Chapter 355: Want to plot against me?!

Just as he was about to fall to the ground, the Fifth Marquis Qiansui reached out and supported him: “Your Highness, be careful.”

“Fifth Lord!”

Ji Haoyu grabbed Wu Hou Qiansui’s hand as if he had grasped the last straw, tears in his eyes, and said in a sad voice: “Your medical skills are unparalleled, please, please help save my grandfather…”

Facing Ji Haoyu’s desperate pleas, the Fifth Marquis Qiansui just sighed and said, “Your Highness, please don’t embarrass me. The reason why Prime Minister Wu has become like this is not just because of illness. The biggest reason is that his life span is coming to an end and cannot be cured by medicine.”

“Life span… Nine Brahma Pure Lotus. Yes, isn’t there a Nine Brahma Pure Lotus? Isn’t that thing said to be able to extend a person’s life span for sixty years?!”

Ji Haoyu remembered the Nine Brahma Pure Lotus that was presented to Emperor Tianwu at the birthday banquet, and felt like he had found a savior.

But the Fifth Marquis Qiansui still shook his head: “The Nine Brahma Pure Lotus does have the effect of prolonging life, but its medicinal power is extremely strong. Prime Minister Wu’s body is now exhausted and cannot be replenished. If he uses it, he will die!”

These words completely shattered the last bit of hope.

His hands dropped limply and he stood there in a daze.

Once upon a time, he had always hoped to break free from Wu Yong’s control, hoping to gain his own power beyond his grandfather’s control.

But when Wu Yong really fell down, he realized belatedly that his grandfather was not only a mountain pressing down on him, but also a roof that protected him from wind and rain!
Now that he no longer has his grandfather’s support, can he really handle the intrigues in the court all by himself?

Ji Haoyu couldn’t help but tremble slightly, and sweat kept pouring down his whole body.

He suddenly had a feeling that there were malicious eyes watching him secretly from all directions.

But when he looked around in panic, he only saw the imperial doctors busy in the palace, as well as the eunuchs and palace maids coming in and out.

It’s all just an illusion.

But all this is not just an illusion.

“What should I do? Without my grandfather, how can I gain a foothold in this court? How can I compete with the third brother for the throne?”

“Haiqing…Yes, I still have Haiqing. Haiqing will help me!”

In the end, Ji Haoyu was not thinking about his grandfather’s physical condition, but his position as crown prince!

In the end, his subconscious reaction was not that it was time for him to step up and take the lead, but instead he thought about seeking help from others.

The eldest son of the royal family, the mother’s family is noble, the ministers support him, the appearance of a benevolent monarch…

Peeling off these glamorous outer layers reveals the cowardly and incompetent nature.

This is the most true portrayal of Ji Haoyu!

Now, the only person in this palace who truly cares about Wu Yong is the crying Queen Wu.

“father……”

Queen Wu lay on Wu Yong and cried for a long time, completely disregarding the appearance that a queen mother should have. Her hair was disheveled and her eyes were red and swollen from crying.

She looked up at Wu Hou Qiansui and asked with tears in her eyes: “Fifth brother, save my father! Please save my father!”

The Fifth Marquis’s eyes dimmed a little, he sighed softly, bowed to her and said: “Your Majesty, please tell the people in the Prime Minister’s Mansion to take Prime Minister Wu back to the mansion and take good care of him.”

Queen Wu still refused to give up. She stood up and knelt down in front of the screen in front of the emperor.

“His Majesty!”

She banged her head heavily on the ground, her voice was sad and tearful, “Your Majesty, please consider our relationship as husband and wife and save him!”

But the response she got was silence.

After a moment, the fat body behind the screen slowly stood up and walked towards the small door in the back hall.

Emperor Tianwu did not promise her anything, but chose to leave directly.

His attitude is also obvious.

Inside the Golden Palace, the faint and sharp cries of Queen Wu were heard.

……

When Ji Haoyu stumbled out of the Golden Palace, his companion Qin Fu, who had been waiting outside the palace, immediately came to greet him.

“Your Highness, how is Prime Minister Wu?”

In fact, when Qin Fu said this, he had already seen the answer from Ji Haoyu’s expression.

Ji Haoyu’s face turned pale and his whole body was shaking slightly, as if he was afraid of something.

His pupils were dilated, and he kept muttering, “Haiqing, where is Haiqing?”

“Ahfu, Ahfu, prepare a sedan for me to go to Princess Yuzhen’s mansion!”

Qin Fu couldn’t help but hesitate to speak.

He really wanted to remind his master that Prime Minister Wu was ill, and as his grandson, Ji Haoyu’s most important thing to do was to stay with Prime Minister Wu.

Even if you are pretending, you should pretend to be good!

Ji Haoyu suddenly became furious and shouted: “Go quickly!!!”

