Mortal Seeking Immortal

Chapter 184 The new emperor ascends the throne

Within a short time, the old emperor had sent officials to draft the edict of passing the throne.

"By the blessing of heaven, the emperor issued an edict: There is Song Chengli, the sixth son of the emperor, who is extremely intelligent and loves the people like a son. He is blessed by heaven. I am here to pass it on to him and admire him here."

After the edict of succession was drafted, the old emperor asked the officials to read it to Ye Zhou first. After reading it, Ye Zhou nodded slightly to indicate approval.

While the old emperor was drafting the edict, Ye Zhou took out a yellow talisman from his storage bag, and a burst of spiritual power penetrated the yellow talisman. The yellow talisman turned into a palm-sized spiritual crane, as if it had come to life.

Then Ye Zhou held the Linghe in his hand, whispered a few words to the Linghe, opened his hand, and the Linghe turned into a ray of light and flew out of the window, flying in the direction of the Blood Spirit Sect.

This is the Thousand Mile Transmission Talisman passed down to Ye Zhou by the master. It is used to ask for help from the master in times of crisis. It can be conveyed in half a day over a distance of thousands of miles. It is very precious even for foundation-building monks.

Ye Zhou used the Thousand Mile Telephone to explain to the head in detail that Steward Liu Yi, who was sent to protect the emperor's safety, had betrayed the religion, that the Imperial Preceptor colluded with Steward Liu Yi to use him to refine the blood elixir but was killed by him, and that the four elders colluded with the other princes. Mou plans for the throne and the old emperor's life is in danger.

In the end, Ye Zhou said that he had no choice but to choose Song Chengli, the sixth prince who had nothing to do with the four elders and was extremely unpopular in the royal family, to succeed to the throne.

Ye Zhou was also very worried that the four elders would secretly take action against Song Chengli, and asked the leader to immediately send a highly skilled steward to protect Song Chengli's safety.

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The imperial edict of the old emperor of the Dawu Dynasty was announced to the world, and the whole country was shocked.

The sixth prince, Song Chengli, was sitting at home, and the throne came from heaven. He was worried and excited about this.

After learning that the edict was drafted by the old emperor "accompanied" by Ye Zhou, the sixth prince Song Chengli respected and admired Ye Zhou even more.

Outside the old emperor's palace.

A large number of officials, concubines, and generals knelt outside the palace and wanted to meet the emperor. However, the old emperor was guarded by Ye Zhou. Without Ye Zhou's permission, he did not dare to summon anyone with the ten courage of the old emperor.

So far.

There was no news from the Imperial Preceptor or Liu Yi. The old emperor had noticed something unusual and had a deeper understanding of Ye Zhou's power.

After the succession of the Sixth Prince Song Chengli was known to the other princes, the princes did not dare to act rashly because the highly skilled monks supported by the princes were summoned by the imperial master to the palace to refine elixirs. Their lives and deaths were unknown. The princes did not dare to act rashly. Several of them were summoned. To the four elders of the Blood Spirit Religion, seek help from the four elders.

However, their communication tool is not as fast as the Qianli Communication Talisman.

Half a day later, the Blood Spirit Sect.

After receiving the summons from Ye Zhou, the headmaster was greatly surprised. Liu Yi had been his confidant for many years, so the headmaster felt free to send Liu Yi to the imperial capital to protect the old emperor's safety and help him control the Dawu Dynasty.

"I think I treat Liu Yi well, but I didn't expect that this Liu would betray me for a mere blood pill. He really deserves death and will be driven to pieces!"

Bang!

In anger, the leader slapped the desk made of spiritual wood in front of him into pieces.

"And those four old men really thought that I was dead, and went so far as to secretly interact with members of the royal family behind my back. Could it be that they want to take my place and secretly control the royal family of the Dawu Dynasty?"

"If Ye Zhou hadn't accidentally discovered this when he went to the imperial capital this time, I'm afraid these four old men would have succeeded! It's really hateful!"

