This martial saint's health bar is too thick

Chapter 397 Before the Emperor
Late at night, the palace.

The lights in the imperial study were still on.

Since Qingxu's rebellion, the emperor has been more diligent than before, often reviewing memorials in the imperial study or discussing matters with ministers until late at night.

Tonight is no exception, the emperor is still in the imperial study.

The imperial eunuch Feng Cheng came to the door of the imperial study quickly with a telegram in his hand and said softly:

"Your Majesty, an urgent telegram has arrived from Gan Province and has been reported to the Central Government."

Normally, emergency telegrams reported to the central government do not need to be submitted to the emperor, and the central cabinet can handle them directly.

Only telegrams submitted to the emperor needed to be presented to him.

But the person mentioned in this telegram was the emperor's focus, so Feng Cheng, the eunuch in front of the emperor, came with the telegram.

"bring here."

The emperor's somewhat tired voice came from the imperial study.

Feng Cheng hurried in and presented the translated telegram.

The emperor took the telegram, looked at it for a few seconds, and suddenly slammed the page of paper in his hand heavily on the desk.

Feng Cheng quickly lowered his head, clearly feeling the emperor's anger.

This telegram talks about Jing'an Hou Li Fei entering Tianshui's tomb.

"Announce Lou Hongtao to enter the palace."

said the emperor.

Lou Hongtao, head of the Supervisory Pavilion.

The emperor rarely summoned important court officials of this level suddenly in the middle of the night.

"Yes."

Feng Cheng retreated quickly.

Although the Temple of Heaven assassination case has been handed over to Li Fei, Lou Hongtao, as the head of the Supervisory Pavilion, still dares not slack off.

The emperor stayed up late in the imperial study every night, and Lou Hongtao also stayed in the imperial city almost every day and did not return to his own residence.

After being summoned by the emperor, he quickly followed Feng Cheng to the imperial study.

"I am here to see you, Your Majesty."

"No need to be polite. Do you know about Marquis Jing'an's affairs?"

The emperor went straight to the point.

On the way here, Lou Hongtao had guessed that the emperor had suddenly summoned him because of this matter, and said calmly:

"I just received a telegram before I came here."

"What do you think about this?"

"I think this was done deliberately by the Xintian Society, but it may not be to murder Marquis Jing'an."

"Oh?"

“If the Xintian Society really wanted to kill Marquis Jing’an, that martial arts master made his first move that day in the capital of Gansu Province. If the other party had targeted Marquis Jing’an, there was a great chance that he would succeed when he was caught off guard.

But the other party targeted a disciple of Hongchen Pavilion. Afterwards, we found out that the disciple had been colluding with Xintianhui all along, and the Xintianhui's move was to silence him.

And according to the information sent back by Jing'an Hou, the martial arts master intentionally concealed his second magical power when he fought with him at the beginning, and was forced to reveal it at the end. If the other party really wanted to kill Jing'an Hou, under the circumstances of time pressure, he should not have concealed his strength at the beginning, but should have gone all out. "

Lou Hongtao spoke eloquently and calmly, expressing his analysis.

"Ah."

The emperor nodded. "Then why did the Xintian Society suddenly enter the tomb after Jing'an Hou entered Tianshui's tomb?"

The Xin Tian Hui has clearly mastered the method of actively creating rifts, and can enter first without waiting for others.

But he only took action after Li Fei entered. No matter how you interpret this behavior, it will only make people feel deep malice!

Lou Hongtao: "This does seem very targeted, but I still think that if the Xintian Society really wants to deal with Marquis Jing'an, there are obviously better ways, and it doesn't have to be in the Tianshui Tomb."

"You mean that the Xintian Society has other plans in entering Tianshui's tomb, and Jing'an Hou will not be in danger?"

The emperor asked.

"I am not sure about this either."

Lou Hongtao said quickly.

He had already seen that the emperor was angry about this matter, so he didn't dare to make any rash guarantees.

What if Li Fei really died in the Tianshui Tomb?
"Humph!"

The emperor snorted coldly, and the temperature in the imperial study seemed to drop a lot. A huge pressure enveloped the study, causing sweat to break out on Lou Hongtao's forehead.

As an important official in the imperial court, Lou Hongtao knew more secrets than anyone else.

Even though the emperor's martial arts skills are ordinary, but in this palace, if the other party wants him dead, there is no need for anyone else to do it. Even if he has the realm of a martial arts master, it will be useless!

"The martial arts master openly attacked the king of the court. Has the Supervisory Office found out the identity of this person so far?"

The emperor asked.

Lou Hongtao heard the blame and said quickly, "Your Majesty, the Supervisory Office immediately conducted a detailed investigation based on the intelligence sent back by Marquis Jing'an that day. We initially identified eleven forces and have now narrowed down the scope to three martial arts sects and one martial arts family."

It has only been more than half a month since Youming suddenly took action. The other party is not a fool, and will leave very obvious signs and clues. In addition, the forces of the martial arts masters involved are not small forces, and they have inextricable connections with the local government. It is very difficult to use the local Supervisory Office to investigate the case.

The martial arts masters under investigation are all giants in their respective fields. Unless they are identified as suspects, the Supervisory Office must treat them with courtesy and not harshly.

In this pre-information age, the fact that the Supervisory Council was able to narrow down the scope of suspicion to four forces so quickly was actually quite fast.

But the emperor was not satisfied: "I want a result within five days!"

"The minister obeys the order!"

