Chapter 318



318 Searching for His Majesty the Emperor

Lu Qing’s brows furrowed tightly after he heard the beginning of the story.

The royal family is actually inextricably linked to the faceless society?

He continued to listen carefully and heard li Wenchang say, ”

Qianqian’s matter has already reached a critical point. Don’t create more trouble and provoke the Lu family.

“I understand.”

Seeing Zhao Guang Xin still gnashing his teeth in anger, li Wenchang sighed and said, ” “Bear with it for a while longer. When His Majesty succeeds, everything can be settled.”

His Majesty succeeded?

What was the Yan Emperor doing?

it’s a pity that the three pieces of divine lightning wood from four years ago were taken by the Lu family. Otherwise, they would have been gathered last year!

“Is everyone here now?”

“Yes,”

Heavenly Thunder divine wood? What the Yan Emperor li Shiwen wanted to do was related to the divine Thunder wood? Moreover, listening to this, this plan was not just three to five years. The collection was not as simple as a few pieces of divine lightning wood.

With this, it was basically confirmed that the attack on the Lu family four years ago was definitely related to the imperial family and the Zhao family. The Imperial court was indeed behind the faceless society.

But the question was, what did the Yan Emperor want so much divine wood of Heavenly Thunder for?

Eh? The Yan Emperor seemed to be a cultivator with lightning spiritual roots!

The Yan Emperor, li Shiwen, was a nascent Soul Stage cultivator. There were many rumors about the exact level of his nascent soul, but it was hard to determine. However, he was at least a great cultivator in the advanced stage of the nascent Soul Stage.

Logically speaking, a cultivator with lightning spiritual roots in the advanced stage of the original level would not need the divine Thunder wood! Other than being used as a magic tool to waste a heavenly treasure, this thing can only help people in the initial enlightenment stage to break through.

Breakthrough?

Lu Qing’s heart skipped a beat when he thought of this word. He had a bold guess. Could it be that the Yan Emperor, li Shiwen, was preparing to break through to the Dharma stage?

Could the divine Thunder wood help a nascent soul cultivator break through to the Dharma stage? I’ve never heard of it!

However, just because he had never heard of it, it did not mean that it was impossible. After all, before this, Lu Qing’s own knowledge was limited to the Golden core stage. He knew very little about the nascent soul realm, let alone the secrets of breaking through to the Dharma stage.

Lu Qingchun had guessed this. There was no evidence. The two of them were discussing something and did not go any further than that. The main purpose of li Wenchang’s visit was to warn the Zhao clan not to cause any more trouble. He had only casually mentioned a few things about the faceless society and the Yan Emperor’s breakthrough, and did not involve them too deeply.

Lu Qing was still patiently listening. He did not hear any more important information even after li Wenchang left.

But this was enough. Although the conversation between li Wenchang and Zhao Guangxin did not mention anything important, it merely pointed Lu Qing in the right direction, and it was very useful.

He had a major guess in his heart. Of course, others could only make wild guesses in their hearts after they had guessed it. However, Lu Qing had a way to verify it.

If he didn’t know what the Yan Emperor was doing, why couldn’t he just go and take a look?

After that, Lu Qing did not continue to stare at Zhao Guangxin. He first returned to Wenen’s place with his consciousness form to make up for the time he had left. Then, he flew toward the palace.

To be honest, Lu Qing had never been to the palace of the Yan Dynasty, not even when he was alive. This was the first time he had come here.

However, he had no time to admire the magnificent Palace.

Lu Qing first spent some time looking for the Yan Emperor in the palace that took up a large area.

When he found it, the Yan Emperor was quite diligent and was looking through government affairs.

Lu Qing looked at them curiously. They were all general administrative work, but they did reveal some of the Yan Kingdom’s secrets.

Even though Lu Qing did not want to see these things, he still remembered them in his heart. Who knew when he would be able to use it.

Lu Qing continued to monitor the Emperor. He accompanied the Emperor for two whole days as he reviewed government affairs.

Then, he didn’t get to know what the Emperor wanted to do, but he accidentally discovered another secret: The Wei Kingdom was going north to attack the Yan Kingdom.

The great Wei Empire was located South of the Yan Kingdom and West of the Qi Kingdom. Compared to the friendly diplomatic relationship between yan state and its Western neighbor, which was Jin state, Great Yan state, yan state, and Qi state, which were its neighbors in the South and Southeast, were not very close.

