Forced to Ascend the Throne after Transmigrating

Chapter 272: Heart Piercing

Ye Xun had just imagined many scenes, but he had never thought it would be like this.

You know, the group of death warriors left by my father may not be as good as the secret guards under my grandfather, but they are on par with those under Emperor Taicheng, and much stronger than those under the young emperor. They are all good seedlings that can fight ten against one, and are far from ordinary people.

But now, his uncle, the dandy in the eyes of the world, was chopping his sword as easily as cutting melons and vegetables. Every time he swung his sword, a string of blood was drawn.

For the first time, Ye Xun discovered that when the Ninth Prince didn’t smile, he was so terrifying.

If Ye Shuo was still immature when he encountered the assassination attempt, now under the careful teaching of Yao Zhi and several masters, his profound internal strength has been completely mastered and can be used at will.

Not to mention Ye Xun, even the leading assassins did not expect things to turn out like this.

In the past, the leader of the death squad had heard a lot about the Ninth Prince’s deeds during his training. He had been hearing these stories for so many years and had heard them so many times that he thought he was just an ignorant and incompetent prince. But when he saw him today, he realised that what he heard was untrue.

The leading assassin’s veins popped out, and he saw the right opportunity and swung his sword at the young man’s back. Unexpectedly, the young man’s back seemed to have eyes. The leading assassin’s eyes blurred at first, and then he was attacked by a huge force.

With a “clang” sound, the horizontal sword hit the back of the sword hard, and almost instantly, the long sword in the hand of the assassin broke.

The leading assassin instinctively wanted to retreat, regardless of his numb right hand and cracked knuckles, but it was too late.

In the last moment of consciousness, all that was left in the eyes of the dead man was the sharp cold light of the sword and the icy eyes of the young man.

However, within a short period of time of just one stick of incense, all the eighteen assassins here were wiped out!

Ye Xun’s steps stopped abruptly when Ye Shuo came over.

Obviously, he also knew that with the force that the Ninth Prince had just displayed, he would not be able to escape no matter what.

At this moment, Ye Xun’s throat kept tightening and a trace of cold sweat slid down his forehead.

“You…are not drunk?”

“No.” Sometimes, Ye Shuo really wished he was drunk.

Ye Xun’s gaze fell from his face to the tip of the knife in his hand that was dripping with blood.

At this moment Ye Xun felt that the uncle in front of him, who was closer to him than his own brother, suddenly became a stranger.

“I never knew before that you, Ninth Prince, are so powerful.”

Or maybe, all of them were deceived by the person in front of them.

Ye Shuo couldn’t help but tighten the sword in his hand: “I never thought that the first person who made me use all my martial arts would be you.”

Ye Shuo thought of many people, including his biological father in this life, but he was not one of them.

At this point, is there anything Ye Xun doesn’t understand?

The reason why he came alone was not because he had no doubts in his heart, but because he had the ability and the confidence. Even so many well-trained assassins combined were not his match. ?Å?????

so……

“Are you here today specifically to test me?”

Ye Xun really couldn’t understand where he had been exposed. It had only been three days since the little emperor fell ill and died. How could he have suspected himself?

But in fact, Ye Shuo couldn’t find any evidence at all.

“I have to admit that you are much more capable than your father, and you hid it very well. Even Wei Wen and Queen Mother He combined could not find anything, let alone me.”

“I even suspected Wei Wen before.”

Ye Shuo believed in the old Duke Zhen because he was his mother’s father and his grandfather. Ye Shuo believed in his uncles and cousins ??because they were indeed kind-hearted. As for Wei Wen, although Ye Shuo had known him for so many years, they came together for their own interests, just to protect the people they cherished.

Although the possibility that it was Wei Wen was not high, it was still possible. After Ye Shuo tested it, it was finally confirmed.

If we rule out the internal traitor, the person must be an external thief, and this person has very deep roots.

The royal family, like Prince Su, has had so many emperors. How can they have any power in the palace? The fifth and seventh princes are restraining each other, the eldest prince is always keeping a close eye on the eighth prince, and as for the tenth prince, they are also under Ye Shuo’s surveillance. Who else can have such ability and let himself be defenceless?

“You are indeed smart, but it is because you are too smart that it is easier for people to guess.”

However, Ye Xun felt that this clever remark should clearly be given to himself.

