sixty-seven, underground palace
Boom! The shocking explosion sounded throughout the sky. The aftermath of the battle between two masters who could break the realm in the sky overwhelmed all the sounds. The assassin of the royal court forced the master of the cliff country to retreat, leaving countless floating fires all over the horizon, and turned around and left.
The master of the Cliff Kingdom was blocked by the floating fire and could not catch up with the assassin for a while, and was boundlessly escaped by him.
Ling Xi watched the assassin escape and reluctantly withdrew his gaze. A royal guard in the Imperial City of Yaguo was like a decoration, and it could not play any role. No wonder Qi dared to declare war and attack at will.
The master of the cliff country turned back and fell on the ground. He was wearing a blue robe, his hair and beard were all white, and he was over 100 years old. He went straight to the little emperor and knelt down: "I am late to save the emperor, and I hope your Majesty will atone for his sins."
The little emperor was just concerned about laughing and didn't care about anything.
The Interior Manager came out of nowhere and led a large number of servants to kneel in front of the little emperor and kowtowed and apologized: "Your Majesty, I deserve to die, and I have frightened you again!"
Ling Xi pressed the little emperor's shoulder and used a little force to remind him to pay attention. Unexpectedly, the little emperor smiled and cried, pointing to the internal affairs supervisor who had just gotten up and wanted to step forward and said loudly: "Continue to kneel!"
The Interior Manager did not dare to act rashly when he heard this, so he knelt down again.
The little emperor wiped away tears with his sleeves and grabbed Ling Xi, who was also about to kneel down: "You don't need to be with me."
Ling Xi blinked, swept the face of the Interior Manager, and clearly saw the hatred that flashed by him.
"Your Majesty, I want to ask you to release Gongsun to investigate the truth of the rebellion." Ling Xi took this opportunity to speak out.
With two assassinations, the prestige of the Interior General was ruined, and the depressed life for ten years made the little emperor completely explode. "You keep saying that you want to protect me. What are you doing every time I am assassinated? Are you the emperor or me? Do you take me seriously?!" The little emperor shouted hysterically, as if he wanted to vent his years of grievances.
"How are you investigating the poisoning?" The little emperor continued to question, and the Interior Supervisor lowered his head and said nothing. The little emperor sneered: "There is no news, right? At worst, you can pull two scapegoats out, as long as you are fine."
"I have absolutely no heart to hurt you. It is true that Gongsun Gongsun participated in the treason. If Your Majesty does not believe it, you can personally observe it."
"Okay, pull him down and throw him into prison. Without my permission, I will never be released!"
"Your Majesty, think twice." The old man in the blue robe pleaded for the chief of the Internal Affairs Office: "He has worked diligently for the royal family for forty years, and has worked hard without credit and hard work. It is absolutely impossible to have the intention of rebellion."
The Interior Chief laughed three times, and was set up by the Imperial Guard and stared at Ling Xi coldly and said, "Your Majesty, don't believe the words of the treacherous people, they are the culprits."
Ling Xi didn't want to argue with him anything. From the beginning, Ling Xi never cared about what the Interior Manager jealous of.
"Ling Xi, you have made great contributions to protecting the emperor. I will let you find a way to see the magical artifact."
Ling Xi smiled and replied, "Your Majesty, let me release Gongsun first."
The little emperor led Ling Xi back to the palace and lost interest in everything on the street. Without the order of the General Officer of the Interior, the Imperial Guard naturally no longer cared about the behavior of the people. Countless people were crowded on both sides of the street and witnessed their emperor with their own eyes.
The little emperor passed by in a sedan chair without looking sideways, like his father.
When he returned to the palace, Gongsun Gongzi, who was released, rushed into the palace eagerly to pay homage to the little emperor.
"Your Majesty! I know where the inner guru hides the artifact!"
The little emperor's eyes lit up and he said to the servant: "Call Ling Xi!"
"Your Majesty, the inner guard has secretly built an underground palace to store magical tools. I accidentally found out the location of the underground palace, so he hurriedly wanted to destroy my mouth. If he had no evil intentions, how could he build this palace without you?" Gongsun Gongsun's head was sweating heavily and his body was covered with scars of torture.
It only took half a day since he was caught and released, and he was tortured so severely. Ling Xi felt something was wrong, but he couldn't say it, so he stood by the hall waiting for the little emperor to speak.
"Ling Xi, there is this opportunity. You can go to the underground palace with me to take a look."
"Thank you, Your Majesty." Ling Xi breathed a sigh of relief. This time he could finally use the Eighth Wheel Realm.
Outside the outskirts of the capital, there were soldiers guarding the ground. Gongsun inserted his hand into the soil and took out the iron ring and pulled it hard. Some mechanism seemed to be activated underground, and a deep hole rose from the flat ground. There were stairs in the cave, layer by layer, deep and bottomless, and I don’t know how deep it was.
The cold wind blew out of the hole for no reason, making people's hearts tremble.
"Your Majesty, there are not many people coming into the ground. Do you want to go down in person?" Gongsun Gongzi asked the young emperor for orders.