This roar made Qin Fu swallow back the words that were about to come out of his mouth.

He could only bow and say: “Yes, I will prepare it right away!”

……

“Wu Yong, did he really have a stroke?”

In the Yangxin Palace, after the Imperial Preceptor Shui Yuexian learned about today’s court meeting, she asked this question straight to the point.

Emperor Tianwu was lying lazily on the low couch, while the eunuchs beside him were massaging his thighs, their heads covered in sweat.

I don’t know if it was because what happened in the court today made His Majesty exhausted physically and mentally, or if his physical condition has deteriorated recently. He seemed to be in a bad mood and his speech became weak: “The Fifth Marquis has personally seen it for him, it can’t be fake.”

“Then who will replace Wu Yong? An Shoudao?”

“Dean An…I’m afraid that’s not possible.”

Emperor Tianwu wanted to sit up, and the eunuchs beside him immediately pushed his back and finally helped him sit up straight.

He looked at Shui Yuexian and said, “When I met him before, his words were all about his dissatisfaction with me. He placed his hopes on the new monarch, and he would not return to the court until the new monarch was established.”

Shui Yuexian lowered her head and thought for a moment, then answered, “I don’t understand why you didn’t let him enter Mount Xumi? Why didn’t you let him know about Lingyuan?”

Emperor Tianwu was stunned for a while, then sighed softly, “His path is chosen for the people and determined for the country. If the country is peaceful and the people are safe, his path will be stable. If the people are not living in misery, his path will definitely collapse.”

“What if he knew everything? Let him help me to do evil? At that time, he will truly die without a burial place!”

“Instead of that, it would be better to destroy his path and stop him at the second level, so that he can have a good ending.” Shui Yuexian said, “We have so many Yangxian inheritances in our hands now, so it’s not impossible to help An Shoudao continue the path of his ancestors.”

Emperor Tianwu laughed and said, “Only once in a thousand years can a ‘great scholar’ appear. To let him fall into mediocrity, isn’t this making his life worse than death?”

Shuiyuexian nodded, agreeing with Emperor Tianwu’s statement.

Emperor Tianwu stroked his chin and murmured, “But you are right. Someone has to take over Wu Yong’s position. Before An Shoudao returns to the court, let me think about who can take over temporarily?”

Shui Yuexian said: “Your Majesty can decide these matters. I came here today mainly for another matter.”

She raised her right hand, and her long white sleeves fell, revealing her jade-like arms. Points of spiritual light appeared in her palms, gathered together, and finally formed a small tower.

Emperor Tianwu couldn’t help but look over, he recognized the Demon-Suppressing Tower in the Imperial Master’s hand.

This is one of the most precious treasures in the hands of the Imperial Master. When Ling Fang was appointed as the imperial envoy to Jingzhou, the Imperial Master temporarily lent this tower to Ling Fang.

This Demon-Suppressing Tower itself alone represents the fighting power of a Yang Immortal, which is enough to show how extraordinary this tower is!
The last time the Demon-Suppressing Tower was sent back to Kyoto City, a mad god of Lingyuan was suppressed inside the tower.

Now that the Demon-Suppressing Tower has been sent back again, it must be that Ling Fang has gained something extraordinary in Jingzhou again.

Emperor Tianwu asked, “Another mad god?”

Shui Yuexian shook her head: “That’s not the case.”

She stretched out her hand and pointed, and the Demon-Suppressing Tower suddenly flew up and hovered in the center of the hall.

At the bottom of the tower, a beam of light fell, and a figure slowly condensed.

The moment the pale-skinned child’s corpse appeared, it immediately let out a roar.

But as Emperor Tianwu gently tapped the armrest with his palm, the child’s corpse was like a duck with its throat strangled. It covered its throat in so much pain that it couldn’t make a sound.

Emperor Tianwu observed the child’s corpse with great interest, then looked at Shuiyuexian: “Holy fetus?”

Shuiyuexian nodded.

Emperor Tianwu stretched out his hand and the child’s corpse flew uncontrollably into the air and finally landed in front of Emperor Tianwu. It wanted to struggle but was unable to move.

Emperor Tianwu raised his hand, and the giant palm, which was several times thicker than that of other people’s palms, fell on the child’s skull.

The child’s corpse immediately lost all struggle, and its body swayed weakly in the air.

He lifted up the child’s corpse, opened his mouth, and stuffed the child’s corpse into his mouth.

Afterwards, there was no sign of swallowing or chewing. When Emperor Wu closed his mouth, the child’s corpse had disappeared from his mouth.

It was a strange and bizarre scene, but no one in the hall showed any sign of being disturbed.

The eunuchs turned a blind eye and continued to do their own jobs.

The Imperial Master also sat opposite Emperor Tianwu with an unchanged expression, seemingly unaware of Emperor Tianwu’s actions just now.