“So you have no evidence, so you can only use yourself as bait to lure me into the trap.”

“Yes, I want to see if it is you. If it is you, how far have you come now and what are your intentions.”

Ye Xun took some action, proving that he knew about the will.

The fact that Ye Xun wanted to kill him even proved that he had gone a very long way and now the arrow was on the string and had to be shot.

Ye Xun took such a big risk and was so cruel, which proved that his purpose was not only to avenge his father, but also proved that he had bigger ambitions.

“You want to be the emperor.”

Ye Shuo’s answer was not doubt, but affirmation.

“The Ten Kings, the Eleven Kings, and the Twelve Kings are just a means for you to cover up your tracks. I guess the reason why Sixth Brother couldn’t find out about them is not because the Ten Kings, the Eleven Kings, and the Twelve Kings are so powerful, nor because Sixth Brother is negligent, but because you are behind them, cleaning up the mess for them. Am I right?”

The Tenth King, the Eleventh King, and the Twelfth King probably don’t know until now that the reason their power has developed so smoothly is because there is a hand supporting them from behind.

However, Ye Xun hid behind the three of them and thus deceived everyone.

As Ye Shuo talked more and more, Ye Xun became more and more powerless.

“It’s true… I can’t hide anything from you, Uncle Nine…”

“But there is one thing that I don’t understand. You obviously know everything, so why are you still like this?” What Ye Xun was referring to was, of course, his absurdity and confusion.

None of them are stupid. Are they really careless or are they just pretending? If they are really pretending, no matter how smart they are, how could none of them notice anything?

Ye Shuo was silent for a moment, then asked, “What do you think?”

Ye Xun finally couldn’t help laughing, and tears came out of his eyes.

“My God, he really likes to play tricks on people.”

Isn’t that right? You don’t get what you want, you lose what you try so hard to get, and you can’t get rid of what you don’t want.

He kept hiding and avoiding it, but in the end the throne fell on his head.

Ye Xun gradually became a little crazy, but Ye Shuo was not too worried.

Because of the plague, entry and exit to the capital are now strictly controlled. Even for Ye Xun, there is no way to get so many people into the city quietly.

At most, they were just some scattered assassins, and now they have all been killed by Ye Shuo’s knife. In this situation, Ye Shuo naturally didn’t mind talking to him more.??

“Things have come to this point. I still have a few questions. For the sake of our relationship as uncle and nephew, I wonder if you could help me clear them up.”

Ye Xun paused and said, “You say.”

Ye Shuo took a deep breath and asked, “Did you intervene in this plague?”

Ye Xun shook his head: “No.”

The plague is a natural disaster, how can it be controlled by human power?

“I also learned this trick from my sixth uncle.”

Ye Xun not only learned forbearance and ruthlessness from Emperor Taicheng, but also learned that he never went against the will of heaven, and learned the principle of going with the flow and taking advantage of the situation.

Take advantage of the natural force and seize every opportunity to achieve your goals.

Ye Xun felt that his Sixth Uncle was a really good teacher. In just a few years, he learned much more from his Sixth Uncle than he learned from his father.

“I just did the same thing as my sixth uncle.” Back then, the Sixth Prince and his entourage put pressure on his father little by little, forcing his father to take action, and watched his father go astray.

The Sixth Prince and his companions knew what his father had done behind his back, but they kept their mouths shut and refused to utter a single word. They waited for the situation to ferment gradually and eventually lead to a catastrophe, and then they would use a needle to pierce it and deal a fatal blow to his father.

It was the same with Ye Xun today. He just watched the Tenth King, the Eleventh King, and the Twelfth King loot the disaster silver to fill their own pockets, and then took this opportunity to fish in troubled waters and lure Ye Shuo out of the capital.

What’s more, even the idea of ??poisoning the little emperor was not his. He just borrowed a few people to help them.

Just like Emperor Taicheng did back then, he would watch first, wait for the right time, and then take decisive action.

“So Uncle Jiu, don’t blame yourself too much. If it’s not the plague, it could be something else. You can’t stay by the little emperor’s side for twelve hours a day. If you make a mistake even once, the little emperor will eventually die.”

There is still a quarter of an hour before another wave of assassins will arrive to support him. If he can hold out for a quarter of an hour, he may still have a chance to escape.

