Chapter 09: #9 - Section 9
The Minister, Li Yuanfang, shook his head slightly.
“The late Emperor suddenly passing the throne to the Third Prince must have a deeper meaning!”
“Perhaps, after contacting the Third Prince…”
“Someone, I want to enter the palace to meet the new Emperor!”
Li Yuanfang's eyes lit up slightly as he ordered.
Perhaps, the answer to everything lies with the Third Prince.
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The First Prince's Residence!
As the eldest son of the late Emperor and the first in line for succession,
the First Prince, Xuan Yi, had, from the moment he had his own opinions, allied with his mother's family to gather various forces and strengthen his own foundation.
The late Emperor turned a blind eye to this.
As long as he didn't disrupt the court, he wouldn't cross the late Emperor's bottom line.
And within the late Emperor's bottom line, the First Prince constantly accumulated power.
Now, whether it was his own talent or the forces behind him, they were incredibly vast.
Xuan Yi had never believed that his other younger brothers could compete with him, for no other reason than the foundation he had accumulated over the years was his powerful support.
Once the late Emperor relinquished his power,
these supports would safely push him to the throne.
And Xuan Yi had been waiting for this day.
But this morning, the news from the palace
directly stunned him!
The late Emperor passed away, but the new Emperor was not him!
But his third brother, Xuan Ming, whom he had never taken seriously.
When he heard the news at the time,
he thought his subordinates were making fun of him.
But after truly confirming the truth of the news,
Xuan Yi was stunned on the spot.
“Your Highness, the Third Prince has already entered the Xuanhuang Hall and is sitting on the Dragon Throne,” a middle-aged martial artist exuding a semi-saint aura said in a low voice.
ヾ(。｀Д´。)ノ I'm so angry!
“I already know!”
“The Third Prince's mother's family is just a family in a small city, it won't have much effect. Even if the Third Prince successfully ascends the throne, he won't be able to sit for long.”
“What's the reaction from the civil and military officials?”
Xuan Yi asked with a gloomy expression.
“Reporting to Your Highness, the officials are staying behind closed doors and refusing to see anyone,” the middle-aged semi-saint replied.
“A bunch of old foxes!” A cold smile appeared on the corner of Xuan Yi's mouth.
“It seems they are all waiting for the morning court session three days later.”
As the First Prince with the strongest foundation, Xuan Yi was naturally not a fool.
With such a big event, how could the officials have no reaction?
But at this moment, the officials are sealing their doors and windows, not contacting anyone.
Obviously, they want to avoid this disaster of seizing the throne.
But the rules of the dynasty state that all officials must participate in the morning court session.
At that time, civil and military officials will go to the Xuanhuang Hall to meet the Holy Emperor of the dynasty.
In this way, the morning court session three days later is crucial.
Whoever sits in that position and meets the officials,
whoever is the new Emperor of this world!
“Can you contact the Grand Commander of the palace guards?”
“I want the Third Prince to die unexpectedly. When that happens, this Prince will enter the Xuanhuang Hall and send people to investigate the cause of the Third Prince's death, placing the blame on other princes!” Xuan Yi asked the middle-aged semi-saint with a gloomy expression.
“You can try,” the middle-aged semi-saint thought for a moment and bowed slightly.
Afterwards, the middle-aged semi-saint immediately left.
And Xuan Yi took a deep breath, his face gloomy, not knowing what he was thinking.
As for leaking his plan,
Xuan Yi was not worried.
The middle-aged semi-saint was his confidant.
They have common interests and would not betray him.
Besides this, the other princes' residences also experienced similar situations.
The Third Prince ascending the throne was not a good thing for them.
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Chapter 8: The Empress Reborn, Xuan Ming's Seventh Sister, the Demon Lord Reborn, Xuan Ming's Cousin
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However,
these princes were not too worried.
Compared to the throne and the princes,
one is an emperor, and the other is a subject.
If it fell on the other princes,
competing with them would undoubtedly be a dimensionality reduction strike.
Unless there was a mutiny, it would be impossible to push the other party down from the throne.
But the throne falling on the Third Prince,
they had enough confidence to replace him.
The only thing to be wary of was the other princes.
Imperial Capital, Seventh Princess's Residence.
“I really didn't expect the late Emperor to do such a thing!”
“Isn't he afraid that the Shenxuan Dynasty will fall into chaos first?”
The Seventh Princess, Xuan Xue, had a terrifyingly calm gaze.
The chaos outside was, in her eyes, just child's play, unable to stir up any waves.
The reason she described it this way
was entirely because she was a reincarnator.
Xuan Xue's previous life was the Empress of the Ice and Snow Divine Dynasty, a powerful existence in the Supreme God-Devil Realm.
Now reborn in a small dynasty without even gods or demons,
Xuan Xue naturally looked down on anyone here.
Even the late Emperor, known as the strongest in the Southern Continent,
Xuan Xue had the confidence to suppress and kill him.
“The Third Prince ascends the throne? This Emperor has observed this Third Brother up close before. Whether it's his cultivation or his foundation, he's the weakest among the other princes. I'm afraid he'll have a hard time surviving tonight!”
“The most urgent task for this Emperor is to send people to find the whereabouts of that devil!”
Xuan Xue's eyes narrowed slightly.
Xuan Ming, the Third Prince, Xuan Xue's overall impression of him was not bad.
But this didn't mean that Xuan Xue would help Xuan Ming.
Her main purpose was to find a heinous female devil.
That female devil had the same level of cultivation as her.
In the Central World, she was known as the Demon Lord!
She was the leader of the Demon Sect.
She once slaughtered the citizens of the Ice and Snow Divine Dynasty, angering Xuan Xue.
For this reason, Xuan Xue personally took action and fought her in the sky above the Endless Sea.
In that battle, the ice sealed the sea for thousands of miles, and demonic blood dyed the sky red.
However, both of them were existences in the Supreme God-Devil Realm.
Neither could suppress the other.
In the end, their physical bodies were destroyed at the same time, and their souls were still entangled.
As time passed, the souls of the two of them were in danger of dissipating due to the war, so they had to find bodies to reincarnate.
And their place of rebirth was this Southern Continent.
At the beginning of her rebirth, Xuan Xue, the Ice and Snow Empress, lost her memory due to the confusion in the womb, until she recently awakened.
After awakening, Xuan Xue wanted to find the whereabouts of that female devil and completely suppress and kill her.