Lou Hongtao bowed and had no choice but to obey the order.

Just as he was about to leave, the imperial eunuch Feng Cheng suddenly entered the imperial study:

"Your Majesty, urgent news has arrived from Feng Province."

Lou Hongtao stopped right where he was.

The emperor glanced at him, then looked at Feng Cheng: "Speak." "The president of Wu'an University, Shi Caiming, rushed to the provincial capital of Feng Province alone and confronted the president of Hongyi University, Xu Jing."

Feng Cheng lowered his head and said.

"Master Caiming?"

The emperor frowned slightly, "Why did he suddenly go to find Xu Jing?"

After saying this, he looked at Lou Hongtao again.

Lou Hongtao immediately turned around and said, "Principal Shi hasn't taken action for many years, but he suddenly started a war. Maybe it's because of the Tianshui Tomb?"

Emperor: "What does this have to do with Xu Jing?"

Lou Hongtao: "I cannot guess this, please forgive me, Your Majesty."

The emperor narrowed his eyes and his expression kept changing.

He suddenly looked at Feng Cheng: "Feng Cheng, tell me about it."

This imperial eunuch has served two emperors. He is the chief eunuch in the palace and has great power. He is also a grandmaster!
In the entire imperial palace, there are only two eunuchs with the cultivation level of a grandmaster. Feng Cheng is one of them, and he is recognized as the one with the highest cultivation level.

Since this matter concerns the Death Zone, Lou Hongtao is only a martial arts master after all, so the emperor turned to ask Feng Cheng for his opinion.

Feng Cheng lowered his head and said, "Your Majesty, the Death Zone is related to the Martial Arts Zone. I don't know how those villains opened the cracks and how they let a Martial Arts master in. It's possible that they are doing something to the Martial Arts Zone.

The martial arts realm of Tianshui's tomb was left by the eighth-grade Tianshui Canghun beast, which is built with water-attributed magical powers as the core. I heard that Principal Xu's martial arts realm is also built with water-attributed magical powers as the core."

Feng Cheng didn't finish his words.

As a eunuch in the imperial court, he could not have obvious preferences towards anyone or anything.

But what he wanted to express was clear.

"Xu Jing?"

The emperor shook his head.

He knew about the feud between Xu Jing, the Lu family and Li Fei.

But the emperor didn't quite believe that Li Fei should be killed just because of an old case.

Whether it is the Lu family or Xu Jing, there are many ways to deal with Li Fei's future investigation. Choosing to kill is the most costly and worst one.

The emperor didn't think the Lu family would be so stupid or Xu Jing would be so impulsive.

So this matter is difficult to establish in terms of motivation.

Besides, there is no way to determine how the Xintianhui entered the Tianshui Tomb. We can't assume that Xu Jing is a suspect just because the attributes of his martial arts domain are consistent with the death domain of the Tianshui Tomb.

This is too childish.

"Your Majesty, do you want to send someone to stop the headmaster?"

Feng Cheng asked.

The emperor looked expressionless and glanced at the telegram on the table:

"Forget it. This old guy has been depressed for so many years and suddenly wants to lose his temper. Let him be. He is a man of measure."

"Yes."

Feng Cheng and Lou Hongtao left together.

That night, the light in the imperial study remained on until dawn.

Turn back the time.

Li Fei jumped down the crack, surrounded by a faint blue light.

After falling for more than ten seconds, the surrounding light suddenly disappeared, and a huge amount of water vapor rushed towards me.

Li Fei fell into the water. Even though there was a layer of strong force and a magical robe between them, he still felt a chill.

He had anticipated this and immediately exerted his strength to float up from the water, eventually standing on the surface of the water.

Looking around, it was pitch black, with only the water beneath my feet emitting a faint blue light.

There was a crack in the sky above his head, which was the crack that Li Fei entered.

This is the Tomb of Tianshui. It looks like an endless sea, but the water is not flowing at all and there are no fish or shrimp in the sea.

Like a dead sea.

In fact, Li Fei knew that the area of ​​this dead zone was not that large, but the dead zone would affect people's perception of space, thus creating an illusion of being boundless.

All the "treasures" of this Tianshui Tomb are underwater, and the temperature underwater is extremely low. The coldness contained in it cannot be completely isolated even with physical strength or divine clothes, and it will only accumulate more and more.

Until the coldness invades the internal organs and the implants, there is no hope!

Therefore, even if there was no time limit brought by the domain-breaking talisman, people would not be able to stay in the Tianshui Tomb for too long. Each exploration could only be a brief taste and take away limited treasures.

Li Fei did not rush to start exploring, but waited where he was.

He wanted to wait until Xiang Dongliang and others came in before exploring the Tianshui Tomb together.

But he stood there waiting for a long time and no one came down.

"what's the situation?"

Li Fei looked up at the crack in the sky and was surprised to find that the crack was gradually shrinking until it completely disappeared.

"problem occurs?"

Li Fei immediately reached into his arms and took out the domain-breaking talisman given to him by Xiang Dongliang to check.

He breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the two Domain-Breaking Talismans were intact and could be activated at any time.

Xiang Dongliang and others did not come in, and the crack disappeared ahead of time.

All this indicates that something must have happened outside, perhaps related to the New Heaven Society's plot.

At this time, directly activating the domain-breaking talisman and leaving might be the best option, but Li Fei did not do so.

He put the two domain-breaking talismans back in place and then sank suddenly into the water.

He won't just leave like this.

After all, come here.

(End of this chapter)