Wang Shen, holding the magic formula in his hand, muttered something, scattered a handful of copper coins on the table, looked at it for a long time, walked around the hall several times before he said in surprise:
"Isn't it strange? It's really strange...I understand."
Everyone gathered around Wang Shen, and when they saw the half-immortal acting like this, their expressions changed to bewilderment...
Wang Shen frowned for a long time, and then told the prince truthfully: "Your Highness, I can't figure it out. The three hexagrams are all unclear."
At this time, the prince felt a little nervous, and asked with a surprised expression: "Why is the immortal chief? How is your majesty?"
Wang Shen said: "There is a master who casts a spell beside your majesty to cover up your majesty's secrets. His cultivation level is far above that of the poor man. Your majesty is the true destiny and has great luck. It can be directly inferred that your majesty's numerology is very difficult. Your Highness, the poor man needs it." An object that His Majesty always carries with him, be it clothing, jade or anything else, can help me make accurate calculations."
The prince frowned and thought for a long time, then said: "Okay! I have a portable jade here that His Majesty once gave me. I will send someone to get it right now."
Not long after, a palace maid took the jade and handed it to Wang Shen respectfully. He took it carefully, put it in the palm of his hand, hit the jade with a magic formula, muttered something, and put it back on the table. Wang Shen saw it. After closing his eyes and calculating for a long time, sweat broke out on his forehead. He only heard a snap, and the Yujue split into two halves, and the onlookers looked at each other in shock.
Finally, Wang Shen sprinkled another handful of copper coins, opened his eyes and looked at the hexagrams displayed on the table. After a long while, he said with a gloomy expression: "Your Highness, fortunately, I have not insulted my fate. Pindao has calculated it, but it is a very important matter." The poor and ugly words are at the front, and the results of today's calculation must not be spread at all, otherwise it may cause people's restlessness."
The prince urged: "Chief Immortal, this room is full of Gu's confidants, so don't worry."
Wang Shen thought about it for a long time and said: "Reporting to Your Highness, the result of Pindao's calculation is that Your Majesty should have reached the end of his life nine months ago..."
As soon as these words came out, everyone in the room went crazy. After hearing this, His Highness the Crown Prince's legs became weak and he fell back.
After Qin Shao heard this, he was also shocked. Seeing the prince rushing forward to support him, after all, there is a difference between relying on speculation and actually knowing the news. When everyone saw Wang Shen being so mysterious just now, they already believed it in their hearts. After seven or eight points, coupled with the Taiji Palace's recent series of thunderous methods to suppress the East Palace, and the strange performance some time ago, everyone in the room and the prince are now completely convinced that Huo Zheng and his gang are definitely keeping secrets and deposing Changli. Young drama.
I just didn't expect that Tai Chi Palace would paralyze them for so long? Presumably, the emperor's body may have been put to death long ago. Maybe even Cui Xiangguo may have been dead.
The prince said sadly and angrily: "Gu Bi Kill Huo Zheng, this thief, actually deceived us like this."
The prince looked up again and said: "Your Majesty, your spirit must bless your sons and ministers to succeed. The country, the country, and the country must not fall into the hands of others."
While everyone was mourning, Wang Shen continued: "Your Highness, according to Pindao's calculation, your Majesty's soul has not entered reincarnation, but is still in the Tai Chi Palace, in a strange state of immortality, which really makes me sad." The Tao is incomprehensible.”
Everyone was wailing just now, but when they heard Wang Shen's words, they were all confused. They didn't know what he meant. Is the emperor dead or alive? What does this mean?
At this time, Taoist Cao Huan came to his senses and said, "What does immortality mean? Although I have read many Taoist scriptures, what does immortality mean? Is your majesty really an immortal?"
Wang Shen shook his head and said: "Everything is subject to birth and death. Even if you become an immortal, you cannot escape the calamity of the earth. It is absolutely impossible to be in this intermediate state. What I can be sure of is that your majesty is definitely not an immortal like this." Signs, when I was deducing, I felt that there seemed to be a trace of demonic energy entangled in His Majesty's soul. I have limited skills, so I can only infer this stage..."
Before he finished speaking, Qingyang ordered Cao Huan to look solemn and asked: "Although I can't practice and am just a mortal, I have dabbled in this kind of Taoist magic. I can guess a possibility. Sex, there is a Taoist magic that can trap the soul in the corpse and refine it into a zombie. In this way, the corpse can be kept incorruptible for a long time. Could the immortals, Huo Thief, Zhang Daoling and the like be... …”
Everyone's expressions changed slightly when they heard this. The actions of the gang of traitors seeking national power in Taiji Palace were too shocking. The prince also turned pale after hearing this.
When Wang Shen heard this, he nodded in agreement and said, "Master Cao is pretty good. I really don't rule out this possibility..."
Wang Shenben wanted to order something else.
As a result, Cao Huan became excited first and roared: "Traitor Huo and Yaoren Zhang are so crazy and crazy that they insult His Majesty's Holy Body. I really didn't expect that they would do such a treasonous thing. I, Cao, swear not to fight against the traitors." Wear it together.”
Cao Huan knelt down in front of the prince and said: "Your Highness, please give the order. I, Cao, will swear to the death to follow His Highness to kill the traitors and bring peace to the people."
