More than twenty days later, in the Imperial City Hall of Hangjiacheng of the Hanchuan Empire, dozens of high-ranking monks of the Hanchuan Empire stood in two columns above the main hall. Shangguan Honglie, on the other hand, was sitting on the high throne of Jinluan, smiling all over his face.

"Daoyou Ye Hong, you have made great contributions to this treasure hunting trip, not only brought back a lot of treasures, but also saved hundreds of my Hanchuan monks at a critical moment! As promised, I can fulfill my promise to you!" Guan Honglie caressed an antique jade bottle and two jade slips of different old and new ones in his hand, his face full of excitement. This is a pill that Ye Hong took back from the ancient ruins, and a jade slip that the ancient monk recorded the experience of breaking the ban, both of which were treasures that Shangguan Honglie urgently needed.

"Thank you, Your Majesty! In this way, I will wait for the good news!" Ye Hong, who was in the center of the main hall, bent down again and thanked him, and then consciously stood at the end of the line of monks.

Ye Hong and the others only returned to Hangjiacheng at noon today. I wanted to rest for a day before submitting a request for an audience with Shangguan Honglie through Shangguan Rongyan. But unexpectedly, Shangguan Honglie's ears and eyes were actually very alert, and he convened a great court meeting as soon as possible, so that Ye Hong came to meet him. Therefore, Ye Hong didn't have time to say a few words to Shangguan Rongyan, so he came to the palace.

As soon as he entered the Jinluan Treasure Palace, Shangguan Honglie asked very directly if he had gained what he needed.

Originally, Ye Hong was going to hand over the things that Shangguan Honglie needed to Shangguan Rongyan, and then Shangguan Rongyan would give Shangguan Honglie, in this way, it would be regarded as a great gift to Shangguan Rongyan. Next, when Shangguan Honglie arranged the heir before the retreat, Shangguan Rongyan would become the most prominent candidate.

However, Ye Hong didn't expect Shangguan Honglie to be so anxious. Since Guan Honglie asked about the things he needed, Ye Hong could only helplessly glance at Shangguan Rongyan who was next to him with a bitter expression on his face, and obediently offered the things he had prepared a long time ago: a forbidden pill and a jade slip that an ancient monk recorded his cultivation experience, and translated the contents of the jade slip into another modern jade slip. For this reason, Shangguan Honglie Long Yan Dayue.

"Now that I have these two treasures, the time has almost come to break the confinement in retreat. Shangguan Honglie smiled and glanced at the princes and important ministers on the two sides of the main hall: "As the saying goes, a country cannot be without a king for a day, so the next thing is related to the selection of the next emperor of our Hanchuan Empire, I don't know if you Aiqing have any suggestions?"

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Obviously, it is now a critical moment to stand in line, and standing in the right team will bring great benefits to his family, but once he says the wrong thing and offends His Majesty the future emperor, then no matter whether the new emperor will blame or not, there are naturally hostile families who will stand up and take the opportunity to suppress it, and there will definitely be no one to help speak at that time. Therefore, in response to Shangguan Honglie's questioning, none of the Hanchuan monks in power on the two sides dared to stand up, they all stared down at their toes, but their ears were straight and erect.

"What, Aiqing, don't you have anything to say?" Shangguan Honglie glanced sharply at the dozens of monks below.

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"What's the matter, don't all Aiqing have an idea?"

"The father is wise and martial, and the ministers are all up to His Majesty!"

After a long time, Shangguan Rongyan stood up, bowed his head and bent down.

"Oh, someone has finally come forward!I thought that everyone hadn't heard my words!" Shangguan Honglie's tone was a little cold: "However, Thirteen, you are one of my princes, and you are not qualified to make suggestions on this matter!"

"Your Majesty's words are serious!

When the monks heard this, they immediately bent down and confessed.

"Okay, so let's talk about how I'm going to choose the best heir?"

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The monks were still silent.

"Since there is no Aiqing to answer, then I will name you! Li Jili Li Daoyou, you can talk about it first!"

"Your Majesty, this..."A thin old man who was standing under Shangguan Rongyan walked out of the queue tremblingly, bent down and saluted: "Your Majesty Mingjian, my Li family is resolutely loyal to Your Majesty and resolutely supports Your Majesty's decision!"

"You old slippery head!" Shangguan Honglie scolded with a smile when he heard this: "Don't go to the rivers and lakes, I want to listen to your opinion, hurry up!"

"This!" The old monk surnamed Li saw that he couldn't escape, so he had to grit his teeth and said: "The old minister seems to have heard from a Taoist friend who said that His Majesty once said that as long as any of the princes can offer the treasure that His Majesty needs to break the ban, then this throne will be inherited by him! The old minister is old, and his ears are all back, and he doesn't know if this is true!"

