Chapter 188 Shock
At this time in the Xingluo Palace, Xu Jiawei, the Xingluo Emperor, was discussing state affairs with his ministers, but at this time a eunuch in the palace rushed in without regard for etiquette.

"Your Majesty, there is a letter from His Highness Xu Yun." The eunuch reported loudly.

"Someone, kick this guy out. He doesn't even know the etiquette of respect and hierarchy. Can't he see that I am discussing state affairs with the ministers?" Xu Jiawei did not rush to open the letter sent by Xu Yun, but scolded angrily.

In fact, according to normal regulations, such a letter should not be delivered to Xu Jiawei, at least it should not be delivered in this way.

But this letter was different.

"Your Majesty, this is what His Highness Xu Yun requested to be delivered to Your Majesty as soon as possible." The minister said tremblingly.

"Huh?" The anger on Xu Jiawei's face disappeared instantly. He then snatched the letter from the man's hand and opened it to check.

When Xu Jiawei saw the contents of the letter, he was shocked.

His face was gloomy and uncertain, and then he waved his hand and asked all the ministers to leave, leaving him alone in the palace.

After a while, when Xu Jiawei was still immersed in the contents of the letter, Xu Jiujiu appeared in the palace.

As the eldest princess whose power in the current royal family is second only to Xu Jiawei, Xu Jiujiu has great power in the entire country.

"Royal brother, I heard that kid Xu Yun sent you an urgent letter." Xu Jiujiu asked straight to the point.

Xu Jiawei immediately handed the letter in his hand to Xu Jiujiu.

After all, Xu Jiujiu is his biological sister and the person he trusts the most, so even in secret documents, Xu Jiawei generally would not hide them from Xu Jiujiu.

Xu Jiujiu looked at the expression on Xu Jiawei's face and immediately took the letter.

And when Xu Jiujiu finished reading the contents of the letter, the same expression appeared on his face.

"How is this possible?" Xu Jiujiu said in surprise.

"What's impossible about this? Now we finally know what happened that day." said Xu Jiawei.

“No one thought that this matter was actually related to Huo Yuhao.”

"How many things is Huo Yuhao hiding from us?"

“Besides, it is still unclear whether Huo Yuhao can still be considered as one of ours. He is now the successor of the Body Sect and holds high power. He has a promising future and can live a peaceful life in the Body Sect. He does not need to fulfill the agreement he made with us.”

"Hasn't the agreement he made with us been completed yet?" 199 asked.

"Finished, he didn't even start." When Xu Jiawei said this, he immediately became angry.

"You should know that this is not the result I want. I kept him in the first place because I wanted to use him to bring the Dai family down from this point on. At the same time, I wanted to use him to strike at the old aristocratic forces in the empire, so that soul mentors could be popularized more quickly in the Xingluo Empire."

"But what about now? He did help everyone get rid of those two people. But he also helped Dai Luoli to rise up. Dai Luoli obeyed him and controlled the price, but he was not involved in any cause and effect."

"As for striking down the old nobles in the country, don't even mention it. How could he have done even one point?"

"Team leader, what you said is a bit unreasonable. No matter how strong Huo Yuhao is, he is just a teenager now. How can you expect him to do these things?" Xu Jiujiu retorted.

Xu Jiujiu actually knew why Xu Jiawei was so angry.

Because with the turbulent situation in the Sun-Moon Empire, Xu Jiawei, as the emperor of the Star Luo Empire, has seen more clearly the gap between the two countries.

Before this, although Xu Jiawei knew that there was a gap between the two countries, due to the gap between the two countries, the Sun Star Luo Empire's observation of the Sun Moon Empire was ultimately only superficial.

But as civil strife arose in the Sun-Moon Empire, various troubles continued to emerge, and the strength of the Sun-Moon Empire was demonstrated time and time again in quelling the troubles.

It was not until this time that Xu Jiawei realized how big the gap was between the Xing Luo Empire and the Sun Moon Empire.

At the same time, the Emperor of the Xingluo Empire has completely lost the ability to govern the country, and all state affairs are entrusted to the current Crown Prince Xu Tianran.

Xu Tianran is an extremely ambitious man. During the years he has been in power, he has been actively preparing for war.

