Forbidden City.
State Preceptor's Mansion.
Night.
"How are the preparations for the death row prisoners?" In the brightly lit and splendid hall of the Imperial Advisor Mansion, Lu Yuanshan, who had his hair tied up with a golden crown and was wearing a splendid purple robe, was sitting on a huge Qilin throne. While drinking tea, he slowly asked the Savage Zombie King, who was wearing a golden silk Daoist robe, who was standing below the golden stairs.
He was now the State Preceptor of the Great Ming Dynasty. He was only below one person and above tens of thousands. It could be said that he had reached the heavens in a single step.
"Replying to Master, in the capital, three thousand death row prisoners have been prepared. The remaining seven thousand death row prisoners are now being escorted from all over the country. I think that in a few days, they will all be gathered in the capital." The Savage Corpse King, who was disguised as Dao Xian, respectfully said to Lu Yuanshan.
"How are the quality of these death row prisoners?" Lu Yuanshan put down the teacup and looked up to ask the Savage Corpse King.
"Master, don't worry. These death row prisoners are all strong men carefully selected by disciple. Their age is not more than thirty years old. It is very suitable to create a corpse demon army." The Savage Corpse King said.
"This matter, you take care of it." Lu Yuanshan looked at the Savage Corpse King and said.
"Me?" The Savage Corpse King asked.
"This matter is the first thing that the Crown Prince asked me to do. I must do this matter perfectly." Lu Yuanshan said to the Savage Corpse King. "These corpse demons are used to deal with the Black Feather Army under Matsumoto Takeyoshi, so their combat strength must be at its peak."
Lu Yuanshan said as he slowly stood up from the kirin throne and slowly walked down the golden stairs.
Seeing Lu Yuanshan walking down, the Savage Corpse King immediately bowed.
"If you want to turn a living person into a half-human, half-monster Corpse Demon, you have to let zombies bite them to spread the Corpse Poison. However, this needs to be controlled properly," Lu Yuanshan said as he walked down the stairs with his hands behind his back. "If there is too much Corpse Poison, the poisoned person will quickly become a zombie. They will lose their rationality, lose their humanity, and become a walking corpse. If there is too little Corpse Poison, the poisoned person's combat strength will be greatly reduced. You're a thousand-year-old Savage Corpse King. The strength of your corpse poison is unrivaled. If we use your corpse poison to create a corpse demon army, we can imagine how strong their battle strength will be. What's even rarer is that you have a thousand-year-old cultivation base. Your intelligence is far beyond ordinary people. You can completely control your bloodthirsty impulse. You can even control the dosage of your corpse poison, making the corpse demon army's battle strength reach its peak state. Based on these two points, you are the best candidate. "
With Lu Yuanshan's current cultivation, creating several powerful Corpse Demons was as easy as flipping his hand. However, the Crown Prince needed far too many Corpse Demons. The number had already reached over 10,000!
With such a large number, it was impossible for him to complete it in a short time by himself.
If he used the several centuries-old ancient zombies in the Maoshan Sect's Corpse Storage Pavilion, he could also complete it quickly. However, their cultivation bases were completely incomparable to the Savage Corpse King. The quality of the Corpse Demons they created was naturally far inferior to the Corpse Demons created by the Savage Corpse King.
Lu Yuanshan was right. Only the Savage Corpse King could complete this task with quality and quantity.
When the Savage Corpse King heard Lu Yuanshan's words, he immediately lowered his head and replied respectfully, "Since Master wants this disciple to do this, then this disciple will definitely not disappoint Master."
On the surface, his expression was calm, but he was wild with joy in his heart.
If he sucked a few mouthfuls of blood from each of the 10,000 strong men, that would be tens of thousands of mouthfuls of fragrant blood.
And these tens of thousands of mouthfuls of blood could at least increase his power by 20%.
What he needed the most now was to increase his power.
"Don't you dare play tricks with me." Lu Yuanshan stopped in front of the Savage Corpse King and stared at the Savage Corpse King with a malicious gaze. He narrowed his eyes and said, "Otherwise, I can't guarantee that the golden talisman in your body won't have any problems."
"This disciple dares not." The Savage Corpse King whispered.
That golden talisman in his body was his eternal pain.
"That better be the case." Lu Yuanshan smiled and said to the Savage Corpse King, "When the 10,000 prisoners are all here, I will cast a spell to extract one of their souls and one of their spirits to make them obedient. I'll leave the rest to you."
"Yes, Master." The Savage Corpse King replied respectfully.
Although the Savage Corpse King said that, he was cursing Lu Yuanshan's eighteen generations of ancestors in his heart.
This guy's methods were indeed despicable.
One had to know that once one of the three souls and seven spirits was extracted, the person would become numb, their eyes empty, and they would become taciturn.
The Little Taoist Boy next to some of the Evil Taoists looked submissive, expressionless, and dull, doing whatever he was told to do. It was very likely that his master had extracted a wisp of his soul.
"After you're done with this, go back to Maoshan and see how it's been recently. Then come back and report to me." Lu Yuanshan turned around and climbed up the golden steps. He said, "As the Great Ming's Imperial Advisor, I'm busy with government affairs and have to assist the Crown Prince. I don't have time to take care of the Maoshan Sect for the time being."
"This disciple understands." The Savage Corpse King replied.
