There are two days left until the battle for the pinnacle.

In the Sifang Zen Temple, the bell of "dang" and "dang" rang gently, and the good incense turned into a stream of green smoke, rising up in a curling nana, and King Han sat in the meditation room, facing the green lantern Buddha with his eyes closed and meditating.

Suddenly, the door of the meditation room squeaked open, and the flower-faced swallow flashed in like a cloud like a civet cat.

"Lord, everything outside has been arranged."

Yan Ruyun knelt on one knee and said with his fists clenched.

"Really?"

King Han slowly opened his eyes and revealed a warm smile.

Yan Ruyun said: "The people in and outside the city have arrived, but the strength in the palace is still a little weak, do you want to ......?"

"No need."

Without waiting for Yan Ruyun to finish speaking, King Han waved his hand and interrupted: "Go and withdraw all the people in the palace." ”

"Withdraw?"

Yan Ruyun was stunned for a moment, and exclaimed: "We don't have many people hiding in the palace, if we all withdraw, won't we become blind?" ”

King Han said with a smile: "It's good to be blind, the palace has now become someone else's battlefield, we have our battlefield, let's not stir up other people's troubled waters, just do our own thing." ”

Yan Ruyun lowered her head when she heard this, as if she was thinking about something.

The bell of "dang" and "dang" rang again.

King Han got up slowly, cleaned his hands and changed clothes, and slowly walked out of the meditation room bathed in incense.

"Lord!"

At this moment, Yan Ruyun suddenly stopped King Han again.

King Han turned his head and asked with a smile, "What else is going on?" ”

Yan Ruyun frowned and said: "My subordinates have always had a doubt that they didn't dare to ask, but I really couldn't figure it out today, so I dared to ask." ”

King Han smiled faintly: "What problem makes you so entangled?" ”

Yan Ruyun stubbornly said: "The prince is from a noble background, and he has been lurking in the capital for so long, isn't it to ascend the throne and become the emperor?" ”

King Han smiled, patted Yan Ruyun's shoulder lightly and said, "You, it's like a tree that knows it, thinking that climbing to a high place is the peak, but you don't know that the breadth of this world is far beyond your imagination."

To be the emperor, hey, let's give it to a motivated person like Brother Qi, this king has no interest in becoming the cicada who only wants to climb to the top of the tree. ”

After speaking, King Han was about to step forward.

"Could it be that the prince's mind is not on the throne, but on martial arts?"

Flower Face asked again.

King Han paused and said incomprehensibly: "How can you have such an idea?" ”

Hua Yan said: "Shizun once said that there are actually more than six martial saints in the world, and there are at least two little-known junior martial saints who hide their qi and hide them among the vast number of beings in the north.

In the past few years, I have been running northeast and west for the Lord, and I found that one of the Martial Saints was probably the old ancestor in the inner court, and the other was very likely......

It is very likely that it is you, although you have not shown your martial arts in front of people, but every time I see you, I will feel the pressure that I would only have when I see my master, so I ......"

"So you think that this king's ambition is to make a breakthrough in martial arts?"

King Han laughed and said: "Ruyun, martial arts have always been just tools, how can this king be obsessed with tools?" Hahahaha......"

King Han laughed and walked away, leaving Yan Ruyun looking at his back in a daze.

In Xu Rui's study, Li Kuang took a thick stack of official documents and put it in front of Xu Rui and said, "This is all the things we can find out at the moment, and my people secretly got it from the palace." ”

"It's very clean here, where did the news about the development of the northwest enter the palace, have you found it?"

Xu Rui asked.

Li Kuang said: "There are a lot of eyeliner on the saint, but there are not many that can be useful at present, Dongchang and the celebrant have Cao Gonggong in charge, if there is news, he will definitely remind you a long time ago, indicating that the news is not directly entered into the palace through Dongchang or Tantra."

All the secret reports of the saints on the side of Jinyiwei are personally handled by me, and there will never be any fish that slip through the net, if the saints don't have other channels, then this matter is strange. ”

Xu Rui nodded and said: "I asked Gonggong Cao, there are a lot of excerpts about the things in the northwest, but most of them are chasing after the wind and shadows and don't know the inside story, and they were all picked out by him and not reported, and he also saw too much to make an impression."

