Chapter 55 Reconciliation?

Zhangtai Palace, the royal palace.

The dark and deep hall was a hundred feet deep. Even with candles lit, against the gloomy night, it still looked like a ferocious beast with its bloody mouth opened wide, wanting to devour human lives, filled with endless murderous intent.

At the end of the palace, there was a throne made of gilded brass. On it sat a majestic emperor in black. Lights fell on him, and his handsome face was faintly visible under the pearls, emitting a terrifying power that could not be described in words. In the eyes of Tianxuan, who came here in response to the imperial edict, he felt that this future emperor, one of the greatest emperors in the history of Shenzhou, was not a living person, but a towering mountain.

"Tian Xuanzi pays homage to His Majesty, may His Majesty live forever!"

Tianxuan bowed to the great emperor Zhengge without any dissatisfaction. He was convinced and knelt at Zhengge's feet to pay his sincere respect.

An envoy came to the palace and summoned Tianxuan to enter the palace. Even if Zhen Gang had the courage, he would not dare to continue to fight Tianxuan and waste Zheng Ge's time. This Luowang Tian-level killer left an unhappy snort and turned into light and left. After saying goodbye to the awakened old Cangtou, Tianxuan obediently got on the carriage sent by the palace.

Swish!
Under Zheng Ge's throne, there stood a middle-aged man wearing a dark red robe, a tall crown, and three thousand scarlet hairs faintly visible. His face could be described as handsome, but his temperament was extremely cold. With his narrow triangular eyes, he looked like a poisonous snake that would choose its prey for its bite, and his porcelain-like fingers were raised in the shape of an orchid.

When Tianxuan kowtowed to Zhengge, this middle-aged man, who was obviously a eunuch, narrowed his narrow triangular eyes. A cold light shot out from his eyes and fell on Tianxuan below, making Tianxuan feel cold all over.

[Zhao Gao, the commander of the Central Chariot Office and the leader of the Luowang? ]

Although it was their first meeting, his appearance next to Zheng Ge and the murderous look in his eyes made Tianxuan know his identity instantly.

The most notorious eunuch in Chinese history who would destroy the Qin Empire in the future finally appeared before him. Suddenly, Tianxuan felt a strong sense of disgust in his heart, but his face remained calm. He did not reveal Zhao Gao's future actions to Zhengge like the protagonist of the novel he had read in his previous life.

Firstly, the early appearance of white paper and printing technology made Tianxuan realize that the water in this world is much deeper than he imagined, and there is even a possibility of the existence of a second time traveler; secondly, even if there is no second time traveler, if he reveals the records in the history books of his previous life to Zheng Ge, he will most likely be caught by Zheng Ge and forced to tell everything he knows, or even be killed by Zheng Ge after he tells everything. After all, the character of an emperor is no character at all!
"No gift."

In an instant, Tianxuan's mind was in a tangle of thoughts. At this moment, Zhengge's calm and domineering voice came from the head, indicating that Tianxuan could stand up.

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Upon hearing this, Tianxuan suppressed the chaotic thoughts in his mind and stood up respectfully.

"Tianxuanzi," after ordering Tianxuan to stand up, Zhengge leaned forward slightly on the gilded throne, looking down at Tianxuan, who was standing in the hall, less than ten years old, but already stirring up trouble. "The Queen Mother likes your storybook "Honghuang" very much. She doesn't have much time left. I plan to let you tell her about Honghuang in her last days. Is there a problem?"

When talking about the fact that Zhao Ji, his biological mother, had a short life span, Zheng Ge's tone was unusually steady, without even a trace of ups and downs, as if he was talking about the life and death of an unrelated person.

"Your Majesty, Tianxuanzi will do his best!" Tianxuan heard Zhengge's words without any emotion and accepted the king's order.

"Very good!" Zheng Ge was very satisfied with Tian Xuan's reaction. He turned his eyes and looked at Zhao Gao under the throne. "Next, it's your turn and the Minister of the Imperial Chariots!"

Brush and pull!

Although Zheng Ge spoke lightly, the profound meaning behind it should not be underestimated. When Tianxuan and Zhao Gao heard it, their expressions changed slightly.

"Master Tianxuan," Zhao Gao spoke for the first time under Zhengge's all-seeing gaze, his sharp eyes as a sword cast at Tianxuan from a distance.

"You killed a hundred of my assassins, and you don't plan to explain?"

Tian Xuan made up his mind and looked up at this sinister villain/criminal who had counted thousands of years of Shenzhou's history. Even if he was not the first, he could be in the top ten: "Explanation? My explanation is that Yuexia Suoyike, one of the four evil generals of the night curtain, was my enlightenment mentor. He died at the hands of Luowang. I know that Luowang killed him because someone paid 10,000 taels of gold to buy his life. I killed a hundred low-level assassins of Luowang to pay for the life of my enlightenment master. What's wrong with that?"

Zhao Gao couldn't help twitching when he heard this:

[Damn it, the Straw-clothed Man only has one life, and you want me to capture a hundred lives, that's too much of a profit! ]

If Zhao Gao had not taken into consideration that Zheng Ge was right next to him, he would have almost shouted this sentence.

"One hundred lives in exchange for one life? Taoist Tianxuanzi, don't you think it's too much?" Even so, when Zhao Gao spoke again, his tone became more sarcastic.

Tianxuan said confidently: "They are just some low-ranking minions, whose highest level of cultivation is only Kaiyuan realm. Assassins of this level can be caught in large numbers in Luowang!"

"Zhao Gao, stop here!" Zheng Ge expressed his opinion, and said in the tone of a ruler, "One hundred minions of Luowang are worth the life of Taoist Master Tianxuanzi, you are not at a disadvantage!"

"Here."

Zheng Ge's judgment on this matter is that unless Zhao Gao doesn't want to live anymore, or Tian Xuan has lost Zheng Ge's favor, otherwise, if Zhao Gao or even the entire Luowang were to find trouble with Tian Xuan again, it would be against the king's order and seek death!

“Master Tianxuan, I don’t want you to seek trouble with Luowang again.” After Zheng Ge stopped Zhao Gao, he said to Tianxuan, “Luowang is just a tool to kill people. Your real enemy is the mastermind who bribed Luowang to kill people!”

"Please rest assured, Your Majesty," Tianxuan naturally knew the simple truth of 'quit while you're ahead', "Tianxuanzi will never cause trouble for Luowang again because of the master's revenge."

[I will not cause trouble to Luowang because of my master's revenge, but Luowang will endanger the empire in the future. If I am alive at that time, I should have the power to fight against Luowang. By then, I can cause trouble to Luowang openly! ] This is the half sentence that Tianxuan added in his mind.

"Zhao Gao, who paid 10,000 taels of gold to buy the life of the straw raincoat man?"

One of the so-called four evil generals of the night: the man in raincoat under the moon, in Zheng Ge's eyes, is just an ant that can be killed with a flick of the hand. However, now that it has come to this, Zheng Ge's curiosity is inevitably aroused, and he wants to find out the truth behind the death of the man in raincoat.

In front of the supreme ruler Zheng Ge, even if he had the guts of Zhao Gao, he would not dare to hide it, let alone put on airs and follow the so-called professional ethics. His lips moved and he opened his mouth and said, "Your Majesty, after reading the Luowang records, I found that it was..."

tread!tread!tread!
Just at this moment, a burst of hurried footsteps suddenly came from outside the hall, interrupting the words Zhao Gao was about to say.

(End of this chapter)