After Emperor Tianwu swallowed the child’s corpse, he closed his eyes and seemed to be digesting it.

But the next moment, he frowned, opened his mouth and vomited out the child’s corpse that he had just swallowed.

“A-choo, A-choo…”

After spitting it out, he sneezed several times in succession, and then turbid yellow air began to come out of his mouth and nostrils.

The turbid yellow air began to spread in the hall as if it were a living thing, but when it touched the eunuchs beside Emperor Tianwu, it bypassed them.

Finally, Shuiyuexian sacrificed the Demon-Suppressing Tower in her hand. The Demon-Suppressing Tower stood in the air in the hall and began to absorb the turbid yellow air in the hall into the bottom of the tower.

“Snapped!”

Emperor Tianwu slapped his armrest heavily, his face livid, and he said angrily: “This holy fetus is simply a container specifically for carrying the energy of the zodiac. Who is plotting against me behind this?!”

This holy fetus is not a failed product, but was deliberately refined in this way by someone.

The person behind the scenes took advantage of some characteristics of the holy fetus and absorbed a huge amount of zodiac energy into the body of the holy fetus, as if he knew that the holy fetus would fall into the hands of Emperor Tianwu sooner or later, and deliberately did this.

Shui Yuexian said in a cold voice: “Your Majesty, after this incident, you should know that you can’t put everything in your mouth. There are always things in this world that you can’t refine.”

Emperor Tianwu’s originally furious expression instantly turned into a bit of embarrassment.

The Imperial Master did this on purpose.

She had obviously seen the problem with this holy fetus a long time ago. The reason why she didn’t remind me in advance was probably because I didn’t discuss it with her last time and secretly devoured the Yin Gods that used the Mad God as a “container” to heal their injuries, which made the National Master remember it.

Emperor Tianwu said awkwardly, “You should have said it in advance. Fortunately, there are only you and I in this palace. If there were others, such as the Fifth Marquis, here, wouldn’t he have been killed by you?”

Shui Yuexian said nothing, but her face remained as cold as ice.

Emperor Tianwu had no choice but to shout, “I know, I know. From now on, I will tell you in advance what I want to eat, and I will eat only after you nod. Oh, by the way, judging from this holy fetus, it is much more perfect than the failed one in Yong’an City fifteen years ago. It seems that the Salvation Church has finally perfected the method of refining holy fetuses over the years.”

Mentioning what happened fifteen years ago, he sighed softly, “Hongde is also stupid. I shouldn’t have told him about my injury. If he didn’t know anything, he wouldn’t have been so stupid as to cooperate with the Salvation Church and do such a stupid thing.”

“He wanted to exchange his perfect fetus for a flawless body for me. Even though I know he did something wrong, how could I bear to kill him?”

“How could he be so stupid? He could have seen me the next day, but he chose to commit suicide. His death was so undignified…”

“You feel guilty about seeing me? What is there to feel guilty about? They want him to die, so let Prince Yong’an die. What does it have to do with Ji Hongde?”

The matter of Prince Yong’an has always been a thorn in the heart of Emperor Tianwu.

Whenever he mentioned it, he always sighed and couldn’t help but talk about the old and ugly past between him and Prince Yong’an.

Shuiyuexian’s ears were almost callused from listening so much, she could even guess what Emperor Tianwu would say next.

But she still listened quietly until Emperor Tianwu went from sighing and regretting to cursing, and finally calmed down, and said: “Only Ling Fang, Zhao Guanxiang, me and Your Majesty know about the Holy Fetus. Even Li Shengtian, who is responsible for sending the Demon Suppression Tower back to Kyoto City, does not know what is suppressed in the tower. But now that Jingzhou is about to produce a flawless Holy Fetus, it has spread throughout the Kyushu Continent. The patrol stations in various places have reported it, and many hidden masters have shown signs of leaving for Jingzhou…”

Emperor Tianwu quickly understood the key point and said, “This news didn’t come from us, so it must have been released by the Salvation Church?”

Shuiyuexian nodded, she thought so too.

Emperor Tianwu sighed, “The Salvation Cult wants to use the Immaculate Saint Fetus as bait. But the question is, who is the big fish that the Salvation Cult wants to catch?”

He was suddenly stunned and pointed at himself: “It can’t be me, right?”

Shui Yuexian asked, “Will Your Majesty go?”

Emperor Tianwu said with some amusement: “I am the Son of Heaven, the ruler of a country. How can I personally go out and fight with a bunch of martial artists for something?”

“What’s more…how can the Holy Fetus be so important to me now?”

This is true.

I’m afraid that even the White Lotus Buddha Mother of the Savior Church, or the Red Lotus Saint, could not even imagine the realm of the current Tianwu Emperor.

That is… a realm that the warriors of Kyushu have never reached!
(End of this chapter)