Blood-red mist surged around the leader, seemingly furious to the extreme, with a faint hint of murderous intent in his eyes.

A quarter of an hour later, the leader regained control of his exuding energy and returned to his usual expressionless expression. He left the study and went to the front hall on the Blood Cloud Peak, where he urgently summoned the four elders through the transmission notes.

In recent years, the head of the sect has been reclusive in order to practice in seclusion and break through to the stage of alchemy. The affairs within the sect are all assigned to a few trusted stewards and direct disciples Ye Zhou, and he does not pay too much attention to the affairs within the sect.

After the four elders received the urgent summons from the leader, they all looked confused and uneasy. They secretly communicated with each other using the transmission telegram in private. They found that the other party did not know why the leader summoned them this time, so they cautiously went to the blood cloud. The front hall on the peak.

As soon as the four elders entered the front hall, they saw the master sitting on a high seat waiting for the four of them. This had never happened before. The expressions of the four elders suddenly changed and they hurriedly stepped forward to salute the master.

"I've met the leader."

The leader waved his sleeves in a calm tone and said: "Without courtesy, four elders, please take a seat."

The four elders looked up and saw the leader's face was calm, showing no sign of anger. The four of them breathed a sigh of relief and sat down one after another.

Not long after the four elders sat down, they heard the leader say: "Just now, my direct disciple Ye Zhou came back and informed me that the Emperor of the Dawu Dynasty has expired. The Dawu Dynasty is the foundation of our sect and cannot make any mistakes. Now is the time to prepare. A new emperor has been established, and this time I summoned four elders to discuss this matter."

The four elders looked at each other after hearing this, but their expressions did not change much.

The leader sneered in his heart.

"These four immortals have hidden their secrets quite well, and they haven't revealed any flaws until now."

The second elder coughed and spoke first: "Looking at it, the old emperor of the Dawu Dynasty is now more than seventy years old. It's time to establish a new emperor."

"In order for the Dawu Dynasty to be firmly in the hands of our faction and for our Blood Spirit Sect to continue to flourish within the Dawu Dynasty, we really need to determine the candidate for the new emperor as soon as possible. I wonder how many of you, the leader, the boss, the third child, and the fourth child have what idea?"

As soon as the second elder finished speaking, the third elder couldn't sit still and said hurriedly: "Since ancient times, the emperor should have the eldest son, but according to my apprentice who went to the imperial capital to do a mission, the eldest prince of the Dawu Dynasty was unfortunately killed some time ago. So far, The murderer could not be found."

"Since the eldest prince has died, the second prince should be appointed as the new emperor in the order of eldest and youngest."

The fourth elder hurriedly sneered and said: "Who said that an emperor should be established by an elder? In my opinion, an emperor should be established by a virtuous person. If a stupid emperor is established, it will bring disaster to the world and destroy the foundation of our sect, and there will be endless troubles! Third brother, you It really only grows years, not brains.”

"As far as I know, the third prince is good and has a reputation as a virtuous man among the people. It is a wise choice to appoint him as emperor. Once he comes to the throne, he will surely govern the world smoothly and make the people live and work in peace and contentment. Our Blood Spirit Sect will also It can be carried forward and restored to its former glory!”

After listening to the words of the fourth elder, the third elder's face turned blue and white. It was extremely ugly. But before he could refute, the second elder spoke: "The third prince is virtuous? The sage is bullshit! My disciple who was traveling came back and said that the third prince is the most knowledgeable. They only care about the common people and don’t care about their lives.”

"If he becomes the emperor, then our Blood Spirit Sect will not be able to flourish, and we may be in danger of being exterminated within five years! In my opinion, the eighth prince has never done any evil, so he is the safest and most suitable to sit on the throne."

The First Elder snorted coldly and said: "Eighth Prince? Are you talking about that baby boy who can't even speak? You can't do evil even if you want to. Let a baby girl sit on the throne, but you can't say it out loud. !”

The second elder coughed awkwardly and quickly looked away.