"Of course I have to go down, and Ling Xi."
"Your Majesty, where are me?" The old man in the blue robe took a step: "What if you are in the cave..."
"There is no big deal below, so don't come down. Look up from above and don't have any assassin again." The little emperor rejected the old man in blue robe and only took Gongsun Gongzi, Ling Xi and several imperial guards down the depths of the palace.
The colder along the way, a leading imperial guard was afraid that the little emperor would be frostbite and gave birth to many flames to illuminate the passage. Gongsun Gongzi also had a ball of fire in his hand, and then the bright light carefully looked at both sides of the passage.
Ling Xi touched the wall with his hand and almost couldn't take it back. He didn't expect it to be so cold that even the walls were covered with thick layer of frost.
The little emperor hugged in the middle of the crowd, still trembling with cold, and it would be useless to be roasted by fire.
"Your Majesty, why don't we send you out?" An imperial guard said in embarrassment. Seeing the little emperor like this, getting sick will definitely be inevitable when he goes out.
The little emperor shook his head stubbornly, so cold that he couldn't even say a word.
Ling Xi took off his coat and put it on the little emperor. The imperial guards all looked at him with gratitude. They were all wearing rattan armor, and this thing was impossible for the little emperor to wear.
"Your Majesty, there is a lot of ice here, be careful of your feet." Gongsun Gongsun reminded him and stretched out his hand that grabbed Bingfrost.
"Why is it so cold here?" The Imperial Guard who followed him asked anxiously, even his body that had been practicing for many years was feeling the coldness.
Gongsun Gongzi shook his head: "I don't know, it may be the power of the fragments of the Eight Wheel Realm."
"Ah snee!" The little emperor couldn't help sneezing, and fell down the stairs with his feet.
Gongsun Gongzi's face changed and he hurriedly stepped forward to chase him. He didn't know what mechanism he had touched halfway, and a huge stone door hit the middle of the stone steps, cutting off the passage.
An imperial guard drew his sword and slashed on the stone gate, splashing only a little spark, and not even a scratch was cut out.
"Spiritual weapon!" The Imperial Guard looked ugly and said, "The soul cannot be touched, I don't know how your Majesty is."
"You go to the top to report! I'll find a way to open this door." Ling Xi's face was not good-looking, and he never expected such a change. The Interior Manager should have set up a mechanism to prevent someone from coming to steal the Eight Wheel Realm.
Several imperial guards looked at each other, but there was no better way, so they hurried upwards.
Ling Xi took a deep breath and pressed his ears against the stone door. The forced chill made his ears so cold that it hurt. At this time, he didn't care about these things and mobilized all his energy to listen to the situation on the other side of the door.
There was a faint trembling sound coming from there. Ling Xi couldn't hear it clearly, so he changed his ear. He accidentally caught a bump from the corner of his eyes.
The protrusion was obviously concave and was pressed into it.
Ling Xi thought of Gongsun Gongsun at the first time. He had known that this person was not simple. Since he could know the location of the underground palace and was very scheming, he didn't expect that he would really have something to do with rebellion.
Ling Xi frowned and touched the protrusion. It was fixed in its original place and could not be restored no matter how hard it was. At first, it should have never wanted to open it.
Ling Xi looked back and saw that the stairs that were coming down were winding and they could not see the lights above for a long time, and they didn't even know how deep they had fallen.
A huge muffled sound came from inside, and Ling Xi was silently anxious and could not find a way.
"Ling Xi, your feet are empty!"
Ling Xi was overjoyed, and Xiao Ling kept saying this and fell down with one foot.
"I haven't finished speaking yet! Something is moving below!" Xiaoling screamed in surprise, shocked by Ling Xi's actions.
Ling Xi summoned a stone platform with the Di Di Shenling to step on it accurately. Some things that were invisible in the dark heard the sound crawling along the ground, making a harsh friction sound under the stone platform.
"It's a snake!" Xiaoling said in extreme disgust: "The snakes below have claws, which is very strange."
Ling Xi turned a ball of rootless fire into his hand and threw it down. The flames illuminated the ground for a few seconds, and then went out. Ling Xi took advantage of this time to see the true face of her feet. Countless snake-like species twisted on the ground, covered with green scales, and six black claws.
Many strange snakes were using their claws to grab the bottom of the stone platform, and the harsh friction sound was made by them.
Ling Xi was relieved fortunately, but fortunately he didn't fall down directly. I don't know what these strange snakes came from, so many of them gathered below. The vast sutra just now did not introduce this species, I wonder if it was because of the distance between him.
Ling Xi tried to build a platform around the stone platform with the Earth Rip Spike Ridge. However, the hardness of the stone was not enough and there was no support below. Ling Xi would step on it and step off.
He was suddenly trapped here, looking up, the hole he stepped out was still hanging on the top.
Ling Xi was unwilling to let go of new discoveries and persistently searching for new mechanisms. Suddenly, he paused and the stone platform sank a little.
"If you don't hurry up, those snakes will eat you!" Xiaoling urged anxiously, wanting him to return to the stone stairs.
Chapter completed!