Everyone also knelt on the ground in grief and anger and said to the prince: "Your Highness, please issue an order. We are willing to follow His Highness to the death and kill the traitors. Your Majesty..."
Wang Shen saw that the crowd was excited, so he didn't want to say anything more, so as not to arouse their suspicion and misunderstanding.
When the prince saw Wang Shen coming over, his pretense was so effective that even Qingyang's hesitant Cao Huan surrendered directly.
He thought to himself that these monsters were really useful at the critical moment, so he rewarded Wang Shen with five thousand gold on the spot, sent him away, and treated Wang Shen well after he accomplished his mission.
Wang Shen took the bounty, sighed lightly and returned to the post house...
At dusk, in the East Palace, the prince ordered all his cronies to take orders and lead their troops to perform their respective tasks. The prince personally visited, contacted the courtiers, and persuaded them to join his side.
That night, the prince's cronies Guo Huan, Qin Shao and others led two thousand dead soldiers who sneaked into the city in batches from outside the city and rushed to the Qingyang City arsenal. As long as they could capture this place, great things would happen. There were usually no forbidden troops in the city. Weapons and armor can only be obtained from the arsenal in an emergency. Whoever can seize the arsenal can decide the outcome.
That night, Guo Huan, Qin Shao, and Liu Yu took advantage of the cover of darkness and led their troops to the vicinity of the arsenal. They saw two teams of city guards taking over the guard in front of the arsenal gate of Qingyang City, and the guards were tight.
The arsenal is an important place in the city. The arsenal wall is three feet high. Hundreds of soldiers are patrolling the area under the arsenal gate. On the city wall, there is a turret ten steps away. There are sentries holding crossbows on the upper floors. It is equivalent to a city within the city. If you want to take it in one fell swoop, Next, it is quite difficult.
Qin Shao stepped forward to observe, frowning. He made a vow in front of the prince, but when it came to the action stage, he felt that things were not as easy as he thought.
At this time, an official rushed to Qin Shao with dozens of cronies. He saw that the person coming was Cao Huan, Qingyang order.
Cao Huan stepped forward and said: "Master Qin, although we have a lot of thousands of troops, it is not easy to capture the arsenal. The arsenal has two doors, front and rear. Even if the outer door is taken, the defenders of the arsenal will realize something is wrong and seal the inner door. , it will be difficult for us to capture the arsenal in a short time, and by then, we may suffer heavy casualties."
Qin Shao frowned and said: "Master Cao, taking down the arsenal tonight is the key among the keys. What should you do?"
Cao Huan said: "Don't worry, Mr. Qin, the arsenal guard has some friendship with me. I'm going to move him to surrender to us. I believe that if we move him with emotion and understand the interests, we will be able to easily capture the arsenal without spending a single soldier. You hold the torch high. Surround the arsenal and hold down the battle for me. If I can't move the defenders to surrender, you can storm the arsenal before it's too late."
Upon hearing this, Qin Shao bowed to Cao Huan and said, "Then I'll leave it to you, Master Cao."
Cao Huan flicked his sleeves and went to the arsenal to negotiate. In fact, he also hoped to perform extraordinary feats for the prince and future emperor, so that he would have the confidence to stand on the court in the future.
When Qin Shao saw Cao Huan entering the arsenal alone, he gave an order, and the two thousand dead men hiding in the dark raised their torches and stepped forward to surround the arsenal.
When the guards of the arsenal saw this, they suddenly panicked and hurriedly closed the arsenal door tightly and stood ready.
Half an hour later, Qin Shao and others outside the arsenal were anxious. After a while, the arsenal guard saw thousands of people surrounding them in the night. His expression changed slightly. After weighing the pros and cons, he had to order the defenders to put down their weapons. , followed Cao Huan to surrender.
When Qin Shao saw this, he was overjoyed and led a group of dead soldiers into the arsenal. He saw that in the arsenal, weapons and armor were densely packed and neatly arranged. The materials were so rich that it was more than enough to arm a hundred thousand horses.
When Guo Huan saw this, he was overjoyed and said, "Hurry up and let the brothers change their clothes."
Qin Shao gave an order, and a group of dead soldiers stepped forward and began to arm themselves.
Qin Shao told Liu Yu and Guo Huan: "Brother Liu and Brother Guo, now that the arsenal has fallen into my hands, it should not be delayed, otherwise things will change. The three of us immediately split up and took action. I will lead the troops to search for the young master. Sheng, arrest An Guojun, you two lead the troops to seize the city gate, seal it, and make sure that Taiji Palace does not notice any changes in Qingyang."
Liu Yu and Guo Huan knew that Qin Shao was taking the initiative to share the credit with them. Now that the dead soldiers had weapons and armor, it would not be difficult to suppress the defenders in the city and compete for control of Qingyang, not to mention their own side. Take moral advantage.
Liu Yu immediately nodded and agreed: "Okay, Brother Qin, just leave this matter to me and Lao Guo."
Qin Shao handed over most of his troops to Guo and Liu, and he only took a hundred men and rushed straight to Gongzi Sheng's mansion. Although he knew the exact news, he still wanted to verify whether Gongzi Sheng was at home.
