The Zhou Kingdom could tolerate these princes using the powers of the Underworld to achieve their goals, just like Ji Haodian and Buddhism.
Both parties could cooperate and even become members of the Zhou Kingdom like Buddhism. However, the only thing they couldn't tolerate was for these princes to become the puppets of the powers of the Underworld. In the end, they would even betray the interests of the entire Zhou Kingdom for this.
Therefore, these people had to die. They couldn't be forgiven!
Ji Xuanyuan said coldly, "Take them away and inform the Imperial Clan Court to deal with them."
The so-called Imperial Clan Court was a department of the Zhou Kingdom that dealt with the affairs of the royal family. In fact, it was managed by the royal family with the surname Ji.
However, the royal family with the surname Ji had always been focused on cultivation and didn't have much power. Moreover, Ji Haodian's descendants were also very obedient. Therefore, the Imperial Clan Court had never been put to use.
However, they didn't have to worry about it now. It was obvious what would happen to these princes after being thrown into the Imperial Clan Court. They would definitely beg for death.
Ignoring the princes who were still wailing miserably, Ji Xuanyuan and the rest turned their attention to Sun Buhai and the other members of the Zuo Dao Alliance.
Ji Xuanyuan said coldly, "Sun Buhai, shouldn't you give the Zhou Kingdom an explanation now?"
To be honest, Ji Xuanyuan and the rest didn't think that the Zuo Dao Alliance had done this on purpose. Perhaps there was some accident or misunderstanding.
Even a fool would know that if Sun Buhai had wanted to harm Ji Haodian, he wouldn't have chosen to do it at such a critical moment.
In the end, Ji Haodian was dead and the members of the Zuo Dao Alliance were surrounded by the experts of the imperial court. In the next moment, the members of the Zuo Dao Alliance who weren't good at martial arts would be torn into pieces.
It could be said that even if Sun Buhai was extremely stupid, they wouldn't do this unless they really wanted to perish together with Ji Haodian.
Therefore, they had no reason or motive to harm Ji Haodian.
However, the problem was that the imperial court didn't need a motive or evidence for this matter.
Anyway, Sun Buhai and the rest were the most suspicious. They would rather kill the wrong person than let them go. Therefore, no one could say anything.
Sun Buhai and the rest were very regretful. They regretted that they had chosen to cooperate with the Zhou Kingdom in a moment of greed.
Accompanying a ruler was like accompanying a tiger. Although they were not joining the imperial court and were only choosing to cooperate with the people of the imperial court, the risk was too great.
Sun Buhai hurriedly explained, "Everyone, His Majesty's matter really has nothing to do with us. Regardless of whether it is the secret technique or the Spirit Congealing Flower, we have deduced them countless times. Most importantly, the Great Zhou Royal Family's array masters and pill refiners have participated in these things.
Sun Bu Hai was right. The Great Zhou Empire's people had participated in every step of their plan to analyze it. They only agreed after they were certain that nothing would go wrong.
Ji Haodian wasn't stupid. He couldn't just believe the Zuo Dao Alliance when they said they could transplant their primordial spirits. In the end, his life would be in the hands of others.
However, the Great Zhou's Formation Masters and Pill Refinement Masters all took a step back. One of them hurriedly said, "Although we followed the steps provided by the Left Way Alliance to complete the deduction, we weren't the ones who did it. We don't know if there's anything fishy about it."
As the saying went, it's better for us to die. The Zhou Kingdom's Formation Masters and Alchemists hurriedly distanced themselves from each other.
In fact, with their abilities, they could tell that the Zuo Dao Alliance's primordial spirit transplant technique was only deduced. However, it was already very mature and they couldn't find any flaws.
Moreover, when they were transplanting Ji Haodian's primordial spirit, they were standing there and watching. They could guarantee that there was nothing wrong with the Zuo Dao Alliance's technique. It was exactly the same as what they deduced. There were definitely no tricks involved.
However, if they told the truth, who would take the blame? Therefore, it was better for them to remove themselves from the blame first.
Sun Buhai looked at the Zhou Kingdom's Formation Masters with a sinister look in his eyes. He knew what they meant, but he couldn't say anything to refute them.
After all, this was the Great Zhou Dynasty. Everyone would side with their own people. Moreover, they were the biggest suspects in this matter. If it was someone else, they would definitely say that they were the ones who plotted to kill Ji Haodian. If yellow mud fell into one's pants, even if it wasn't shit, it would still be shit.
Just as Ji Xuanyuan was about to attack them, Su Xin suddenly said, "King Changshan, there are many suspicious points in this matter. I don't think the Zuo Dao Alliance did it on purpose. Moreover, if we kill him today, the imperial court won't be able to find anyone to help us in the Jianghu in the future."
Ji Xuanyuan was stunned. Only then did he realize that what he had done was indeed inappropriate.
The people from the Zuo Dao Alliance were asked by the Zhou Kingdom to help them. Therefore, they were only cooperating with the Zhou Kingdom.
In the end, there was an accident halfway through. Anyone with a discerning eye could tell that there was something suspicious about it. If the Zhou Kingdom killed all the people from the Zuo Dao Alliance without any scruples, how would the people in the Jianghu view the Zhou Kingdom? Would they kill the donkey when it was no longer of use or burn the bridge after crossing the river?
