Counting on your fingers, the fifth marriage is coming

Chapter 185: The Saint King Selection (I)

In another mansion, lights were ablaze, like dragon torches surrounding a deep courtyard. The light shone on the vermilion gate and walls, outlining the outline of a tense and hastily dodging figure.

The man was wrapped in a black cloak and his face could not be seen clearly. When he saw the light in his eyes, he immediately pulled his hood tightly, leaving only a pair of alert and suspicious eyes.

At this time, a group of figures came from deep inside the mansion. They walked in unison, but they did not have the solemnity and coldness of guards. Instead, their footsteps were light, and every step seemed to be walking on the wind and clouds, as if they were afraid to disturb the hustle and bustle of the world.

When he saw these people, the man under the cloak finally realized something and his scalp suddenly tightened.

——It’s the messenger of the Holy Mountain!

"What are you running away from? Where can you run to?"

A group of handsome men in light clothing gathered their sleeves in front of their chests, bowed and waited for a figure to slowly approach.

The cloak fluttered in the wind, revealing the luxurious clothing underneath. The light was as gorgeous as flowers, and the moonlight was as bright as silk, filling the entire courtyard and the ground.

The man in black pressed himself against the cold wall, and secretly drew runes on his back with one hand: "Who are you? I don't think I have offended you, why are you chasing me?"

"If you had listened to me from the beginning, obediently retreated and stopped interfering in worldly affairs, I wouldn't have had to kill you all. But you insisted on clinging to worldly power and disrupted the world..."

Hearing her words, the man was stunned: "Great, great master?!"

But, isn’t the Grand Master already dead?
He tried hard to identify her, and saw that the figure of the person who came seemed both mysterious and full of power to control everything. But if she was not the Grand Master, why would the Holy Mountain Envoy respect her?

After learning the other party's identity, the man in black panicked. He knew clearly the gap between himself and the great master. He now only hoped that he could escape.

A light suddenly appeared behind him, and the vortex sucked inward. His body was already halfway in... But the next second, the excitement and excitement in his eyes came to an abrupt end.

Because he felt himself being pulled outward by another force, and the "escape passage" behind him was forcibly closed, he was "vomited" out and fell to the ground.

"Tell me, what are you planning to do in Shengjing?"

The gods' messengers all made hand gestures, and a Bagua formation formed on the ground, trapping the man inside.

"I will never tell..."

Xu Shanshan walked forward with a faint smile on her lips. That smile was warm and harmless, able to dispel the haze in people's hearts.

"You will tell."

Her sleeves were filled with air, and she made a gesture with her finger, leaving a red mark on the man's forehead.

His pupils were dilated and he looked dazed and lost his clarity of mind.

"Which faction are you from, and what do you want to do?"

"We are disciples of the Nanyang Sect. We have been in Shengjing for more than ten years. Recently, we received an order from the Sect Master to set up an ice-sealed demon-killing formation, kill the tyrant king, and establish a new king to change the dynasty in order to revive the power of the Xuan Sect."

Xu Shanshan was not surprised that their purpose was to assassinate her, because she was also hunting them down and eliminating the source of all unrest.

"Who is the new ruler you intend to rule? Prince Shou?"

"Not Shou Wang."

"Oh, who is that?"

As she continued to question him, the man felt a splitting headache and cracks flashed across his chest. His chest seemed to be hollowed out, leaving only a skeleton. He died instantly.

Xu Shanshan narrowed his eyes.

"Heart-Eating Curse. It seems that the righteous way of killing people is not much more merciful than the evil master."

She waved her hand, and the person who was preparing to escape in the dark suddenly fell from a high place. He hit the hard stone slab heavily and vomited blood.

Glancing at them calmly, she said, "Don't worry, I will eventually catch all of you one by one."

The envoy lowered his eyes and hands, quietly listening to the anxious sound of the wind. Maomao gently landed on Xu Shanshan's shoulder and asked in his mind: "Shan, can you really not figure it out?"

Xu Shanshan looked up at the sky: "Well, I can't calculate anything in three months."

"Is it because you saved Maomao?" it asked guiltily.

Xu Shanshan touched its head and said, "He is the best at reading people's minds. If it's not you, there will be other accidents."

"But now you have lost your ability to predict the future, and these people are lurking in the dark to assassinate you. It's very dangerous. What should I do now?"

Xu Shanshan has long passed the stage of being anxious about things that have not happened. She said calmly: "If an enemy comes, we will fight him with our troops; if a flood comes, we will block it with earth."

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Although Shengjing appears to be calm on the surface recently, the turbulent waves underneath have lasted for more than a month.

"Your Majesty, the open mystics masters have been arrested, but they communicate quickly among themselves. Some of them got the news in advance and have already gone into hiding. The tobacco slaves couldn't find anyone even if they dug three feet underground."

On the throne, the empress was reviewing memorials, and the tobacco slave below was reporting.

"Smoking slave" is not a name, but a nickname, a nickname for their group.

Decades ago, there was an evil master who captured everyone in a village just to refine a kind of absolutely obedient mother-and-child Gu.

He kept testing poisons and drugs on these villagers, and finally made them look unrecognizable, with their bodies completely black, as if they had been roasted by fire and smoke.

But because of this they gained the ability to become invisible like smoke and their whereabouts are elusive.

From then on, the evil teacher forced them to become slaves and servants, and to do sneaky and evil things.

The matter was reported to the temple, and the evil master was later eliminated by the temple's national master. The opium slaves who were poisoned by the Gu woke up after being rescued. In order to express their gratitude to the national master, they were willing to atone their sins with their bodies, and so they stayed by the national master's side to be at his service.

"They won't escape. The Ice Demon-Slaying Array is a large array that requires a hundred people to open the array's center at the same time at a specific location. Their target is me, so they will definitely send someone to sneak into the palace to open the array's center."

"Your Majesty, are you planning to lure me into a trap and then catch the turtle in it?"

"They have a strong foundation in Shengjing. Since we can't uproot them all at once, we can just wait for the right moment to lure them out and capture them all in one fell swoop."

"But how can we lead it?" Yannu Jing asked.

"The palace is now full of people arranged by me. I'm afraid they don't have any chance at all..." Xu Shanshan couldn't think of any good idea for a moment.

At this time, the chief eunuch came to report that the Empress Dowager wanted to discuss an important matter with her and asked her to go to Yanshou Palace later.

When they arrived at the Yanshou Palace, the Empress Dowager did not even bother to smooth things over with her, but went straight to the point: "Shen'er, you are no longer a great state teacher, and you don't have to practice in the temple. Since you have decided to become the Emperor of Jing, you should take on the responsibilities of an emperor..."

Hearing the hidden meaning in her words, Xu Shanshan asked calmly: "For example, what kind of responsibility?"

"It's time for you to choose a concubine," she said seriously.

Choosing a concubine?

She asked curiously, "Choose a boy or a girl?"

"Of course it's a man." The Empress Dowager glared at her unhappily.

"A male concubine?" Xu Shanshan thought for a moment, and then said thoughtfully, "Well... it's not impossible."

"You agreed?!"

The Empress Dowager was surprised, but her face showed joy.

She also never expected that the man who had been pure and single for several lifetimes would suddenly come to his senses.