Seeing that these elders below were sparing no effort to push the prince they supported to the throne, and even trying to undermine each other, the headmaster flashed a playful look in his eyes. He looked at the elder seemingly casually and asked, "The elder usually behaves the most." It’s safe, I don’t know which prince should be chosen to take the throne according to the wishes of the great elder?”

The First Elder said with a serious face: "I think that among all the princes, the fifth prince is the most suitable. Every year, the fifth prince travels thousands of miles to visit our sect in person. He is not disrespectful to our sect."

"The other five princes are familiar with government affairs. They consider the people in everything they do. They impress all the officials and win the hearts of the people. They are the best candidates to establish the emperor. I wonder what the master thinks?"

After the great elder finished speaking, he looked at the leader with eager eyes. After thinking for a moment, the leader said, "I don't think so."

The great elder's expression suddenly changed: "What do you mean by being the leader? Could it be that you already have a candidate in mind?"

The other three elders all looked at the leader nervously.

The headmaster nodded slightly and said, "I have ordered the Sixth Prince Song Chengli to take over the throne. I wonder if the four elders have any doubts?"

The faces of the four elders were condensed, and they were about to find reasons to refute, but the leader did not give them a chance to refute, and said directly: "Even if the four elders have objections, there is nothing we can do. My direct disciple Ye Zhou has already asked the emperor to The throne was passed on to the sixth prince Song Chengli."

The faces of the four elders were all shocked, and the elder said with an ugly expression: "This is nonsense! How can a mere disciple make the decision on such a big event as the emperor's succession! I don't know when Ye Zhou's status in the sect will surpass ours. Are you above the four elders? Please give me an explanation!”

The second elder, the third elder, and the fourth elder also nodded and said: "Yes! Master, if you don't give me an explanation on this matter, then the disciples in the sect will only know about Ye Zhou and not us four elders!" "

The leader nodded as if in agreement: "I think so too. Although Ye Zhou is my direct disciple, he is only a disciple after all. How can he take charge of the throne without permission?"

Before the leader could finish speaking, the great elder quickly said: "In that case, please ask the leader to immediately use the Thousand Miles Telephone Note to notify Ye Zhou to come back and be punished, and the five of us will renegotiate the candidate for the new emperor."

The head said with a bitter look on his face: "That's what I said, but when Ye Zhou came back from the summons, he said that he had no choice but to let the emperor pass the throne to the sixth prince Song Chengli."

The Great Elder snorted coldly and said: "What a 'forced by helplessness'! Chief, just say it, I would like to know under what kind of 'forced by helplessness' situation Ye Zhou had no choice but to choose the sixth prince to ascend the throne!"

The headmaster said slowly: "One reason is that the old emperor's illness may not last for a few days, and the princes will seize the throne and the world will be in chaos."

"Secondly, under the guise of refining life-extending elixirs for the old emperor, the Imperial Master gathered twenty monks who were above the tenth level of Qi training and wanted to refine them into blood pills for the Imperial Master to achieve breakthroughs in cultivation. !”

"My personal disciple Ye Zhou was among these twenty monks. Fortunately, Ye Zhou was smart and saw that the situation was wrong and killed the national master instead, so he was not killed."

"When later dealing with the relics of the dead monks, Ye Zhou found several interesting letters. It happened that those monks had special status. They were all casual cultivators worshiped by the princes. The contents of the letters have been passed on to me. Ye Zhou felt that the matter was of great importance and that some "careful people" might be up to no good, so he was forced to choose the innocent sixth prince as the new emperor. "

"What I said, did the four elders understand?"

As soon as the leader said these words, the faces of the four elders instantly turned extremely pale. They all looked at the leader with some fear in their eyes, and their breathing became serious.

When the leader saw this, he looked coldly and said, "Do the four elders feel that Ye Zhou is still messing around?"

The four elders all shook their heads in denial and said, "No, no, no, Ye Zhou has done a great job in this matter. He is worthy of being the direct disciple of the master! He is truly a true disciple of the master!"

"This boy's future is limitless!"

