Chapter 156 – The Infernal Moment of a Glance

Silence, dead silence. Maybe a long time, maybe just a moment, up to thirty years, close to see three or two years. All around by the true qi shattered wooden board debris, table and chair debris, rustling down, blood dripping. Fan Xian slowly drew out his sharp sword, and the friction between the sword and the flesh and blood made a very mournful sound.

Ye Chong loosened those iron hands, Gong Dian clucked his blood and stood up his body, Master Qin stared roundly, his body soaked in blood and water, Kei sat under the wall, his death was not resting in peace, his hands spread out in the air, as if he wanted to grab something.

The oldest member of the Qing military finally died, in one of the longest-prepared and longest-hidden insidious murders since the founding of the country.

Fan Xian did not suffer a single injury, but he felt his body go a little cold, raised his head, and with an extremely odd look, glanced at the silent Gong Dian on his right hand side, looking at this first minister of the guards that he had encountered since he entered the capital at the age of sixteen, like he was looking at a monster.

Then he turned his head and glanced at Ye Chong, giving him a heavy look. At that exact moment, Ye Chong was also looking at him. The gazes of the two men met, and no sparks arose, but each carried a realization, insight …… and temptation.

Fan Xian knew that his gamble had, in a sense, been a complete success – the reason why he had dared to gamble on top of the Imperial City was not because he had gotten hold of any insider information, but because he had thought of Tanyuu’s grandmother’s words when he had held down the Empress Dowager’s feet at the time.

His Majesty never fights unprepared battles, the strength of His Majesty’s mind is beyond the imagination of mortals, and His Majesty has no weaknesses. Therefore, when Fan Xian was faced with a desperate situation, he simply did not believe that the Emperor would leave no backhanders at all in Kyoto. The Emperor knew the situation in Kyoto, so how could he still dare to go to Dadong Mountain to sacrifice to the heavens? So Fan Xian wanted to gamble that some unexpected changes would occur in the rebel army!

The changes finally arose. The Ye family rebelled – no, I should say that the toughest infernalist in the history of the Kingdom of Qing had surfaced.

Yet Fan Xian still couldn’t convince himself why the Ye family had suddenly struck when he decided to gamble, until he saw those things in Ye Chong’s eyes.

The so-called glance of an instant, a glance that perhaps only took a second, but was enough for Fan Xian to figure out too many things. Past times, all the questions he had ever suspected, all the scenes in the courtroom of the Qing Kingdom during these four years that had seemed odd, thus proving His Majesty’s suspiciousness and exposing his shortcomings, had all been given a perfect explanation.

Fan Xian had only looked at Ye Chong for a second, yet he had already seen through all the passages of the past few years, and even a dozen years.

Months ago, at the bottom of Dadong Mountain, Ye Liuyun came in a boat to break the waves, and a sword came from beyond the sky, breaking through the reef and into the wall, with only the hilt surviving outside the wall. At that time, Fan Xian was standing on the reef, wounded by an arrow, and was lucky to escape by sinking into the sea.

A year ago, in the city of Suzhou, holding the moon on the building, Ye Liuyun wearing a hat and hat to arrive, a sword pouring half of the building, for the Junshan Association to take the lead, forcibly take away the accountant. At that time, Fan Xian cursed and suffered internal injuries, but fortunately did not die.

To Ye Liuyun’s ability, to the might of the great master, actually let Fan Xian twice met and did not die, as a line, look at this old events in Qing, clearly visible.

Two years ago, the hanging temple to enjoy the chrysanthemums, the palace ceremony strangely lost post. A sudden assassination against the Qing emperor, building hall chaos, Fan Xian was seriously injured, Ye Chong chase but no success. The court was shocked, and His Majesty was furious. He took away Ye Chong’s post as the commander of the Kyoto guard division and sent him back to Dingzhou, while Gong Deng was imprisoned, but he was lucky to survive.

Two years and two months ago, Fan Xian was informed of the marriage between the second prince and Ye Ling’er in the capital city of Northern Qi, and was surprised to learn that His Majesty intended to force Ye Chong to resign from his post in order not to get involved in the prince’s affairs.

