Imperial Cultivation

Li Hongzhao immediately straightened up and leaned forward again: "Can it really be hidden from Chu Zhiyuan?"

Zhou Ling nodded slightly: "Looking at their expressions, they seem to be certain of it."

Li Hongzhao pondered.

Zhou Ling said: "These people are fanatical believers of the Honored Ones, their words may not be credible."

"These brainless fools, of course, their words cannot be trusted." Li Hongzhao said: "However, one thing is certain, these damned Honored Ones have begun to join forces to deal with him."

Zhou Ling nodded solemnly.

These Honored Ones are evil demons from beyond the heavens. Although they cannot descend directly, they can kill people through these demon-folk.

Sometimes, they will send down power, directly infusing it into the bodies of the demon-folk, thereby causing their cultivation to skyrocket. There is even a final strike, burning jade and stone together, the power of which is even more astonishing and impossible to defend against.

Being targeted by one such evil demon is already terrifying enough, but being targeted by all the evil demons is even more frightening.

Li Hongzhao pondered.

Li Hongzhao didn't seem to hear: "Chu Zhiyuan is very likely to take over the Son of Heaven Sword. If this fellow really becomes the Emperor of Da Jing, our Da Meng will be in great trouble."

Zhou Ling whispered: "I've heard of this Heir Apparent's methods, they are indeed extremely formidable. However, if we eliminate him with the help of the Evil Sect, once it's leaked out—"

"Just deny it, and say that someone is deliberately provoking the relationship between our two dynasties," Li Hongzhao said: "Anyway, Da Meng and Da Jing can never be truly friendly."

Zhou Ling nodded slightly.

Li Hongzhao said: "Everyone knows the Evil Sect's resentment towards Chu Zhiyuan. The Evil Sect is also desperately trying to kill him, and no one will suspect anything if he is killed."

Zhou Ling said: "If we don't help them, can they kill the Heir Apparent?"

"Your! Majesty!" Prince Song's face was gloomy.

Li Hongzhao still pretended not to hear, shaking her head and said: "These disgusting Honored Ones are all useless, they can't kill him."

"So strong?" Zhou Ling said in surprise: "The Heir Apparent alone can withstand the combined forces of all the Honored Ones? And all the experts of the Evil Sect?"

Li Hongzhao said indifferently: "It's hard to understand how powerful he is without personally experiencing it."

Zhou Ling said solemnly: "What if we don't succeed? If the Heir Apparent is so powerful, we might fail even if we take action, right? Once we fail—"

"At most, he'll come to kill me." Li Hongzhao snorted.

"Your—Majesty—!" Prince Song shouted loudly: "Think twice!"

Li Hongzhao looked at him helplessly: "Sixth Uncle, didn't you see that we were joking?"

"A ruler does not jest!" Prince Song said with a stern face: "Such jokes cannot be made!"

"Alright, alright," Li Hongzhao waved her jade hand and said: "Join forces with the Evil Sect? I myself can't get over this hurdle in my heart, how is that possible."

Prince Song said quickly: "Your Majesty is wise."

He secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Judging from the way she spoke just now, the Emperor didn't seem to be joking at all.

The relationship between the Emperor and the Heir Apparent is indeed complicated, and cannot be speculated by outsiders.

Some people speculate that the Emperor has a close relationship with the Fourth Prince of Da Jing, possibly involving matters of love between a man and a woman.

But now it seems that it's simply nonsense, there is absolutely no love between them!

Zhou Ling whispered: "Your Majesty, the Evil Sect is constantly assassinating the Heir Apparent."

"He's diverting the trouble eastward, bringing the trouble to our Tianjing." Li Hongzhao snorted.

Zhou Ling said: "After all the Honored Ones join forces, the Evil Sect experts from all the sects in the world will rush towards the Heir Apparent. Where the Heir Apparent is, is the place where the Evil Sect experts gather. Our Tianjing City needs to be prepared."

Li Hongzhao pondered.

Prince Song said quickly: "This is also an opportunity for us to exterminate the demon-folk of the Evil Sect. The more they come, the more we kill!"

Zhou Ling whispered: "Your Highness, they have all cultivated secret techniques, which can conceal their aura, thereby avoiding the perception of Grandmasters.

It's still very troublesome."

Prince Song said: "They can avoid perception but they can't avoid the Heir Apparent. They always want to kill the Heir Apparent. We can use the Heir Apparent as bait to hunt down the demon-folk!"

"Your Highness, once we hunt down too many, it will attract the Evil Sect's retaliation."

"If we don't hunt them down, will they obediently not kill innocent people?"

Zhou Ling was speechless.

"Your Majesty, we can cooperate with the Heir Apparent." Prince Song said earnestly: "Kill the demon-folk of the Evil Sect to the greatest extent possible, thereby exterminating them!"