"We have wrongly blamed Ye Zhou. I hope the master will calm down."

The reason why the four elders all gave in to Ye Zhou is that their cultivation is not as good as the master's.

Although their cultivation has reached the foundation-building stage, and some of them have even reached the late foundation-building stage, compared with the master's foundation-building great perfection, although it seems very close, the gap between them is a world of difference. Several late foundation-building cultivators may not be able to beat the foundation-building great perfection together.

The headmaster said slowly: "For the sake of the sect, I have had to stay at home for the past few years and retreat to break through, but some people in the sect mistakenly think that I am easy to control and secretly make small moves behind my back."

"Four elders, tell me, should I kill a chicken to scare the monkeys to set an example?"

The four elders stood up together and touched the storage bag, saying with cold sweat on their backs: "The headmaster is kind, considering their hard work and great contributions, please show mercy this time!"

"In our opinion, those people have already known the headmaster's good intentions, and will never do stupid things again to disappoint the headmaster. I beg the headmaster to give them another chance opportunity."

"Yes, please give them another chance. If they commit the same offense again, it will not be too late to punish them severely!"

Seeing the four elders were extremely terrified, the master showed a mocking smile and said casually: "Four elders, why are you so excited? I am not talking about you. Please sit down. We haven't discussed the matter yet. What do you want to do when you touch your storage bag?"

The eldest elder asked in fear: "Then according to the master, should we give them another chance?"

The master smiled and said: "Since the four elders all agree, I will naturally give them a way out."

The four elders breathed a sigh of relief and sat down at ease.

The master said again: "Do the four elders have any doubts about Ye Zhou's selection of the sixth prince to ascend the throne?"

The four elders looked at each other and shook their heads.

While fearing the master, the four elders also hated Ye Zhou very much.

In order to control the royal family of the Dawu Dynasty, they had been secretly planning for several years, but they didn't expect that in the end, their plan would be ruined by Ye Zhou, a mere disciple.

Not only that, Ye Zhou also reported this to the head of the sect, and the head of the sect actually wanted to kill them, which made the four elders want to get rid of Ye Zhou as soon as possible.

But now the four elders all understand that it is far from the right time.

Judging from the head of the sect's favor for Ye Zhou, if Ye Zhou gets into trouble, the head of the sect will definitely turn against them completely.

The head of the sect said: "The new emperor is about to ascend the throne. I will immediately select a steward to protect the new emperor's safety. There shouldn't be anyone behind the new emperor, right?"

The four elders waved their hands and said: "The new emperor has the protection of God and my sect. Whoever dares to attack the new emperor is an enemy of my Blood Spirit Sect."

After confirming the protector of the new emperor, the four elders left one after another.

After the four elders left, the head of the sect stopped smiling, looked at the four people's backs gloomily and cursed: "Old bastard!"

The head of the sect took out a thousand-mile sound transmission note from his arms, put it to his lips and said: "Ye Zhou, I have sent the steward of the sect to protect the safety of the sixth prince Song Chengli, and he will arrive in the imperial capital soon. Once the steward arrives in the imperial capital, you must rush back to the sect immediately. Be careful on the road, I am afraid that the four elders will jump over the wall and kill you!"

Although the head of the sect knew that the four elders would not attack against the wind, the head of the sect was afraid that if any elder took too much poison pills and damaged his brain, he would do irrational things, and then his training of Ye Zhou would be in vain.

After the four elders returned to their residences, they received messages from the imperial capital one after another. The content of the message was nothing more than the princes' faction supported by the four elders asked the elders to send people to help these princes ascend the throne.

If the four elders had not received the summons from the headmaster, they might have sent people to the imperial capital immediately. However, after receiving the warning from the headmaster, the four elders had no intention of getting involved in the throne of the Dawu Dynasty and destroyed the message.

Not only that, the four elders also ordered their disciples not to participate in the fight for the throne, which shows that the warning from the headmaster just now gave the four elders a great shock and pressure.