Eight years ago, when Fan Xian was twelve years old, he was practicing the Hegemony Technique at the cliffs of Tanyu State. At that time, the singer Liuyun came and sparred with Wuzhu with his scattered hands, and then drifted away in a half-boat.

After the incident at the Hanging Temple, Fan Xian had a long talk with Chen Pingping, and knew that His Majesty the Emperor had deliberately arranged this incident to suppress the Ye family, to get rid of the post of Deputy Commander of the Palace Ceremony Forbidden Army, and to force Ye Chong to leave Kyoto. At that time, he and Chen Pingping were confused and thought that His Majesty was too suspicious, but they thought that this was a dispute between the imperial power and the great masters, and had not thought about it carefully.

His Majesty the Emperor of the Kingdom of Qing had clearly revealed his weakness of suspicion in dealing with the Ye family, and had used a tactic that, though subtle, was not in the proper style.

However, at this time Fan Xian thought of the singer he first met when he was twelve years old, and had long thought through all this, and finally realized …… that the emperor’s suspiciousness, the emperor’s blunder, was actually a deliberate show of weakness, and by centrifuging himself with the Ye family, he was giving the enemies of the world more courage to strike!

Eight years, Fan Xian has never seriously thought about why of the four great patriarchs, the first one he met was Ye Liuyun, and he has never thought about why Ye Liuyun traveled around the world but went to Tanyu State, so easily finding Uncle Five Bamboos, which many people wanted to look for but couldn’t find.

Where was the Five Bamboos? No one in the world knew. But some people knew that where Fan Xian was, the Five Bamboos would be. And the only people who knew Fan Xian’s true identity in the world at that time were His Majesty Chen Pingping and Fan Jian.

Analyzing this, one should understand that when Ye Liuyun went to Tanyu, he was naturally told that Ye Qingmei’s son was in Tanyu, and that the Five Bamboos were naturally in Tanyu as well.

And the one who told him all this was naturally His Majesty the Emperor!

Or rather, His Majesty the Emperor solemnly paid a visit to Ye Liuyun to go to Tanyuzhou and take a look at his illegitimate son who had a bizarre birth.

Such a person was naturally the person the Emperor trusted the most.

And how could such a person betray the Emperor!

The Emperor’s suspiciousness, the centrifugalism of the Ye family, the marriage between the Second Prince and Ye Ling’er, Ye Liuyun’s transcendent existence suddenly veering off course, all of this was in fact just an illusion, or the price that would inevitably be paid, and all of this was merely a detailed part of what constituted a perfect infernal plan.

This plan should have been constructed for a year, two years, three years …… If we associate the identity of Ye Liuyun Junshan Association’s offerings, it is only feared that the start of this plan was even further back than a decade or so ago!

With such a long time, paid such a big price, concealed from the eyes of everyone in the world, including himself, including the eyes of the eldest princess, it can be completely said that this is the most horrifying time in the history of the country of celebration of the infernal path.

Compared to this, what was the Yan Ruohai and Yuan Hongdao set up by the Supervisory Court?

In just a second, countless images swept through Fan Xian’s mind. He withdrew his gaze and looked at the stoic Ye Chong, and his body suddenly felt a chill, as if he had fallen into an ice cellar. This plan should not even have been known to Chen Pingping, the emperor’s mind, it was just too terrifying.

He looked at Ye Chong, his lips drying, and took out his special waist plate from his bosom, handed it over, and asked in a trembling voice, “Is His Majesty still alive?”

At that time, Ye Chong was also looking at the young young lord, and his emotions were also complicated to the extreme. At the time of the initial sniping attack on Elder Qin, he had not expected at all that Fan Xian on the Imperial City would be able to mobilize the great power to cooperate for himself. His mind was also in a state of shock, could it be that His Majesty had already told young Lord Fan all about this plan?

When Fan Xian opened his mouth, Ye Chong opened his mouth at the same time and asked, “Is His Majesty still alive?”

Two words that were exactly the same, but caused Fan Xian and Ye Chong to be shocked at the same time, looking into each other’s eyes and feeling a chill. Because at this moment, they realized that it turned out that up until this moment, the people in Kyoto, whether it was Fan Xian, whom the emperor trusted immensely, or Ye Chong, who was the most crucial person in this grand plan, actually didn’t know whether the emperor was alive or dead.

