Chapter 5162 Fraud

Suddenly, as soon as this person said, the atmosphere in the hall instantly dropped to freezing point. Even the expression on the king's face, which could be seen with naked eyes, became extremely cold, and his eyes gradually became full of coldness.

The king of the Gu Xia Kingdom turned his gaze to Xuanyuan Scholar. His eyes were as if they were going to penetrate him. Everyone held their breath at this moment, but they did not dare to move a lot for a moment.

"What he said is true?"

The king of Gu Xia Kingdom spoke, his eyes staring at Xuanyuan Scholar, not allowing him to have any hesitation or hesitation.

Scholar Xuanyuan nodded naturally and said, "Report to the king, I happened to pass the mountain temple on the way here, so I took advantage of the journey and went up the mountain to worship for a while, but I had no other intentions!"

"No other intention?" However, to the king of Guxia Kingdom, these words were so harsh, as if they were directly poking his reverse scales, and his expression became completely gloomy at this moment.

Scholar Xuanyuan was a little puzzled. He was just worshiping a dilapidated mountain temple along the way. Is this a sin that is unforgivable?

"Do you know what it means to worship that mountain temple in my ancient Xia Kingdom?" The king's voice sounded again.

"When the king returns, the people really don't know, I hope the king will tell you!" Xuanyuan Scholar shook his head. He was telling the truth, and he really knew nothing about it. Isn't millions of subjects allowed to worship the temple?

"That temple has been poisoned by some dirty means over the past hundred years, so many outstanding people in the ancient Xia Kingdom have made the court in the ancient Xia Kingdom more chaotic and unbearable. I have already ordered that all the people in the territory be prohibited from worshiping the temple. Don't you know?" The king of the ancient Xia Kingdom's words are concise, and every word is full of resentment towards the temple.

However, Shusheng Xuanyuan really didn't hear this law at all. He had to shake his head and say, "Mr., I have never heard of this law, and how can the troubled court be completely pushed to a temple?"

"Mr., this person dares to talk back. I am so guilty of questioning your authority here and cannot be forgiven. I propose to exile this person, otherwise there will be a trend of worshiping the temple again, causing chaos in the court and the people to live in poverty!"

At this time, someone stood up again, glanced at Shusheng Xuanyuan and said to the king.

"Yes, monarch, he can pass the exam so smoothly, must have used the evil power in the temple. You must not let this trend spread again, otherwise it will definitely lead to such incidents again!" Someone echoed again.

"Ask the monarch, be sure to punish this person severely!"

"Severely punish this person!"

At this time, among the fifteen people, except for the scholar Xuanyuan, all fourteen knelt down in unison and said in unison to the king.

Although the king did not speak, his cold face had already explained everything. He waved his hand gently, and the guard officer beside him received instructions and immediately recruited the king's guards. These imperial guards covered in armor and holding spears and spears were well-trained and orderly. At the moment of receiving the order, they quickly rushed into the hall and immediately surrounded the scholar Xuanyuan.

At present, they only need a thought or a look signal from the king, and they will immediately take action, take down Shusheng Xuanyuan or execute him on the spot.

The Imperial Guards acted without asking the reason, and only followed the orders, and they didn't have to worry about whether this person should die. As long as they were the king, they would have to obey unconditionally.

At this moment, for Shusheng Xuanyuan, his entire world of belief collapsed at this moment. He couldn't believe that everything that happened in this short moment could turn so sharply. He turned from being a talented man who had been connected to the third test to a prisoner who violated the ban.

Scholar Xuanyuan looked around the guards around him with disbelief. These solemn guards were filled with a chill. Behind these guards were the fourteen who had passed the exam with him. At this moment, they looked like jackals, tigers and leopards. The eyes of their eyes as if they were full of pride, as if they were looking at a fool.

Scholar Xuanyuan turned his gaze to the king again, but the king's questioning eyes made him swallow all his words back in his stomach.

