Chapter 558: Chapter 180: Chaos in the Imperial City! Zhenhai King! Atrocities of the Blood Gu Sect! (10,000-word mega Chapter, please subscribe)_4
——I don’t know!
"...sigh."
The Crown Prince of Great Zhou didn’t find this very strange. He let out a slight sigh and shook his head helplessly, "Indeed, even the Destiny Coffin has its limits. If it could comprehend everything in the world without any cost, it would be too outrageous."
He could tell that the Destiny Coffin had reached its limit.
At least for now, not a single drop could be squeezed from the Destiny Coffin.
...
The old Emperor passed away.
The Imperial Palace caught fire.
The Imperial Mausoleum caught fire.
All of these three events occurred on the same day, leaving everyone in the Imperial City dumbfounded. Even the common folks could sense that a storm was brewing.
However, the Crown Prince of Great Zhou did not let the news of the Zhenhai King being suspected of rebellion again spread.
Because such news, once spread, would cause panic that was no joking matter.
The people of the Imperial City only knew that the Emperor had passed, the Imperial Palace was on fire, and the Imperial Mausoleum was also ablaze.
At this moment.
It was already the next day.
All the temples and Taoist temples in the Imperial City rang with the lingering sound of bells. One solemn and mournful bell tone after another, which had been sounding from yesterday until this morning.
With the faint sound of the bells in the background, a commoner of the Imperial City quietly asked the person next to him, "Isn’t your brother serving in the Imperial Palace? Have you received any news from inside the palace?"
The person nearby rolled his eyes and complained, "I can’t even see my brother’s face. With such a big incident, how could he possibly come out?"
"I heard that the Imperial Palace caught fire yesterday, and the flames reached the sky! You think, the Emperor dying in the same day as the fire, could it be a sign from the heavens?"
"Who knows! I just hope there won’t be any major chaos inside the Imperial City."
"The Emperor, he lived to a ripe old age, right? I heard he lived for many centuries. That’s what you get for cultivating the Tao. People like us might only live to forty or fifty years before passing away."
"I heard it wasn’t just the Imperial Palace that caught fire. Even the Imperial Mausoleum that the Emperor built during his lifetime also burned! It’s a pity that it’s now guarded by heavy troops, and no one can go there to see."
"Both places catching fire is indeed unusual. Do you think it’s possible that...?"
"Shh! Are you trying to get yourself killed?"
"..."
Within the Imperial City, from the high-ranking officials to the common people, all were discussing these events.
They were pondering what impact the occurrence of these events would have on their Great Zhou Dynasty, and what effect it would have on them.
As opposed to ordinary citizens, some Great Clans and high-ranking officials within the Imperial City had access to far more detailed information.
After all, these Great Clans had either been operating in the Imperial City for hundreds of years or even a thousand years.
Some Great Clans were even more outrageous, having existed in the Imperial City since the previous dynasty.
For those deeply rooted in the Imperial City, getting hold of some more detailed news...
Was quite easy.
"The fire in the Imperial Palace was arson." A white-haired elder was playing with a string of prayer beads as he sat on a dark wooden chair and spoke with his eyes closed, "The old man heard that a few Sect Disciples of the Blood Gu Sect took the opportunity to infiltrate the Imperial Palace."
In front of the elder sat a middle-aged man who, after sipping his tea, frowned and said, "Even with the Emperor’s passing and chaos in the Imperial Palace, it would be difficult for the Blood Gu Sect’s people to sneak in, right?"
"Our family has received some information..." Suddenly, someone next to him spoke up.
Noticing everyone was focusing their attention on him,
He continued, "It is said that some people colluded with the Sect Disciples of the Blood Gu Sect from both inside and outside. After the Blood Gu Sect’s members were let into the Imperial Palace, they set the place on fire and then all used a secret technique to commit suicide, leaving almost no traces."
"But, every secret has a flaw. One of the Sect Disciples of the Blood Gu Sect didn’t have the chance to use the secret technique to kill himself and was caught alive. Right now, he is probably being severely tortured by the Imperial Inquisition."
"Cough! Cough, cough, cough!" Among them, a rather thin person suddenly coughed several times.
He waved his hands repeatedly: "It’s nothing, nothing... just a bit shocked that people from the Blood Gu Sect could actually infiltrate the Imperial Palace."
"Indeed!" said the elder with his eyes closed, slowly opening them, "And the two fires in the Imperial Palace and the Imperial Mausoleum made me think of the time when the Emperor had just ascended to the throne."
As the white-haired elder’s words fell, everyone in the room fell silent.
Among those present, only a few had experienced those events first-hand.
The rest might not have lived through them, but they had heard about them when they were young from the elders in their families.
It would be a chaos that swept through the entire dynasty. Without a decade or eight years, it would probably be impossible to suppress. And the calamity would not only affect the common people, but even some of the Great Clans within the dynasty could be implicated.
"It shouldn’t come to that..." someone spoke uncertainly, "Back then it was because the Zhenhai King was so ambitious, but who nowadays has the same kind of ambition as the Zhenhai King back in the day?"