Lu Yuanshan sat back on the Qilin throne and said to the Savage Corpse King, "From now on, you'll eat one living person every three days instead of one every two days. Remember, you can only eat prisoners on death row and don't have any ideas about other people. This is the Forbidden Imperial City, right under the Emperor's feet. Don't lose sight of the big picture for small gains and arouse suspicion. Do you understand?"
"Thank you, Master." The Savage Corpse King lowered his head and said to Lu Yuanshan, "This disciple will definitely follow your instructions."
"Well, you can leave first." Lu Yuanshan on the throne said lazily and waved his hand at the Savage Corpse King.
"This disciple will take his leave." The Savage Corpse King retreated respectfully.
After turning around, a strange smile appeared on the Savage Corpse King's face.
"What? It's really Ye Fan? "
In the Crown Prince's Palace, the Crown Prince, who wore a Confucian headband and was dressed in casual clothes, widened his eyes in shock.
He stood up from the table piled with memorials and asked in shock.
"Yes, Your Highness." The old eunuch standing at the side bowed and said to the Crown Prince.
Hearing the old eunuch's words, the Crown Prince sat heavily on the throne with a pale face.
"This old servant has confirmed that Ye Fan did indeed arrive in Yangzhou on the night of the fiery meteor. He wreaked havoc in the brothel there and rescued the Dongying woman, Akatsuki. The time and location are exactly the same as what the Imperial Astronomer, Li Tianfeng, said, "the old eunuch continued.
"Rescued Hong Ji?" The Crown Prince immediately raised his eyebrows when he heard this and asked anxiously, "What happened to Hong Ji?"
In his heart, he still could not forget Yue Hongji, yearning for her day and night.
Seeing the Crown Prince asking about Akatsuki, the old eunuch could not help but sigh in his heart.
Since ancient times, heroes loved beauties. He had said so many things to the Crown Prince, but the Crown Prince was still infatuated with Akatsuki.
This was probably what Buddhists referred to as the Karmic Ties of Life.
Forget it, the Crown Prince can do whatever he wants.
As a eunuch, how could he understand the relationship between a man and a woman?
The old eunuch thought in his heart and told the Crown Prince about how Akatsuki was ambushed and sold to a brothel. Later on, she was rescued by Ye Fan.
Pa!
After hearing the old eunuch's story, the Crown Prince slammed the table and stood up in anger.
"Inform the garrison in Yangzhou to send people to raze that Warm Fragrance Pavilion to the ground! Also, remove that Yangzhou magistrate from his position and throw him into prison! "The Crown Prince said with gritted teeth.
The woman he liked was sold to a brothel. As the monarch of a country, how could he not be angry?
"Could it be that Your Highness is only worried about Akatsuki and not the jade pendant?" The old eunuch frowned and asked the Crown Prince.
After the Crown Prince heard this, he was startled and then took in a breath of cold air.
His jade pendant was still with Akatsuki!
If something happened to Akatsuki, wouldn't that supreme jade pendant be taken away by the ambusher?
That was the jade pendant that could mobilize the imperial army!
All kinds of signs showed that Ye Fan had already helped Matsumoto Takeyoshi obtain the meteor iron used to forge divine weapons. In addition, the whereabouts of the jade pendant was unknown. At this time, the Crown Prince was confused and did not know what to do.
The old eunuch was expressionless. He calmly looked at the Crown Prince and did not say a word.
In fact, with his understanding of Ye Fan's character, the rebellious Ye Fan would definitely find a way to find the person who ambushed Akatsuki and avenge him.
With Ye Fan's cultivation, it would not be difficult to find that person. Killing that person would be as easy as turning over his hand.
In that way, the Crown Prince's jade pendant would naturally be recovered.
But even so, he did not tell the Crown Prince his inference.
The reason was simple.
As the saying goes, fall into a pit, learn from one's wit. Although the Crown Prince was the Emperor Star, he was still an ordinary person with seven emotions and six desires.
If he did not experience some setbacks, he would not learn his lesson. How could he achieve great things in the future? How could he become a wise monarch?
The Crown Prince's jade pendant was given to Matsumoto Takeyoshi's subordinate, Akatsuki. This kind of thing could only be done by the Crown Prince who was deeply in love.
Taking advantage of this matter, the old eunuch wanted the Crown Prince to remember this lesson and never do it again.
One must know that the Emperor was not an ordinary person. Nothing could go wrong.
The Emperor was like this, not to mention the Emperor Star!
The Crown Prince knew that he had made a big mistake. His forehead began to ooze cold sweat.
If that jade pendant was used by people with ulterior motives to mobilize the army and directly force the Crown Prince to abdicate, then the Great Ming Dynasty would be destroyed in his hands.
Because of a woman, he lost the country. How could he face the founder of the country, how could he face the ancestors of the Zhu Family?
"Fu Lin, what should I do?" The Crown Prince at this time looked up at the old eunuch and asked anxiously.
"This old servant does not know." The old eunuch shook his head and replied.
He wanted to see how the Crown Prince would deal with this matter.
"In this way, you immediately pass my order and secretly inform the generals of the army that without this prince's handwritten order, no one is allowed to mobilize a single soldier, including the imperial guards in the Forbidden City. Those who violate the order will be beheaded!"
"This old servant will do it." The old eunuch said, turned and prepared to leave.
"Wait a minute." The Crown Prince stood up and called out to the old eunuch.
"Your Highness, what other orders do you have?" The old eunuch turned and asked.
"Can you go to the East Sea?" The Crown Prince asked the old eunuch.
"Your Highness means …" The old eunuch frowned and asked.
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