Chapter 132 Ending 3
Ye Heng held Lin Yao's hand in return. He knew that the royal family had to give an explanation not only to him and Chi Ying, but also to Lin Yao.
Sure enough, the next second.
"Then I also want your Majesty to give me an answer. Did you allow the Lin family to handle the prophecy?"
Lin Yao's voice was not loud, but it was like an ice-hardened knife, piercing straight into the silence of the hall.
As soon as the words fell, the nobles who had been silent at the time suddenly became agitated. The faces of several family members who had been on good terms with the royal family for generations suddenly changed.
The Earl clenched his scepter so hard that his knuckles turned white;
The Countess subconsciously raised her hand to cover her mouth, her eyes full of panic, as if the word "prophecy" had touched some taboo.
A middle-aged nobleman in a dark golden dress could no longer hold back. He suddenly stood up from his seat, pointing at Lin Yao and shouting:
"What nonsense are you talking about! Where did this prophecy come from?! Shut up!"
As he said this, he was about to rush forward, obviously wanting to stop Lin Yao from continuing.
But just as he took two steps, an ice-blue vine suddenly sprang out from the ground, wrapped around his waist and abdomen as if it had life, and pulled him upwards violently.
"Ah!" The middle-aged nobleman let out a scream, and his whole body was hung in mid-air, with the hem of his dress dangling in the air.
Before he could open his mouth to curse again, another vine quickly wrapped around his mouth, blocking his voice, leaving only vague whimpers.
"Who else wants to come up and tell me to shut up?"
Lin Yao glanced across the room, his eyes devoid of any warmth, his fingertips moving slightly.
Two more vines sprang out, hanging up the other two nobles who were ready to make a move, and also sealed their mouths with vines.
The hall was instantly filled with gasps. The remaining nobles no longer dared to act rashly and could only watch their companions hanging in the air with horror on their faces.
The old emperor sat in a wheelchair, his expression even uglier than when he accepted the secret order just now.
There was no trace of blood on his pale face, and his motionless hands tried to grab something, but to no avail.
He suddenly closed his eyes, as if he wanted to escape from it all. Even his breathing became rapid, his chest heaving violently, and he wished he could disappear from the council hall in the next second.
The comments on the Star Network broadcast had already become a chaotic mess, with dense question marks almost covering the entire screen, and the speed was so fast that it was dizzying:
"Prophecy? What prophecy? The Lin family's prophecy?"
"Which Lin family? Are there any nobles on the Central Star with this surname?"
"That can't be it! Is Lin Yao a member of the Plant Family Lin family? But didn't the Lin family decline long ago? How can it be related to the prophecy?"
"Those nobles just reacted so violently! Could this prophecy be true?"
"What exactly does Lin Yao want to say? What exactly did the Lin family go through?"
"The royal family and the Lin family are involved again? This is too complicated!"
Lin Yao ignored the doubts in the comments and the old emperor's evasion.
He raised his eyes to look at the screen, as if he wanted to tell the entire empire the buried truth through the screen.
He narrated the story in a calm tone:
"If Your Majesty doesn't want to say it, then I will say it for Your Majesty.
Half a century ago, the Imperial Star Track Institute predicted a prophecy:
The Lin family will give birth to a wood-based guide who will overthrow the imperial family and end their rule over the empire."
This sentence exploded in the parliament hall like a thunderbolt.
The lesser nobles gasped, and the military commanders' eyes widened, apparently hearing this prophecy for the first time;
De Linwei stood in the corner, her face turned pale in an instant, and her body trembled constantly.
She had vaguely heard her mother mention the rumor about the Lin family and the prophecy. At that time, she ridiculed it as an empty rumor, but she never thought it was true.
"Because of this illusory prophecy, the royal family began to take action against the Lin family."
Lin Yao's voice was filled with suppressed anger, and the ice-blue vines trembled slightly in the air, as if echoing his emotions.
"The Lin family first encountered 'accidents': a factory fire, a starship crash, and a clan member's mysterious death from illness... In just five years,
The Lin family was left with many dead and wounded, and in the end only Lin Zhaowan, Lin Yao's grandmother, was left."
"De Linfeng was with Lin Zhaowan. He knew that the Lin family's fate was instigated by the royal family. He dared not resist and could only hide and conceal his identity to help Lin Zhaowan."
Lin Yao's eyes swept over De Linwei, whose face had turned pale.
"They gave birth to Lin Yao's father and thought they could live a peaceful life, but Lin Zhaowan's identity was discovered by the royal family."
"The royal family did not take action themselves, but instead signaled the Lin family to take action again. Lin Zhaowan did not escape, and Lin Yao's father should have died.
It was De Linfeng who knelt in the De Lin family ancestral hall for three days and three nights, begging for an opportunity."
Lin Yao paused, his voice becoming more serious, "The Delin family reached an agreement with the royal family to protect Lin Yao's father.
