Chapter 298 The Old Emperor

Zuo Chen continued to move forward along the river of time.

Looking at the rapidly changing images in front of him, Zuo Chen could also feel that he was getting closer and closer to his goal.

Finally, he stopped on the bank of the long river of time.

He saw a huge wave.

Some important events will leave reefs in the long river of time. The surging tide of time will hit the reefs and create rushing white waves, guiding the direction of travelers going downstream.

When he got close to the surging waves, Zuo Chen knew he had found the place.

This period of time corresponds to the years that were missing after the ghost disaster.

After anchoring at the bank of the long river of time, Zuo Chen lowered his head and looked down at the flowing river of time.

His eyes swept across the river.

Soon, Zuo Chen found the “hidden reef” in the long river of time.

The huge shadow was falling in the center of the palace, covering the entire palace.

Walking directly into the river, Zuo Chen’s figure also appeared in the palace at this time.

After wandering around for a few rounds, Zuo Chen simply found a big rock to sit on and wait for something to happen.

Soon, he saw a little baby running out from the depths of the palace with a sad face.

The doll looked young, wearing a pair of small cloth shoes, and the silk on her body was luxurious and beautiful.

His face is neutral, similar to both male and female.

Zuo Chen recognized who the little kid was at a glance.

This is Li Rongxian.

Li Rongxian ran towards Zuo Chen, and then his body passed by Zuo Chen’s legs like mist.

The images from the past still cannot affect Zuo Chen, and Zuo Chen is unable to touch these images.

Just as Zuo Chen’s eyes followed Li Rongxuan away, he suddenly heard a slightly tired male voice coming from behind:
“Rong’er, Rong’er.”

When I turned my head, I found a man standing in the long corridor.

He is a little thin and his face is somewhat similar to Li Ji and Li Yu.

This person is…

Li Rongxian’s father.

Zuo Chen remembered that Li Ji had once introduced him to him. This was the previous emperor, Li Zhao.

He still remembered Li Ji’s evaluation.

The old emperor Li Zhao was a qualified emperor when he was young. He served the country and the people and could even be called a sage monarch.

As a result, he suddenly became insane, causing a ghost disaster in Kyoto.

At this point in time…

It should have been after the ghost disaster ended and before Li Zhao died.

But from the memories in this book, it seems that Li Zhao now looks very normal, without any trace of madness of slaughtering the world.

Li Rongxian, who was running along the street, was suddenly tripped by something. He fell forward to the ground, crying loudly in pain.

Li Zhao also quickly walked behind Li Rongxian.

He stretched out his hand and picked up Li Rongxuan:
“Child, you ran around recklessly and fell down.”

“It hurts… it hurts…”

The young Li Rongxian was obviously unable to speak clearly now. He could only shed tears and repeat in a baby voice.

“Hey, let me take you to the hospital for treatment. It will be fine in a while.”

Li Rongxian nodded.

Li Zhao smiled and strolled in the palace holding Li Rongxian.

Zuo Chen also followed.

Soon, Zuo Chen discovered that there was something wrong with the direction Li Zhao was heading.

It was just a bruise. Normally, the imperial physician would be called to the palace to treat it. Even if the patient was eager to protect his son, he should have been sent to the imperial physician’s office.

And the direction Li Zhao is heading now…

Zuo Chen looks familiar.

This seems to be,

Go to the direction of the underground ancestral hall!

Zuo Chen suddenly recalled that Li Ji had said that Li Rongxian had suffered a serious illness when he was a child. His father took him into an underground mausoleum, and he was cured when he came out.

Is it now?
Is a fall an incurable serious illness?
Zuo Chen had a feeling and guessed what would happen next.

And just as he expected,
Li Zhao brought Li Rongxian to the entrance of the underground mausoleum.

He called out to the soldiers guarding the door to withdraw. A high-ranking official happened to be nearby and hurried over to ask:

“Your Majesty, why did you bring the prince into the mausoleum?”

“The prince has a strange disease, and the imperial doctors can’t cure it.” Li Zhao smiled and said, “I need to consult my ancestors.”

How could the young Li Rongxian hear anything wrong in his father’s words? He just bit his thumb and looked at his father in confusion.

The official seemed to sense something was wrong in Li Zhao’s words. He wiped his forehead and left, not daring to stop Li Zhao.

In this way, Li Zhao entered the mausoleum.

Zuo Chen followed him down.

There were only Li Zhao and Li Rongxuan in the entire mausoleum. Li Rongxuan finally felt something was wrong at this moment:
“Father, why did you bring me here? I’m afraid…”

“Don’t be afraid.” Li Zhao showed a big smile on his face.

It was dim, and the flickering firelight in the mausoleum reflected on his face, casting long shadows under his hair and on the bridge of his nose:
“My father’s life is coming to an end. But you still have a long life ahead of you.”

“Father?”

Li Rongxian stopped talking abruptly.

A dagger pierced his chest.

Li Zhao held the dagger in his hand, with a smile on his face.

……

Zuo Chen opened his eyes.

Recalling everything he had just seen, Zuo Chen had some ideas in his mind. He went downstairs directly.