He knew that no matter what he said now, no one would believe it anymore. It was a fact that he went to worship the mountain temple himself, and it was impossible to explain it clearly. With this alone, the king could cure his sins.

But he was unwilling to give up. Why did things turn out like this? He had already passed his own efforts to get fame and fortune. He came to the hall and saw the king of a country. When he was about to accept the reward, everything changed.

"No, why did it become like this? Why do you... do it?"

Shusheng Xuanyuan felt a headache and dizzy in his mind. He tried hard to control his emotions, but a throbbing in his heart made him on the verge of collapse.

"Mr. This person has no intention of repentance until now. There is no need to say anything. I will execute it immediately. I will arrest him, conduct demonstrations, and then exil him to the Ten Thousand Years of Ice Cave in the Beihai." Someone suggested.

"So good!" the king replied.

"What?" Xuanyuan Scholar didn't believe it, and the king actually agreed. This sentence completely made his heart cold. His eyes were full of confusion. This was a problem that he had never been able to figure out.

As the king said something very good, the imperial guards surrounding Xuanyuan Scholar could no longer be suppressed, and he used the spear in his hand to quickly subdue Shusheng Xuanyuan Scholar to the ground.

Scholar Xuanyuan did not choose to resist, so he was pressed to the ground, and then his hands were tied up with ropes, allowing them to deal with him.

"Take it down, parade the streets a few times, and then exil it to the Wannian Ice Cave of the Beihai." The king of the ancient Xia Kingdom said to the imperial guards.

Scholar Xuanyuan still said nothing, but looking at the scene of him being dragged away, something seemed to have been extinguished in his eyes, and his originally confident eyes slowly dimmed.

From being tied up, to being dragged out of the hall, to entering prison, Shu Sheng Xuanyuan didn't say enough, and didn't even take a glance at others.

The Imperial Guard threw him into the most powerful prison for defense, as if afraid that he would run away, but now Xuanyuan Scholar, let alone run away, was too lazy to say anything.

Chapter 5163: Prison Defence

At this moment, there were only waves of sadness in Shusheng Xuanyuan's heart. In this dark and wet prison, he lay silently on the old wooden bed where he had slept with countless death row prisoners, recalling everything in his mind.

Could it be that I was going to be punished for my own death just because I went to worship the mountain temple?

What is the reason for this?

I did not rely on the power of any mountain temple, and everything was achieved step by step by step by step with my own efforts. Why did the Heavenly Dao tease me like this?

Scholar Xuanyuan fell into endless sorrow, and he felt that the whole world was dark, as if he had lost his light.

It took several days to go through. During this period, he stayed silently in prison without any complaints. He ate hard to swallow food every day and listened to the guards talking about some things in the palace. Only then did he realize that most of the fourteen people who passed the exam with him had been assigned official positions and began his career.

"It's great, I can realize my ideals and ambitions!" Xuanyuan Scholar heard that all those people had become high-ranking officials, and couldn't help but feel happy and lucky for them. Thinking of this, it seemed that his experience was not so sad. As long as there are still people in this world working hard for their ideals and prosperity, who would have something to do with it?

It’s just a pity that this was just a wishful thinking of Shusheng Xuanyuan, and his beautiful fantasy was completely broken in three days later.

That day, Scholar Xuanyuan was entering a state of meditation. Since he came to this prison, he found that he could completely calm down and seriously think about things he had never noticed before. In this process, he recalled the Daowen he had read. Most of these Daowen were scattered from some immortal cultivation sects. In essence, they belong to the lowest level of the Immortal Sect and are not worth mentioning at all. However, these fell into the secular world and became things that many people sought after.

However, no matter how popular it is, not many people can really understand it. Those who can understand it have long been selected by the Immortal Cultivation Sect to become disciples within the sect.

Scholar Xuanyuan felt it was amazing. By recalling the contents of these Taoist essays, he gradually figured out many things, and therefore became more and more in love with the feeling of entering into meditation. The feeling of transcending everything and being self-centered makes him feel extremely comfortable, not so many mundane things, no noise, only the tranquility of the soul.

