C356 Cleaning up the Palace(3)

Although they were his followers, they were not ordinary people. Some were from the royal family, some were from the imperial guards, and he always felt that these disciples were under the orders of Helian Yuan Chen to monitor him. During these few years, they had always been on guard against him and were not very close.

He did not expect that after leaving the Northern Chu for almost 20 years, there would still be a few disciples waiting in the quiet hut, waiting for his return.

"All of you get up, I'm fine, all of you …" "Very good."

After finishing his conversation with the Daoists, Helian Divine Technique brought Helian Yu to the second floor of the quiet hut and pushed Helian Peng inside.

"Imperial Advisor, when is the ceremony to be held?"

He Lian closed his eyes and thought about it for a while before opening his eyes and saying, "It's February now, and the full moon will be ready by the end of the month. It's just that I haven't found Zhi Yang yet …"

Helian Yu's heart trembled. He thought to himself, if he found out that Helian Meng was the most outstanding youth, would he blame himself for deliberately letting him go?

After thinking for a moment, she decided to be frank and whispered in his ear, "The young man that the Imperial Advisor wants is probably Helian Meng. Although the two of them aren't really siblings, their dates of birth should be about the same, it's just that …"

The eyes of Helian divine ability suddenly lit up and he cried out involuntarily, "That's right!"

"Imperial Advisor, please rest assured, I will definitely go all out to search the entire capital."

"I hope that's the case. Remember, I want those who are alive, and those who aren't going to die."

"I understand."

He sighed again, "It took me more than ten years to find the person I want from the Northern Chu to the East Abyss. I never thought that the person I want would be so close to me … If he had not left the Northern Chu, he would have known it long ago. It seems like this is the will of heaven, and I wonder if this is still the punishment for changing my fate! "

Seeing his depression, Helian Yu comforted him, "Don't worry. Perhaps we can find him before next month's full moon."

He Lian nodded silently, but there was no happiness on his face. Helian Yu was extremely curious. He always felt that his mind was preoccupied with something.

The entire country of Northern Chu was soon informed that the Emperor was bedridden with illness, and an imperial decree was passed down to the crown prince to supervise the administration of the country.

In the light of the day, Helian Yu did not punish Empress Xu. He only ordered people to give her diet several times the amount of Frigid Food Powder every day, forcing her to consume it and imprisoning her from going out. All of the trusted palace maids and eunuchs around her died.

He didn't want this evil empress to die too early, so the people who guarded every day had to guard against Empress Xu from committing suicide.

On the Left Imperial Concubine's side, he had promised to spare her life, and with the help of Helian's Divine Abilities, he had calculated her fate and said that this woman's fate was strange, that she had some sort of monstrous character, and that she was at odds with the Emperor. This time, the Emperor's urgent illness had been dealt with by her, so it was naturally inappropriate for her to be relegated to the Cold Palace.

As for the people inside and outside the palace, they were also heavily guarded.

Actually, it wasn't that Helian Yu was truly a merciful person, wasting all his troops on her. It was just that he had been on guard against any unexpected move by the Xu Family, entering the palace to rob her and create another perjury.

As for Helian Meng's conspiracy, there was no need to conceal it. He simply announced to the world that the eighth prince had contested the assassination and attempted murder against the crown prince. Now that he had left the palace, no one was allowed to shelter him.

But even so, the matter of finding Helian Meng was far more difficult than he had imagined. He had actually searched for half a month without any news, as if this person had just disappeared into thin air.

Helian Yu felt that this man was a huge threat, and the more he ordered the capital to search for him, the more he ordered the city to search for his whereabouts.

As for the Xu family, he began to scheme against them bit by bit.

First, it was a Hongmen Banquet. He invited Zhong Yong into the palace for a night banquet and detained all of the guards in his mansion. Afterwards, he forced him to hand over the military talismans and release the military power.

After returning to the residence, he gathered his subordinates from back then and contacted Xu Xiang to scheme and rebel. In the end, only a few days later, the poison in his body developed and he met the King of Hell.

Xu Xiang suspected that Zhong Yong was poisoned because he went to the Hongmen banquet, but there was no proof. After all, the poison in the palace had been poisoned by him for a long time, but now it seemed like he couldn't reach the palace anymore. Thanks to Empress Xu, the spies he had placed in the palace were quickly exterminated.

After the death of Uncle Zhong Yong, this matter did not end there. Instead, there were people who claimed that Uncle Zhong Yong was planning a rebellion in the imperial court.

Under the orders of the Crown Prince, the elite guards of the capital raided the loyal manor and found out that the quantity of soldiers and weapons far exceeded the limit that the Northern Chu had placed on the House of the Marquis.

Xu Xiang had already felt that something was amiss. The empress of the palace had lost contact without any reason, the loyal manor of his father had been toppled over, and before he could come up with a plan to deal with it, the mansion had become even worse — Xu Jingzi, the president of the military department who had been bedridden all this time, had died from a serious illness!

After all, Xu Xiang was an old man, how could he endure so many stimuli? Under the attack of anger, he also fell ill.

However, Xu Xiang didn't know that Xu Jingzi wasn't only severely injured by Imperial Concubine Zuo, but Helian Yuan Chen had used his internal energy to shatter his internal organs. For him to be able to live for so long could be considered a long time.

Seeing that the Xu family of the Northern Chu was about to have its head cut off and its monkeys scattered, many of Xu's hanger-ons and close friends started to come up with ideas to climb higher. Only a few of his former buddies were still running around, but without a leader, they didn't know what to do.

In just one month, the Northern Chu had changed. Rumors of the emperor's impending illness had spread like wildfire, and the court officials were all considering whether they should take up their positions again.

Before the ceremony, Helian Yu had gone outside the Empress Palace to take a look. Through the window, he saw that in the short period of more than twenty days, Helian Yu had already become rigid, his eyes lifeless as he coldly ordered, "From today onwards, scale her down. When she wakes up, tell her about the Xu Family's changes."

He didn't look at Imperial Concubine Zuo. That woman was better off leaving her to fend for herself. She had no family background and no children. No one would miss her anymore.

Stepping onto the top floor of the young hut, he switched to the spacious and spacious pill furnace. It was well-ventilated everywhere, but it also needed to be sealed tight when concocting pills. It was built from the inside out and extremely sturdy. Originally, there were some wooden structures that had been rebuilt after the fire that broke out more than ten years ago. They were made from the best bricks and stones in the palace, reducing the amount of wooden beams and pillars.

In the middle of the room where the bronze pill furnace should have been, there was actually an incense table placed, which was filled with an extremely strange looking statue of a god. In front of the table were some fruits and incense burners, and Helian Lie was lying on the long altar in front of the incense burner with his eyes wide open.

Although she was lying on the ground, her acupuncture points had been suppressed and she was forced to lie there. Not only were her arms and legs unable to move, it was also hard for her to speak. She clearly felt something.

"Helian Hua, you must not understand why there is such a thing."

"Originally, even if you weren't royal father's biological daughter, even if he was extremely disgusted with you, he might not have personally killed you. After all, he doted on you for more than ten years and everything he had done was real, so don't hate him when you come to the hall of the underworld. Because he only asked me to punish you, I was the one who wanted to kill you."