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Chapter 85: The picture shows the dagger
Yue Yongfeng was startled when he heard the voice, and then he blamed himself and said, "Uncle Master, I didn't know that there was something wrong with the relic. It was me who caused you to be seriously injured."

Su Zhen finally saw the situation around her and saw that only Yue Yongfeng was guarding her bedside. She shook her head weakly and said, "It's not you, it's the little prince!"

"what?!"

"What? Young Prince, what are you doing?" Chang Miao felt a little uneasy as he watched a large group of people pouring out of the door.

"What should I do?" The young prince took a step back and said, "Don't you think your question is a bit redundant?"

"It seems that the young prince is planning to get rid of us? But I don't know why?" Li Ming did not seem panicked. He stepped forward and protected Chang Miao behind him.

"Why should a dead person know so much?" The young prince's face turned cold and he waved his hand to give an order.

"Kill them!"

"Wait!" Li Ming shouted, "Aren't you afraid that I might hurt the prince?"

All the guards stopped and looked at the young prince.

"You are a smart man. Do you think I still care at this point?" said the little prince.

"Since you don't care, why did you ask us to remove the curse for your father?" Chang Miao also asked.

"You have too many questions. Go to the underworld and ask King Yama! Kill him!" The young prince showed some impatience on his face.

"Alas, it seems that you have done many evil things, and you deserve this retribution for meeting me today!" Li Ming shook his head, and as he said this, a yellow talisman appeared in his hand.

"See what else you can do!" The young prince clapped his hands, and several men carrying large basins of black dog blood walked out of the door.

The young prince immediately smiled and said, "I also want to thank you for telling me the flaws in your magic, otherwise I really wouldn't dare to take action!"

Chang Miao looked at Li Ming and said, "Brother, it seems you are being underestimated."

"I'm not looking down on you. I'm just pretending to be a pig to eat the tiger. So, always remember to keep a trump card." Li Ming smiled lightly, pointed his toes, and moved as fast as lightning.

"Teng!"

The next second, the little prince was grabbed by Li Ming's hand and strangled by the throat.

The guards didn't even have time to react before they saw that their master's life was in the hands of others.

"Who gave you the courage?" Li Ming laughed. "From a hundred steps away, your Taoist skills are unparalleled. Within a hundred steps, your boxing skills are invincible!!!"

"Oh? I set a trap for you. That's okay. I'm a smart guy after all." Li Ming shrugged his shoulders and looked indifferent.

"Are you stupid? My senior brother practices both Taoism and martial arts. Not only is he a master of Taoism, but his martial arts are also unrivaled in the world. Do you think I'm really that naive? I'm just pretending to tell you whatever you ask me, right, senior brother?" Chang Miao said.

"Well, I'm pretending, and you're real." Li Ming replied, and seeing Chang Miao's face flushed with anger, he laughed again.

The two men behaved like this, completely disregarding the young prince. Even though his life was in Li Ming's hands at the moment, the young prince was so angry that he was shaking all over and wanted to speak.

"You lied to me?!"

"Didn't you lie to me first, little prince?" Li Ming sneered and put more strength on the hand that was pinching his throat. Suddenly, a red mark appeared on the little prince's delicate skin.

"How did you know that?" the little prince squeezed out these words from between his teeth.

"Why should the dead know so much? Why don't you go to the underworld and ask King Yama?" Li Ming repeated the two sentences he had said before to the young prince exactly as they were.

This made him so angry that his face turned blue, but the little prince soon calmed down. After all, he was a member of the royal family and was very cunning. It was just that the situation had just happened suddenly and his life was hanging by a thread, so he was confused for a moment. But at this moment, he slowly calmed down.

"Humph, you don't dare to kill me."

"Oh? Why do you think so?" Li Ming asked.

"I am a descendant of the emperor, and you tried to kill me in public. Even if you escape from Prince Gong's mansion today, you will be listed as a first-class fugitive by Daqing. By then, there will be no place for you to stay in heaven or on earth. So... you dare not kill me!" The young prince said with a smile.

"Hahaha, you're quite courageous. No wonder you dare to do such a thing as killing your father and seizing the throne." Li Ming seemed to be praising, but in fact he was sarcastic and his words were cold.

The young prince said, "So what? They are all my people here. The old man has been ill for over a month, and the palace has long been out of his control. If it weren't for my royal brother keeping a close eye on us, and if that idiot Su Zhen wasn't watching us day and night, I would have taken action long ago."

"But I don't quite understand. Your father's position will be yours sooner or later. Why are you in such a hurry? I see that you are at most in your twenties. You are not the crown prince for fifty years. Why are you in such a hurry?" Li Ming asked.

"This old fellow is stubborn and determined. He is devoted to the country and supports that fool in coming up with new policies and reforms, which have affected the interests of the aristocratic bureaucrats. He has long been hated by the people and the people. Most of his relatives are against him. That fool in the palace still thinks that he can defeat the empress dowager by continuing the reforms with the support of this old fellow. He is too naive!" said the young prince, with disdain in his eyes.

"He has been taught benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and trustworthiness since childhood, and his brain has been corrupted. In order to seize power, he doesn't know how to win over the ministers in the court, but instead wants to start a revolution, cut the flesh of all the civil and military officials in the court, and share their blood with the people? He thinks he can win by carrying the banner of justice? If he hadn't done this, I wouldn't have resorted to such tactics. I would have stood on the winning side and waited for him to take the throne. My father's position would also be mine. But he is too stupid, and the old man is too stubborn. Isn't this a sure defeat?" The young prince said this, showing a sense of disappointment in his life.

