Chapter 256
Either be executed or die of old age.
Therefore, no matter how much you pay and the most lives are taken, the return will be very small.
But the price is always there.
Every choice comes with a price.
And the price Qiao Mu has to pay... He estimates that this wave will start in a hundred years.
What benefits can be obtained? The advantage is that Qiao Mu has at least a hundred years to concentrate on practicing, so yeah!
"No matter how you weigh the pros and cons, you can come to one conclusion: blood loss."
Qiao Mu sighed slightly, stuffed the fat cat into the shadow under his butt, opened the window, and looked out into the vast night.
At night, the lights of the Imperial Capital Night Market are lit up, and it can be seen that the long streets of the Imperial Capital are bustling with people and very lively.
The bustle in the world is all for the benefit of coming; the hustle and bustle of the world is all for the benefit of the future.
People in the world are either seeking fame or profit.
But occasionally there are fools in this world who try to move mountains by themselves regardless of cost or gain or loss.
These fools are not not smart enough, nor are they too impulsive.
They do things without asking whether they will be successful, how much money they can make for themselves, whether they can make themselves famous...
They see clearly the truth of life and the majestic mountains lying in front of them.
They knew that they were weak, that their road ahead was full of thorns and blood, and that they were doomed to a narrow escape.
But they are still persistent and have no hesitation.
These people are fools in the eyes of wise men and fools in the eyes of ordinary people who pursue fame and fortune.
In Qiao Mu's heart, Hai Wuya is the kind of fool who does something he knows he can't do.
"A person like Hai Wuya shouldn't die like this."
Qiao Mu jumped up, his figure flashed one after another, and disappeared into the vast night.
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The bright moon is like a mirror, hanging high in the night sky, and the silver-white moonlight shines all over the ground, making the brightly lit imperial city even brighter.
Tonight, there were many times more royal guards patrolling the palace than before.
Groups of neatly dressed Royal Guardsmen shuttled alternately through the imperial city, the lights in their hands suddenly swimming like fish in the night.
Emperor Yonghe looked at the dense lights flowing outside the window, but he didn't feel much sense of security in his heart.
"Your Majesty, 10,000 royal guards are patrolling the imperial city alternately, and 800 flying fish guards are guarding outside the royal study. This palace has become a dragnet, and even the eight-armed celestial dragon with unrivaled light skills in the past cannot fly in." Guard Chu said.
Emperor Yonghe did not speak, but felt a little uneasy and frowned deeply.
An army of 10,000 can exhaust a super-grade warrior alive. After all, super-grade warriors are also made of flesh, and there will be times when their strength is exhausted.
"Will tonight be spent safely?" This thought passed through Emperor Yonghe's mind.
He originally didn't know about Hai Wuya's physical condition, but after placing Hai Wuya under house arrest in the palace, he naturally asked the palace doctor to investigate as usual.
After this investigation, it was discovered that Hai Wuya was seriously ill and might not even be able to survive the past three days.
"Hai Wuya is seriously ill. Since he is a senior member of the Wuji Society, Wu Shengren must be aware of his condition...so the Wuji Society probably won't come tonight."
"Or we may be executed early tomorrow to avoid long nights of nightmares..."
Emperor Yonghe was halfway pacing in the imperial study when he suddenly heard noise coming from far away in the imperial city.
The lights that suddenly swam in the night quickly gathered in the direction of the sound, forming a stream of lights.
"Your Majesty, there is a light kung fu master who climbed over the palace wall. He is very good at light kung fu, but he was caught by the patrolling imperial guards." A Feiyu guard flew to the imperial study hall and knelt down to report.
"The murderers from Wujihui are actually here? How many are there?"
"Only one person has been found so far."
"Don't take it lightly, there must be someone lurking in the dark. Please investigate again and report again."
After a while, more and more lights converged towards the place where the noise came from. The stream of lights slowly grew and turned into a long river of lights.
"Your Majesty, there is only one person who broke into the palace, but that person is Qiao Shuangtuo, a warrior from the Qiao family who ranks among the most powerful warriors on both sides."
"The Qiao family? What does this have to do with him..." Emperor Yonghe pondered for a moment and thought a little:
"Send a flying fish guard to tell the Qiao family that Hai Wuya has been seriously ill for a long time and will live in just a few days."
