The uncle borrowed some merits, and the princess drew the talisman fiercely

Chapter 1757 Warrior's Killing Aura

The Empress Dowager was helped up, trembling with fear and pale-faced. She quickly asked her nanny to help her behind Yin Changxing and the others.

She cried out in a trembling voice, "The First Mystic Sect is here to protect the royal family! You must protect me and the Emperor!"

Yin Changxing glanced at her.

"The First Mystic Sect was not originally established to protect the royal family, but to help the common people. It was only because your Zhou Dynasty rose to power that the First Mystic Sect assisted you in securing your rule."

This cause-and-effect relationship should still be clarified.

At this point, the Empress Dowager could not bear to listen to such words.

Her face darkened. Although she was very scared, she still managed to put on airs as the Empress Dowager.

"Your primary responsibility is to protect me and the Emperor. Otherwise, what's the point of having the First Mystic Sect? The imperial family should be the most respected in the land. The First Mystic Sect is just a bunch of charlatans..."

Before she could finish speaking, everyone's expression changed, and they all glared at her. Even the Emperor's face darkened, and he roared, "Empress Dowager, shut up!"

The Empress Dowager was a little flustered and spoke without thinking. She realized her words were wrong and wanted to swallow them back, but when she heard the Emperor tell her to shut up, she was shocked and looked at him in disbelief.

The Emperor Emeritus could no longer tolerate such a fool, so he slapped her on the back of the head. A gust of cold wind hit her head, and the Empress Dowager suddenly turned pale, screamed in fear, and fainted.

The old nanny next to her tried to support her, but the Empress Dowager was too heavy to hold on to when she fainted, and instead, she was pulled down and the two of them fell to the ground together.

This was nothing short of a farce. Sizhen and Jiechi, who were inside the palace, saw this scene, exchanged a glance, and their eyes widened in disbelief.

I've never seen the royal family like this before. Could it be that something suddenly happened at the ancestral temple that drove them all crazy?

The retired emperor was furious.

"We shouldn't have let her come today. From now on, she should stay in the Cining Palace and not embarrass herself in public."

The Emperor couldn't care less about the Empress Dowager at the moment, and simply had someone help her into the palace.

Even he, as the emperor, wouldn't dare to say such things casually, so how could the empress dowager dare?

It was the First Mystic Sect that assisted the Great Zhou Dynasty in its rise to power. Now, the Empress Dowager is uttering such arrogant words. If word gets out, the people of the world will condemn her to death.

The Emperor quickly humbled himself and apologized to Yin Changxing and the others.

"Sect Leader Yin, the Empress Dowager is old and was frightened just now, so she spoke without thinking. Please don't take her words to heart. When we get back, I will definitely have her reflect on her words in Cining Palace. Now let's see what the problem is with the Ancestral Temple."

Yin Changxing and the others naturally didn't take the Empress Dowager to heart. Why bother arguing with such an old woman?

Seeing that they didn't answer, the Emperor thought they were angry. He didn't want to stay in the Ancestral Temple at all, so he quickly asked again, "How about I go back to the palace first? I'm afraid I'll just be a hindrance here and prevent you from doing your job properly, right?"

No sooner had he finished speaking than a commotion came from outside, indicating that the Crown Prince and Empress had also arrived at the ancestral temple.

The Emperor stared wide-eyed at the Crown Prince and Empress walking towards him, one after the other.

He blurted out another question, "Are you all alright?"

The crown prince was taken aback. Seeing everyone standing there, he felt something was amiss.

"Father, I'm fine. What's wrong with you?"

The Emperor then looked at the Empress behind him and asked, "Empress, how are you?"

The empress glanced at him but did not reply.

But the Emperor could also see that there was nothing wrong with the Empress's appearance; after all, her face remained unchanged, with the same sorrow and coldness.

The Crown Prince looked at Zhou Shiyue and noticed that Zhou Shiyue's expression was also a bit off, which made his heart skip a beat.

"What happened?"

When the Crown Prince asked this question, his gaze also turned to Lu Zhaoling. Lu Zhaoling was looking at him when she suddenly exclaimed in surprise.

Zhou Shiyue's first reaction was to immediately grasp her hand and whisper, "What did you see? Don't look too closely at his face."

After all, the crown prince will eventually ascend the throne, and he can be considered a rising star.

Lu Zhaoling tiptoed closer to his ear and whispered, "I see that the purple aura above the Crown Prince's head has become thicker. Before, it was just a small mound, but now it's this big."

After saying that, Lu Zhaoling gestured in a circle with her hands in front of her.

Judging from the scale she gestured, Zhou Shiyue estimated that there would be a whole basketful.

A thought struck him, and he asked Lu Zhaoling in a low voice, "Does this mean he's going to take that position?"

Lu Zhaoling nodded first, then shook her head and said, "Not necessarily. What we're seeing now is that the Crown Prince has a much higher chance of ascending the throne. He will be the next emperor. But when he will actually sit on that throne depends on whether the current auspicious energy of the emperor has weakened."

After saying that, she turned to the Emperor, as she needed to see him to know for sure.

Before she could even see it, Zhou Shiyue turned her face back to her.

"Who cares when he gets to sit in that seat? If he can sit there, he can sit there. I don't need to look after him."

In any case, the Crown Prince will ascend the throne when the time comes. Letting Lu Zhaoling take another look will not change the timing, but will only make Lu Zhaoling more dangerous.

Lu Zhaoling was both amused and exasperated. Zhou Shiyue really remembered this matter and didn't want her to see the emperor at all.

While the two of them were still whispering to each other, the Emperor was already so frightened that his hands and feet went weak.

If it weren't for so many people like Yin Changxing blocking his way, he probably wouldn't be able to stand up right now.

Weng Songzhi described the appearance of the floating dust in the air to Yin Changxing and the others, which made Yin Changxing and the others feel a little strange.

The blood of fallen warriors should indeed be harmless to the royal family. In fact, upon seeing the purple aura of the royal imperial star, these warrior dust particles might even submit.

But why are these things such a great threat to them now?

Yin Changxing thought for a while and suddenly thought of a possibility.

"Then it is possible that these fallen warriors were not from the Great Zhou Dynasty, but from the previous dynasty."

Although they were soldiers of the previous dynasty, they died in battle to protect the royal family and the country. It's just that they weren't protecting the Zhou dynasty's country. For the common people, there was no difference.

Therefore, these warriors are neither vengeful ghosts nor evil spirits.

That's why they were able to infiltrate the ancestral temple and also harm the Zhou royal family.

These soldiers must have been very loyal to the previous dynasty and were fighting to defend their homeland.

These people are simply acting out of a different stance; they are not evil. Their deaths in battle were not due to wrongdoing.