Chapter 300: The Crisis of the Heavenly Fiend Gate
Hong'er cried hoarsely and said: "Tianshamen was surrounded by officers and soldiers." As she said that, she started crying again.
"Besieged and suppressed?!" Yan Qiqi almost fainted. She clenched her fists tightly and pursed her lips as she asked, "Why are the Tiansha Sect surrounded and suppressed?"
In the days when she was gone, earth-shaking changes had taken place. Thinking of Ah Shang leaving like this, I felt a wave of pain in my heart.
"Why did the officers and soldiers surround Tianshamen?" Yin Tianjue couldn't help but have doubts when he heard this.
The Tiansha Sect is a martial arts sect that is both good and evil, and the tasks it accepts are basically to annihilate evil people and corrupt officials.
For example, my father also used the help of the Tiansha Sect to remove villains in the court who could not be removed in a fair and just manner.
In the more than a year since Aqi took over the Tiansha Sect, he has not done a single evil deed. If he hadn't made a business of killing people, others would have thought that the Tiansha Sect had changed its ways.
Moreover, the Tiansha Sect has always maintained its integrity and has never done anything detrimental to the imperial court. There is no reason for my father to send troops to encircle and suppress them.
Hong'er wiped the tears on her face carelessly and said in a hoarse voice: "Someone pretended to be a member of the Tiansha Sect and assassinated the Emperor. He also burned most of the imperial mausoleum and put all the blame on the Tiansha Sect. Your Majesty."
In anger, he sent 150,000 elite soldiers to surround and suppress the Tiansha Sect, vowing to uproot the Tiansha Sect."
"How could such a thing happen?" Yan Qiqi looked at her in disbelief, and her body couldn't help but tremble.
Killing the emperor and burning the emperor's mausoleum are serious crimes that will punish the nine clans. No wonder Yin Xianglong is furious.
Damn it! Who wants to frame Tiansha Sect?
150,000 elite soldiers were sent to encircle and suppress the Tiansha Sect. When they attacked the Sith Kingdom, they only used 100,000 elite soldiers. Now, 150,000 elite soldiers were used to annihilate a killer organization. Then...
Yan Qiqi's face turned even paler when she thought about this. She grabbed Hong'er's arm with both hands and said urgently: "Hong'er, what's going on with the Tiansha Sect now? Are the casualties serious?"
Counting all the people in the Tiansha Sect, there were only over 10,000 people. Yin Xianglong actually used 150,000 to encircle and suppress them. There was no way for the Tiansha Sect to survive.
"All Lietian Kingdom branch rudders were wiped out, and most of the headquarters were dead. There were more than a thousand people left who were taken to Tiansha Sect by Ah Feng..." Hong'er stopped as he was speaking, and raised his eyes towards Yin Tianjue.
After taking a look, I felt a little apprehensive.
Even if Hong'er didn't tell her, she still knew where they were hiding. Yan Qiqi frowned tightly.
There is a secret room on the mountain behind Tiansha Gate that can accommodate thousands of people for future emergencies. Only the five of them know about this place.
However, there is not much food and water inside, and it is estimated that it will not last more than three or four days for more than a thousand people.
This secret room has an exit to the outside, but the exit is on a cliff. The average killer in the Tiansha Sect has no way to get out from there.
If the officers and soldiers enter the Tiansha Gate and station themselves inside, they will starve to death even if they are not killed.
"How many days have they been trapped?" Yan Qiqi asked quickly.
Hong'er continued: "It has been seven days, and now officers and soldiers are guarding all the exits of Tiansha Gate. On the day of the accident, Lu Yi entered through the secret passage. Her subordinates heard her say that Ah Feng brought everyone to the secret room, and they fell unconscious.
I haven’t woken up until now.”
Yan Qiqi was silent for a moment and asked, "Where are Shang Nan and Xia Bei?"
Lu Yi went to Tiansha Gate. Why was Hong'er the only one here? Didn't she and Yin Tianjue ask them to stay in Prince Rui's Mansion and not go anywhere when they left? Why couldn't they be seen?
"Shang Nan and Xia Bei are also over there at Tiansha Gate. They and the people from Tiansha Gate who are good at Qinggong are secretly building ladders there."
"Why don't you let Shang Nan and Xia Bei enter the palace to tell their father Ah Qi's true identity?" Yin Tianjue frowned.
