majesty, that's not the case at all! It's just that I was afraid of wronging an innocent person, and I also thought that he was Ling'er's teacher... so I was afraid of misunderstandings."
After saying that, she turned around and looked at Xuanxu with a desperate expression.
It seems that Xuanxu cannot be preserved.
Suddenly, the Qingxuan Dao Ancestor turned on her, and Jiang Ning and Yuwen Jue pressed her at every turn. As the Empress, she was full of suspicions and was afraid that Emperor Ming would suspect her relationship with Xuanxu, so she dared not risk her life to protect him.
Despair flashed in Xuanxu's eyes. He gave a cold laugh and knelt behind the Empress.
"Your Majesty, I never imagined that after giving my all for you, I would end up like this!"
"If the Emperor wanted to punish me, why would he need to frame me and use such an excuse?"
Xuanxu's voice was filled with despair, deep resentment, and dissatisfaction.
"Framed? You're full of nonsense, shameless!"
Yuwen Jue's handsome face, with its sharp features, was filled with a coldness as he ordered in a deep voice, "Chase the Wind."
Zhui Feng immediately walked in from outside, carrying a bag of medicine in his hand.
He bowed respectfully and spoke coldly.
"Your Majesty, please look. This is the poison I found at the residence of the Imperial Preceptor Xuanxu. It is called Thousand-Day Red, an extremely difficult poison to detect. It was hidden so well that it took me a great deal of effort to find it!"
Emperor Ming nodded slightly and said to Zhuifeng, "You have made great contributions, and I will surely reward you later."
Zhui Feng raised an eyebrow and smiled slightly.
"Thank you, Your Majesty. It is my lord and princess's good fortune to be able to share Your Majesty's burdens, and even more so to Zhuifeng."
Having said that, he respectfully stepped aside.
Eunuch Su took the thousand-day red and handed it to Jiang Ning. Jiang Ning looked at it and nodded to Emperor Ming.
“Father, this medicine is exactly the same as the one that was put into your pills.”
Upon hearing this, Emperor Ming laughed coldly.
"Xuanxu, I trusted you implicitly, treating you as my national advisor and an honored guest, allowing you to enjoy the riches and honors of the world. Why do you treat me like this?!"
Xuanxu knelt on the ground, clenching his teeth tightly, without uttering a word.
The reinforcements he summoned turned out to be a double-edged sword that could kill him.
At this moment, what else could he say? He could only blame himself for being less skilled and losing to Jiang Ning and Yuwen Jue.
He looked dejected and couldn't help but glance up at the Empress.
He then said, "Your Majesty, this was all done by me alone. I coveted your throne and wanted to usurp it, so I poisoned you, hoping you would die soon! This was all my doing, and has nothing to do with anyone else..."
"You did this all by yourself?"
Jiang Ning laughed coldly, looking at Xuanxu with a strange expression.
"Imperial Preceptor, if I remember correctly, His Majesty still has many princes! Whether it's Prince Jin, Prince Ning, or my lord, they are all candidates to inherit the throne. You think you can ascend the throne just by killing your father? Isn't that a bit too far-fetched?"
After a pause, Jiang Ning's melodious voice took on a sharper edge.
"Or is it that the reason why the Imperial Preceptor Xuanxu wanted to murder my father was to support someone else to ascend the throne?"
Xuanxu's expression changed drastically, and he angrily said, "Princess Ling, how can you make such slanderous accusations? I have no one behind me; it's all because I'm jealous of Emperor Ming!"
After saying that, he took out a dagger from his sleeve and stabbed it heavily into his heart.
No one expected that Master Xuan would commit suicide on the spot.
Everyone was startled. Yuwen Jue and Zhui Feng quickly went over and restrained Xuanxu.
But the sword had already pierced his heart, and blood was flowing freely, which was quite alarming.
"Someone's dead! Someone's dead..."
The Prince of Jin was startled and was the first to shout.
He stared in horror at Xuanxu, who was covered in blood, his eyes filled with terror.
Xuanxu was the Empress's ally and a great help to him. Now that Xuanxu has committed suicide on charges of treason, what will become of him? Who else can help him ascend the throne?
How will he compete with Yuwen Jue in the future?
The Prince of Jin felt both sorrow and panic; his emotions surged, and he was extremely distressed.
Jiang Ning quickly left the banquet and went to the center of the main hall to try to heal Xuanxu.
But Xuanxu was determined to die, and the dagger was plunged directly into his heart, hot blood gushing out from his seven orifices, bright red and dazzling.
Even a celestial being would find it difficult to save him.
Seeing this, Jiang Ning shook her head in disappointment.
"Father, the person cannot be saved."
Xuanxu still had a sliver of consciousness, and upon hearing this, he laughed with a mixture of smugness and pain.
Jiang Ning and Yuwen Jue are ruthless. Yuwen Jue is skilled in punishment and has many experts under his command. Jiang Ning even has the ability to make people vomit. If he falls into the hands of these two, he will surely confess everything, which will implicate the Empress, Yuwen Ling, and even the Prince of Jin!
Since that's the case, it's better to just commit suicide and end it all...
It's a pity that he ultimately failed to realize his dream, never being able to take the Empress on a trip to enjoy the scenery and live the carefree, idyllic life of a divine couple in his dreams...
Unfortunately, Yuwen Ling was still lying in her hospital bed, completely unaware that he was her biological father, and even less aware that they would never see each other again...
His life was filled with too many regrets.
The Empress stumbled to her feet and looked at Xuanxu lying on the ground. Her eyes showed pity and fear, but also a hint of secret joy.
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