A few days later, this calmness was broken. During the process of entering into meditation, he felt a slight change in his consciousness world for the first time. It was a dark red aura, like a hunting beast, and suddenly broke in.

Scholar Xuanyuan opened his eyes instantly and looked at the prison door. Sure enough, a man in a red official robe stood outside the door, looking at him with his hands on his back with a smile on his face.

Seeing this, Scholar Xuanyuan slowly stood up, came to the door, and asked in confusion: "What are you?"

"You don't have to know who I am, you just need to know that you have been convicted of death and will be sentenced at noon tomorrow!"

The man in the red official robe nodded slightly and said calmly.

But Xuanyuan Scholar was not particularly shocked or strange, but acted very calmly, as if he had expected this day to come. He also said calmly: "Thank you for notifying me and let me know that I still have the last half day!"

"Aren't you shocked? You just worshipped a mountain temple, but were sentenced to death!"

The man in the red official robe was shocked and asked.

"What's wrong with the crime you want to add? Since the king wants to convict me, what crime can't be done? I don't understand at all. I'm just a fool. This is my first time in the capital. I have no selfishness. Why is it me?"

This is the first time that Shusheng Xuanyuan raised his own questions.

"Do you want to know? I can tell you that because you and us are not the same kind of people, you can be in front of the golden ladder without being affected by the slightest influence of the glory. Your heart is too pure, selfless, and profitless. This is the reason why you must die!" The man in red robe curled the corners of his mouth and smiled, his face full of coldness.

This time, Xuanyuan Scholar was completely silent, and a look of at a loss flashed in his eyes. Unexpectedly, it was because of this reason.

"Your existence is like the sun, which will shine the rest of the people without any escape. In the court, people like you will not be allowed to exist, so if there is you, then there will be no other person. If others want to live, they must get rid of you!"

"This principle is the same whether it is in the secular world or in the world of immortal cultivation. People who are too upright cannot survive in the world. They are too wise and easy to be young, but if you don't know how to be sophisticated, this is your sin!"

"Actually, no one knows whether you have been to that mountain temple. We just know your hometown. You will definitely pass by that mountain temple on the way to the capital. As long as you deny it at the beginning, no one has any evidence, but you won't, because you are too upright, you won't lie!"

The man in red robe said that completely defeated all the worldviews of Shusheng Xuanyuan. He did not expect that the world would be like this. A huge sense of powerlessness slowly hit his heart, making him feel that there was even darkness in front of him, so dark that there was no trace of light.

"Enjoy your last time, I wish you a long way!" The man in red robe curled the corners of his mouth and smiled slightly, then continued to carry his hands and slowly left the place.

Scholar Xuanyuan looked at the man's departure back. On the back of his red robe, there was a lifelike picture of Xiezi, which looked even more bright and dazzling on the red robe cloth, as if it was about to jump out of his back.

Scholar Xuanyuan held the wall and slowly returned to the worn wooden bed and sat down heavily.

It seemed as if it was raining outside, and the cold and humid cold air slowly penetrated through the cracks of the wall. However, Shusheng Xuanyuan seemed to have lost all his senses, and his eyes were dulled at the roof of the prison.

A night of storms passed slowly. In this night, in the mountain temple far away outside the capital, the stone statue looked directly at the wind and rain outside. With the roar of thunder and lightning, the stone statue let out a soft sigh.

"All conditioned phenomena are like dreams, illusions, bubbles, shadows, dew and lightning, and should be viewed like this!"

A dazzling lightning pierced through the dark night sky, illuminating the mountain temple. The rumbling thunder was as if the heaven and earth were singing, and it was extremely sad.

In the temple, the expression of the stone statue became ferocious, like a glaring talisman. As the lightning disappeared, everything returned to darkness. However, when a lightning flashed up, the moment it shone in the temple, the stone statue strangely disappeared.
Chapter completed!