"This..." Hong'er choked and pursed her lower lips, glanced at Yan Qiqi, and said, "Xia Bei originally wanted to tell the emperor the identity of the young lady, but was stopped by his subordinates and Lu Yi. We were afraid that the emperor would
Take your anger out on the lady."
"You should listen to Xia Bei's words. If you tell your father..."
If Yin Xianglong was told her true identity, he would not kill the Tiansha Sect. After all, Yin Xianglong was not a confused person.
Yan Qiqi wanted to scold Hong'er, but she thought that she was also thinking about her and didn't want to hurt her, not to mention scolding would not help.
At this moment, she suddenly remembered something.
The Tiansha Sect's headquarters is very hidden and difficult to find. Is there a mole inside?
Presumably Yin Xianglong should know the whistleblower.
Thinking of this, Yan Qiqi immediately took the baby in Yin Tianjue's arms and stuffed it into Hong'er's arms, "You look at the baby here first, while Yin Tianjue and I go to the palace."
She would not be so stupid as to mobilize soldiers from various countries to fight against the officers and soldiers. Although the Tiansha Sect has a high status in the martial arts world, trying to compete with an imperial court is simply like ants shaking a big tree and overestimating one's own capabilities.
Now she can only enter the palace to reveal her identity. Yin Xianglong will probably stop pursuing the Tiansha Sect for the sake of her and Yin Tianjue.
"Yin Tianjue, let's go into the palace." Without waiting for his consent, she took his hand and ran away.
In order to save time, Yan Qiqi directly asked Yin Tianjue to carry her and fly to the palace, where she landed directly at the Peace Conference Hall where Yin Xianglong usually stayed. As expected, she saw him correcting memorials.
When Yin Xianglong saw them coming in, his face showed a hint of joy, he quickly closed the memorial and stood up.
Without waiting for them to salute, he asked: "Have you found my granddaughter?"
"Back to my father, Yan'er has been found. Due to her current body, there is no way to take her out, but she is fine now." Yin Tianjue said softly.
"What's going on?" Yin Xianglong didn't answer the question, and his joy instantly disappeared.
Yan Qiqi fell to her knees and said anxiously: "Father, we will tell you about this later. Ping'er has something to tell dad now."
"What is it? Is there anything more important than my granddaughter?" Yin Xianglong asked in confusion.
Although I knew I hadn't brought her out, I felt relieved knowing that my granddaughter was fine.
Yan Qiqi raised her eyes and glanced at the eunuchs and maids standing on the side, frowned and said, "Father, can you please ask the others to go out first."
Regarding the fact that she is the leader of the Tiansha Sect, the more people know about it, the better. After all, the Tiansha Sect is not a decent martial arts sect.
Yin Xianglong stared at her for a moment. Seeing that she looked serious, he must have something important to talk about, so he waved to the rest of the crowd to wait out.
After the palace maid and eunuch had finished walking, they turned around and sat back on the dragon chair. They looked at Yan Qiqi and said calmly: "Girl Ping, tell me what you have to say."
Yan Qiqi glanced at the closed door, then looked back and said, "Father, the Tiansha Sect was wronged. They never accepted the mission to assassinate you or burn the emperor's mausoleum."
"How do you know it's not them? Do you know what crime they committed?" Mentioning this, Yin Xianglong's face darkened and he looked at Yan Qiqi coldly with narrowed eyes.
"Because..." Yan Qiqi gritted her teeth, raised her face to meet Yin Xianglong's majestic gaze, and said loudly, "Because Ping'er is the master of the Tiansha Sect."
"Are you the leader of the Tiansha Sect?!" Yin Xianglong said in surprise, his eyes full of shock.
"Everything Ping'er said is true, she is indeed the head of the Tiansha Clan." Yin Tianjue looked at Yan Qiqi and said slightly, "Ping'er is the head of the Tiansha Clan, and I also know about it.
"
Yin Xianglong glanced at Yan Qiqi coldly, not as kind as usual.
After a while, he narrowed his eyes and said coldly: "Ping'er, do you know what the Tiansha Sect has done these days? They assassinated me and burned half of the imperial mausoleum."
With a "pop-" sound, Yin Xianglong slapped the table hard, "If you do such a treasonous thing, this is the sect you lead, huh?"
I really underestimated his daughter-in-law, who turned out to be the head of the Tiansha Sect.
