My God, I am the emperor, the lord of mankind.

Chapter 8: Attacked (Newbies, please collect it)
Zhu Houcong sighed.

There was a very rhythmic knocking on the door.

"His Royal Highness, Your Highness the Crown Prince?"

"come in!"

Zhu Houcong replied.

The visitor was Huang Jin, holding a copper basin in his hand and a towel on his shoulder.

Seeing that Zhu Houcong was still sitting on the spot meditating happily, he breathed a sigh of relief.

He first dipped the white towel in water, then walked to Zhu Houcong's side and carefully wiped the sweat from the prince's cheeks.

"Did anything happen in the house during the three days of seclusion?"

Zhu Houcong asked with his eyes closed.

As Zhu Houcong's personal companion, Huang Jin followed the prince since childhood.

There is nothing wrong with being loyal.

"It's nothing, but the mistress sent someone to ask the prince when he will leave this morning? She has already urged him three times!"

Huang Jin washed the towel again and said.

"..."

Zhu Houcong opened his eyes.

He knew that Mother Jiang was not a rash person.

After repeated urging, some things must have been beyond control.

"Presumably after something happened to the Zhao family, my mother would definitely invite monks and Taoists from nearby to come to the house to exorcise evil spirits and pray for blessings. Is there anything unusual in the house recently?"

After hearing this, Huang Jin thought seriously.

"Master, there are two strange things in saying this. One is that the Taoist priest from Xuantian Temple seemed to have been seriously ill since entering the mansion. Except for necessary fasts, he was locked in the room and could not come out. Only at night were there people from the mansion. Taoist priests wearing Taoist robes from Xuandu Temple were seen moving around the palace. Secondly, a cook in the palace went home to visit relatives this month. She was supposed to come back yesterday morning, but she has not come back until today. Aunt Zhao, who is in charge of the kitchen, is very worried. I’m really annoyed.”

Zhu Houcong listened patiently.

As expected, within these three days, something happened in the palace.

When Zhu Houcong first arrived at the palace, the calamity-resolving method in his body began to operate unconsciously, but he found that the calamity energy in the palace, no, in the entire Anlu County had already gathered visibly to the naked eye.

If you were in the world of cultivating immortals and saw such calamity, even the old monster Jiedan would have to take a detour when he saw it.

But unfortunately...this is the world of the Ming Dynasty.

No matter how hard you adjust your life, it will never exceed a certain limit.

After all, if it was too outrageous, the human beings in this world who did not have a systematic supernatural power would have died long ago, and not even the scum would be left.

This is why Zhu Houcong still dares to stay in Anlu.

"I'll give you three things to do immediately."

Zhu Houcong said, Huang Jin's expression immediately became serious and he listened carefully.

"First, continue to send more manpower and look for people along the cook's way back. If necessary, seek help from the government. If you find anything, notify me immediately."

"Second, tell Luo Qianhu and ask him to find out where the merchants we met in Guihua Square three days ago are now."

"Third, you go find Lu Song and bring some guards. Let's go see what the Taoist priests at Xuandu Temple are doing in the room."

Huang Jin did not dare to neglect and immediately got up and went.

Zhu Houcong checked his strength.

Because it has only been more than half a month since I entered the Qingshan Sect.

The spells that Zhu Houcong knows are just a few spiritual planting spells such as "spiritual rain", "repelling insects" and "earth shaking".

The only thing that can be called combat power is the little lost formation disk that has been activated in his arms.

But this does not mean that Zhu Houcong has no way to deal with this group of Taoist priests from Xuandu Temple who are suspected of having problems.

We came to the Xuanmen wing on the west side where Mother Jiang had invited her to pray.

Zhu Houcong winked.

Huang Jin stepped forward and knocked on the door.

"Who?"

An old voice came from inside.

The sound was like poisonous snake mucus, warm and sticky, making people's hair stand on end just hearing it.

"I heard that everyone has been working hard recently. Your Majesty came here to visit all the Taoist priests. I have given you a reward. Please go out and receive the reward."

Huang Jin said in a deep voice.After hearing Huang Jin's words, the voice inside the door obviously hesitated.