"Well, you heard me right, I did say that!" Shangguan Honglie smiled slightly: "However, this time, it was Ye Hong Daoyou who brought me the treasure I needed, and I also fulfilled my original promise to him. Isn't it possible that I still want to pass on the throne to Ye Daoyou?"

"Weichen should be damned! Weichen is confused!" The old monk surnamed Li immediately knelt down and kowtowed.

"Get up, I forgive you for your innocence!" Shangguan Honglie said very tolerantly, "I don't know if you have any other suggestions?"

"Weichen, Weichen thinks, thinks, this!" The old monk seemed to be frightened by what he had just said, and his speech became even more unfavorable: "Weichen, Wei... That's what I think, that is, since Ye Daoyou, yes, it is Yan, Yan Wangfu, the worship of the mansion, then, can it be counted, it can be regarded as the thirteen princes, dedicated to, to His Majesty!"

"Well, I understand what you mean!" Shangguan Honglie patiently listened to the words of the monk surnamed Li: "Do you want to say that Thirteen should inherit the throne?"

"Wei, Weichen doesn't dare!" The old monk raised his head slightly, glanced at Shangguan Honglie's face quickly, and then immediately lowered his head, and replied with a little trembling: "Weichen is stupid!

"I don't know if other Aiqing has any suggestions?" Shangguan Honglie didn't continue to ask the old monk surnamed Li, but asked after looking around.

"Weichen has something to do!" a tall white-robed middle-aged man walked out of the queue on the right.

"It turned out to be Yuan Daoyou, I don't know if you have any good opinions?" Shangguan Honglie nodded slightly at the white-robed middle-aged monk.

"Wei Chen believes that since His Majesty has been appointing the crown prince for many years, according to the customs of mortals, it is most appropriate for the crown prince to inherit the throne!"

"Well, that makes sense. Shangguan Honglie nodded noncommittally, and then looked around again: "Do you have any new suggestions?"

"Weichen has a suggestion, please consider it!" an old man in black stood up.

"It turned out to be Gao Daoyou! It seems that my roll call has really played a role, and all Daoists have begun to speak enthusiastically!" The smile on Shangguan Honglie's face looked a little weird: "Since Liu Daoyou has a new suggestion, you might as well say it and let you Daoyou listen to it together!"

"Your Majesty, Yuan Daoyou just talked about the customs of the mortal world, but Wei Chen always feels a little inappropriate!" the old man in black began to refute the opinion of the middle-aged monk in white.

"What's wrong!" Of course, the middle-aged monk in white could not be silent.

"Yuan Daoyou, you think, once the mortal emperor inherits the unification, then it is the so-called Ninety-Five, Chrysostom Yuyan, to say one or the other, there is no one who makes the courtiers have the authority to challenge him, whoever dares to stand up will be punished by the nine clans, and any family power will have no way to resist at all!" The old man in black began to tell the facts and reason: " And our cultivation realm is different, if you don't have a strong strength, even if you are high, it is impossible to easily shake a certain Daoist friend with a high cultivation realm or a powerful family, let alone cover the sky with one hand!

Not to mention, what the old man in black said was really reasonable, and Ye Hong had to admit that he couldn't refute it.

"Liu Daoyou really didn't shoot easily, and hit the point as soon as he came out!" A strong monk whose muscles seemed to be bursting echoed: "If this is really a prince who has no strength and has a low cultivation level to inherit the throne, how can we convince several major families!

"Aman, don't talk nonsense, you don't look where you are now! Why don't you put a guard on your mouth!" an old woman with crane hair in a flowered robe came up and struck a heavy blow on the back of the strong monk with the cane in her hand.

"Oh, I said, auntie, why are you beating me again!" the strong monk twitched with his cane.

"It's still for the sake of me that you're my nephew, otherwise I won't take care of you!" The old woman impatiently pulled the strong monk back into the queue: "How many times have I told you, the trouble comes from the mouth, why do you always take it seriously!"

Immediately, the old woman bowed her head and bent down to salute Shangguan Honglie and said: "Your Majesty, please forgive me, Qiu Aman is a rough man, I don't know how to advance or retreat, you must not take it to heart, if there is anything that makes Your Majesty angry, the old woman is willing to bear it for him!"

"Granny Xuehua is serious, Ah Man is straightforward and straightforward, I like it very much, how can I be angry? As for you, I won't blame you!" It can be seen that this Granny Xuehua's status is very high, and Shangguan Honglie is quite polite to her: "I don't know if Qiu Daoyou has any suggestions on the matter of my succession?"