In response to his anger, Yan Qiqi did not show the slightest hint of fear. She straightened her back and defended: "Father, ever since Ping'er took over the Tiansha Sect, no one in the sect has been allowed to take over the royal family's tasks.
, someone must have framed this matter and blamed it on the Tiansha Sect, I hope my father can find out clearly."
"Father, my son can testify that the Tiansha Sect will not accept such a task. All affairs of the Tiansha Sect within this year will be handled by my son," Yin Tianjue said.
To put it bluntly, Ah Qi is just a sect leader in name only. He is responsible for everything the sect leader does. He knows best what tasks the Tiansha Sect takes on.
Yin Xianglong looked at him, "Fourth, even so, it doesn't prove that it wasn't the Tiansha Sect. You've been gone for more than a month, so there's no guarantee that some of them who are greedy for money didn't take over the mission, and I have evidence in my hand."
"What evidence?" Yan Qiqi asked immediately.
A big task like assassinating Yin Xianglong or setting fire to the imperial mausoleum requires the consent of her and the four guardians. Even the elders in charge of each branch do not have this right.
I believe that Luyi and the others will not accept this kind of mission. There must be some fraud involved.
Yin Xianglong shouted outside, "Come here, go to Tianlao and bring the guardian of Tiansha Sect over."
"Tiansha Sect Guardian?" Yan Qiqi couldn't help but be startled. Ah Shang is dead, Ah Feng is unconscious, Lu Yi is taking care of him, and Hong'er is taking care of the baby. Why are there guardians here? Someone must be impersonating them.
"Well." Yin Xianglong said with a gloomy face, "A few days ago, many men in black came into the palace and wanted to kill me, but they failed. Two days later, someone burned the imperial mausoleum again. Fortunately, the imperial mausoleum has a mechanism.
The person fell into the trap, so we caught this protector."
"Father, why do you think these two groups of people are the work of the Tiansha Sect?" Yan Qiqi said.
"Look at this, is it something from your Tiansha Sect?" Yin Xianglong took out six tokens from the drawer and threw them in front of her. "These tokens were found from the man in black who assassinated me.
A piece of color was found on the body of the protector."
Yan Qiqi picked up those thumb-sized tokens, and her heart beat violently.
These tokens are indeed the symbols of the Tiansha Sect killers, five are black and one is white.
In the Tiansha Sect, the killer's level is determined by the color of the token, which is black, green, yellow, blue, green, red, white, and purple, and is divided into seven levels in total.
The black ones are the tokens of the lowest-level killers. These killers have relatively low martial arts alertness and generally do not go on many missions. They only do miscellaneous tasks inside the door.
Next is cyan, then yellow, blue and so on. The green ones, the four guardians and the three elders are white, and the purple one is hers. There is only one piece.
Assassinating the emperor and burning the emperor's mausoleum are all special tasks. The green and red killers should be sent. How could they be the black boys who work as handymen? There must be something fishy in this.
Yin Tianjue looked at the token in her hand, and his eyes darkened.
After a while, two guards walked into the hall carrying a man in black clothes covered in blood.
Yan Qiqi quickly stood up and walked over. This man's dirty and messy hair blocked his face. There was no intact part of his body. There were whip wounds and burn scars caused by the soldering iron everywhere.
Seeing that the body shape was very similar to Ah Shang's, Yan Qiqi's heart skipped a beat, and she brushed the messy hair away from the man's face without caring about his dirty looks.
He was suddenly shocked, "This, how can this be Ah Shang! How can he be Ah Shang?"
Leng Jun also had a few whiplash wounds on his face, but she could recognize him at a glance. Even after being beaten like this, the coldness between his brows was still there.
I heard Hong'er say he's not dead. Why is he in the palace prison?
"Aqi, get out of the way and let me take a look." Yin Tianjue groped Shuishui Shang's face a few times.
Looking at Yan Qiqi solemnly, "He has no disguise. This is really Shui Shui Shang."
"How could this happen?" Yan Qiqi looked at the man lying on the ground in disbelief and reached out to touch his nose.
Fortunately, he was breathing weakly, which proved that he was not dead yet.
He quickly looked at Yin Xianglong who was sitting on the dragon chair, "Ah Shang and the others are only responsible for protecting me and never take on tasks. I think there must be something fishy in this. Father, please find an imperial doctor to take a look at him first and let me inquire."
