Checking In for Sixty Years, From Puppet Emperor to Heavenly Emperor – Chapter 10

Ch 10: Passing on Skills

“Lord Cheng, don’t panic. When the other lords arrive, we’ll discuss it together,” Jiang Xian said, gesturing for him to sit down.

After all the lords arrived, Jiang Xian invited them to take their seats. Zhou Di entered, carrying tea, and served the four lords.

After they drank it, Jiang Xian stood up and said, “Four lords, allow me to introduce someone.”

Seeing a servant standing beside Left Prime Minister, they were surprised, sensing that this servant’s identity was certainly not simple.

Jiang Xian glanced at them and said, “Don’t you four lords find him somewhat familiar?”

Hearing Left Prime Minister say this, the four looked carefully. Suddenly, Lord Wang exclaimed in disbelief, “Sixth Imperial Prince!”

Zhou Di smiled and said, “Lord Wang has a good memory.”

“Greetings, Sixth Imperial Prince.” The four revealed expressions of surprise, immediately realizing Left Prime Minister’s plan, and all stepped forward to salute.

Jiang Xian suddenly bowed deeply to the four.

Tan Daren quickly helped him up, saying, “Left Prime Minister, what is the meaning of this?”

When he saw the expressions of Jiang Xian and Sixth Imperial Prince, he realized something, his face changing drastically. Then, he smiled wryly and shook his head, taking a deep breath before asking, “I wonder if Sixth Imperial Prince and Lord Left Prime Minister have made arrangements for our families?”

Hearing this, the other three lords understood, all revealing expressions of shock and anger.

Sixth Imperial Prince said, “They cannot withstand the interrogations of the Dark Guard. Poisoning the Emperor is a grave crime punishable by the extermination of nine generations. You four will inevitably be implicated. No matter what, you cannot survive. For the sake of the Qianyuan Empire, we can only wrong you four lords.

There is no time to transport your families out of the city now. We will scatter them and temporarily hide them in various places in the capital.

After the city gate ban is lifted, we will send them out and give them enough money to live a peaceful life.”

Tan Daren sighed and nodded, feeling a burning pain starting in his stomach. Looking at the tea that Sixth Imperial Prince had just offered, he cupped his fist to Sixth Imperial Prince and Left Prime Minister and said, “We entrust our wives and children to Sixth Imperial Prince and Lord Left Prime Minister.”

The other three knew that there was no turning back. If one of them was captured and could not withstand the interrogation, it would implicate Left Prime Minister. Regardless of the outcome, their families would surely be killed. Being able to protect their families this time was the best outcome.

Soon, all four fell. Left Prime Minister had people secretly send them back and sent a letter to each of their wives.

A day later, inside Eternal Life Palace, the Empress Dowager, listening to the Purple Guard’s report, revealed anger. Purple electricity appeared on her fingers, scorching the armrest of the chair. She said in a cold voice, “Order a city-wide search. Investigate the Dark Guard internally. We must find out who in the Dark Guard leaked the information.”

“Yes.” The Purple Guard with the number 1 engraved on his mask responded and quickly left with the Empress Dowager’s token.

Inside Changle Palace, Zhou An and Sai Nai Mu hugged each other while eating fruit, listening to the news she reported, and revealed a smile.

Sai Nai Mu lay on him, feeding him fruit, and said in a delicate and coquettish tone, “The Emperor, now the Empress Dowager and Left Prime Minister are so busy that they can’t handle everything. They will definitely suffer losses on both sides. Congratulations, the Emperor, you are getting closer and closer to breaking free from control.”

“It’s not that easy. As long as Left Prime Minister is ruthless enough, this time will only make both sides busy. What we really need to do is push Left Prime Minister, so that he quickly plays his trump card, otherwise how can we damage the foundation of both sides?” Zhou An opened his mouth to eat the fruit that Sai Nai Mu fed him. With a beauty by his side and concubines singing and dancing, how wonderful.

That night, after Shangguan Rong fell asleep beside him, Zhou An looked at the beautiful face in front of him, smiled slightly, and gently stroked her cheek. The touch that came was absolutely enough to drive countless men crazy.

In terms of face reading, this woman also has the appearance of an Empress. Regardless of whether she has imperial ambitions, as long as she can be suppressed, she will be a talented person who can assist the country.

However, Zhou An did not intend to do so. With the Map of Mountains and Rivers, how could a human Emperor be satisfied? That would be too unfair to this treasure.

Although he could not see the map outside the Imperial City clearly, if viewed as a whole, this Imperial Palace was just a grain of sand in the picture. Moreover, he moved the picture with his thoughts and discovered that the Map of Mountains and Rivers was unbelievably large. It would not be an exaggeration to say that the entire Qian Capital was just a star in the vast sea of stars. With such a large land, how could he manage it alone?

After kissing her, he admitted that he had truly fallen in love with this woman’s beauty. He wanted to completely conquer this woman.

