Infinite Puzzle City

Chapter 481: The emperor and his subjects have been together for many years, so I won’t act anymore.

The ancestor of the Zou family is in the elixir. Isn’t it obvious that they are preparing to swallow the emperor into ashes?

The Zou family's ancestor is a great evil spirit. If he swallowed the dragon's energy, wouldn't it be...

Thinking of this, Xiao Ran frowned unconsciously.

I was already thinking about whether to take advantage of the opportunity.

Just at this moment, a hand gently pulled Xiao Ran's arm. Xiao Ran turned around and found that Wu Man had come to his side, squinting his eyes and staring at him with a smile.

I didn't hear him speak, but I heard him say, "Don't mess around. It's not time to harvest yet. If you act now, you will only fall into a trap."

Xiao Ran rolled her eyes and turned her head away, not bothering to pay attention to him.

"Hey, why are you angry? Eat the cherries I gave you so we can talk without any problems."

Upon hearing this, Xiao Ran calmly took out the cherry that Wu Man had given her and put it in his mouth.

Don’t mention it, cherries are very sweet.

But what Xiao Ran said next became a bit dirty.

"You bastard, you're cheating me..."

Wu Man did not refute, but waited until Xiao Ran finished scolding, then said: "I am not trying to trick you, my original intention was to lead Huang Chao into the palace, but I didn't expect that you would rush out and be caught by Huang Chao."

Wu Man said with some innocence that he was also very surprised by this matter. After all, Xiao Ran had not told him about the plan. Wu Man himself was not aware of the fact that Xiao Ran had led the Zou family to deal with Huang Chao. At that time, he was still working as a cook in Hongbin Tower. How could he have inquired about these gossips in the martial arts world?

After he had made the palace a mess, he did not see Huang Chao rushing into the palace. Only then did he realize that Huang Chao's original target was probably not the emperor, but Xiao Ran.

But firstly, Xiao Ran didn't ask for help, and secondly, he didn't want to give up this opportunity.

Listening to Wu Man's explanation, Xiao Ran couldn't help but snorted coldly: "So you sold me to Huang Chao? Aren't you afraid that he will kill me?"

Hearing Xiao Ran's question, Wu Man thought seriously for a second: "Don't be afraid, if it's so easy for you to die in Huang Chao's hands, then I think your so-called Amazing Pavilion is a trap."

Compared with Huang Chao's difficulty, it is more difficult for Xiao Ran to make Qiming Pavilion the fourth largest force, and the resistance he will face at that time will be stronger.

Not only the Changchun Society, which has turned from open to secret, will be eyeing this piece of fat meat, but neither Donglongfang nor Penglai Tower will let him rise easily, and both of them will try their best to take a bite of this piece of fat meat.

You know, what Xiao Ran wants to do is an exclusive business, with huge profits and resources beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

If Changchun Club swallows up the Amazing Pavilion, it will be able to return to the public eye and become the leader of the three giants again.

Penglai Tower doesn't mind adding icing on the cake to its business and making it bigger and stronger.

As for Donglongfang, just look at their willingness to spend a high price to buy those [Hercules Masks] in Xiao Ran's hands and you will know that when the state apparatus wants to compete for interests, when will it ever talk to you about reason and the law?

It's just a piece of paper. You either obey or you are the enemy.

Do you really think those supervisors are joking?

Even if he said that he was already a C-level professional, Wu Man would still be terrified if he had to face Zhong Yi.

He didn't want to be trapped in an endless dream and tortured by Zhong Yi anymore.

That feeling is worse than death.

If you can't even deal with Huang Chao, then Wu Man can only say that you don't have the ability or the fate to do it, and there is no way he is going to cooperate with such an unlucky guy.

Faced with Wu Man's righteous words, Xiao Ran no longer even had the heart to scold him.

"I owe you a favor last time, and I'll write it off this time."

"Yeah, that's okay."

Wu Man knew that he was in the wrong, so there was no point in arguing about this.

Would you say that Xiao Ran doesn't blame Wu Man? Actually, when you think about it, there is nothing to be surprised about. As he said, if he didn't have the ability to get out of this situation unscathed, how could he expect Wu Man to follow him so wholeheartedly.

While the two were talking, the emperor had already reached out and took the blood pill.

Looking at the fragrant pill in his hand, the emperor couldn't help but take a deep breath. All of a sudden he felt refreshed and seemed to be full of energy.

"Mr. Zou, you are still considerate of me."

The emperor held the blood pill in his hand, patted Mr. Zou's hand with a look of satisfaction on his face and said.

"For the sake of your majesty's longevity, I will do my best to assist you."

Mr. Zou has such a devoted and loyal demeanor that it is really hard to find fault with him.

The emperor patted Mr. Zou's shoulder meaningfully and said, "Okay, okay, you and Chu Tianming are both my right-hand men and my pillars. By the way, I heard that your grandson was killed. Have you found the murderer?"

"Zicheng... the murderer is still on the run. Your Majesty, I am sorry to trouble you. Please take the medicine as soon as possible. Your health is the most important."

"Not in a hurry."

The emperor waved his hand and put his arm on Mr. Zou's shoulder: "The dead cannot be resurrected. I have a good idea for you. How about Chu Tianming? I will give him the surname Zou and let him be your grandson."

