Chapter 34 (2/2)

”What… what is going on here?” Veins bulged froer ”Fu Shen! Yan Xiaohan! What's going on?!” he bellowed loudly

This was a pretty ironic scene At the critical juncture of the thread of life and death, of the two people that were the sole most trusted in the Emperor's subconscious, one was Fu Shen, who he was incessantly afraid of and did everything he could to suppress, and the other was Yan Xiaohan, who he had just resuo

Turmoil showed one's true colors, and loyal officials would be known in trying times What a pity that he had already annihilated those loyal officials long ago

”Allowup ”This traitor had malicious intentions, and he wished to use the opportunity of offering up the Gold Pill to assassinate You This servant did not have time to rescue You, thus had no choice but to use these jujubes I have offended You, but please do not bla the tray up here,” the Emperor dictated

”Be careful, Your Majesty,” Fu Shen proe, built-in mechanism Were the Gold Pill to be picked up, needles would be shot out To avoid accidental injury, You should let… let the Flying Dragon Guard break it open”

Wei Xuzhou and a few I tied up with his arms behind his back and loop around his neck Yan Xiaohan picked the tray up off the floor, inspected it carefully, and discovered that there were indeed two tiny holes side-by-side along its edge After showing that to the Emperor, he took a silver knife from a fruit platter and carefully pried open the tray's double layers

There was only a layer of thin wood under satin A small round indent was at the area the Gold Pill was placed, linking up the Pill to a mechanism in the tray Only when the Pill was picked up would the change in weight set the device off, shooting the steel needles outward

The iht out a puppy to test for poison on, fetching a needle fro in the belly Only a few breaths later, it convulsed, foamed at the mouth, and died

The needles had been smeared with toxic upas poison

It was fortunate that Fu Shen had been seated close by With his good eyes and attention to detail, he had dared to act boldly, saving the Emperor's life in the blink of an eye Were the Yuantai Emperor to have taken a , thus having someone else present on the scene, the Eht now

”We did not treat you unkindly, Chunyang” The E hiainst our life?”

Head Priest Chunyang was not a person of this world Death was at hand, yet he looked serene and at peace, turning a blind eye to the Ee Beneath his binds, he mumbled a recitation of the Scripture of Daoist Virtue

A Longevity Feast had nearly turned into a y voice, the scene was bizarrely terrifying Every single oosebu to say anything useful ”Stuff up his mouth,” he ordered in a low voice

”Take him down for exaon Guard there, the three judicial departments didn't dare to step up and take on this case Wei Xuzhou thus took the man away The Emperor shut his eyes at his i thereat person you reco Xu's face was ashen, pro prostrate as he apologized profusely, koithout cease E his little sister, she could also not escape accountability, so she hurriedly went to kneel in suit

No one could've expected that the second she stood up from her seat, she would suddenly sport an expression of pain She staggered a few steps while clutching her lower abdos went soft, and she collapsed at the top of the tall platform

The Emperor stood up in a fearful panic ”Empress! …Doctor? Where is the imperial doctor?!”

In that instant, someone unknown cried out in alar!”

As if a clap of thunder had sounded out, the entire Hall went quiet Everyone's eyes simultaneously shi+fted to the Eht was plentiful, illu The Eround, and directly underneath her, a circle of h all the officials present were men, the majority of them had families Even if they had never seen a situation like this before, they could pretty ure out what had happened

The i a box ofthe Empress to move, he took her pulse on both wrists with a soleround towards the Yuantai E that he could forget about keeping his black hat – he probably wouldn't be able to keep the head it's on

”Reporting to the Enant, but frons of a er…”

Every word of his was like a sledgeha terotesque pattern in his field of view The woman's pale face had a sorrowful expression, but her red lips were burning, and in his eyes, it was like a silent, ridiculing demonstration

Swindler! They're all swindlers!

Fury and anxiety attacking his heart and phleght to fly into a horrid rage, he suddenly felt himself list to the side, and his body fell doards like a floating feather

The surroundings immediately spiraled out of control

”Emperor! Emperor!”

The translator says: The Emperor is pitiful, but that's his own fault

[1] 教坊司 – ata the Royal Acade, dance, and theater, and unlike pretty much any other Depart on which era this is in, they'd also be prostitutes, or the feraced officials, or both…

[2] This is where all the concubines live The ‘head' is presumably the most favored out of them all

[3] This is the famous Jindan (金丹), known in most xianxia works as a Golden Core, known otherwise as the Chinese version of the pseudoscientific elixir of life and based on Daoist It's literally a gold ball here, though

[4] 清虚观 – Qingxu Guan, which is a real place