With the emperor's order, all the people were shuddering, but Gu Mang's mind was damaged. He didn't know what the specific situation was. But he saw the situation and understood that it should be related to Mo Xi.
Instinctively, he was afraid of Mo Xi's injury, but he didn't know what to do. Acting on instinct, not knowing where the danger was from, he jumped in front of Mo Xi to block it.
Except for Gu Mang, all the others were scattered on the edge, struggling to protect themselves. And no wonder they were. Everyone knew how terrible Mo Xi's power was. Once controlled by the emperor, the consequences would be unimaginable. The didn't have a deep affection for Mo Xi. How could they do such a useless act and rush up to protect him?
Mo Xi did not think that he had already been planted with the red puppet by the emperor. He pushed Gu Mang away while his brain was humming. Gu Mang only opened his blue eyes and refused to move. "Murong Lian!" he said in a sharp voice, "take him away!"
"No way."
Gu Mang broke free from Murong Lian's hand. "I'll protect you."
"..."
Mo Xi eyes became wet and no longer looked at him, but at Murong Lian. He said, Take him away."
The emperor just sneered at the scene. The magic fire of his fingertips was burning to boiling heat. He recited the mantra silently, and then he closed his fingers at last——
Mo Xi pushed away Gu Mang. "Go!"
In the twinkling of an eye, reflected the face of the emperor.
"Into the heart."
The light suddenly splashed and scattered as numerous light spots flew in the air, all of them rushing to the chest of Mo Xi. Gu Mang was extremely anxious.
He was clumsy enough to drive at him like an insect, but how could it be useful? The light spots passed through Gu Mang's palm and gathers towards Mo Xi's direction.
Gu Mang almost cried, "Mo Xi..."
Murong Lian saw that the situation was getting worse and worse. He was afraid that the puppet pills planted in Mo Xi's body would break out soon. He tightly grasped Gu Mang's sleeve and pulled him away. He said in a sharp voice: "It's useless for you to do anything! Puppet pill is a kind of medicine which is made of eight-petaled bitter flowers of eternal regret. No one can get rid of it unless they give the power of their spiritual core and take several hours! Let's go!"
Murong Chen eyebrows and eyes were full of ridicule. He said lightly, "You want to go, but it's already too late."
All the tiny spots of light, which were like fire seeds, gathered into Mo Xi's body. Mo Xi gnashed his teeth. Finally, he looked at Gu Mang, closed his eyes, and whispered to Tuntian, "Kill the Lord!"
Murong Chen was shocked at the news! He looked up at him. He knew that Mo Xi was making an order to Tuntian. Once he lost his mind, he asked Tuntian to kill the host immediately!
"Fireball..."
Mo Xi raised his eyes to Murong Lian and said, "Take Gu Mang away."
At the same time, Murong Chen pointed his fingertip and said, "Listen to the order!"
A gorgeous extreme light suddenly burst to the extreme. Tuntian swayed restlessly in the night sky, as if read to dive down at any time. It was impossible to open their eyes under the rolling spiritual energy, and the light was stronger and stronger.
Gu Mang looked at Mo Xi under the beam of light. Looked at the look on his pale face, he almost lost control. "Mo Xi!"
"Don't come here!"
But in this struggle, suddenly that group of white light seemed to be out of control. It suddenly scattered and turned into a little light, floating in the air. Murong Chen suddenly opened his eyes.
The others were also shocked. "How, what's going on..."
The white light, which was supposed to sweep away quench Mo Xi's mind, was flying like a firefly. At the end of the day…
Little by little, it went out.
In Jinluan Hall, everyone was quiet. The lights were flickering. Mo Xi raised his eyes again without knowing why and stroked his hands on his chest. He didn't lose his mind as expected and become a puppet of Murong Chen?
Was it that the pill made by Murong Chen in his early years failed to work?
Or…
Murong Chen suddenly stood up, lifting the cup at the side of the table. His calm face changed, and his eyes were full of shock, anger, and disbelief. His silver teeth were broken, and his voice seemed to be torn into pieces from between his teeth. He was shocked to ashes. "how can it be? These years - it's obvious that you took it. I saw it with my own eyes - it's impossible… It's impossible!"
In the thunderous rage, they heard a sigh.
