"Fourth Highness, there will be a long time to come, please do not be impulsive!"
Qin Yu's face was composed, he hurriedly pressed down on Yan Chen who was about to make a move, his voice was low, "It's important to save your life first, let's kill out together!"
Upon hearing this, a trace of calmness returned to Yan Chen's angry eyes.
Indeed, according to Yan Hongyi's now exposed cruel disposition, once he inherited the throne, he would definitely not spare everyone on their side.
Therefore, the only way to have a glimmer of life and wait for the chance to take revenge was to kill out!
"You group of rebels, who shot arrows to attack Father before, now I have enough confidence to suspect that Father's death is related to you!"
Yan Hongyi's eyes narrowed slightly as he stared at Yan Chen, Qin Xiong, Qin Yu, and Lin Hao, coldly saying, "Today, none of you can escape!"
As the voice fell, those rebels instantly stirred, resuming their charging formation, murderous!
Almost at the same time, the imperial forest army on Lin Hao's and their side, as well as the Zhenbian army, were all quickly ready to meet the battle.
In a blink of an eye, a tense and murderous aura enveloped the entire center square!
A life and death battle was about to erupt once again!
Seeing this, Lin Hao's face surged with a few moments of gravity.
The fire-scaled tiger, kungfu fly, tarantula, and the four treasures, all of them surrounded over at this time, guarding beside Lin Hao, similarly poised for battle.
"Wait!"
However, right at this moment, Dark Eagle suddenly drank coldly.
With the enhancement of his spiritual power, his voice, carried across the entire field.
"I've heard that the Underworld Pavilion has three group leaders, namely Dark Eagle, Dragon Nine, and Feng Ming."
Yan Hongyi lifted his gaze to look at Dark Eagle and the others on the high platform, and said indifferently, "Since the creation of the Underworld Pavilion, it is the one that has only been loyal to successive generations of Yan Kings."
"Now the next successor of the new Yan King, your Underworld Pavilion will take orders from me." "So now, I order you to lead all members of the Underground Pavilion to kill all the rebels!"
Yan Hongyi had clearly substituted himself as the new Yan King and said in a commanding tone.
However, the Dark Eagle's next reply caused Yan Hongyi's body to go cold, as if he was in an ice cellar.
"I apologize, His Majesty's testamentary successor to the throne is not you."
Dark Eagle's narrow eyes, indifferently glanced at Yan Hongyi, seemingly with a hint of playfulness.
Immediately, his gaze turned and landed on Fourth Prince Yan Chen, "Rather, Fourth Highness, Yan Chen."
As soon as these words came out, Yan Hongyi immediately froze!
The others, too, all had stunned faces!
"What? I didn't hear it wrong, did I?"
"The new Yan King's successor is actually the Fourth Highness!"
"Truly the heavens have eyes! Your Majesty is wise!!!"
For a while, surprised voices resounded on the high platform, each one cheering with tears in their eyes.
Undoubtedly, having witnessed the Third Prince's viciousness today, the king in their hearts was clearly more inclined towards the homely and benevolent Fourth Prince.
After all, if one worked under that kind of insidious and ruthless Yan King, I'm afraid that one would have to be on edge every day, not knowing when one's head would fall off.
"Impossible!"
"Ever since the death of the Crown Prince, Father has never made a will for the throne in public!!!"
Yan Hongyi was shocked and furious, his eyes staring grimly at Dark Eagle as he angrily rebuked, "You have no proof and no evidence, relying only on verbal words, it's completely a staged falsehood!"
After saying that, Yan Hongyi's body steeply erupted with rich spiritual power fluctuation, the black gas that lingered around his body was filled with monstrous killing intent!
This risky move was his final ploy to salvage the situation.
Therefore, he would never allow any changes!
Dark Eagle's face was indifferent, and he said in a cold voice: "You also know that after the sudden and violent death of the Crown Prince five years ago, how could His Majesty publicly re-establish the Crown Prince again."
"Therefore, in order to safeguard the Fourth Highness's safety, he only willed the throne to our Underground Pavilion."
As he spoke, Dark Eagle's right hand touched his storage ring and took out a picture of the holy will, which was golden in color.
"Fake, it must be fake!"
Upon seeing that holy will, Yan Hongyi's disposition finally changed.
"I will never believe it! This must be a fake!!!"
He could no longer maintain his previous calmness and hissed and shouted as if he were mad.
Due to his emotions being too intense, the hair band on his head then fell off, and his long hair was spread out, as if he was a defeated general who had lost his power, and he looked rather disheveled!
"This is Old Majesty's own handwritten oracle, if you don't believe it, you can have it verified on the spot."
Dark Eagle's face was indifferent as he handed over the imperial decree.
An old court scholar immediately walked up tremblingly and spread it out to read it carefully.
"Great Yan Dynasty, nine hundred and fifty-seventh year of the Gregorian calendar, March 16th."
"In order to ensure that the royal family flourishes, I, as the forty-fifth generation Yan King, confer the title of fourth son, Yan Chen."
"This will of the Crown Prince will be kept by the Underground Pavilion on my behalf, and will be announced to the world when I pass away."
"Chin this!"
With the content of the will, it was read aloud in the mouth of that old court scholar.
"This imperial decree is indeed an oracle in His Majesty's own handwriting, and it also has His Majesty's seal on it, verifying that it is true."
And then, a few more court scholars came up to observe, and then together they announced the result.
"Respectfully following His Majesty's will."
All of a sudden, all the court officials and generals, as well as soldiers present, almost all knelt on the ground and said in respectful unison.
Seeing this scene, Lin Hao's face moved slightly.
It seemed that that old man, Yan Wang, wasn't stupid, and had actually arranged everything long ago.
Although in the end, they were still hand-to-hand, but at least, the safety of the Crown Prince was preserved.
"Father Emperor he ..."
Yan Chen's eyes reddened and gradually became moist.
It turned out that as early as three years ago, Father Emperor had already chosen himself as the next Yan King's successor.
"Impossible, how is it possible!!!"
Yan Hongyi laughed maniacally, and his eyes were gradually covered in tears.
He tilted his head up and looked at the bright sky as two lines of hot tears slid down from the corners of his eyes.
It was unthinkable that in the end, even after his father had made his will, he had never taken him as a candidate for the Crown Prince.
Then, what was the point of his carefully planned strategy over the past few years?
All of it, all of it had turned into nothing.
Hahaha ...
Yan Hongyi laughed up to the sky.
This kind of ending undoubtedly caused him to be greatly stimulated, making it difficult to accept all of a sudden.
"Yan Hongyi, now that you've lost your power, don't think of usurping power again!"
Qin Xiong's face was stalwart, his gaze burning as he stared at Yan Hongyi, his voice stern and deep.
"That's right!"
Yan Chen also spoke out at this time.
He wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes, and swept his gaze coldly towards those rebels as he sternly said, "Now, in my capacity as the new Yan King's heir, if you surrender, you will not be killed!"
Hearing this, those rebels immediately looked hesitant.
"Many thanks, Fourth Highness, for not killing!"
Seeing that the momentum was gone, Captain Wang took the lead and stood out, kneeling and saluting as if he was greatly pardoned.
Someone took the lead, and in a moment, the other rebel generals, all followed suit, and almost all of them surrendered.