Chapter 797: Shifting Souls and Changing Dreams

Great Yu Capital, the city was dressed in plain white.

In the 476th year of Yuanfeng, Grand Secretary Zhang Shi, who had worked hard for half his life, died of illness at home.

This Grand Secretary of the Cabinet, who had achieved great fame, was destined to leave a heavy stroke in the history books of the Great Yu.

In the historian's pen, Zhang Shi and the Emperor were in harmony, promoting reforms, serving as a model for later ministers, and it was also written that wisdom is bound to be hurt, so he became a Heavenly Human Realm cultivator and only lived for a short five hundred years.

Of course.

This was already the longest-lived Prime Minister since the founding of the Great Yu.

Precisely because of this, most people were mourning and not too angry.

According to folk sayings, it was a joyous funeral.

Grand Secretary Zhang passed away, and the Great Yu Saint Emperor lost a confidant, grieving greatly.

He issued an edict for a three-day amnesty and even stopped the morning court, which had not been interrupted for three hundred years, for three days.

Everyone only thought it was deep affection between monarch and minister.

"Your Majesty, the dragon body is important; please do not be too sad."

Outside the sleeping palace.

An old eunuch was circling anxiously.

This eunuch was not surnamed Zheng.

Eunuch Zheng had died sixty years ago.

He, the little eunuch who used to follow Eunuch Zheng, naturally became the old eunuch.

The old eunuch was sweating profusely with anxiety.

Suddenly, he heard footsteps.

Turning his head.

He saw two middle-aged men appear before the sleeping palace.

Seeing those two, joy appeared in the old eunuch's eyes: "Grand Secretary Liang, Prince Yuan, you have finally come; only the two of you can comfort His Majesty in the Great Yu now, and this old slave has waited for you two so bitterly."

The two people in front of him.

Were Grand Secretary Liang He and Prince Yuan An.

These two were disciples of the Great Yu's ancestor Li Rui, and their status in the Great Yu was naturally extremely high.

Since the older generation of Gu Changsheng, Yuan Dingting, and Li Rui had left, the people closest to the Saint Emperor, besides Grand Secretary Zhang, were the three disciples Li Rui had left in the Great Yu.

"The two of you, quickly follow me into the palace."

"Good."

Liang He nodded.

He was no longer the little disciple who guarded the library in Qinghe years ago; as a great figure in the top ten of the Great Yu's power, he had naturally cultivated an aura and majesty.

"Let's go, Junior Brother."

Liang He said to Yuan An beside him.

Yuan An's aptitude was originally the highest among the fellow disciples, and after becoming a prince, he focused even more on cultivation; just last year, he achieved the Heavenly Human Realm, and his status was transcendent.

The two immediately followed the old eunuch into the sleeping palace.

It was daytime now.

The sleeping palace, which should have been bright, appeared somewhat gloomy, and a figure in yellow clothing stood with his back to the two.

"Little Anzi, you withdraw first."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Eunuch An respectfully withdrew.

As the gate of the sleeping palace closed with a bang, the Great Yu Saint Emperor finally turned around.

Seeing the Saint Emperor's appearance.

Liang He and Yuan An were both shocked.

There was no grief on the Saint Emperor's face; there was only solemnity.

Liang He had been in power for many years; what kind of mind did he have? He immediately guessed that Grand Secretary Zhang's death did not seem as simple as imagined.

"Your Majesty..."

Liang He was about to speak.

The Saint Emperor waved his hand, interrupting Liang He's words, and then led the two into the secret chamber of the sleeping palace, finally arriving at the Nine Dragon Heaven-Sealing Array deep underground.

Seeing the Saint Emperor so cautious.

Liang He and Yuan An looked at each other.

Both understood that Grand Secretary Zhang's death likely had a great secret.

Only when the Saint Emperor urged the array and waited until it was formed did he speak: "Before Zilu died, he told me that he dreamed every night that he was ascending to immortality in his dreams, becoming an immortal who shone with the sun and moon, so Zilu often read Daoist scriptures."

Surprise appeared in Liang He and Yuan An's eyes.