“Where is Li Yunrui?”

“Taiping Buyei Yuan.”

The two stopped talking. Ye Chong took Fan Xian’s belt tag, and Gong Dian lifted Master Qin’s corpse and quickly left in the direction of the square where the sounds of the killing had already rung out in the sky.

Since the assassination of Qin Ye, it was only a matter of moments, the parties involved had a lot on their minds, however, the formal conversation was only those two sentences just now, because the first sentence of both sides had already explained too much, everyone was only a pawn in the big chessboard, just do your own job, planning is in the hands of others, accomplishing is in the hands of heaven, how is the situation in Dadong Mountain, they don’t know for the time being, and they don’t need to consider it either.

Fan Xian breathed heavily a few times, forcibly suppressing the sense of annoyance brought on by the overbearing true qi and drug upwelling in his body, dispelling some of the chill in his heart, and did not notice the small opening in the wall.

For such a plan to take His Majesty the Emperor such a long time to plan and consume so much of his heart and mind, it was natural that his plans were extremely great. Removing all the opposing forces within Qing was one of them, but His Majesty’s true purpose was far more than that.

In the words of Chen Pingping, in this world, His Majesty is the only one who stands tallest and sees the farthest. With His Majesty’s gaze, in these ten years, he had naturally been looking at the beautiful scenery and elegant sights of the world-especially those lands and people that did not belong to him for the time being.

The main targets of this Ye family’s infernal plan were only the Northern Qi and Eastern Barbarians, and with the arrival of Bitter Lotus and the Four Guards Sword on the Great Eastern Mountain, and Ye Liuyun being His Majesty’s ambush, it was only to be feared that the entire world’s momentum had already undergone earth-shattering changes on that mountain.

However, Fan Xian still had some things in his heart that he did not understand. Even if Ye Liuyun suddenly counterattacked on the Great Eastern Mountain, but the Bitter Lotus and the Four Gu Swords were such stunning and extraordinary characters, the four great masters would be on the Eastern Mountain, even if the Bitter Lotus and the Four Gu Swords suffered some losses, how could they possibly be put in the palm of the Emperor’s hand?

His brows wrinkled, it seems that His Majesty chose the Great Eastern Mountain as the place to gather the big picture, the most critical still count on Uncle Five Bamboo to make a move. It was just that he knew Uncle Five Bamboo’s temperament, so he was afraid that he would disappoint His Majesty.

The sounds of killing and screaming from behind him pulled him out of his complicated emotions, reminding him that he was still at the side of the battlefield, the situation in Kyoto had not yet been finalized, and there were still countless people spilling their blood for a conspiracy that had been woven in the camp for many years.

He took another deep breath, not thinking about Daidosan for the time being, crashed through the wall and disappeared into the heavy cover of the private houses. In the moment before he acted, he suddenly felt a pang of sadness.

He suddenly felt some sympathy for the Eldest Princess, for the Crown Prince, for the Second Prince, for the Qing generals fighting desperately in front of the palace, and he began to sympathize with himself as well. The encounter in Kyoto, violent to the extent that it is today, how much damage will be caused to the national strength of Qing, could it be that His Majesty the Emperor, whose life and death are unknown, really did not calculate?

The four great masters would meet at Dongshan, even the power of one sleeve and one finger could shock the heavens and shake the earth. Is His Majesty the Emperor really still alive?

Why would he risk so much and spend so much energy on such a thing? Is it really just for the sake of unifying the world? Just for the sake of that title of Lord of All Worlds?

At the same time as Ye Chong Gong Dian Fan Xian’s trio assassinated Elder Qin, the middle level general officers of Dingzhou, who had always seemed somewhat silent, each looked at each other, seeing the trace of determination and confusion in each other’s eyes. These general officers had also not received the secret orders from Marshal Ye and General Gong in secret until the beginning of their entry into the city, and for the sake of secrecy, there was no way to mobilize the soldiers at the lower levels.