In this way, even if the Zhou Kingdom wanted to ask other capable people in the Jianghu for help in the future, no matter how good the conditions offered by the Zhou Kingdom were, they would not agree to it.
It would be fine if the matter was completed. However, when there was an accident, the Zhou Kingdom wanted to find a scapegoat to vent their anger indiscriminately. What kind of logic was that?
After thinking for a while, Ji Xuanyuan cupped his hands and said to Sun Buhai and the others, "You may leave."
He asked Sun Buhai and the others to leave not only because he was afraid of the rumors in the Jianghu, but also because of Su Xin.
Today, Su Xin's performance was rather eye-catching. At the very least, the Ji Royal Family had a good impression of Su Xin.
In the past, there were always people who said that Su Xin was a wolf with wild ambitions. However, based on Su Xin's performance today, who could say no?
On the contrary, those who said that Su Xin was a wolf with wild ambitions always retreated at the critical moment. Thinking of this, Ji Xuanyuan glanced at Fang Jiuyuan in the crowd.
Fang Jiuyuan was a very slippery person. When faced with such a situation, he would not just charge forward. On the contrary, Liu Wuqian's performance was not bad. After all, he came from a military background. This kind of group battle was perfect for him to display his strength.
As the Four Great Super Arresters, the other three had performed so bravely. Only Fang Jiuyuan was afraid of death. What else could he say?
What's more, some of the words that said that Su Xin was a wolf with wild ambitions came from Fang Jiuyuan's mouth. How could the words of such a person be trusted?
Feeling Ji Xuanyuan's disgusted gaze, Fang Jiuyuan could not help but want to cry. He did not know how he had offended this King Changshan.
Now that Ji Haodian was dead and the successor had not been chosen, the real decision-makers of the Zhou Kingdom were the Ji Royal Family, the Imperial Consecration Hall, the military, and the Six Fan School.
Among these four families, the one who played the decisive role was naturally the Ji Royal Family. After all, this was actually a family matter of the Ji Royal Family in the Zhou Kingdom.
King Ji Wuling, a Real Martial Arts Realm expert in the Ji Royal Family, would naturally not care about these matters. Among the warriors in the Yang Spirit Realm, the strongest and most capable one was King Changshan, Ji Xuanyuan.
Therefore, King Changshan was temporarily in charge of Shengjing City. If he offended this Master, would he have a good time in Shengjing City in the future?
Not to mention Fang Jiuyuan, who wanted to cry but had no tears, Sun Buhai and the others could not help but breathe a sigh of relief after escaping death. They made a grateful gesture to Su Xin and turned to leave.
They could not stay in Shengjing City anymore. As for the things that Ji Haodian had promised, they naturally did not have the guts to ask for them. It was already good enough that they had survived.
To be honest, Sun Buhai did not expect that Su Xin would actually plead for them. After all, he had only known Su Xin for a short time and did not have much of a friendship with him.
However, Sun Buhai and the others from the Zuo Dao Alliance would remember this favor and would definitely repay it in the future.
Actually, Su Xin didn't have any complicated intentions when he spoke up for Sun Buhai and the others. He simply admired Sun Buhai and the others' abilities.
Throughout history, there had been very few people in Jianghu who studied alchemy, formation, and mechanism. Su Xin had formed a good relationship with them, which would definitely be useful in the future.
Moreover, just now, Ji Yuanxuan had wanted to kill Sun Buhai and the others in a rage. Even if Su Xin had not said this, Ji Xuanyuan would have thought of it after he had calmed down. Now, Su Xin was just saying it in advance.
With Ji Haodian's death, the entire Zhou Kingdom was bound to usher in chaos. Right now, the Zhou Kingdom could only rely on Ji Xuanyuan and the others to manage it. Moreover, they had to first discuss who to appoint as the Emperor. This was the most important thing for the Zhou Kingdom at the moment.
Only those in the Yang God Realm and those in the Real Martial Realm were qualified to participate in this matter. Although Su Xin and the others were also in the upper echelons of the Zhou Kingdom, they did not even have the right to ask.
After returning to the Six Fan School, Su Xin immediately arranged for Qi Long, Huang Bingcheng, and the others to lead the constables of the Six Fan School to start patrolling the streets.
Previously, because Shengjing City was in the center of the storm, it was too sensitive. Even Tie Zhan was unwilling to get involved in these matters.
However, now that Ji Haodian was dead, this matter could be considered to have come to an end. Therefore, Su Xin had to control the already somewhat chaotic Shengjing City.
Compared to the chaos in Shengjing City, the entire Jianghu was completely in an uproar.
This time, Shaolin Temple and the other sects had indeed played a big game. They had actually dared to directly join forces to force the Emperor to abdicate in Shengjing City and attack Ji Haodian. Even the Taoist and Buddhist sects, who were usually mortal enemies, had joined forces. Experts in the Real Martial Realm, who had not appeared for a long time, had appeared one after another and began to fight. The power they displayed was simply like the sky was falling and the earth was splitting.
Of course, in the eyes of the people in the Jianghu, this matter had unavoidably started anticlimactic. They did not manage to kill Ji Haodian and he had died in an accident halfway. Although Ji Haodian's death had saved the imperial court and the sects from a massacre, the people in the Jianghu felt that the curtain had just fallen on a show.
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