Chapter 259: The Altar of Heaven Collapses, the Northern Army Rebels

The fifth year of Jingzhi.

Emperor Jingxing's health was not good, and his body was getting worse day by day. This is because a person is getting old, and the body's functions are degenerating, which cannot be cured by medicine.

The imperial physicians in the palace were helpless. Emperor Jingxing didn't care. He had experienced this kind of thing five years ago, and now it happened to be five years again. He only needed to send his confidants to Yunmeng Mountain and ask Immortal Bai Yun for a pair of longevity immortal medicine, and all problems could be solved.

However, human calculation is not as good as heaven's calculation. When the chief eunuch Feng Dehai went to Yunmeng Mountain and returned without success, Emperor Jingxing learned that the Ruyi Temple on Yunmeng Mountain had been destroyed by thunder, and Immortal Bai Yun and the disciples in the temple had all disappeared, with no whereabouts.

The current Ruyi Temple is dilapidated, and only a statue of Yuan Gong is left enshrined inside.

Emperor Jingxing heard the bad news and was anxious at the time!

It doesn't matter if my immortal master is dead or alive, but if I don't have the immortal master's medicine, I really won't live long!

The elderly Emperor Jingxing trembled with anger: "There must be a traitor who harmed my immortal master!"

This matter involves people in the door, and it cannot be investigated without practitioners.

Emperor Jingxing ordered the Heavenly Master's Mansion to divine and pursue. The diviner was Zheng Tianxing, one of the Seven Sons of Xuanji. When Taoist Zheng received the imperial order and just took out the gossip plate to divine, a thunderbolt from the sky suddenly struck in front of the hall. Since then, there were only five sons left among the Seven Sons of Xuanji in the Heavenly Master's Mansion.

The Heavenly Master Lu, who had always had a childlike face and crane hair, had a few more wrinkles on his face. He told the old emperor not to ask about Yunmeng Mountain anymore, otherwise he would be condemned by heaven.

The old emperor didn't believe in evil. He is the true Son of Heaven, responding to the movement and flourishing. He and Heaven are one family. He even saved money to supervise the construction of the Altar of Heaven. How could Heaven be embarrassed to strike him, the Son of Heaven, in the Golden Palace in front of the civil and military officials?

Seeing that Heavenly Master Lu was unwilling to act, Emperor Jingxing issued an imperial decree the next day during the morning court to summon the Si Zheng of the Si Tian Jian, asking him to deduce the heavenly machine in public in the Golden Palace.

The Si Tian Jian is in charge of the country's celestial phenomena, divination, and disaster records. In terms of divination and deduction, the Tai Bu officials in the prison are no less than the Taoists of the Heavenly Master's Mansion.

And the Si Zheng who has been sitting in the prison all year round is a figure that even Heavenly Master Lu respects by three points.

When the Si Zheng of the Si Tian Jian brought several Tai Bu officials into the hall, Zhao Rong, Emperor Jingxing, said in a deep voice: "Since you are in charge of the celestial time and stars, you should use the art of divination to find out the rebellious thieves who shake the country's foundation!"

The Si Zheng of the Si Tian Jian is named Pei Jing'an, an old man with a withered face and turbid eyes.

He wore a wide robe and the whole person shrank in the official robe. When he heard Emperor Jingxing's order, Pei Jing'an sighed gloomily.

The monarch's so-called pursuit of rebellious thieves is false, and seeking immortal medicine for longevity is true. Pei Jing'an knew it well.

But the imperial order could not be violated, so Pei Jing'an had to take out the tortoise shell from his sleeve and prepare to divine.

The heavenly machine cannot be leaked. If the cultivation and blessing are not enough, you cannot easily divine. What kind of person is Heavenly Master Lu? But he dare not easily deduce the matter of Yunmeng Mountain. His blessing is not necessarily higher than that of the Heavenly Master of the Heavenly Master's Mansion.

But today in the Golden Palace, there is national destiny to block it, so I think there will not be too much backlash.

Pei Jing'an used the palm-sized tortoise shell to see the big from the small and the micro from the small. More than three hundred and sixty light spots on the small tortoise shell projected the image of the Zhou Tian star map.

The next moment, rune characters of no less than a thousand words appeared on the tortoise shell.

Zhao, Qian, Sun, Li, Zhou, Wu, Zheng, Wang...

