Chapter 82 The Assassination of the Emperor
This year's invitation ceremony was hosted by Tianquan Xing Ningguang. Ningguang got up early in the morning to wash up and dress up specially. She attached great importance to this ceremony of inviting immortals. Last year, Ke Qing's rude remarks caused the Seven Stars reputation to be damaged, so she had to find a way to restore some of her image.
With this in mind, Ningguang boarded the floating stone leaving Qunyu Pavilion. She was going to Yujing Terrace to arrange the scene and prepare for the ceremony.
Ye Lan also woke up early. Although she had already known what Safire and Zhongli had planned, she was still uneasy and always felt that something would happen. So she first went to the Yanshang Teahouse and found that Safire had already left. , and hurried to Changshengtang to look for Zhongli. Hutao told her that Zhongli had met Safire early in the morning, and she didn’t know where they had gone now.
After two misses, Yelan's uneasiness became more and more serious. She always felt that something was wrong. Safire and Zhongli's actions obviously had some plan, but what exactly were they planning to do? With this in mind, she still came to the Yujingtai site. No matter what they planned to do, Zhongli would always be the Emperor of the Rock King. Since it was an invitation ceremony for immortals, they would not be too far away from here.
When Yelan arrived at the scene, Ningguang was still sending people to make preliminary arrangements. When he saw her coming, Ningguang originally planned to ask her to help, but Yelan looked around and locked in a direction.
"It should be there." Yelan looked at the tall building of Yuehai Pavilion.
Ning Guang followed Ye Lan's gaze and saw only tall buildings and windows that had been opened for ventilation. She approached Ye Lan and asked aloud: "What's wrong, Ye Lan? Why are you so nervous?"
Yelan saw Ningguang coming and shook her head: "The movements of Dark Priest Safiel are unknown. I'm worried something might go wrong."
Ning Guang's brows also wrinkled. She had already arranged for someone to keep an eye on the Yanshang Tea Room. The only news that came was that the traveler had left the Yanshang Tea Room and seemed to be planning to participate in the Immortal Invitation Ceremony. However, there was no news that Safiir had left the Yanshang Tea Room. information.
"Dark Shepherd's methods are weird. It's normal that your people can't keep an eye on her." Ye Lan was not surprised by this. Quan Liyue dared to say that the only people who could keep an eye on Safire were the Rock King and the Immortals. Even she doesn't have this confidence.
Ning Guang's face was solemn: "The Immortal Invitation Ceremony is about to begin, so we can't let anything go wrong at this time. Ye Lan, we must find the traces of An Mu immediately, and we must not let her destroy the ceremony."
Yelan nodded: "I suspect she is at Yuehai Pavilion at the moment."
Speaking of Yuehai Pavilion, Ningguang noticed the open window. There were two figures vaguely inside, but they couldn't see clearly.
"You continue preparing for the ceremony, I'll go take a look." Ye Lan said, blue light shining in his eyes, and his whole body turned into a blue shadow and rushed into Yuehai Pavilion, approaching Safire's location.
Zhongli was standing next to Safire at this time: "As long as Ye Lan is vigilant enough, she will definitely get here. In this way, you will have a powerful witness."
Safir smiled: "Zhongli, do you think you have plotted against your subordinates? Yelan has taken care of you for so long without any regrets, you can't trap her to death, can you?"
Zhongli didn't care. He took out a tea set and started making tea: "Calming the name of an immortal is enough to be promoted to the Seven Stars. How can it be called a trap?"
Safire also moved a chair to sit next to him: "Uncle Tian is retiring soon. It seems like you want to push her to Tianshu Star? Unfortunately, I feel that she doesn't care about this position."
"Yelan City is extremely deep, she has no expression of joy or anger, she has a delicate mind, and she is impeccable in her work. She is an excellent political talent. I am interested in her ability and give her a chance, regardless of whether she wants it or not." Zhongli patiently controlled the heat. A scent of tea is already wafting out.
Safire shook his head: "What if she refuses to be promoted?"
Zhongli also smiled: "If it is directly appointed by Emperor Yan Wang, she will naturally not be able to refuse."
"But Emperor Rock King doesn't have this chance." Safire's eyes were narrow, "You didn't expect to miss such a talent, right?"