"...."
"Your Majesty. The Flying Fish Guard who was delivering the message was killed by the Qiao family with a volley of fingers. Qiao Shuangqi didn't react at all. It seemed that he had already known about this."
"He knew it a long time ago? Since he knew that Hai Wuya was terminally ill, why did he come to the palace? It doesn't make sense." Emperor Yonghe frowned and thought hard for a long time before he suddenly woke up:
"It's really dark under the lamp."
"He didn't come for Hai Wuya at all, but he had an ulterior motive. He must be an assassin who came to kill me! Some members of the Qiao family also did this in the past."
No one believed that someone would die for a dying old man. More people were willing to believe that he had ulterior motives and a more ambitious goal, such as assassinating the emperor.
Chapter 269 He is real, I cried to death (4k
The night has gradually deepened.
The imperial capital Haifu.
Hai Siyuan still couldn't sleep tonight. He looked out the window at the vast night, and his thoughts were in a mess.
Just as he was tossing and turning, he saw the noise gradually rising in the night.
As the residence of the second-rank official, the Minister of Rites, Haifu is naturally located in the inner city area close to the imperial city.
It was already dark at night, but he heard noise coming from the direction of the imperial city. It was obvious that there was a commotion in the imperial city.
Hai Siyuan had been paying attention to the movements in the imperial city. Now he got up and went to the courtyard, listening carefully.
"There are assassins..."
"Escort..."
The shouts could be faintly heard in the wind, but Hai Siyuan's face changed slightly, and he vaguely realized something.
This timing is such a coincidence.
Hai Wuya was under house arrest in the palace, which was not something everyone knew.
The emperor announced this to the world, and notices were posted all over the capital, but he did not mention this incident. According to common sense, repeat offenders would naturally be imprisoned in the sky prison.
Li Changshi found out the news that Hai Wuya was not imprisoned in Tianlao from Tianlao officials.
Although this is not top secret information, it is not something that just anyone can know. After all, there are a lot of people in the Royal Forest Army, and it is difficult to hide large-scale troop mobilization from those who are interested.
Palace assassin?
If he was really an assassin, how could he enter the palace to assassinate him when the Imperial Guards were fully armed?
The timing was so coincidental that Hai Siyuan suddenly thought of a possibility, and he suddenly woke up.
"Could it be Qiao Shuangtuo? He was just telling us what he was talking about weighing the pros and cons, and he didn't take it seriously at all?" Hai Siyuan was stunned.
Within the palace.
On a brightly lit pavilion, Emperor Yonghe looked down at the long river of lights in the night below, feeling calm.
The number of people exceeds 10,000, and the mountains and plains are covered.
There are no mountains or fields in the palace, but the long river of lights composed of these thousands of imperial guards is spectacular even in the night.
"Commander Chu, Qiao Shuangtuo has broken through the palace wall and is about to break into the Gate of Supreme Harmony. His Qinggong is so good that we can't keep up..."
"Your Majesty, don't worry. Even if he breaks in, he will be a turtle in the urn." Beside Emperor Yonghe, Chu Tianming, the commander of the Royal Forest Army, waved his hand:
"The super-grade martial arts in this world have surpassed the nine-grade martial arts system established by the imperial court. They are already a small group of people standing at the pinnacle of today's martial arts. However, most of them rely on their own force, just like the eight who broke into the palace decades ago. Arm Heavenly Dragon.”
Chu Tianming, the commander of the Yulin Army, said in a deep voice to his subordinates:
"Super-grade ones are all made of flesh and blood. Qiao Shuangtuo is so unbridled, so he will also suffer from hatred!"
In fact, he is also a super-level martial artist. He just broke through a few years ago and became a super-level god-refining warrior.
As the only super-grade martial artist attached to the Great Yan royal family, he was able to break through martial arts realms mainly by relying on the medicinal material resources of the Great Yan royal family and the guidance of strong men.
People in the martial arts always say that Wudang Shaolin was the holy land of martial arts in the past and the leader of the major martial arts schools in the world. But according to Chu Tianming, the Great Yan royal family was the top martial arts force of the previous generation.
