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Such explosion accidents are absolutely not allowed to happen. Could it be that this was another attack from outside like the one a few years ago?
Damn it, many Mingdetang masters have gone to watch the Soul Master Competition and haven't come back yet. Most of the remaining masters are on the ground, and the underground base is not well guarded.
Soon, Lin Jiayi saw Huo Yuhao and the other two in the ruins.
"Huo Yuhao!"
“Director Lin, this is not an explosion. This is a man-made attack.” Huo Yuhao said calmly, “The attacker has been captured.”
"Asshole!" Lin Jiayi's eyes widened with anger. He was about to yell, but when he saw Xiao Bo's embarrassed look, he was speechless for a long time, "Xiao Ze, it turned out to be you!"
Xiao Bo had regained consciousness and stopped resisting. He raised his eyes slightly and said, "Lin Jiayi, how are you?"
Lin Jiayi gnashed his teeth and said, "It was you who attacked Mingde Hall? You...the hall master treated you well, why did you do this?"
"Let Jing Hongchen come and talk to me in person." Xiao Bo glanced at him contemptuously and stopped talking.
"Humph, the hall master will arrive at Mingde Hall soon. You should go to him in person to explain."
Lin Jiayi looked at Huo Yuhao and Cai Tou again. The two of them stood one after another, looking at each other in silence. However, Huo Yuhao's expression was cold, while Cai Tou had a happy smile on his face.
Lin Jiayi didn't say anything, but organized others to search and rescue survivors.
It won’t be long before Jing Hongchen arrives.
He had Mingdetang's warning soul guide on him. As long as he was still within Mingdu, he would be able to detect the danger of Mingdetang at the first moment. It took him less than ten minutes to fly at full speed from Hongchen Mansion.
When he saw Huo Yuhao, he was a little surprised at first. A quarter of an hour ago, the two of them were still talking in front of Hongchen Mansion, and now they met again in Mingde Hall.
Why can Huo Yuhao fly faster than him?
Jing Hongchen didn't delve into the question: "Jiayi, you guys go and do your work, I want to talk alone."
He paused, then said, "Huo Yuhao, please stay for a moment."
"Yes." Lin Jiayi took the order and intentionally made room for Jing Hongchen and the other three.
There were only four people left in the center of the ruins, standing or lying beside the huge hole, looking at each other.
Finally, Jing Hongchen spoke to Xiao Bo indifferently: "I knew you were not dead."
Xiao Bo sneered: "Master Hongchen, long time no see."
Jing Hongchen said coldly: "I know everyone in Mingde Hall. Some of them may be a little cunning, but they will never have second thoughts. Only you, although you have always behaved well, I am still worried about you."
"Back then, when the Benti Sect attacked Mingde Hall, you must have been the one who acted as the culprit, right?"
"There's no need to hide it. Without an insider providing information, it's impossible for anyone to know how to attack Mingde Hall."
Xiao Bo sneered again: "The head of Hongchen Hall is indeed very observant."
Huo Yuhao listened silently to the conversation between the two, and had already seen through the identity of the person traveling with He Caitou.
It was Mr. Xiao, the insider who provided information for the attack on the Body Sect. Could he be related to He Caitou?
Jing Hongchen was silent for more than ten seconds, then asked calmly, "Xiao Ze, do you still hate me?"
Hearing this, Xiao Bo, who had been sneering, suddenly gritted his teeth and said in a tone full of resentment: "Hate, of course I hate!"
"Ten years ago, the palace underwent a drastic change. Why didn't you enter the palace to protect the emperor?"
"Jing Hongchen, don't forget that although you were the youngest ninth-level soul master in the Sun Moon Empire and studied under Kong Deming, you had a promising future. But your son was dull and only a fifth-level soul master at the age of nearly thirty."
"Your Hongchen family has no successor, and you can't keep your position as the head of Mingde Hall. How many people are coveting your position? And who helped you keep this position?"
