Chapter 785 Promotion
He had originally guessed that it was the eldest prince and the second prince’s people who were causing trouble and pushing the third prince’s people out.

This would not only ruin Marquis Xiao Ming’s future, but also cut off the Third Prince’s arm and make him lose points in front of the Emperor. It could be said that it killed three birds with one stone.

Later, as he got to know the eldest prince, the second prince, and the emperor of the Phoenix Dynasty, he gradually turned his attention to other people.

The current emperor of the Phoenix Dynasty has great prestige and is wise and decisive.

His appointment as the prince consort was chosen by the emperor, so the eldest and second princes did not dare to object openly.

That is to oppose the emperor.

They did not dare to resort to shady means that could be easily detected, after all, the emperor’s spies were extremely rare in the world.

Putting aside the internal situation, the biggest suspects are the Yuanzhen Dynasty and the demons and monsters.

The demons and monsters did it because of bloodline, and the Yuanzhen Dynasty did it to destroy the marriage.

What about this assassination?
This assassination always feels a bit inexplicable.

Why did the demons want to assassinate Lord Xiao Ming? Was it to frame the Yujing Dynasty?

This seems extremely forced no matter how you look at it.

Isn’t that the demon clan?
But there is clearly a demon involved.

He felt as if he was surrounded by a fog, and even with his extrasensory perception he couldn’t see clearly.

His super senses were watching the direction of the remaining people.

They did not head towards the city gate, but instead gathered in a private house from all directions.

He thought to himself that these guys were really unscrupulous. Aren’t they afraid of being tracked down by the city guards?
Just as he had this thought, he saw these people enter the house and come to a pond in the backyard.

The water in the pond is not big, a circular pond with a diameter of ten meters. The water is so clear that you can see fish swimming in it.

Red fish and green grass.

The green water plants are swaying like willows swaying in the wind, allowing the fish to swim nimbly among them.

There was a brown cushion next to the pool, on which sat cross-legged a thin old man in brown clothes.

He has gray hair, chicken skin, dim eyes and a hunched body.

His life is like a candle in the wind, which will be extinguished if blown by strong wind.

The old man in brown glanced at them, took out a brown bead from his arms and put it into the water.

Like a drop of ink falling into water.

When the brown bead entered the water, a mass of red emerged and instantly spread to the entire pool.

The pink pool water is both gorgeous and a little weird.

They stepped into the pool.

As they walked further in, the water first reached their knees, then their waists, then their necks, and finally covered their heads, with only their hair floating.

Eventually the hair sank as well.

The old man narrowed his eyes slightly and seemed to be dozing off.

The back garden fell into silence, time seemed to stand still, and the wind could not blow in.

……

“Wow!”

The peace was broken and nine heads emerged from the water.

The nine people returned to the ground from the pool, white steam rising from their bodies, and the water quickly evaporated.

The old man in brown reached his hand into the pond, retrieved the brown bead, carefully put it back in his arms, and closed his eyes as if he had fallen asleep.

The nine middle-aged men saluted him and quietly retreated.

Chu Zhiyuan felt their changes.

The original aura had completely disappeared, and his entire body felt refreshed, without even a trace of true energy.

It seems that these nine people are ordinary people who have no knowledge of martial arts and have not been able to enter the path of cultivation.

The super-sensory hole shines on the old man.

There was a brown mist covering his entire body, making it difficult to see clearly.

This brown mist was not caused by the brown beads, but by his own practice.

Earlier, the brown bead left him and was placed in the pool, and he wanted to take the opportunity to see it clearly.

As a result, the old man was still surrounded by brown mist.

Therefore, perhaps this brown bead has been integrated into his body and become one with his true essence.

Perhaps this brown bead is the condensation of his true essence.

This old man is obviously a venerable one.

The Phoenix Imperial City is worthy of being the Phoenix Imperial City. The number of Venerables far exceeds one’s imagination.

This brown bead has the magic of cleansing the breath.

Able to avoid tracking.

But this old man was not a demon, and the Haoyang Demon Subduing Mirror did not react.

This skill is useless when fighting each other, but it is amazing when used for assassination.

While he was looking through the cave, he was talking to his ninth uncle Chu Hongwei.

Chu Hongwei shook his head with regret from time to time.

Chu Zhiyuan could see that Chu Hongwei had a strong desire to kill Fan Yaohui.

It is obvious that Fan Yaohui poses a huge threat in the military and can greatly affect the battle between the two armies.

“Zhao’er, if you have the chance, you must get rid of this young Marquis Ming!”

Chu Zhiyuan said: “Uncle Jiu, I will find an opportunity.”

Chu Hongwei smiled and said, “You have a quick mind, you will definitely find an opportunity!”

Chu Zhiyuan asked: “Uncle Jiu, have any generals in our army been assassinated by the Phoenix Dynasty?”

“…Not really.” Chu Hongwei shook his head: “They don’t care about that. They just hope our leaders will be more powerful and put more pressure on them.”

Chu Zhiyuan nodded slowly.

Chu Hongwei frowned and looked at him: “Zhao’er, what do you mean by this?”

“Uncle Jiu, I have been wondering why they wanted to assassinate Lord Xiao Ming.”

“Why?” Chu Hongwei snorted, “They want to put the blame on us!”

“So what if you put the blame on us?” Chu Zhiyuan asked, “Are you trying to ruin my marriage with the twelfth princess?”

Chu Hongwei said: “Phoenix Imperial City believes that it was us who did it, so how can we continue the marriage? This will achieve the purpose of the Yuanzhen Dynasty!”

“The demons may also be involved in this assassination.”

“… Heavenly Demon… That should be the Yuanzhen Dynasty’s instigator, and then the Heavenly Demon fanned the flames?… Or even deliberately led the Heavenly Demon to join in, so as to clear himself of any responsibility?”