Seeing this situation, how could Xu Jiawei not be anxious.

If they don't act quickly, the Xing Luo Empire might really be defeated by the Yen Empire in the future.

It would be fine if we were defeated by other empires, after all, the two sides have reached a tacit understanding over the years.

But the Sun-Moon Empire is indeed an absolute foreign enemy to them.

If they fell into the hands of the Sun-Moon Empire, their royal family would probably have to become a hidden sect again.

It can even be said that becoming a hidden sect is actually the best outcome.

In the most unfortunate case scenario, not a single person in their royal family might survive.

Under the pressure of this situation, how could Xu Jiawei not be nervous and anxious?

But the internal environment of the Xingluo Empire is still not very good.

Although the Duchess is dead, Dai Hao is still alive.

He is still the pillar of support for all the old nobles in the country.

These old nobles are generally from traditional soul master families, and their generations are all powerful soul masters.

They don't want to see soul masters rise in the Star Luo Empire.

With the rise of a new generation of soul masters, the interests of related industries will also change accordingly. Some of these traditional soul master families will definitely benefit, while others will never recover.

The leaders of these soul master families are unwilling to take this risk. They would rather maintain the status quo and maintain their status.

What if the Sun-Moon Empire attacks?
There are actually different opinions within the Xing Luo Empire as to whether the Sun Moon Empire will attack.

Some people think that even though the current Sun-Moon Empire is stronger than the Star Luo Empire, it is not much stronger. At worst, they can just go to the battlefield when the time comes, right?
Some people also thought that even if the Sun-Moon Empire attacked, what would happen? These nobles had lived in the local area for many years, and their prestige could not be determined by an outsider.

Even if a new emperor was appointed, these emperors would still need these nobles to serve the royal family and pacify the local areas.

As the saying goes, emperors come and go, but nobles remain.

But the most sober people saw the biggest difference of the Sun and Moon Empire.

Over the years, the Sun-Moon Empire has been committed to promoting soul guides to ordinary people, so that ordinary people can also use soul guides.

The situation within the Sun-Moon Empire is very different from that of the Star Luo Empire.

If the Sun-Moon Empire really came to power, these beneficiaries of the old era would definitely be overthrown.

If you want to maintain the current resurrection, you must keep the same pace as the royal family and ensure that the Star Luo Empire continues to grow stronger.

It was precisely because of this small number of people who defected to the royal family that the royal family was able to slightly mobilize some of the power of the empire, allowing the soul guide forces to slightly raise their heads in the country.

“Brother, if you have an assistant at this time, you cannot push him away. Huo Yuhao is an absolute genius, and now that he is the young master of the main body, we should try to win him over.” Xu Jiujiu consoled.

"And Huo Yuhao is actually related to those two. Maybe we can use Huo Yuhao as a bridge to communicate with them."

"We can even discuss cooperation with Di Tian."

"To discuss cooperation with soul beasts? How is this possible?"

"What's impossible about this? Even if the soul beasts are our super enemy, doesn't that mean the Sun and Moon Empire is also our super enemy? Since both sides are enemies, we have to support one faction and fight the other."

"Although these soul beasts are fierce beasts, their aggressiveness is not as strong as those of the Sun and Moon Empire. As long as you don't deliberately provoke them, they generally stay in the Xing Luo Empire and don't go out."

"So for the Sun-Moon Empire, winning over soul beasts to fight against the Sun-Moon Empire together might be a way out."

After listening to Xu Jiujiu's words, Xu Jiawei's face became gloomy.

As a qualified emperor, he could naturally hear that Xu Jiujiu's idea was actually feasible.

At least in terms of aggressiveness, soul beasts are much less aggressive than the Sun-Moon Empire. If we can use the power of soul beasts to pacify the Sun-Moon Empire, this may not be a bad idea.

"But once these soul beasts have eaten humans, will they remain quiet? They might even take this opportunity to attack us humans." Xu Jiawei still said with some distress.

"How can there be only advantages and no disadvantages in everything? As long as we are vigilant about this matter, it may not be a bad idea."

Xu Jiujiu and Xu Jiawei looked at each other in the palace, both still thinking about what they had said before.

What they didn't know was that on the other side of the continent, in the imperial palace of the Sun and Moon Empire.