"The disciples are lazy and haven't gotten up yet. I'm afraid they may be neglecting the prince. Please come back, prince. I will take my disciples to apologize to the prince someday."

Cultivators have a keen sense of spirituality. Ever since he entered the courtyard, Zhu Houcong was keenly aware of the disharmony in the surrounding air.

Too moist.

Following the words in the room, a layer of water mist seemed to rise in the air. Zhu Houcong even saw a string of water droplets condensed on the eaves, which condensed into ice before falling.

You know, this is February in Anlu.

When spring turns cold, the sky is dry and everything is dry. Where does so much water vapor come from?

Zhu Houcong already knew what was going on. He nodded slightly and asked Huang Jin to continue the invitation.

He quietly activated the small missing trace array in his arms.

Touching something on his waist again, Zhu Houcong felt a little more confident.

"The Crown Prince wants to meet all the fellow apprentices as soon as he comes out of seclusion. The Crown Prince will leave Lu'an tomorrow and has prepared a banquet to welcome you all. He is sincere and please don't refuse."

The room fell silent.

"It's really inconvenient, please try another day..."

In the past, in order to seek a way to protect himself, Zhu Houcong had taken the name of the master of the Xuandu Temple. It would not be an exaggeration to say that he and everyone were brothers. The relationship was much closer than the others, and they would never neglect Zhu Houcong without any reason.

But now that the other party had shied away several times, Lu Song, the palace commander who was following Zhu Houcong, also noticed something was wrong.

He winked.

The elite soldiers from the nearby guard station beside him quietly drew their swords, raised their spears, and stood ready.

"I would like to ask your forgiveness, Your Majesty. The disciples are tired today and it is really difficult to welcome guests. I would like to ask Your Majesty's forgiveness."

"If that's the case, then I'll start today..."

Zhu Houcong sighed outside the door, as if he was very sorry.

The thing inside the door breathed a sigh of relief.

"Lu Dianzhan! Bump the door!"

Zhu Houcong's tone suddenly changed.

Lu Song understood immediately, and three armored men stepped forward. With just a few breaths, they forcefully opened the wooden door latch.

Everything in the room is revealed to everyone.

There is no expert anywhere, there is only one who looks like a monkey but not a monkey, looks like a fish but not a fish, with mane and scales intertwined all over his body, and he is crawling on the ground with something wet all over his body.

This thing seemed to be extremely afraid of the sun and immediately shrank into the darkness.

All that was left was a dark, wriggling reflection.

"Guanzhu Zhao, Taoist Master Bishui, Taoist Su... this..."

Seeing the string of figures on the beams, Huang Jin, who was following Zhu Houcong, exclaimed in surprise.

Strands of waterweed stretched down from the beams. These Taoist priests from Xuandu Temple were hanged on the beams one by one, with their tongues hanging out.

"Surround! Don't let this barbarian escape!"

Next to Lu Bing, a guard officer with a scar between his eyebrows and a fierce face was obviously very experienced in dealing with these things.

He reacted immediately and ordered immediately.

"The spearmen formed an array to protect the crown prince and fired arrows!"

Facing the darkness in the room, the spearmen and swordsmen quickly blocked the exits, lined up in front, and fired with more than a dozen crossbows behind them.

It completely ruined the plan of the thing in the room who wanted to escape through darkness.

As the arrows burst out, piercing through flesh and blood, a terrifying scream of pain could be heard in the room.

Knowing that he couldn't hide, his pair of small apricot-yellow eyes stared at Zhu Houcong in the crowd.

This beast is smart!You also know that to capture the thief, capture the king first!
No wonder, the human voice just now was all pretended. How could it be done without wisdom.

Thinking of this, Lu Song couldn't help but feel regretful.

That thing was so fast that I tried to rescue but it was too late.

Looking at the abominable monster that rushed towards him, Zhu Houcong seemed to be frightened and stayed where he was, motionless.

He had seen the vicious light flashing in the eyes of the thing that looked like a fish or a monkey.

As long as he seizes this prince, he will still have a chance...

what else! ! !
(End of this chapter)