However, since the Holy Lord knew about this and did not invite me into the palace to inquire, he felt that there was no need to ask again, indicating that he already had conclusive evidence in his hands, even more than me, so he didn't bother to listen to my words again. ”

Li Kuang said: "Actually, you don't have to be so suspicious about this matter, although the saint doesn't see the foreign ministers, but there are other channels in the inner court, although Yuan Zixiong and they have covered up, they are doing a vigorous job in the northwest, how can they not be transparent at all?" ”

Xu Rui shook his head and said: "Don't you think it's strange, Gonggong Cao has only been in charge of Dongchang for a few days, and even he knows about it, but you, the senior Jinyi guard, and I, the main master, have been strictly concealed." ”

"You mean ......"

Li Kuang seemed to have thought of something, and his face suddenly became solemn.

Xu Rui sneered and said: "Someone took advantage of Yuan Gong's unauthorized claims, on the one hand, he secretly helped them hide from you and me, and on the other hand, he secretly passed the news into the palace. ”

"Hiss......"

Li Kuang gasped: "According to what you said, this person must not only know the inside story of the northwest clearly, but also be able to send the news to the palace, so that the suspicious saint will definitely believe it."

There are not many people in the world who can do these two things at the same time, Dongchang and Jinyiwei are barely counted among them, but now Jinyiwei and Dongchang are connected to you, if it weren't for these two, is there any other channel? ”

"There is also a channel ......"

Xu Rui said in a deep voice.

"What is the channel?"

Li Kuang asked.

Xu Rui said: "Dark chess! ”

"Dark chess?"

Li Kuang frowned when he heard this: "The Holy Lord will trust the dark chess?" ”

Xu Rui shook his head: "The saint will not believe in dark chess, but he may not know that it is dark chess."

If it weren't for the fact that the Holy Lord realized that the limit was approaching this time, the most concerned issue would have become the matter of succession, otherwise I would have had a hard time at this level, and there would inevitably be a big storm at that time, and I don't know how much impact it would cause. ”

Li Kuang muttered: "If King Han is really the master of dark chess, then all this is from him, does he want to take the opportunity to ascend to the throne?" ”

Xu Rui shook his head: "This matter cannot be asserted, but judging from the current situation, nine times out of ten, King Han is the master of dark chess, and the final battle to win the heir is about to start, he will definitely make a big move, and he has to keep an eye on him." ”

Li Kuang nodded: "Don't worry, I've already arranged it, he has turned from dark to light, and it will be difficult to be unscrupulous." ”

Xu Rui's face was still very solemn, and he said in a deep voice: "There are two other things that I am not very worried about, one is that the secret of the old mansion in Nanhua Lane has not progressed so far, this matter is unknown, many mysteries cannot be solved, and variables will exist."

Another point is that now it has come to the critical time to pass on the throne, although the prince is guilty, but still has not been convicted, maybe when someone will invite this big Buddha out to make trouble.

The King of Liao is now too busy to take care of the crown prince, I can understand this, but the saint has always been resolute in doing things, and since he already has a candidate for the new monarch in his heart, there is no reason to still leave a prince alone. ”

Li Kuang was thorough at one point, and said suspiciously: "Do you think someone is secretly protecting the prince?" ”

Xu Rui nodded: "This person definitely exists, and we don't know if he really wants to protect the prince, or if he plans to keep this prince's position, and wait until the critical moment to make waves, we have to quickly find out about this matter!" ”

Li Kuang nodded and said, "Got it, I'll go now." ”

"Please!"

Xu Rui solemnly arched his hand towards Li Kuang.

In the south study, Emperor Hongwei was already haggard and out of human form, like a skinny skeleton, not knowing when it would fall apart.

He sat on the recliner and looked at the sunset in a daze, and Wang Shun stood behind him for a while before coming to his senses.

"All the people were sent out?"

Emperor Hongwei suddenly asked thoughtlessly.

Wang Shun nodded: "It's all sent out." ”

Emperor Hongwei sighed: "I hope they don't blame me, although they have all contributed to the glory of Great Wei, but I can't leave the hidden dangers to my descendants." ”

Wang Shun was stunned and did not speak.

After a while, Emperor Hongwei asked again: "It's all moving outside, right?" ”

Wang Shun said: "All forces have begun to deploy troops, and the entire Changxing City is like a huge oil barrel, which will explode at one point. ”

Emperor Hongwei sneered and said: "Mess up, mess up, let these cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods jump out, I will clean them all up at once, so that I can completely hand over my country to my new monarch of Great Wei!" ”

As he spoke, Emperor Hongwei's expression suddenly became very lonely, and he said gloomily: "Fate has a beginning and an end, but I didn't expect this day to come so quickly......"