"Oh, no, no, Chu Tianming is not suitable to be a grandson, just make him a son. Anyway, your son died early." The emperor's words made the old man of the Zou family widen his eyes and his fingers trembled uncontrollably, but he quickly calmed down: "Your Majesty, please don't joke. I dare not have a personal relationship with the Imperial Guards."

Hearing what the old man from the Zou family said, the emperor squinted his eyes and looked at the old man for a moment: "Okay, don't worry, I will definitely not treat your Zou family unfairly in the future."

"I will not refuse even if I die!"

The old man from the Zou family pretended to cry bitterly and was deeply moved. He knelt on the ground and kowtowed several times to the emperor.

The emperor was very satisfied with his attitude, so he picked up the blood pill in his hand, his face full of greed and expectation, opened his mouth, and swallowed the blood pill in one gulp.

Seeing that the blood pill had been swallowed into the emperor's mouth, everyone looked up at the same time, wanting to see whether the effect of this top-grade blood pill was different from what was rumored.

"Are you sure it's okay? Let me tell you, the elixir contains the Zou family's ancestor. Once that thing gets the dragon's energy, you won't be able to deal with it."

However, in the face of Xiao Ran's persuasion, Wu Man's face showed an expectant look: "Don't worry, I'm waiting for this moment, but don't worry, the emperor is not a fool."

"What do you mean?"

Xiao Ran could tell there was something else behind Wu Man's words.

Wu Man smiled without saying anything and just told Xiao Ran to wait and watch. He had been collecting this fish for a long time, otherwise why would he go to the Zou family's Hongbinlou to be a cook? Did he need the little money from the Zou family?

As the pill took his medicine, a long-lost sense of relief appeared on the emperor's face.

He lay on his dragon chair and took a long breath, and his whole body seemed to relax all at once.

Seeing this, the tension on the old man’s face slowly relaxed.

The two people's eyes suddenly met. After a moment of silence, it was unknown who laughed first, and then they couldn't stop laughing together.

"Hahahahaha..."

The others looked at the emperor and the old man from the Zou family in astonishment, not understanding what they were laughing at.

Just when everyone was confused, the emperor was already laughing to the point of tears, and pointed at the old man in front of him: "What are you laughing at?"

"Your Majesty is about to ascend to heaven. I am happy for you. I wonder what your Majesty is laughing at?"

"That's too much. I laugh at you for having a son you don't dare to acknowledge, and for sending him to my side to be a dog. I laugh at your Zou family's scheming and making wedding clothes for me. I laugh at you, and I also laugh at me. We are a monarch and a subject, and this play can be played out long enough."

The old man from the Zou family was startled, the smile on his face gradually faded, and his eyes were fixed on the emperor sitting on the dragon throne.

The emperor was lying on the dragon chair, and he began to count with his fingers: "Back then, that disabled monk from Huaxue Temple was your son, right? You thought you did it perfectly, but you idiot, don't you know that after Huaxue Temple was destroyed, Huaxue Sutra was hidden in the Sutra Pavilion in the palace?"

Hearing this, the old man from the Zou family’s pupils widened and he involuntarily took two steps back.

But the emperor continued, "This Blood Transformation Sutra has so many miraculous effects. Do you think that after Emperor Wuzong destroyed Buddhism, he had no thoughts about it?"

When Emperor Wuzong destroyed Buddhism, Huaxue Temple was the first to be hit.

People in the martial arts world only know that the Huaxue Temple was labeled as an evil sect and was punishable by anyone, but they don’t know that Wu Zong was the one behind all this.

However, after the Blood Transformation Sutra fell into Wuzong's hands, Wuzong did not choose to practice it. This was because the Blood Transformation Sutra was not only harmful to the country and the people, but most importantly, the last step of this thing required the help of external forces.

When the Zou family presented the revised version of the Blood-Transforming Sutra, the emperor knew that the Zou family's motives were impure, but this was also an opportunity for him.

The emperor and his subjects have been together for many years, and this drama has been played out long enough.

Hearing the emperor's words, everyone looked at the old man from the Zou family in surprise.

Hearing this, the old man from the Zou family narrowed his eyes and stared at the emperor, saying with a fake smile: "So what? Since you have eaten the blood pill, everything is settled."

The blood pill had already dissolved in the emperor's stomach. The emperor's chest began to move involuntarily, as if something was trying to come out of it.

The emperor showed a painful expression on his face, but he was still smiling.

It seemed like all this was just as he expected.

This smile made the old man of the Zou family more and more panicked. He didn't understand what the emperor was laughing at at this point.

“Pull it down!!”

As the emperor finished speaking, several guards around him immediately pulled the ropes beside them.

The yellow cloth that Xiao Ran had just noticed was slowly pulled open, and six stone evil-repelling statues with human faces and tiger bodies squatted on the dome, their eyes wide open, making threatening gestures towards everyone.

"Township!!"

Xiao Ran was shocked. He didn't expect that there were six talismans under the yellow cloth.

At the same time, he and Wu Man both felt their bodies sink, and three warnings appeared before their eyes.

"Warning! You are within the range of the talisman stone that wards off evil spirits and are being suppressed by the talisman."

"Warning! You are within the suppression range of a talisman. All your attributes and curses are ineffective."

"Warning! You are within the suppression range of the talisman. All supernatural powers will not be effective."

(End of this chapter)