In the past few days, Du Tao can be regarded as complacent.

This year's spring festival, that is, the priest before the start of spring ploughing, Emperor Du Zhen did not come forward, but asked him to sacrifice to the sky instead of the emperor, which is equivalent to determining the position of his heir in front of the civil and military officials, that is, if there are no exceptions, he will sit on the dragon chair on a certain day, as for when this day will be, it depends on the emperor's health.

Since the Li clan of Zhaojun knew the information that the emperor was attacked by demons in the Huanglong Secret Realm, Du Tao, who was in Chang'an City, naturally knew about it, and even knew some more secret information from some well-intentioned people, that is, although his father looked very healthy, in fact, he still had less than a year to live.

In this way, he only needs to survive less than a year before he can ascend to the throne of God.

Of course, such a thing as falling short for the mountain abounds in history, and the closer you get to success, the more careful you need to be, just like the thunder pool, every step must be extremely steady.

Therefore, Du Tao became more cautious, showing his demeanor as a virtuous king to the fullest, and when he walked the six departments as the crown prince, he was recognized by a large number of middle and low-level officials.

Everyone loves Du Tao.

This is the situation of Chang'an City for some time.

Merely......

Only Du Tao and a very small number of people knew that he had endured so hard.

Because of the relationship between the cultivation of Asura supernatural powers, there is an ancient demon head in the sea of knowledge, the remnant soul of a certain sect master of the Western Demon Sect, which is the embodiment of pure evil, whenever his emotions fluctuate, this remnant soul will have the behavior of occupying the magpie's nest, if it weren't for the fact that there is an elder of the Western Demon Sect by his side, and the grandmaster-level powerhouse Lu Gong suppressed it, Du Tao would have been taken away long ago.

Originally, he wanted to use the power of dragon qi to forcibly suppress or even wipe out the evil remnants in the sea of consciousness.

However, even if he became the crown prince, he did not gain dragon qi on a large scale, although the imperial luck had a gain on him, but the speed of this gain was not very fast, at least, it was not as fast as he imagined.

Perhaps, because he knew that his fate would be bad, the demon in his sea had resisted very strongly recently, and he was preparing to invade his primordial spirit all the time, making him unguardable.

Du Tao had to do his best not to be infected by this guy and not reveal his true nature.

However, once he is in a place where no one is around, he will be hysterical and crazy, but because of his different identity, he is no longer as white as before, and runs outside to kill people casually, venting for a while to ease the negative emotions in his heart.

After becoming the crown prince, there is one more grandmaster powerhouse by his side, one from the imperial court, this worshipper is only responsible for Du Tao's safety when he travels, and when he returns to his residence, this strong man will leave.

By Du Tao's side, only Lugong is still trustworthy.

With the help of Lu Gong, he was able to barely suppress the evil demon in his heart.

After becoming the crown prince, Du Tao did not move into the East Palace.

The imperial court has a will for him to move into the East Palace, he politely refused, he has spoken, although his eldest brother is not the prince anymore, but the eldest brother is still alive and well, but because of physical reasons, there is no way to become the heir of the empire, the reason why he accepts the identity of the prince is just for the future of the empire, not for himself, therefore, there is no need to enter the East Palace.

At least, when his eldest brother was alive, he would never set foot in the East Palace for half a step, even if the abolished prince Du Xian left the East Palace a long time ago.

Therefore, Du Tao still lives in his own mansion in the Ten Kings Mansion.

This makes his image even better, after all, a benevolent and righteous lord of benevolence is a good thing for civil and military officials, it is better than a wise and martial guy on his head, you know, in the period of Taizong and Tianhou Dynasty, the family gate valve was suppressed and basically did not dare to speak out, because, even the super-first-class gate valve has several uprooted by these two wise and martial powerhouses.

At that time, the strength of those destroyed families was not a fraction different from the current Zhaojun Li Clan, Jingzhao Gu Clan.

Du Tao understands in his heart that the reason why he can become the prince is not only because of his sister-in-law, but also because of the support of the Guo family behind him, and because of the virtuous character he has created, so the character must not collapse, in order to create this image, he must work harder and do more, so as not to change the emperor's mind temporarily, after all, although his younger brother Yan Wang Du Yun is young, he is talented, and the position of the prince is not without a spare tire.

Therefore, even if he is tired, even if there is that evil devil in the sea of knowledge, Du Tao is still conscientious, working hard to create his own personality, always smiling, like a spring breeze.

On this day, he appeared in Wannian County.

Speaking of which, this is a bit risky, after all, leaving Chang'an Xiongcheng without the protection of the protective array.

However, he had a reason to go out of town.