At this time, Crown Prince Xu Tianran was also talking to someone.

"The Hall Master is finally back. If he hadn't come back, I would have thought he had really had an accident."

At this time, the person who was talking to Prince Xu Tianran was the long-missing head of Mingde Hall, Jing Hongchen.

Since that day, Jing Hongchen disappeared completely and did not reappear in the Sun and Moon Empire until a long time later.

"Thank you for your concern, Your Highness. I am fine."

"Master, do you know who attacked you? I will definitely avenge you." Regardless of whether she likes Jing or not, Xu Tianran has to express this meaning at this moment.

"It's just that I have been unconscious for such a long time after being attacked by that person, but I still haven't found out the identity of those people." Jing Hongchen said ashamedly.

"Ignore it, ignore it. Even a hall master with such strength could be ambushed. It shows that those thieves must be very powerful. Maybe it was done by those shameless people from the Xing Luo Empire." After hearing Jing Hongchen's answer, a trace of ruthlessness flashed across Xu Tianran's face.

"I heard that the hall master's granddaughter is trapped in her original body. Does she need the royal family to rescue her for you?" Xu Tianran asked with concern.

"Since she is my granddaughter, I will naturally go and save her. There is no need to bother the prince with such a small matter."

Then Jing Hongchen chatted with the prince for a few more words and then said goodbye.

After Jing Hongchen left, Prince Xu Tianran looked at Jing Hongchen's back and angrily threw the documents in his hand.

"This old fox is really cunning. It seems that it is impossible to do anything to her."

Xu Tianran did want to kill Jing Hongchen and put his own people in power, so that it would be easier to control a huge force like Mingdetang.

But before he could do that, he was attacked all over.

After the attack on Jin Hongchen, almost all the ministers and nobles in the country cast suspicious eyes on him, the prince.

It can be seen how unsuccessful Xu Tianran was as the crown prince.

But this time Xu Tianran really didn't want to do it.

Xu Tianran even suspected that this incident did not actually happen, but was planned by Jing Hongchen.

As long as someone attacks Jing Hongchen, the ministers in the court will cast their suspicious eyes on Xu Tianran. In this case, Xu Tianran must not do anything against Jing Hongchen.

Otherwise, the blame would really be placed on Xu Tianran's head.

Nothing bad can be done to Jing Hongchen, which means that Jing Hongchen must still serve as the head of Mingde Hall.

At the same time, Jing Hongchen left his granddaughter in the Body Sect. Perhaps he wanted to split the bets, with one grandson staying in the Sun and Moon Empire and one granddaughter staying there. In this way, no matter which side joined his Red God Family, there would be no problem.

His Hongchen family will always be the winner no matter how the choice is made.

By fighting, he not only preserved his current power, but also preserved the power of the Hongchen family in the future. This method can be said to be very powerful.

In fact, it was just as Xu Tianran imagined.

There was no so-called assassination at all.

Jing Hongchen is a level 90 soul engineer in his 9s. With such strength, if someone wants to beat him into that state, they need to go out and show how powerful he is.

At that time, there were probably only a few forces in the world that had such strength.

They can all be counted.

This is also the reason why everyone's attention is on Xu Tianran.

In fact, Xu Tianyue actually did such a thing.

Otherwise, no one would suspect Xu Tianran.

Because the ultimate beneficiary of this incident is Xu Tianran himself.

Those so-called people who came to assassinate were just hired by Jing Hongchen to act.

After Meng Hongchen left here and went to the main branch of the sect, Jing Hongchen immediately arranged the scene and followed those people away from there. He hid in one place for a while, and after making up a complete excuse, Jing Hongchen calculated the time and returned to the Sun and Moon Empire.

The timing must be accurate. If it is too early, people will say that the injury is not serious and the desired effect cannot be achieved. If it is too late, Xu Tianran may take advantage of this opportunity to directly seize Jing Hongchen's position as the hall master.

Jing Hongchen stood in the familiar room of Mingde Hall, looking at the scene outside, and couldn't help but sigh.

The troubled times are coming, who can stay out of it?

Isn't this blind loyalty? But for the sake of his family and to protect himself, he had to do this.

(End of this chapter)