The palace is brightly lit at night.
In the hall where a pool of blood was surging, a dense red mist was floating.
The old man in the shadows silently stirred the blood mist in the hall and maintained a certain formation.
The queen floating in the pool of blood had her eyes closed and her face pale, as if she had lost consciousness.
But the Queen's body at this moment was no longer as old as before. Instead, her skin was smooth and her facial features were exquisite, just like she looked when she was young.
Although she is not a peerless beauty, the fierce look between her eyebrows and eyes is frightening.
And above this young body, a vague human figure made entirely of blood mist was looming.
The figure in the model lake looked at Su Wen who was kneeling outside the blood pool and said.
"Has the murderer of Choi Hwan not been caught yet?"
Su Wen bowed his head and said, "Your Majesty, the Night Travel Division is still pursuing us."
"But now that your majesty is about to accomplish a great event, the Night Walkers have mobilized a large number of personnel to protect the imperial city, so the matter of tracking down the murderer..."
Su Wen hesitated to speak.
He didn't care whether Cui Huan lived or died.
In other words, in his opinion, the death of Cui Huan, who only knew how to wield power, was a good thing.
But His Majesty was extremely concerned about Cui Huan's death and had been urging the Night Prowler to catch the murderer.
If Su Wen had not acted on his own initiative, the Night Walkers would have obeyed the Queen's order and went out in full force to investigate Cui Huanzhi's death.
Su Wen also knew the reason why the Queen summoned him tonight, which was for this matter.
Sure enough, the shadowy figure above the blood pool said faintly.
"Su Wen, you have been with me all my life, and I have always been at ease with your work."
"I am very pleased with your filial piety to me, but you misinterpreted my will and prevented the Night Watch from fully focusing on hunting down the murderer... This makes me very unhappy."
"I even heard that people outside are saying that you are the Ninth Thousand Years Old, that you are acting on my behalf, and that your words are my will..."
The Queen's casual words made Su Wen's body stiffen slightly.
The burly old man lowered his head even lower.
He touched the ground with his head but said nothing. Even though what the Queen said was very dangerous to him, the old man did not make any argument.
Seeing the old man silent, Lu Zhao also stopped talking.
She looked at the loyal old man and said slowly.
"Have you visited the King of Zhenbei? I heard that Feng Bulie hasn't left the palace for several days. What's going on?"
Lu Zhao changed the subject and asked about the Zhenbei Palace.
The chief eunuch raised his head slightly and said, "Your Majesty, after Feng Bulie went to the Heavenly Prison, he locked himself up in the Zhenbei Palace and did not go out."
"As for the Zhenbei Palace... The Zhenbei King has not gone out these days. He has been cultivating himself behind closed doors and has declined all visitors. There is no movement, and the entire Zhenbei Palace is calm."
After Su Wen finished speaking, Lu Zhao asked in a cold tone.
"What do you think? Is the King of Zhenbei really so honest? Is Cui Huan's death really nothing to do with him this time?"
After Lu Zhao finished speaking, Su Wen did not hesitate and spoke directly.
"I feel that although the Zhenbei Palace is calm on the surface, we still need to be on guard."
"Some time ago, I invited Yue Sect's leader Qiu Wuji to secretly go to Beijing, and I also invited old monster Cangyu to have a banquet at Haitian Tower. This is quite strange."
"According to the news from the Night Walk Division over the years, the leader of the Yaoyue Sect seems to have some deep-seated interest relationship with the Zhenbei Palace, but there is no actual evidence so far."
"But all signs indicate that there must be some kind of connection between Yaoyue Zong Qiu Wuji and Zhenbei Palace..."
Su Wen said: "And the day Qiu Wuji invited Cangyu Old Monster to the Haitian Tower for a banquet was exactly the same day that Lord Cui Huan was attacked and killed in the street."
Lu Zhao was not surprised by Su Wen's report, as if he had known about it for a long time.
She just looked at the burly and brave old man below, who didn't look like a eunuch, and said, "If that's the case, Su Wen, how do you think this matter should be handled?"
Su Wen's face was serious, and he said, "I think..."
However, before he could finish his words, a huge flame suddenly broke out outside the house.
The sudden burst of fire was mixed with the shouts of the palace guards and eunuchs.
“Oh no!”
"The fire broke out!"
"The fire broke out!"
The shrill alarm sounded throughout the palace, interrupting the emperor and his ministers' night visit to the palace.
Su Wen's body stiffened instantly and he stood up in disbelief.
The old man looked out the window, feeling the sudden burst of flames, and a sense of horror and terror arose in his heart.
The fire suddenly broke out out of nowhere, could it be...
A certain kind of uneasiness that had been lingering in the old man's heart these days reached its peak at this moment.
However, Lu Zhao's shadow above the blood pool looked at the raging fire outside with a sneer on his face.
"Here I come..."
Faced with the sudden fire, the Queen reacted calmly, as if everything was within her expectations.
At the same time, in the sky prison adjacent to the imperial city, the white-haired old monster Cangyu stared at the fire burning in the imperial palace with wide eyes, his mouth opened wide, and the chicken leg in his mouth fell out.
"Fuck... such a big deal?"
The old monster was a little bit unbelievable and doubted his own eyes.
His figure disappeared from the spot in an instant, and when he reappeared, he was dragging the confused Luo Jing in his hands.
At this time, Luo Jing had just been awakened from his practice and was forcibly dragged to the outer door of the sky prison by the old man. Smelling the cool night air, Luo Jing was a little dazed.
"Senior? What's wrong?"
What is this old monster doing in the middle of the night
The old demon Cangyu grabbed Luo Jing's head and pointed his face towards the fire in the palace, saying, "I am old and my eyes are blurry. Can you help me see if there is a fire in the palace?"
The flames shot up into the sky, flashing in the night sky and even completely illuminating the entire night sky.
The fire was so big that even Luo Jing, who was at the highest point of the prison, had an uncertain expression on his face due to the firelight.
Luo Jing's eyes widened slightly, and he suspected that he had seen it wrong.
"The palace is on fire?"
Damn it! Is the King of Zhenbei going to take action
That prince who looked weak and introverted actually went crazy and wanted to break into the palace and kill the queen
But this is the capital!
The many defenses on the walls of the capital city...
Luo Jing subconsciously looked towards the direction of the city wall.
However, under the night sky, horrific explosions were heard one after another on the walls of the capital city.
The many city defense facilities standing on the city wall of the capital, which were capable of killing a great monk in the Taixu realm in an instant, exploded one after another.
The successive explosions and flames completely woke up all the sleeping people in the capital, making the night noisy and chaotic.
Although not all the defense facilities on the city wall were blown up, even if only a part of them was blown up, it was shocking enough.
The old demon Cangyu looked at the grand scene and said in amazement: "This small town Bei Wang is quite something! Under Lu Zhao's nose, he even infiltrated the defense of the capital."
"Tonight's rebellion is definitely a grand spectacle that is rarely seen in a thousand years! It is worthy of being recorded in the history books!"