The Qi state was easier to deal with. After all, there were very few directly connected parts. The direct communication between the two sides needed to pass through a large ocean. Moreover, the Qi state had a bad relationship with the Yan state, and its relationship with the Wei State was worse. As a result, the conflict between the Qi Kingdom and the Yan Kingdom was not that much.

In comparison, the relationship between the Wei Kingdom and the Yan Kingdom was worse.

In fact, among all the wars that the Yan Kingdom had participated in over the past hundreds and thousands of years, the one they had fought the most was the Wei Kingdom.

Logically speaking, it was not too inconceivable for the Wei Kingdom to attack the Yan Kingdom in the North. The two countries often fought, and if you hit me, I would take revenge. As long as it wasn’t a full-scale war where the entire country went all out, there was nothing much to say.

However, the current situation seemed to be different.

Lu Qing had yet to figure out how strong the Wei Kingdom’s Army that was heading north to attack was. He also did not know if it was a sign of an all-out war. However, he could clearly see that when the Yan Emperor li Shiwen saw the Wei Army heading north and beginning to invade the Yan Kingdom, he actually had a smile on his face.

That expression was like something that he had been looking forward to for a long time had finally come true.

This not only made Lu Qing have another guess. Could the Northern Expedition of Wei be pushed by the Yan Emperor? Did the Yan Emperor and the Wei country already have a tacit understanding? Or at least, the Yan Emperor was happy to see this happen.

Lu Qing soon had an answer to this.

On the second day of the Wei Army’s Northern Expedition, Lu Qing saw the Yan Emperor leave his sleeping quarters quietly.

Furthermore, before he left, another Yan Emperor went to Zhengyang Palace to meet the officials and handle government affairs. This was, of course, a substitute. Lu Qing had seen with his own eyes how the fake Yan Emperor had used a spell to transform and how the real Yan Emperor had used a spell to give him his aura.

The double looked like the real Yan Emperor. If Lu Qing had not seen the two Yan emperors appear at the same time and the double transform, he would not have been able to tell the difference.

This should be some kind of high-end method.

Lu Qing was even more curious about what the Yan Emperor was up to now that he had created a substitute to fool everyone.

He followed the Yan Emperor’s main body and left the sleeping quarters, arriving at the northern corner of the palace.

There, a woman was already waiting.

“Your Majesty.” The woman bowed to li Shiwen and said, ” you should have received the news from our country.

“Yes.”

“I hope your Majesty will keep your promise.”

“Don’t worry about that. You can go back and tell brother Cao that I, li Shiwen, will never go back on my word.”

Brother Cao?

When Lu Qing heard this name, he immediately thought of the CAO dynasty in the Wei Kingdom.

It made sense. Other than the royal family of one of the nine great celestial empires, what else could the Yan Emperor call ‘brother’?

As expected, there were many things hidden behind this war.

Lu Qing was getting more and more curious. The Yan Emperor had collected a large amount of divine lightning wood, colluded with enemy countries, and started Wars against his own country. Lu Qing even guessed that faceless might be a puppet secretly supported by the Imperial court or even the royal family.

With so many things going on, the Yan Emperor’s plan would definitely not be simple.

The more this was the case, the more Lu Qing felt that it was more likely that the Yan Emperor was planning to break through to the Dharma stage.

Otherwise, Lu Qing found it hard to imagine what else the Yan Emperor would spend such a long time, pay such a great price, and even collude with the enemy to do other than the Dharma.

Lu Qing snapped back to his senses and saw that the woman, who seemed to be the Wei Kingdom’s emissary, had taken out an Azure Pearl-like object.

Lu Qing could sense a very strong power of lightning from the item. It was as if a thundercloud containing terrifying energy was locked within the Pearl.

It was another lightning-attribute treasure, the Kasaya.

After the female envoy handed over the item, she took her leave. As for li Shiwen, he waited for a while before turning around and entering a small room that wasn’t very eye-catching in the palace.

Here, there was a secret passage that led downwards.

In the room at the end of the secret passage, there was a formation that had already been set up.

The Yan Emperor stood on it and then disappeared.

Lu Qing held his forehead. This was very annoying.

The thing that sent li Shiwen away was probably a teleportation array. Lu Qing hated this kind of teleportation array the most.

If you’re teleported away, what about me?

Other than the abilities of the immemorial series that could affect Lu Qing, his consciousness was not affected by any spell. This allowed him to ignore any restrictive spell and enter the secret plane. However, at the same time, spells like teleportation could not be used on him. This made Lu Qing feel very helpless at times.

For example, the current situation.

