A month later, the Eastern Xia Kingdom Zhongzhou, Kyoto, the Imperial Palace, the Imperial Study.

The night is deep, and the orange-yellow light in the room is softly sprinkled from the hanging magic lamp, comfortable and peaceful, but the people in this room do not have a sense of comfort and peace, whether it is the eunuchs and palace maids who are waiting around, or a few important ministers of the court who stand in front of the imperial table in two rows, they are as heavy as carrying a mountain.

The Human Emperor gently rubbed his temples with his hand, pondering quietly until the persistent headache was relieved, and then he asked, "Chen Zhong, is the information handed over by Xu Benli true?"

Hearing the Emperor of the People's mouth ask, the minister standing in the middle on the right hurriedly walked to the middle and replied: "Back to Your Majesty, as soon as the minister received the news, he sent someone to investigate outside the Guan, and it has been confirmed that General Xu's report is true." ”

"Is there any movement in the northern frontier?" the Emperor continued.

Chen Zhong replied: "The situation in the four passes is still the same, and there is no sign of a large-scale increase in troops from the demon clan, and Weichen is afraid that there will be any omissions or negligence in the manpower of the border pass, so he has ordered the Phantom Guards to go out of the pass, and they will go deep into the interior of the Eastern Regions to spy on more detailed information." ”

"Well, the matter of probing intelligence must be done in detail, and any news must be reported immediately. Also, let Shangguanwu lead the sixth, ninth, thirteenth, and fifteenth corps to the northern Xinjiang to prevent any changes, and at the same time send a message to the various factions, so that they can take advantage of the opportunity of this training in the northern Xinjiang to send more people over. After the Emperor finished giving instructions to Chen Zhong, he said to the minister standing behind on the left: "Liu Yan, what did you ask you to investigate, how did you investigate?"

Liu Yan took two steps to the left, and after respectfully bowing to the emperor, he said with a sad face: "Minister...... Minister......"

"What's not to say, say!" the Emperor frowned and said unhappily.

Although the human emperor did not reprimand, Liu Yan, who had carried a hard job, was already in a cold sweat, and finally gritted his teeth, Liu Yan still said stubbornly: "Back to Your Majesty, according to the information collected by the hidden guards, it has been confirmed that the second prince and the sixth prince raised and trained the dead soldiers, and the attack on the fifth prince last month was also related to the two princes, uh......"

Liu Yan was thinking about whether to talk about it, and the emperor of the people had already said loudly: "What else has been found, let's say it all." ”

"Yes, the day before yesterday, the hidden guards intercepted three spirit swords sent from the Second Prince's Mansion, which were issued to Han Changqing, the governor of Luzhou, Huang Cheng, the commander of the 16th Army Corps stationed in Luzhou, and Ma Mingyi, the governor of Binzhou. Finally finished reporting to the emperor, Liu Yan hurriedly wiped the sweat on his forehead.

"Heh, the wings are not hard yet, and the hands are already stretched out. After listening to Liu Yan's statement, the human emperor didn't have much expression, just chuckled absently, and asked the middle-aged man who was in the first place on the right: "Tangtai, what's the matter with the Silver Moon Assassin who has been making a lot of trouble these days?"

Yutai Hengning replied: "This matter is quite tricky, this person specifically picks the elders and heirs of various sects and families and outstanding elite disciples to start, and now the situation in the cultivation world is very tense, and there are no less than a hundred bloody conflicts caused by light." ”

The human emperor's face was a little solemn, "You must calm down this restless aura as soon as possible, if you are used by someone with a heart, it will cause a big mess." ”

"I'm also very anxious, people from the Dragon Elephant Sect and other major sects come to me every day to make trouble, asking us to find out the real murderer, but this assassin is clean every time, leaving too little information, and it can be said that there is no usefulness, but the little thing he deliberately left behind is very interesting, Your Majesty, do you know what kind of natal attribute this assassin is?"