However, the sigh was not sent by any one in the hall. When people looked for it, they could see that there was a man standing outside the ruined red lacquer gate.
She wore a thin, black shawl with gold edges, and her long, dark hair was tied in a bun at the back of her head. It was not decorated with lead, but with a golden hairpin.
Murong Chen narrowed his eyes in disbelief. "It's… You?"
The one who came here was not someone else. She was one of the three virtues who respect Chonghua and was also the princess of Chonghua, Murong Mengze.
A burst of anger surged all over his body. Murong Chen suddenly realized that he was trembling with anger, and his eyes were about to crack. His eyes were white and bloody like spider silk. He snapped, "How dare you - you betray me!" Mengze's face was clear and widowed. They couldn't see whether it was pity or sadness. She shook her head. "You did too much, Wang Xiong."
She walked in, frowning at Murong Chen. "I advised you to stop. It's you who won't listen - or even make such a decision. Murong Chen, you are not the only one who owns Chonghua. Why are you still awake at this moment?"
She walked to Murong Lian and stood still.
This obviously meant that Mengze chose to stand on the side of Murong Lian in this fight, rather than her other brother Murong Chen. Murong Chen stared at them, and the divination saying that "brothers and sisters will fight against each other" was echoing more and more in his ears. Murong Lian… Murong Lian… At first he pretended to be a dandy, then he pretended to be depraved. He really despised his collateral brother!
Murong Lian's two eyes swept over Mengze. "You aren't at Tangquan palace? I didn't think you could make it back."
Mengze smiled, but did not speak.
Seeing Mengze and Murong Lian having this natural, familiar dialogue made Murong Chen felt a chill, and became angry as a flame. He suddenly realized something and narrowed his eyes dangerously. "Murong Mengze… How long have you helped him secretly?"
Mengze did not answer. Murong Lian said lazily, "It is not too long. She did not intend to face me. You are the emperor of Chonghua. She is a clever and sensible child. She has been listening to your orders and spying on me secretly. Later, you found out that I was going to tell Gu Mang some secrets. You were worried, so you sent someone to assassinate me on the beach. This was really the most failed move you took."
"Do you think Mengze would like to see you kill me? She would only think it was her own report. So after that, the patrolling cultivator rescued me. You asked the elder of Shennongtai to drag me to death with medicine, but she had been secretly changing the drugs for me to make me live."
Murong Lian said with a faint smile, "Otherwise, I might have been as you wish. I would have died. I wouldn't be standing here and saying these words to you today!"
"... Ok… Ok!"
Murong Chen's eyes were wandering between the two. He gnashed his teeth for a long time. "Murong Mengze, I believed you! You white pet! In the end, you helped him!?"
"I never wanted to help anyone," Murong Mengze said. "I only do things that are right for me and for Chonghua"
Murong Chen raised his head and gave a sneer. "Are you worthy to decide what's right for Chonghua? Murong Mengze, you help the other side deal with your brother. Are you worthy? You eat your salary, you are respected, but you are forced to pay attention to the Lord of the palace by outsiders. Do you deserve to respect for Chonghua?"
"Big joke!" he said.
Mengze said calmly, "Chen Ge, if you were not too resolute, how could I be like this? Since your accession to the throne, you have always wanted to get rid of dissidents and cowards. But how could it be? As long as it is a life, even if it is livestock, it will have its own selfish desires and thousands of thoughts..."
Murong Chen said angrily, "But that's wrong!"
"I didn't say that was right." Mengze looked at him calmly. "Weakness, struggle, greed, jealousy, how could these be right? But you and I can never change other people's thoughts. We can never eliminate human nature. Instead of thinking about how to make those selfish ministers obedient to you, you should think about how to be a good emperor. Lead them to a brighter road instead of expecting everyone to become puppets and clay statues. 'If you don't listen to the emperor, you will be fed with a pill.' Chen Ge, Lian Ge once said to me that there was nothing wrong. When there is only one voice left in Chonghua, that will be the end of the kingdom."
"Once upon a time?" Murong Chen said with a sneer. "So you are really twofaced and three-faced. On the one hand, you are working for me, and on the other hand, you are scheming with Murong Lian… Murong Mengze, as one of the three virtues of Chonghua, are you so worthy in your heart?"