However, at this moment, the Ye family’s Dingzhou army had to attack, because they had already seen the vision of the rebels’ middle camp. It was just that the soldiers were not robots that only listened to orders, any army would look a little confused when they were about to turn against the rebels on the verge of battle without having done any pre-battle mobilization at all.

One moment they were preparing to attack the palace, but the next moment they suddenly had to turn their guns to point at their own comrades, even if the Dingzhou army’s military discipline was no matter how strict, I’m afraid that their fighting strength would also drop to an extreme point.

Fortunately, the excellent vice generals of the Dingzhou army and those mid-level generals who knew the inner workings of the situation were extremely talented in partially solving this problem of who to fight for.

They isolated the second prince’s cronies, surrounded the second prince, and then shouted, ”The second highness has decreed! The crown prince is regicide and patricide, worse than a pig and dog, all the sons and daughters of the Qing Kingdom can rise up and attack …… to kill!”

The second prince didn’t realize the difference until this moment, and his face brushed white. He didn’t know why these generals, who had been respectful and courteous, had surrounded themselves in the middle, not to mention why they had suddenly given such a ridiculous military order!

Could it be that his father-in-law was looking at the fact that the palace was already open and wanted to take this opportunity to get rid of the crown prince and help himself to the throne? The second prince consoled himself with this in his heart. But looking at his own close friends were Dingzhou army knocked down horse bound, his heart only cold up, know things …… appeared his own and the crown prince are unexpected changes!

As soon as the military order came out, the ordinary soldiers of the Dingzhou army reacted extremely fast and attacked towards the Qin family s troops. Some of them perhaps really believed the military order, thinking that the matter of the Crown Prince’s assassination plot had finally erupted, and that the Second Prince had learned from his bitter experience and decided to avenge the late Emperor’s death, while even more of the ordinary soldiers thought to themselves that it must have been His Highness’ Second Highness who had decided to take advantage of the opportunity to make a move on the Crown Prince.

For the latter judgment, all of the commoners, it seemed, thought so.

All of the attacking Dingzhou troops finally succeeded in overcoming the most crucial problem in all of the battlefield inversions, the heart of the army, and very justifiably and rightfully began their attack on the Qin family.

Of course, such a hasty reversal could not bring out the real strength of the Dingzhou army after all. The good thing was that although the Qin family’s army was still relatively large in number, however, Elder Qin had died violently, Qin Heng had been killed by Jing Ge with a single gunshot, a few generals escorted the crown prince to the rear camp, and the eight generals at the front line had been killed by Fan Xian and wounded by three, so it could be described as a group without a leader.

An army with a slightly stabilized military spirit to attack an army without a general commanding it, victory or defeat is not difficult to guess.

On top of the noisy battlefield, apart from Dingzhou’s own army, not many people had heard the military orders of the Ye family’s generals, and there were still a lot of people fighting hard, even if it was not for the sake of killing the enemy, but also for the sake of saving their own lives.

The Great Prince who was covered in blood waved his long sword in his hand, killing a bloody path, and although he was not able to rush to the middle camp of the rebels, he managed to join up with the remaining Black Riders. In the midst of the fierce battle, he did not see the scene where Fan Xian and Ye Chong Gong Dian struck at the same time, thinking that he was at the end of his rope.

Blood dripped from his hands, but his expression was solemn. As the prince of the Kingdom of Qing, he had fought for this palace until now, and deep down, he did not have a single ounce of remorse.

A thunderous sound of hoofbeats rang out, the Dingzhou cavalry that had been recuperating, finally rushed over.

The eyes of the Grand Prince narrowed slightly, looked at Jing Ge who was already tired to the extreme, the hilt of the sword in his hand tightened, and he was about to slash up!

However, the …… Dingzhou cavalry army swept past from in front of them and didn’t make a move at all, instead charging fiercely towards the Qin family’s army!

“Kill!”

In the square before the imperial palace, the sound of shouting and killing rang out in the sky. All of them watched this scene with jaws agape, watching as those Dingzhou troops, who were in a relatively favorable position because the rebels had changed camps, suddenly rushed towards their friendly robes as if they had gone mad, rushing towards those Qin Family soldiers who had fought for several hours and had become somewhat exhausted and unprepared.