I cast eternal life with the seeds of Tao

"Junior Brother Zhao!"

When Zhao Heng appeared in front of everyone leisurely.

Qi Hongyuan, Li Qiu'e and others were all surprised.

"Junior Brother Zhao, where did you go? It's hard for us to find you!"

"Yes, didn't we agree to meet us outside the imperial city?"

...

Faced with everyone's concerned inquiries, Zhao Heng felt warm in his heart and copied out the words he had prepared long ago.

"I'm sorry to have worried you, brothers and sisters. Half a month ago, I did stay outside the imperial city to pick you up.

However, half an hour after you entered the palace, a demon warrior suddenly fled from the imperial city. I was worried that he was going to ask for help, so I intercepted him along the way.

Unfortunately, I was not strong enough. I fought with him several times, but not only did I fail to intercept him, but I was injured and he escaped.

My injuries were not light, and I didn't have time to notify you, so I found a place to recuperate. Until today, I came to find you."

Hearing this, Qi Hongyuan and others were not surprised, and even guessed this possibility a long time ago.

In addition, Zhao Heng's face was slightly sallow at this time, and he really looked like he had just recovered from a serious illness.

"In this case, it should be that when Emperor Haoyuan and others died, the monkeys scattered when the tree fell, and his accomplices happened to be seen by Junior Brother Zhao when they fled." Qi Hongyuan said so.

When Zhao Heng heard this, he showed a rather shocked expression.

"What, Emperor Hao Yuan is dead!"

This sentence shows her alibi.

Afterwards, Li Qiu'e recounted to Zhao Heng the battle that took place in Zhaixing Tower that night.

Zhao Heng responded with various surprises, and finally sighed.

"Who is that mysterious man, and why did he help us get rid of Emperor Hao Yuan?"

Everyone looked at each other and shook their heads.

Qi Hongyuan then said: "Junior Brother Zhao, this operation killed Emperor Hao Yuan, which is of great importance. The sect and the Righteous Alliance will definitely discuss this matter.

We have checked Shengyuan City and there is no trace of the magic warriors. Now it is time to return to the border and report to the master."

Zhao Heng also knew that the death of Emperor Hao Yuan was not a trivial matter. He nodded immediately and bowed to everyone.

"Brothers and sisters, thank you for coming to help me this time. If you hadn't helped me, I would have lost my life.

I feel really bad for causing you all to get hurt. I have no way to repay you."

Although he killed Emperor Hao Yuan in the end, Zhao Heng's gratitude was sincere.

Qi Hongyuan smiled and shook his head: "We are all fellow disciples, why should we be so polite.

By the way, brother, now that the imperial capital is peaceful, do you want to return to the border battlefield with us?"

Zhao Heng shook his head resolutely after hearing this.

"Brother, I have the important task entrusted by my master, and I need to stay in the imperial capital to protect the queen.

Although Emperor Hao Yuan and others are dead now, the imperial capital is not completely safe. Maybe they have accomplices to retaliate. To be on the safe side, I'd better stay there for a while."

What a joke, now on the northwest border of the empire, the four sects of the devil and the seven sects of the righteous way, the powerful people of each sect, are still fighting in full swing.

No matter how dangerous the imperial capital is, it is not as dangerous as the border battlefield.

After confirming Zhao Heng's safety, everyone did not persuade him much. They clasped their fists to Zhao Heng, and drove their Xuanbing into the air.

"Junior brother, goodbye!"

The next moment, everyone soared into the air and turned into a light flying to the northwest.

Zhao Heng stood on the hillside, looking at the backs of everyone leaving, and breathed a sigh of relief.

"Fortunately, I was not exposed."

For the past half month, Zhao Heng has been practicing and recuperating in the cave of the eldest princess.

After half a month of conditioning, plus the repair of purple gold blood, his injuries have basically healed.

However, after using the three-point return to the origin of qi, the backlash of the dantian and the two qi yuan balls has not been completely eliminated, so Zhao Heng's skills have only recovered 50% to 60% for the time being.

It is estimated that it will take another month to fully recover.

Through the identity waist card, Zhao Heng knew that everyone had been looking for him, so he came out of seclusion to meet them in advance.

Now that he has said goodbye to his fellow disciples, Zhao Heng took out another jade talisman, which is his tool to communicate with the eldest princess.

As he used his spiritual consciousness, he sent out a message.

After a moment, a reply came from the jade talisman.

The content was only three words.

"Shoufo Temple."

Zhao Heng did not go there immediately, but meditated in the mountains. When night fell, he flew to Shoufo Temple.

He landed in the dense forest behind Shoufo Temple.

Not long after arriving, the eldest princess followed the breath he accidentally released and came to meet him.

The eldest princess was still as beautiful as a painting, but her expression was a little haggard.