"It was the late emperor! The late emperor was concerned about your father and overcame all objections to ensure that you ascended to the position of the head of Mingde Hall. You also swore that the Hongchen family would always serve the royal family."
"But you, you stood aside and watched when the late emperor needed you the most!"
"How can I not hate you for being so ungrateful!"
Xiao Bo was so angry that his voice was pounding on the ground.
Huo Yuhao was also stunned when he heard this. He didn’t expect that there was such a past between Jing Hongchen and Xiao.
Facing Xiao Bo's questioning, Jing Hongchen's face turned pale, and the fat on his face couldn't stop trembling: "Xiao Ze, do you think I don't want to repay the late emperor's kindness?"
"But can my Hongchen family interfere in the affairs of the palace at will?"
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After listening to Jing Hongchen's words, Xiao Bo smiled somewhat comically: "It's the same rhetoric again, Jing Hongchen, I'm tired of hearing it."
"Even if you don't want to drag the Hongchen family into this, you can always go to the palace to find Kong Deming, right?"
"You are one of his favorite students. He was in seclusion at the time. If you go and invite him out, who would dare to be presumptuous?"
Jing Hongchen's anger gradually calmed down: "Old Kong also has royal blood. He swore that he would never interfere in any disputes between the royal descendants."
"He had already seen through His Majesty's thoughts at the time and did not intervene, but he did not expect His Majesty to be so decisive."
"I have the same idea as Master Kong. I think Your Majesty is just forcing the late emperor to abdicate. Who would think..."
Jing Hongchen's eyes suddenly dimmed, revealing a hint of sadness.
Xiao Bo sneered: "Don't be so hypocritical, Jing Hongchen, I don't see you feeling any guilt towards the late emperor."
Faced with Xiao Bo's sarcasm and ridicule, Jing Hongchen no longer acted so angry. It was obvious that both of them were used to arguing about this matter.
Listening to the conversation between the two, Huo Yuhao roughly understood the relationship between them.
It turns out that Xiao was one of the old subordinates of He Caitou's father. When Emperor Sun and Moon launched a coup, Jing Hongchen got the news, but did not enter the palace to protect the emperor.
In the end, Emperor Sun and Moon succeeded in his coup, and Xiao survived because he stayed in Mingde Hall.
"Although I feel guilty towards the late emperor, I have done my best to serve you, Xiao Ze." Jing Hongchen changed the subject and asked coldly, "For the past ten years, I have regarded you as my confidant. You have kept your identity secret in Mingde Hall, so you have not been liquidated by His Majesty."
"Many of the late emperor's subordinates, as well as several princesses who had already married, were all saved by me, as I personally protected them and sent them to other cities after leaving Mingdu."
"You've been in Mingde Hall for ten years. This place is half your home. Do you have the heart to destroy it?"
"First, you failed to cooperate with the Body Sect a few years ago, and now you want to blow this place up yourself?"
Jing Hongchen looked around at the ruins.
"It's a pity that even the Body Sect couldn't do it back then. You alone are far from enough."
Xiao Bo laughed dryly twice: "I didn't intend to do it so drastically, I was just following orders."
Jing Hongchen frowned slightly: "According to orders? Who?"
He turned to look at He Caitou who was lying on the ground: "You?"
The first time he saw He Cai Tou, he felt that he looked familiar.
"I still remember you. You were an exchange student from Shrek and represented the Tang Sect in this tournament."
Xiao Bo yelled, "Jing Hongchen, how dare you!"
"This is the only bloodline of the late emperor left in the world, and His Royal Highness the Prince."
Jing Hongchen was completely stunned when he heard this title: "You mean... he is Prince Xu He? Prince Xu He is still alive?"
Xiao Bo laughed and said, "Since you know it's with His Royal Highness the Prince, why don't you kneel down and salute?"
Jing Hongchen fell silent, looking at He Caitou with complicated eyes. He never expected that this former Shrek exchange student had such a real identity.