After Ye Hong observed the words, he immediately discovered that this Xuehua Mother-in-law's cultivation had actually reached the realm of the late stage of distraction, but it had just advanced not long ago, and there was still a lot of gap between Shangguan Honglie and Shangguan Honglie, who was about to break through the bottleneck of the mountain discharge period. But in any case, it is also the realm of the late stage of distraction.

As for the old monk surnamed Li who stood up to speak in front, the middle-aged monk in white and the old man surnamed black surnamed Liu who refuted him were all in the realm of the middle stage of distraction. As for the strong monk whose muscles seemed to be bursting open, he only had the cultivation realm of the early stage of distraction.

Through the surname, Ye Hong has a certain understanding of these monks and the families they represent, as well as the situation of standing in line.

The old man surnamed Li who first stood up to speak for Shangguan Rongyan was Li Jili, the head of the Li family of the Eight Great Families, that is, the patriarch of Li Letian's family. They supported Shangguan Rongyan's accession to the throne.

And the white-robed monk surnamed Yuan was of course on the side of the crown prince, Shangguan Rongyi. This monk is also the head of the Yuan family, the Eight Great Families, named Yuan Lixing. It seems that the Yuan Yao he saved in the ancient ruins this time is a member of their Yuan family.

As for the black-clothed old man who later stood up to refute Yuan Lixing, his surname is Gao, his name is Gao Yufan, and he is the patriarch of the Gao family of the eight major families. He had already heard Shangguan Rongyan say that the business contacts between the Gao family and the Fu Wangfu were particularly close and the relationship was very good, so the Gao family firmly supported Shangguan Rongfu.

And the strong middle-aged monk surnamed Qiu, named Qiu Yueliang, is the son of Qiu Tieling, the largest head of the Qiu family outside the six major families, and is also the default future head of the Qiu family. The current head of the family, Qiu Tiecheng, is in retreat. Originally, the Qiu family had some connections with the four princes and belonged to a neutral family. However, this Qiu Yueliang has an upright temperament, and the city government is shallow, and it is said that recently because the ancient Rongfu gave the Qiu family a lot of oil and water business, the Qiu family's tendency has changed.

And the crane-haired old woman who finally stood up to beat Qiu Yueliang with a cane was Qiu Yueliang's aunt and Qiu Xuehua, the sister of Qiu Tiecheng, the head of the Qiu family. Married to Helian Haojue, the head of the Helian family, who is also one of the six major families, because of his extraordinary talent in cultivation and his rapid progress, coupled with the fact that the head of the family, Helian Haojue, went mad when he broke through the late realm of distraction, and stayed in retreat for a long time and ignored family affairs. So this Qiu Xuehua almost replaced the position of the head of the Helian family.

This Qiu Xuehua is also shrewd and careful in terms of her ability to deal with things, under her leadership for more than a hundred years, the strength of the Helian family has improved a lot, and she herself miraculously broke through the late stage of distraction more than ten years ago, which also makes the Helian family Although it is inferior to the other five major families in terms of overall strength, it has the most preferential treatment from Shangguan Honglie.

This is also normal, Shangguan Honglie will have to go to retreat sooner or later, during his retreat, this Qiu Xuehua is one of the highest cultivators in the entire Hanchuan Empire, and the next emperor needs to rely on her cultivation in many ways to deter.

In the past, Qiu Xuehua has always been friendly with the major royal mansions, and the major royal mansions have also tried their best to make friends with her, a distracted monk in the late stage, which is also one of the main reasons why the strength of the Helian family has flourished in recent years.

"Old woman, thank you for Your Majesty's trust!" Although Qiu Xuehua is already a major monk in the late stage of distraction, she still does a good job in attitude, and after bending down and saluting again, she said gracefully: "Originally, the matter of passing on the throne is Your Majesty's family matter, and the old woman shouldn't talk too much, but since Your Majesty asked, then the old woman will nag a few words brainlessly!" Qiu Xuehua glanced at her nephew Qiu Yueliang and said: " The old woman's thoughts are similar to my nephew who is not a weapon, since we are in the cultivation realm to become a country, of course we can't follow the customs of mortals, we should respect cultivation, several princes are young, and cultivation is already in the realm of distraction, and it will inevitably be even more extraordinary in the future. But no one can say what will happen in the future, just like the old man in my family, who has been in retreat for so many years, but the situation still hasn't improved at all. Therefore, the old woman thinks that aside from this, the power of the princes is the most illustrative, which can also prove the level of the princes' ability, Your Majesty should know very well that being able to accumulate a strong enough force around you will have a great impact on the stability of the throne in the future. ”

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