“Master, what happened?” Seeing that Zuo Chen came down in less than half an incense stick of time, Li Rongxian, who was in a daze at the door, blinked and looked at Zuo Chen with some confusion.

Without saying a word, Zuo Chen took out a thick stack of yellow paper talismans from his arms and began to stick them on Li Rongxian.

Good fortune, great luck, no disaster, ward off evil spirits, and a strong body.

Li Rongxuan: “?”

After doing all this, Zuo Chen thought about it again, and separated out a drop of Hunyuan Zhenqi from his Dantian. He protected the outside of it to ensure that it would not assimilate the surroundings, and then stuffed this thing into Li Rongxian’s hands.

“Take it.”

“Oh.”

Although Li Rongxian didn’t know what Zuo Chen meant, he still put the things away obediently.

After finishing all these preparations, Zuo Chen felt that there seemed to be a lack of killing methods here, so he simply called Li Ji, who was a little confused, and asked him to take out the knife.

Li Ji had no suspicion at all and directly threw the knife to Zuo Chen.

Zuo Chen infused true energy into the blade.

This time he did not consider the sustainability and only swung the knife once.

But precisely because of this, this knife is enough to split mountains and rocks and eliminate evil spirits.

“Master? What do you want?”

Everyone could see that there was something wrong with Zuo Chen’s behavior, and they couldn’t help but feel confused.

“I’m going to take care of some things.”

Zuo Chen looked at the position of the sun in the sky:

“It won’t take long.”

“Do you need to prepare lunch?” Caiyi asked familiarly.

“Okay, make more soup.”

After saying this, Zuo Chen flew away into the sky, and no one knew where he went.

Only after he disappeared did Caiyi turn around and look at the people around her with a smile:
“The Taoist priest wants to drink soup, Master Bao, do you have any recommendations?”

“Ah? Oh, I’ll go ask the chefs in the imperial kitchen right now.”

Bao Gonggong trotted to the imperial kitchen, still muttering in his heart:
“Is it all so natural?”

……

Zuo Chen, who was floating away, actually turned in the air and returned to the sky above the imperial palace.

He cast the “earth escape technique” around his body and immediately burrowed into the thick soil.

It didn’t take long for Zuo Chen to arrive at the previous tomb location.

Standing on the rustic floor, Zuo Chen’s eyes were filled with true energy as he looked at the coffins one by one.

The last time he came, he just took a rough look, and out of respect for the deceased, Zuo Chen did not use the Qi-observing technique to peek inside the coffin.

And this time, with the relationship factor working at full capacity, Zuo Chen quickly found the completely different coffin.

It was a mahogany coffin placed under a dead tree. The branches of the dead tree were tied with red silk ribbons and hung down like willow branches. The gloomy ancient tomb and the coffin made one’s spine chill.

Zuo Chen walked directly to the coffin and placed his hand on the coffin lid.

Push it open with force.

A stale and corrupt smell immediately filled the entire underground chamber.

There was indeed a corpse lying inside the coffin, but the remaining Qi energy attached to the corpse was not connected to the Li family.

Zuo Chen didn’t know who the owner of this body was, but he was sure it was not Li Zhao.

But he was wearing a dragon robe.

The dragon vein energy above cannot be faked.

In order to escape death, Li Zhao put his dragon robe on the dead body.

In this way, even if the coffin is opened for inspection, most people will not realize that the body is not his at all.

With a wave of his hand, the dragon robe fell directly into Zuo Chen’s hands.

Zuo Chen also jumped directly, left the tomb and came to the sky above Kyoto.

In fact, as a sacrificial garment, Li Zhao probably didn’t wear the dragon robe many times, but this thing, like the Tianqing Jinxuan, had a thick aura of Qi on it.

It also happened to be the best way for Zuo Chen to find someone.

Comparing the breath, Zuo Chen’s eyes quickly scanned the entire Kyoto.

I looked over the houses and swept over the city walls.

Zuo Chen’s gaze finally fell on a mountain outside Kyoto.

Today the sky is bright and there are many clouds, but there are no clouds on the top of the mountain over there, as if something has blown them away.

Zuo Chen flew towards that direction and soon reached the top of the mountain.

Only when you reach the top of the mountain can you see that this is a flat platform.

And right above this platform.

Constructing a luxurious building.

Entering the main hall, what comes into view is a magnificent scene. The left and right sides of the hall are filled with people, with civil officials on the left and military generals on the right.

They stood there stiffly, like rows of dead but not yet stiff corpses.

When Zuo Chen entered, these civil officials and military generals bent their heads to the side and stared in his direction.

As Zuo Chen moved forward, the eyes of the civil and military officials were always fixed on him.

Zuo Chengen ignored the people on both sides and went straight to the middle of the hall.

There is a golden throne here, with a ferocious five-clawed dragon carved on it.

A middle-aged man with a gentle face was sitting above.

He is the same man that Zuo Chen saw in the long river of time.

The former emperor of Daliang.

The instigator of the Kyoto ghost disaster.

Li Zhao!

(End of this chapter)