"So you turned to the Queen Mother?" Li Ming asked.

The young prince's eyelids twitched, and he said, "You are indeed a smart person. We were evenly matched, but unfortunately that fool did evil things and lost the support of the people. I can only think of a countermeasure in advance. Now he is still young and has no heirs. According to bloodline, I am the closest." "So on the one hand, you pretended to save your father and gain your royal brother's trust, but in fact you secretly blocked him and wanted him to die early. Whether it was Yue Yongfeng's route or Master Su Zhen's injury, I'm afraid they were all done by you. And the Queen Mother's condition is that after you inherit the throne, you will continue to deceive the little emperor so that you can overthrow the emperor at any time, and you can take the throne after he dies." Li Ming said, but his face was quite calm.

The young prince said, "I really underestimated you, not only your skills, but also your wisdom. If you can help me, I will grant you the position of Imperial Master after I become the emperor, and I will help you to promote the Daoist lineage. However..."

"But I also want to help you deal with the Queen Mother, right?" Li Ming said with a smile.

"Yes, you are a smart man. You said so much, huh? Why would I?" The little prince's face suddenly changed.

"It's a little trick that will make you speak the truth involuntarily." Chang Miao pinched the hand seal in his hand and said with a smile, "Brother, I am still a little useful."

"Well, I admit you're not stupid now. Of course, this is just for this time." Li Ming said with a smile, "If you use the mantra well, it won't affect just one person and won't cause any changes in the dragon's energy. You've got some brains."

"Of course not. I noticed something was wrong when we were having dinner just now. But senior brother, why do you seem to be on guard against him from the beginning?" Chang Miao asked.

Li Ming sighed and said, "There are too many loopholes. Brother Yue said that only a few people know his route, and there's also the words of that assassin."

"But can we trust the enemy's words?"

"Of course I can't believe it. It could be a smear campaign, or it could be a deliberate attempt to dispel suspicion. The problem is that our adversary has been able to gain access to all our information. If it were you, young prince, with your ambitions but little talent, that would be fine. I just treat the palace as a sieve."

"But I see that you are quite cunning, and your schemes are definitely extraordinary. Then who could pass the message under your nose? The answer is of course you yourself. Besides, you must always be on guard against others. I'm just being cautious. You brought it upon yourself, who can you blame?" Li Ming smiled faintly.

Chang Miao couldn't help but nodded and said: "Brother, you are indeed yin..."

"Ok?"

"He's really smart."

"Well, you still have a lot to learn, you know? Don't be stupid, or you'll be sold and have to help others count money. Do you think everyone will treat you as well as your senior brother? No matter how stupid you are, even gods can't save you! Hmm? You haven't solved the mantra yet?"

"forget……"

"There's no way to save you..."

"You guys!!! You're going too far!" Thinking that he had just been made a fool of, the little prince's face turned red. He felt like a clown and roared in helplessness.

"Enough!" An old but majestic voice sounded.

"You heard it clearly, right?" Li Ming said with a smile.

"What?" Hearing the voice beside him, the young prince's arrogance suddenly disappeared, and a look of panic appeared on his face. "Father? When did you wake up?"

"Maybe it's when you said why would a dead person know so much about being awake." Li Ming added. After all, with his level of cultivation, he could tell whether a person was asleep or awake just by looking at his breath.

"Young sir, I think a lot of things happened during the time I was unconscious." Although the old prince's voice was weak, it still had an irresistible majesty.

"Yes, a lot, a lot." Li Ming said, but his eyes inadvertently revealed a sigh. Power is always the most corrupting thing to people's hearts. Even he himself has experienced it several times. The betrayal of those subordinates, the invisible coercion, the open and hidden attacks, are hard to guard against. They may be comrades at the beginning, but how many of them can be loyal to each other in the end?

Even if he himself did not know that everything was a simulation, he probably would not have had the determination to step down when he was Zhang Mingyu, but he would have admired that great man even more.

The twelfth year of Datong was not the end, but only the beginning. The darkness, blood, and corruption had always been buried in the human heart and could never be killed or destroyed.

When he thought of this, Li Ming suddenly felt regretful that he did not save 100 points to go and see that world again. He wondered if he would have the chance to come back in the future.

"Young sir, you might as well put my stupid son down first." The old prince said very calmly.

"But it's not safe now." Chang Miao said.

"It's okay, you all can go down." Old Prince.

The guards and assassins around looked at each other, and for a moment they didn't know whether they should leave.

The young prince, who had been held in Li Ming's hand like a chicken, seemed to have accepted his fate. He sighed and said, "Forget it, everyone, leave."

The guards then left the room one by one. In the huge bedroom, only the brothers Li Ming and Chang Miao and the father and son were left.

Seeing that everyone else had left, Li Ming loosened his hand that had been strangling the little prince's neck. At this moment, there was a deep purple mark on the neck, which was very conspicuous.

The young prince lowered his head and said nothing, while the old prince sighed, bringing this chaotic night to an end.

Li Ming didn't care what kind of punishment the young prince would receive, nor did he get involved. He just made a request to the old prince and borrowed the astronomical instrument from the Imperial Observatory.

He then refused the high position and generous salary and left.

(End of this chapter)