Twenty-five years ago.
Yanzhou Palace of Life.
"boom!"
Xia Enyuan, a Qianhu of the Changsheng Palace Guard Station, punched the cliff, creating an unfathomable hole in the mountain.
He has been trapped in the Yanzhou Prefecture Health Palace Guards Station for ten years, practicing hard every day, hoping that one day he can break through from the fourth level of martial arts to the third level of martial arts, and then he can return to the capital of Xuanyang and reunite with his wife and children living in the capital.
Unfortunately, there are unforeseen circumstances.
Whoosh..."
A red light flashed across the sky, making a shrill sound, and fell into his hand.
It's a jade slip that conveys messages.
Xia Enyuan's mind sank into it. It was a letter from his fifteen-year-old son in Beijing.
The letter stated that there were rumors in Beijing recently that he took advantage of his position in the Palace of Eternal Life to steal a Millennium Danyang Fruit by taking advantage of the card.
I am afraid that the captain of the Palace of Eternal Life will come to pick up the person in the near future and ask him for countermeasures.
Xia Enyuan frowned. He did have a Millennium Danyang Fruit, but this fruit did not come from the Palace of Eternal Life.
But a hundred years ago, an elder in the family who was at the second level of martial arts accidentally picked it up as a family heirloom while traveling in foreign lands.
Before his death, the elder said that if someone reaches the third level of cultivation and breaks through to the second level, he can use the Millennium Danyang Fruit to break through in one fell swoop.
So it has been passed down to Xia Enyuan's generation.
Thousand-year Danyang Fruit is the best spiritual material for breaking through to the second level of cultivation.
It is also one of the top 100 most powerful objects on the list of spirits.
He originally planned that if he could not break through to the third level of martial arts within three years, he would make an exception and take the Millennium Danyang Fruit and break through to the third level of martial arts.
By this time, he was in a dilemma.
By offering the Millennium Danyang Fruit, he might be able to escape with his life, but his hope of breaking through to the third level of martial arts would be dashed again.
He has been stuck in the fourth level of martial arts for more than ten years, and he really doesn't want to wait any longer.
But if he doesn't offer the Thousand-Year Danyang Fruit, he may not be able to save his life, and his wife and children at home will also die.
"Roar......"
Xia Enyuan roared angrily and punched the mountain wall in the distance, directly shattering the 100-foot mountain wall.
After venting the anger in his heart, he still had to face the dilemma before him.
He decided to risk going to Beijing and present the facts to the commander in person.
If nothing else works, you may still get some benefits by handing over the Millennium Danyang Fruit to the Commander with your own hands.
Five days later, when he returned to the capital, he learned that his wife and children had been imprisoned.
He, Xia Enyuan, wanted to go to the Eternal Life Palace to clarify the facts. Before he could see the commander, he was rounded up by a third-grade Taoist monk from the Dragon Guard and two monks of the same level. His cultivation was revoked on the spot and he was imprisoned.
In one day, thousands of households from Yanzhou's Sheng Palace were reduced to prisoners.
It wasn't until Qin Zhongxi came to prison that he knew the whole story.
Everything was ordered by Emperor Jiaming.
Under the command of Emperor Jiaming, there was a special team of monks called the Dragon Guards. Their duty was to protect Emperor Jiaming, the royal bloodline, and monitor the world.
As early as a year ago on the New Year's Day, Xia Enyuan returned to Beijing to visit his relatives. He was drunk and chatting with his family. He accidentally let the matter slip, and was overheard by the monks guarding the Dragon Guard.
You know, not long after the Ten Thousand Spirits List was announced, Jiaming Emperor Zhao Sheng announced it to the world.
If you are a Daxuan official who possesses the top 100 items on the Ten Thousand Spirits List and refuses to take the initiative to pay them, you have a disloyal heart.
Kill without mercy!
However, most officials did not take this order seriously. They just hid the spiritual materials deep in their homes and never showed them to others.
After Emperor Jiaming learned that Xia Enyuan was pregnant with the Millennium Danyang Fruit, he sent an order to Zhao Zhong, the commander of the Changsheng Palace, to kill Xia Enyuan and confiscate the Millennium Danyang Fruit.
This news was learned by Qin Zhongxi. He had an irreconcilable relationship with Xia Enyuan and could not bear to let him die, so he pretended to reveal the news to Xia Enyuan's son unintentionally.
