The Si family was located, not in the Northern Zhou capital city, Divine Capital City, but in the Fanshu Mansion, which was not far from Divine Capital City.
After all, back then, the Si family was one of the nine great families in the world, and even though it has fallen into decline now, the imperial family of the Northern Zhou did not dare to let the Si family stray too far away.
On the 23rd of April, the official road to Fanshu’s residence was lined with drums and gongs, and it looked like someone big was travelling.
Feng Chaonan had ordered five hundred Shen Du city guards to accompany him, filling the entire official road to the brim, and everyone along the way had to make way for Feng Chaonan, the imperial son of Northern Saturday.
“Your Highness, are we not being a bit too ostentatious in this way?” In a spacious carriage in the middle of Feng Chaonan’s luxurious procession, Eunuch Wei said with some uncertainty.
It was not like he was going to visit his uncle’s house, this was clearly a demonstration.
Eunuch Wei was once a slave of the Si family, and only purified his body after accompanying his wife to the palace. Although he now served his wife and son, he had a great deal of affection for his old family.
At Feng Chaonan’s demonstration, Eunuch Wei instinctively felt that it was inappropriate, but he was not at liberty to say so.
“Such a sound can only show the weight of His Majesty’s power now, and this will also show the people of the Si family that His Majesty is the one who will finally ascend to the throne.”
Feng Jiu pushed open the window of the carriage and looked at the city guards marching in an orderly manner outside.
Feng Chaonan was able to dispatch five hundred soldiers with a single order, and his reputation as the most powerful of the imperial princes was true to his name.
He wanted to show his power in this way, so that the Si family would increase their support for him.
As for the Si family’s anger at giving up their support, Feng Chaonan was not worried at all.
Only a young man would fall out with someone over such a trivial matter, but not Si Yunxin, the old and sophisticated head of the Si family. He may be a little angry, but this will not cause him to give up his support for Feng Chaonan, but rather to increase it.
After all, Feng Chaonan was the son of Si Yunxin’s sister, and his ascension to the throne would be of great benefit to the Si family.
“Moreover, the deployment of the city guards is not for demonstration purposes ——”
Speaking of this, Feng Chaonan’s previously spirited face suddenly turned cloudy, his eyes gloomy as if he had thought of something bad.
“This highness can ask Gong Zi Yu to a*sa*sinate Feng Guan Yu, there is no guarantee that others will not do this matter.”
His own family knew their own affairs, perhaps in the eyes of outsiders, the Green Dragon Society helped Feng Chaonan eradicate the various small and medium-sized families loyal to the Grand Prince, and its dragon head, Gong Zi Yu, had gone out to a*sa*sinate Grand Prince Feng Guan Yu, so he must have been close to Feng Chaonan.
But Feng Chaonan himself knew that Gong Zi Yu was not invited by himself, but came to him on his own initiative. A close relationship? Compared to the others, he had worked with Gongzi Yu twice and was close to him.
But if you want to say close, it is not close at all, it is just a deal.
In Feng Chaonan’s eyes, if Gong Zi Yu could make a deal with himself to a*sa*sinate the Grand Prince, he could also make a deal with others to a*sa*sinate himself. Therefore, during this period of time, Feng Chaonan did not even leave the palace for fear of being a*sa*sinated all of a sudden.
After the a*sa*sination of the Grand Prince, the palace became more heavily guarded, with the True Dan Realm royal consecrated constantly patrolling the palace, Feng Chaonan stayed at ease, but after leaving the palace, he was a little uneasy.
Especially this time, he also went out of the Divine Capital.
Moreover, even if Gong Zi Yu didn’t make a move, if another True Dan realm came, his own life would be a bit difficult to protect ah.
”In the end, it’s still a bad start from before.” Feng Chaonan laughed bitterly in his heart.
However, he did not feel any regret about a*sa*sinating the Grand Prince.
The Grand Prince had to die, if he didn’t die, how would Feng Chaonan rise to the top?
What’s more, the Grand Prince was also connected to the Cang Sheng Sect. Considering that Han Wenxin, whom he once regarded as his beloved, was a member of the Cang Sheng Sect, the Grand Prince had to die as well.
Who knows how many unreliable secrets Han Wenxin had spied on and told the Grand Prince. If he didn’t get rid of the Grand Prince quickly, it would be enough for Feng Chaonan to drink.
Feng Chaonan would not think that Han Wenxin, who had been under his command for so long, had not gathered hard evidence linking him to the Eternal Life San.
What Feng Chaonan regretted was that he had acted a little too blatantly regarding his ascendancy, to the extent that everyone thought he was the mastermind behind the a*sa*sination of the Grand Prince.
”If not for this, I would have ascended to the position of supervising prince by now, right?” Feng Chaonan thought helplessly.
As he thought about his past mistakes, Feng Chaonan suddenly heard a soldier outside shouting loudly.
“Enemy attack!”
“Protect His Highness!”
——
The noisy voice reached Feng Chaonan’s ears, causing his face to turn white.
There was really an attack?!
Feng Chaonan did not know whether he should praise himself for having foresight or bemoan his crow’s tongue.
At this moment, a drizzling rain suddenly fell outside, completely enveloping Feng Chaonan’s group.
“Why is this rain black?” Feng Chaonan, who had pushed open the carriage window, saw the colour of the drizzle and could not help but say in a suspicious voice.
“Your Highness, be careful!”
Eunuch Wei suddenly slapped Feng Chaonan’s hand away from the window and said with a grave face, “Your Highness, black rain, if my old servant guessed correctly, this must be the ‘Black Spirit Rain’ of the Ten Thousand Poison Sect of Shu Prefecture. This poison falls from the air in the form of poisonous water, and when it lands on the ground, it spills out into poisonous gas and wreaks havoc in all directions.
Even if a living creature inhaled a trace of it, it would be poisoned and die, making it a first-cla*s poison that kills.”
As Eunuch Wei spoke, the outside world was already filled with wailing and corpses.
When the ‘Black Spirit Rain’ landed on the ground or fell on the City Guards, it automatically vaporised, spilling out into poisonous smoke and enveloping all the City Guards’ soldiers.
Those outside were not warned by Eunuch Wei, but of course, even if they were, it was too late.
After they inhaled the poisonous smoke formed by the ‘Black Spirit Rain’, in just two to three breaths’ time, black poisoned blood flowed from their seven orifices and they died of poison.
Inside the carriage, Eunuch Wei used his true qi to form cold ice, freezing all the crevices of the carriage to prevent the poisonous smoke from entering.
“Your Highness, although the ‘Black Spirit Rain’ is highly toxic, it will turn into nothingness after less than a quarter of an hour of exposure to the air, as if it were an ordinary drizzle, we only need to survive this quarter of an hour to escape the poison, but we are afraid ——”
The fear is that there will be a surprise attack by the enemy.
Feng Chaonan understood Eunuch Wei’s unfinished business, the enemy was so ruthless, directly slaughtering 500 soldiers with ‘Black Spirit Rain’, naturally he would not give up so easily.
The target of those hiding in the shadows was undoubtedly the head of Feng Chaonan, the prince of Northern Saturday, and if they did not see the head, they would not retreat.