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The next day, the sixth prince, the lucky man named Song Chengli, ascended the throne smoothly under Ye Zhou's supervision.

And the abdicated old emperor also passed away after Song Chengli ascended the throne.

The political situation of the Dawu Dynasty was turbulent.

That night, Ye Zhou intercepted a group of immortal cultivators who wanted to assassinate Song Chengli in the palace. These immortal cultivators were all in the eighth and ninth levels of Qi training.

Without Ye Zhou's action, Xiaoshan alone strangled all these immortal cultivators, leaving only the last cultivator of the eighth level of Qi training alive.

Xiaoshan's chains tightly wrapped around the cultivator, and the aura of the foundation-building period in his body was released, pressing all of it on the cultivator and asking fiercely: "Tell me, who sent you to assassinate the emperor?!"

The eighth-level Qi training cultivator was so scared when he saw his companions being brutally killed by Xiaoshan as soon as they met, and he peed and shed tears. He knelt on the ground and said: "I say, I say, it was the second prince who sent us. The second prince didn't see the message from the elders of the immortal sect, so he ordered us to come together to kill the new emperor."

"All this is the plan of the second prince, and it has nothing to do with us. We were all forced by him. We all took his poison pills. If we don't follow his words, we will die without a complete body. I beg you to spare my life, please..."

Before the eighth-level Qi training cultivator finished speaking, Xiaoshan opened his mouth and sucked fiercely at him. All the blood and soul of the cultivator were swallowed by Xiaoshan. The cultivator kneeling on the ground had turned into a dry corpse.

After Xiaoshan finished absorbing, he took back the chain and asked Ye Zhou: "Master, should we go to the second prince's house to teach him a lesson now?"

Ye Zhou said lightly: "It is impolite not to return the favor."

At the hour of Chou, the second prince's house was brightly lit, and the servants stood quietly in every corner of the house with lights.

The palace soldiers holding fine swords and guns surrounded the prince's house and were ready for battle. Among them, the most strict protection was outside the study in the mansion. Not only were there palace soldiers here, but also some fifth- and sixth-level Qi training cultivators stood here to protect the people in the study.

Originally, there should not only be cultivators at the fifth or sixth level of Qi training guarding here, but also cultivators at the eighth or ninth level of Qi training. However, these cultivators were all sent out by the second prince after nightfall and have not returned yet.

The second prince, wearing brocade clothes, jade belt and jade crown, was sitting in the study waiting anxiously, muttering to himself: "Why hasn't anyone sent a message yet? Even if I failed, there should be news by now."

"No, I will never fail! I will succeed!"

"That Ye Zhou is only at the tenth level of Qi training. Although the people I sent are only at the eighth or ninth level of Qi training, they have more people. I don't believe that Ye Zhou can save Lao Liu from them."

As soon as the second prince finished speaking, the lights outside the courtyard went out in an instant, the wind blew, and there were screams. The second prince was so scared that he stood up from his chair, took a few steps forward and shouted in fear at the door: "Who dares to be so presumptuous in this prince's house!"

I only heard a very calm voice coming slowly from behind him.

"The second prince sent someone to assassinate the new emperor with the intention of treason. He should be executed for his crime!"

The second prince was so scared that his face lost color in an instant. He turned around quickly and saw Ye Zhou sitting on the chair in his study. His eyes looked at him coldly as if he was looking at a dead person. The second prince was so scared that his heart and liver broke. He took a few steps back, but suddenly stepped on something with a crisp sound of "crackling".

The second prince was about to look down, and suddenly felt a chill behind him. An extremely gloomy voice came: "Second prince, be careful with your feet. You stepped on the gift that my master prepared for you 'specially'."

The second prince turned around suddenly and saw a fierce ghost with a gloomy and terrifying face standing behind him, and on the ground was a dried-up corpse. Seeing the dress of the corpse, it was the assassin he sent out. The second prince was so scared that his eyes rolled back and he fainted.

Xiaoshan said helplessly: "Master, this man is not really scared. He just fainted after seeing the 'gift' prepared by the master. What should we do now?"