"Father, I also feel that there must be something fishy in this. These black tokens are worn by the Tiansha sect's handyman. If it is really their mission, they will not send the lowest-level killer in black." Yin Tianjue took the order.
Cards, analysis road.
Yan Qiqi also said quickly: "Ah Shang is indeed the protector of the Tiansha Sect, and this white token also belongs to him. Even if we assassinate those ruffians, we still use a senior blue assassin, let alone the palace.
"
After a slight pause, he continued: "Father, don't you still believe in Ping'er and Jue?"
Yin Xianglong did not speak immediately, but lowered his eyes and pondered, "Of course I trust you and your wife, but this doesn't mean anything. He probably took advantage of the time when you were out looking for Yan'er to take over this business for money."
"Impossible, I know Ah Shang's character best." Yan Qiqi denied it.
It was empty talk, and Yin Xianglong probably didn't believe it just based on what she and Yin Tianjue said. Ah Shang was caught red-handed. Although she felt there was something fishy in it, Yin Xianglong didn't think so.
For the current plan, it is better to revive Ah Shang first and then make long-term plans.
Then, she begged: "Father, please ask an imperial physician to revive Ah Shang first. After he wakes up and Ping'er asks, if it is really him who did it, I don't need my father to kill him, Ping'er will kill him instead."
My father and my ancestors took revenge."
If Ah Shang really did it, she wouldn't be able to save him. He would be convicted of Ling Chi's crime of assassinating the emperor or burning the emperor's tomb.
However, the intuition was not made by Ah Shang.
Yin Xianglong thought for a moment and then asked the imperial doctor to pass it on.
Since Shuishui Shang was a serious offender, the imperial doctor simply treated his wounds and followed Yin Xianglong's instructions to use strong herbs to help him wake up quickly.
After taking the medicine, Shuishui Shang woke up within a quarter of an hour.
"Ah Shang, how are you?" Seeing him wake up, Yan Qiqi immediately asked.
"Door..." Shuishui Shang called out in a hoarse voice, and then he sat up with one hand on the ground with difficulty.
Yan Qiqi frowned and looked at him, asking, "Ah Shang, what's going on? Why did you burn the emperor's tomb?"
"Go back..." Shuishui Shang wanted to say something, but seeing Yin Xianglong here, he kept silent.
Knowing what he was worried about, Yan Qiqi pursed her lower lip slightly and said, "It's okay. Father already knows that I am the leader of the Tiansha Sect. You can just tell me."
"Ahem..." Shuishui Shang looked at Yan Qiqi and said, "Master, my subordinates have never...ahem...burned the emperor's tomb, let alone assassinated the emperor."
"I know you can't do it." Seeing that his lips were chapped and his voice was hoarse and almost inaudible, he ignored Yin Xianglong's presence and stood up to pour him a cup of tea.
Shuishui Shang immediately took it and said, "Gudong, Gudong--" He finished the tea and put the cup on the ground.
He started talking, "Didn't the sect master ask his subordinates to find the whereabouts of the next day?"
"Yes, it is true." Yan Qiqi nodded. She had been asking people from the Tiansha Sect to find her whereabouts the next day. Shuishui Shang was responsible for this matter.
"That day, my subordinate accidentally discovered his whereabouts the next day, so he quietly followed him to the imperial mausoleum, ahem..."
He coughed a few times and continued: "When I arrived at the imperial mausoleum, my subordinates saw a fire burning. Although they felt something strange, they focused on chasing the next day and didn't pay attention. Unexpectedly, they actually stepped on the trap and were caught by the guards who were putting out the fire.
Said the fire was set by subordinates."
Yan Qiqi thought about it carefully, then her face suddenly turned cold, "The fire was probably set off the next day."
"Father, will you hit any traps tomorrow?" At this time, Yin Tianjue asked.
Yin Xianglong shook his head, "No, only one of the guardians of the Tiansha Sect was arrested at that time. I heard from the guards there that there was no one else."
"Aqi, I think there are still people." Yin Tianjue frowned and said, "Not many people know about the mechanisms in the imperial mausoleum. Only the father and the princes know about it, not even the princess, so..."
Yan Qiqi suddenly understood, "Well, someone from the royal family must have colluded with Tomorrow to deliberately lure Ah Shang into taking the bait. I believe you can guess who this person is."
As he said that, he and Yin Tianjue looked at each other tacitly.
