The Retirement of the Demon Lord

One of the main goals of    Mingchen and Bo Hu from the beginning was to pass on the jade seal of the country.

   The inner palace is very strict, and only the emperor knows where the Chuanguo Jade Seal is hidden. It is not easy to know where the Chuanguo Jade Seal is hidden, even if Xiangrilong Wei Xingchao and Duming are on the emperor's side, it is impossible to find out.

   Therefore, Mingchen came to the eldest prince who had the most hope of becoming a prince to support him and won the absolute trust of the eldest prince. When the eldest prince becomes the prince and returns to the imperial palace in the capital, he can follow the prince quietly to investigate the location of the Chuan Guoyu Seal.

  Although the prince has never discovered where the emperor's jade seal was hidden, or even whether it was hidden in the royal study, Ming Chen had already determined that the emperor hid the jade seal in the royal study. When Ming Chen followed the prince outside the imperial study as a night hawk, he devoted all his energy to listening to the movements of his inner strength and studying the trajectory of the emperor walking inside.

  Although the sound insulation of the imperial study is very good, the dust can still hear subtle movements. Ming Chen listened carefully to the inner voices many times, and integrated the repeated and orderly steps of the emperor into a frequent walking route. It was basically determined that this was the process of the emperor taking the imperial jade seal, but he did not intend to tell the prince about this secret at all. .

   When the prince launches a rebellion, the entire inner palace will focus on the emperor. Who would have guessed that they would take the opportunity to sneak into the imperial study to find the jade seal of the country?

   The real purpose of this plan is that Duming, Wei Xingchao and others are kept in the dark, so that they can cooperate with the prince to perform this play well in front of the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty without revealing any clues. After pacifying the prince and letting him return to the bridal chamber, they went to the palace of robbery and threatened the emperor to hand over the jade seal of the kingdom, intending to get the jade seal from the emperor. Guess that the imperial study has been stolen.

   In fact, as long as the emperor can be kept under the control of the Hall of Preserving Harmony, this darkness can be properly accomplished.

   But Ming Chen and Bo Hu designed it carefully, so they even kept it a secret from their subordinates, just to make them seriously think that threatening the emperor to hand over the imperial jade seal was their plan.

In this way, it is equivalent to a layer of insurance. For example, in the event of an accident such as the escape of the emperor and the rescue of the sect leader, everyone's attention is still on the escort, giving Kshatriya plenty of safe time to search the imperial study. It's safe to say. This is also one of the important reasons why Xiang Rilong has been trying to stop the emperor from putting pressure on him, that is, it has restrained the attention of the emperor, and also restrained the masters who may suddenly appear, so he has no time to worry about it.

  The best result of their campaign is that the emperor died and the prince ascended the throne, and the jade seal of the country fell into their hands. The prince, the newly ascended emperor, was like a puppet.

The Khalil Emperor pretended to be the emperor and entered the imperial study. It was just before sunset and dusk. It was just when all the guards and eunuchs and maids in the inner palace were concentrated in the Baohe Palace to prepare for a banquet. The time will be changed when the leader of the demon sect intervenes. But even with the change, Ming Chen made a remedy, turning the result of their plan into a failed rebellion and death of the prince. In this way, there will be an emperor who has no successor and will be seized by them to inherit the jade seal of the country.

   Therefore, no matter what the future may be, the step of Khalil Emperor winning the Imperial Jade Seal will not be affected, because all plans are built around this purpose and must be completed.

"Go straight for eighty-eight steps... The Central Plains respects ninety-five, why not ninety-five..." Khali Emperor said to himself, starting a leisurely stroll from the door with the emperor's height and pace width, walking straight for eighty-eight steps Afterwards, he just came to the edge of the imperial desk, "The eighty-eight steps are just right, this guy's ear is a bit abnormal."

   Emperor Shali sat down on the dragon chair of the imperial desk, rested his hand on the carved dragon armrest and leaned against the back of the chair to admire the huge imperial study. After a good feeling of being an emperor, he stood up lazily.

   Counting his steps while walking, he murmured: "Left drive between 35-39 steps... Right drive between 69-72 steps..."

  The imperial study room is too big, and the sound insulation is good. It is too difficult to identify the position by listening to the footsteps of the emperor. It is normal to have an error of about three steps for each long section of the road. It just so happened that there were neatly arranged bookcases in the imperial study, and it was difficult for the Khaliti to correct the range of these steps according to the position.

   Shuttled a few corners between the tall and wide bookcases, Khaliti stopped by a bookcase against the wall and looked up and down.

   "Here I hear the sound of clack clack... fiddling with some mechanism, but the dust can't hear it."

  Khali Emperor is not too harsh to blame Ming Chen for not hearing the key voice. It is very scary to listen to the sound through the thick wall of the imperial study.