He got up, put on his clothes, and gently pushed open the door and left.

After he left, Shangguan Rong opened her eyes, touched her lips, and then closed her eyes and fell asleep again.

Zhou An returned to Qianyang Palace, left through the underground passage of the Underground Palace, put on the Qianyuan Dragon Armor suit, and wearing the black Great Ancestor Mask, leaped out from the Taoist courtyard in the back garden.

Arriving at the Chuxiu Palace in the Eastern Palace, he entered Zhou Ling Sha’s bedroom silently, watching this girl sleeping soundly, but her sleeping posture was somewhat helpless, really not in line with the image of a Princess.

He coughed, but this girl did not respond at all. Helpless, he picked up the teapot on the table, poured some water, and then used his Internal Force to wrap the water and fly it onto her face.

This time, Zhou Ling Sha woke up in shock and sat up, touching her face and finding it was wet, and water flowed into her nostrils. She quickly sprayed it out with her breath.

“Bastard, who is it!” Zhou Ling Sha was furious, but when she turned her head, she instantly saw a ferocious-looking person standing in the room. She was so frightened that she opened her mouth to scream, but Zhou An held the Hidden Dragon Sword against her neck. This girl very consciously covered her mouth.

“I won’t shout, don’t kill me.” Zhou Ling Sha looked at the person in front of her with a grievance, and finally saw clearly that it was not a ghost, but a person wearing a mask.

However, when she saw Zhou An’s armor and mask clearly, she suddenly thought of something and revealed a shocked expression, pointing at him and trying her best to suppress her voice, “The Great Ancestor Emperor’s armor! You dare to imitate the Great Ancestor’s armor, this is a capital crime.”

“Girl, you can hardly protect yourself, why bother about whether it’s a capital crime?” Zhou An suddenly wanted to tease this younger sister.

“Hmph, that’s not necessarily true. If you wanted to kill me, there’s no need to wake this Princess up and then kill me. This is more likely to be discovered by the Purple Guard.

So, you came late at night, either you are an acquaintance of this Princess and have something to ask me, or you have something to ask of me.” Zhou Ling Sha looked confident, carefully pinching the sword blade to push it away, and picked up the clothes next to her and draped them over her body.

Zhou An was surprised and continued to ask, “I can also tie you up and take you away.”

“Tch, if you are a kidnapper who can enter the Imperial Palace, then you must be at least at the Innate Ninth Sky Mirror Realm, and at the same time, you must have superb lightness skills to do it. There are not many such people in the world, and they are all very old.

And you are at most no more than 40 years old, it is impossible to have such cultivation. So you must be someone from the palace. Hmm, are you someone from the Emperor Brother?” Zhou Ling Sha analyzed while putting on her clothes.

“Why do you say that I am no more than forty years old? Changing one’s voice is not difficult,” Zhou An asked, secretly surprised.

“Internal Force can suppress the voice, but the skin exposed on your neck is enough to prove that older people don’t have your skin tone.

Also, the behavior of older people is different from the subconscious actions of young people. I guess your age may be around thirty.”

Zhou Ling Sha looked proud, and then walked up to Zhou An and said, “Everyone knows about the Great Ancestor Emperor’s armor. It is useless to make this kind of armor, otherwise, being discovered will only cause endless trouble and is of no value.

If you want to rebel, then you would not dare to take it out before becoming the Emperor. The Great Ancestor Emperor disappeared that year, it should be related to the Immortal Hero. If the Great Ancestor Emperor joined the Immortal Hero Sect, then he may still be alive now. You… are you the Great Ancestor Emperor?

If so, please take care of this Imperial Palace. In order to survive in the hands of the Empress Dowager, the Emperor Brother fools around with women all day long and takes those life-threatening medicines. Even if he is only 16 years old, he will not live for many years.

He is the only member of the Imperial Family left, please save the Emperor Brother.”

Zhou Ling Sha suddenly knelt down as she spoke. Zhou An was shocked by this girl’s active mind. He hadn’t said anything.

This girl’s observation and analysis skills were extraordinary. He smiled, put away the Hidden Dragon Sword, and placed a book and a jade bottle on the table, saying, “This is the complete Vast Universe Art, next to it is the Essence Solidifying Pill. Cultivate well, you don’t need to worry about the affairs of the Imperial Palace.”

“The complete Vast Universe Art!” Zhou Ling Sha was shocked, rushed to the table, picked up the book and flipped through it, directly looking at the last part, then rushed to Zhou An, touched his armor, and then looked at his mask with an excited expression.

“You… you are really the Great Ancestor Emperor!” Zhou Ling Sha looked at him excitedly, and actually shed tears.

“Alright, it’s not convenient for me to be out for too long. This is our secret. If you want to save your Emperor Brother, then cultivate well.” Zhou An tapped the little girl’s head, flew away, and returned to the underground secret room to cultivate.