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Chapter 577 - 84: The Ruler and the Minister

Chapter 577: Chapter 84: The Ruler and the Minister

On Heavenly Altar Square, the solemn and somber ceremony continued, as the immense Emperor’s Dragon Qi hung high above, consuming and replenishing the nation’s fortunes.

The two highest in Cultivation Realm present were ’Military God’ Wenren Zheng and Prince Li, both Martial Saints.

One was suppressing the nation’s fortunes, while the other was ’assisting’ the Emperor.

The fifteen True Masters of the Righteous Law Pavilion were all exerting Full Power manipulating the Big Array, to ensure that the river of fortune coming from the Daluo Sect could be fed into the ’Dragon’s Mouth’ without any waste.

In such circumstances, it was indeed an excellent opportunity for an assassination attempt.

But the Sitting Official from Zhi Ge Pavilion who suddenly leaped out for the assassination was too weak.

Merely at the Tao Foundation Stage.

There was no need to alert the two foremost Martial Saints.

Just on the side of Zhi Ge Pavilion alone, there were four Great Grandmasters and more than twenty Martial Arts Masters present, and around the Heavenly Altar were also strong members of the Forbidden Army and several eunuchs with unfathomably deep Cultivation...

A Tao Foundation Stage Martial Artist attempting an assassination in such a place could not simply be described as a mantis trying to stop a chariot.

It was more like a mantis attempting to shake the vast ocean!

As the audacious assassin leaped high, at least seven Divine Skills struck him, with several Martial Arts Domains brilliantly unfolding around him.

As for the high-level Force he unleashed towards the Heavenly Altar, it barely flew less than ten meters before it annihilated in midair.

The assassin himself was also annihilated along with it!

This scene scared the few Martial Arts Masters who made a move into turning pale, and the strong ones who did not have time to act also stopped in their tracks.

No one dared to directly kill the assassin!

The power that killed the assassin came from within him.

From the very moment he stood up suddenly, the power concealed within his body began to flare up, and just as he unleashed that Force towards the Heavenly Altar and shouted those words, the power inside his body precisely severed all his lifelines!

This was a meticulously planned, every step calculated with extreme precision—suicide.

Without knowing it, not even a Great Grandmaster could prevent such a suicide, but a pinnacle power of the human realm could.

The annihilation of the assassin’s body happened in the blink of an eye, but in that instant that no one could interfere with, a force forcefully intruded!

The half-annihilated body suddenly froze in midair, as if a divine being had glanced this way, stopping time in its tracks!

Below the Heavenly Altar, Wenren Zheng withdrew his gaze.

This ’Military God’ was the court’s strongest, with Prince Li, also a Martial Saint, only amounting to a junior and student before him.

Therefore, although both were exerting Full Power using Taoism to ensure the nation’s fortunes went uninterrupted, Prince Li had no time to react, whereas Wenren Zheng could afford to be distracted to ’pinch’ a mosquito, then regather his power to continue suppressing the nation’s fortune without creating the slightest ripple.

Without a hint of disturbance.

The assassin, whose body was frozen by Wenren Zheng’s Taoism, fell from the sky.

He was already dead, but the half-annihilated corpse was forcibly preserved.

As the body hit the ground, the surrounding Martial Arts Masters instinctively dodged to the side, avoiding it as if it were venomous.

Before the Emperor spoke, no one dared to touch the corpse.

On the Heavenly Altar, at the reaction speed of the Emperor, it wasn’t until the assassin’s body hit the ground that he realized what had happened.

His expression unchanged, he cast a cold glance, then withdrew his gaze and continued maintaining the Emperor’s Dragon Qi.

This caused many in Zhi Ge Pavilion who wanted to kneel in confessions to forcibly halt their own knees.

The Grand Secretary remained composed, the Military Affairs Grand Marshal stood imposing as a mountain.

Prince Li’s expression was cold and stern, without uttering a word.

Thus, the Heaven-worshipping ceremony continued.

If it were not for the sudden appearance of a half corpse on the ground and the somewhat disrupted formation on the side of Zhi Ge Pavilion, it would seem as if nothing had occurred.

But the state of mind of the civil and military officials was now completely different from before.

Everyone felt an internal surge!

The stratagems of Qing Xu, the tragedies of Ming Province, everyone present being great court ministers, naturally knew of them.

Even without knowing all the details and the damage to the Emperor’s Dragon Qi, but the death of more than nine hundred thousand people and the burning of more than a dozen cities in Ming Province—these facts they knew.

Such a catastrophe was only second to the national war that happened nineteen years prior!

Related news was naturally to be censored, with the court doing everything in its power to minimize the turmoil caused by this disaster.

Today’s Heaven-worshipping ceremony, with its obviously unique specifications, was clearly one of the ’remedial’ measures.

In such a context, on such an important occasion, an assassin suddenly emerged.

An assassin at the Tao Foundation Stage.

Anyone could tell that the assassin had absolutely no chance of successfully killing the Emperor; he couldn’t even get within a hundred steps of the Heavenly Altar.

But he still jumped out and shouted such rebellious and unfilial words.

The purpose of the assassination thus became clear.

He did not aim to strike the Emperor’s dragon body, but aimed at everyone’s heart!

The national war nineteen years ago was obviously a humiliation for the Da Lan Dynasty, inflicting great damage upon it.

But fortunately, there was the pillar of the nation, Grand Secretary Ye Ze’an, to ’Heavenly Repair’ the split, successfully promoting Ming New Reforms, giving the Da Lan Dynasty a breath of ’life’, gradually recuperating the losses.

The recent series of actions by the court further suppressed Taoism, reclaimed the power of various Righteous Courts, drew in Buddhism, and gave the number of Sha Qi a chance to increase further.

As the nation’s power surged day by day, many were already fantasizing about the arrival of a prosperous age.

But the astonishing upheavals in Ming Province almost wiped away all previous efforts overnight!

It was as if the Da Lan Dynasty might once again revert to its former state of decline!

Now, with such a malicious assassination occurring during the Heaven-worshipping ceremony, it was inevitable that people’s hearts would be unsettled.

With trepidation, panic, and anxiety, the civil and military officials waited in the ceremony for over an hour, finally reaching the conclusion of the ceremony.