   He is not good at secret techniques, but he still knows some basic common sense.

Mingchen didn't hear how it came out, which means it must be something triggered by a soft sound... Khalildi soon noticed that the books in the lower left corner were severely worn, and the spine of the book "Zizhitongjian" in the center was almost invisible. 's seal.

   "Tsk tsk, it's too obvious..." Kshalidi raised his leg to kick, and then thought about it, if he was kicking, there must be a sound of footsteps, and it is impossible for Mingchen to hear.

   So he squatted down, touched the spine of the book lightly, put his palm on the "Zizhi Tongjian" and pressed it down slightly. The five books centered on the "Zizhitongjian" were slowly pushed in, and Khaliti felt that each book was stuck on its own bracket, and quickly stopped.

  Fortunately, he didn't use his feet to kick, and each book only had a slight resistance to the mechanism. If you don't push it slowly with your hands to feel the subtle difference, it's easy to push it too far, and God knows what mechanism will be triggered. Anyway, it is not difficult for the palace to let the experts who are proficient in machinery set up ingenious and deadly traps.

   After Khalilti pushed the book, the mechanism was activated, and the bookcase made a low "click, click" sound, and moved from the middle to the two sides, revealing a door that only two people could pass through.

  A dark passage unfolds in front of you, and two fist-sized luminous pearls are symmetrically inlaid on the ceiling every few meters, reflecting the inner wall made of golden bricks into a splendid splendor. Straight ahead about 60 to 70 meters, there is a white jade seal placed on a high platform. From a distance, it can be seen that it is not an ordinary thing.

   "Hahahaha! It takes all the time to get it!"

   Emperor Khalil laughed loudly, raised his foot and was about to walk towards the secret path. But just as he was about to settle into the secret passage, Kshalidi suddenly stopped.

   "No, that's how I found the jade seal. What's the use of a long list of instructions behind Ming Chen?" Khalil Emperor suddenly woke up.

   That's right, although Ming Chen heard the sound of the machine starting, but Ming Chen told me that this is not the end. Nether Dust has integrated the results of listening to the position for many times, so it is not wrong to be very sure. After this step, the emperor's regular behavior has not ended, and it is only about half of it. If the emperor's imperial jade seal was placed in this secret passage, then Ming Chen would never hear the footsteps that still existed behind him.

  Because it was impossible for Mingchen to hear the footsteps of the emperor after entering the closed secret passage.

  Khali Emperor closed his eyes and calmed down, ignoring the seductive jade seal in the secret passage for the time being, and turned back and continued to act according to Ming Chen's instructions.

   "41-44 steps to the right... 6 steps to the left... If Ming Chen hears it wrong, the poor monk will definitely laugh at him when he goes back... 23-25 ​​steps to the right..."

   While walking, the Khalil Emperor passed by with a gust of wind and gently blew the golden and jade nine bells hanging beside him, and a faint and crisp bell sounded.

   "It seems that the poor monk can't laugh at Mingchen anymore. He even heard the sound of Mingchen in the fart hall." Emperor Khalil sighed endlessly. After the last command, he came to the back and bottom of the upstairs stairs in the imperial study.

   The golden and jade nine bells that he was blown by the wind just now hung on the buttress of the stairs.

   A bookcase with a special shape to fit the angle of the stairs leaned against the corner. Khalidhara walked around and found a horizontal shelf on the bookcase, with a slightly concave edge.

   "Mingchen said he heard three light taps...and then..."

  Khali Emperor lightly tapped on the top three times, and the horizontal frame actually advanced half an inch with a click.

   Immediately afterwards, there was another machine sound in the imperial study, a floor in front of the bookcase slowly opened, and a golden cloth bag was hidden in the secret compartment.

   "This national jade seal is so insidiously hidden!"

  Khalidi sighed and carefully picked up the cloth bag, for fear of triggering some dangerous mechanism.

   He was basically sure that the secret passage he opened just now according to Ming Chen’s instructions was a means of preventing theft, and even the bricks and tiles in it were valuable treasures, making it difficult for people to return to their senses. Once he entered the secret passage of the fake Tibetan jade seal, Emperor Khalil estimated that no matter how skilled he was, he would die without a place to be buried. What kind of killing mechanism is really going to be set up in that small space, even the big Luo Jinxian can't escape death!

   Fortunately, he used to play with all kinds of rare treasures in his treasury at the Second Prince's Mansion, and he was no stranger to all kinds of treasures.

   But this is the Imperial Jade Seal, no matter how careful it is to hide it...Khali Emperor understandably opened the bag and took out the heavy Baijie Jade Seal inside and looked at it carefully...

   "No! It's fake too!"

  Emperor Shali suddenly widened his eyes, looked at it carefully several times, and found that he was still being tricked, so he smashed the jade seal aside!