The Human Emperor smiled and shook his head, "The National Master said so, it must not be an ordinary attribute, but the special attribute is much more than the Five Elements attribute, I can't guess it." ”

"It's an ice attribute. Tantai Hengning said.

The Human Emperor was a little surprised, "Ice attribute? This is one of the three most unlikely attributes that the human race has." ”

Tantai Hengning continued: "Moreover, its killing methods and the silver half-moon traces deliberately left at the scene of the corpse are all consistent with the Eight Swords of Aomei created by the Haotian Sword Emperor back then. ”

The Human Emperor asked with a somewhat solemn face, "You mean it has something to do with Hengtianmen?"

Tantai Hengning shook his head and said: " Since Hongyou Zhongxing, there have been fewer and fewer cultivators who have studied martial arts in the past few thousand years, and although Hengtianmen advocates the practice of techniques and physical arts, but because this sword technique is relatively special, there is only one person in the door who has mastered this sword technique, although this person is a young disciple, but it is the Shui Yi who was punished for the forbidden love wall, although there is a motive to retaliate against various factions, but his cultivation has fallen for five years, and he has been living in the back mountain with several Taishang elders in Hengtianmen, and there is no time and possibility to commit crimes. ”

The Emperor speculated and said: "Hengtianmen has a history of four thousand years, in fact, there are still many possibilities, whether it is a disciple who was expelled from Hengtianmen, or someone secretly passed this sword technique to outsiders, it is not impossible. ”

Tantai Hengning said: " In fact, when I communicated with Shen Lingfeng, the acting head of Hengtianmen, I also said so, but he said that it was impossible, according to him, his junior brother Shui Yi had told several of their junior brothers about the eight swords of Aomei, this sword technique was learned by Shui Yi in the forbidden land of the mountain behind the Sword Pavilion by accident, and he was the eighth person in the entire Hengtianmen to learn this sword technique so far, except for its founding patriarch Lu Yu, the other six people were either promoted to the head or ranked as the great elder, and because it involves the secrets of Hengtian Gate, this sword technique will not be taught at all, it will only depend on the fate of the encounter, and those who are destined can find and learn。 ”

Without waiting for the Emperor to ask, Tantai Hengning continued: "Later, after Shen Lingfeng heard my description of the Silver Moon Assassin, he gave me the two most likely hypotheses. It is the Haotian Sword Emperor who left a legacy outside the pass, and its inheritor now slips through the border defense line to take revenge on the various factions; another possibility is that the inheritance has been broken, and now the new inheritor belongs to the demon clan or the spirit clan, and then enters the hinterland of our human race to engage in conspiracy. It's just that I think both of these possibilities are very unlikely. ”

"It's outside the gate again, and it's the demon clan again, send a message to the Phantom Guard, let them also pay attention to the news in this regard, and also let the hidden guards in various places move, probe this Silver Moon assassin, collect more information, and by the way, let them find out the goblins who have slipped over the years. After the emperor said, Chen Zhong and Liu Yan hurriedly said yes.

The human emperor was silent for a long time, not knowing what he was thinking, he inadvertently looked up, saw that everyone was waiting for him, and hurriedly asked: "Oh, by the way, there is a person named Lu Zhao who has reported to the ministry?"

Wen Changli, the last official standing on the right, replied: "Then Lu Zhao has gone to Kyoto the day before yesterday to take office, and Your Majesty also knows this person?"

The Emperor said with a smile: "Lu Zhao, who is known as a little doctor and is very affectionate and filial, is a big celebrity, I don't think it's a difficult thing to know, it is said that this person is very prestigious among those scholars? ”

Wen Changli said: "Yes, although this Lu Zhao is young, he has an elegant character, erudite and talented, and Li Zhaoran, who is Lingzhou Qiu Youdao and Nan Taixue, is called the Three Sages of Taixue, and the doctors and scholars of the two academies respect these three people, but Qiu Youdao, who is also one of the three sages, once said frankly to his subordinates that Lu Zhao has great talents, and he is far less than one-tenth of him, but Lu Zhao is sometimes too casual and not suitable for being an official in the officialdom. ”