"I'm afraid we can't exterminate them, right?" Zhou Ling whispered: "If we can't kill them all, they will try every means to retaliate,

The retaliation will be endless and very troublesome."

"With the Heir Apparent standing in front." Prince Song said: "What do we have to fear!"

Li Hongzhao pondered in silence.

Exterminating the Evil Sect is not within her plan. It's a very unrewarding thing.

If she's not careful, it will incur resentment, leading to a great loss of popular support.

The Evil Sect is indeed very difficult to exterminate, not only because they have many hidden lairs, but also because it's impossible to harm the root cause - the evil demons in the heavens.

Even if all the Evil Sect's main altars are destroyed, it will not be able to do anything to the evil demons in the heavens.

The evil demons in the heavens always have ways to stir up people's hearts. Once people's hearts are moved, it can attract their power to descend, thereby rebuilding the Evil Sect.

The embers will always reignite.

Chu Zhiyuan's hard work is destined to be in vain. No matter how clean he sweeps, it's useless.

As long as people's hearts are greedy, they will not be able to resist the return of the evil demons in the heavens.

"Let's wait and see what happens first." Li Hongzhao said: "Let's see the situation."

She received a lot of news about Chu Zhiyuan killing the demon-folk of the Evil Sect.

Hearing is not as good as seeing. She wants to see with her own eyes how Chu Zhiyuan exterminates the demon-folk.

And then judge the situation on both sides.

If the Evil Sect is really failing, then she will kick them when they're down and cooperate with Chu Zhiyuan. If the Evil Sect is powerful and Chu Zhiyuan is in trouble, then she can only pretend that she doesn't know anything.

Chu Zhiyuan looked at his small courtyard.

This small courtyard is in the style of Da Jing. Standing here is like being in Yujing City.

He floated onto the artificial mountain, standing on the artificial mountain to observe the Son of Heaven Sword above the void.

The Son of Heaven Sword seemed to be close at hand, and there were faint patterns flowing slowly on the sword body.

Countless thin lines were gathering on the sword body.

He couldn't see these thin lines before, but now he can see them clearly.

Extremely dense, vaguely transparent.

Are these similar to the red lines on the statues of the Honored Ones? Are they also a form of faith power?

Does the Son of Heaven Sword have two forms?

The Son of Heaven Sword is like a giant umbrella, covering the imperial palace and preventing it from being spied upon.

He shook his head helplessly.

Zou Fang carried the boxes in one by one, placed them in the center of the courtyard, and then opened them one by one.

Statues of the Honored Ones were lying in the boxes.

Chu Zhiyuan withdrew his gaze from observing the Son of Heaven Sword and looked at the statues of the Honored Ones.

Thick red lines were gathering on the statues of the Honored Ones.

The original thin lines had almost all turned into thick lines, and it was obvious that they had all rushed here.

Chu Zhiyuan narrowed his eyes slightly, revealing a smile.

He can harvest another wave.

After so long of fighting in the Divine Sealing Realm, and so many souls of the demon-folk of the Evil Sect, it is now close to perfection.

When the Divine Sealing Realm is complete, he hopes to break through to the third level of the Grandmaster Realm, and also hopes to deal with the evil demons from beyond the heavens.

If he wants to completely exterminate the Evil Sect, he must destroy these evil demons from beyond the heavens.

The Divine Sealing Realm cannot do it. He needs to constantly kill the demon-folk and go to a higher level to know.

To break through the Divine Sealing Realm, it depends on whether there are enough demon-folk rushing over.

"Heir Apparent." Ma Tianhe and Zou Fang came in together, cupping their fists and saluting.

Chu Zhiyuan said: "Don't rush to contact the secret agents first. Da Meng is definitely watching us."

"There's a problem." Ma Tianhe said in a low voice.

Chu Zhiyuan looked at him.

Ma Tianhe lowered his head, embarrassed, and finally said with a forced smile: "I can't contact the leader of the secret agents here."

Chu Zhiyuan looked at him in surprise.

Ma Tianhe's flattering smile disappeared, and his face was heavy: "It's very likely that Da Meng has taken them down."

"The leader was taken down?" Chu Zhiyuan said: "Is there anything more outrageous than that?"

Ma Tianhe smiled bitterly: "I didn't dare to believe it before, but—"

Chu Zhiyuan sighed: "Forget it, what do you want to do?"

Ma Tianhe hesitated, embarrassed, and finally said with a forced smile: "I wonder if we can plead with Da Meng to let them go."

"Do you think they will?" Chu Zhiyuan snorted: "Have we found out the leader of Da Meng's secret agents in Yujing?"

Ma Tianhe shook his head.

"Then will Da Meng agree?" Chu Zhiyuan said unhappily: "Now is not the time for Da Meng to beg us."