The Demon Prince

Inside the main hall, Li Xuansi was initially able to maintain his composure.

But when Zhang Erhe read out the names Zhang Feifei and Xiao Junlin, and when everything was revealed, his gentleness completely vanished!

"Zhang Erhe!" The shout made the beams of the palace tremble.

"You betrayed me?"

Zhang Erhe remained kneeling and slowly began to speak:

"Li Xuansi, have you forgotten that I was also a minister who followed the emperor back then?"

Li Xuansi was stunned, and the hall fell silent as well.

The phrase "a minister who served the emperor" made many veteran officials suddenly realize that glorious era!

When Li Chengqian seized the throne, he only had eight hundred men by his side. Among those eight hundred men were military generals, loyal soldiers, and young civil officials, including Zhang Erhe!

He didn't rise to power later; he was the one who risked his life alongside Li Chengqian on that bloody night!

However, over the years, Zhang Erhe has drifted further and further away from the emperor. As his power and influence have grown, so has the suspicion between him and the emperor. The officials and civil servants have almost forgotten about this matter.

Li Xuansi laughed, he laughed heartily:

"Well done, what a loyal subject who followed the emperor."

He suddenly understood that Zhang Erhe had not bet on him at all. Zhang Erhe wanted revenge and wanted to use the evidence to completely kill him, the wise king!

Otherwise, if he simply produced the imperial pardon bestowed by the late emperor, what could ordinary evidence do to Li Xuansi?

Turn big problems into small ones, and small problems into nothing!

But this is a huge problem, and it can't be solved!

He cultivated his power in Kyoto, and Zhang Erhe took the opportunity to get close to him. From then on, Zhang Erhe, who was meticulous in his work, took control of a part of the power in the court for him and also collected evidence of his crimes!

Li Xuansi's smile turned sinister, and he looked at Li Chengqian on the dragon throne:

"Brother, do you really think you can get rid of me based on these account books and the testimonies left by the dead?"

Li Chengqian remained silent.

Li Xuansi pointed to those account books:

"Evidence? Charges? Collusion with the enemy? Treason?"

"Brother, have you forgotten how you eliminated our eldest brother and those who stood in our way back then?"

Li Xuansi took a step forward, his dark blue python robe billowing without wind, his aura of a grandmaster at its peak sweeping across the entire arena:

"It wasn't achieved through bookkeeping and literary works, but through a coup! By force!"

Upon hearing Li Xuansi's words, the court officials were completely panicked.

Li Taiping took a half step back, while Xiao Xingyue stepped forward and stood in front of the princesses.

Blood is about to be drawn!

Outside the palace gate, a figure staggered in; it was Li Xuansi's trusted bodyguard.

At this moment, his front was covered in blood, and half of a broken arrow was stuck in his shoulder.

"Your Highness!"

The guard fell to the ground:

"Our forces are being held back!"

Li Xuansi asked in disbelief, "What?"

The bodyguard vomited blood:

"The palace gates were surrounded by ambushes. The south gate, the east gate, and the passageway on the west side were all blocked. We tried to break through three times, but we failed."

Li Xuansi's anger was ferocious:

"Impossible! I have 40,000 troops, plus the Imperial Guards I've bribed. How could we possibly be stopped?"

Forty thousand? This caused another uproar in the hall.

Zhang Erhe slowly raised his head. Li Xuansi had told him about 20,000 elite troops, but it turned out that half of them were hidden.

As expected, Li Xuansi never truly believed him.

The bodyguard knelt on the ground:

"The Sixteen Guards of the Southern Court did not surrender to us, and Wei Changgeng failed to open the Northern Court. Gu Zhou sealed the armory in return!"

And also, the Northern Army!

Li Xuansi was furious: "The Northern Army?"

The guard's voice trembled more and more:

"The leader is Zhang Sanjin! And he has 50,000 troops from the Northern Frontier. These elite soldiers are coming in; our men simply can't stop them!"

The hall erupted in chaos again, with each piece of news more explosive than the last, and everyone began to doubt their own apologies.

"Zhang Sanjin?"

"Didn't he die in prison?"

"Why are the Northern Army in Kyoto?"

"Fifty thousand troops? How is that possible?"

"Who am I? Where am I? What am I here at court today?"

One minor official was so frightened that he trembled, but no one around him laughed at him, because everyone was in the same boat.

They entered the palace early in the morning, thinking it would just be another political consultation, but the emperor had actually woken up? They hadn't received any prior notice.

Later, the Prime Minister actually sued the Seventh Prince, which caught them completely off guard! Even if the two of them weren't exactly inseparable, shouldn't they at least be in the same boat?

Later, the Seven Wise Kings admitted they were going to use force and launch a coup. And what happened? Now the dead have come back to life, and the Northern Army has entered the capital.

Are they still dreaming or not fully awake?

Li Xuansi looked at Zhang Erhe, his peak Grandmaster-level true energy fully revealed, and cracks appeared on the gold bricks beneath his feet. The courtiers beside him were already terrified and wet themselves.

"The assassination of Zhang Erhe and Zhang Sanjin was a self-directed and self-acted scheme by you."

You used your own son's life to deceive me and gain my last bit of trust?

Li Xuansi was already furious, and then looked at Xiao Xingyue:

"And you, you bastard of the Xiao family!"

Without the tiger tally of the King's Palace, how could the troops from the northern border possibly enter the capital?

You knew all along; you conspired with Zhang Erhe to plot against me!

Xiao Xingyue looked completely innocent:

"I only found out later."

but……"

"You deserve to die!" Xiao Xingyue's voice suddenly turned cold, filled with murderous intent!

Li Xuansi laughed in fury. The troops outside were blocked, Zhang Erhe betrayed him, Zhang Sanjin was still alive, and the Northern Border Army entered the capital. These things were indeed beyond his expectations, but he had not completely lost yet!

