Divine & Bizarre: Increasing Points to Invincibility-Chapter 1036 - 292: Shocking! Beheading Fan Wu!
In the heart of the current Crown Prince of the Shangwu Dynasty, the National Master had seemingly become... the master manipulator behind the entire Shangwu Dynasty.
It was as if the whole dynasty was shrouded in his shadow.
Every person he knew well was under his control.
Even his own father, the Emperor, was actually obeying his commands, not just following his advice, and there was a very big difference between the two.
What was even more incredible was...
A single statement from the National Master could make his father choose to hang himself!
Yes, the Crown Prince of the Shangwu Dynasty felt that his father had hanged himself and had not been killed by Fan Wu at Qiulong Temple.
That a single statement from the National Master could drive his own father to such lengths—what on earth was going on, and why did his father so obediently follow him?
It should be known that their Shangwu Dynasty was one of the very few enormous dynasties in this vast world, and it could even be said to be the greatest nation in this mortal world.
Such an Emperor of the dynasty naturally held high authority and power, higher than millions of others, and far greater than that held by emperors of other dynasties.
But now, everything that had transpired had completely overturned the Crown Prince of the Shangwu Dynasty’s impressions. His fear of the National Master was growing ever deeper, and he was beginning to understand why the National Master had his father killed at this moment.
It was clear that the National Master intended to pin everything on Fan Wu of the Qiulong Temple. Should an emperor die over this matter, it meant that Fan Wu of Qiulong Temple would truly become an enemy of the whole world!
The towering rage of all the citizens of the Shangwu Dynasty would make countless people forget what fear was; they would be like moths to a flame, wishing to extinguish the fire that was Fan Wu of the Qiulong Temple.
Thinking about this, the Crown Prince of the Shangwu Dynasty could not help but gasp in shock—wasn’t this too sinister?
And the price paid was too great as well, was it not? In the blink of an eye, an emperor of a dynasty had died, and the puppet master behind the scenes had only passed along a few words.
At that moment, the Crown Prince of the Shangwu Dynasty felt that the supreme position seemed less attractive—if he were to ascend to it one day, what if he were controlled in the same manner?
What difference would it make from not ascending to the throne?
After all, a National Master of the Shangwu Dynasty was still standing above him!
Countless tumultuous thoughts surged in his mind, the Crown Prince of the Shangwu Dynasty could only try his best to cooperate with the National Master; he first ordered his people to quickly summon all the civil and military ministers to the Imperial Palace.
Then, in front of this group of baffled ministers, he feigned a few tears and told them of his father’s demise, vividly blaming the murderer as Fan Wu of the Qiulong Temple.
As he cooperated with the National Master’s plan in this manner, the Imperial Palace of the entire Shangwu Dynasty instantly plunged into a state of shock, as if a small asteroid had directly fallen into the ocean.
The huge waves stirred by this news were immeasurable and invisible; the whole Imperial Palace seemed as if it were about to explode.
The expressions of countless people looked as if the sky had fallen, especially some of the concubines in the harem.
It should be known that the Shangwu Dynasty’s royal family practiced concubine burial, meaning that once an emperor died, his concubines would have to be buried along with him.
Of course, the panic among the civil and military ministers was no less than that of the concubines.
"How could this be happening? Why did this occur? Was His Majesty really killed by Fan Wu of the Qiulong Temple? How is that possible? Fan Wu clearly hadn’t come to the Imperial Palace! How could he have possibly infiltrated the Imperial Palace? Even if he could infiltrate, wouldn’t the killing of His Majesty have caused some commotion? After all, His Majesty embodied the destiny of the entire dynasty!"
Someone could not help but voice their inner doubts, finding it hard to accept this reality and incredulously questioned, "With the destiny of a dynasty, His Majesty’s strength must have been formidable; not even some deities in heaven could match him. Under such circumstances, it seems impossible for Fan Wu to kill His Majesty without any noise,res isn’t it?"
"Crown Prince, is there really no other clue in this matter? Could there be some other cause behind His Majesty’s death? According to the information I have, Fan Wu should still be outside the Imperial Palace, at least several days’ journey away?"
When such opinions emerged in the royal court, a lot of people agreed with this view.
After all, they found it hard to accept that their emperor, whom they were loyal to, could die in such an absurd manner.
"Yes, Crown Prince, what Minister Li said seems right—His Majesty was so powerful; how could he possibly have died so easily? I remember when His Majesty was young, he told me that in all the world, except for the National Master, no one was his match. With such strength, even in his old age, how could he possibly have been killed so effortlessly and silently?"