The Emperor smiled and said: "I'm not afraid of having a character, I'm afraid that I don't have enough talent to support this character, as long as he has great talent, and I support him, he can't be an official?" And a person who can worry about his father for three years is a person who has a personality and knows the general situation, let you say this, the more I want to see him." ”

It's not early outside, and it's almost time to discuss it, the Emperor nodded and said to everyone: "Okay, it's not too early, Mr. and Yutai and Ouyang stay, and everyone else should go back early." ”

After the other ministers retreated, the Emperor thought for a long time before he hesitated and said to the three standing in front of him: "You say, is it possible that Zhong Lihao is not dead?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the human emperor spoke again: "No, no, how is it possible." I'm so confused. ”

Another middle-aged man among the three people left behind, when he heard Zhong Lihao, his eyes suddenly flashed, and after an instant, he disappeared again, and said: "Zhong Lihao can't still be alive, back then, the head of the Tantai family gave up his life to let everyone kill Zhong Lihao, and everyone who survived witnessed Zhong Lihao's annihilation, which is clearly recorded by every family and faction that has been involved." ”

Ouyang Xixian was quite indifferent at first, but the more he talked about the back, the more he persuaded himself, he was afraid that everything would be the opposite of what he said:" To say that Zhong Lihao will leave a legacy outside the pass, I really don't believe it, according to records, Zhong Lihao's parents and brothers were killed in the northern Xinjiang, so he hated the goblin clan the most, he entered the hinterland of the demon clan many times and slaughtered it alone, it was impossible to leave his own inheritance in their territory, he himself knew the weight of his inheritance, Hengtianmen was only his disciple Lu Yu integrated less than one-third of Zhong Lihao's remnant forces, and he was able to fight against the Taiyi Sect, and Lu Yu himself was also the absolute first in the world later, and it was impossible for him to leave his inheritance to the goblin clan。 ”

Seeing that Ouyang Xixian's face was getting worse and worse, Yutai Hengning said: "Don't think so much about it first, Shen Lingfeng said that he plans to set up a bait based on the fact that the Silver Moon Assassin specializes in killing the elite disciples of all major sects, and I also asked the Taiyi Sect to help, if we can catch this Silver Moon Assassin, it is better than us guessing a lot here." ”

The Emperor nodded, as if he remembered something again, and said to Tang Yuanfeng, who was standing at the top of the left and was also called Mr. by the Emperor: "Sir, seeing that the time limit is approaching, according to the normal inheritance, it will be a little too late, should we expand the manpower of our generation early? As for the successors of the next generation, each family will decide whether to establish a candidate based on their own situation." ”

Tang Yuanfeng, who has always been very indifferent, couldn't help frowning when he heard the words of the human emperor and thought about it, after a long time, Tang Yuanfeng sighed and said to the three of them: "It's fixed, it's decided early, you can also have more helpers, our generation is already old, it's up to you, but it's better to lack than to abuse, now at this time, it can be said that it is the time when the human race is really in internal and external troubles, and our four guardian families really can't make any more trouble." ”

Hearing Tang Yuanfeng say this, the three of them breathed a sigh of relief, the burden on their shoulders was really too heavy, and now when the entire continent was surging, the three of them who were under the huge pressure were almost out of breath.

Tang Yuanfeng was afraid that the three of them would be too lax mentally, so he opened his mouth and instructed: "The candidates must be cautious, those who are not sure can be released first, and we must keep in mind the Tianwu Rebellion 10,000 years ago, my human race can not afford the second time." ”

Following.

The second prince and the fifth prince were appointed as the chief and deputy envoys to patrol the north, and together with the general Shangguan Wu, they led the sixth, ninth, thirteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth legions, and these five legions rushed to northern Xinjiang.

A number of feudal kings from other places were recalled to the national capital and entrusted with high positions.

In addition, from the palace in the national capital to the local states and counties, I don't know how many large and small appointment and dismissal edicts have been issued.

On this day, the government and the opposition shook, causing an uproar.