Ye Xun thought for a moment and said, “Be careful of the Tenth Uncle and the others.”

Ye Shuo paused for a moment and said, “Are you saying that the three of the Ten Kings are planning to rebel tonight?”

He actually even knew this…

That’s right, if he didn’t know, he wouldn’t have chosen to come to me today and force me to take action.

Ye Xun was stunned, then smiled bitterly.

Soon, Ye Xun pretended to be relaxed and said, “I thought, Uncle Nine, you would ask me why it became like this.”

Ye Shuo shook his head: “There is nothing to ask, it’s just those reasons. Over the years, your uncle has heard too many of them, and I’m tired of them.”

Ye Xun is the legitimate son of the crown prince, and the future crown prince and even emperor. The throne of the Great Zhou should have been his.

Falling from the noble grandson of the emperor to the status of a prince, he would be completely indistinguishable from the crowd in a dozen or twenty years at most. Whenever he attended a palace banquet, as the grandson of the emperor, he was always seated at the forefront. But now he even has to burn incense to his grandfather and father in secret. Such a gap is really hard to accept.

“My mistake was that I thought you were different from others.”

Ye Xun couldn’t help but laugh when he heard this: “I am no different from other people. The Ninth Prince thinks too highly of me. I am just an ordinary person.”

Since he was born, Ye Xun was taught that he would be the future crown prince and the future emperor. But when he was sixteen years old, he was suddenly told that he was no longer the future emperor. So what were all the things in the past?

“Yeah… everyone is the same, there is no difference at all.” It was as if I was about to take this step now.

Ye Shuo lowered his eyes: “One last question.”

“Besides me, do you plan to do anything to my wife, my mother, my sister, or my daughter?”

Ye Xun was stunned, then avoided his gaze: “…If we send someone to chase them now, maybe we can still make it in time.”

When you cut the grass, you must remove the roots.

The moment the words fell, a cold light passed through Ye Xun’s chest.

At the same time, Ye Shuo also said the last words to him.

“You know, the reason why I quarrelled with Wei Wen before I came here today was because I told Wei Wen that if you don’t take any action, I will pass the throne to you.”

“Unfortunately, you finally disappointed me.”

“No, this is impossible!” How could anyone in this world do such a thing?

But Ye Xun also knew that the Ninth Prince would not lie to him.

In the end, Ye Xun left in shock and reluctance.

With a “clang”, Ye Shuo pulled out the sword in his hand and threw it down.

Looking at the young man who fell heavily to the ground, Ye Shuo’s mind was filled with scenes of his time with him. At that time, the two were still young, one was three years old, and the other was seven years old. The little children stamped their feet and shouted at him angrily: “Ninth Uncle!”

From now on, the emperor uncle might never hear these words again.

The people around you will eventually leave one after another.

Ye Xun once promised the former Crown Princess that he would repay his kindness, but Ye Xun did not do it in the end.

Ye Shuo had promised the former prince that he would take good care of him. Once upon a time, on the way to the palace, Ye Shuo even said that no matter what mistakes he made, he would forgive him in the end. However, Ye Shuo did not do so.

Those who reach the highest position indeed have their hands soaked in blood, and even he, a time traveller from modern times, is no exception.

When Yao Zhi and the other two arrived, they only heard the sounds of fighting outside the city, and their hearts immediately tightened.

“Where is the Regent? Where is the Regent now!?”

Yao Zhi asked many people in a row but they all said they didn’t know. In the end, she didn’t know who said that the Regent was with the Prince. Without bothering to verify the truth, Yao Zhi broke through the crowd and ran towards Ye Xun’s mansion.

“Xiao Shuo, outside Shangjing——”

Pushing open the heavy door in front of me, I saw corpses all over the ground. Even Ye Xun was lying there, and the young man sitting there alone had his hands and body covered in blood.

The incident must have happened not long ago, and the blood on his hands was still dripping into the soil under his feet.

In an instant, Yao Zhi’s pupils shrink suddenly.

Then, she watched the young man turn around when he heard the noise, his expression seemed dazed. He seemed to want to say something, but when he opened his mouth, he spat out a mouthful of blood.

Yao Zhi, Jian Jian, and Wu Yi were shocked, and Jian Jian even screamed uncontrollably—

“elder brother!!”