In order to prevent the flood from being unscrupulous, breaking the embankment and causing floods, every year, the imperial court must carry out a river sacrifice ceremony, and the priest river god communicates with the luck of heaven and earth.

Sometimes, the emperor would come forward in person.

Sometimes, the royal family will be sent as a representative, which is the so-called summer festival, and compared with the spring festival, the importance is actually not much less.

In the last spring festival, Du Tao became the emperor's stand-in to worship heaven and earth, this time to sacrifice the river god, the emperor Du Zhen still sent a decree to let Du Tao go to the Weihe River as a representative to worship, so he had to go out.

The official festival takes place three days later, but there are some rehearsals that need to be done in order for the festival to go ahead.

In fact, Du Tao does not need to be present in person for this rehearsal, he only needs to send a stand-in, but because the character he created is also to maintain his image in front of the civil and military officials, even if it is a rehearsal, Du Tao is also present in person.

Of course, to be on the safe side, he was fully armed.

What happened to his own eldest brother is a lesson from the past, just because of the death of a congenital warrior, a prince, and the future owner of the empire has become a wasted person, who can only linger on the sickbed.

Although Du Tao benefited from this, he also had palpitations.

On this trip, not only was he fully armed, but he was also guarded by a certain strong master of the imperial court, and even Lu Gong was traveling in the same carriage with him. Lu Gong could only stay in the Ten Princes' Mansion, because after Du Tao became the crown prince, he was released from the ban, but he couldn't come and go at will, and once he left the mansion, he had to go with him.

With two strong grandmasters guarding his side, there are several innate masters on the periphery, and there is also a mage in the rear carriage who is in charge, maintaining the talisman array of the convoy, such a powerful true appearance, even if there are two or three strong grandmasters who come to assassinate as assassins, they can completely resist it, so Du Tao is actually not too nervous about his safety.

As long as you're prepared, that's fine.

On the bridge in Tianjin, there was no one.

The prince's guard of honor must be to clean the streets, and there have already been guards who appeared before the trip to drive away the idlers along the way, even if it is; The shops on both sides had to close their doors and windows, and they could only open after the prince and his party had obtained permission from the guards, and the people who had been driven into the alleys on both sides could return to the avenue.

The title of King Du Taoxian is only for the family lords and court officials, and has nothing to do with ordinary people.

He can't go down to the people like Du Rui and mingle with grassroots civilians, he doesn't care about his image in the eyes of ordinary people at all, he must be, in the eyes of a heavenly nobleman like Du Tao, ordinary people are just ants, and he is not qualified to make a gesture to deal with it.

In Chang'an City, Du Tao's travel will not be as grand as it is now, that is because Chang'an City has a special royal road, and only the family party with permission can pass on the royal road, and ordinary people cannot walk on the royal road of Tianjie.

In addition, there is a large protective array, so there is no need to clean the street.

Leaving Chang'an City is different, even for the sake of safety, it must be done, lest the assassins take advantage of the chaos of the crowd to launch an assassination, even if the assassination is not successful, it will cause many innocent casualties.

Therefore, street cleaning is actually good for idle people.

Of course, ordinary people don't understand this, although they have grievances in their hearts, this grievances will soon be suppressed, after all, the class gap is a real thing, and it is also recognized by the public.

Horseshoe Tower......

Du Tao sat on the carriage, his eyes swept over the statues of mythical beasts on both sides of the Tianjin Bridge, and fell on the vast Weishui River.

The golden light swayed, like thousands of golden snakes dancing.

This is?

Suddenly, Du Tao was in a trance.

The mind swayed under the pull of this golden light, and the divine thoughts were like the waves of the sea surging and rolling, and as if the rootless reeds were blown up by the wind, fluttering in the air, with nowhere to stay.

Not good!

Is this a trick?

In a trance, Du Tao heard a scream.

It was an extremely piercing scream, as if someone was holding several steel needles and stabbing his eardrums hard, all at once, with great force, so that he couldn't help but open his mouth and howl hard.

At this time, he was awake for a moment.

Someone is playing a trick.

Using the sunlight on the surface of the river to shake his mind, this attack was unexpected, extremely secretive, and no one in the entire convoy noticed it, not even the strong man who worshiped the grandmaster of the imperial court.

After Du Tao was recruited, there was something wrong.

At this time, Lu Gong Fang beside him reacted, after all, he and Du Tao are grasshoppers on a rope, if one kicks his legs, the other must have a sense, so Lu Gong Fang used his divine thoughts to temporarily pull Du Tao out of the illusion.

Then, blood splattered on the walls of the empty carriage.

The figure of Lu Gong appeared from the void.