The Sword Master God's Journey to Face Slapping

After the results of the joint examination came out, it was time for the successful candidates to enter the palace for the palace examination. The palace examination was the last test of the imperial examination, and even His Majesty would attend in person. For students who had studied hard for many years, this was a supreme honor.

But after the joint examination this year, His Majesty issued an edict to postpone the time of the palace examination for half a month. This was extremely rare in the Wei Dynasty. This sudden edict made people in the court panic and the situation was quite unstable.

His Majesty is already at the age of knowing his destiny this year. He used to be in good health, but he began to have poor health half a year ago. Now, even the palace examination cannot be held, and he has to issue an edict to postpone the time of the palace examination.

Originally, because of His Majesty's poor health, the situation in the court was somewhat unstable. The court officials were inevitably uneasy, and some people were panicked for a while.

What made the situation worse was the attack on the prince by the imperial envoys. This was not a rare thing. The prince was impeached more than once or twice. But the problem was that after the prince was impeached, the Qingliu Party and the Royalist Party, who had always protected the prince, suddenly abandoned him.

Without the help of these two parties, the prince's party was defeated by the imperial envoys' impeachment. When the prince's brothers saw that the prince had fallen to such a state, they would not show mercy and would add insult to injury. For a time, the prince's situation was critical.

The worst thing was that His Majesty was in poor health and mental state. Even if he wanted to help the prince to maintain the balance of the court, he was unable to do so. For a time, the prince was called to be beaten by everyone, and even the memorial to depose the prince was placed on the imperial table.

The position of the prince was unstable, and the situation had become extremely bad. This was recognized by all the court officials. In the Prince's Eastern Palace, the prince, who was forced into such a situation, had bloodshot eyes and kept smashing various porcelain decorations in the bedroom.

"Why did the Qingliu group of old-fashioned people suddenly abandon me? And my brothers, each of them has a heart of a tiger and a jackal. Seeing me in trouble, they will add insult to injury. Do you think that if you pull me down, you will have a chance to ascend the throne? Dream on!"

He smashed another blue and white porcelain vase fiercely. The prince stood in the mess, panting and bent over, trembling slightly: "I will not admit defeat like this. The throne is mine, and I will ascend the throne as emperor!"

The eunuchs and palace maids serving in the room trembled all over when they heard the prince's words that were considered treasonous. They wished they could shrink into the corner so that no one could see them. His Majesty was still there, and the prince said such words. Isn't it a rebellion? They wished they were deaf, and they didn't want to hear such words.

"Go, invite General Gao to me, and tell him that I have something important to discuss with him!" After the prince vented his anger almost like crazy, he stood up straight, regained the arrogance and nobility of the royal family, and ordered in a cold tone.

A eunuch bowed deeply and said respectfully: "Yes, Your Highness." He hurriedly retreated, not daring to think about why the prince invited General Gao to come. This General Gao is the commander of the Imperial Guard...

Li Mansion, in the study.

Lord Li, who was stroking his beard gently, looked at his only grandson with complicated eyes, and found that he could no longer see through him. He couldn't help but ask with a slightly complicated expression: "Is your Majesty's illness related to you?"

It's not his fault that he thinks too much, it's really all too coincidental. His grandson just said that His Majesty couldn't help the prince, and then His Majesty's illness worsened to the point that he was almost bedridden. He really couldn't help but think too much.

You know, before this, although His Majesty had already shown signs of old age and was not in good spirits on weekdays, he had a headache every two or three days, but his condition was not as serious as it is now!

"I didn't intervene, but I heard that His Majesty's time was coming." Xuanyuan shook his head and said in a flat tone. His eyes were very clear with a faint indifference. Lord Li knew at a glance that what he said was true and there was no deception.

Xuanyuan did not lie. The illness of the Emperor of the Great Wei Dynasty was indeed not caused by his intervention. In the original plot, the old emperor would die in three months and the prince would ascend the throne.

Lin Xuanzhu and Li's miserable end, in addition to the means of Lin Yingjie and Princess Chaoyang, also has a lot to do with the prince who ascended the throne behind them. Even the entire Li family was killed by the prince after he ascended the throne to eliminate dissidents.

Knowing that his grandson did not do such a treasonous thing as murdering the emperor, Lord Li was relieved. He is a scholar, loyal to the emperor all his life. Although he abandoned the prince for the sake of the Li family, he never wanted to do such a thing as murdering His Majesty.

"What should we do next?" Unconsciously, Xuanyuan has quietly become the leader between Lord Li and Xuanyuan. At this time, he put down the knot in his heart and naturally began to ask Xuanyuan about his next plan.

Lowering his eyes, Xuanyuan said indifferently: "Just wait and see." When Lord Li showed a puzzled expression, Xuanyuan smiled indifferently, "The prince is incompetent and incompetent. I'm afraid he will be desperate at this time. Only in this way can he be pulled down from the position of prince."

Otherwise, if he has always been the prince, once the emperor dies, he can legitimately ascend to the throne, which is very contrary to Xuanyuan's plan. So Xuanyuan has to pull the prince down first, and if he wants to strengthen the emperor's determination to abolish the prince... the only way is to rebel.

There was a faint smile on his lips. Xuan Yuan lowered his eyes, picked up the teacup and took a sip of the sweet tea, and the smile disappeared.

"Host, why is it that the prince is about to fall?" 0617 looked confused and didn't react. It had been staying by the host's side, so why didn't it know what happened?

Xuanyuan had seen through 0617's innocent nature and didn't bother to talk to it about his arrangements and plans. Anyway, 0617 probably wouldn't understand, so he didn't waste time.

Without getting a response, 0617 continued to say, "Host, I find that you seem to understand these schemes very well. Were you also an official before you became the host?" 0617 felt that only those who were officials would be so calculating.

Xuanyuan smiled faintly and didn't comment. Although he was a sword cultivator, he didn't act directly, but was both hard and soft, and even used some means and strategies. If not, how could he become the first sword cultivator who shocked the world of cultivation step by step with an ordinary background?

Even more, when his strength overwhelmed the cultivation world, if he hadn't used some tricks, how could he make those people in the cultivation world obey his orders out of fear of him, and not gang up to attack Xuan Yuan?

It's not so easy to make them respect and obey, but not let them rebel. Xuan Yuan has never been a straightforward and heartless sword cultivator.

After returning to Luo Ning Hou Mansion, Xuan Yuan entered the study and dismissed the servants, and then asked in the empty study: "Take out the formula of gunpowder that I asked you to write."