Volume 6: Demons Rise from the East Sea Chapter 374: Are you surprised?
"What building, what floor?" Crown Prince Li Xun was furious and shouted, "Xu Zun, what do you mean? Does the Queen Mother have a secret message for you?"
"No," Xu Zun said frankly, "Your Highness, since we still have time, why not listen to my analysis."
"Okay, you say!" The prince paced in front of the chair several times before sitting down heavily.
At this moment, Kong Zhen seemed to realize that something was wrong. He frowned and looked at Xu Zun with more resentment in his eyes.
The guards present, the Crown Princess, and even Zhao Yu, Huo Anu, and Ani, all looked at Xu Zun in surprise, wondering what Xu Zun wanted to say.
"Your Highness," Xu Zun said to Li Xun calmly, "Why not change our perspective and re-examine everything?
"What if... Bi Sheng, the left leader of the inner guard, and Cai Kun, the right leader, are actually the queen mother's men?"
"Ah? You..." The prince was startled and his eyes suddenly widened.
"Don't get excited, it's just an analogy!" Xu Zun said, "Let's assume that these two people are just pretending to surrender to you, what will happen then?"
"No, it's absolutely impossible," Li Xun said excitedly, "Bi Sheng wrote a blood oath, and Cai Kun was actually arranged by Lord Lushan to enter the Inner Guard House. They...they...can't be possible, impossible!"
"Really? Well," Xu Zun shrugged and said, "I want to tell you two things. Let's analyze them together."
"Which..." The prince realized that something was wrong and quickly suppressed his excitement and asked, "Which two things?"
"First," Xu Zun said, "since the Heavenly Tribulation Plan was so perfect, and it had the support of the two Inner Guards, why did it not succeed in the end?"
"Then..." The prince narrowed his eyes and glared at Xu Zun fiercely, "Isn't it because of you?"
"Tsk tsk..." Xu Zun smacked his lips, looking disappointed, "Your Highness, think carefully, if Cai Kun really wanted to make the Heavenly Tribulation Plan succeed, how could I stop it even if I had three heads and six arms?
" Before the Heavenly Tribulation Incident, Cai Kun had countless opportunities to stop me, but he didn't do it!
"Take another step. When I realized that the Xuanmen rebels were going to enter the Wanfu Palace through the Imperial Ancestral Temple, as long as Cai Kun stabbed me in the back, how could we rush into the palace to protect the emperor?"
"No," the prince's cheeks trembled, but he still said stubbornly, "Our original plan was to prepare for both situations, expose one and protect the other. Cai Kun didn't know the whole plan of the heavenly tribulation at all.
"According to the order, he cannot have any suspicion of being exposed, otherwise, he would not be able to be the chief steward of the internal security now, right?
"I..." the prince said excitedly, "I can contact him, really can. Lord Lushan left me a secret message. Cai Kun must obey his orders, otherwise... we will expose him and make him die miserably..."
"Really?" Xu Zun shook his head. "But what if he is the Queen Mother's man? Will your revelation still be useful?"
“This…” The prince clenched his fists and finally fell into deep doubt, “Cai Kun, Cai Kun… Could it be that he really…really…”
"Your Highness, you are still too young," Xu Zun said, "Can't you see that the key to the problem is not whether Cai Kun rebelled or not?"
"Then... tell me, what is the key?" The prince's face was gradually turning pale.
"Let me tell you another thing," Xu Zun did not answer directly, but said, "The battle in Wanfu Palace was extremely brutal, and I was there!"
"..." The prince frowned fiercely, wondering why Xu Zun talked about the heavenly calamity battle in Wanfu Palace again.
"I think you all know the details of what happened now," Xu Zun said, "The secret room where the Queen Mother was hiding was found by the Xuanmen Taoist Master Qi Xiang'er, and she was surrounded by so many Xuanmen masters. The Queen Mother's life was hanging by a thread. Your plan was about to succeed, right?"
"Yes," the prince gritted his teeth, "Besides the fact that you brought people to rescue the emperor by accident, there was also Qi Xiang'er, she...sigh..."
"Oh..." Xu Zun nodded in agreement, "Yes, if Qi Xiang'er hadn't been so indecisive and missed the opportunity to fight, and had insisted on kidnapping the Queen Mother, then the Xuanmen event would have been accomplished long ago, right?"
"Hmm!" The prince gritted his teeth again and told Xu Zun with his eyes that it seemed meaningless to say these things, right?
"But..." Xu Zun said, "People seem to have overlooked one thing. The height of the empress dowager at that time seemed to be slightly different from the height of the empress dowager I saw later."
Um?
Xu Zun's casual remark immediately attracted everyone's surprised gazes.
"What?" Crown Prince Li Xun was surprised. "Height?"
"Let's make another assumption," Xu Zun said, "What if the one surrounded by the Xuanmen masters at that time was not the Queen Mother herself?"
ah?
this……
Everyone was stunned, their jaws dropping at Xu Zun's reasoning.
"How...how could it be?" the prince said, "Qi...Qi Xiang'er, if the queen mother was fake, how could she recognize Qi Xiang'er, and that temperament, that temperament...also..."
"Your Highness," Xu Zun suddenly stopped smiling and said seriously, "If the Queen Mother knew that Qi Xiang'er would lead people into the hall and find the secret room, so she arranged for a stand-in to conduct the drill early in the morning, then her ability to recognize Qi Xiang'er makes sense, doesn't that explain it?"
"No... Impossible, according to what you said, no... no..." The prince was almost driven crazy by the pressure, and said in a panic, "If that's the case, she would be too terrible, too terrible!"
" Why not?" Xu Zun said, "Even if I failed to save the emperor, the Heavenly Tribulation Plan is just a game in the eyes of the Queen Mother!
"Your Highness," Xu Zun paused and said, "In my opinion, Xuanmen Tianzun is not Li Ren, nor Cai Kun, but the Queen Mother herself!"
"Ah!?" Li Xun almost fell off his seat, trembling all over, and said, "How...how could this happen?"
"Everything was arranged by the Queen Mother long ago," Xu Zun shook his head and said, "Are you surprised? Are you surprised? The Xuanmen that seems to be aimed at the Queen Mother is actually a weapon of the Queen Mother. This is the most brilliant method!"
"No, no!" Li Xun still couldn't believe it, "She...she is so vicious, she set a trap for us!"
"No, the fault lies with the human heart , Your Highness," Xu Zun said, "In my opinion, the Queen Mother's original intention of using Xuanmen was not to set a trap for you, but to consolidate the foundation of Daxuan and distinguish between loyalty and treachery.
"If you all could just stick to your duties, there wouldn't be so many problems, right? She could also hand over the country to the next generation with peace of mind...
"What a pity..." Xu Zun looked at the prince with regret, "Some people are still too restless!"
"No, no!!!" the prince roared madly, "I don't believe it, she can't know everything, it's impossible..."
"The facts are clear as day," Xu Zun said, "Your every move in the East China Sea is under the control of the Queen Mother. Sending me here is nothing more than... to confirm it, or to test my ability...
"So..." Xu Zun stretched out his hand and said, "Your Highness, be obedient and come back with me!"
"No, no..." Li Xun collapsed on the chair and said weakly, "No... I won't go back, I won't go back..."