“I’ll have to trouble you. How can I find the Yan Emperor again?”

Lu Qing floated on the spot and pondered.

He wasn’t sure what the Yan Emperor’s goal was, but he was just guessing.

With this as a basis, it was possible to find traces of the Yan Emperor.

If li Shiwen really wanted to break through to the materialization realm, putting aside all the various preparations, the concentration of spiritual energy was a hard requirement.

No matter what he used to strengthen the huge spiritual energy requirement for the breakthrough, it could not replace the spiritual energy concentration provided by the spiritual vein itself. From this, it was a must for him to stay at the grade 6 spiritual vein.

There were three level-six spirit meridians in the entire country of Yan. Yunxiao sect occupied two of them, one in Wuzhou, one in Pingzhou, and the other in the capital of Yan.

It was unlikely that the Yan Emperor would choose to break through at the two places that Yunxiao sect occupied.

The reason was simple. He had done so many things, colluded with the enemy, and supported the faceless society in secret. It was obvious that he wanted to break through on his own and did not want Yunxiao sect to know.

Lu Qing did not have a deep understanding of the specific relationship between the Imperial court, the royal family, and Yunxiao sect. However, from his perspective, if the Yan Emperor really showed signs of breaking through to the Dharma stage, it would be normal for Yunxiao sect to oppose and not allow it. And from the Yan Emperor’s reaction, it should be the same. Otherwise, as long as the Yunxiao sect had a neutral and acquiesced attitude, li Shiwen would not need to do it so sneakily if he wanted to make a breakthrough. He could have just done it openly, right?

In this case, the only place li Shiwen could choose to break through was Yan city.

This teleportation formation must lead to somewhere in Yan city.

In Yan city, not every place had the concentration of spiritual energy of a level six spiritual heritage. After all, it was a huge urban group with a large population. Only a few places in the inner city had a level six spirit Meridian.

There were a total of five such places, one for each of the four great clans, and the largest remaining area was where the Imperial Palace was located. It included the residence of the Li family, the central office of the Imperial court, the emperor’s own bedroom, and the station of Great Yan’s Imperial Army.

Lu Qing felt that the place where the Yan Emperor chose to break through must be within the palace.

As for where it was, it should be a secret place.

Although the range was still very large, it was not impossible to find.

With Lu Qing’s flying speed and his ability to fly around randomly, it would not take him too long to search the entire Palace of the Yan Kingdom.

However, after Lu Qing completed his first round of blanket search, he could not find any traces of the Yan Emperor.

“Am I wrong?”

Lu Qing could not help but have such a thought.

This was normal. After all, even the fact that li Shiwen was about to break through to the materialization realm was his guess. His other conjectures were all based on this conjecture. In the process, it was inevitable that there would be situations where he guessed wrong. In that case, it would not be an inconceivable thing if he did not find anything in the palace.

However, Lu Qing could not come up with any other conjectures for the time being before he obtained more clues.

Lu Qing thought about it carefully again. He suddenly had some other thoughts … I don’t think I have searched the entire Palace!

He had searched every inch of the palace before. However, places with rich spiritual Qi were not only limited to the surface, but also in the sky and underground.

It was most likely to happen in the sky.

Under the spirit vein, although the concentration of spirit Qi was obviously higher than in the sky, li Shiwen himself was a cultivator with a single lightning spiritual root. It was obviously not a good choice for him to break through underground. Not only could he not rely on the power of the environment, but the environment would also become an obstacle in the underground environment.

And if it was above Yan city, it shouldn’t be too high. In the end, he still had to rely on the spiritual energy from the spiritual vein. If it was too high, the spiritual energy would become thinner and thinner.

The most likely height was probably above the clouds.

Since he had such an idea, Lu Qing immediately began to explore.

This was not like searching the ground. After all, there was only one layer on the surface of the earth, but there were many layers of the sky and clouds.

Even so, he was still very careful in his search of the clouds above the Yan Imperial Palace. He searched inch by inch. It did not matter if he spent some time or effort. The most important thing was to find the person.

To be honest, this was a very boring thing.

But his hard work paid off in the end.

As he flew, the monotonous clouds and fog in front of Lu Qing suddenly changed. A large part of it became clear.

A metal platform was floating in the clouds, and the Yan Emperor himself was standing in the middle of the metal platform!

“I’ve finally found you,”

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Chapter 4.1k

I’m updating too late today. Yingying’s thoughts have been stuck recently.

I’ll try to write more so that I can update at 11 am tomorrow!