Cultivating the Tao: Beginning with Meditation and Liver Experience

Chapter 82 The truth is revealed, the sorrow of the emperor! (seeking subscription)
It wasn't that Xu Yan wanted to pry into the old man's secrets.

But recently, the behavior of my cheap grandfather is too strange.

It doesn't look like he's getting old at all, and he's going to let the queen live at home for the elderly, leaving the opportunity to the young people.

It's more like explaining the funeral in a hurry, as if his life is not long.

This made Xu Yan very curious, wanting to know what happened to cause such a strange behavior by a peak martial artist.

Hear Xu Yan ask.

The old man fell into silence again, and it was not until a long time later that he sighed: "It's not that I want to break through the realm of immortality, but I want to do something that is close to death."

After all, without waiting for Xu Yan to ask again, the old man continued: "You don't need to ask about the specifics. What will happen to the Marquis Mansion in the future depends on you."

The underlying meaning is that if he leaves this time, he has little hope of surviving, and it is difficult to come back.

Xu Yan was shocked when he heard this, he had never expected such a situation, and couldn't help asking, "Does grandfather have to go?"

The old man shook his head and sighed: "If you can refuse, who is willing to die."

"Death?"

Xu Yan was even more surprised when he heard these two words.

It can make a peak martial saint say the word "send to death".

The degree of danger is definitely not as simple as nine deaths, but more likely ten deaths and no life.

Moreover, knowing that he was going to die, he couldn't refuse.

I'm afraid there is only the one in the palace.

only……

"Even if it's that one, it's impossible for grandfather to take such a risk, right?"

"Could it be that the man used the title of the Marquis Mansion to force him?"

Xu Yan was not stupid, just based on the old man's few words, he almost knew what was going on.

It's just that he still doesn't understand.

How dare Yang An?

Forcing a prince at the peak of martial arts to die, if this news gets out, the entire Daqian court will be shaken, and everyone will fall into panic.

To Xu Yan's two questions.

The old man didn't answer directly, but said indifferently: "Your uncle was defeated at the front and lost the city."

"how come?"

Xu Yan couldn't believe it, and said, "Didn't it mean that my uncle made great contributions to the front line, that's why he was rewarded by His Majesty, and he was able to successfully inherit the title of Marquis Mansion?"

It's not that Xu Yan doesn't believe the old man's words.

It's the old man's words, which are completely opposite to what the court publicized to the outside world.

No matter how daring the imperial court is, if it doesn't take the people of the world seriously, it can't defeat the front line and publicize it as a great victory, right?

This is completely fooling the world into fools.

The old man's expression remained unchanged, and he said calmly: "It's not wrong for the imperial court to make such propaganda."

"Because not long after Uncle Ni's defeat, other frontier troops and a commander of the Imperial City Division took action in time, defeated the demon army, took back the city, and beheaded the demon general who caused the chaos."

"After that, His Majesty summoned me into the palace and asked me how to write the battle report on the front line."

"Is it your uncle who was defeated and lost the city, causing huge casualties to the people?"

"Or, in order to wipe out the army of rebellious monsters, your uncle used a strategy to lure the enemy into the depths, and took the initiative to act as a bait to create opportunities for the friendly army, and finally won the frontline victory?"

"How do you say I should choose?"

The old man was neither happy nor sad, he looked at Xu Yan quietly, as if he was waiting for his answer.

Xu Yan fell into silence.

This is the art of politics.

It was obviously a big defeat, the city was lost, and the people suffered huge casualties.

In the eyes of those in power, it has become two completely different results, a big defeat and a big victory, before you, you can choose which one you should choose.

If you choose to lose.

It is tantamount to putting his son to death with his own hands, and even his family will become sinners of the empire.

In the future, if you want to pass on the title smoothly, unless you make a great contribution to offset this big defeat, it will be almost impossible.

However, if you choose Dajie.

Then we must make concessions and compromises in other areas, and make up for it in other areas.

Ever since, a mission of a narrow escape, or even a ten-death mission, fell on the old man, and he could not refuse it, nor could he refuse it.

As for whether there are other calculations involved, why did the commander-in-chief of the Imperial City Division appear at the northern border gate? When the city fell, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people and soldiers at the border gate died?
Do these really matter?
Xu Yan fell silent.

Because of this question, he really didn't know how to answer it.

However, soon, Xu Yan thought of another crucial question.

That is... What kind of death mission is it that can offset the failure of the frontline army and allow his uncle to successfully inherit the title of Dingyuan Marquis Mansion.

"Return to the ruins, the medicine of immortality?"

Xu Yan spoke quietly, and soon had a guess.

The reason why he had such a guess was not only because he knew the emperor's desire for immortality, but also because he thought of the case of the disappearance of the princess, the head of the merman patriarch.

Why did the merman patriarch princess disappear?

The main reason is that the princess, the head of the merman clan, has an inheritance orb that records part of the information about returning to the ruins.

And this inheritance orb was sent by Yang An, the emperor of Dagan, to the Yuren tribe specially before the emperor's birthday ten days ago, and asked the Yuren tribe to present it.