He is at the peak of the Grandmaster level, only half a step away from becoming a Great Grandmaster. Lu Ya is also a Grandmaster. If the two of them join forces and do not give the Imperial Guards a chance to encircle them, they can completely break out of the Imperial City!

He has other plans beyond the capital city; he has been planning for many years, so he wouldn't be without any backup plans!

As long as you leave here, there will still be a chance!

Li Xuansi sneered, looking down at the entire audience:

"Although I have lost today, it is not a hopeless situation."

Your Majesty, if you were able to start a rebellion with only eight hundred men back then, why can't I do it again?

In the past, the Great Chu had a Hegemon who burned his boats and made a desperate stand; today, I, the King of the Great Xia, will become the Martial King!

It's simply a matter of regrouping and making a comeback!

Li Chengqian's expression was stern: "Who are you waiting for?"

Li Xuansi's expression changed slightly, and the next moment, he shouted:

"Land Raven!"

The sound reverberated out of the palace gates and carried over the city walls, but no one responded.

Li Xuansi frowned and shouted again:

"Land Raven!"

Silence remained, and the people in the hall looked at each other in bewilderment.

Li Xuansi remained calm and composed. Lu Ya could not possibly betray him, absolutely not. But why didn't he come?

at this time.

Outside the Imperial Observatory, most of the stone steps were broken. Lu Ya knelt on the ground, supporting himself with one hand on the stone slab. His clothes were torn, his hair was disheveled, and blood was flowing down his cheeks.

He looked up at the front of him, his eyes filled with disbelief:

"Father, you're still alive?"

An old man walked out step by step from inside the gate of the Imperial Observatory, dressed in a Taoist robe, with a thin and refined face.

With each step he took forward, Lu Ya, a Grandmaster-level cultivator, felt the pressure from heaven and earth increase!

Lu Ya's knees sank into the stone steps, and he was frozen in place!

"The art of stargazing."

The old man spoke calmly:

"Using celestial phenomena to obscure and confuse people's five senses—this is what your father taught you."

Lu Ya's pupils trembled violently!

That night, he killed his father with his own hands. He saw the bloody corpse, but it turned out to be a star illusion!

His father is not dead; he has been watching over him all along!

He forced a hoarse laugh, and blood flowed as he spoke:

"I did nothing wrong!"

His eyes were bloodshot.

"I am upholding true orthodoxy; I am stopping the nine pythons from devouring the dragon."

The supervisor continued walking forward:

"What is meant by 'Nine Pythons Devouring a Dragon'? Under heaven, who can truly be called a dragon?"

"Li Xuansi?" Lu Ya gasped for breath, responding instinctively, but even he was slightly taken aback by his own response.

The supervisor raised his hand, pointing to the sky above Kyoto. Dark clouds piled up, pressing down on the city, yet within the clouds, a golden light could be faintly seen surging.

"No one, regardless of who they are, is qualified to be called a dragon. Great Xia has only one dragon, and that is Great Xia itself!"

"Nine pythons devouring a dragon—the destiny you see is nine foreign pythons coveting the Great Xia, attempting to devour my Eastern dragon!"

Lu Ya froze.

The supervisor's hand fell:

"White Lion, Moon Worship, Yamato, Western Alliance, Northern Cold Bear, Gou Li Liujiang Southern Yun Kingdom Canglan."

"For years, they've been waiting for internal strife within the Great Xia Dynasty. By altering the destiny of Li Xuansi, you are opening the doors of foreign nations."

Lu Ya's Dao Heart is constantly shattering:

"Impossible! I've calculated it, I've seen the stars with my own eyes!"

The supervisor looked down at him:

"The reason you haven't reached the highest level of stargazing is that you only look up at the sky. If you only look up at the sky, you're like a frog in a well, not looking at the human world."

Stargazing—of all the galaxies in the world, how many have you observed?

Lu Ya spat out a mouthful of blood and looked around blankly.

Inside the main hall of the palace, Li Xuansi waited in vain for Lu Ya. He realized that something had also happened to the Imperial Observatory.

Outside the palace gates, the sound of imperial guards' footsteps thundered as squads of armored soldiers surged into the hall.

Da Lu Fu De Lu leaped in front of Li Chengqian:

"Protect the Emperor."

The Imperial Guards and the Dragon Warriors drew their swords simultaneously, their blades flashing coldly.

Gu Zhou also stepped in through the side door, clad in black armor, exuding a murderous aura!

The elite troops of the Northern Army marched in, their shields hitting the ground with a resounding clang.

"The Left Guard of the Northern Army, by imperial decree, are here to protect the Emperor!"

Qin Zhenyue strode forward, his crimson true energy particularly ferocious, fully displaying his Saintly Monarch Technique, his spear sparking a string of sparks as it struck the gold bricks.

"Li Xuansi, I will settle accounts with you today!"

Xuanming and Zhao Yuanbao walked out from behind Xiao Xingyue.

Some of the courtiers raised their heads, their eyes and demeanor changing, their killing intent boundless, and they surrounded the Seventh Prince.

Li Chengqian rose from the dragon throne, and Da Lu immediately reached out to help him, but Li Chengqian waved his hand away and looked at Li Xuansi below the steps:

"Seventh Brother, stop now."

Li Xuansi remained silent, glancing around to find himself surrounded.

His inner energy erupted, the aura of the sacred dragon surged continuously, revealing his peak Grandmaster cultivation, accompanied by raging winds:

"Brother, you want me to stop now?"

Is that possible?

"The victor is king, the loser is villain!"

Li Chengqian slowly raised his hand:

"Capture Li Xuansi."

The killing intent within the hall instantly converged, and in a moment, true energy swept across, causing the hall to tremble!