He hadn't noticed it during his exchange student period, but now he realized that He Caitou and the late emperor looked more and more alike.
He Caitou suddenly said with a sad smile: "Jing Hongchen, come on, kill me, and use my head to get promoted. You will always be the head of Mingde Hall."
The most common expression he made with Cai Tou today was smiling, but it was completely different from the silly smile that was always on Huo Yuhao's face when they first met.
Now his smile was full of madness, and he was determined to vent all the resentment of the past ten years before he died.
After a long silence, Jing Hongchen said, "Prince Xu He, today's matter will not be pursued. I promise you on the honor of the Mingde Hall Master that I will go to the palace to find Master Kong and ask him to do justice for you and the late emperor."
"It's too late to talk about justice now, hahaha." He Caitou raised his stiff arm and gestured vigorously, "Right now, the entire Mingde Hall, no, not just Mingde Hall, but also the Imperial Palace, the entire Mingdu... all will go to accompany my father to his grave!"
As soon as these words were spoken, Jing Hongchen and Huo Yuhao became extremely alert at the same time.
Xiao Bo sneered and said, "Jing Hongchen, I know very well that when you invited the people from the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect to come, they helped you make a lot of level nine fixed-type soul guide shells, right?"
"Let me guess, how many level nine fixed-type soul guide shells does Mingde Hall have in stock right now?"
"Twenty? Or thirty?"
Jing Hongchen's expression froze at first, but then he gradually relaxed: "Xiao Ze, do you want to detonate the ninth-level fixed-type soul guide shells stored in the underground warehouse of Mingde Hall?"
"Then you are a little fanciful."
"How could I not know the power of the ninth-level fixed-type soul guide shells? Of course, I will use the highest level of protection."
He turned his head and looked at the hole beside him: "The warehouse is underground here, but as long as Mingde Hall enters the alert state, the warehouse where the ninth-level fixed-type soul guide shells are placed will immediately be protected by several ninth-level defense shields."
Xiao Bo continued, "Yes, that's right. In order to call upon these ninth-level fixed-type soul guide shells, more than half of the ninth-level soul guides in Mingde Hall must be present at the same time to verify their identities, right?"
Jing Hongchen nodded: "That's right, the ninth-level fixed-type soul guide shells are the country's most important weapons. Even if there is only this hall master, he cannot call them without authorization."
"That's right, hahaha." Xiao Bo laughed loudly after hearing this, "Guess what my identity has been since I left Mingde Hall in the past few years?"
"What?" Jing Hongchen was puzzled.
"I work for Xu Guozhong and help him look after the Central Arsenal."
Xiao Bo said: "Before coming to Mingde Hall, I had already placed dozens of timed high-explosive bombs in the ground next to the central arsenal. They are about to be detonated. There are tens of thousands of fixed-load soul guide shells in it."
Jing Hongchen frowned and said, "As an arsenal, the Central Arsenal is located a hundred meters underground and has unique protection. Even if it is detonated, the explosion can only affect a few kilometers at most..."
Before he finished speaking, Jing Hongchen's face was already filled with astonishment. After guessing Xiao Bo's intention, he cursed: "Asshole, you..."
Xiao Bo laughed and said, "It's only a few kilometers, which is enough to blow through Mingde Hall's underground warehouse."
"The purpose of our coming to Mingde Hall is just to confirm that the ninth-level fixed-type soul guide shells are here."
boom--
A loud bang sounded from outside Mingde Hall, and the vibration waves shook Mingde Hall along the ground.
There was unprecedented horror in Jing Hongchen's eyes.
He Caitou coughed and said, "Don't worry, this is just a warning bomb, but there are only two minutes left before the real explosion."
"In two minutes, the central arsenal will be detonated, followed by Mingde Hall, and then the entire Mingdu."
"Or can you call back the ninth-level soul master from Mingde Hall within two minutes to help you take away these shells?"