However, if he awakens as a plant-type guide, he must be killed immediately to eliminate future troubles."
The council hall was completely silent. Even the nobles hanging in the air forgot to struggle. Everyone held their breath and listened to this forgotten story.
The comments also quieted down a lot, with only sporadic comments like "It's too cruel" and "The royal family would do this for the throne." The question marks on the screen turned into angry exclamation marks.
“De Linfeng brought his eldest son with him, and endured fear until he reached the age of awakening.
Fortunately, he didn't awaken to the plant type, so he survived and later got married and had children."
Lin Yao's eyes darkened.
"But the birth of Lin Yao broke all the peace. At that time, the empire already had more advanced mental power detection equipment.
The royal family and the Lin family joined forces and secretly tested Lin Yao without telling anyone. The result was: Plant Guide.
"Your Majesty, that is, you, ordered the execution of the entire family at that time, forever wiping out the Lin family bloodline."
Lin Yao looked at the old emperor who had his eyes closed, his voice full of sarcasm, "It was Lin Zhixiong who stopped him.
At that time, he had already had the idea of developing a Zerg toxin, and he was just missing the experimental subject Lin Yao, who happened to become the 'perfect sample' in his eyes."
"To be safe, you only agreed to let Lin Yao be the main experimental subject. Your parents can't survive, let alone give birth to a second child."
Lin Yao's voice trembled slightly.
"After his parents died unexpectedly, Lin Yao was placed under the care of the De Lin family, where he lived a life of being bullied by everyone.
Later, he awakened as a vine guide. Although different from the 'woody' in the prophecy, the power of his bloodline still made you panic."
"You are afraid that after Lin Yao gets married, there will be a chance that he will have offspring of the Woody Guide, and you are afraid that the prophecy will eventually come true."
Lin Yao stared at the old emperor, "So your order to Lin Zhixiong is: he must die before Lin Yao gets married."
The old emperor suddenly opened his eyes, his eyes full of panic of being exposed, his lips trembling, but he couldn't say a word.
"The nobles who just stopped me from speaking must have known about this prophecy. His Majesty promised them that if they stood by and watched, they would gain family honor."
When Lin Yao said this, Ye Heng glanced at Yun Ling, the friend he grew up with.
The Yun family also knew about this, but they chose to stand on the side of the royal family, no, it should be Lin Zhixiong's side.
The hall fell into complete silence, with only the old emperor's heavy breathing and the angry comments scrolling on the star screen:
"The royal family is so vicious! They killed so many people for the prophecy!"
"The three generations of the Lin family suffered so much! They were all victims of the royal family and the Lin family!"
"Major General Lin Yao had it so hard! He was used as an experimental subject and was almost killed!"
"This prophecy is nothing but an excuse! The royal family is simply afraid of losing power!"
"This royal family must be overthrown! We can no longer let them do whatever they want!"
The old emperor looked at the comments on the star screen and saw Lin Yao's cold eyes.
He knew that Lin Yao's words had completely torn apart the royal family's last fig leaf and completely ignited the anger of the people.
Even the old emperor's voice sounded old and exhausted, as if all his bones and muscles had been pulled out.
He looked at Lin Yao, who was emitting a cold aura, and at the ice-blue vines lingering around his fingertips.
Finally, he could no longer hide the exhaustion and despair in his eyes, and spoke in a hoarse voice:
"Lin Yao... What do you want?"
The words were so light, but they sounded particularly loud in the silent parliament hall.
The nobles held their breath, the military generals straightened their backs, and even the barrage on the screen was a little slow to react.
Everyone is waiting for Lin Yao's answer, waiting to see where this conspiracy and revenge that has lasted for decades will end.
Lin Yao raised his eyes, sweeping across the faces in the hall, some fearful, some wary, and some unwilling, before finally returning to the old emperor. His tone was calm, yet filled with unquestionable power:
"It's simple. Just as the Star Track Academy's prophecy says, the royal family will give up control of the empire."
"presumptuous!"
Before the old emperor could respond, a sharp roar suddenly exploded.
The Imperial Clan Chief rushed out from the crowd. He was wearing a royal robe embroidered with gold thread and a badge on his chest that symbolized his status as a Clan Chief.
At this moment, his face was red with anger, and he pointed at Lin Yao's nose and cursed:
"You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about! The royal family has ruled the empire for hundreds of years and their foundation is deep. How can you, a person who relies on a spirit body to run wild, shake it?!
The prophecy is nothing but nonsense. You want to use it to overthrow the royal family. That is simply treason!"
He became more and more excited as he spoke, his saliva flying:
"Which of the empire's laws, territories, and people's livelihoods isn't the legacy passed down from generation to generation by the royal family?
Are you letting the royal family give up power in order to plunge the empire into chaos? I tell you, it's impossible! As long as I'm here, I will never let you succeed! "
Several stubborn members of the royal family around them also echoed, and some shouted "Lin Yao is ambitious".