Yin Xianglong knew who they were referring to, but from the bottom of his heart he didn't want to admit that he was the one who did it.
Killing one's father and burning one's ancestral grave will be punished by God.
Although Yin Xianglong had doubts in his heart, without sufficient evidence, he would never believe that his son could do something worse than a beast.
He looked at Yan Qiqi with cold eyes and said, "Girl Ping, do you have any evidence to prove the authenticity of what this person said? It's all true that this person broke into the imperial mausoleum without any reason. You can't pretend to be a public servant for personal gain."
Hearing this tone, Yin Xianglong intended to protect his son, but she couldn't compromise.
Yan Qiqi said seriously: "Back to my father, Ping'er definitely did not pretend to be a public servant for personal gain, and there is no evidence to prove the authenticity of what Ah Shang said, but Ping'er believes that Ah Shang did not lie."
She naturally knows very well about Shuishui Shang's character.
"You can't clear his name even if you believe it. Everything must be based on evidence." Yin Xianglong said slightly.
Yan Qiqi frowned as she looked at the injuries all over her body.
You can guess without asking. Shuishui Shang must not have told Yin Xianglong what he just said to her. It was probably because he asked for the Tiansha Sect's address that he was beaten into this state.
I want to exonerate him, but I have no evidence.
Even though he was not the one who set fire to the imperial mausoleum, breaking into the imperial mausoleum without permission is a capital offense. For this plan, it must be proven that Shuishui Shang only entered the imperial mausoleum the next day for the purpose of tracing, so that he can be exonerated.
But what to do is really nerve-wracking.
Suddenly, her mind suddenly thought of something.
He quickly looked at Yin Xianglong and said, "Father, can you tell Ping'er who leaked the address of Tiansha Sect? Don't say that you found it. Ping'er doesn't believe it."
In the Tiansha Sect, the protector or elder will send out a different signal than usual just before death.
Hong'er only thought that Ah Shang was dead because he must have sent this signal to make them think that he was dead and not allow them to come to the palace to rescue him.
Based on Ah Shang's character, he definitely did not tell the Tiansha Sect's address, there must be someone else.
Hong'er also said that the remaining members of the Tiansha Sect are now hiding in the secret room in the back mountain. If Ah Shang really told it, this place would definitely tell it, so it must not be Ah Shang.
The informant didn't know about the secret room in the back mountain, but he knew how many people there were in the Tiansha Sect. Presumably Yin Xianglong kept Ah Shang alive just to find Ah Feng and the others' hiding place.
"This..." Yin Xianglong was a little embarrassed. After all, it was against morality to push the informant out.
Yin Tianjue's eyes flashed slightly and he said: "Father, the Tiansha Sect has helped the royal family a lot. Father, do you know why the attack on the Sith Kingdom went so smoothly?"
Yin Xianglong narrowed his eyes slightly and uttered one word, "Speak."
"There is also a branch of the Tiansha Sect in the Sith Kingdom. At that time, Aqi asked the assassins there to secretly assassinate the Sith Kingdom's general Wei Wuqiang and some important generals. This is why the Lietian Kingdom fell so quickly.
The Sith Kingdom."
Is there such a thing? Why didn't she know? Yan Qiqi looked at the man beside her in confusion.
At this time, a secret message came to her ears, "Aqi, it is true that the general of the Sith Kingdom was assassinated. However, it was not your Tiansha Sect who did it, but my subordinates."
Yan Qiqi immediately understood why he did this, and immediately looked away, "Father, please take the Tiansha Sect's service to the country into consideration and clear the name of the Tiansha Sect."
A certain woman shamelessly accepted this vain achievement.
Considering the great contribution Tiansha Sect has made to the Kingdom of Lietians, we cannot be rashly condemned.
"But there is such a thing." Yin Xianglong said in a deep voice, and the stern look in his eyes faded a bit.
After the general who attacked the Sith Kingdom came back, he told him about the matter and said that someone secretly helped them and secretly killed most of the Sith Kingdom's guards, which helped them a lot.
At that time, I thought it was done by someone sent by Jue'er, so I didn't check it carefully. It turned out that it was done by Tiansha Sect.
"Father, there are still many things that Ah Qi sent people to help with, so in view of their many contributions, please make sure to give them their innocence." Yin Tianjue then went to heaven again.
Shamen posted a lot of credit.
Yin Xianglong thought for a moment and shouted: "Come here, bring Lin Lei up."