Prisoners, slaves, city people, literati, dignitaries, as long as they are figures in the secular world, even chickens, ducks, geese, bears, wolves, tigers, and leopards have appeared.

Pei Jing'an was dumbfounded until the tortoise shell could not bear the accumulated runes and completely shattered before he came back to his senses.

Seeing the tortoise shell shattered, Emperor Jingxing frowned and asked: "Did you calculate the result?"

Pei Jing'an said with a dry tongue: "This rebellious thief is all living beings..."

"All living beings?" Emperor Jingxing's face darkened instantly when he heard this: "Absurd! How dare you speak nonsense!"

Pei Jing'an looked at the shattered tortoise shell, which was covered with bright red blood stains at some point, and his state of mind at this time was completely calm.

Facing the emperor's anger, Pei Jing'an sighed: "The minister observed the celestial phenomena the night before and found that the emperor star was dim, the northern region was as bright as day. The Book of Heaven Officials states that this is the 'sign of the virtue star appearing in the northern corner, and the heaven and man receiving the mandate.' Now Ziwei has lost its luster, the emperor is lazy in the ancestral temple, and the rituals of the country are abandoned. Now the northern star shines in the wild, and there is a sign of swallowing the sky. At this time, the emperor can only embrace benevolence and virtue to regain the heart of heaven."

"Audacious! Someone, drag this scoundrel who is spreading heresy and confusing the public, strip him of his official robes, and throw him into the imperial prison!"

"The old man will go by himself, no need to trouble you." The bailiffs heard the sound and stepped forward. Pei Jing'an shook his head, took off his court clothes by himself, and turned to walk out of the hall.

When Pei Jing'an walked out of the hall door, he turned his head and said to the bailiffs responsible for escorting him: "The old man can go to the Zhao Prison by himself. If you follow the old man, I'm afraid there will be innocent disasters."

Several bailiffs looked at each other, but in the end, only one retreated to the back.

"Zhou Li, what are you doing? Do you still want to do it?"

Zhou Li, who was called, ignored the superior's scolding, bowed to the few people, and turned to walk in the opposite direction.

"What are you looking at? Zhou Li neglected his duty. I will hold him accountable when he returns from the Zhao Prison!"

The leader's face was very ugly.

On the contrary, Pei Jing'an laughed loudly.

About two quarters of an hour later, when several people escorted Pei Jing'an out of the palace gate, a red thunderbolt struck without warning, falling exactly where the few people were.

At the same time, on the Altar of Heaven very close to the East Palace, another red thunderbolt crossed, and in a loud noise, the hundred-zhang-high Altar of Heaven collapsed at the waist, and the rocks smashed into the East Palace like a waterfall!

In the Golden Palace, Emperor Jingxing heard the loud noise and asked in surprise: "What happened outside the hall?"

In the smoke and dust, a palace servant hurried into the hall, saying that the Altar of Heaven was struck down by thunder and destroyed the East Palace of the Crown Prince.

"How is the Crown Prince?" an official asked.

Before long, another palace servant reported: "The Crown Prince is not in the palace..."

Feng Dehai, who was serving on the side, saw the atmosphere in the court was strange and hurriedly said: "This is the protection of the Emperor of Heaven. It can be seen that the Crown Prince also has the protection of human destiny. It is really a good omen."

Emperor Jingxing's face cleared slightly when he heard this, only the ministers remained silent.

Some ministers loyal to Dayong were already gray-faced.

The East Palace is the foundation of the country. Today, the high altar of heaven destroyed the palace of the crown prince, just like a revelation from heaven, to cut off the Dayong country.

"Thunder breaking the altar is not something that can be stopped by manpower. This is probably a sign that Dayong's heavenly luck will end, and descendants will be difficult to inherit the imperial career!"

Sure enough, what they were afraid of came. On the second day after the East Palace collapsed, this matter was used by those with intentions, and rumors that the country would not be guaranteed spread.

At first, everyone just took it as a joke, but the news spread for less than half a month, and news came from the outside that the Northern Army had rebelled and the entire northern land had completely fallen.

For a time, the entire capital became windy and crane-like.

The government strictly investigated those who spread rumors, and claimed that there were only bandits in the north, and there was no such thing as the Northern Army rebelling. ===== CHAPTER 260 =====