"You are here."

Zhao Heng nodded and asked, "Why are you not in the palace?"

The eldest princess said, "The news of my father's death has been temporarily blocked. Your companions have told the queen everything because it happened too suddenly and cannot be explained to the ministers.

In order to prevent accidents, my father's body has been temporarily placed in Shoufo Temple.

The queen will rush to the palace tomorrow to preside over the overall situation and prepare for the prince's enthronement."

Zhao Heng nodded after hearing this.

The death of Emperor Hao Yuan had little impact on the cultivation world, but it had a huge impact on the secular world.

When the previous emperor passed away and the new emperor ascended the throne, the power transition was most likely to cause unrest.

However, Zhao Heng was not interested in this.

He came here for another purpose.

"Your Highness, where are the bodies of General Manager Liu, Commander Chen, and Taoist Priest Qingqiu now?"

Half a month ago, when he parted with the princess, Zhao Heng told her to keep the bodies under the Star-Picking Tower safe.

The princess nodded and said, "I put them into the storage ring and checked their bodies. There are indeed some strange things."

As she said that, the princess waved her hand and three broken and shrunken bodies appeared in front of Zhao Heng.

Zhao Heng hurriedly leaned over to check.

Among them, the bodies of Liu Zongguan and Chen Tongling had been cut into several pieces, and the human tissues on the cross-section of the bodies could be clearly seen.

Zhao Heng carefully checked and detected with his spiritual sense at the same time. After a while, he found something abnormal.

The muscles of the two people were no different from those of ordinary people, but the bones and internal organs were different. They were clearly made of some special materials.

Moreover, the meridians in their bodies were very simple and could only be used for energy circulation. They were clearly not human.

"It is indeed a puppet."

Zhao Heng had heard of the puppet technique a long time ago. He had seen a kind of stone puppet in the underground ruins.

At first, he thought that General Manager Liu and Commander Chen were corpses, but now it seems that he was wrong.

This should be a more advanced puppet than the stone statue puppet, with the initial appearance of flesh and blood.

At this time, Zhao Heng couldn't help but think of Chen Zhong sucking the flesh and blood of the boy in Wang Mama's house.

This should be some kind of evil method that makes these puppets have human breath.

If he hadn't seen through their altars, he might not have discovered the secret that they are not human.

After checking the bodies of Chen Zhong and Liu Xian, Zhao Heng looked at the body of Taoist Qingqiu, which was more intact.

After some detection, Zhao Heng was surprised to find that Taoist Qingqiu's body was also a puppet body.

Although the blood and flesh meridians are more complex, the bones are also real human bones, and even the altar still has a trace of divine consciousness, which is almost the same as a real person.

But his internal organs still have traces of artificial refining, not real human organs.

After checking the bodies of the three people, Zhao Heng understood everything and asked, "Where is your majesty's body?"

The princess replied, "In the Buddhist hall behind the temple, the queen, the prince and Yuxuan are keeping vigil for my father."

"Take me to see it."

The princess immediately took Zhao Heng to the back mountain of Shoufo Temple, where a Buddhist hall guarded by dozens of palace masters was guarded.

At this time, the Buddhist hall was brightly lit, and the aroma of burning incense and candles filled the hall. In the center of the hall, a golden coffin was placed.

In front of the nine ever-burning lamps, the queen, Princess Yuxuan and the prince were kneeling on the futon, keeping vigil and praying.

The queen's beautiful face was a little haggard at this moment, and the tears in the corners of her eyes were not dry. Looking at the coffin, her expression was sad and touching.

Princess Yuxuan, who was standing by, also changed her usual escape and liveliness. She knelt on the ground, her eyes were red, she sobbed slightly, and her face was full of sadness.

Only the prince looked tired, his head moving up and down, as if he was taking a nap.

The eldest princess walked in with Zhao Heng, startling the three people. The prince, whose sleep was disturbed, changed his face.

"Well, Yuqing, why did you bring Zhao the imperial physician? Don't you know where this place is?"

The eldest princess did not speak, Zhao Heng directly said to the queen: "Queen, I want to do an autopsy for His Majesty."

The prince was furious when he said this.

"How dare you, Zhao Wuji, you are just a sixth-rank imperial physician, how dare you disrespect your father? Don't think that you saved my beloved concubine in the East Palace, so I won't punish you!"

The third princess also looked at Zhao Heng in surprise.

The brother and sister did not know about the battle in Zhaixing Tower, let alone that Emperor Haoyuan had been possessed by a demon.

The queen only told them that Emperor Haoyuan had an accident while taking the elixir and died suddenly in the palace, so Zhao Heng's appearance surprised them.

However, what surprised the two more was the queen's reaction.