Let’s not talk about Taizu Dayan, who founded the country in the past. He was the number one in the world three hundred years ago. He has a profound foundation and is not necessarily weaker than any famous sect.
Simply speaking, the financial resources and martial arts secrets accumulated by the Great Yan Dynasty in the past three hundred years are not something that the so-called martial arts clan or famous sects can touch.
Therefore, in Chu Tianming's view, he actually joined the most powerful martial arts force in the old generation of martial arts.
But even so, he was humiliated decades ago.
Decades ago, when he was not the commander of the Royal Forest Army, he once witnessed the figure of the eight-armed heavenly dragon walking among the ten thousand armies relying on the eight steps of the heavenly dragon.
Chu Tianming has very good eyesight.
Even from a distance, he could notice that the Qing Kung Fu performed by Qiao Shuangmao was clearly the Eight Steps of the Heavenly Dragon that had left a deep impression on him decades ago.
To be fair, Qiao Shuangtuo's Qinggong attainments cannot be compared with the Eight-Armed Heavenly Dragon.
However, as a super-class of strength and strength, his physical strength is much greater than that of the eight-armed dragon of the past. He lightly taps the ground with his feet and shoots through the air like a sharp arrow.
Although it is not as flexible and versatile as the eight-armed dragon of the past, it is more brave and swift.
"So confident, does it mean that the Royal Forest Army already has tactics to face super-grade warriors?" A voice sounded in the ears of Chu Tianming, the commander of the Royal Forest Army.
A white-haired figure appeared silently in the pavilion, it was the ancestor of the royal family, Yan Shenji.
The assassin Qiao Shuangtuo entered the palace, and thousands of imperial guardsmen were mobilized.
It was impossible for Yan Shenji to be unaware of such a big movement. In fact, he was quite impressed by the Qiao family who were at the top of the Tingchao Tower list.
Yan Shenji also wanted to see with his own eyes whether this Qiao Shuangtuo was a martial arts genius or a centenarian who was accomplished in longevity boxing.
"Another madman who broke into the palace without permission." Yan Shenji's eyes were as calm as a deep pool.
If he were young, the assassin would have been beaten to death if he had no chance to enter the Gate of Supreme Harmony.
But he is getting old after all. Even if his attainments in Changshengquan are extremely high and his body remains immortal, his character will still be different from when he was young.
Decades ago, the Eight-Armed Heavenly Dragon entered the palace and was spared by him. It was really because Yan Shenji had cherished his talent.
"Martial arts in the world are developing forward little by little. Two hundred years ago, there was no such light skill as the Eight Steps of Heavenly Dragon." Yan Shenji said calmly:
"The eight-armed celestial dragon of the past was really a pity for its talent. I wonder if today's Qiao Shuangtuo, a martial artist of this generation, can come up with something new?"
He is an old martial artist from many eras ago. He has not left the palace for a long time, and he does not know how far the martial arts in the outside world have developed.
Now Qiao Shuangtuo, who was on the double list, really gave him something to look forward to.
"The ancestors are here too?" Emperor Yonghe suddenly felt reassured:
"Actually, I have already informed the Dao Dao Sect. As long as the Royal Forest Army delays for a moment, the Dao Dao Sect's Immortal Chief will arrive..."
"Dao Dao Sect? Why do assassins need help from Dao Dao Sect when they enter the palace?" Yan Shenji raised his eyebrows.
Emperor Yonghe did not answer immediately, and the scene was silent for a while.
Chu Tianming, the commander of the Yulin Army, was a little uneasy.
The so-called "ancestor" of this royal family has a mysterious identity and comes and goes without a trace, but he is extremely senior and has unfathomable martial arts skills.
Looking at the entire palace, there are actually very few people who know his true identity. They only know that he is of extremely high seniority and has a prominent status.
In fact, his ability to break through to the super level relied on the guidance of the Flame God Machine.
At this time, a noise came from the Taihe Gate in the distance, breaking the brief silence in the pavilion.
In the night, I saw the thick palace door open, and a figure stepped out of the door.
Qiao Mu's original plan was actually to sneak in secretly, so he deliberately waited until night before taking action.
But he didn't expect that there would be thousands of imperial guards patrolling the palace, and there would be no blind spots at all.
No matter how fast he was, he couldn't hide it from thousands of eyes.