Zhongli was not annoyed, but laughed: "As long as you work for me, Liyue, you are as talented as Liyue. It's just a different position, so why miss it?"
Ye Lan actually arrived a long time ago. She hid at the door and eavesdropped on the entire conversation between the two. She felt a little helpless, as these two people were talking about her. She didn't even know whether to go in or not.
"What are you doing standing outside? If you don't come in, I'll ask Zhongli to pour me tea." Safire's voice came from inside the door.
Seeing this, Ye Lan had no choice but to open the door and walk in. At this time, she also lost the intention to joke with Safir. All the preparations are over, and the Immortal Invitation Ceremony is the stage they have been planning for a long time. Yelan didn't know what they planned to do, but the feeling that a storm was coming was unmistakable.
He walked forward slowly and poured tea for Zhongli and Saphire respectively. Zhongli patted a chair next to him and said, "Sit down. The angle here is good, so you can see more clearly."
Ye Lan hesitated and sat down. She had also watched the Immortal Invitation Ceremony, but this was the first time she had watched it from the perspective of an emperor. She had many questions to ask, but she couldn't ask them when she looked into Zhongli's eyes. I can only sit quietly and wait.
On the other side, Ying also arrived at the scene. Before the ceremony officially started, she took little Paimon to an incense burner.
A young woman was offering incense and making wishes. When she saw Ying coming, she said to her: "Hello, girl, are you here to make a wish too?"
Paimon looked at the slowly burning incense sticks in the incense burner and asked, "Make a wish?"
The woman laughed and explained: "To make a wish is to make a wish to the Rock King. It is said that if you make a wish on the day of the Immortal Invitation Ceremony, you can get the immortal energy. The Emperor, his elders and the immortals will bless you. I have already made my wish. , I’ll leave this to you.”
Paimon politely expressed his thanks to the woman. Yingye followed the example of a woman and closed her eyes with her hands clasped together. She said silently in her heart: "I hope the people I care about have a safe journey, and I hope everything goes well for everyone."
As her wish was fulfilled, the stove lit up with golden light, looking very effective. Ying walked towards the center of the venue, and met a man dressed in the winter country on the way.
The other party claimed to be a traveling businessman from Zhidong, and very enthusiastically introduced to Ying the important person holding the ceremony this time: Tianquan Xing Ningguang.
Following the direction pointed by the man, Ying found a graceful and luxurious woman. Even she couldn't help but envy her milky white and shiny skin. Her pair of long legs made Ying Zi feel ashamed. The aura she exuded unconsciously just by standing there was hard not to notice.
Ying compared her figure and felt a little discouraged. Sure enough, Safire was the best. She was gentle and beautiful. The most important thing was that she would not feel ashamed. Ying thought very rudely in her heart.
The man gave the incense burner to Ying, and Ying thought for a while and made another wish: "I hope my figure will get better! My skin will become whiter!"
Zhongli, who was hiding in the dark, suddenly coughed unconsciously, then picked up the teacup and drank tea to hide his embarrassment. Safire looked at him strangely, and then continued: "Ying is a good boy. Although she is a bit unruly at ordinary times, she still does things very neatly. If you have anything to do, ask her to run errands or something. It's no problem."
Zhongli nodded perfunctorily without making any comments.
Soon, Ning Guang looked at the time and felt it was almost time, so he took a few steps forward. The onlookers knew that the ceremony had officially begun.
"The auspicious time has come." Ningguang's unique voice sounded, and the two staff members next to her bowed to her and retreated. Ning Guang circulated the power on his body, and the God's Eye on his waist lit up. A strong rock element rose up and formed four golden gems, surrounding Ning Guang's body.
As Ning Guang waved his hand, the four gems quickly flew into the huge incense burner in the middle. After receiving Ning Guang's elemental power, the incense burner lit up with dazzling golden light, and then a golden beam of light shot out and shot into the sky. Dispersed the clouds in the sky. The clouds resonated with the golden light, forming a vortex with golden light. The sky gradually turned dark, and the people on the ground all prayed devoutly, hoping that the Rock King would bless them.