He did not doubt Chu Zhiyuan’s judgment of the demon.

Through the communication with Chu Honglin, I know that Chu Zhiyuan is extremely sensitive to the demons, which is beyond the reach of ordinary people.

The demons were good at hiding, but they couldn’t hide it from Chu Zhiyuan. “If the Phoenix Imperial City determines that we are the Jade View Dynasty, how will they retaliate? I’m afraid it won’t just be canceling the marriage, right?”

“Revenge? …I will take revenge!”

Chu Hongwei’s face darkened.

Chu Zhiyuan asked: “How will you retaliate?”

“Assassinate our generals!” Chu Hongwei gritted his teeth and said, “What a despicable and vicious plot!”

“So Lord Xiao Ming cannot die?”

“… It’s a good thing you didn’t take advantage of the opportunity, Zhao’er.” Chu Hongwei looked at him helplessly: “You little guy, you’re beating around the bush when talking to me!”

“Uncle Jiu,” Chu Zhiyuan said with a smile, “I just realized that the Yuanzhen Dynasty’s strategy is indeed vicious enough.”

If they really succeed, the Yujing Dynasty and the Fenghuang Imperial City will not only not be able to get married, but will probably become enemies immediately.

At that time, Phoenix Imperial City will definitely assassinate the generals of Yujing Dynasty.

The loss of generals had a huge impact on the court.

Once people’s hearts are disturbed, the army will probably be shaken.

Once the army is shaken, all those evil spirits will take the opportunity to jump out and stir up trouble.

Who knows if a dragon can emerge from the storm and stir up chaos in the world?

We have to be on guard.

“At least now we can see it clearly, so we can resolve it!”

“How to resolve it?”

“We’ll expose their wishful thinking in advance!” Chu Hongwei snorted, “I also have connections in the court of the Phoenix Dynasty.”

Chu Zhiyuan smiled and said, “Uncle Jiu is amazing.”

Chu Hongwei waved his hands complacently: “Not everyone in Phoenix Imperial City wants to fight. Some people hope that the three dynasties will have peace and lose fewer soldiers and civilians.”

Chu Zhiyuan nodded slowly.

Human hearts are complicated and it is impossible for everyone to think the same way.

There are always some people who are compassionate and hope for peace in the world.

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Chu Zhiyuan sat on the couch with his eyes closed, concentrating his mind and entering the Haoyang Demon-Subduing Mirror.

The space inside the Haoyang Demon-Subduing Mirror is vast, just like space.

Among them there are clusters of colorful light, like stars falling in the void.

They are the memories, heritage and emotions of those demon masters.

He had not touched these balls of light before, as he did not want them to affect his mind.

Now that he has entered the Spirit Transformation Realm, his spirit has gained defensive power, and the Three Transformations of the Heavenly Dragon has made his soul stronger, so he is ready to make some moves.

So his mind was focused on the farthest group of colorful light.

The farthest one was the demon who had just been killed.

In a flash, he turned into the demon in a trance.

……

When he woke up slowly, his eyes were dazed and he fell into a trance that seemed real and unreal.

Sometimes he was Chu Zhiyuan, sometimes he was Chu Liezhao, and sometimes he was the demon Zhao Feiliu.

Chu Zhiyuan couldn’t help but think of the life of this demon.

How he was born into the demon world, how he practiced hard and finally became a Venerable, how he fell, and then how he practiced hard to use the method of possessing another’s body.

How to practice hard and keep a low profile as the host Hu Hengyang.

He had been an unknown carpenter in the imperial city, and even secretly killed his wife and children, becoming a lonely man.

No more risk of exposure.

He gathered information and acted covertly, and was eventually recruited by the Yuanzhen Dynasty and became its secret spy.

One message, two purposes.

It’s absolutely perfect.

He never participated in the action, only gathered information.

This time he was finally used in an extremely high-level operation.

Unexpectedly, everything went smoothly, but we ran into a tough problem at the last moment.

I never thought that I would fail in the imperial city.

But if I die, I will die. After death, I can return to the Demonic Abyss.

With this thought in mind, he eventually died, unaware that he was unable to return to the Demon Abyss and was instead absorbed into the Haoyang Demon-Subduing Mirror.

Thus completely disappearing between heaven and earth.

After reading this, Chu Zhiyuan felt an inexplicable sense of anger.

The emotions of demons are no different from those of humans. They also have seven emotions and six desires. Being in the demon world, they also have joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness. They also have human relationships, as well as loneliness and pain.

But the devil treats humans like pigs and dogs.

Hu Hengyang’s wife and children were killed without any mercy, just like killing chickens.

He hated this kind of condescension.

The devil will never be content with mediocrity when living among humans, and will always have murderous intentions.

If you want the devil to stop killing people, you have to kill him first.

When he thought of this, he was filled with anger and a strong desire to kill.

There are countless demons in the imperial city. Are every demon so cold-blooded and ruthless?

He looked at the other colorful light balls in the space of Haoyang Demon-Subduing Mirror.

What was touched just now was still flashing with colorful light, without being affected at all.

In the end he didn’t touch the others.

I had a vague feeling that something was wrong. There would be consequences if I touched too many memories in a short period of time.

After he came to, he closed his eyes again and began to sort out the inside of his body.

The light talisman emitted a soft light that enveloped him, transforming the pure spiritual energy falling from the sky and then returning it to his body and merging it into his true essence.

The little white dragon in Danzhong was unusually agile and its swimming speed increased suddenly.

Half an hour later, he opened his eyes again.

There was a thoughtful look in his eyes.

His cultivation level suddenly improved greatly. This half hour was better than what he had gained from these days of hard practice.

What’s the point?
(End of this chapter)