In fact, his original intention was to ask Xia Enyuan to hand over the Millennium Danyang Fruit quickly, so that he might be able to save his life.
Unfortunately, Xia Enyuan did not understand his profound meaning, and instead rushed to the capital to clarify.
When Emperor Jiaming learned that Xia Enyuan was coming to the capital to clarify the matter, he immediately sent someone to stop him and take him to the prison.
He Ping'an couldn't help but feel filled with emotion when he thought of this.
Xia Enyuan was too naive in handling this matter.
Emperor Jiaming doesn’t know that you are okay?
What he wants is the Millennium Danyang Fruit!
Instead, your return to the capital made Emperor Jiaming a little uncomfortable.
Let you clarify, that does not prove that I, the majestic master of Daxuan and the king of a country, covet your thousand-year Danyang fruit.
Do I still want to be shameless?
...
In prison, Xia Enyuan knew that he could not escape death, so he begged Qin Zhongxi to save the lives of his family no matter what.
Qin Zhongxi agreed immediately.
According to his judgment, although the principal criminal Xia Enyuan must die, his family members, as the accomplices, had no knowledge of it. According to the Daxuan Law, he should be sentenced to exile.
As long as he moves a little more, Xia Enyuan's family can be saved.
But they underestimated Emperor Jiaming's determination to live forever.
Three days later, all five members of Xia Enyuan's family were pushed out of the Meridian Gate and beheaded in public.
Including the little daughter who has just turned one year old, it is the time when she is toddler and learning to talk.
Xia Enyuan wanted to cry but had no tears. He complained that the sky would not respond and the earth would not work.
All the anger in his heart turned into hatred towards Emperor Jiaming and the Palace of Eternal Life, and then blood splattered on the Meridian Gate.
That day, the wind howled.
Xuanyang City, which had already entered early spring, had been snowing heavily for three days.
After this incident, the world was shocked for a while, and Emperor Jiaming achieved his goal.
During that year, the spiritual materials handed in almost paralyzed the Medicine Department of Changsheng Palace...
Emperor Jiaming has mastered the essence of the emperor's art, and a small part of the elixirs made from spiritual materials will be distributed as rewards to officials approved by him.
Instead, the officials who received the favor were grateful to him.
It wasn't until half a month after Xia Enyuan's death that someone came to the mass grave outside Xuanyang City and used Xia Enyuan's corpse to summon his soul, bringing his resentful soul back to the world from the underworld.
From then on, he practiced the ghost way day and night, eating human souls alive, until last year, he finally broke through to the third level of ghost cultivation.
Then he returned to Yanzhou and attacked the school captain who was transporting spiritual objects in the Yanzhou Governor's Palace of Life. He sucked the school captain's energy and blood and collected a little interest for his revenge.
It's a pity to meet He Ping'an...
This is why he is so familiar with the timing of delivering medicine to Xuanyang from Yanzhou Prefecture’s Palace of Life.
He Ping'an sighed secretly in his heart, this is just like the common man is not guilty, and the jade is guilty.
If Xia Enyuan didn't have the Millennium Danyang Fruit, or if he understood Qin Zhongxi's hint and handed over the Thousand Year Danyang Fruit in time, he might have a chance to escape.
Or, if he were Xia Enyuan, he would directly eat the Millennium Danyang Fruit and break through to the third level of martial arts.
Even if Emperor Jiaming wants to touch him, he still has to think carefully.
After all, he is also a third-grade monk.
More importantly, going to war will not help, because the Millennium Danyang Fruit is gone. Even if Xia Enyuan's family is wiped out, the Danyang Fruit will not come back.
It's a pity that although Xia Enyuan has been in the officialdom for many years, he is a bit too dull and chose the stupidest way to clarify himself.
As a result, it would be even more impossible for him to leave the capital alive.
Of course, this does not mean that He Pingan felt that Emperor Jiaming did the right thing.
On the contrary, after ten years in the Medicine Trial Department, he saw the scenes in the Yidan Pavilion: famine, plague, and rebellion in many parts of Daxuan, but Emperor Jiaming focused on refining elixirs and turned a blind eye.
I am ashamed to be the king of a country.
But you can say that he is a foolish king. As long as it involves spiritual materials and face matters, he is extremely shrewd.
Xia Enyuan is the best example.