Ye Zhou said: "Kill him!"

Ye Zhou wanted to kill the chicken to scare the monkey. By killing the most powerful second prince, other princes would not dare to act rashly. In this way, the throne of the sixth prince Song Chengli could sit safely.

Xiaoshan received the order and cut off the second prince's head.

Ye Zhou left the second prince's mansion with only one sentence, "Order someone to send the second prince's head to the princes for viewing immediately."

There was silence in the second prince's mansion. It was no longer brightly lit. It was dark everywhere, and there were ghosts moving around in the mansion.

Although Ye Zhou killed the second prince, he did not touch the innocent people in his mansion. He just ordered the evil ghosts to knock them out.

That night, the second prince's head was spread throughout the palaces of the other princes, frightening some of the princes so much that they knelt on the ground with pale faces, expressed their loyalty to the new emperor, and dismissed the monks who had served in the palace for many years.

Song Chengli did not disappoint Ye Zhou. After ascending the throne, he quickly adapted to the role of emperor and began to handle affairs in an orderly manner.

He abolished disobedient officials, controlled the army, established virtuous officials, killed corrupt officials, and implemented new national policies...

Within half a month, the situation in the court was basically stable, and the entire court and the public praised Song Chengli. The official atmosphere in the imperial capital and the surrounding cities changed a lot, and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment. Everything seemed to be developing in a good direction.

However, these were all learned by Ye Zhou from the disciples in the sect after he returned to the Blood Spirit Sect. On the third day after Song Chengli ascended the throne, Ye Zhou returned to the Blood Spirit Sect at the urging of the steward sent by the head of the sect.

After returning to the sect this time, the headmaster no longer allowed Ye Zhou to leave the sect as easily as before, but ordered him to practice in seclusion in the sect, and not to go out without permission for a short period of time, and even exempted from the sect mission.

The headmaster did this naturally because he did not want to give the four elders who were dissatisfied with Ye Zhou an opportunity to take advantage of him.

Ye Zhou understood and happily agreed.

In the next period of time, Ye Zhou can just concentrate on cultivating spirit insects and practicing the "Demon God Body Forging Technique" in the cave.

Now that his cultivation has reached the peak of the twelfth level of Qi training, he will consider the foundation-building. If it is the foundation-building of the human way, it should not be difficult with Ye Zhou's current strength, but Ye Zhou has a small gourd in his hand, and he is not willing to do so.

Ye Zhou has never given up the idea of ​​pursuing the foundation-building of the earth or the heaven, but it is extremely difficult to build the foundation of the earth or the heaven. Ye Zhou needs to have a stronger strength to obtain the specific pill formula and foundation-building materials.

After reporting the task to the headmaster and receiving the headmaster's reward, Ye Zhou returned to his cave.

The insect breeding room in Ye Zhou's cave is divided into several small compartments made of jade. Each compartment contains a few strange-looking spiritual insects, and some compartments contain unhatched insect eggs.

There are some small shields outside the small compartments. The function of these shields is to isolate the spirit insects in each compartment to prevent them from killing each other when Ye Zhou is not in the cave.

Most of these spirit insects were given to Ye Zhou by Ya Yu, and a small number were obtained by Ye Zhou through other means.

According to the jade slips of insect control experience given by Ya Yu, and Ye Zhou's self-exploration of raising spirit insects, in the past few years, Ye Zhou's means of raising spirit insects are even better than Ya Yu.

After leaving the cave for some time, Ye Zhou checked the condition of the spirit insects in the small compartments while adding some spirit plants or insect feeding pills as food for the spirit insects.

When Ye Zhou's eyes swept across one of the small compartments, he was suddenly slightly stunned and said with a puzzled look: "This is..."

There was a black insect egg the size of a goose egg in the small compartment, and the shield originally arranged outside this small compartment had been broken at some point. Ye Zhou remembered that a highly poisonous spirit insect called the centipede was raised in this small compartment before.