The Fairy: From the Traveling Merchant

Chapter 726 Lord Pingzhang
On the other side, Zhao Chen and his party quickly entered the residence of King Liang under the guidance of a man in brocade clothes, then walked through the corridor and came to a flower hall.

A man in casual clothes and with a hair tie was leaning leisurely on a recliner, looking lazy and casual, as if Zhao Chen and his group were not visitors but friends they had known for many years.

He did not stand up either. He smiled at Zhao Chen who came in and said, "He is exactly like the 'Blood Sword Prince' I imagined. He is handsome, elegant, and yet sharp as a swordsman."

You can say a few more words, I love to hear it... Zhao Chen instantly felt that this Prince of Liang was much closer, and smiled and said: "Hello, Your Majesty... The Prince is much younger than I thought."

According to the information he had, His Royal Highness the Prince of Liang was a genuine "Dongxuan" master. He was over seventy years old, but now looked to be only twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old.

"Haha, after being promoted to 'divine power', cultivators will not age so quickly. When they reach the 'Dongxuan' level, they will not really show their old age until they die, unless they are seriously injured and can't maintain it, or their mentality becomes old and they are willing to show themselves as old people." King Liang laughed, still lying there, playing with the teacup lid, looking at Zhao Chen and said, "I know you are wondering why I invited you to my house, but I also don't know why, because it was my princess who asked me to invite you here.

"She is waiting for you in the main room behind the flower hall. Go quickly... Fairy Duan and the others will be received by me temporarily."

Princess... that Fang Ritu? What does she want from me? Could it be that Empress...

And normally, shouldn't the princess be the one receiving the female guests, but you are receiving me?

Although he complained in his heart, Zhao Chen knew that the Princess of Liang must have important matters in mind when she asked him to come over, so he did not hesitate, just apologized to the Prince of Liang, and then walked through the flower hall into the main house.

A beautiful woman in a white skirt was waiting here.

When she saw Zhao Chen coming in, she looked him up and down and said with satisfaction, "With this appearance, she is qualified enough to be your majesty's concubine."

Hearing this, Zhao Chen was stunned for several seconds before realizing that the "Your Majesty" she was referring to was the Empress of Xiliang.

At the same time, he also sensed that this main room was shrouded in a powerful sealing force, forming a separate "space".

Obviously, what Princess Liang, also known as the "Jade Rabbit Fairy" Meng Yue'e, wanted to tell him next involved a big secret.

"I wonder what advice the princess would like to ask me?" Zhao Chen asked proactively.

"Before His Majesty left, he asked me to take care of you and give you some help..." Meng Yue'e said this with a smile, but suddenly her face changed and her tone became stern. "But you are so bold that you even dared to get involved in the dispute between the current emperor and True Lord Yuantong. You really don't want to live!"

Getting involved in the dispute between Yuantong Zhenjun and His Majesty? Sure enough, Feimeng and I were right in our previous guess. His Majesty and Concubine Ning are Ning Meng's biological parents.

But I was just helping Sister Hongxia escort Ning Meng to the capital, and at most I was used by the current emperor for my identity as a "prince". How could I be related to the True Lord "Yuantong"? Wasn't that ancient "Buddha's son" in the "underworld"?

Confused in his heart, Zhao Chen raised this question.

Princess Liang shook her head slightly and said, "'Yuantong' has always been asking for the Ning concubine favored by His Majesty. This is no secret in the upper circles of the capital.

“But since your majesty is the emperor, if his concubine could be forcibly taken away, it would be a blow to the reputation of the entire royal family. So even if they want to win over that true lord, the other members of the royal family can’t afford to lose face.

"And the reason why True Lord Yuantong has not turned hostile is that he wants to wait for Your Majesty to be promoted and for Dongxuan to step down as emperor, and then support a member of the royal family of his choice to take the throne, and then the new emperor will issue an order to release Concubine Ning from the palace." This will allow True Lord to get what he wants and the royal family to save face.

"But the current emperor has quietly become the best inheritor of the 'Xuan Du Lu Wen' and one of the candidates for the next 'Ping Zhang'.

"If he can really take the title of fake 'Pingzhang', Ningpin, as the anchor of his humanity, cannot be easily moved.

"This move may have really angered Master Yuantong. He left Beijing for the Underworld not long ago. On the one hand, he coveted Master Moyun's body. On the other hand, I guess the more likely possibility is that he wanted to create evidence of his absence."

Having said this, Princess Liang paused, as if giving Zhao Chen time to "digest".

Zhao Chen pondered for a few seconds, and roughly understood what Princess Liang meant, so he asked hesitantly: "Princess, do you mean that Master Yuantong intends to kill the king?"

Meng Yue'e nodded slightly: "He won't use his clones or avatars to do it, but he will definitely create such opportunities and let some idiots do it.

"For example, the 'Prince of Liang' who wanted to be the emperor so much that he was almost crazy.

"You should know that his succession order was indeed higher than your Majesty's, and he was more favored by the late emperor, but he missed out on that position due to a series of actions by your Majesty."

Is Concubine Ning, or the so-called "Moon Body", so important to the True Lord "Yuantong"? So important that he would kill the king to get her?
Zhao Chen frowned and asked doubtfully, "According to what you said, his intentions are obvious. Are the royal family's True Masters and True Lords just not going to care?"

Princess Liang was prepared for his question and said directly: "Some real people are indeed dissatisfied with Yuan Tong's actions, but they are not a big deal... Most of the Dongxuan still value the weight of a real monarch more, and think that Your Majesty should be more generous and give Ningpin to him to make a good story.

“If Yuan Tong can really kill His Majesty without direct evidence, they can only accept it with a pinch of their noses.

"As for the True Lord Shengxuan, he is already an immortal god, so how could he care about ordinary mundane matters?
"Unless Your Majesty can truly become the first candidate for the title of Pingzhang, it will be possible for the Royal Family's True Lord to speak for him... and this is why Yuantong is taking such a risk."

In other words, the weight of the Emperor of Daxia is actually far less important than that of a True Lord. If it were not related to the reputation of the royal family, Concubine Ning would have been sent to the bed of True Lord Yuantong long ago, right?
His Majesty is a real man, as he stood up to such a being and protected Ning Meng's mother for ten years!

After Zhao Chen sighed in his heart, he asked again: "Is the 'Pingzhang' referring to the first-rank Taoist official who practices the 'Xuan Du Lu Wen' in the Taoist Office? Why is there a 'backup'?"

"'Xuandu Law Text' is not only a magical power, but also a treasure that can establish various 'rules' and 'laws'. It is very effective to use it to restrain the behavior of cultivators!

“But if we allow them to continue to perfect the ‘rules’, sooner or later they will even ‘regulate’ which leg you should step with when you go out, which will lead to disaster.

"So, every five hundred years, we need to select a person who is extremely compatible with the 'Xuan Du Law' technique to 'restrain' this treasure, just like a 'military commander'...

"And the one who 'restrains' the treasure will automatically become a first-rank Taoist official in the Taoist Office, 'Pingzhang' Lord."

(End of this chapter)