Daqian Night Emperor

Chapter 352: Complaint in front of the emperor and attack on the left prime minister!
"I have limited talent. If I don't have the opportunity, I'm afraid I won't be able to achieve the highest level of Taoism in my lifetime."

"Now my body's Qi and blood have been completely dried up. I only have three years left to live..."

"I wanted to borrow the body of that little bastard Wei Zhaofeng to live another life, but after the body swap, my cultivation level was restored to the seventh level at most, and there is no hope of becoming a first-level cultivator."

“Now that the Holy Fetus has been born, if I can obtain it… I will definitely be able to enter the First Grade!”

Ruan Shenxiu kept muttering these words, and finally seemed to have made some kind of decision.

He returned to the cave and picked up the offerings on the incense table.

It was a bead, crystal clear, flawless, emitting a soft light, and suspended in mid-air.

Ruan Shenxiu took off the beads and then held them in his mouth.

The next moment, his hunched and skinny body began to swell up like a balloon.

The hunched body gradually straightened up, new flesh and blood began to grow on the skinny body, and the head, which originally had few hairs left, even started to grow white hair.

In a short while, he transformed from a dying old man into a tall and handsome young man.

"This Sea King Pearl can keep me at my peak for half a year."

"Now all I need is the Sea-Suppressing Seal... Where did Xiao Yuzi take my Sea-Suppressing Seal?"

His voice was still as hoarse as ever, and he closed his eyes slightly, as if he was sensing something.

After a while, Ruan Shenxiu opened his eyes and muttered to himself, "Kyoto City? Why did Xiao Yuzi go to Kyoto City? Didn't you say that you would guard the island for me while I was in seclusion?"

He has been in seclusion for many years and has never stepped out of the cave. Now he still doesn't know about Ruan Yu's death.

"Kyoto City... I haven't been there for many years."

Ruan Shenxiu sighed, then took a step forward and disappeared on the spot.

……

On the other side, Liangzhou Tongling County.

A man riding a tiger galloped into a valley.

In the valley, there is a small village built along the river.

There was a woman washing clothes by the stream, and a group of children were playing under a big locust tree at the entrance of the village.

It looks no different from an ordinary small village.

But if you look closely, you will find that the animals working in the fields are not calves, but "lizards" with fangs half a foot long. A colorful bird is flying low in the woods, and the "big cat" playing with the children is a strange beast with two wings on its back, half eagle and half lion...

The strange species in the wilderness that are extremely difficult to find in the outside world can be seen everywhere in this village, and are even raised like pets.

The man riding the white tiger rushed into the village and ran all the way to the back hill of the village before he got off the mountain. He shouted as he ran:
"Ancestor, Ancestor! The Holy Fetus has appeared in Jingzhou!"

"Grandfather, are you still alive?"

There is a clay sculpture standing by a pond in the back mountain.

The clay sculpture depicts an old man fishing with a fishing rod in his hand.

When the call came from outside, the clay sculpture began to shake...

"Puff, puff..."

The heartbeat sounded inside the clay sculpture, becoming louder and louder, and cracks gradually began to appear on the clay sculpture.

The next moment, the clay sculpture opened its eyes, revealing a pair of eyes full of vicissitudes.

……

This scene is being played out in many places across the Kyushu continent.

The news of the Holy Fetus's appearance spread throughout the Nine Provinces at an incredible speed, and also alarmed many old monsters who had not been concerned with worldly affairs for a long time. But the source of the news... no one knew where it came from.

By the time the Daqian court reacted, the news could no longer be suppressed. There were already many signs of activities by strange and powerful people in Jingzhou.

But at the same time, the court was no longer able to focus on this matter.

Because there was a great turmoil in the Kyoto officialdom!

Li Shengtian has arrived in Beijing!

……

"Your servant, Li Shengtian, is going to sue the Left Prime Minister Wu Yong in front of the Emperor! I hope Your Majesty will make a decision!"

Inside the Golden Palace, Li Shengtian, who had rushed over from Jingzhou in a dusty state, did not even have time to change his armor, and entered the palace holding a sword and armor.

All the civil and military officials in the court were present, and there was an uproar for a while.

Zhao Qi'an was also in the team. Although his current position had not changed, his official rank had been promoted. He was now a fifth-rank official and was qualified to participate in court meetings.

At this moment, he looked at Li Shengtian, who was kneeling before the emperor, with a surprised expression.

During this period, Zhao Guanxiang secretly did a "big thing" that was not in Tianyuan County of Jingzhou. After losing Zhao Guanxiang's help, Zhao Nishang had no way of knowing what was happening inside Tianyuan County.

Precisely for this reason, Zhao Qi'an knew no more than his other colleagues in the court, and was very surprised that the Astronomical Observatory suddenly attacked the Left Prime Minister.

In his opinion, no matter how powerful the Left Prime Minister was, he could not interfere with the Astronomical Observatory, which was an independent system.

No matter how special the Astronomical Observatory is, it only has the power to supervise all officials. It cannot interfere in state affairs. This is not what it should do.

It is precisely for this reason that the relationship between Zuo Xiang and the Astronomical Observatory should be, if not symbiotic, one in which they do not interfere with each other, and this has been the case for so many years.

Now the Astronomical Observatory suddenly attacks the Left Prime Minister...what does this mean?
Li Shengtian's appearance here must have been instructed by General Ling Fang. Ling Fang is not the kind of person who shoots without a purpose. It seems that something big must have happened that made Ling Fang determined to attack the Left Prime Minister!

It is rare that Emperor Tianwu is also present at today's court meeting.

On the high throne, the voice of Emperor Tianwu rang out:
"Why did you come to the capital to file a complaint when you were not in Jingzhou to eradicate the evil?"

Li Shengtian knelt down and bowed his head, saying neither servilely nor arrogantly: "I want to accuse the left prime minister of his seven sins!"

"Left Prime Minister Wu Yong, who is conceited that he is favored by the emperor, has been stirring up factional strife in the court, uniting with his party to attack those who are different from him. This is one of them!"

"The second is to control the imperial examinations, recommend our own people to pass the examinations and enter the court, and block the path for poor students from all over the world!"

"Sheltering the Wu family, wantonly embezzling Xuzhou real estate, and plundering the people's wealth is the third!"

"Accepting bribes and shielding criminal officials is the fourth!"

"Colluding with the Salvation Church and working in cahoots with the criminal officials in Jingzhou is the fifth one!"

"He ordered his students to kill the informant Lu Huaishen, and this is the sixth one!"

"Swallowing the evil pill to prolong one's life is the seventh!"

"These seven crimes are too numerous to list! They are intolerable! Your Majesty, please execute this beast to set things right!"

Li Shengtian bowed his head, his voice still echoing in the hall.

For a moment, the whole room was in an uproar!
Civil and military officials could not help but talk about it, with surprise, panic, excitement... all kinds of emotions were brewing.

Zhao Qi'an's expression gradually became solemn, and his eyes couldn't help but look at Wu Yong who was standing at the front of the hall.

But Wu Yong seemed not to hear it and still stood there without saying a word.

But his posture was no longer as straight as before. The always energetic Left Prime Minister seemed to finally reveal some of the decadence that comes with his age.

(End of this chapter)