Evil Master and Disciple

Ye Feng's plan was simple.

He exploits the psychology of thieves.

Now those people from the Demon Cult are secretly repairing the Jade Sundial in the Observatory, just like thieves.

Once they are discovered, these people will definitely choose to slip away immediately like thieves.

The capital was in chaos, with not only the mysterious Confucian monks but also numerous uninvited Buddhist masters. It was unsafe for the Jade Dial to remain in the capital. The repaired Jade Dial was paramount; if it were discovered, the demonic sect disciples would immediately flee the capital with it.

Ye Feng wanted to intercept the Demon Sect disciples and snatch the Jade Dial away from the capital after they were escorting it out of the capital.

Now they are short of manpower, and whether this plan can succeed depends entirely on how many demonic monks Lu Yunshi and Eunuch Luan can hold back.

If only two or three disciples of the Demon Sect escort the Jade Dial out of the capital, then Ye Feng and others will have a chance of robbing it along the way.

Lu Yunshi was originally reluctant to take the risk of robbing outside the city. He had no way of guaranteeing what would happen after leaving the capital.

However, once Lu Yunshi and others take action in the Observatory, the situation will most likely be the same as Ye Feng's analysis. The Demon Cult will send some masters to entangle everyone, and then send someone to escort the Jade Dial out of the capital.

Instead of doing this, it would be better to ambush a few people outside the city from the beginning.

After thinking about it, Lu Yunshi finally agreed to Ye Feng's plan.

At this moment, on the observatory, Lingyin had reached the final stage of repairing the jade sundial.

At this moment, tiny beads of sweat covered the forehead and cheeks of Saint Lingyin.

The endless power of the stars comes from the starry sky and is transformed into mysterious power through the sundial and corona on the observatory.

This mysterious force was like glue, slowly sticking the three pieces of the jade sundial together.

The three originally broken pieces of the jade sundial have now come together, with only a barely visible crack remaining.

Lingyin is now casting a spell to repair this last gap.

About thirty or so disciples of the Demon Sect gathered in the Observatory.

Originally, there were several elders and masters in charge here, but something unexpected happened in the operation at Jiaotai Hall. They did not break into the hall as quickly as the Demon Cult had planned at the beginning, but instead fought fiercely at the gate of Jiaotai Hall.

Therefore, the Demon Cult dispatched nearly a hundred experts from the Observatory, Sitianjian and other places to support Jiaotai Palace.

This significantly weakened the power of the demon cult in the Observatory.

However, these disciples of the Demon Sect are all highly skilled and courageous, and those young masters are all strong men at the peak of the Divine Silence Realm. Moreover, all forces in the capital are now attracted by the changes that have taken place in Chongyifang and the Imperial City.

So far, no one has noticed what's happening in the Stargazing Tower, so these demon sect disciples are not worried about the situation there.

The disciples of the Demon Sect looked at Ling Yinxiang's sweaty appearance, secretly hoping in their hearts, "Hurry up, faster..."

Perhaps their prayers worked, the cracks in the jade sundial were closing quickly.

It will probably take less than half an incense stick of time to complete.

At this moment, the battle in the palace showed a polarized attitude.

Outside the Zichen Hall, the battle between the top masters of the Demon Cult and the top masters of the Confucian School seemed very peaceful.

The four saints took turns to fight, and the masters of the Demon Sect also responded one by one.

The battle between them is more like a battle between gentlemen.

However, the fighting in Jiaotai Hall was extremely fierce.

Confucian magic often relies on talismans as a medium to activate it.

However, Confucian talismans have a shelf life.

After thousands of years of peace and tranquility, many great Confucian scholars did not expect that they would suddenly face a large-scale attack.

Therefore, there are not many Confucian talismans in stock, and almost all of them were written in the Jiaotai Hall.

Even if more than a hundred great scholars drew talismans at the same time, they could not offset the consumption of the fierce war outside.

After Li Ling saw the three star maps in the sky completely close together, he knew that the jade sundial had been almost repaired.

He immediately gave Zhuge Xuance a look.

Zhuge Xuance understood.

Confucianism has its own plans.

They never intended to guard the Jiaotai Hall, otherwise they would not have been able to collect the precious documents and more than 20 national seals stored in the Jiaotai Hall in advance.

Confucianism is waiting for the Jade Sundial to be repaired.

Because they, the Confucians, do not know how to repair things.

We can only rely on the people from the Demon Cult to repair the Jade Sundial.

Now everything is going according to what the six sages of Confucianism had envisioned.

Li Ling said, "Old Zhuge, you can't hold on any longer!"

Old Zhuge nodded and shouted, "Retreat!"

As old man Zhuge said the word "withdraw", hundreds of white-haired scholars in Jiaotai Hall put down their pens at the same time.

Without any hesitation, these people activated the talismans and chanted the spells.

Whoosh...

In the blink of an eye, more than a hundred extremely tired old men disappeared in the Jiaotai Hall.

The thirty or so Confucian monks at the door were now quickly retreating to the north because they could not withstand the fierce attack of the Demon Cult.

The members of the Demon Sect were overjoyed to see these hateful Confucian monks finally flee.

Dozens of Demon Sect masters kicked open the door of Jiaotai Hall.

There was no one inside, only hundreds of low tables and desks.

The demonic monks had long known the exact location where the Jade Crown Needle was hidden.

They began counting the floors, and after a moment they found where the Jade Crown Needles were kept.

But they seem to have overlooked a very important detail.

This time, the repair of the jade sundial did not cause any unusual movement of the jade corona needle under the stone slab.

These demonic monks didn't think much about it.

One of the middle-aged men squatted down and placed his palms on the stone slab.

"There's nothing underneath the stone slab. This should be it."

"I'll smash it!"

"Stop! The Jade Crown Needle is carved from jasper and isn't a magical weapon. Any external force could easily break it."

The middle-aged man immediately stopped the impulsive demon disciple.

He took out a dagger and slowly pried it along the edge of the stone slab.

boom……

The slab was pried open.

There is still a layer of stone slabs underneath.

The middle-aged man pried with the dagger again.

Then everyone saw a dusty stone box placed below.

The middle-aged man reached out and took out the stone box from below.

Gently wiping off the dust on the stone box revealed the patterns carved by the Confucian sage.

"It's the symbol of a Confucian sage, there's no doubt about it..."

The stone box was opened, and more than a dozen pairs of eyes immediately looked over.

There was only a parchment scroll inside.

After opening the parchment scroll, a jade hairpin about half a foot long was found inside.

Of course, this is not a jade hairpin, but the gnomon of the corona gnomon, just like the pointer on a clock.

It is thick in the front and thin in the back, and there are small holes in the thick part.

It is almost identical to the corona needle outside the Observatory and the Meridian Gate, except for the size.

"The Jade Crown Needle... I finally got it!"

When the demon monks saw the jade hairpin, their eyes lit up and they were extremely excited.

Although the Demon Cult lost more than a dozen disciples in the attack on Jiaotai Hall tonight, all the efforts were worth it.