Mengze was silent for a while. She seemed to be tired of arguing and would not like to study this show with Murong Chen. However, forced by Murong Chen's aggressiveness, she finally raised her eyes and said, "As a person who values Chonghua, I can't watch you make such mistakes again and again. I can't bear to let you use and hurt your brothers and sisters, your loyal officials and generals again and again…"
"Many years ago, you threw the puppet pill into Mo Ge's cup, making him a killing weapon waiting for you to wake him up at any time. Later, you designed to let Gu Mang go on the road of treason and become your spy. You found a high-sounding reason that he couldn't refuse, and let him have no choice but to search for information for you and pave the way for you."
Murong Mengze's voice was quiet, but everyone in the golden hall was listening.
When someone heard this, he could not help but say, "Gu mang is a spy? He, is he not a traitor..."
Murong Mengze said, "He is not."
"This..."
"The battle of Fengming mountain was just for the sake of selecting a scout who could endure humiliation. In order to get the spy, the emperor temporarily controlled Lu Zhanxing with a secret method from Jiang yexue, and made him a murderer. He was a big mistake before the battle."
"Lu Zhanxing was controlled at that time?"
"Not bad," Murong Mengze continued, "controlled by the incomplete refining Zhenlong chess pieces. After Lu Zhanxing's unjust imprisonment, Gu Mang was forced into a desperate situation. At this moment, the emperor gave him a secret order to go to Liaoguo to feign surrender and become an ambush spy in Liaoguo, constantly providing Chonghua with espionage and demonic cultivation."
This was really astonishing. If anyone said this to the nobles, he would be ridiculed as a madman. However, the Jinluan palace had just experienced a disaster. There were dead and wounded, and the demon beast Jingchen was still circling and roaring in the sky. Because of the protection of the whale Tuntian, it did not dare to step forward for the moment.
So at this time, although the content of Mengze was fantastic, they did not believe it.
Murong Chen was on the throne. He was not as powerful as all present.
Jingchen was also isolated from the hall. He could not stop Mengze's words for the time. He could only stare at her with pity. He seemed to be thinking about how to make her words vulnerable and how to tear her into pieces to make debris.
He used to trust her… The only one that he thought he could rest assured of, his sister…
Finally, he did not expect that it would be her who collected all his crimes and disclosed them to the public in the end!!!
Murong Chen couldn't help laughing.
Some people raised their voice and said, "But since this is the case, Gu Mang is also helping the tyrants! He helped the emperor… What's the benefit of helping Murong Chen search for the forbidden demonic techniques? Was it possible for him to come back for promotion and wealth, or for his numerous gold and silver treasures?"
Mo Xi was infuriated and said in a sharp voice, "He did it for 70,000 steles and a peaceful world. What kind of promotion and wealth, gold and silver treasures? Gu Mang has been back for so long. Don't you know what kind of life he has been living? "
"..."
Mengze saw Mo Xi's anger, raised his hand to stop him, gently shook her head, and said, "When the emperor advised Gu Mang into the fire, he did not tell Gu Mang his real purpose. After Gu Mang took the order, he thought that it was the emperor who was determined to deal with the state of Liaoguo, to know himself and the enemy, and to study the way to solve the problem. Therefore, he has been transmitting information for Chonghua. Naturally, he knew that he was being used, but he didn't think that he was selfish…"
The man said, "So Gu Mang doesn't know that Murong Chen is using demonic magic for his own use, even controlling the hearts of the officials with the demonic curse?"
"Yes. He didn't know…"
However, at this time, Murong Lian suddenly spoke.
"No, you are wrong in this part. The emperor wanting to harm his subjects with demonic techniques… Gu Mang didn't know about it at the beginning, but later, he was fully aware of it."
This speech made Mo Xi's long eyebrow frown. "How is that possible? If he had known, he would have informed Chonghua."
Murong Lian shook his head. "He couldn't report. Reporting wouldn't stop anything. Instead, it would have made the emperor trust him in vain. But he did know about it very early."
After a pause, he said to Mo Xi slowly in the eyes of all the people who were shocked. "Fireball, he had found out the real ambition of our emperor before Gu Mang assassinated you at the Dongting water battle. The beast of the empire was not a fool who had been used all that time."