The Queen did not refuse Zhao Heng's request. Instead, she stood up and said to the two of them, "You all follow me out, and let Lord Zhao examine the body here."

"Mother!" The Crown Prince and Princess Yuxuan were stunned.

But the Queen's eyes turned cold, exuding the majesty of the Queen Mother.

The two of them did not dare to disobey and walked out of the Buddhist hall with doubts.

Only Zhao Heng and the Princess were left in the Buddhist hall.

Zhao Heng was not polite either. He turned around and locked the door of the Buddhist hall. He came to the huge coffin with dragon pattern and gold lacquer and opened the coffin lid with one hand.

In the coffin, the bloody body of Emperor Hao Yuan lay. His body was twisted, and only his head was intact, but there was a sword mark between his eyebrows, which was left by the Princess's sword.

Looking at this cold body, Zhao Heng felt a little emotional.

But he did not hesitate. He immediately started to check, especially using his spiritual consciousness to penetrate and scan this flesh body.

After Zhao Heng's careful inspection, he found that Emperor Hao Yuan's body was no different from that of an ordinary person, but it was very tough and seemed to have practiced the art of horizontal refining.

In addition, his meridians and internal organs were no different from those of ordinary people.

According to various clues and the results of the investigation at this moment, Emperor Hao Yuan should be the leader of this group of magic warriors entrenched in the palace.

Taoist Qingqiu, Liu Xian and Chen Zhong were all puppets refined by him.

However, Zhao Heng still had doubts in his heart.

First, if this person was really the mastermind, why did he target Emperor Hao Yuan?

You know, the identity of a king can easily attract the attention of the seven sects of the righteous way. This is undoubtedly playing with fire and getting burned.

Second, and also very important, in the battle that night, Zhao Heng personally fought with Emperor Hao Yuan.

He had clearly pierced the opponent's heart. Logically speaking, even if a warrior in the Ascending Heaven Realm had his heart destroyed, there would be no way to survive. Why could the opponent still be unharmed?

Zhao Heng speculated at that time that Emperor Haoyuan might be one of the very few people who were born with the heart on the right side.

However, after the examination just now, he could confirm that Emperor Haoyuan's heart was born on the left side. Unfortunately, his heart had been destroyed by the Xue Ming Mirror and could not be examined.

With doubts in his heart, Zhao Heng focused his attention on Emperor Haoyuan's altar and explored it inch by inch with his spiritual consciousness.

Emperor Haoyuan's soul has been destroyed, but there is still some residual power of consciousness, and everything seems to be normal.

Just as Zhao Heng's consciousness was about to evacuate, he suddenly noticed an unusual fluctuation in the Emperor Haoyuan's altar.

"Um……?"

With a thought in his mind, he secretly used the Sky Eye Technique and followed the faint feeling to explore.

Among these remaining spiritual consciousness, Zhao Heng's Heavenly Eye Technique peeled off the cocoon, and finally found a tiny, strange insect that looked like a beetle in the power of his spiritual consciousness.

It has six legs, and its eyes are red. Its eyes are dim at the moment, and it lies languidly in the altar of Emperor Haoyuan, as if it is about to die.

Zhao Heng's pupils shrank suddenly, and after carefully examining Xiao Chong's body, he found a hint of cold aura that did not belong to Emperor Haoyuan at all.

Although this aura is subtle, it is a kind of energy that is superior to the heavenly realm. It is cold and biting, with an evil aura.

"hiss……!"

Zhao Heng's whole body was shaken, and his spiritual consciousness rolled the little insect out of Emperor Haoyuan's altar, and imprisoned it in the void with mysterious energy.

"This is……"

"Gu worm!"

It was the eldest princess who said these two words.

"Do you recognize this thing?" Zhao Heng asked in surprise.

The eldest princess looked solemnly and said: "I have seen it in an ancient book. It is said that Thousand Souls Palace, one of the four sects of the devil a thousand years ago, is best at the 'puppet technique' and 'gu technique'. Some advanced puppets are combined with voodoo." Controlled by insects.”

Zhao Heng's eyes suddenly shook.

"Could it be that... Emperor Haoyuan is just a puppet!"

The two looked at each other and felt chills running down their spines at the same time.

If Emperor Haoyuan is just a puppet, then who is the person behind all this?

"No, I'm afraid the mastermind behind this is still hiding in the palace!" Zhao Heng's heart sank, and cold sweat penetrated his vest.

The eldest princess also had sweat on her forehead, "Then... what should we do now?"

"I will immediately send a message to the sect. This is no longer something we can interfere with."

Understanding that there seems to be a bigger conspiracy behind this, the two of them have a strong sense of urgency.

Just when he was about to take action, a faint sigh suddenly came from behind him.

"Alas...Mr. Zhao, why are you doing this?"