High in the sky, where people couldn't see, a girl who was closing her eyes to rest slowly opened her scarlet eyes and murmured to herself: "Has it started yet?"
A dragon-shaped body had already appeared in front of her, which was Morax's magic slough. It was Zhongli who brought it here early in the morning and placed it here.
The girl showed a crazy smile, and the originally darkened sky suddenly turned pitch black. Countless chains appeared out of thin air, wrapping around the ancestor Fashu as if they were alive.
The people on the ground also noticed something was wrong at this time. The sky was too weird. The previous ceremony of inviting immortals was not like this. Yelan looked at the two people who were calmly drinking tea and talking and laughing in front of her, and she was a little confused, so what on earth are these two doing? Are you just here to watch the show?
The ancestor Fashen was tied up tightly, and the girl slowly took out a pair of daggers: "Infinite Shadow Prison? Devouring." As her voice fell, the chains that had become calm once again became restless, as if they had become He formed a living tentacle and drilled into the chest of his ancestor Fa Shei. The girl was not idle either. As the chains opened more than a dozen holes in the ancestor's body, she floated forward, put her hand on his chest, and "gouged out his heart."
The gouging out that Safir used really pales into insignificance compared to this gouging out. A huge force penetrated the ancestor's body, scarlet blood spurted out wildly, and a large hole appeared directly in the chest of the ancestor's body, which was transparent from the front to the back.
Zhongli's hand holding the tea cup trembled, and then he looked at Saffir beside him with twitching eyelids, and began to wonder if he had offended her in some way, and whether he should be a little nicer to this guy in the future. He always felt that this time The attack was somewhat personal.
In the air, the chain broke, and the ancestor Fashen lost her support and fell to the ground. The girl who completed a set of attacks stayed in the air and looked at the ground in the distance.
"This is the end. This should be the last time. Sure enough, it was right to find Alice first. I didn't expect that the Earth Line Seal actually has a surface and a surface, and the Zhongxia Courtyard is also a lie." The girl looked at the crowd gradually. A commotion began, knowing that time was running out.
She was about to return to her own world. Every previous trip had ended in failure. The most critical thing was the lifting of the earth vein seal. In the past, to lift the earth line seal, Ying went to the Zhongxia Courtyard to defeat the Formless Thunder. This time, nothing like this happened at all. Instead, through the lost secret realm, she realized that maybe the path this time was the right one, and that the Midsummer Courtyard was just an illusion.
The ancestor's method fell to the ground, and his miserable appearance frightened everyone present to scream. Ning Guang felt his blood freeze for a moment. The emperor actually died in such a miserable way. Ying was also confused. She wanted to meet the rumored God of Wealth, but why...
On the tall building on the other side, Ye Lan was stunned when she saw this scene. She looked at Zhongli who was drinking tea calmly and Safire who stood up suddenly to see if their reactions were the other way around.
Safir looked at the gradually brightening sky with a solemn face. She was too familiar with the chain just now. It was her own skill. There was absolutely no other person in the world who could use it. She suddenly realized many things. Why did Alice look like she knew her very well, why did Liyue Immortal have an ambiguous attitude towards her, and why did an executive prepare logs and send them to her when she needed sand wood.
It turns out that there was another Sapphire operating somewhere she didn't know about.
"You already knew this, right?" Safire asked Zhongli.
Zhongli didn't answer, just nodded.
Safir gasped slightly: "So, why do you keep hiding it from me?"
"Because after you learn about this, 'she' has to leave." Zhongli did not hide anything and told the truth directly.
"She left." Safire looked at the sky. Couldn't find anything anymore. Ye Lan looked at the two of them in a daze and didn't know what to say. If this was Zhongli's plan, it seemed that Safire was kept in the dark by him, and Yelan knew very well that even if she knew the truth, all she could do was prove that Safire was not the one who did it. So for Quan Liyue, the emperor is still dead.
"Something big is about to happen." Ye Lan looked at the condensed light in the field who had bent down to inspect the ancestor's transformation.
Ning Guang was caught off guard by this sudden turn of events. Her ancestors had no use for it anymore. With such a big hole in it, no one could survive. In the end, she could only wave her hand and give orders.
"The emperor has been killed, the whole place is sealed off!"