This shows that Yang An, the emperor of Dagan, already has an idea about returning to the ruins.

Reminiscent of the dynasties of the past dynasties, many emperors have sent people to the land of returning to the ruins to find the elixir of life.

Then the answer is already clear.

To put it bluntly, Emperor Dagan also wanted to learn from the former emperor, wanted to send people to the place of return to find the elixir of life, wanted to continue to dominate the world of China, and did not want to abdicate.

But Yang An is just the son of heaven, not the ancient emperor of the human race, and he can't let the gods and gods go to death with a single order.

Therefore, he could only settle for the next best thing and organize a Martial Saint exploration team.

Ever since, the old man, a Dagan Houye with the peak strength of a martial sage, came into his field of vision.

In addition, Xu Yan's uncle Xu Jin "just happened" to be defeated and lost the city.

In this way, it will be easier to convince the old man.

With just two simple sentences and two choices, the old man had no choice but to accept the task of "delivering death".

"By the way, there is also the matter that the prince failed to investigate the case of the princess, the head of the shark tribe."

"Didn't it mean that the King of Jin only retrieved the head princess of the Yuren clan, but not the inheritance orb of the Yuren clan?"

"If this is the case, how will the Emperor Dagan organize the Guixu expedition team to go to Guixu to find the elixir?"

"Or... the case of the disappearance of the merman patriarch princess was planned from the beginning to the end by the Dagan Emperor alone, in order to hide it from the sky, secretly send people to explore the ruins, and suppress the prince by the way?"

Xu Yan's scalp tingled when he thought of this.

Although this matter sounds very bizarre, but if you really think about it, it is extremely possible.

Really think carefully!
After all, the Dagan emperor wants to live forever and continue to sit firmly on the throne.

Who is the biggest obstacle?

The answer is Prince.

How can there be a 60-year-old prince in the world?

For the sake of the throne, it is not so common for father and son to turn against each other.

Think about it from another angle.

If the crown prince is not suppressed first, what will the crown prince do once the news leaks that the emperor sent people to Guixu to search for the elixir?
It must be stopped and destroyed.

Even if the old man and his party really found the elixir and brought it back, what will the crown prince do after the emperor prolongs his life?
To be a prince for a lifetime, and die of old age on the prince's seat?

Or take a risk and go directly to a mutiny, a coup, and experience the feeling of being an emperor before dying?
Xu Yan felt that the possibility of the second situation was far greater than the first possibility.

Therefore, for Dagan Emperor Yang An, using the case of the Yuren Patriarch Princess to temporarily suppress the prince and the prince's side will definitely do more good than harm.

It not only diverted the attention of the people in the world, but also made it possible to hide from the world and hide Chen Cang.

It can also prevent the prince's team from jumping out and causing damage.

Isn't this killing two birds with one stone?
When Xu Yan thought of this, he felt more and more that behind all of this, there was the shadow of the emperor Yang An.

"Although it's a bit scary, you can understand it if you really think about it!"

"After all, sages like Qin Huang, Han Wu, Tang Taizong, etc., in their later years, also became obsessed with the desire to live forever."

"This son of heaven, obviously born in a supernatural world, but because of his honor as the son of heaven, he can only watch others, even those under his hands, live forever."

"Watching others become immortals and gods, gaining a lifespan of two hundred, five hundred, or even ten thousand years, but I am like an ordinary person, dying of old age in less than a hundred years."

"I'm afraid no one will be reconciled to this matter."

"It is conceivable that Emperor Dagan Yang An is definitely not the first emperor to privately organize a Martial Saint expedition team to go to Guixu to find the elixir."

"Maybe, every dynasty and every generation has emperors doing this, and there are also successful cases."

"Otherwise, Yang An wouldn't be so crazy for the medicine of returning to the ruins."

Xu Yan wanted to understand this, so he couldn't help feeling sympathetic to the emperors and emperors of this world, and he could understand the behavior of Yang An, the emperor of today.

It's just that understanding belongs to understanding, but it can't agree.

If you really want to pursue longevity, then go directly to the Zen position to practice Taoism. Is it necessary to use other people's lives to pave the way for such calculations?
The most important thing is that for the elixir that has not seen the shadow, even his own son is plotting.

Xu Yan really looked down on such a person.

It's a pity that just such a person sat firmly on the Dragon Chair of Dagan Tianzi, and a secret order was issued, so that his old man had to go to Guixu to die.

Really, so fucked up!

Xu Yan thought indignantly that he had a bad impression of Yang An, the Emperor of Heaven.

The old man didn't know what Xu Yan was thinking.

When he heard his grandson's slightly affirmative question, he couldn't help showing a look of relief on his face, and he didn't answer directly, but stroked his beard and said cheerfully: "Don't be angry, and don't resent."

"If the old man takes a risk, you can make up for your uncle's crimes and guarantee the inheritance of the three generations of the Hou Mansion, so what if it is really gone forever?"

"Our Hou Mansion has made money after all!"

"I earned it!"

(End of this chapter)