In the imperial palace.
The Empress and Feng Qiuwu’s mother and son waited, but they did not wait for Qi Si Bo and Tao Qiu Cui to bring Feng Chaonan’s head to see them. Instead, they heard rumors from their men that the people of the Green Dragon Society were on a killing spree in the divine capital, attacking and killing the imperial son everywhere.
“Could it be that the two confessors had a momentary lapse and that little B*tch got away?” The Empress muttered.
However, that was a good thing.
When the Empress thought about it, Feng Chaonan’s madness in a*sa*sinating the princes was a way to clear his son’s worries. And the more it happened, the more it proved that Feng Chaonan was at the end of his rope, and now it was just his last madness.
“Mother, was it the Sixth Imperial Brother who was killed and the a*sa*sins of the Green Dragon Society avenged him?” Feng Qiuwu asked.
“Well, it’s possible.” A hint of joy flashed in the Empress’ eyes.
If that was the case, then it would be the best outcome. With Feng Chaonan dead, the rest of the imperial sons were also killed by his vengeful men, and it would be best to kill Feng Jiu as well.
Then the person who would finally ascend to the throne would definitely be her own son.
When the Empress thought of this, she could not help but say to Feng Qiwu in a serious tone, “My son, in the future, you should diligently cultivate your political achievements and not slacken off any more, you have to let your father see your achievements when he wakes up.”
“Yes, Mother.” Feng Qiwu said not too reluctantly.
In his heart, he still respected the idea of ruling from a vantage point, not too fond of worrying about everything.
“I’m not even dead yet? Are you so eager to have someone ascend the throne?” The cold words suddenly came from the entrance of the hall.
“Your Majesty?!”
“Father!”
The Empress and Feng Qiuwu hurriedly saluted.
“I have met Your Majesty.”
“My son pays respects to Father.”
With the support of Eunuch Leng, Feng Tianming straightened his back, and with a somewhat unusual looking flush on his face, he walked slowly into the hall.
“Empress ——” A cold gaze, staring at the Empress, “You have done a good deed.”
“I do not know what has caused Your Majesty to be so angry.” The Empress said hastily.
“Is it not enough that you privately sent a confessor to capture Old Six, causing Old Six to jump to the wall and kill six of my imperial sons?” Feng Tianming’s eyes were as cold as frost, and there seemed to be a murderous intent that rushed straight towards the Empress.
At this moment, he really wanted to kill this woman who had done bad things. If he hadn’t made a fool of himself, the situation wouldn’t have gotten so bad.
The nine phoenix sunrise had instantly become an impossible delusion, and even if it was saved in time, there were now only seven people to bear the burden of the nirvana sacrifice for it, and to these seven would be added Feng Jiu, whose whereabouts were now unknown.
“This —– is all my fault, Your Majesty. I will definitely ask the two ministers to capture the sixth prince and personally hand him over to Your Majesty for trial.” The Empress lightly raised her skirt and knelt down.
“There is no need to capture him, the two ministers of Tao Qi have now been confirmed dead on the sixth prince’s residence.” Feng Tianming said indifferently.
“This —— Feng Chaonan he actually has True Dan realm experts protecting him in secret?!” The Empress said incredulously.
“Yes, there are True Dan realm experts in the shadows, but it’s hard to say whose people they are.” Beside Feng Tianming, Eunuch Leng smiled grimly.
“Carry it in.”
With Eunuch Leng’s words, two guards carried an ice pillar half a foot in diameter into the hall.
In the ice pillar was Feng Chaonan, who was dressed in black robes. Beside him, a bronze mask was also frozen, the very symbol of Duke Yu, the dragon head of the Green Dragon Society.
Of course, this was not what shocked the two Queens.
What shocked the two of them was the charred black wound on Feng Chaonan’s chest. The wound ran from front to back, destroying Feng Chaonan’s heart in just one fatal blow.
Fast, accurate and ruthless, the killer had not hesitated in killing Feng Chaonan.
“I never thought that among my thirteen sons, the one with the deepest heart was not the ruthless Sixth, nor the Oldest who secretly colluded with outsiders, but the Ninth who had been hiding in silence, as if he was a transparent person.”
Feng Tian Ming stroked the ice pillar, his dry palm pressed against Feng Chaonan’s corpse’s heart, and said quietly, “The fire of the Phoenix Heavenly Curse must be practiced for at least thirty years by ordinary Feng family children. Lao Jiu, Lao Jiu, you have really given me a big surprise.”
Feng Tianming’s eyes were filled with a bone chilling killing intent.
Feng Jiu’s actions today showed that he had prepared for it, this concubine son had long been eyeing that dragon chair. Moreover, Feng Jiu’s evasion of Eunuch Leng’s divine sense search proves that he is a huge variable for the Nirvana Festival.
What’s more, the Nirvana Festival nowadays very much needed Feng Jiu to act as one of the sacrifices.
“Feng Jiu ——” the Empress murmured the name.
Ever since that time when Ouyang Yan backed up Feng Jiu, the Empress had put this ninth prince, who she had not watched in the past, in her mind, but now it seemed that her attention was still not enough.
“Lao Jiu’s execution of Gong Zi Yu, who has been stirring up a foul storm in my Great Zhou, is a great achievement, something that many political achievements will be hard to catch up with. By rights, I should make him the crown prince ——”
Feng Tianming turned his back to the Empress, still looking at Feng Chaonan in the icicle, “But I don’t like Lao Jiu, very much so, and I would rather keep him under house arrest in the palace for the rest of his life than have Lao Jiu sit on the crown prince’s throne, or even ascend to the throne afterwards. So Empress, do you know what to do?”
“I will give all my strength to capture Feng Jiu back and let Your Majesty deal with him.” The Empress clenched her silver teeth and said.
She was really going to give everything she had, with the scheming Feng Jiu had shown so far, if he were to ascend to the throne, Feng Qiwu would certainly not end up in a good place.
It was even highly likely that both mother and son would have to go down and keep company with their eldest son.
”In this matter, it seems that we have to look for big brother.” The Empress said secretly in her heart.
“That is very good.” Feng Tianming nodded in satisfaction, “Ten days, after ten days, I will announce who will be the Crown Prince. During these ten days, let Qiu Wu stay with me in the Palace of the Nurtured Heart. There are also some things that I have to explain to Qiuwu.”
“Thank you, Your Majesty.” The Empress bowed in thanks.
This is to give the future crown prince a face to face. There were certain matters in the imperial family that only the emperor and the future emperor could know about, and Feng Tianming was trying to decide internally.
How could the Empress not be delighted at such a happy event?
Feng Qiwu also bowed and said, “Thank you, Father.”
“Well,” Feng Tianming pressed one hand on Feng Qiwu’s shoulder and said with complicated eyes, “In the ten days after that, Father will teach you everything that should be taught. Are you ready?”
“My son is always ready.” Feng Qiwu said.
“Good, in that case, stay with me today in the Hall of Nurtured Heart. Cough cough cough ——,” Feng Tianming suddenly pulled out a golden handkerchief and covered his mouth with a series of coughs.
“Father!”
“No harm done,” cupping the handkerchief up, Feng Tian Ming’s face did not look like it was suffering from an injury attack, it was still rosy, “Let’s go now.”
“Your Majesty, take care.”
The Empress looked at the father and son duo and slowly departed.