Some people shouted, "He should be charged with treason," trying to use the majesty of the royal family to suppress the current loss of control.
Lin Yao ignored the noisy objections and simply glanced at the Imperial Clan Leader. A cold smile appeared on the corner of his mouth as he spoke slowly:
"The predictions of the Xinggui Academy are actually quite accurate."
Before he finished speaking, he suddenly raised his hand, and the ice-blue light in his palm suddenly surged!
"Boom—"
With a deafening roar, the floor of the coronation hall suddenly cracked into spider-web-like patterns, and small stones bounced up with the vibration.
The next second, a silver-white tree trunk suddenly broke out of the crack.
That was the main trunk of the Shasha tree. A trunk that required dozens of people to hug appeared out of thin air. There were five lines of different colors on the bark, which brought a kind of cold beauty.
As soon as the main trunk reached the middle of the sky, a forest of trees appeared.
Countless thick aerial roots hang down from the branches, pouring down like a silver waterfall, and quickly spreading in all directions;
At the same time, several side trunks quickly sprouted on both sides of the main trunk, and countless twigs grew from the side trunks, with translucent silver-green new leaves at the tips of the twigs.
But within a few breaths, the originally empty hall was filled with a dense and sparse forest.
The branches crisscross and enclose the gorgeous crystal chandeliers and carved beams and pillars.
"Is this a tree?!" someone exclaimed.
Shasha was still growing wildly, and the top of its trunk slammed hard into the dome of the parliament hall.
The dome shattered with a loud noise, and the originally gorgeous materials fell to the ground.
A large hole was forcibly created in the dome, and sunlight poured in through the hole, sprinkling on the silvery branches and leaves, reflecting a dazzling light.
Before those who were shouting in opposition could react, the vines had already wrapped around their waists, abdomens, and wrists.
He pulled it upwards suddenly, "Ah!" "Help!"
Screams rang out one after another, and most of the people present were hung in the air by vines, with the hems of their dresses dangling in the air, and their original majesty was gone.
The Red Shadow team members stood in place, but the vines seemed to have eyes and bypassed their position.
Lin Yao's goal was very clear from the beginning to the end. He only targeted those nobles and military personnel who protected the royal family and were unwilling to give up power.
The Imperial Clan Leader was hung at the highest point, his face flushed red as he struggled and cursed:
"Lin Yao! How dare you attack the royal family! You will be punished by heaven!"
Lin Yao looked up at him, his eyes expressionless. His voice passed through the gaps between the branches and reached everyone's ears clearly:
"Divine punishment? Compared to what the royal family did to the Lin family, this little bit of 'action' is nothing."
He paused, his eyes sweeping over the nobles who were hanging to the ground, his tone carrying a hint of cold humor and oppression:
“I know that some people, when they are on the ground, can’t quite wrap their heads around it and always think that the royal family’s foundation is unbreakable.
But it doesn’t matter, once your feet are off the ground, your IQ will probably be online.”
The faces of those hanging in the air were pale, and some were still forcing themselves to curse.
Some of them had already begun to tremble. They looked at the towering tree that broke through the hall, and at the vines that Lin Yao's fingertips manipulated casually.
I finally realized that the person in front of me was not joking. He really had the ability to overthrow the royal family and make the prophecy come true.
The old emperor sat in a wheelchair, looking at the shattered parliament hall.
He watched helplessly as the noble, who was hanging in the air, and the tree that symbolized subversion, was completely defeated.
He closed his eyes, and two lines of turbid tears slid down from the corners of his eyes. Hundreds of years of royal foundation, decades of concealment and calculation, ultimately could not escape the predicted end.
The comments on the screen were completely boiling. The previous anger and doubts now turned into support for Lin Yao:
"Well done! It's high time these stubborn nobles saw the light of day!"
"This tree is so handsome! The prophecy was true. It's time for the royal family to give up their power!"
"Your IQ is only online when your feet are off the ground. Major General Lin Yao's words are so satisfying!"
"Support decentralization! Let the royal family restore order to the empire!"
"Those nobles deserved it! Why didn't they think about the plight of the Lin family when they were defending the royal family?"
Lin Yao raised his hand to stabilize the vines slightly to prevent the nobles from shaking too much.
He looked at the old emperor and his tone returned to calm:
"Your Majesty, you should understand that from the moment you believed in the prophecy, it was not nonsense. The royal family's relinquishing of power is the only option."
The old emperor's eyes no longer had the previous majesty, only complete powerlessness.
He opened his mouth and whispered:
"Okay, I promise. The royal family... will give up control of the empire."
The moment these words were spoken, the hall fell completely silent, with only the sound of branches swaying in the wind.
The towering tree that broke through the hall stood like a monument symbolizing rebirth in the shattered center of power.
The empire's hundreds of years of royal rule finally came to an end at this moment.
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