Hongli said coldly: "Yes, I finally got a way to complete the eternal destiny. How could I give up? I not only found these ninety-nine people, but also arranged them all in the capital. They can be recruited at any time. It's just
..." He sighed softly and said: "If there was any other way, I would not take this step. Unfortunately...God has never given Yongxu a way to survive."
Master Kongjing clasped his hands together and said: "Although smallpox is dangerous, it is not an incurable disease. My holy grandfather also suffered from smallpox back then, and he finally turned the corner. Maybe the twelfth elder brother can also survive smallpox."
Hongli walked up to him with a gloomy expression and said solemnly: "That's a good 'maybe'. If Yongcheng can't survive, what should I do? I'll pay with my life?" Before the two of them could say anything, he shook his head and said:
"It's a pity that no one can afford to pay for Yongxun's life." After that,
He raised his hand and patted it a few times. After a while, a dark figure appeared in the hall. It was the spy leader. After he knelt down, Hongli said in a deep voice: "Immediately remove the ninety-nine people I asked you to send people to monitor."
Take a boy to Ziyun Temple. If there is one missing, come and see me!"
Before the spy leader could agree, Yun Zhongzi tried to dissuade him again, "Your Majesty, that's nearly a hundred lives and nearly a hundred families. You must not do it!"
After signaling the spy leader to step back, Hongli stared at him and said: "No one can stop me. In order to live forever, they... must die!" After a pause, he added: "Before noon today, those boys will
They will all be sent to Ziyun Temple. I will give you twelve hours. Before noon tomorrow, you must complete Yongxun's destiny without any mistakes."
Yun Zhongzi gritted his teeth and said bravely: "Please forgive me, Your Majesty. I am really... unable to obey the Emperor's orders!" Although Hongli found ninety-nine boys, he was the only one who could make up for his fate.
One person knew that as long as he did not cast a spell, those boys could save their lives.
Hongli's pupils shrank and he stared at him: "How dare you resist the decree?"
Yun Zhongzi lowered his head and said: "I don't dare. I just hope that the emperor will rein in the situation to avoid making a big mistake."
Hongli smiled sinisterly, and his eyes were like a cold blade, scraping against his scalp, "So, I still want to thank you?"
"I don't dare, I just ask the emperor to spare the lives of those innocent children." Faced with his words, Hongli smiled again, his voice was unusually low, "Since the real person has such compassion, I take it for granted, okay, I will spare it.
Take the lives of those ninety-nine boys."
Yun Zhongzi didn't expect that he would agree so readily. He was overjoyed for a moment, and just as he was about to thank him, Hongli's voice sounded again, "But the people in Ziyun Temple are not so lucky. I hope that they will be dead and somewhere else."
, I will not resent you as the headmaster; I also hope that the successive heads of Ziyun Temple, under Jiuquan, will not blame you for destroying the thousand-year Taoist tradition of Ziyun Temple!"
Yun Zhongzi never expected that Hongli would kill more than a hundred people in Ziyun Temple. He knelt there in a daze. It took him a long time to come back to his senses and said in a panic: "This matter has nothing to do with them. The emperor wants to
Just kill the poor Taoist, don't implicate innocent people!"
Hongli said in a cold tone: "I don't want to kill them either, but it's a pity that you forced me to kill them. If you don't take action before sunset today, I will start killing the people of Ziyun Temple, killing one person for every incense stick."
, until everyone is killed.”
Master Kongjing saw that he was going to kill him and hurriedly advised him: "Your Majesty, although the twelfth prince is in critical condition, he is not completely hopeless. The method of taking hundreds of boys' lives to make up for the twelfth prince's fate is really quite good."
Insidious, even if it is really completed, I'm afraid there will be endless troubles. The poor monk and Master Yun Zhongzi are willing to lead all the disciples to pray for the twelfth elder brother and protect him from this calamity."
Hongli said indifferently: "I gave you ten years, but it's a pity that your so-called prayers are useless." He glanced at the two of them, and finally stopped at Yun Zhongzi, "If you are not willing to cast a spell for Yong Cang,
Not only the people in Ziyun Temple will die, but the people in Wanshou Temple will also die, and no one will survive!"
No one expected that Hongli would even involve the Wanshou Temple. The two begged urgently, but Hongli's attitude was very firm. Either the ninety-nine boys would die, or the temple would be extinct.
The dog does not stay.
Because Hongli was going to the morning court, the two of them were expelled from the Yangxin Hall. They walked with heavy thoughts. When passing by Long Zongmen, Master Kongjing said in a deep voice: "Master, have you thought about it?"
?”
Yun Zhongzi let out a long sigh, shook his head and said: "No matter what choice I make, countless people will die because of it. I really don't know how to choose. Does the master have any ideas?"
Master Kongjing stopped, thought for a moment and said: "If we want to avoid the loss of life, we can only ask the emperor to change his mind, but..." He sighed: "But looking at the emperor's attitude just now, it is almost impossible."
Yun Zhongzi looked at the rising sun that had just emerged from the clouds, and said in a deep voice: "Is it really impossible to avoid this?" As he said, he said in annoyance: "It's all my fault that I didn't hold back and told the emperor the secret method.
Otherwise there would not have been the disaster today."
Master Kong Jing shook his head and said: "If you hadn't told us this method three years ago, I'm afraid we would have been accused then, how could we wait until today? But I never thought that the emperor actually wanted to do what he wanted to do, and he had already done it three years ago.
Start planning this."
Yun Zhongzi said solemnly: "Ninety-nine lives, I... It's really hard for me to take action, but if you don't follow the emperor's words, you and I will be extinct. Under the Nine Springs, it is really difficult to see the ancestors of all generations." As he said, he
Some people asked reluctantly: "Is there really no third way to go?"
Master Kongjing thought for a moment and said: "Maybe there is another way, but I don't know if it is feasible."
Hearing this, Yun Zhongzi was shocked and said hurriedly: "What can we do? Master, please tell me!"
Master Kong Jing said Xu Sheng: "Prince He and the Emperor are brothers and sisters, and their relationship has always been very good. If Prince He is willing to come forward to persuade, there may be room for change in this matter."
Hearing this, Yun Zhongzi frowned and said: "Master, please don't forget that before the emperor ordered me and I to pray for the twelfth elder brother, he strictly ordered us not to leak this matter. Even you and my disciples prayed for him.
, I only know the date of birth, but I don’t know who he is."
"But if you don't ask Prince He to come forward, unless the real person is willing to kill those ninety-nine boys ruthlessly, you will still be in trouble, and none of your disciples will be spared."
Hearing this, Yun Zhongzi said heartily: "Well, now that the situation has come to an end, we can only make a dangerous move. I hope that the prince and I can persuade the emperor to change his mind."
Master Kongjing nodded, and the two of them rushed to Prince He's Mansion together. Although these two people were from outside the country, they had been deeply relied on by Hongli in the past ten years.
, had heard of their names. When the gatekeeper of the Prince's Mansion learned that they were coming, he quickly led them into the front hall to wait for tea, and then went to report to Hong Zhou.